Elliott Colla Explained

Elliott Colla
Occupation:	Associate Professor
Nationality:	American
Subject:	Middle East
Notableworks:	Conflicted 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

• Ibrahim Aslan - The Heron
• Idris Ali - Poor
• Ibrahim al-Koni - Gold Dust
• Rabai Madhoun - The Lady from Tel Aviv^[6]

Further reading

• Looking for the Three of Diamonds MERIP.
• The Poetry of Revolt jadaliyya e-zine.
• The People Want MERIP.
• The Persistence of Jokes jadaliyya e-zine.
• Walls jadaliyya e-zine.
• "The Poetry of Revolt” in the New Egypt Radio Open Source.

See also

• List of Arabic-English translators

External links

• author webpage
• Georgetown University Biography
• Banipal Biography

Notes and References

1. News: Citations search: "Elliott Colla" (Google Books). 2012-10-13.
2. News: Banipal biography. 2012-10-13. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature.
3. News: Banipal Trust biography . 2012-10-13 . Banipal Trust . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120822052157/http://www.banipaltrust.org.uk/prize/judges2010.cfm#ElliottColla . 2012-08-22.
4. News: Elliott Colla. 2012-10-13. Jadaliyya.
5. Web site: Baghdad Central review – more than just a Middle East Morse . Jones . Ellen E. . 4 February 2020 . The Guardian . 31 May 2020.
6. News: Georgetown University: Elliott Colla. 2012-10-13. Georgetown University.