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.
In 1963 when I was 19 living in Mosul, Iraq, I had a pen pal from the Bronx called Angelo Garcia whose younger brother was 10 later became the famous Hollywood movie star Andy Garcia
In 1996, I was 18 living in a realm of true beauty that never dies and this beauty with the best plays and writers like Thomas Hardy and his favorite character Mr. Riley and others like Samuel a Beckett and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and others. They are still with me whispering daily in my ears telling me you see How Green was your Valley and how days pass and you start to see what we always wrote about. (T. Zuhair)
In 1996, I was 18 living in a realm of true beauty that never dies and this beauty with the best plays and writers like Thomas Hardy and his favorite character Mr. Riley and others like Samuel a Beckett and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and others. They are still with me whispering daily in my ears telling me you see How Green was your Valley and how days pass and you start to see what we always wrote about. (T. Zuhair)
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