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Indiana University Bloomington
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Emeritus Faculty : People

NAMESalih Altoma

  • Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • B.A. at the University of Baghdad, 1952, Arabic (with honors)
  • M.A.T. at Harvard University, 1955
  • Ed. D. at Harvard, 1957, Language Education

Research Interests

  • Modern Arabic literature
  • Arab-American Literature
  • Arabic-Western Literary Relations
  • American Reception of Contemporary Arabic Literature

Contact Information

salih@indiana.edu
Goodbody 102
(812)855-5993

Courses Recently Taught

  • Arabic-Western Literary Relations
  • American Reception of Contemporary Arabic Literature
  • The Literature of the Arabian Peninsula
  • Classical/Modern Arabic Literature
  • Modern Arabic Fiction
  • Modern Islamic Literature in English Translation
  • Arabic Poetry

Publication Highlights

  • A Dictionary of Modern Linguistic Terms: English-Arabic/Arabic-English. (Co-author) Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1983.
  • Modern Arabic Poetry in English Translation: A Bibliography. (With both Arabic and English Introductions). Tangier: King Fahd School of Translation 1993.
  • Guest Editor. Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 48 (2000). Topic: Arabic-Western Literary Relations.
  • Modern Arabic Literature in Translation: A Companion. London: Saqi Books, 2005.