Elliott Colla

Elliott Colla
Elliott Colla
Occupation	Associate Professor
Nationality	American
Subject	Middle East
Notable works	Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and culture.^[1] He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University.

Colla received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Comparative literature as from Berkeley in 2000.^[2] His translation of Gold Dust was runner-up for the Banipal Prize in 2009.^[3] He is a co-editor of the e-zine, Jadaliyya.^[4] His novel Baghdad Central was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2020.^[5]

• Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
• Baghdad Central London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.

• Ibrahim Aslan - The Heron
• Idris Ali - Poor
• Ibrahim al-Koni - Gold Dust
• Rabai Madhoun - The Lady from Tel Aviv^[6]

• Looking for the Three of Diamonds Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine MERIP.
• The Poetry of Revolt jadaliyya e-zine.
• The People Want Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine MERIP.
• The Persistence of Jokes jadaliyya e-zine.
• Walls jadaliyya e-zine.
• "The Poetry of Revolt” in the New Egypt Radio Open Source.

• List of Arabic-English translators

• author webpage
• Georgetown University Biography
• Banipal Biography

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