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Rachel Schine
NYU Abu Dhabi
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
2 Benthaven Place
Boulder CO 80305
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
7th-13th Centuries
Comparative
Folklore/Folklife
Judaic Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Islamic World
Maghreb
Specialties
Semiotics Of Race, The Siyar Sha'bīya, Karaite Exe
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
Latin (intermediate)
Education
BA | 2013 | Arabic Studies, Political Science | Williams College
Abstracts
The Etiology of the Black-Arab Hero: The Case of 'Abd al-Wahāb Black, But Not African? Diaspora and Black Community in Sirat al-Amira Dhat al-Himma Dark Materials: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Black Pharmacopeia and Racial Naturalism in Tanwir al-Ghabash fi Fadl al-Sudan wa-l-Habash A Tale of Two ‘Antarahs: Race and Reception Between Jāhiliyya Poetics and Islamic Popular Prose