Ferial Ghazoul

Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul is a noted Iraqi scholar, critic and translator.[1] She was educated in Iraq, Lebanon, Britain, France and the USA. She obtained her PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University in 1978. Currently, she is chair and professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo.

Career as a scholar

As a scholar, Ghazoul has a number of significant publications, notably the encyclopaedic Arab Women Writing: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 (2008) which she co-edited with Radwa Ashour and Hasna Reda-Mekdashi. The book was chosen by Choice journal as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of the year. Among other works, Ghazoul is the author of Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context (AUC Press, 1996). Her principal research interests are comparative literature and postcolonial studies, and she has written numerous scholarly articles, book reviews and book chapters on these topics. She is the founding editor of Alif: A Journal of Comparative Poetics, one of the AUC's flagship journals.[2]

Career as a translator

As a literary translator, Ghazoul is a past winner of the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. Ghazoul and co-translator John Verlenden won the award for their translation of Muhammad Afifi Matar's volume of poetry Rubaiyat al-farah (Quartet of Joy). The duo have also translated Edwar al-Kharrat's classic novel Rama and the Dragon, and in July 2010, they received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate the works of the Bahraini poet Qassim Haddad.[3] Besides translating a considerable amount of Arabic poetry, Ghazoul has translated critical works from English and French into Arabic. Below is a list of the diverse genres and authors that she has translated so far:

Selected works

As author
  • Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context
  • The Arabian Nights: A Structural Analysis

As editor
  • Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 (co-edited with Radwa Ashour and Hasna Reda-Mekdashi)
  • Edward Said and Critical Decolonization (editor)
  • The View from Within: Writers and Critics on Contemporary Arabic Literature (co-edited with Barbara Harlow)
  • Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics (founding editor)

As translator

References
  1. Faculty profile in AUC website
  2. Profile in Arab Women Writers website
  3. "AUC Professors Receive Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities", AUC News, 21 July 2010
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