Samar Al Dayyoub

Samar George Al Dayyoub (born December 1, 1970) is a Syrian critic, writer, and professor of Arabic, born in 1970. She received her higher education (Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctor's degree) from Al-Baath University in Homs from 1993 to 2002. Al Dayyoub has been a member of both Arab Writers Union and Arab Union for Internet Writers since 2015. She has published several books on Arabic literary criticism, a notable example is ‘Al Khetab Tholathy A Ab’aad: Derasat Fe Al Adab Al Mo’aser’ (Three-dimensional discourse in Contemporary literature) which was nominated for 13th edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the ‘Literary & Art Criticism’ category. Al Dayyoub was also awarded the 2016 Merit prize of the ‘Naji Naaman Literary Prizes’ and the 2016 State Award from the Syrian Ministry of Culture.

Biography Samar Al Dayyoub was born in Syria. She received her Bachelor's in Arts and Social Sciences from Al-Baath University in 1992, postgraduate diploma from the department of literature studies in 1993, Master's in Literature of Early Islam and the Umayyad Period in 1998, and PhD also in Literature of Early Islam and the Umayyad Period in 2002 from the same university.

Al Dayyoub's research aims to connect Ancient Arabic Literature with modernity through applying modern scientific theories on Arabic literature.

Published works Her published works include:

Early Islam Literature – An Analysis of Literary Texts, 2008. Binary Opposites – Studies in Ancient Arabic Poetry, 2009. Laila Al-Akhilya, 2012. Artistic Formation in Ancient Arabic Poetry – Early Islamic Poetry as a Model, 2013. The Transient Text: Studies in Ancient Arabic Literature, 2014. Metaphor of Science – Studies in Science Fiction Literature, 2015. Three-Dimensional Discourse: Studies in Contemporary Arabic Literature, 2016. The Rhythm of Being: A Study in the Term Binary Opposites, 2017.

Awards

Al-Dayoub won a prize for her research “The Arabic Language between Vision and Vision” in the Arabic Language Empowerment Competition hosted by the Teachers Syndicate in Syria in 2011. In 2012, she won the Prize for the Literary Statement Competition of the Arab Writers Union for her research "Digital Literature between Creativity and Criticism". She received the Award of Merit from the Naji Numan Literary Awards for 2016. Al Dayyoub was honored with the State Incentive Award in the field of criticism, studies, and translation for the year 2016.