Professor in Translation Studies and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, New York, USA

Expertise: History of translation, literary translation, comparative literature

Tarek Shamma is professor at the Translation Research and Instruction Program and Comparative Literature Department and the Director of the Translation Research and Instruction Program (Binghamton University, New York, USA). He has taught at universities in Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. His research interests include translation and culture, history of translation, Arabic literature, and cultural representation. He is the author of Translation and the Manipulation of Difference: Arabic Literature in Nineteenth-Century England (St. Jerome/Routledge, 2009) and Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation (Routledge, 2022; also published in Arabic by Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Qatar).