Islam Issa, who is writing his doctorate on the modern Islamic reception of Paradise Lost, has been chosen as the College of Arts and Law winner of the Michael K O’Rourke PhD Best Publication Award 2013. 

Islam’s award-winning article is: ‘Fragmentation, Censorship and an Islamic Journal: A History of the Translation of Milton into Arabic’, Milton Quarterly, 46.4 (Dec 2012): 219-32.