- Name:
- Professor Yasir Suleiman
- Position:
- Head of Department and Centre Director, University of Cambridge, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies
- TIMA Role:
- Individual Institutional Member
- Address:
- Tel:
- 00-44-(0)1223335106
- Fax:
- 00-44(0)1223335110
- Email:
- ys310@cam.ac.uk
- Website:
- cis.cam.au.uk
- Expertise:
- Professor Suleiman's research covers the cultural politics of the Middle East with special focus on identity, conflict, diaspora studies and modernization in so far as these issues relate to language, modern Arabic literature, translation and memory. He also conducts research in Arabic grammatical theory and the Arabic intellectual tradition in the pre-modern period.
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), Arabic, Self and Identity: A study in Conflict and displacement (forthcoming, 2010), 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), Living Islamic History (ed., forthcoming 2010), Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Identity in the Diaspora (ed., forthcoming 2010). He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals and book series.
Professor Suleiman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Head of Department of Middle Eastern Studies and and Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies.
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