DrAli Aldahesh

Project Opportunities

Title: Arabic Language, Literature and Culture

Summary of opportunity:

Dr Ali Yunis Aldahesh (Orcid.org/0000-0002-7179-742X) is a Lecturer in Arabic Language, Literature and Culture at The University of Sydney, Department of Arabic Language and Cultures, School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dr Aldahesh joined the University of Sydney in February 2011. He worked before that at the Australian National University (ANU) as a Lecturer in Arabic at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East and Central Asia). He holds a PhD in Translation and Linguistics, an MA in Translation and Linguistics, and an MA in Semitic Studies. Dr Aldahesh’s area of research interest is translation and linguistics with special emphasis on the language, text, and translation of the Qur’an. His published works include:

• The (Un)Translatability of the Qur’anic Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs: A Contrastive Linguistic Study. Routledge. UK. 2022.
• English Translations of the Qur’an: A Descriptive Comparative Study in their Aspects of Disagreement. Cairo: Hala Publishing, 2020.
• Translating Idiomatic English Phrasal Verbs into Arabic: A Contrastive Linguistic Study. VDM, Germany, 2009.
• The Concept of Taqwa in the Qur’an as understood by Muslim commentators (In Arabic). Ray Publishing, Syria, Aleppo, 2010.
• al-Ra??l ?awba al-M?? ‘Travelling Towards Water’. A book of short stories (In Arabic). WSU, Sydney, 2007.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

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Dr Ali Aldahesh is currently working on research project, which is entitled Translating the Qur’anic Suras’ Names into English: A Corpus-based Contrastive Study.