Elliott Colla

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox writer  | image = Elliot colla 9165150.JPG | imagesize = | name = Elliott Colla | caption =Elliott Colla | pseudonym = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Associate Professor | nationality = American | period = | genre = | subject = Middle East | movement = | notableworks =''Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity'' | influences = | influenced = | website = }}

'''Elliott Colla''' is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and culture.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.google.com/search?q=Elliot+Colla&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks#hl=en&tbo=1&tbm=bks&spell=1&q=Elliott+Colla&sa=X&ei=nkp6UICSNMrCigLbm4HYBA&ved=0CDAQBSgA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=9385dce6e98fe498&bpcl=35277026&biw=1777&bih=1134 | title = Citations search: "Elliott Colla" (Google Books) | accessdate = 2012-10-13 | publisher = | date = }}</ref> He is an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and leads the Reading Palestine book club at Lost City Books.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reading Palestine |url=https://lostcitybookstore.com/reading-palestine |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=Lost City Bookstore |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Career== Colla received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Comparative literature from Berkeley in 2000.<ref name=ban>{{cite news | url = http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/531/elliott_colla/ | title = Banipal biography | access-date = 2012-10-13 | publisher = Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature | date = }}</ref> His translation of ''Gold Dust'' was runner-up for the Banipal Prize in 2009.<ref name=banpr>{{cite news |url = http://www.banipaltrust.org.uk/prize/judges2010.cfm#ElliottColla |title = Banipal Trust biography |access-date = 2012-10-13 |publisher = Banipal Trust |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120822052157/http://www.banipaltrust.org.uk/prize/judges2010.cfm#ElliottColla |archivedate = 2012-08-22 }}</ref> He is a co-editor of the e-zine, ''Jadaliyya''.<ref name=jad>{{cite news | url = http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/contributors/3379 | title = Elliott Colla | access-date = 2012-10-13 | publisher = Jadaliyya | date = }}</ref> In addition to translations and academic works, he has published a novel ''Baghdad Central'' (2014). This was adapted as a television series of the same name, released in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/03/baghdad-central-review-more-than-just-a-middle-east-morse |title=Baghdad Central review – more than just a Middle East Morse |last=Jones |first=Ellen E. |date=4 February 2020 |website=The Guardian |access-date=31 May 2020}}</ref>

===Books=== * ''Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity.'' Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. * ''Baghdad Central'' London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.

==Translations== * Ibrahim Aslan - ''The Heron'' * Idris Ali - ''Poor'' * Ibrahim al-Koni - ''Gold Dust'' * Rabai Madhoun - ''The Lady from Tel Aviv''<ref name=geobio>{{cite news | url = http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/ec393/?action=viewgeneral&PageTemplateID=360 | title = Georgetown University: Elliott Colla | access-date = 2012-10-13 | publisher = Georgetown University | date = }}</ref>

==Further reading== *[http://www.merip.org/looking-three-diamonds/ Looking for the Three of Diamonds] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714193528/http://www.merip.org/looking-three-diamonds |date=2014-07-14 }} MERIP. *[http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/506/the-poetry-of-revolt/ "The Poetry of Revolt"], jadaliyya e-zine. *[http://www.merip.org/mer/mer263/people-want/ The People Want] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714112353/http://www.merip.org/mer/mer263/people-want |date=2014-07-14 }} MERIP. *[http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/1708/the-persistence-of-jokes/ The Persistence of Jokes] jadaliyya e-zine. *[http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2601/walls_gone-to-palestine_8-/ Walls] jadaliyya e-zine. *"[http://www.radioopensource.org/elliott-colla-the-poetry-of-revolt-in-the-new-egypt/ The Poetry of Revolt” in the New Egypt] Radio Open Source.

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==External links== *[http://elliottcolla.com author webpage] *[http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/ec393/?action=viewgeneral&PageTemplateID=360 Georgetown University Biography] *[http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/531/elliott_colla/ Banipal Biography]

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