People Biography

Professor Yasir Suleiman-Malley has vast academic leadership experience in the UK and the Arab World. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge, formerly His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said chair of Contemporary Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Iraq chair of Arabic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is Chair of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), Member of the Board of Trustees of the Gulf Research Centre-Cambridge, and a member of the Panel of Judges of the British Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Suleiman-Malley is a former Vice President and Chair of Council of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, Former Chair of the British Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize, and former member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Edinburgh. Professor Suleiman-Malley is an internationally leading scholar in Arabic sociolinguistics and Middle Eastern Studies. His edited book ‘Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora’ won the Palestine Book Award, Narrative Section in 2016. The Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh set up graduate awards and prizes in his name in recognition of his significant contributions to both institutions.