Ibrahim Taha (b. 1960) is (full) Prof of literary semiotics and Arabic literature at the University of Haifa, Israel. His principle research areas include a variety of interests: semiotics, anthroposemiotics and theory of literature, comparative literature, heroism in literature, Arabic literature, Palestinian literature, Arabic feminist literature and Arabic minimalist literature. His books and monographs include: The Palestinian Novel: A Communication Study (2002); Arabic Minimalist Story: Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era (2009); Brevity in Rhetoric and Holy Quran (2012) [Arabic]; Heroizability: An Anthroposemiotic Theory of Literary Characters (2015) and The Capture of Meaning: An Introduction to Composite Semiotics in Arabic Discourse (2022) [Arabic].