Elliott Colla | |
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 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 an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University.
Colla received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Comparative literature 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] In addition to translations and academic works, he has published a novel Baghdad Central (2014). This was adapted as a television series of the same name, released in 2020. [5]
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