Bassam Frangieh
Bassam Frangieh (Arabic: بسام فرنجيه) is a
Arabic language, as well as his translations of modern Arabic poets and novelists. He is a language professor at Claremont McKenna College.[1]
Education and career
Frangieh was born in a refugee camp in
soccer player. Frangieh attended graduate school in the United States, and received a Ph.D. in Arabic literature from Georgetown University in 1987. After receiving his doctorate, Frangieh taught Arabic at Georgetown for several years before accepting a position at Yale University. After his resignation from Yale in 2007, Frangieh joined Claremont McKenna College as a full-time Arabic professor and the head of the Arabic Department for the five Claremont Colleges while writing and researching new Arabic books. He is the head of the Middle East Studies Department.[citation needed
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Bibliography
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Frangieh is a prolific author in both Arabic and English on contemporary Arabic literature. This is a list of some of his most prominent books and articles.
Textbooks
- Arabic For Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic (2011)
- Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought (2005)
Translations
- The Crane (forthcoming), from Ṭā'ir al-Ḥawm by Ḥalīm Barakāt
- Sun On A Cloudy Day (1997), from al-Shams fī Yawm Ghā'im by Ḥanna Mīna
- Arabian Love Poems (1993), selected poems by Nizār Qabbānī
Scholarly works
- al-Ightirāb fī al-Riwāyah al-Filisṭīnīyah (forthcoming)
- Bahjat al-Iktishāf (2003)
Articles
- Qassim Haddad: Irregular Rhythms of Life in Kalimat
- Modern Arabic Poetry: Vision and Reality in Traditions, Modernity and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature
- The Concept of Return in Issa Boullat's novel: Returning to Jerusalem in Dirāsāt `Arabīyah
- Mahmoud Belaid: Ru'yah Tastashref Al Mustaqbal in Journal of the Arab Tunisian Union Writers
References
- ^ "[email protected] | Claremont McKenna College". www.cmc.edu. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- ^ Toomajian, Martin (22 April 2003). "Frangieh focuses on views of 'Arab street'". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
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