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The Game of Forgetting

Mohammed Berrada

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Boullata was a dedicated scholar, translator, and professor who was passionate about literary craft. He&nbsp;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&nbsp;McGill University in Montreal in 1975. Throughout his career, Issa authored both&nbsp;<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Issa_Boullata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">scholarly</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2Vbd3E8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fictional</a>&nbsp;works, and was also a&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2Vbd3E8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">translator</a>&nbsp;of many books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including works by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Mohamed Berrada, Emily Nasrallah, and Ghada Samman. He was a two-time winner of the University of Arkansas Press Award for Translation from Arabic, and he also wrote in Arabic, including a novel&nbsp;Returning to Jerusalem&nbsp;and a biography of Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.Boullata retired from McGill in 2004. In 2007, he published a collection of his own short stories,&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2GZKKQy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Retired Gentleman</a>,&nbsp;and,&nbsp;in 2014, he published a memoir of his youth,&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2DYjTm7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Bells of Memory: A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem</a>.&nbsp;He also continued to translate, bringing out&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2Ve33tL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Three Treatises on the I’jaz of the Qur’an</a>&nbsp;in 2015.Kamal Abdel-Malek wrote in&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2Yc5A55" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata</a>,&nbsp;which he co-edited, that&nbsp;“what has struck me about Professor Boullata is his resilience, his ability, despite national and family tragedies, to forge ahead, and not only to survive, as an intellectual exile, but build and prosper, and in the process contribute eminently to the life of the mind.”

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