Hammadi Sammoud

Hammadi Hamida Sammoud (Arabic: حمادي صمود) (French: Hamadi Samoud) is a Tunisian academic, writer, historian, and linguist, who was born on June 25, 1946. He is also a member of the House of Wisdom Foundation.

Early life Sammoud was born in Kelibia, Tunisia. He studied the persistence of philosophy and classical literature. After studying at the New Sorbonne University Paris 3, the University of Paris 8 and the Lumière University Lyon 2, he worked as a professor at the faculty of arts and humanities in Manouba.

He was a professor from 1984 until 2008.

Sammoud received the “Literary Studies and Criticism” Award by Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation in recognition of his contribution to the field of contemporary Arabic criticism.

Works

Arabs’ Rhetorical Thinking: Its Principles and Development in the 6th Century (original: āltāfkyr ālʿrby ālblāġy: ōsosh w taṭwrh ēlā alqrn alsāds) (1981) Poetry and Heritage: Poetic Awareness of Heritage (original: Aš-Šiʻr wa-t-turāt̲: maʻnā al-Waʻī aš-Šiʻrī bi-t-turāt̲) (1986) Manifestations of Literary Discourse: Theoretical Issues (original: Min tajallīyāt al-khiṭāb al-adabī: qaḍayā naẓarīyah) (1999) Manifestations of Literary Discourse: Practical Issues (original: Min tajallīyāt al-khiṭāb al-adabī: qaḍayā taṭbīqīyah) (1999) The Epoch of Taha Hussein (co-authored with Muhammed Al Qadi, Abdullah Soula, Muhammed Barcelona and Muhammed Al-Hadi Al-Tarabulsi) (original: Miʼawīyat Ṭāhā Ḥusayn) (2000) Al-Jahiz on Rhetoric of Drama and the Issue of Literary Genres (original: Blāġt ālhāzl wmsālt Alaǧnās Aladabyā) (2002) The Eloquence of “Al-intisar” in Ancient Arab Criticism: Abu Bakr's Letter to Muzahim Ibn Fatik as a Model (original: Balāġat “al-intiṣār” fī al-naqd al-ʻArabī al-qadīm: risālat Abī Bakr al-Ṣūlī ilá Muzāḥim ibn Fātik unmūd̲aǧan) (2006) My Way towards Freedom (original: Ṭarīqī ilá al-ḥurrīyah) (2017)

Awards

State Award in Humanities (1994) Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation, The Translation Award in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010 (Third Session) Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation, Translation from French, 2010 (Third Session) The award was for his translation of the book Dictionnaire D'Analyse Du Discours; a comprehensive encyclopedic work that includes all theories related to discourse analysis. Ibn Khaldoun-Senghor Translation Award by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (2011) Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Award (2017) Abu Al Qasim Al Shabi Award (2017) The Order of Educational Merit