Kamal Abu-Deeb

Kamal Abu-Deeb in Arabic (كمال أبو ديب) (born 1942 in Safita, Syria) is Chair of Arabic at the University of London. He was a Leverhulme Trust Fellow.

Life

He graduated from Damascus University, Trinity College, Oxford, and St John's College, Oxford.

He edited the journal Mawakif with poet Adunis.

Prof. Hisham Sharabi described him as "a leading Syrian structuralist critic."

Works

• Adhabat al-Mutanabbi fi Suhbat Kamal Abu-Deeb wa al-'Aks bi al-'Aks, Al-Saqi Books, London & Beirut, 1996

References

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153820/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/seminars/2006-2007/abstracts/deeb.shtml
• http://soas.academia.edu/Kamalabudeeb