Elliott Colla
Elliott Colla | |
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 Elliott Colla | |
| Occupation | Associate Professor |
| Writing career | |
| Subject | Middle East |
| Notable works | Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity |
Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and culture.[1] He is an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and leads the Reading Palestine book club at Lost City Books.[2]
Career
[edit]Colla received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Comparative literature from Berkeley in 2000.[3] His translation of Gold Dust was runner-up for the Banipal Prize in 2009.[4] He is a co-editor of the e-zine, Jadaliyya.[5] In addition to translations and academic works, he has published a novel Baghdad Central (2014). This was adapted as a television series of the same name, released in 2020.[6]
Books
[edit]- Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
- Baghdad Central London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.
Translations
[edit]- Ibrahim Aslan - The Heron
- Idris Ali - Poor
- Ibrahim al-Koni - Gold Dust
- Rabai Madhoun - The Lady from Tel Aviv[7]
Further reading
[edit]- Looking for the Three of Diamonds Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine MERIP.
- "The Poetry of Revolt", jadaliyya e-zine.
- The People Want Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine MERIP.
- The Persistence of Jokes jadaliyya e-zine.
- Walls jadaliyya e-zine.
- "The Poetry of Revolt” in the New Egypt Radio Open Source.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Citations search: "Elliott Colla" (Google Books)". Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ↑ "Reading Palestine". Lost City Bookstore. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
- ↑ "Banipal biography". Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ↑ "Banipal Trust biography". Banipal Trust. Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ↑ "Elliott Colla". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ↑ Jones, Ellen E. (4 February 2020). "Baghdad Central review – more than just a Middle East Morse". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ↑ "Georgetown University: Elliott Colla". Georgetown University. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
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