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Dr Sayed Gouda was born in Gairo and moved to Hong Kong in 1992 where he currently resides. He did his undergraduate studies in Egypt and China, majoring in Chinese, and received his PhD in comparative literary studies from the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. He taught at City University, The University of Hong Kong, Jilin International Studies University before he joined Lingnan University in January 2020. His teaching experience covers courses on Translation, Interpretation, Comparative Literature, British and American Literature, Comparative Cultural STudies, Cross-cultural Communication, Western Civilization and World Civilization. His research interests include Comparative Literature, Comparative Cultural Studies, and Translation Studies.

Dr Gouda is a published poet, novelistand translator. He published 15 books of poetry, novels and literary translation. His works and translations have appeared in Arabic, English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Macedonian, Uzbek, Romanian, Greek, Japanese and Mongolian. He is the Editor-in-Chief of a multi-lingual e-magazine called Nadwah for poetry in translation (www.arabicnadwah.com). From 2004 to 2010, he organised a monthly literary salon in Hong Kong. He has also participated in many international poetry festivals and academic conferences around the world. In 1990, Gouda won first prize in poetry from the Faculty of Languages (al-Alsun), Ain Shams University. In addition, in 2012, he was awarded the Enchanting Poet Award by The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, and in 2014, an honorary prize for his poem 'Night Train' from Shijie huawen shibao 世界華文詩報 (Journal of Chinese World Poetry).