Ibrahim Muhawi
Ibrahim Muhawi ( Arabic إبراهيم مهوي; * 1937 in Ramallah ) is a Palestinian writer, storyteller and translator .
Life
Muhawi was born in Ramallah to a Christian Palestinian family. After graduating from Ramallah Friends School there in 1959 , he settled in San Francisco . There he earned an electrical engineering degree from Heald College . In 1964 he graduated from the California State University, East Bay his Bachelor in English in Hayward and in 1969 the Master Accounts at the University of California, Davis .
In 1969, Muhawi became an English lecturer at Brock University in St. Catharines ( Ontario ) and in 1975 moved to the University of Jordan in Amman . In 1978 he went to Bir Zait University in the West Bank as chairman of the English faculty . From 1980 to 2007 he was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon at Eugene .
Muhawi is a connoisseur of the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish . He has translated both his memories of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and his experiences of house arrest, prison and interrogation by Israeli soldiers .
Awards
- 2011: PEN translation award for the translation of Mahmud Darwisch's Journal of an Ordinary Grief
items
- 'Contexts of Language in Mahmoud Darwish,' Center for Contemporary Arabic Studies, Georgetown University , 2009
- 'Towards a Folkloristic Theory of Translation,' , School of Oriental and African Studies
- Dialogues with Imaginary Partners , PEN American Center, December 21, 2011
- Towards a Folkloristic Theory of Translation in: Theo Herman (ed.) Translating Others, Volume II (2006), Routledge 2014, p. 365ff
- Review of Micheline Galley (ed.), Le Figuier magique et autres contes algériens dits par Aouda, Paris: Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 2003, ' in Fairy Tales, Printed Texts, and Oral Tellings, Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Folklore, Vol.21, Wayne State University, April 1, 2007, pp. 151ff
- Works in worldcat.org
Translations
- Speak, bird, speak again, Palestinian Arab folk tales , with Sharif Kanaana, University of California Press 1989
- Mahmud Darwisch: Memory for Forgetfulness, (Dhākira li l-nisyān ), University of California Press, 1995.
- Mahmud Darwisch: Journal of an ordinary grief, ( Yawmiyyât al-Huzn al-'Âdî , 1973) Steerforth Press, 2012
Web links
- Allianz visiting professor at the University of Munich
- Allianz Visiting Professor for Islamic Studies (Minutes)
- Society of Friends of Islamic Art and Culture eV
- Kent State University
- University of Oregon, Department of Comparative Literature
- Banipal, Magazine of Modern Arab Literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Muhawi Institute for the Near and Middle East 2005
- ^ A b Alan Dundes , Ibrahim Muhawi, Sharif Kanaana, University of California Press, 1989 p.xi : Speak Bird, Speak Again .
- ↑ 'Fairy Tales, Printed Texts, and Oral Tellings,' ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Folklore, Volume 21, Wayne State University Apr 1, 2007.
- ↑ Ibrahim Muhawi, 'Dialogues with Imaginary Partners,' PEN American Center, December 21, 2011.
- ↑ Wen-chin Ouyang: Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation State, Modernity and Tradition Edinburgh University Press 2013, pp. 95ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muhawi, Ibrahim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palestinian writer, storyteller and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ramallah |