Jonas Elbousty

Jonas Elbousty is an academic, writer, and literary translator. He is a scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature, Literary Translation, Poetics of Exile, and Postcolonial literature. He teaches in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. His roles have included a seven-year period as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is now the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Council on Middle East Studies and oversees the Yale Summer Study Abroad Program in Morocco.
Biography
Elbousty holds an MPhil and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
His teaching experience spans several institutions, including Al Akhawayn University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. He has also been a visiting faculty member at various universities, such as Stockholm University.
He has given lectures at numerous universities, including Stockholm University, University of Lisbon, University of Copenhagen, Bochum University, Zhejiang University, (ULB; 'Free University of Brussels'), , Ain Shams University, Ibn Zohr University, Mohammed V University. the Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA), the Comparative Humanities and Applied Language Studies (CHALS Lab) at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco, and the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Center (HSSRC) at Ajman University, United Arab Emirates.
Awards
* Ordre des Palmes académiques
Elbousty, Jonas (2022). Media Arabic, Routledge Press. ISBN 9781032044460
Elbousty, Jonas (2016). Advanced Arabic Literary Reader, Routledge Press (with Muhammad Aziz). ISBN 9781138828698
Elbousty, Jonas (2014).Vitality And Dynamism" Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition, Leiden University Press (with Kristin Bratt and Devin Stewart. ISBN 9789087282134
Translations
Mohamed Choukri. Faces, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024. ISBN 9781647124779
Akram Alkatreb. The Screams of War. Seagull Books, 2024. ISBN 9781803093505
Mohamed Choukri. Tales of Tangier, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. ISBN 9780300251357
* Tales of Tangier
Selected literary translation
*"Three Syrian Exile Poem, Faraj Baryakdar". World Literature Today (October 2024).
*"Clumsy Army, Firas Sulaiman". Journal of New Jersey Poets, vol. 61, issue 2 (Spring 2024).
*"21 Shots, Mohamed Salmawy". Sekka, Vol.7. Issue 28 (Summer 2023).
*"My Good People, Akram Alkatreb". Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 61, issue 2 (Spring 2022).
*"Three Packs of Coors Beer, Akram Alkatreb". Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 61, issue 2 (Spring 2022).
*"My Mother, Akram Alkatreb". Sekka, vol. 6, issue 25 (Spring 2022).
*"The Pier, Mohamed Choukri". Banipal Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature, issue 73 (Spring 2022).
*"News on Death and the Dead, Mohamed Choukri". Banipal Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature, issue 73 (Spring 2022).
*"Women: Cunning and Other Falsehoods, Mohamed Choukri". Banipal Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature, issue 73 (Spring 2022).
*"My Face Through the Seasons, Mohamed Choukri". ArabLit Quarterly (Spring 2022).
*"I Know It's War... Six short poems of Wafai Laila", The Asheville Poetry Review, vol. 28, no. 1. 2021, issue 30

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