Prof. Chokri al-Saadi

Professor of Language Sciences at the University of Tunis and former Head of the Department of Arabic Language, Literature, and Civilization. He completed his academic training in Tunisia, earning his PhD and Habilitation from the University of Manouba and the University of Tunis. His research focuses on semantics and the philosophy of language, and he has translated foundational works by Georges Mounin and John Searle into Arabic. For his scholarly achievements, Dr. al-Saadi received the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Award for Translation (2011), the ALECSO-Sharjah Award for Linguistic and Lexical Studies (2021), and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Translation (2023).