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Jun Wan-kyung

جون وان كيونغ

Notable figure · Source: Aladin book catalogue, Korea: The Life and Literature of Yahya Haqqi (2008); Yun Eun-kyeong, Arabic in Korea, al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), pp. 72–73 · Second source: Aladin book catalogue, Korea: Understanding Arabic-Islamic Literature (Busan University of Foreign Studies Press, 2002)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of Yahya Haqqi; books on Arabic literature

Biography

Doctorate from the Arabic department of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, on Yahya Haqqi (1994), with a book on his life and work (2008). Translated Taha Hussein's Duʿaʾ al-karawan into Korean (1991). Books include studies of the Arabic short story (1995), the Egyptian novel (2000) and Arabic-Islamic literature (2002), and Arabic course books from Busan University of Foreign Studies Press.