Staff profile

• Arab food history
• Arabic geographical and travel literature (with special focus on Arab travellers to Europe)
• Erotology and sexuality in the mediaeval Muslim world
• History of Translation in the Arab world
• The Tunisian and Egyptian Nahda movements

• 2023: Member of the Scientific Council of the European Institute for the History and Cultures of Food (Institut Européen dl’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, IEHCA):
• 2023: Member of the Editorial Board of Food&History:
• 2021: Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society:
• 2019: Vice-President of the British Association of Teachers of Arabic:
• 2019: Visiting Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha, Qatar):
• 2014: Visiting Professor, UCLA:
• 2009: co-recipient of World Award of the President of the Republic of Tunisia for Islamic Studies:
• 2009: AHRC Peer Review College member:
• 2009: Member of Council, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (2009-2012):
• 2008: Member of the Executive Committee of the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML) [2008-12]:

Authored book

• Newman, D. (2020). Rifa'a al-Tahtawi: A Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Educationalist and Reformer. Edinburgh University Press
• Newman, D., & Husni, R. (2015). Arabic-English-Arabic Translation: Issues and Strategies. Routledge
• Newman, D., & Husni, R. (2013). A to Z of Arabic-English-Arabic Translation. Saqi Books
• Newman, D. (2011). An Imam In Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit To France 1826-1831. Rev. 2nd ed. Saqi
• Newman, D., & Husni, R. (2008). Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader - Twelve Stories by Contemporary Masters from Morocco to Iraq. Saqi Books
• Newman, D. (2007). Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon. Routledge
• Newman, D. (2002). An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit to France (1826-1831). Saqi Books
• Newman, D., & Van der Tuin, J. (1993). Elsevier’s Dictionary of Ports and Shipping (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German). Elsevier

Book review

• Newman, D. L. (2017). Charles PERRY (ed./trans.), Scents and Flavors. A Syrian Cookbook, Library of Arabic Literature (New York, New York University Press, 2017) Catherine GUILLAUMOND (trans.), Cuisine et diététique dans l’occident arabe médiéval d’apres un traité anonyme du XIIIe siecle. Étude et traduction française. Préface d’Ameur Ghedira, Histoire et Perspectives mediterraneennes (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2017). Food & history, 15(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1484/j.food.5.116344
• Newman, D. (2016). Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics. Phonetica, 319, 79-82. https://doi.org/10.1159/000441300
• Newman, D. (2016). The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London
• Newman, D. L. (2014). Taken for Wonder. Nineteenth-century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe. Studies in Travel Writing, 18(4), 401-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2014.966535
• Newman, D. (2008). Contemporary Iraqi Fiction. An Anthology
• Newman, D. (2007). A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East. Holy Land Studies, 6(2), 220-222

Chapter in book

• Newman, D. L. Rifa'a al-Tahtawi. In R. C. Martin, A. Afsaruddin, & D. M. Varisco (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Islam and The Muslim World (1178-1179). (2nd). Macmillan
• Newman, D. L. Translation Activity and Academies, Pre-modern Period. In R. C. Martin, A. Afsaruddin, & D. M. Varisco (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Islam and The Muslim World (1171-1175). (2nd). Macmillan
• Newman, D. L. Translation Activity, Modern Period (19th c.). In R. C. Martin, A. Afsaruddin, & D. M. Varisco (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Islam and The Muslim World (1175-1183). (2nd). Macmillan
• Newman, D. L. (2021). Rifa' al-Tahtawi. In D. Thomas, & J. Chesworth (Eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. The Ottoman empire (1800-1914) (512-521). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004460270
• Newman, D. (2019). Arabic Travel Writing. In D. Nandini, & T. Youngs (Eds.), The Cambridge history of travel writing (143-158). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316556740.010
• Newman, D. (2018). Wandering Nights: Shahrazād’s Mutations. In C. Caruso (Ed.), The life of texts : evidence in textual production, transmission and reception. (62-92). Bloomsbury
• Newman, D. (2017). 'Hell for horses, paradise for women': power and identity in nineteenth-century North African narratives of travel to Europe. In G. Mackenthun, A. Nicolas, & S. Wodianka (Eds.), Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge (183-200). Waxmann
• Newman, D. (2013). The Arabic Literary Language: the Nahda (and beyond). In J. Owens (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics (472-494). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199764136.013.0021
• Newman, D. (2008). Myths and signs of alienation between 19th-century rihlat and Europe. In R. Ostle (Ed.), Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean: Self expression in a Muslim Culture from post-classical times to the present day (85-102). I.B. Tauris
• Newman, D. (2006). Arab Muslim Minorities in the European Union: The Integration Paradigm. In M. al-Baljali, & A. Jaber (Eds.), Ibn Zaydun: Islamic Civilization and the West. From Opposition to Partnership (269-348). Al-Babtain Foundation
• Newman, D. (2005). Contrastive Analysis of the Segments of French and Arabic. In A. Elgibali (Ed.), Investigating Arabic : current parameters in analysis and learning (185-206). Brill Academic Publishers

