Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
1226 Park Street
N3142 HSSC (Humanities and Social Studies Center)
Grinnell
IA
50112
United States
ABOUT
I study the history of intellectual networks, ideas, critique, and print culture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from the late eighteenth century to the present. My research and teaching interests include: modern MENA history, politics, and cultures; intellectual and literary histories of the Arab world; histories of Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict; nationalisms, modernisms, and radicalisms in the Arab and Third worlds; transnational intellectual histories of the long 19th and long 20th centuries; the Nahda and Arab critique; classical and modern Arabic poetry; modern Islamic thought; history of postcolonial studies; and Arab-American thought in the twentieth century.
Building on my award-winning doctoral dissertation, I am presently authoring a monograph, “In the Nakba's Wake: An Intellectual History of Palestine 1948–70,” set to investigate the contested history of Palestinian thought—and its Arab discontents—in the wake of national ruin and to examine the ideas of Palestinian writers dispersed across Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Gaza, Jerusalem, Khartoum, and Kuwait. “In the Nakba's Wake” is primed on the untranslated and ignored expressions of Palestinian and Arab thought as they appeared in magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, scrapbooks, poetry volumes, correspondences, and ephemera. My research has attracted funding from institutions and foundations in the Middle East, Europe, and the US. Most recently, I was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the completion of my book project.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Cultural Studies
Islamic Thought
Mediterranean Studies
Modernization
Nationalism
Transnationalism
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Gulf
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Maghreb
Mashreq
Mediterranean Countries
Palestine
Syria
Specialties
Intellectual History
History Of Ideas
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2021
| History
| University of Minnesota
MA
| 2014
| History
| University of Minnesota
BA
| 2012
| Religious Studies and Political Science
| Carleton University
Abstracts
Critiquing Exile/Theorizing Nation: An Account of post-1948 Palestinian Literary Criticism
Before Shi’r, After the Nakba: A History of Palestinian Contributions in Prose-Poetry 1948-63
