Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Boston University
745 Commonwealth Ave. 6th floor
Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Boston
MA
02215
United States
ABOUT
Associate Professor of Arabic & Comparative Literature, Boston University. Author of "Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost" (Princeton, 2011) and translator of Sonallah Ibrahim's "Ice" (Seagull, 2019) and two of "Four Arab Hamlet Plays" (Segal Theatre Center, 2016). Editorial board member, IJMES.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Drama
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Theater
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Europe
Iraq
Syria
Specialties
Arab-Russian Literary Connections
Arabic Theatre For Global Audiences
Arab-Soviet Educational Ties
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Russian (native)
French (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Swedish (elementary)
Italian (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| Social Thought
| University of Chicago
BA
| 1995
| Humanities
| Yale University
Abstracts
From Russia with Iltizam?: Soviet Models, Egyptian Shakespeare, and Nasser's Ghost
Letters to Tolstoy: Arab Writers Between Prophesy and Fiction
Another East: Arabic Literature’s Soviet Archive
Hailed and Haunted: Syrian Playwrights in 2016-2018 Berlin
