Elliott Colla
American academic

Elliott Colla

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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.

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.

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