Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Taher Badinjki
ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-5997-6118
Researcher ID: L-6214-2016
Scopus Author ID: 57189375521
Taher Badinjki, has an M.Litt from Edinburgh University and PhD from Glasgow University (UK), and is presently Professor of English Literature at the Dept. of English at Al Zaytoonah University, Amman, Jordan. He is former Professor of English at the Dept. of English Literature, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Aleppo in Syria, and at the Dept. of English and Translation at Ittihad University in RAK, United Arab Emirates. He has published and translated a number of books in Lebanon, Syria, the UAE, and Jordan. He has also published research papers in English and in Arabic on English and American Literature, Translation and Arabicization in Kuwait, Syria, USA, UAE and Jordan. Prof. Badinjki has been supervisor and internal and external examiner of many literature theses.he is a member of the Borad of Editorsand and a Reviewer of many international journals of English Literature. He has been working in the field of English Literature, translation and Arabicization for over 25 years. He has taught English Language and Literature at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has international work experience in Syria, USA, UAE and Jordan.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Dictionary of the Most Misused Words in English.
The outcome of long years of teaching English
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No, not really. I write when I have something I want to share with others.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
D.H. Lawrence
Thomas Hardy
What are you working on now?
A Dictionary of Proverbs English/Arasbic
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
AWESOME GANG
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do not be hesitate in publishing what you like.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Do not pay attention to those behind, go ahead
What are you reading now?
Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
What’s next for you as a writer?
Translating Aesop’s Fables into Arabic
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Machiavelli’s The Prince
Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure
D.H. Lawrence Women in Love
Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
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