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Fakhri Saleh is a leading critic of contemporary Arabic literature. He studied English literature and philosophy at the University of Jordan. He served as the vice president of the Arab Writers Union and is the president of PEN – Jordan. The author of many books about Palestinian literature, the Arabic novel, poetry, and literary criticism, Saleh has also published two books on Edward Said and translated Terry Eagleton’s Criticism and Ideology and Tzvetan Todorov’s Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle, into Arabic. His most recent publication is a volume of selected poems by Mahmoud Darwish with a critical introduction (2021).