معرفی
Adam Talib is an Associate Professor at the American University in Cairo within the Sheikh Hassan Abbas Sharbatly Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations. He serves as the Director of Graduate Studies and is a co-editor of the journal Middle Eastern Literatures. As an award-winning translator of Arabic into English, his scholarly work bridges classical Arabic philology, translation studies, and comparative literature.
His research focuses on:
- Classical Arabic poetry and its historical contexts
- Arabic literary history and canon formation
- Comparative Islamicate poetic traditions across Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman literatures
- Classical Arabic literary scholarship (rhetoric, criticism, prosody)
- Translation theory and practice
Talib’s first book, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison, challenges Eurocentric frameworks by analyzing the history of Arabic maqāṭīʿ-poetry and its implications for world literature. He also uncovered a previously unknown diwan (collection) of poetry by Ibn al-Musalaya and transcribed eloquent letters attributed to Abbasid caliphs.
