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Salih Altoma

Professor Emeritus, MELC

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Courses Recently Taught

  • Arabic-Western Literary Relations
  • American Reception of Contemporary Arabic Literature
  • The Literature of the Arabian Peninsula
  • Classical/Modern Arabic Literature
  • Modern Arabic Fiction
  • Modern Islamic Literature in English Translation
  • Arabic Poetry

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  • A Dictionary of Modern Linguistic Terms: English-Arabic/Arabic-English, with M. H. Bakalla. Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1983.
  • Modern Arabic Poetry in English Translation: A Bibliography. Tangier: King Fahd School of Translation, 1993.
  • Guest editor. Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 48 (2000).
  • Modern Arabic Literature in Translation: A Companion. London: Saqi Books, 2005.
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