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Zeina G. Halabi
American University of Beirut
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut 11-0236
Beirut
Lebanon
ABOUT
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Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arabic
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Lebanon
Syria
Specialties
Contemp Arab Novel
Languages
Arabic (native)
Education
PhD | 2011 | Middle Eastern Studies | University of Texas at Austin
MPhil | 2007 | Anthro | U of Texas, Austin
MS | 2002 | Anthro & Dev | London Sch of Econ
BA | 2001 | Socio & Anthro | Amer U of Beirut
Abstracts
Losing the Nation: The Poetics of Mourning in the Elegies of Ma?m?d Darw?sh, Sam?? al-Q?sem, and Muhammad al-Magh?t The Haunted Body: Narrating Violence in Seba al-Herz's "The Others" Requiem for the Intellectual: The Failure of Enlightenment in Rashid Al-Daif’s “Paving the Sea” “Ok, Enough, Goodbye” to the Lebanese Postwar Film: The Peripheral Narratives of Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia Refiguring "Conscience, Consciousness, and Eloquence": The Revolutionary Poetics of Arab Rap Obituary of the Word: Excavating the Self in the Demise of Print Media