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Alexa S. Firat
Temple University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (215) 204-4604
Asian and Middle East Languages and Studies
334 Anderson Hall, Temple Univ 1114 Polett Walk
Philadelphia PA 19122
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Mediterranean Countries
Palestine
Syria
The Levant
Specialties
Contemp Lit
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2010 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
Memories of a Soul: Recouping Existence in Mamduh Azam’s Qasr al-Matar On Being Jordanian: Reading the Self in Two Contemporary Historical Novels “New Papers on an Old Theme: Awraq and the Re-formation of the Syrian Writers’ Collective” Literary Representations of Outlaw Activists in the Jordanian Literary Field The Experimental in Syrian Historical Fiction Philosophical Turns in Syrian Historical Fiction