Yasir Suleiman
Palestinian academic
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Yasir Suleiman CBE is a scholar of Arabic literature and language, and modern Middle Eastern politics. He is Emeritus Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge.[1][2] He is a Palestinian Arab living in the diaspora.[3]
Suleiman holds degrees from Amman University, the University of St Andrews, and Durham University.[4] He lectures on topics related to the Middle East.[citation needed] He was selected to be a trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2007—2009).[citation needed]
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for his services to scholarship.[5][6]
Bibliography
In addition to authoring books, Yasir Suleiman was an editor of a number of monographs is Arabic studies.
- Arabic in the Fray: Language Ideology and Cultural Politics (2013) Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0748680313
- A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004) Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-83743-X
- The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003) Georgetown University Press, ISBN 0-87840-395-7
- The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Ta'lil (2000) Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-7486-0697-1