
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 No 53 The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer (2015)
Banipal No 57 Syria in the Heart (Autumn/Winter 2016)
Banipal No 59 The Longlist (Summer 2017)
Banipal No 48 Narrating Marrakech (2013)
Banipal No 40 Libyan Fiction (2011)
Banipal No 41 Celebrating Adonis (2011)
Banipal No 42 New Writing from the Emirates (2011)


Latest News
07/03/2018Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces the 2018 Shortlists
[read more]26/02/2018
Shortlist Announced for IPAF 2018
22/02/2018
On 3 March: Three award-winning translators to discuss "Translating Arabic Fiction Today"
[read more]17/01/2018
Longlist for 2018 IPAF announced
[read more]10/01/2018
Robin Moger is winner of 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize
[read more]01/12/2017
First Shortlist announced for the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
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