Sulaiman Taan

Academic Mentor: Muhsin al-Musawi, Professor of Classical and Modern Arabic Literature, Comparative and Cultural Studies, Columbia University

Research Topic:

In Narratives of Violence: Cultural Analysis of The Syrian Political Song

Sulaiman Taan completed his PhD in Arabic Studies at the University of Aleppo in 2009. He was a former professor in the Arabic Department at Al-Baath University, where he taught classes on Pre-Islamic Literature, Umayyad Literature, and Literary Text Analysis. Taan worked as a professor between 2014 and 2019 at Gazıosmanpaşa University in Türkiye. Sulaiman's research interests include Arabic studies, cultural studies of the Middle East and the Arab world, media, drama, and communications.

Sulaiman's research at Columbia Global Centers | Amman will allow him to complete his recent book project focusing on the link between local songs and the political influence and orientation starting from the time Syria was established as a country after the first world war until more recently.

Selected Publications:

Translation of the acclaimed anthropological classic "Rites of Passage" by Arnold Van Gennep.

"The imaginative world crafted by Faisal Khartash, a Syrian novelist" is scheduled for publication in the upcoming edition of Qalamoun magazine, a publication by the Haramoun Center for Contemporary Studies.

Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning By Rasheed El-Enany Published, 1993 by Routledge (Translated from English), (sonçağ yayincilik, Ankara, 2020) 

Contemporary Orientalism, Selected Studies,  (Translated from English), (sonçağ yayincilik, Ankara, 2020).

The effect of oral transmission on Pre-Islamic poetry. (Ministry of Culture, Damascus, 2009).