Occupation
Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Ziad Dallal is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. His areas of research/interest include nineteenth-century and contemporary Arabic literature and intellectual history, critical theory, translation theory, political philosophy, philology, Marxism and finance, and film theory. He has also written about contemporary Arabic theater and contemporary music in Lebanon and served as lead translator and adviser on This Is Home: A Refugee Story, a 2017 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for world cinema documentary.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Historiography
Theory
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Europe
All Middle East
Specialties
Arabic Literature
Political Philosophy
Critical Theory
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (advanced)
French (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Comparative Literature
| New York University
MA
| 2015
| Comparative Literature
| New York University
BA
| 2011
| English Department
| American University of Beirut
Abstracts
Sovereignty, Contingency and Arab Tragedy
The Acephalic Fate of Prophecy in the Poetry of Ounsi el-Hajj
Saving the Text: History, Literature, and the Nahdah Archive
Language as Craft: Al-Shidyaq and the Politics of Language in the Nahda
Civilized Communities and The Logic of (In)Commensurability
