10 Facts About Suheil Bushrui

Suheil Badi Bushrui was a Palestinian professor, author, poet, critic, translator, and peace maker.

Suheil Bushrui was a prominent scholar in regard to the life and works of the Lebanese-American author and poet Kahlil Gibran.

Professor Suheil Badi Bushrui was a distinguished scholar, renowned for his contributions through his books, lectures and academic papers about the Irish poets W B Yeats, James Joyce, and other Irish literary figures, such as John Millington Synge.

Professor Bushrui was unique in that he was the first non-westerner to attend the Summer School in Sligo, Ireland, which opened in 1960, dedicated and named after Yeats, who grew up there and spent his childhood holidays in Sligo's landscape.

Suheil Bushrui was the first Arab national to be appointed to the Chair of English at the American University of Beirut, a position he held from 1968 to 1986.

Suheil Bushrui taught at universities in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and America.

Suheil Bushrui authored in both English and Arabic tens of books and scholarly articles on themes that ranged from literature to religion to world order.

Suheil Bushrui was the first non-Westerner to be appointed as Chair of the International Association of the Study of Irish Literature.

Subsequently and until early 2015, Suheil Bushrui became the Director of the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland and was Senior Scholar of Peace Studies at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management.

Suheil Bushrui was recognized in the many countries in which he taught, for the transformation he brought about in the lives of his students.