FORA.tv Speaker - Denis MacEoin

Denis MacEoin is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He holds MA's from Trinity College, Dublin and Edinbourgh in English, Persian, Arabic and Islamic Studies and a Ph.D. in Persian [Islamic Studies] from Cambridge. From 1979 to 1980 he taught English and Islamic Civilization at the Mohammed V University in Fez, Morocco and was later lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University. In 1980 he became an honorary fellow at the Centre for Middle East and Islamic Studies at Durham University.