Christian Tămaș

Christian Tămaș (born 13 November 1964) is a Romanian writer, translator, essayist, arts and humanities researcher.

Biography Tămaș was born in the commune of Letca, in Sălaj County, northern Transylvania, Romania, on 13 November 1964. He graduated in Arabic language and literature from the University of Bucharest, in 1988. Later, in 2006, he obtained a master's degree in adult education at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași and, in 2007, he earned a Doctorate in philosophy at the same university, with the thesis "Communication Strategies in the Qur'an".

His published works include novels, short stories, essays, literary criticism articles, scientific books and articles in the field of humanities, as well as translations from Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Catalan, French, English, Irish and Portuguese.

Since 2008, besides his research activity conducted at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, he delivers courses of Arabic language and civilization at the same university and at the Arab Cultural Center of Iași.

List of published works and translations (selective)

Trezirea la nemurire, Ars Longa, 1997 Strategii de comunicare in Coran, Ars Longa, 2007 Seán Ó Curraoin, Beairtle (translation from Irish), Ars Longa, 2008 Gaetano Mollo, Dincolo de angoasă: educația etico-religoasă la Sören Kierkegaard (translation from Italian), Ars Longa, 2000 Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Luptătoarea și alte poezii (translation from Irish), Ars Longa, 2008 Crize contemporane: disoluția sacrului, Ars Longa, 2003 Crize contemporane: ofensiva islamului, Ars Longa, 2004 The White Silence, Ars Longa, 2007 Ignațiu de Loyola (Ignatius of Loyola), Exerciții spirituale (translation from Spanish), Polirom, 1996 Tadeusz Rostworowski, Din gindirea filosofică a papei Ioan Paul al II-lea (translation from Italian), Ars Longa, 1995 El. Avatarurile unui articol hotărât, Ars Longa, 2012 Carles Miralles, Dulci și aspre (translation from Catalan), Ars Longa, 2008

Affiliations Romanian Association for Religious Studies Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies Réseau Francophone de Sociolinguistique (France) Center of Arabic Studies, University of Bucharest Writers' Union of Romania Société Internationale des Traducteurs d'Arabe (France) Maison Naaman pour la Culture (Lebanon) Casa del Poeta Peruano (Perú)

Awards Prix Naaman (Lebanon), 2007 Writers' Union of Romania Prize, 2008 Gold Medal for Intellectual Excellence (Perú), 2012