Professor Ibrahim Abd Al-Rahim Al Saafin

Ibrahim Al-Saafin obtained his BA in Arabic Language and Arts in 1966, MA and Ph.D. in modern Arabic literature from Cairo University in 1978, and a diploma of Education from Kuwait University in 1975.

Professor Al-Saafin currently teaches modern Arabic literature at the College of Arts in the Jordanian University in Amman, and is the Director of its Library. He also served as Vice-Dean of the College of Post Graduate Studies at that University in 1995. Prior to joining the Jordanian University, he was a professor at Al-Yarmouk University for more than 10 years. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1984 until 1985 and the University of Sharjah in the UAE, and the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain from 1996 until 1997. He spent a sabbatical year at King Saud University in Riyadh from 1985 until 1986.

Al-Saafin is the President of the Jordanian Society of Literary Criticism, a founding member of the Union of Arab Folklore Researchers, and a member of the Jordanian Writers League and the Board of Trustees of Abd Al-Aziz Al-Babtain Prize for Arabic Poetry. He is also a corresponding member of Aligarh Academy (India) and contributing editor to the Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilization (Language and Literature Section) and several Jordanian literary and research journals. He received the Jerash Festival Award and the Jordanian State Prize for Literature in 1993.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.