Elliott Colla
Elliott Colla
Occupation	AssociateProfessor
Nationality	American
Subject	Middle East
Notable works	Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing inArabic literature and culture.^[1] He is an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies atGeorgetown University and leads the Reading Palestine book club at Lost City Books.^[2]

Colla received a B.A. fromUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. inComparative literature from Berkeley in 2000.^[3] His translation ofGold Dust was runner-up for theBanipal Prize in 2009.^[4]He is a co-editor of the e-zine,Jadaliyya.^[5] In addition to translations and academic works, he has published a novelBaghdad Central (2014). This was adapted as atelevision series of the same name, released in 2020.^[6]

• Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
• Baghdad Central London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.

• Ibrahim Aslan -The Heron
• Idris Ali -Poor
• Ibrahim al-Koni -Gold Dust
• Rabai Madhoun -The Lady from Tel Aviv^[7]

• Looking for the Three of DiamondsArchived 2014-07-14 at theWayback Machine MERIP.
• "The Poetry of Revolt", jadaliyya e-zine.
• The People WantArchived 2014-07-14 at theWayback Machine MERIP.
• The Persistence of Jokes jadaliyya e-zine.
• Walls jadaliyya e-zine.
• "The Poetry of Revolt” in the New Egypt Radio Open Source.

• List of Arabic-English translators

• author webpage
• Georgetown University Biography
• Banipal Biography

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