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Prior to retiring in 2009, Ben Bennani had taught literature, writing, and translation at a number of universities including University of Wyoming, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Northeastern University. In 1982-83 he was a Visiting Fellow in Writing Theory at Harvard University; in the fall of 1991 he was a Rockefeller Resident Fellow at Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy; and in 1993-94 he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in the United Arab Emirates. In 2005 Bennani returned to U.A.E. University in Al-Ain to teach English and serve concomitantly as Assistant Chief Academic Officer and Dean of Graduate Studies through 2009. Bennani's poems, translations, and essays have appeared in literary magazines in the United States, England, and Canada, including Massachusetts Review, Grand Street, al- Jadid, Journal of Arabic Literature, Boundary 2, Chelsea, and MS Magazine, to name just a few. His translated work includes Splinters of Bone (1974), Bread, Hashish, and Moon: Four Modern Arab Poets (1982), Psalms: Poems by Mahmud Darwish (1994), and Children of the Stones by Nizar Qabbani (2005). In 2002, Bennani compiled and edited Shahrazad's Sisters: Shahrayar's Brothers, the first anthology of Arabic Literature (1950-present) to be published in English in the West. Collections of his own poetry include A Bowl of Sorrow (1977), Camel's Bite (1980), and Diptych Unhinged: New and Selected Poems (forthcoming June2019).
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