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Benjamin Smith
Swarthmore College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Language
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Modern Arabic Literature East-West Encounters Am
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Education
MA | 2004 | Center of Middle Eastern Studies | Harvard University
Abstracts
‘Ala Al-Aswani’s Shikaghu Read against the Prose of the Mahjar Where To?; Contesting the Rihla in Yousef al-Mohaimeed’s Fikhaakh al-Raa’iha Community in Focus: The Arab Diaspora of early 20th century America as portrayed in Abd al-Massih Haddad's Short Stories Reimagining the Mahjar through Contemporary Lebanese Fiction