Michael Cooperson

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Michael Cooperson is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) at the American University in Cairo. His publications include Classical Arabic Biography (2000) and Al-Ma’mun (2005). He has translated Abdelfattah Kilito’s L’Auteur et ses doubles (The Author and His Doubles, 2001) and is currently translating Khayri Shalabi’s Rihalat al-Turshagi al-Halwagi. He is co-author, with the RRAALL group, of Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition (2001); and co-author, with Shawkat Toorawa, of The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Arabic Literary Culture, 500-915 (2005). He is currently using the career of the musician Ibrahim al-Mawsili to study the uses of Persian narrative traditions in Arabic biography and the nature of Persian and Arab ethnicity in the early Abbasid period. Summer 2009 is his fourth time teaching at Middlebury since 1991.