Simone SIBILIO

Simone Sibilio (PHD) is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the 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 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 into Italian several Arab poets including Muhammad al-Fayturi, Talal Haidar, Ghassan Zaqtan, Moncef Ouhaibi, Najwan Darwish.

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, II, 2015);

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

For his overall scientific activity and production see the Italian CV