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Occupation
  
Associate Professor

Role
  
Professor

Name
  
Elliott Colla

Subject
  
Middle East

Nationality
  
United States



Notable works
  
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

Education
  
University of California, Berkeley

Books
  
Baghdad Central, Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

No Going Back: Authoritarianism and Protest in the Arab World 3 of 4 March 2011


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

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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. His translation of Gold Dust was runner-up for the Banipal Prize in 2009. He is a co-editor of the e-zine, Jadaliyya.

Books

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

  • Ibrahim Aslan - The Heron
  • Idris Ali - Poor
  • Ibrahim al-Koni - Gold Dust
  • Rabai Madhoun - The Lady from Tel Aviv
  • References

    Elliott Colla Wikipedia