Catherine Cobham
Ms Catherine Cobham

Ms. Catherine Cobham

BA (Leeds), MA (Manc.) - Lecturer

 
Contact Details

E-mail - cmc1@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463630
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462927

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching: Arabic language and modern Arabic literature. Research: literary translation and contemporary Arabic fiction.

Selected Publications

  • A River Dies of Thirst, translation of Athar al-farasha, prose and poetry by Mahmud Darwish, London: Saqi, 2009; New York: Archipelago Books, 2009
  • (with F Caiani) “The Other Shore: Dialogue and difference in Al-Shati' al-thani by Mahdi 'Isa al-Saqr’, Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 11, no. 3, (2008).
  •  “Enchanted to a stone: heroes and leaders in The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz” in Identities Remembered, Discovered, Invented: Hero and Character in Modern Arabic Narrative,  Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2 (2006).
  •  “Khazin al-la-mar'iyyat: Heroes For Our Time, or ‘He not busy being born is busy dying’ ” in Identities Remembered, Discovered, Invented: Hero and Character in Modern Arabic Narrative, Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2 (2006).
  • “Reading and Writing in al-Masarrat wa'l-awja' ”by Fu'ad al-Takarli, Journal of Arabic Literature, vol. 35, no. 1 (2004)
  •  "The Long Way Back: Possibilities for Survival and Renewal in al-Raj' al-ba'id by Fu'ad al-Takarli", Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2 (2002)
  •  "The Poetics of Space in Two Stories by Hanan al-Shaykh" in B. Hallaq et al (eds.), La poétique de l'espace dans la littérature arabe moderne (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2002)
  • Only in London, translation of Innaha Lundun, ya 'azizi by Hanan al-Shaykh (reprinted Bloomsbury 2010) [Details]
  • The Long Way Back, translation of al-Raj' al-ba'id by Fu'ad al-Takarli (American University in Cairo Press, 2001) [Details]
  •  "Sufism and Irony in Al-Taslim by Abdelilah al-Hamdouchi”, Oriente Moderno, vol. 2-3 (1997)
  • The Harafish, translation of al-Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz (American University of Cairo Press and Doubleday, New York, 1994)  
  • (edited with Sabry Hafez) A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories, (Saqi, London, 1988) [Details]

Administrative Duties

Examinations Officer

Teaching Duties

Subhonours: contributes to second level teaching

Offers the following Honours courses:

 

 

Main Publications

 

The Long Way Back

 

Only In London