Khaled Al-Masri
Associate Professor
Section Head, Arabic
Modern Languages & Literatures-Arabic
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Affiliations: Islamic Studies, Modern Languages & Literatures, Arabic, Comparative Literature
Khaled Al-Masri holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a BA and MA in Arabic Language and Literature from Yarmouk University, Jordan. His translations of contemporary Arabic poetry and fiction have
appeared in literary journals in the United States and the United Kingdom. He has translated from Arabic into English selections of poetry by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Riders of the Open Desert: The Turūsh of Abu Dhabi, 1930s–1960s by Sheikha Subha Mohammed Jaber Al Khaili, Houses of God: From the Great Mosque of Qayrawan to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, and Between Sips of Coffee: Oral Narratives from the United Arab Emirates.
Al-Masri has edited the Arabic translations of more than twenty books, including Robert Irwin’s Camel, Timothy Clark’s The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment, Paul Slack’s Plague: A Very Short Introduction, James W. P. Campbell’s The Library: A World History, Ulinka Rublack’s The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother, Steven Roger Fischer’s A History of Reading, and Yaël Schlick’s Metafiction, as well as literary works by Marilynne Robinson and Edward P. Jones.
