Yasir Suleiman CBE is the Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
[4] He lectures on topics related to the Middle East.
[citation needed] He was selected to be a trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2007—2009).
[citation needed] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for his services to scholarship.
[5][6] In addition to authoring books, Yasir Suleiman was an editor of a number of monographs is Arabic studies.