Shawkat Toorawa has published extensively on classical, medieval and modern Arabic literature, and has published translations from Arabic.
13 Facts About Shawkat Toorawa
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Shawkat Toorawa identifies himself as a multicultural Muslim having lived in England, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mauritius and the US.
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Shawkat Toorawa is a faculty member in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at Yale University.
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Shawkat Toorawa first became aware of being Muslim in 1966 through his Senegalese tutor, Abdullah Diop, who came to their apartment daily to teach him the Arabic Script and stories about the prophets.
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Shawkat Toorawa continued to pursue his education at the University of Pennsylvania for the next four years and graduated with a Master of Arts in Oriental Studies in 1989.
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Shawkat Toorawa returned to the university in 1998 to pursue a Ph.
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Shawkat Toorawa taught at Duke University from 1989 to 1991, and at the University of Mauritius from 1996 to 2000.
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Shawkat Toorawa taught at Cornell University from 2000 to 2016.
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Shawkat Toorawa has written about Classic and Medieval Arabic Literature, Modern Arabic poetry, the Quran, Islam and the Indian Ocean.
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Shawkat Toorawa's research focuses mainly on the Middle East and South Asia.
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Shawkat Toorawa is a former Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow.
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Shawkat Toorawa is Co-Executive Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature, an initiative to translate classical and premodern Arabic Literature.
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Shawkat Toorawa is a Director of the School of Abbasid Studies.