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Angela Giordani
Columbia University
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Email:
[email protected]
Secondary Email:
[email protected]
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Islamic Thought
Modern
Arabic
Islamic Studies
Comparative
Historiography
Translation
Arab Studies
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
The Levant
Specialties
Intellectual And Cultural History Of The Modern Arab World
Islamic Revivalism; Reconstruction Of The Classical Islamic Heritage
Global Intellectual History; Reception And Translation Studies
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2021 | History | Columbia University
MPhil | 2015 | History | Columbia University
MA | 2014 | History | Columbia University
BA | 2010 | Middle Eastern Studies | University of Texas at Austin
Abstracts
The Literary Craft of Genesis: Narrative Modes of Creating the Arab Present in Halim Barakat’s ‘Awdat al-Ta’ir ila-l-Bahr (Days of Dust) and Elias Khoury’s Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun)
The Perpetual Reading and Re-Reading of Tariq al-Bishri
Poetic Dissent: Shi’r’s Challenge to the Post-Colonial Arab State
Thawrah versus Inqilab: A Reading Along the Conceptual Fault Lines of “Revolution” in Arabic
Making Philosophy in Interwar Egypt: Towards a Genealogy of Falsafah in the Twentieth Century
Arabic Philosophy, Competing Universalisms, and the Egyptian Nahda
Towards an Institutional History of Philosophy in Twentieth-Century Egypt
The Postwar Avicenna: Islamic Philosophy Answers the Crisis of Humanism