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Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926–2023)

Author of Modern Arabic Poetry

19+ Works 253 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

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Series

Works by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Associated Works

On Entering The Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (1996) — Translator, some editions — 36 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name
سلمى صبحي الخضراء الجيوسي
al-Jayyusi, Salma Subhi al-Khadra
Birthdate
1926
Date of death
2023-04-20
Gender
female
Nationality
Palestine
Birthplace
Salt, Jordan
Places of residence
Acre, Israel
Jerusalem, Israel
Education
American University of Beirut
University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Occupations
critic
literary historian
anthologist
poet
translator
Organizations
University of Khartoum (1970-1973)
University of Utah
University of Texas
University of Michigan
Project of Translation from Arabic / PROTA (founder)
East-West Nexus (founder)
Short biography
"Salma Khadra Jayyusi was born in Jordan to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. She grew up in Palestine surrounded by books on Arab/Islamic and Western culture...

She completed her secondary education at Schmidt's Girls College in Jerusalem, and then graduated with honors in Arabic and English Literatures from the American University of Beirut. Soon after her graduation she married a Jordanian diplomat and lived, as a diplomat’s wife, in several countries. She only began her career as a writer and professor after raising her 3 children.

She began her critical career writing in Arabic, then, when she came to London for her Ph.D. which she obtained in 1970 from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, specializing in Arabic literature, she began and has continued to write also in English....

Soon after obtaining her Ph.D. in 1970 she started her career as a University Professor teaching first at the University of Khartoum (1970-1973), then at the Universities of Algiers and Constantine (1973-1975)."

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Reviews

An admirable and didactic anthology on the journey of Arabic literature from ancient scriptures to soaring mount of novels and modern fiction. The exuberance of literary richness and excellence of the Arabic fiction is rendered amid a humongous assortment of more than 100 short stories; liberating Arabic prose from being pigeonholed to ‘Arabian Nights’ and fables.
 
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Praj05 | Apr 5, 2013 |
Vol. 1: history, language and literature; Vol. 2: music, art and architecture, social history, economic history, philosophy, religion, science and technology
 
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languagehat | Dec 18, 2005 |

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Statistics

Works
19
Also by
1
Members
253
Popularity
#90,475
Rating
½ 4.4
Reviews
2
ISBNs
38
Languages
2

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