Arabic Language, Literature and Culture

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Dr Ali Yunis Aldahesh (Orcid.org/0000-0002-7179-742X) is a Lecturer in Arabic Language, Literature and Culture at The University of Sydney, Department of Arabic Language and Cultures, School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dr Aldahesh joined the University of Sydney in February 2011. He worked before that at the Australian National University (ANU) as a Lecturer in Arabic at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East and Central Asia). He holds a PhD in Translation and Linguistics, an MA in Translation and Linguistics, and an MA in Semitic Studies. Dr Aldahesh’s area of research interest is translation and linguistics with special emphasis on the language, text, and translation of the Qur’an. His published works include:

• The (Un)Translatability of the Qur’anic Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs: A Contrastive Linguistic Study. Routledge. UK. 2022.
• English Translations of the Qur’an: A Descriptive Comparative Study in their Aspects of Disagreement. Cairo: Hala Publishing, 2020.
• Translating Idiomatic English Phrasal Verbs into Arabic: A Contrastive Linguistic Study. VDM, Germany, 2009.
• The Concept of Taqwa in the Qur’an as understood by Muslim commentators (In Arabic). Ray Publishing, Syria, Aleppo, 2010.
• al-Raḥīl Ṣawba al-Māʾ ‘Travelling Towards Water’. A book of short stories (In Arabic). WSU, Sydney, 2007.

Supervisor

Dr Ali Aldahesh.

Research location

Arabic Language and Cultures, School of Languages and Cultures (SLC)

Synopsis

Research interests

• Translation
• Contrastive analysis
• Arabic Language

Dr Ali Aldahesh welcomes queries from research students interested in the field of translation and Arabic language.

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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3254