Kamal Abu-Deeb in Arabic (كمال أبو ديب) (born 1942 in Safita, Syria) is Chair of Arabic at the University of London. He was a Leverhulme Trust Fellow.
Life He graduated from Damascus University, Trinity College, Oxford, and St John's College, Oxford.
He edited the journal Mawakif with poet Adunis.
Prof. Hisham Sharabi described him as "a leading Syrian structuralist critic."Sharabi, Hisham. “Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society.” Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1987), 9.
Works
Adhabat al-Mutanabbi fi Suhbat Kamal Abu-Deeb wa al-'Aks bi al-'Aks, Al-Saqi Books, London & Beirut, 1996
References
External links https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153820/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/seminars/2006-2007/abstracts/deeb.shtml http://soas.academia.edu/Kamalabudeeb