{"id":402,"count":5,"description":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In June 2011 Roger Allen retired from his position as the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the School of Arts &amp; Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages &amp; Civilizations.\u00a0 He served as President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) for the year 2009-2010.\u00a0He is Honorary President of the Banipal Trust and Sub-editor of the <em>Encyclopedia of Islam <\/em>3<sup>rd<\/sup> edition for modern Arabic literature. He is a 2020 winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Shaikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (Qatar).<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among his numerous published studies on Arabic literature are: T<em>he Arabic Novel: an historical and critical introduction<\/em>(2<sup>nd<\/sup> edition 1995, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Arabic edition 1998), and <em>The Arabic Literary Heritage<\/em> in 1998 (and in abbreviated paperback form in 2000, as <em>Introduction to Arabic Literature<\/em>; Arabic translation, Cairo, 2003).<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He has translated a number of fictional works by modern Arab writers, including the Egyptian Nobel Laureate, Naguib Mahfouz: a collection of short stories, <em>God\u2019s World<\/em> (1973), and the novels, <em>Autumn Quail<\/em>, <em>Mirrors<\/em>, <em>Karnak Caf\u00e9<\/em>, <em>Khan al-Khalili<\/em>, and <em>One Hour Left<\/em>.\u00a0 He has also translated novels and short stories by a number of other Arab authors, including Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Yusuf Idris, `Abd al-rahman Munif, Mayy Telmissany, Halim Barakat, BenSalim Himmich, Ahmad al-Tawfiq, and Hanan al-Shaykh.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since retirement, he has published a number of translations: the first complete edition of the original episodes of Muhammad al-Muwaylihi\u2019s <em>Hadith `Isa ibn Hisham <\/em>(<em>What `Isa ibn Hisham Told Us<\/em>, 2 vols., [Library of Arabic Literature series], New York: New York University Press, 2015); a novel (<em>The Elusive Fox<\/em>) and short-story collection (<em>Monarch of the Square<\/em>) by the Moroccan author, Muhammad Zifzaf (with Mbarek Sryfi); `Abd al-karim Ghallab\u2019s novel, <em>Dafan-na al-madi <\/em>(<em>We Have Buried the Past<\/em>, London: Haus Publishing, 2018); Naguib Mahfouz\u2019s newly discovered collection of narratives (untitled in the original, <em>The Quarter<\/em>, London: Saqi Books, 2019); and Ameen Rihani\u2019s travelogue, <em>The Heart of Lebanon <\/em>(Syracuse University Press, 2021),.\u00a0 Currently in press are two other historical novels by Reem Bassiouney, <em>Sons of the People <\/em>(Syracuse University Press), and <em>Al-Qata\u2019i` <\/em>(Georgetown University Press).<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_translators\/roger-allen\/","name":"Roger Allen","slug":"roger-allen","taxonomy":"cb_translators","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roger Allen Archives - DarArab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_translators\/roger-allen\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dararab.co.uk\\\/en\\\/cb_translators\\\/roger-allen\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dararab.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Roger Allen\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Roger Allen Archives - DarArab","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_translators\/roger-allen\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_translators\/roger-allen\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Roger Allen"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cb_translators\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cb_translators"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/cb_translators"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?cb_translators=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}