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John Peate
John Peate is a translator, university
teacher, academic researcher and language consultant based in the UK. He has bachelor’s degrees both in English and
in Arabic from the University of Leeds, an MA in Translation from
the SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London and a PhD in Arabic Linguistics from the University of Salford.
He has studied Arabic in Morocco, Egypt, Syria and Oman as well as in the
UK and has taught Arabic, translation theory
and practice and interpreting at the Universities of Salford and Leeds. He was also a Teaching Associate in Cognitive Linguistics at Bangor University.
He is joint linguistics editor for the online
peer-reviewed academic journal New Middle Eastern Studies. He has acted as language consultant
to Assimil (producers of language self-teaching courses) and Oxford University
Press.
He has translated poetry and
prose pieces for a large number of projects for over 30 different authors in
recent years. These include pieces for
the Beirut39 anthology, an anthology of Saudi short stories, a
collection of short stories by a leading Emirati writer, an anthology of
women’s writing in Arabic, pieces for the Rotterdam Poetry Festival and regular pieces for Banipal magazine.
He is an established commercial translator as
well, specializing in the legal and academic fields.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 53 - The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer (2015)
Banipal 57 - Syria in the Heart (Autumn/Winter 2016)
Banipal 59 - The Longlist (Summer 2017)
Banipal 48 - Narrating Marrakech (2013)
Banipal 40 - Libyan Fiction (2011)
Banipal 41 - Celebrating Adonis (2011)
The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
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