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Lara Harb
Princeton University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Near Eastern Studies Department
Princeton University 110 Jones Hall
Princeton NJ 08544
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Persian
Theory
7th-13th Centuries
Medieval
Classical
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Class Arabic Lit
Medieval Arabic Literary Theory
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
German (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
Education
DPhil | 2013 | Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies | New York University
BA | 2004 | Comp Lit | Brown U
Abstracts
Wonder and Muhdath Poetry The Role of Discovery in Abd Al-Qahir Al-Jurjani’s "Theory of Simile" Revisiting Majāz: The Aesthetics of Interpretation