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Shawkat M. Toorawa

شوكت طوراوا

Notable figure b. 1963 · Source: Yale University, Department of Near Eastern Languages, profile: Shawkat Toorawa · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n2004060663: Toorawa, Shawkat M. (b. 9 Jan. 1963)

From Mauritius; worked in the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Writerly culture; Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (2005)

Biography

A Mauritian of Indian descent, he taught Arabic literature at Cornell and then at Yale. He translated Adonis's A Time Between Ashes and Roses into English (2004) and wrote Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture (London, 2005) on books and booksellers in Abbasid Baghdad. He is an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.