Catherine Cobham taught Arabic language and literature at the University of St
Andrews, Scotland, for many years and was head of the department of Arabic and
Persian from 2011 until 2021. Read More She has translated the work of a number of Arab
writers, including poetry by Adonis, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghayath Almadhoun, Tammam Hunaidy, and Nouri al-Jarrah, and novels and short stories by Yusuf Idris,
Naguib Mahfouz, Hanan al-Shaykh, Fuad al-Takarli, and Jamal Saeed.
She has written articles in academic journals and co-written with Fabio Caiani The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key Texts (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).