Suheil Bushrui

Suheil Badi Bushrui (September 14, 1929 – September 2, 2015) was a professor, author, poet, critic, translator, and peace maker. [1][2] He was a prominent scholar in regard to the life and works of the Lebanese-American author and poet Kahlil Gibran.

Professor Suheil Badi Bushrui was a distinguished scholar, renowned for his contributions through his books, lectures and academic papers about the Irish poets W. B. Yeats,[3][4] James Joyce , and other Irish literary figures, such as John Millington Synge. As for the Irish poet, W. B. Yeats, Professor Bushrui has done a lot to bring Yeats's poetry to the Arab-speaking audience, through his translations to Arabic. Professor Bushrui was unique in that he was the first non-westerner to attend the Summer School in Sligo, Ireland,[5] which opened in 1960, dedicated and named after Yeats, who grew up there and also spent his childhood holidays in Sligo's landscape. In accordance with this, Professor Bushrui wrote in 1962 his Ph.D. thesis in English Literature, about Yeats's Plays, The Revisions, 1900 - 1910,[4] during his doctoral studies at Southampton University, England, UK.

Childhood and Early Life

Suheil Bushrui was born in 1929 in Nazareth, Palestine. He attended the St. George’s School in Jerusalem.

Career and Accomplishments

Suheil Bushrui was the first Arab national to be appointed to the Chair of English at the American University of Beirut, a position he held from 1968 to 1986. He taught at universities in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and America. He authored in both English and Arabic tens of books and scholarly articles on themes that ranged from literature to religion to world order. He was and the first non-Westerner to be appointed as Chair of the International Association of the Study of Irish Literature.

Later in 1992, he became the first incumbent of the Bahá'í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland where he worked on developing alternatives to violent resolution of conflict, exploring spiritual solutions for the various global and social problems. He retired from that post in 2005.

Subsequently and until early 2015 Bushrui became the Director of the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland and was Senior Scholar of Peace Studies at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management.

Throughout his long career, he worked with generations of young people to promote a culture of peace. He was recognized in the many countries in which he taught (Sudan, Nigeria, the U.K., Canada, Lebanon and the U.S.), for the transformation he brought about in the lives of his students.

Accolades and Honors

Throughout a long career, professor Bushrui received numerous accolades and honors, including:

Books authored (small selection)[6]

Further reading

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/about/people/profile.aspx?id=25
  2. ↑ "Honoring the Life and Legacy of Professor Suheil Bushrui". umd.edu.
  3. ↑ "Scholar to receive interfaith honor - Bahá'í World News Service". www.news.bahai.org. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  4. 1 2 Bushrui, Suheil B. Yeats's verse-plays;: The revisions 1900-1910. Clarendon Press.
  5. ↑ An International Companion to the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (with Tim Prentki). Colin Smythe Ltd, Gerrards Cross, UK, 1989. ISBN 9780861401932.
  6. ↑ Barnes & Noble. "suheil bushrui - Barnes & Noble". Barnes & Noble.
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