Authors

Deborah Starr

Deborah Starr is a professor of Near Eastern studies and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University. She writes and teaches about issues of identity and inter-communal exchange in Arabic and Hebrew literature and film, with a focus on the Jews of Egypt. Her new book, Togo Mizrahi and The Making of Egyptian Cinema (University of California Press 2020), recuperates the work of a Jewish a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. She is also the author of Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture, Empire (Routledge 2009) and co-editor with Sasson Somekh of Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Stanford University Press, 2011). 

ARTICLES BY Deborah Starr