Recent Award or Recognition:

Other Awards and Grants

2003-2004  AUS Professional Development Grant to attend MESA and offer talks.

2002           Leading the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Seminar, Aug.

2001/02-     Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grant, Duke University.

1999           Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Grant

1998           Accute Grant, Ottawa Conference, May, 1998

1998           EDS, Tunis University, Research Grant.

1997           Fulbright Scholar Grant (Affiliate Professor, Temple University)

1986           Venezuelan Award of Arts/ Union of Latin American Writers

1976           Dalhousie Research Grant/Hartford Seminary Foundation

1974-75      Dalhousie Graduate Fellowship

Teaching Appointments :

2003           Professor of Arabic Literature, Columbia University, New York

2002           Selected for Senior Professorship of Arabic, The American University in Cairo

2000-        Professor of Arabic Studies, American University of Sharjah (AUS)-

1998           Affiliate Professor at Temple University

1993-2000  Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Tunis I, Manouba

1991-92      Professor, San'a University, Yemen

1991           Professor, Amman University, Jordan

1988-90      Professor, Baghdad University, Iraq

1979-88      Assistant Professor, Baghdad University, Iraq

Editorial Experience:

2006-09      MLA ( Modern Language Association of North America) Advisory Board for Translated Texts.

2005-06     Chair of Columbia  University Seminars ( Arabic),

2003           Editor, Journal of Arabic Literature

2003-          Advisory Board, Journal of Social Sciences

1999-          Editorial Board of the Journal of Arabic Literature .  Leiden: Brill.

1998-          Co-editor and contributor, the American University in Cairo Companion to Arabic Literature.

1986-9        Editor of Orientalism Quarterly , Baghdad

1983-90      Editor of Arab Horizons Monthly (in Arabic)

1987-1990  Editor of the Second Hundred Books in Translation Series, Baghdad.

1985-87      Editor of the First Hundred Books in Translation Series (English, American, & French into Arabic)

1. Member of the UAE Encyclopedia of Gulf Literature
2. Member of the Jury for the Owais Awards 2007-2008
3. The Dubai Press Jury for Cultural Press, Jan. 2005.
4. Jury for The Shaykh Muhammad B. Haza’ al-Nahayyan Children Literature-in-Translation Award, 2003-2004 UAE.
5. The Owais Award Jury for Preliminary selections, 2002/ and 2003
6. Member of the Jury, the Moroccan Asilah Festival/ The Arabic Novel Competition, Aug., 2001, 2002, 2003
7. Member of the Jury, Dubai Press Club Jury for Arab Cultural Journalism, February, 2002.
8. Member of the Jury for the Short Story Award in the Arab World, Sharjah Department of Culture, 2001, and 2002.; and for the Novel, 2003.
9. The Moroccan Award for Poetry, Member of the Awarding Jury, Asila Festival, Tangier, Morocco, Aug. 2000
10. Member of the Jury, for the Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science, ALECSO, The Arab League Organization for Education, Culture, and Science, Award Jury, Tunisia, 1998:  Award for the Arts
11. Advisor, and member for the 1995 al-‘Owais Cultural Foundation Awards for Literature (Dubai), 5 awards, $500, 000
12. Member of the UNESCO Baghdad Award in Paris, 1987
13. Member of the State Award for Culture, Baghdad, 1987-89



Membership: Societies

14. 2004-                 Modern Language Association, MLA
15. 2000-                 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
16. 1997-                 Member of ACCUTE, Humanities Conference; Canada
17. 1996-                 Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
18. 198-                 Honorary Member, Latin American Association for Writers
19. 1983-90             Secretary General, Iraqi Writers’ Association
20. 1983-1990        Chair, Iraqi Critics’ Association
21. 1973-78             Oriental Institute, Chicago

(+100,000$ in cash, and other merits) 2002.