Although I was originally planning another topic for my dissertation, I had taken a seminar on Arabic prison literature and also became involved in a collective project to translate Faraj Bayraqdar’s poetry collection Dove in Free Flight. ..
R. Shareah Taleghani
R. Shareah Taleghani is assistant professor and director of Middle East studies at Queens College, the City University of New York. She is the co-editor of Generations of Dissent: Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa, and co-editor and co-translator of Faraj Bayraqdar’s Dove in Free Flight (forthcoming 2021, UpSet Press).