Staff profile

• Arabic literature
• Arabic/English translation
• Middle Eastern travellers to Europe and vice versa

• 2019: : to present ;Chair, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)
• 2017: : 1^st place (tied) Sheikh Hamad translation award (Arabic into English)
• 2015: : Winner, Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
• 2012: : to 2018 ;Vice-President, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
• 2008: : Member of Judges’ Panel, International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the ‘Arabic Booker’)
• 2004: : Chair, BANIPAL Trust for Modern Arabic Literature
• 2001: : Panel member, Research Assessment Exercise, UoA 46; 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Sub-Panel 48
• 2000: : to 2003 ;General Secretary, Member, EMTAR / EURAMAL (European Meeting of Teachers of Arabic Literature / European Association for Modern Arabic Literature)
• 1997: : -2000 ;Chair, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)
• 1990: : to 1996 ;Editor BRISMES Bulletin / British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Available for media contact about:

• Middle East: Arabic
• Foreign Literature & Language: Arabic language and literature

Authored book

• Starkey, Paul G (2016). Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen. Edinburgh University Press.
• Starkey, Paul G (2006). Modern Arabic Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Starkey, Paul G (1987). From the Ivory Tower: a critical study of Tawfīq al-Hakīm. London: Ithaca Press/Garnet Publishing.

Chapter in book

• Starkey, Paul G (Accepted). The four ages of Husayn Tawfīq: love and sexuality in the novels of Tawfīq al-Hakīm. In Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature. Allen, R, Kilpatrick, H & de Moor, E London: Saqi. 56-64.
• Starkey, Paul G (Accepted). Modern Egyptian Culture in the Arab World. In The Cambridge History of Egypt. II: Modern Egypt from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century. Daly, MW & Petry, Carl F New York: Cambridge University Press. 2: 394-426.
• Starkey, Paul G (2021). Arabic Literary Translingualism. In The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism. Kellman, S & Lvovich, N London: Routledge. 599–625.
• Starkey, Paul G (2021). Lifting the Lid on a Culture that’s Hid’ Kashf al-Mukhabbaʾ in Literary and Historical Context. In A Life in Praise of Words: Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and the Nineteenth Century. Winckler, B Wiesbaden: Reichert.
• Starkey, Paul G (2020). Ibn Jubayr’s Riḥla reconsidered. In Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists. Starkey, P & Starkey, J Oxford: Archaeopress. 34–54.
• Starkey, Paul G & Starkey, Janet (2020). Meet at Rustam Pasha. In Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist. Rogerson, B London: Eland. 160-163.
• Starkey, Paul G (2019). Resurrecting the caliphate: Youssef Rakha and the collapse of the Ottoman state. In Arabic literature in a posthuman world. Guth, S & Pepe, T Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 53-60.
• Starkey, Paul G (2018). The cedars of Lebanon in literature and art. In Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the botanical legacy. Starkey, P, Aščerić-Todd, I, Knees, S & Starkey J Oxford: Archaeopress. 251-274.
• Starkey, Paul G (2017). Joun Encounter: Alexander William Kinglake meets Lady Hester Stanhope. In Lost and Now Found: Explorers, Diplomats and Artists in Egypt and the Near East. Cooke, Neil & Daubney, Vanessa Oxford: Archaeopress. 273-282.
• Starkey, Paul G (2015). Strange Incidents from History: Youssef Rakha and his Sultan’s Seal. In Studying Modern Arabic Literature: Essays in Honour of Mustafa Badawi. Allen, R & Ostle, R Edinburgh: EUP. 159-177.
• Starkey, Paul G (2015). Romances of History: Jurji Zaydan and the rise of the historical novel’. In The Long 1890s: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance. Booth, M & Gorman, A EUP. 342-364.
• Starkey, Paul G (2010). Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti’, ‘Tawfiq Yusuf ‘Awwad’ and ‘Nasif al-Yaziji. In Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1850–1950. Allen, Roger Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 37–43, 200–206, 376–381.
• Starkey, Paul G (2008). Voyages of Self-Definition: the case of [Ahmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq. In Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean. Ostle, R London: I.B. Tauris. 118-132.
• Starkey, Paul G. (2006). Intertextuality and the Arabic literary tradition in Edwar al-Kharrat's 'Stones of Bobello'. In Intertextuality in modern Arabic literature since 1967. Deheuvels, Luc., Michalak-Pikulska, Barbara. & Starkey, Paul. Durham: Durham Modern Languages Series. 2: 149-159.
• Starkey, Paul G. (2003). Crisis and Memory in Rashid al-Daif’s Dear Mr Kawabata: An Essay in Narrative Disorder. In Crisis and Memory: The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative. Seigneurie, K. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. 115-130.
• Starkey, Paul G. (2001). Fact and Fiction in al-Saq ala al-Saq. In Writing the Self: Autobiographical Writing in Modern Arabic Literature. De Moor, Ed, Ostie, Robin & Wild, Stefan Saqi Books.
• Starkey, Paul G. (2001). Islamic Egypt in the Modern Egyptian Novel. In The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c.950-1800). Kennedy, Hugh. Leiden: Brill. 31: 251-262.
• Starkey, Paul G (2000). The Egyptian Encounter with Europe in the Nineteenth Century. In Europe, its Borders and the Others. Napoli: ESI. 107-120.
• Starkey, Paul G (1999). Faris Al-Shidyaq and Britain. In The Arabs and Britain: changes and exchanges: Proceedings of a conference held in Cairo 23–25 March 1998. Cairo: British Council. 393-401.
• Starkey, Paul G (1998). Some Egyptian travellers to Europe. In Travellers to Egypt. Starkey, P & Starkey, J London, IB Tauris. 280-286.
• Starkey, Paul G. (1998). Modern Egyptian Culture in the Arab World. In The Cambridge History of Egypt. II: Modern Egypt from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century. Daly, M. W. & Petry, Carl F. New York: Cambridge University Press. 463.
• Starkey, Paul G (1997). Tawfīq al-Hakīm. In African Writers. New York: Scribner’s. 291-302.
• Starkey, Paul G (1987). Library Provision for Central Asian Studies in the University of Durham. In Central Asia: Tradition & Change: Library and Museum Surveys. London: SOAS. 11-13.

