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Ghenwa Hayek
University of Chicago
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago 5828 S. University Avenue
Chicago IL 60637
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Transnationalism
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Fertile Crescent
Lebanon
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Post-col LIt & Hist
Urban Rep/Naltsm
Contemporary Arabic Literature
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (fluent)
Spanish (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD | 2010 | Comparative Literature | Brown University
MA | 2006 | Comp Lit | Brown U
MA | 2001 | English | Leeds U
BA | 2000 | English | Amer U of Beirut
Abstracts
Rabi' Jabir's Beirut: Recovering an Obscured Urban History "Carrying Africa Around on his Face": Imagining 'Africa' in Lebanese Fiction Everyday Writing in an Extraordinary City: New Perspectives on Beirut The Many Faces of Zenobia, 1871-1941 Jungle River Deep, Mountain High: Depicting Landscapes of Emigration and Home in Lebanese Prewar Cinema