Simone SIBILIO

Simone Sibilio (PHD) is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Asian and North African Studies DSAAM of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Board Member of Euramal (European Association for Modern Arabic Literature) and Board Member of CEM (Research Centre on Contemporary Middle East of Ca’ Foscari University). He is also Teaching Committee and QA Coordinator of LICSAAM Degree programme at DSAAM. 

He taught in several Italian Universities and directed the Master’s Program MILCO in Oriental Languages and Cultures for IULM University of Milan in the years 2015-2018.

His main fields of academic research are Palestine Studies, Modern and Contemporary Arabic Literature with a particular interest in Poetry, Literary Translation and Criticism, Cultural and Media Studies. He translated several Arab poets into Italian, in both magazines and volumes, including Mahmud Darwish, Muhammad al-Fayturi, Talal Haidar, Ghassan Zaqtan, Moncef Ouhaibi, Najwan Darwish, Widad Nabi, Mahmud Darwish (forthcoming). He won the Poetry Translation Award “Città di Fiumicino” for Translation of Arabic Poetry into Italian in 2016.

His major publications are:

-          Poesia araba moderna e contemporanea (Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry), Istituto per L’Oriente, Roma, 2022;

-          In guerra non mi cercate. Poesia araba delle rivoluzioni e oltre, (In War Don’t Look for Me. Arabic Poetry of 2011 Revolutions and Beyond) in collaboration with con O. Capezio, E. Chiti e F.M. Corrao,  Le Monnier, Milano 2018);

-          Nakba. La memoria letteraria della catastrofe palestinese (Nakba. The Literary Memory of the Palestinian Catastrophe), Edizioni Q 2013 (II, 2015);

His forthcoming volume is Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migrations. New Poetics and Perspectives, co-edited with A. Bianco, B. Rayhanova, Tauris, London

For his overall scientific activity and production see the Italian CV