Edited book

• Starkey, Paul G & Starkey, Janet (2020). Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• Starkey, Paul G, Casini, Lorenzo Casini & Melfa, Daniela (2019). Minnena: L'Egitto, l'Europa e la ricerca dopo l'assassinio di Giulio Regeni. Messina: Mesogea.
• Starkey, Paul G, Aščerić-Todd, Ines, Knees, Sabina & Starkey, Janet (2018). Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the botanical legacy. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• Starkey, Paul G, Starkey, Janet & Wilkinson, Tony J (2016). Natural resources and cultural connections of the Red Sea. Oxford, UK Archaeopress.
• Starkey, Paul G, Deheuvels, Luc & Michalak-Pikulska, Barbara (2006). Intertextuality in modern Arabic literature since 1967. Durham Modern Languages Series 2. Durham: MLAC; repr. Manchester University Press, 2010.
• Starkey, Paul G & El Kholy, Nadia (2002). Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers. Cambridge: Astene.
• Starkey, Paul G. & Starkey, Janet (2001). Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East. Durham Middle East Monographs Series. Ithaca Press.
• Starkey, Paul G. & Starkey, Janet (2001). Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East: v. 2. Durham Middle East Monographs Series. Ithaca Press.
• Starkey, Paul G. & Starkey, Janet (1998). Travellers in Egypt. I B Tauris.
• Starkey, Paul G & Julie Scott Meisami (1998). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (Two Volumes). Routledge.

Edited Journal

• Starkey, Paul. (2006). Special Issue: Identities Remembered, Discovered, Invented: hero and character in modern Arabic literature. Middle Eastern Literatures, 9 (2): Routledge.

Journal Article

• Starkey, Paul G (Accepted). Fractured destinies: a novel by Rabaʻī Madʹhūn.
• Starkey, Paul G (2020). Reimagining the Sufi tradition in modern Arabic literature. Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic Language and Literature 40–41:162–180.
• Starkey, Paul. (2006). 'Heroes' and Characters in the Novels of Sun'allah Ibrahim. Middle Eastern Literatures 9(2): 147-157.
• Starkey, Paul G (2003). On translating Edwar al-Kharrat’s Hijarat Bobello. Translation Review 65(Special issue edited by Roger Allen): 54-59.
• Starkey, Paul G (1999). Narrative structure in al-Tayyib Sālih’s Mawsim al-Hijra ilā al-Shimāl. Edebiyât 10(1): 33-42.
• Starkey, Paul G (1998). From Bulletin to Journal and Beyond. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 25(2): 215-216.
• Starkey, Paul G. (1997). Some Aspects of the French Colonial Legacy in the Tunisian Novel of the 1960s and 1970s. Oriente Moderno XVI(2-3): 151-161.
• Starkey, Paul G (1995). Quest for freedom: the case of the Tunisian ‘Izz al-Dīn al-Madanī. Journal of Arabic Literature 26: 67-79.
• Starkey, Paul G (1993). From the City of the Dead to Liberation Square: The Novels of Yūsuf al-Qa‘īd. Journal of Arabic Literature 24: 62-74.
• (1989). Tawfīq al-Hakīm: leading playwright of the Arab world. Theater Three 6: 21-30.
• Starkey, Paul G (1977). Philosophical themes in Tawfīq al-Hakīm’s drama. Journal of Arabic Literature 8: 136-152.

Monograph

• Starkey, Paul G (1987). From the Ivory Tower: Critical Study of Tawfiq Al-Hakim. Garnet Publishing.

Translated Book

• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (Accepted). We are all equally far from love, by Adania Shibli . Northampton MA: Clockroot Books
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (Accepted). The Drowning (translation of the Arabic novel by Hammour Ziada . Northampton, MA: Interlink Books
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (2021). Sarajevo Firewood (translation of the Arabic novel Hatab Sarajevo by Said Khatibi . London: Banipal Books
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (2019). Praise for the women of the family by Mahmoud Shukair . Northampton, MA: Interlink Books
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (2016). The Shell: memoirs of a hidden observer by Mustafa Khalifa . Northampton, MA: Interlink
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (2012). Saladin and the Assassins, by Jurji Zaidan . Bethesda, MA, Zaidan Foundation
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (2008). East Winds, West Winds, by Isa Mahdi Saqr . Cairo: AUC Press
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (2007). Maryam’s Maze, by Mansoura Ez Eldin . Cairo: AUC Press
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (2005). Stones of Bobello by Edwar al-Kharrat . Cairo: AUC Books
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (2004). Shumaisi by Turki Al-Hamad . London: Saqi Books
• Starkey, Paul G (trans.) (1999). Dear Mr Kawabata by Rashid al-Daif . London: Quartet Books