Yasir SuleimanCBE is a scholar of Arabic literature and language, and modern Middle Eastern politics. He is Emeritus Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at theUniversity of Cambridge.^[1][2] He is aPalestinian Arab living in thediaspora.^[3]

Suleiman holds degrees fromAmman University, theUniversity of St Andrews, andDurham University.^[4] He lectures on topics related to theMiddle East.^{[citation needed]} He was selected to be a trustee of theInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction (2007—2009).^{[citation needed]}

He was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the2011 Birthday Honours for his services to scholarship.^[5][6]

In addition to authoring books, Yasir Suleiman was an editor of a number of monographs is Arabic studies.

• Arabic in the Fray: Language Ideology and Cultural Politics (2013)Edinburgh University Press,ISBN 978-0748680313
• A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004)Cambridge University Press,ISBN 0-521-83743-X
• The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003)Georgetown University Press,ISBN 0-87840-395-7
• The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Ta'lil (2000)Edinburgh University Press,ISBN 0-7486-0697-1

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