Elliott Colla
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| occupation = Associate Professor
| nationality = American
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| notableworks =Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
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Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and culture.{{cite news
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}} He is an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and leads the Reading Palestine book club at Lost City Books{{Cite web |title=Reading Palestine |url=https://lostcitybookstore.com/reading-palestine |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=Lost City Bookstore |language=en-US}}.
Career
Colla received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Comparative literature from Berkeley in 2000.{{cite news
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}} His translation of Gold Dust was runner-up for the Banipal Prize in 2009.{{cite news
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He is a co-editor of the e-zine, Jadaliyya.{{cite news
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}} In addition to translations and academic works, he has published a novel Baghdad Central (2014). This was adapted as a television series of the same name, released in 2020.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/03/baghdad-central-review-more-than-just-a-middle-east-morse |title=Baghdad Central review – more than just a Middle East Morse |last=Jones |first=Ellen E. |date=4 February 2020 |website=The Guardian |access-date=31 May 2020}}
=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{{cite news
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| title = Georgetown University: Elliott Colla
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Further reading
- [http://www.merip.org/looking-three-diamonds/ Looking for the Three of Diamonds] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714193528/http://www.merip.org/looking-three-diamonds |date=2014-07-14 }} MERIP.
- [http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/506/the-poetry-of-revolt/ "The Poetry of Revolt"], jadaliyya e-zine.
- [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer263/people-want/ The People Want] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714112353/http://www.merip.org/mer/mer263/people-want |date=2014-07-14 }} MERIP.
- [http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/1708/the-persistence-of-jokes/ The Persistence of Jokes] jadaliyya e-zine.
- [http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2601/walls_gone-to-palestine_8-/ Walls] jadaliyya e-zine.
- "[http://www.radioopensource.org/elliott-colla-the-poetry-of-revolt-in-the-new-egypt/ The Poetry of Revolt” in the New Egypt] Radio Open Source.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://elliottcolla.com author webpage]
- [http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/ec393/?action=viewgeneral&PageTemplateID=360 Georgetown University Biography]
- [http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/531/elliott_colla/ Banipal Biography]
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Category:Middle Eastern studies scholars
Category:Arabic–English translators
Category:UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
Category:Georgetown University faculty
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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