Elliott Colla

Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and culture. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University.

Career
Colla received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Comparative literature as from Berkeley in 2000. His translation of Gold Dust was runner-up for the Banipal Prize in 2009. He is a co-editor of the e-zine, Jadaliyya. His novel Baghdad Central was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2020.

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