Staff profile

• Arabic literature
• Arabic/English translation
• Middle Eastern travellers to Europe and vice versa

• 2019:

  to present Chair, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)

  : to present Chair, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)
• 2017:

  1^st place (tied) Sheikh Hamad translation award (Arabic into English)

  : 1^st place (tied) Sheikh Hamad translation award (Arabic into English)
• 2015:

  Winner, Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

  : Winner, Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
• 2012:

  to 2018 Vice-President, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)

  : to 2018 Vice-President, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
• 2008:

  Member of Judges’ Panel, International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the ‘Arabic Booker’)

  : Member of Judges’ Panel, International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the ‘Arabic Booker’)
• 2004:

  Chair, BANIPAL Trust for Modern Arabic Literature

  : Chair, BANIPAL Trust for Modern Arabic Literature
• 2001:

  Panel member, Research Assessment Exercise, UoA 46; 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Sub-Panel 48

  : Panel member, Research Assessment Exercise, UoA 46; 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Sub-Panel 48
• 2000:

  to 2003 General Secretary, Member, EMTAR / EURAMAL (European Meeting of Teachers of Arabic Literature / European Association for Modern Arabic Literature)

  : to 2003 General Secretary, Member, EMTAR / EURAMAL (European Meeting of Teachers of Arabic Literature / European Association for Modern Arabic Literature)
• 1997:

  -2000 Chair, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)

  : -2000 Chair, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)
• 1990:

  to 1996 Editor BRISMES Bulletin / British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

  : to 1996 Editor BRISMES Bulletin / British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Authored book

• Starkey, P. G. (2016). Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen. Edinburgh University Press
• Starkey, P. G. (2006). Modern Arabic Literature. Edinburgh University Press
• Starkey, P. G. (1987). From the Ivory Tower: a critical study of Tawfīq al-Hakīm. London: Ithaca Press/Garnet Publishing

Chapter in book

• Starkey, P. G. Modern Egyptian Culture in the Arab World. In M. Daly, & C. F. Petry (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Egypt. II: Modern Egypt from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century (394-426). Cambridge University Press
• Starkey, P. G. Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti’, ‘Tawfiq Yusuf ‘Awwad’ and ‘Nasif al-Yaziji. In R. Allen (Ed.), Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1850–1950. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
• Starkey, P. G. The Egyptian Encounter with Europe in the Nineteenth Century. In Europe, its Borders and the Others (107-120). Napoli: ESI
• Starkey, P. G. Library Provision for Central Asian Studies in the University of Durham. In Central Asia: Tradition & Change: Library and Museum Surveys (11-13). London: SOAS
• Starkey, P. G. Romances of History: Jurji Zaydan and the rise of the historical novel’. In M. Booth, & A. Gorman (Eds.), The Long 1890s: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance (342-364). EUP
• Starkey, P. G. Tawfīq al-Hakīm. In African Writers (291-302). New York: Scribner’s
• Starkey, P. G. Ibn Jubayr’s Riḥla reconsidered. In P. Starkey, & J. Starkey (Eds.), Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists. Archaeopress
• Starkey, P. G. Arabic Literary Translingualism. In S. Kellman, & N. Lvovich (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism. Routledge
• Starkey, P. G. Faris Al-Shidyaq and Britain. In The Arabs and Britain: changes and exchanges: Proceedings of a conference held in Cairo 23–25 March 1998 (393-401). Cairo: British Council
• Starkey, P. G. The cedars of Lebanon in literature and art. In P. Starkey, I. Aščerić-Todd, S. Knees, & J. Starkey (Eds.), Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the botanical legacy (251-274). Archaeopress
• Starkey, P. G., & Starkey, J. Meet at Rustam Pasha. In B. Rogerson (Ed.), Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist (160-163). London: Eland
• Starkey, P. G. Resurrecting the caliphate: Youssef Rakha and the collapse of the Ottoman state. In S. Guth, & T. Pepe (Eds.), Arabic literature in a posthuman world (53-60). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
• Starkey, P. G. Strange Incidents from History: Youssef Rakha and his Sultan’s Seal. In R. Allen, & R. Ostle (Eds.), Studying Modern Arabic Literature: Essays in Honour of Mustafa Badawi (159-177). Edinburgh: EUP
• Starkey, P. G. Lifting the Lid on a Culture that’s Hid’: Kashf al-Mukhabbaʾ in Literary and Historical Context. In B. Winckler (Ed.), A Life in Praise of Words: Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and the Nineteenth Century. Wiesbaden: Reichert
• Starkey, P. G. Voyages of Self-Definition: the case of [Ahmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq. In R. Ostle (Ed.), Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean (118-132). London: I.B. Tauris
• Starkey, P. G. The four ages of Husayn Tawfīq: love and sexuality in the novels of Tawfīq al-Hakīm. In R. Allen, H. Kilpatrick, & E. de Moor (Eds.), Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature (56-64). London: Saqi
• Starkey, P. G. Some Egyptian travellers to Europe. In P. Starkey, & J. Starkey (Eds.), Travellers to Egypt (280-286). London, IB Tauris
• Starkey, P. G. Joun Encounter: Alexander William Kinglake meets Lady Hester Stanhope. In N. Cooke, & V. Daubney (Eds.), Lost and Now Found: Explorers, Diplomats and Artists in Egypt and the Near East (273-282). Archaeopress
• Starkey, P. G. (2006). Intertextuality and the Arabic literary tradition in Edwar al-Kharrat's 'Stones of Bobello'. In L. Deheuvels, B. Michalak-Pikulska, & P. Starkey (Eds.), Intertextuality in modern Arabic literature since 1967 (149-159). Durham Modern Languages Series
• Starkey, P. G. (2003). Crisis and Memory in Rashid al-Daif’s Dear Mr Kawabata: An Essay in Narrative Disorder. In K. Seigneurie (Ed.), Crisis and memory : the representation of space in modern Levantine narrative (115-130). Reichert Verlag
• Starkey, P. G. (2001). Fact and Fiction in al-Saq ala al-Saq. In E. De Moor, R. Ostie, & S. Wild (Eds.), Writing the Self: Autobiographical Writing in Modern Arabic Literature. Saqi Books
• Starkey, P. G. (2001). Islamic Egypt in the Modern Egyptian Novel. In H. Kennedy (Ed.), The historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800) (251-262). Brill Academic Publishers
• Starkey, P. G. (1998). Modern Egyptian Culture in the Arab World. In M. Daly, & C. F. Petry (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Egypt. II: Modern Egypt from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press

