حجاج أبو جبر

Egyptian academic and translator, born in Giza in 1977. He graduated from Cairo University's Department of English Literature in 1999 and holds a doctorate in cultural theory, focused on a comparative study of Zygmunt Bauman and Abdel Wahab El-Messiri.

He is an associate professor of critical/cultural theory at Egypt's Academy of Arts, and has held research residencies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Humboldt University, the University of Bonn, and the University of London.

He is best known as the leading Arabic translator of Zygmunt Bauman's sociology, including "Liquid Modernity," "Liquid Life," "Liquid Love," "Liquid Times," "Liquid Fear," "Liquid Surveillance," "Liquid Culture," and "Modernity and the Holocaust."

His own critical study, "Critique of the Secular Mind: A Comparative Study of Zygmunt Bauman and Abdel Wahab El-Messiri," was published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.