Professor Suheil Badi Bushrui | |
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| Born | 14 September 1929 |
| Died | 2 September 2015 (aged 85) |
| Citizenship | Lebanon, United States |
| Occupation | Literary critic |
| Known for | his academic articles and books about Anglo-Irish literature and the Lebanese American artist and poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
| Thesis | [[1] Yeats's verse-plays: the revisions 1900 - 1910] (1965) |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | The Irish poet W. B. Yeats and the Lebanese-American artist and poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran |
Suheil Badi Bushrui (September 14, 1929 – September 2, 2015) was a Palestinian professor, author, poet, critic, translator, and peace maker. He was a prominent scholar in regard to the life and works of the Lebanese-American author and poet Kahlil Gibran.
Professor Suheil Badi Bushrui was a distinguished scholar, renowned for his contributions through his books, lectures and academic papers about the Irish poets W. B. Yeats,[1][2] James Joyce, and other Irish literary figures, such as John Millington Synge. As for the Irish poet, W. B. Yeats, Professor Bushrui has done a lot to bring Yeats's poetry to the Arab-speaking audience, through his translations to Arabic. Professor Bushrui was unique in that he was the first non-westerner to attend the Summer School in Sligo, Ireland,[3] which opened in 1960, dedicated and named after Yeats, who grew up there and also spent his childhood holidays in Sligo's landscape. In accordance with this, Professor Bushrui wrote in 1962 his Ph.D. thesis in English Literature, about Yeats's Plays, The Revisions, 1900 - 1910,[2] during his doctoral studies at Southampton University, England, UK.