Ferial Ghazoul
Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul | |
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فريال جبوري غزول | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | Iraqi |
| Citizenship | Iraq |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar, critic, translator, professor |
| Known for | Comparative literature, postcolonial studies, translation |
| Title | Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
| Board member of | Founding editor of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics |
| Awards | Arkansas Arabic Translation Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Comparative literature |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (PhD, 1978) |
| Thesis | (1978) |
| Influences | Edward Said, Louis Althusser, Paul Ricoeur, Michael Riffaterre |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Comparative literature |
| Sub-discipline | Postcolonial studies, Arabic literature, literary translation |
| Institutions | American University in Cairo |
| Main interests | Comparative literature, translation, postcolonial studies |
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Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She was educated in Iraq, Lebanon, Britain, France, and the USA. She obtained her PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University in 1978. Currently, she is chair and professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo.