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About Me
- Siddeek Tawfeek
- Name: Siddeek Bakr Tawfeek Date and place of birth: 1st July 1944, Mosul, Iraq Nationality: Iraqi Professional status: English Literature Academic and Translator Language proficiency: Arabic, English and Syriac Specialization: World Dramatic Literature in English · BA in English Language and Literature, Department of English, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, 1968. · MA in English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK, 1972. ·Teach English Literature and World Dramatic Literature in English and Arabic. · Translate literary, cultural and other texts. · Assist in reading, writing and translation non-Arab students doing modern and old Arabic-Islamic undergraduate and postgraduate studies in literature, history and current cultural, social and political issues, and guide students to related references and sources.
Blog Archive
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- Singing On JJ Day
- the co-stars
- Happiness tax
- from Adil Kufaishi
- not become a witer
- bringing back memories
- Chekhov and the Actors' Studio
- pen pal Angelo Garcia
- fisn 'n chips literature
- ambiguous and vague plays
- some recent reading of mine
- theatre memories
- from Eric Bentley
- Beckett and Westerns
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- from Lois Overbeck
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- from Lois Overbeck
- 1949
- unusual taste for literature
- Kermit Roosevelt
- hodgebodge
- amidst a labyrinth
- a Hollywood story
- Groucho Marx
- Harun AlRasheed
- Ancient Iraqi Correspondence
- ECT in Shakespeare's King Lear
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Stewart Granger
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- Thesiger, Prince of Empty Quarter
- Two of Beckett's teachers
- Behan at Beckett's
- coprophilia
- After ENDGAME, Beckett became scant in writing tha...
- on me by me
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- Drunk--some with wine, others with words
- Been on holiday
- In books, I read
- 10 c's Notebooks
- Elizabethan and other topics
- from Tareq Zuhair
- from Adnan Khalid
- from Tareq Zuhair
- Professor Mohammed Shaheen
- The mind has its own tools to ward off boredom of ...
- with a cudgel
- Frank Harris
- An Egyptian friend of mine was recuperating from a...
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- The Orient in Occidental Literary Heritage
- Two Wrote Together
- Elia Kazan's name
- from Ruby Cohn
- from Ruby Cohn
- from Charles Colchester
- from Robert Welch
- from Ruby Cohn
- from Ruby Cohn
- from Christopher Ricks
- English literary history
- biography
- London memoirs
- favourites
- Chekhov Letters
- That Beauty
- G Wilson Knight
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- G Wilson Knight
- Abu Shamkhi
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- Something missing in Eliot's WASTELAND
- from Ibrahim Sallo
- from Ibrahim Mumayiz
- Exchange with JoAnne Akalaitis
- Sad champion Beckett
- tsadeek
- With Ruby Cohn
- At the Knowlsons'
- at Eric Bentley's
- Ezra Pound
- Omar Pound is Ezra's only son by his wife Dorothy....
- my tubby torso
- poetry on a plate
- Caedmon Spoken Word Records
- Paddy Beckett
- from Mahmoud AlJamal
- Taking after Beckett characters
- from my Leeds past: the present dies, the past lives
- JJ day
- JJ day, June, 2009
- My teacher AbdulWahhab AlWakil
- W Somerset Maugham and EM Forster
- from Lois Overbeck, Beckett Letters co-editor
- Elia Kazan about himself
- Akalaitis' The Bacchae and Ben Brantley
- Such goings-on
- Beckett reversed
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