Ms Abla Oudeh Mahmoud

Biography:

Abla Oudeh Mahmoud is a senior lecture in Arabic studies, and Head of Languages at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, university of Exeter. Her primary responsibilities involve leading the langugae team, teaching advanced Arabic language, translation skills& techniques, developing teaching material and organizing activities for Maqam for Arabic Studies. She has worked previously as a teaching fellow at the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, university of Edinburgh where she taught translation studies within the PG program. Abla received her MA in Translation and Linguistics in 1991 from the University of Bath in England, since then she has been working in both fields, translation and teaching Arabic as a foreign language.

She has published several translations from English into Arabic including the Arabic translation of: Taste of Thyme, Culinary Cultures of the Middle East in 2009 (Awarded best translation 2010 from the University of Philadelphia, Amman-Jordan), Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation, 2013 Stranger Magic, Charmed States & the Arabian Nights 2016.