John Peate

has degrees in English and in Arabic from the University of Leeds and a Master's degree in Translation Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is currently studying for a doctorate in Translation Studies at the University of Salford, where he also teaches both Translation and Arabic.

He does some freelance commercial translation work but, more importantly to him, has translated literary pieces for publication by Banipal, Bloomsbury and for the US-based Translation Studies journal Metamorphoses. He has studied Arabic in Fez, Cairo and Damascus as well as in Leeds. He now lives in Todmorden, Lancashire.