Kamal Abu-Deeb
Chair of Arabic at the University of London
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Kamal Abu-Deeb in Arabic (كمال أبو ديب) (born 1942 in Safita, Syria) is Chair of Arabic at the University of London. He was a Leverhulme Trust Fellow.[1]
Life
He graduated from Damascus University, Trinity College, Oxford, and St John's College, Oxford.[2]
He edited the journal Mawakif with poet Adunis.[2]
Prof. Hisham Sharabi described him as "a leading Syrian structuralist critic."[3]
Works
- Issa J. Boullata; Kamal Abdel-Malek; Wael B. Hallaq, eds. (2000). "The Collapse of Totalizing Discourse and the Rise of Marginalized/Minority Discourses". Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata. BRILL. pp. 335–. ISBN 90-04-11763-6.
- Adhabat al-Mutanabbi fi Suhbat Kamal Abu-Deeb wa al-'Aks bi al-'Aks, Al-Saqi Books, London & Beirut, 1996[4]