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Qussay Al-Attabi
Kenyon College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Translation
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Modern
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Specialties
Iraqi Literature
Modern Arabic Literature
Translation Studies
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2017 | Comparative Literature | Brown University
MA | 2014 | Comparative Literature | Brown University
MA | 2006 | English | Al-Mustansiriyya Uni, Baghdad
BA | 2003 | English | Al-Mustansiriyya Uni, Baghdad
Abstracts
Sartre in Baghdad: Commitment, Communism, and Arab Nationalism The Politics of Translating Iraqi Vernacular Poetry When Poetics Betrays Politics: The Case of al-Sayyab’s Commitment