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This book stems from a reaction to the pervasive and acritical use of civilizational paradigms in the study of modern Arabic literature.

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. ..

In Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, I argue that Arab Americans exist in a precarious position that I call hyper-in-visibility, a paradox of simultaneous hypervisibility and invisibility ..

Hany Abu Assad (HA): After graduating from high school I left Nazareth for the Netherlands to study aerial engineering. I worked for two years as an engineer but did not feel fulfilled. I returned to Nazareth and worked with my father for a while. At the time, Rashid..

“Genocide” evokes crematoria, mountains of skulls, and mass graves. It is what the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe, what the Khmer Rouge did to fellow Cambodians, what Hutu nationalists did to Tutsis in Rwanda. The term, like the practices of death and social destruction to which it refers..

Nouri Gana, Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2011.

In the preface to his recent book, Signifying Loss, Nouri Gana argues that “[i]n a worl..

Sholeh Wolpé, The Forbidden: Poetry from Iran and Its Exiles. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012. 

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