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Peter Heath

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Notable figure 1949–2014 · Source: Review of Middle East Studies 49(1), «Peter Heath 1949–2014» (memorial notice) · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n92040286: Heath, Peter (1949 – 12 Nov. 2014)

From the United States; worked in Palestine, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Popular epic; The Thirsty Sword: Sirat ʿAntar (1996)

Biography

He took his PhD at Harvard (1981) and taught at Birzeit University (1981–1986), then at Washington University in St. Louis and the American University of Beirut, and was chancellor of the American University of Sharjah (2008–2014). He gave a structural study of the ʿAntar romance in The Thirsty Sword: Sirat ʿAntar and the Arabic Popular Epic (Salt Lake City, 1996) and wrote on Arabic literature and the popular siras.