Ackbar Abbas: key obituary facts
Is Ackbar Abbas dead? Yes. Ackbar Abbas died on July 15, 2026, at age 84.
Cause of death: Ackbar Abbas's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Ackbar Abbas known for?
He was a professor.
More about Ackbar Abbas
Place of birth: Kennedy Town.
Gender: male.
Occupation: author.
Nationality: United States.
Employer: University of California, Irvine.
Spouse: Ophelia Cheung-Macpherson, Liu Sola.
Children: Ayesha Macpherson Lau, Nadim Abbas.
Born: 1942Kennedy Town, British Hong Kong.
Ackbar Abbas, a Hong Kong literary scholar and professor of comparative literature, died on July 15, 2026.
Born in Kennedy Town in 1942, he taught at the University of California, Irvine, and earlier served as chair of comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong. He also co-directed the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures.
Abbas’s scholarship focused on globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, architecture, cinema, postcolonialism and critical theory. Among his books was Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1997. He also worked as a contributing editor to Public Culture, the Duke University Press journal.