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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

Teaching areas

Translation, Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting, Translation Studies, Contrastive Linguistics, Qur'anic Studies, Islamic Fiqh (Jurisprudence), Seerah, Arabic Heritage, Arabic Grammar, Language of the Qur'an, Art of Qur'anic recitation, Arabic Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language.

Research areas

Translation Studies; Qur'an Translation; Interpreting; Linguistics; Rhetoric; Intercultural Communication; Arabic Heritage; Islamic Studies.

Education

PhD, Comparative Translation, Durham University, United Kingdom
MA, Master of Arts in Translation, Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, Egypt
BA, BA in English Language, Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Professional experience

Associate Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2014 - Present)
Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2008 - 2014)
Assistant Professor of Translation at KKU, Saudi Arabia(2001 - 2008)

Memberships

President of Arabic Translators International, ATI, Belgium, 2007 - present
Tourist Guide Syndicate, Egypt, 1991 - present
BRISMES: British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 2012 - 2015
Consultation Committee of Durham University Islamic Society, UK, 1996 - 1998

Contact

aliahmed@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2812

Dr. Ahmed Ali

Associate Professor
PhD in Comparative Translation of the Holy Qur’an, University of Durham, UK

Ahmed Ali is President of Arabic Translators International (ATI). At the University of Durham, UK, he taught undergraduate courses in Arabic and translation, and at King Khaled University, Saudi Arabia, he was one of the founding members of the Translation Department. He is also the General Editor of ATI Academic Series, and ATI Literary Series (Arabic Literature Unveiled).

Publications

Ahmed Ali, Pre-Islamic Arabian Thought الفكر العربي قبل الإسلام: ترجمة وتعليق, Published, Dragoman Journal of Translation Studies, 8, 9, pp. 126-175, 2019
Ahmed Ali, Challenges in Translating the Qur’ān -- Translating the Untranslatable: Omission/Ellipsis, Published, 2019
Ahmed Allaithy, Abied Alsulaiman, Terminology in the Arab world, Published, Handbook of Terminology, 2, vi, 2019
Ahmed Ali, Introduction to Terminology in the Arab world, Published, 2, pp. 1-6, 2019
Ahmed Allaithy, There Is Nothing Like Him? A Syntactic, Semantic, Rhetorical and Translational Analysis of Qur'anic Terminology, Published, Handbook of Terminology, 2, vi, pp. 155-179, 2019

Conference Presentations

Ahmed Ali, Translating the Untranslatable: Ellipsis in the Holy Qur'an, Sharjah, October, 2019
Ahmed Ali, Arabic learning: A Fast Track, ACLL2018: The Asian Conference on Language Learning, Kobe, Japan, April, 2018
Ahmed Ali, Ethical Issues in Audiovisual Translation into Arabic, the 10th International Conference on Professional Communication and Translation Studies: Language and Communication: The Digital Challenge, Timisoara, Romania, March, 2017
Ahmed Ali, Arabic Literature in Translation, Translation and the Problematics of Cross-cultural Understanding (3), Doha, Qatar, December, 2016
Ahmed Ali, One Text, Multiple Cognitive Realities, 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Research on Translation and Interpreting, Macau, China, November, 2015
Ahmed Ali, Arabic Language Teaching Methods, Arabic Language Teaching Workshop, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, April, 2015
Ahmed Ali, Dead Language Alive, Conference on Humanities and Education , New York, United States, January, 2015

Grants and sponsorships

Enhanced Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2020

Other creative/research

2006-2007: Asir Province in the Fight Against Extremism, Asir Imarah, Sarawat Publishing House, 1427 AH.
2005: What Everyone Should Know About The Holy Qur'an, Garant Publishers, Belgium, 2005.
Forthcoming- Extremists: The Khawararij of the Age (Extremism in Islam), by Dr. Omar Kamel (Bisan Publishers: Cairo).
2004: Journey of Development: A Testimony of an Eye Witness, by Prince Khalid al-Faisal, Governor of Asir.
2004: Jumu'ah Speech by Dr. Al-Wabil

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