Elliott Colla

Elliott Colla
Elliott Colla
Occupation	Associate Professor
Nationality	American
Subject	Middle East
Notable works	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]

References

^ "Citations search: "Elliott Colla" (Google Books)". Retrieved 2012-10-13.
^ "Banipal biography". Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
^ "Banipal Trust biography". Banipal Trust. Archived from the original on 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
^ "Elliott Colla". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
^ Jones, Ellen E. (4 February 2020). "Baghdad Central review – more than just a Middle East Morse". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
^ "Georgetown University: Elliott Colla". Georgetown University. Retrieved 2012-10-13.