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Tom Abi Samra
Princeton University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact

United States
ABOUT
Tom Abi Samra is a PhD student in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton. He works on premodern Arabic literature, with a focus on the 16th–18th centuries.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Arabic
Comparative
Medieval
Ottoman Studies
All Time Periods
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Egypt
Specialties
Postclassical Arabic Literature
Classical Arabic Literary Theory
Languages
Ottoman (intermediate)
Turkish (advanced)
Arabic (native)
English (native)
French (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Education
MA | 2022 | Comparative Literature | Dartmouth College
BA | 2021 | Literature | New York University Abu Dhabi
Abstracts
The Leaking Band: Reading the Religious Online Rhetoric During the 2019 Mashrou' Leila Scandal in Lebanon Occasional Poetics: The Poetry in ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi’s Travelogues Remembering Abbasid Literature in Ottoman Syria: Manjak Bāshā’s Muʿāraḍāt of Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī’s Rūmiyyāt