Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a Postdoctoral Associate in Arabic Cultural Studies in Duke's Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department. He works on modern Arabic literature and intellectual history with a focus on the construction of temporality in modern Arabic literature and philosophy and the place of philosophical Sufism in modern Arab thought.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cultural Studies
Islamic Thought
Maghreb Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Maghreb
Spain
Specialties
Sufi Thought And Poetry
Sufism In Postcolonial Arab Thought
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (fluent)
Persian (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
| Columbia University
MA
| 2018
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
| Columbia University
MA
| 2016
| Comparative Literature
| The University of Notre Dame