Edited book

• Starkey, P. G., Casini, L. C., & Melfa, D. (Eds.). Minnena: L'Egitto, l'Europa e la ricerca dopo l'assassinio di Giulio Regeni. Messina: Mesogea
• Starkey, P. G., Aščerić-Todd, I., Knees, S., & Starkey, J. (Eds.). Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the botanical legacy. Archaeopress
• Starkey, P. G., Starkey, J., & Wilkinson, T. J. (Eds.). Natural resources and cultural connections of the Red Sea. Oxford, UK : Archaeopress
• Starkey, P. G., & Starkey, J. (Eds.). Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists. Archaeopress
• Starkey, P. G., Deheuvels, L., & Michalak-Pikulska, B. (Eds.). Intertextuality in modern Arabic literature since 1967. Durham Modern Languages Series 2. Durham: MLAC; repr. Manchester University Press, 2010
• Starkey, P. G., & El Kholy, N. (Eds.). (2002). Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers. Astene
• Starkey, P. G., & Starkey, J. (Eds.). (2001). Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East: v. 2. Ithaca Press
• Starkey, P. G., & Starkey, J. (Eds.). (2001). Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East. Ithaca Press
• Starkey, P. G., & Starkey, J. (Eds.). (1998). Travellers in Egypt. I. B. Tauris
• Starkey, P. G., & Meisami, J. S. (Eds.). (1998). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (Two Volumes). Routledge

Journal Article

• Starkey, P. G. Quest for freedom: the case of the Tunisian ‘Izz al-Dīn al-Madanī. Journal of Arabic Literature, 26, 67-79
• Starkey, P. Tawfīq al-Hakīm: leading playwright of the Arab world
• Starkey, P. G. Narrative structure in al-Tayyib Sālih’s Mawsim al-Hijra ilā al-Shimāl
• Starkey, P. G. (online). Reimagining the Sufi tradition in modern Arabic literature. Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic Language and Literature, https://doi.org/10.1163/29497841-04004101023
• Starkey, P. G. Fractured destinies: a novel by Rabaʻī Madʹhūn
• Starkey, P. (2006). 'Heroes' and Characters in the Novels of Sun'allah Ibrahim. Middle Eastern Literatures, 9(2), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/14752620600814228
• Starkey, P. G. (2003). On translating Edwar al-Kharrat’s Hijarat Bobello. Translation Review, 65(Special issue edited by Roger Allen), 54-59
• Starkey, P. G. (1998). From Bulletin to Journal and Beyond. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 25(2), 215-216
• Starkey, P. G. (1997). Some Aspects of the French Colonial Legacy in the Tunisian Novel of the 1960s and 1970s. Oriente Moderno, XVI(2-3), 151-161
• Starkey, P. G. (1993). 'From the City of the Dead to Liberation Square': The Novels of Yūsuf al-Qa‘īd. Journal of Arabic Literature, 24(1), 62-74
• Starkey, P. G. (1977). Philosophical themes in Tawfīq al-Hakīm’s drama. Journal of Arabic Literature, 8, 136-152

Monograph

• Starkey, P. G. (1987). From the Ivory Tower: Critical Study of Tawfiq Al-Hakim. Garnet Publishing

Scholarly Edition

• Starkey, P. G. We are all equally far from love, by Adania Shibli
• Starkey, P. G. Sarajevo Firewood (translation of the Arabic novel Hatab Sarajevo by Said Khatibi
• Starkey, P. G. East Winds, West Winds, by Isa Mahdi Saqr
• Starkey, P. G. Saladin and the Assassins, by Jurji Zaidan
• Starkey, P. G. The Shell: memoirs of a hidden observer by Mustafa Khalifa
• Starkey, P. G. The Drowning (translation of the Arabic novel by Hammour Ziada
• Starkey, P. G. Dear Mr Kawabata by Rashid al-Daif
• Starkey, P. G. Maryam’s Maze, by Mansoura Ez Eldin
• Starkey, P. G. Shumaisi by Turki Al-Hamad