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Biographical note
Professor Yasir Suleiman is the first holder of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa'id Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His many published works include A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004), The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003), The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Tal'liil(1999), Literature and Nation in the Middle East (edited with Ibrahim Muhawi, 2006), Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa (editor, 1999), Arabic Grammar and Linguistics (editor, 1998), Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa (editor, 1996) and Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and Perspectives (editor, 1994). Ibrahim Muhawi is a Fellow of the Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of the Arab World and Islam. His published work is interdisciplinary and ranges over the areas of Arabic literature, folklore, and translation. He is author of Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (1989). He has also translated and introduced Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness (1995).An excellent addition to the field of Arabic literary studies, nationalism studies, and colonial/post-colonial studies. I strongly recommend it. -- Professor Joseph Massad, Columbia University A study on the literary construction of the nation in the Middle East is most welcome today, particularly with its emphasis on Palestinian and Hebrew literature! This is an opportune moment to see how [Middle Eastern] writers perceive themselves and their identity. -- Dr P.C. Sadgrove, University of Manchester 'Literature and Nation in the Middle East brings out energetically and effectively some of the contours of the current Arab literature ... [and provides] insights into the engagement of the Arab men of letters with such diverse concepts and issues as nationalism, Palestinian exile, conflict resolution and social transformation.' -- Dr Manazir Ashan Muslim World Book Review This collection as a whole gains valuable essays individual essays and is a most useful addition to the study of nation and literature in the Arabic-speaking world. -- Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies An excellent addition to the field of Arabic literary studies, nationalism studies, and colonial/post-colonial studies. I strongly recommend it. A study on the literary construction of the nation in the Middle East is most welcome today, particularly with its emphasis on Palestinian and Hebrew literature! This is an opportune moment to see how [Middle Eastern] writers perceive themselves and their identity. 'Literature and Nation in the Middle East brings out energetically and effectively some of the contours of the current Arab literature ... [and provides] insights into the engagement of the Arab men of letters with such diverse concepts and issues as nationalism, Palestinian exile, conflict resolution and social transformation.' This collection as a whole gains valuable essays individual essays and is a most useful addition to the study of nation and literature in the Arabic-speaking world.