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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

Teaching areas

Modern Arabic Literature, Translation Studies, Arab and Islamic Heritage

Research areas

Modern Arabic Literature, Arabic Language,Translation Studies

Education

PhD, Modern Arabic Literature, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom, 1989
BA, Arabic Language And Literature, University of Mosul, Iraq, 1980

Professional experience

Professor And Head, Arabic And Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2010 - 2016
Associate Professor, Arabic And Translation Studies ., Heriot-Watt University, Scoland, United Kingdom, 2007 - 2010
Senior Instructor, Arabic Literature. Ma And Phd Supervisor, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, 1992 - 2007

Memberships

Arabic Language Committee, UAE, July 2012
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, UK, January 2007

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2568

Dr. Rounak Husni

Professor
PhD, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Ronak Husni has taught Arabic language, modern and classical literature, gender studies, translation and cultural studies in a number of universities in the UK, including St. Andrews, Durham and Heriot-Watt University over the course of 24 years. Her main area of research is classical and modern Arabic literature, applied translation studies, gender studies and Arabic as a foreign language. Her study and translation of the Tunisian reformer Al-Qasim al-Haddad's seminal book Muslim Women in Law and Society won her the 2007 World Award of the President of the Republic of Tunisia for Islamic Studies.

Publications

Rounak Husni. My book entitled Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabbi’s ‘Arab Poetic Imagination’: A Critical Evaluation and Translation., Routledge
Rounak Husni And . “The linguistic landscape in multilingual Al Ain: Representing language policy and the multilingual population, Research In Language
Rounak Husni. Teaching Implied Meaning Using Written Texts in Public Spaces: Social, Societal, and International Factors in English, Arabic, and Lithuanian, 2022
Rounak Husni And Rounak Husni. Issues with selected-response test items in assessing course content vs English language: two EMI contexts., The European Journal Of Applied Linguistics And Tefl, 2 May 2021
Rounak Husni. Arabic Prepositions: Structures and Functions., 14 May 2020
Rounak Husni. Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana’a, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism,, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019
Rounak Husni. ترجمة الشعر بين النظرية والتطبيق: ترجمة قصيدة غسلًا للعار لنازك الملائكة نموذجًا, Turjuman, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018
Rounak Husni, Daniel Newman, And . Arabic-English-Arabic Translation: Issues and Strategies ISBN :13: 978-0415478854, June 2015
Rounak Husni, Betty Lanteigne And . “Characteristics of Arabic text Google Translated to English: An error analysis”,, Turjuman, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2014

Awards and Honors

The World Award from the Republic of Tunisia for Islamic Studies, Republic of Tunisia, 12 November 2008

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