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Michael Cooperson
University of California, Los Angeles
Time Travel on Iranian Television
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
4:15 pm, LNCO Lounge Room 2110
Michael Cooperson is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) at the American University in Cairo. His publications include Classical Arabic Biography (2000) and Al-Ma’mun (2005). He has translated Abdelfattah Kilito’s L’Auteur et ses doubles (The Author and His Doubles, 2001) and is currently translating Khayri Shalabi’s Rihalat al-Turshagi al-Halwagi. He is co-author, with the RRAALL group, of Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition (2001); and co-editor, with Shawkat Toorawa, of The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Arabic Literary Culture, 500-915 (2005) and is currently using the career of the musician Ibrahim al-Mawsili to study the uses of Persian narrative traditions in Arabic biography and the nature of Persian and Arab ethnicity in the early Abbasid period.