Edited book

• Newman, D. (Ed.). (2014). 2nd Annual International Conference Proceedings, Language, Literature & Linguistics (L32013), 17-18 June 2013, Singapore. GSTF
• Newman, D. (Ed.). (2012). Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics (L3 2012). Global Science and Technology Forum
• Newman, D., & Van Campenhoudt, M. (Eds.). (1999). Maritime Terminology: Issues in Communication and Translation. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Maritime Terminology. Éditions du Hazard

Journal Article

• Newman, D. 19th-century Arabic Periodicals in Europe: The politics of Exile and Reformism. Manuscript submitted for publication
• Newman, D. (2010). 19th-century Tunisian Travel Literature on Europe: Construction of Memory and the Other. IBLA, 73(206), 175-189
• Newman, D. (2009). Sulayman al-Hara’iri: an Early Tunisian Reformer. Cahiers de Tunisie, LXII(207-208), 11-60
• Newman, D. (2008). Ahmad Bey's journey to the land of the Fransis (1846). IBLA, 71(201), 43-102
• Newman, D. (2008). Egyptian Colloqual Arabic (Cairo)
• Newman, D. (2008). رحلة سليمان بن صيام إلى فرنسا (عام 1852 م.): صفحة منسية في تاريخ الجزائر. Chronos (Tripoli), 17, 145-166
• Newman, D., & Husni, R. (2007). Cultural Translation in the Age of the Nahda
• Newman, D. (2007). The European Sources of the Aqwam al-Masalik fi Ma’rifat al-Mamalik. IBLA, 209-228
• Newman, D. (2002). The phonetic status of Arabic within the worlds languages: the uniqueness of the lughat al-daad. Antwerp papers in linguistics, 100, 65-75
• Newman, D. (2002). Borrowing from European Languages (ta'rib) in 19th-Century Literature. A'lab'eo wa a'lab munhag, 5(2), 1-32
• Newman, D. (2002). Tunisian diplomatic representation in Europe in the 19th century: the controversy surrounding the establishment of Tunisian consulates in Belgium (1865-1866). Cahiers de Tunisie, 181, 27-46
• Newman, D. (2002). Myths and Realities in Muslim Alterist Discourse: Arab Travellers in Europe in the Age of the Nahda (19th c.). Chronos (Tripoli), 6, 7-76
• Newman, D., & Verhoeven, J. (2002). Frequency analysis of Arabic vowels in connected speech. Antwerp papers in linguistics, 100, 77-86
• Newman, D. (2001). Italy in Arabic travel literature until the end of the 19th century: cultural encounters and perceptions of the Other
• Newman, D. (2001). Arab travellers to Europe until the end of the 18th century and their accounts: historical overviews and themes

Scholarly Edition

• Newman, D. (2023). The Exile’s Cookbook Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus and North Africa. London: Saqi Books
• Newman, D. L. (2020). The Sultan's Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook
• Newman, D. (2014). The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages
• Newman, D., & Husni, R. (2007). Annotated translation of al-Tahir al-Haddad’s Imra‘tuna fi ‘l-shari'a wa 'l-mujtama', with an introduction