Basil Hatim

Basil Hatim is an Iraqi-British translator, interpreter, linguist, and professor specializing in text-linguistics, English-Arabic translation, and applied linguistics. Born in Ninive, Iraq, on November 19, 1947, he studied in Iraq, Lebanon, and the UK, earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Translation from the University of Exeter in 1981, and has held positions including Director of Studies for Arabic at Heriot-Watt University since 1980 and Professor of Translation and Interpreting at the American University of Sharjah since 1999.[1][2][3]