Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Kareem James Abu-Zeid is currently writing his PhD dissertation on the links between modern Arabic poetry and the French and German poetic and philosophical traditions at UC Berkeley’s Department of Comparative Literature. He has taught literature and language courses in Arabic, German, French, and English at U.C. Berkeley and the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg in Germany. He is the translator of Tarek Eltayeb’s Sudanese novels Cities Without Palms (AUC Press, 2009) and The Palm House (forthcoming from AUC and Oxford UP), and also works as a professional translator of Arabic, German, and French.