Mohammad Shaheen
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Mohammad Shaheen | |
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Mohammad Shaheen has been a professor of
Cambridge University. He is the author of many books, including E.M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism
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Shaheen teaches modern literary theory and criticism in the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Jordan, he also teaches the English novel, twentieth-century English literature, Literary translation and comparative literature.
He has been the editor-in-chief of Al-Majallah Al-Thaqafeyyah (University of Jordan) since 2008. He has also translated the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish into English.[1]
Experience
- Professor of English, the University of Jordan, 1985 till now
- Assistant of the president of the University of Jordan and head of the president's Office 1978-1980
- Advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education - Jordan, 1985-1989
- Chairman of the English Department, the University of Jordan, 1988-1990
- Chairman of the Modern Languages Department, the University of Jordan, 1988-1990
- Visiting professor at Taiz University, Yemen, 1993
- Chairman of the English Department, the University of Jordan, 1993-1995
- Visiting professor at Qatar University, Qatar, 1996
- Vice president of Mutah University, Jordan, 1998-2002
- Associate editor of Paideuma, University of Maine, 1967-till now
- Editor-in-chief of Mu'tah for Research, 1998-2002
- Literary editor of Dirasat, the University of Jordan research journal, 1985-1991
- Editor-in-chief of Al-Majallah Al-Thaqafiyyah, University of Jordan, 2008-till now
Memberships, fellowships and scholarships
- Member of the Higher Curricula Committee, the Ministry of Higher Education, Jordan, 1991-1993
- Member of the Executive Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association, 1985-till now
- British Council Scholarship, 1969-1973
- Fulbright Scholarship, (Summer of 1979)
- Beirut University, DAAD scholarship, 1982
- University of Oxford, associate fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, 1983 till now
- American research fellowships in Humanities (1987)
- University of Bonn (1995)
- DAAD-Bochum University (1998)
Books published
- The Modern Arabic Short Story: Shahrazad Returns. ISBN 0-333-64136-1, 304 pages
- George Meredith: A reappraisal of the Novels. Macmillan Press: London 1981
- Selected Letters of George Meredith. Macmillan Press: London
- E.M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism, Palgrave Macmillan (12 August 2004), ISBN 0-333-74136-6, 256 pages
- Almond Blossoms and Beyond (translation). Interlink Publishing 2009
Articles publish
- George Meredith's Early Life: Ordeal and Reticence: The Modern Language Review April 1982 Vol. 77
- The Reception of Pound in Arabic: Immature response of Gibran and Bayyati: Paideuma, Vol 34
- The Arabian Nights in English Literature (book review): The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol 22
- Pickthall: New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, Clarenden Press, 2004
- On Meredith's Letters: American Notes and Queries, Yale 1974
- Forster on Proust: Times Literary Supplement, London 1974
- Tayeb Salih and Conrad: Comparative Literature Studies, University of Illinois, 1985
- T.L. Lawrence and Pound: Paideuma, 1988
- The Manuscript of Meredith's Last Novel: Notes and Queries, Oxford 1975
- Meredith Letter to Stephen: Notes and Queries, Oxford 1978
- Some Unpublished Hardy Letters to Gosse: Notes and Queries, Oxford 1980
- Two New Meredith Letters to Gosse: Notes and Queries, Oxford, 1980
Resources
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References
- ^ Bland, Sally (4 October 2009). "Darwish's last poems". Jordan Times. Archived from the original on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
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