Issa Boullata

Boullata was a dedicated scholar, translator, and professor who was passionate about literary craft. He was born in Jerusalem on February 25, 1929, and graduated secondary school in 1947. Although he had been considering a career in law, the Law School closed down in 1948.

Between 1949-1968, Boullata worked as an educator at secondary schools around Jerusalem. In the early 1960s, Boullata enrolled in the University of London, and he went on to earn his PhD in Arabic literature in 1969.

He started out as a professor at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, moving to McGill University in Montreal in 1975. Throughout his career, Issa authored both