Yasir Suleiman CBE is a scholar of Arabic literature and language, and modern Middle Eastern politics. He is emeritus Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge.Leslie J. McLoughlin (2002) "In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century", , p. 224.Yassir Suleiman's profile at the Supreme Educational Council. Qatar He is a Palestinian Arab living in the diaspora.Yasir Suleiman, A War of Worlds, Introduction, p. 1.
Suleiman holds degrees from Amman University, the University of St Andrews, and Durham University. He lectures on topics related to the Middle East. He was selected to be a trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2007–2009).
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for his services to scholarship.
Bibliography In addition to authoring books, Yasir Suleiman was an editor of a number of monographs is Arabic studies. Arabic in the Fray: Language Ideology and Cultural Politics (2013) Edinburgh University Press, A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004) Cambridge University Press, The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003) Georgetown University Press, The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Ta'lil (2000) Edinburgh University Press,
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