Zeina G. Halabi is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the American University of Beirut. She is interested in questions of loss, mourning, and dissidence in literature. She previously taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and was a fellow at the Forum for Transregional Studies in Berlin, where she began writing The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual. She has authored articles on the shifting notion of political commitment in the writings of canonical and emerging writers. She is currently working on her second book project, provisionally titled Excavating the Present: History, Power, and the Arab Archive, in which she explores archival practices in literature.
