Basil Hatim

Basil Hatim is a leading theorist in text-linguistics with particular research interests in the field of English-Arabic translation. He has lectured at universities throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Since 1980 he has been Director of Studies for Arabic at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. His many publications include English-Arabic/Arabic-English: A Practical Guide (Saqi Books) and Discourse and the Translator (co-authored with Ian Mason).