Abbas El-Zein Explained

Abbas El-Zein
Native Name:ﻋﺒﺎﺲ اﻟﺰﻳﻦ
Native Name Lang:Arabic
Birth Place:Beirut, Lebanon
Occupation:Writer and academic
Nationality:Australian/Lebanese
Education:American University of Beirut (BE), University of Southampton (MSc, PhD), Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (DEA)
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Awards:New South Wales Premier Literary Award – Community Relations Commission Award

Abbas El-Zein (Arabic: ﻋﺒﺎﺲ اﻟﺰﻳﻦ ; born 1963) is an Australian writer and academic. He is the author of two acclaimed works of fiction – a novel, Tell the Running Water[1] [2] and a collection of short stories, The Secret Maker of the World[3] [4] [5] – as well as an award-winning memoir, Leave to Remain, about growing up in civil-war Lebanon and migrating to Europe and Australia.[6] [7] His new book, Bullet, Paper Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars was published on 3 April 2024 [8] and was shortlisted for the 2024 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award,[9] one of the Queensland Literary Awards. El-Zein has also published essays and articles on war, displacement and environmental decline. His work has appeared in the New York Times[10] the Guardian[11] the Age,[12] the Sydney Morning Herald,[13] as well as literary magazines Meanjin, Heat and Overland.[14] His writing is part of a body of work by a number of Anglo-Arab and Franco-Arab writers, first emerging in the 2000s, especially authors from a Lebanese background writing in English or French, post Lebanese civil war, such as Rabih Alameddine, Nada Awar Jarrar, Wajdi Mouawad and Rawi Hage, in whose work themes of violence, loss, memory and identity are prominent.[15] [16] El-Zein has made numerous media appearances[17] [18] [19] and, as a scholar, has authored and co-authored a large number of scientific papers on environmental sustainability, hydrology, sea level rise and development.[20] [21] He has lectured at the American University of Beirut and the University of New South Wales. He is professor of environmental engineering at the University of Sydney.[22]

Background

Abbas El-Zein was born and grew up in Beirut. He was twelve years of age when the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975. He was educated at the bilingual French-Arabic school, Mission Laique Francaise.[23] After graduating with a degree in civil engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1986, he left for the UK where he acquired Master's and PhD degrees in computational mechanics and mathematical modelling from the University of Southampton, and later, a Master's by research degree in environmental science from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. He lived and worked in the UK and France for a number of years before moving to Australia in 1995. He started writing his first novel while living in the UK.[24] In 1993, he participated in a writing workshop/retreat run by Beryl Bainbridge and Bernice Rubens at the Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre, Wales. Later, he published a number of essays in Meanjin and Heat and completed his first novel in 1998. In 2005, he won an Australia Council for the Arts grant for new work, which led to the writing of his memoir Leave to Remain in 2009.[25]

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Notes and References

  1. Felicity Bloch, The Search for Redemption and Resolution: Review of Tell the Running Water, The Saturday Age, 18 August 2001.
  2. Tony Maniati, When Worlds Collide for Tension's Sake, The Weekend Australian, 21 July 2001.
  3. Web site: A new kind of tradition sharpened by precision. 19 April 2014. 24 July 2015. The Sydney Morning Herald. Messer. David.
  4. Web site: Intimate Perspectives. 23 September 2015. 24 July 2015. sydneyreviewofbooks.com. Sydney Review of Books. Cahill. Michael.
  5. Web site: Harsh edges of an unyielding world. 25 March 2014. 24 July 2015. The Australian. Lindsay. Portia.
  6. Web site: Leave to Remain: A Memoir. 11 April 2009. 24 July 2015. The Australian. Borghini. Jose.
  7. http://southerlyjournal.com.au/project/golden-tongues-the-arts-of-translation-2/ Saadi Nikro. 2010. Memory in a Paratactic Register: Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain: A Memoir. Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1.
  8. Web site: El-Zein . Abbas . Bullet, Paper, Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars .
  9. https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/get-involved/awards-and-fellowships/queensland-literary-awards/non-fiction
  10. Web site: The Tribes of War. 27 July 2006. 24 July 2015. The New York Times. El-Zein. Abbas.
  11. Web site: As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work. 6 December 2013. 24 July 2015. The Guardian. El-Zein. Abbas.
  12. Web site: Evoking a past conflagration is not helping. 21 August 2006. 24 July 2015. The Age. The Age – Independent. Always.. El-Zein. Abbas.
  13. Web site: Iran deal fails to address rampant Arab militarisation. 22 July 2015. 24 July 2015. The Sydney Morning Herald. The Sydney Morning Herals. El-Zein. Abbas.
  14. Book: Meanjin . 1999 . 58. 2.
  15. https://books.google.com/books?id=ji1YrUwThkIC p49 of Leila Al Maleh. 2007. Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview in Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature, edited by Leila Al Maleh, Cross/Cultures, Amsterdam
  16. Web site: Mornings with Deborah Cameron and Geordie Williamson, 12 March 2009 (ABC 702). . 21 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150810051547/http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/files/geordie_williamson_120309.mp3 . 10 August 2015 . dead . dmy-all .
  17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT1pKTmGx-s On Beirut with Abbas El-Zein and Rabih Alameddine, by Caroline Baum, May 2014 (Booktopia TV).
  18. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/abbas-el-zein/5302146 Books and Arts Daily with Anita Barraud and Michael Cathcart, 1 May 2014 (ABC Radio National).
  19. http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/stories/s2512167.htm Mornings with Margaret Throsby, 11 March 2009 (ABC Radio National).
  20. Web site: Abbas El-Zein – Google Scholars. 24 July 2015. scholar.com.au.
  21. Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: a matter of survival. El-Zein. Jabbour. Tekce. Zurayk. Nuwayhid. Khawaja. Tell. Al Mooji. De Jong. Yassin. Hogan. Lancet. The Lancet . 2014. 458–476 . 383 . 9915. 9915 . 24452051. 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62338-7. 4238938.
  22. Web site: Associate Professor Abbas El-Zein. 24 July 2015. sydney.au.edu. The University of Sydney.
  23. Book: El-Zein, Abbas. Leave To Remain: A Memoir. The University of Queensland Press. 2009. 978-0-7022-3692-1. Queensland. 11 .
  24. Book: El-Zein, Abbas. Leave To Remain: A Memoir. The University of Queensland Press. 2009. 978-0-7022-3692-1. Queensland. 123–132 .
  25. Web site: Authors – Abbas El-Zein. 24 July 2015. uqp.uq.edu.au. The University of Queensland Press.
  26. Web site: Abbas El-Zein . 24 July 2015 . newcastlewritersfestival.org.au . Newcastle Writers Festival . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150724162758/http://www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/abbas-el-zein-2014/ . 24 July 2015 .
  27. Web site: About the Awards . NSW Premier's Literary Awards . 24 July 2015 . 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120219030418/http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/about-the-awards . 19 February 2012 .
  28. Book: El-Zein, Abbas . Tell the Running Water . Untapped (reissued in October 2022; first published by Sceptre, Hodder Headline, 2001) . 2001 . 978-0733613197 .
  29. Book: El-Zein, Abbas . Leave To Remain: A Memoir . Untapped (reissued in August 2022; first published by The University of Queensland Press in 2009) . 2009 . 978-0-7022-3692-1 .
  30. Book: El-Zein, Abbas . The Secret Maker of the World . The University of Queensland . 2014 . 978-0-7022-5007-1 .

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