Author

Omar Ahmed Sheikh Al-Shabab

Professor Dr. Omar Ahmed Sheikh Al-Shabab is an academic born in Al-Mazza, Damascus, in 1947.

He specializes in text linguistics and translation theory, having studied at Damascus University and the Universities of Edinburgh and Aston in the UK (1971-1987).

He taught at the University of Aleppo (1987-1991) and King Faisal University in Al-Ahsa (1991-2014). He also supervised the Scientific Publishing and Research Units at the King Abdullah Institute for Translation and Arabization at Imam University in Riyadh (2014-2019) in Saudi Arabia.

He has published and co-authored more than forty research papers in his field.

His books include “Interpretation and the Language of Translation,” “From Necessity to Infinity,” and “Linguistic Interpretation,” published in Arabic, English, and French.

Since 2019, he has been teaching part-time at a private university based in Damascus.