<p><span>Winner, </span><span lang="EN-US">Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation</span></p>
Professor Paul Starkey's Recognition (10)
<p>to 2018 <span>Vice-President, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)</span></p>
<p><span>Chair, BANIPAL Trust for Modern Arabic Literature</span></p>
<p><span>to 2003 General Secretary, Member, EMTAR / EURAMAL (European Meeting of Teachers of Arabic Literature / European Association for Modern Arabic Literature)</span></p>
<p>to present Chair, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)</p>
<p><span>1<sup>st</sup> place (tied) Sheikh Hamad translation award (Arabic into English)</span></p>
<p>to 1996 <span>Editor <i>BRISMES Bulletin / British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies</i></span></p>
<p><span>Member of Judges’ Panel, International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the ‘Arabic Booker’)</span></p>
<p><span>Panel member, Research Assessment Exercise, UoA 46; 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Sub-Panel 48</span></p>
<p>-2000 Chair, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)</p>