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Elliott Colla
Elliott Colla
Elliott Colla
OccupationAssociate Professor
NationalityAmerican
SubjectMiddle East
Notable worksConflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and culture.[1] He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University.

Career

Colla received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Comparative literature as from Berkeley in 2000.[2] His translation of Gold Dust was runner-up for the Banipal Prize in 2009.[3] He is a co-editor of the e-zine, Jadaliyya.[4] His novel Baghdad Central was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2020.[5]

Books

  • Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
  • Baghdad Central London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.

Translations

Further reading

See also

References

  1. ^ "Citations search: "Elliott Colla" (Google Books)". Retrieved 2012-10-13.
  2. ^ "Banipal biography". Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
  3. ^ "Banipal Trust biography". Banipal Trust. Archived from the original on 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
  4. ^ "Elliott Colla". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
  5. ^ Jones, Ellen E. (4 February 2020). "Baghdad Central review – more than just a Middle East Morse". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Georgetown University: Elliott Colla". Georgetown University. Retrieved 2012-10-13.

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