Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Ziad Dallal is an academic, author, and translator. He teaches Arabic literature at Bard College, and has translated essays and short stories for several Arab authors. Ziad’s areas of research include modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, critical theory, translation theory, political philosophy, philology, Marxism, and film theory. He has written about contemporary Arabic culture and served as lead translator and adviser on This Is Home: A Refugee Story, a 2017 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for world cinema documentary. Ziad’s writing has appeared in Bidayat, Assafir, Alif:Journal of Comparative Poetics, Review of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Arabic Literature, and Beirut Art Center’s The Derivative.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Historiography
Theory
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Europe
Lebanon
Specialties
Arabic Literature
Political Philosophy
Critical Theory
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (advanced)
French (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Comparative Literature
| New York University
MA
| 2015
| Comparative Literature
| New York University
BA
| 2011
| English Department
| American University of Beirut
Abstracts
Sovereignty, Contingency and Arab Tragedy
The Acephalic Fate of Prophecy in the Poetry of Ounsi el-Hajj
Saving the Text: History, Literature, and the Nahdah Archive
Language as Craft: Al-Shidyaq and the Politics of Language in the Nahda
Civilized Communities and The Logic of (In)Commensurability
