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Department of African Languages and Literature

Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia

Global Studies

Middle East Studies

College of Letters & Science

UW-La Crosse

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Dustin Cowell, Professor of African Languages and Literature, Email
Ph.D. - University of California - San Diego
B.A. - Pomona College

Research Interests: Medieval Arabic poetry, Hispano-Arabic studies, Arabic instruction in Islamic schools, Arabic-Malay/Indonesian Islamic texts

Selected Publications: The Concept of Eloquence in Arabic Literary Theory as Presented by the Eleventh-Century North African Poet-Critic, Ibn Rashiq Al-Qayrawani, Al-Shajarah: Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 1998.

Biography: Dr. Cowell teaches advanced Arabic classes at the University of Wisconsin. From 1994 to 1996, he was a visiting professor of Arabic at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has also conducted research in Tunisia, Mauritania, and Egypt, and is currently doing comparative studies of Arabic and Malay and Indonesian language and literature.

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