Georges Kass Ph.D.

e-mail: g.kass@uw.edu.pl

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Modern and classical Arabic literature;
  • Arabic language;
  • Turkish-Ottoman language.

Georges Photos from the doctoral exam of Georges Kass, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE

  • Higher Education

- Arabic studies - Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies (The Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw)
- Medical Academy of Łódź
- Agricultural engineering - the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering (The University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria)

- 1980-1981 - Polish language course

  • Academic Degrees

- Doctoral thesis:
Mujun - Indecency in the Arab Culture of the Abbasid Era - supervisor: Prof. Marek Dziekan, Ph.D. habil. (Jagellonian University); 2009.

  • Employment History

- since 1985 - the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw (position: university lecturer)
- since 1985 - teacher of Arabic as a foreign language in the Polish-Arab Friendship Association
- 2004 -2006 - teacher of Arabic as a foreign language at the Department of Eastern Studies, University of Łódź
- since 2006 - teacher of Arabic as a foreign language at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology
- since 2003 - teacher of Arabic as a foreign language at the Empik School


PUBLICATIONS

Literary works

  • Niebieski ptak: paplanina [A Blue Bird: Chatter] (transl. from Arabic by Jolanta Kozłowska), Wydawnictwo Akademickie Dialog Publishing House, Warsaw 1996.
  • Fi al-ghaba: majmu'a qisas, Wydawnictwo Akademickie Dialog Publishing House, Warsaw 1995.
  • Bajki arabskie: nie tylko dla dorosłych [Arabic Tales: Not Only for Adults] (transl. From Arabic by Barbara Wrona, Marek M. Dziekan), Wydawnictwo Akademickie Dialog Publishing House, Warsaw 1992.
  • Stary czerowny pociąg (zbiór bajek) [An Old Red Train (A Collection of Tales)], The Ministry of Culture in the Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus 1979 - the publication received the International Year of the Child Award.
  • • Pamiętniki wróbla (zbiór bajek) [The Sparrow Diaries (A Collection of Tales)], The Ministry of Culture in the Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus 1978 - the publication received the Children's Book of the Year Award.

Other works

  • Proofreading the Arabic text in Janusz Danecki's book entitled Gramatyka języka arabskiego (II wyd.) [Arabic Grammar (second edition)], Wydawnictwo Akademickie Dialog Publishing House, Warsaw 2001.
  • • Co-editing and translation of the album Słońce nad pustynią, Motywy arabskie w twórczości Romana Artymowskiego [The Sun over the Desert, Arabic Motifs in the Work of Roman Artymowski], Irsa 2004.

COURSES TAUGHT:

  • Arabic language - classes for students of Arabic Studies
  • Arabic language - a course for students at the Centre for Cross-cultural Relations
  • all-university Arabic language course
  • classes on Syria in the cycle of lectures on "Everyday customs of Asia and Africa" (The Centre for Cross-cultural Relations)