Jonas Elbousty holds MPhil and PhD degrees from Columbia University. He has taught at many universities, including Al Akhawyeen University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. He currently teaches at Yale where he served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Near Eastenr Languages for seven years, and currently the DUS for Modern Middle East. His book publications include eight books Vitality and Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco’s Literary Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Advanced Arabic Literary Reader (Routledge Press, 2016), Media Arabic (Routledge Press, 2021), Aswat Muasira (Georgetown UP, 2023), Tales of Tangier (Yale UP, 2023), Screams of War (Seagull Books, 2024), Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives (Routledge Press, 2024), Faces (Georgetown UP, 2024). His work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, Asheville Poetry Review, Banipal, Prospectus, Sekka, Journal of North African Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Literature, Journal of New Jersey Poets, among other publications. In 2019, Jonas Elbousty was nominated for the DeVane Medal, and in 2020, he was the recipient of the Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation Award, given to outstanding junior faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching in undergraduate programs. He has also received many other awards, including the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Literature

African Studies

Arabic

Comparative

Translation

Maghreb Studies

Middle East/Near East Studies

Arab Studies

Education

All Middle East

Morocco

Maghreb

Arabic Language, Arabic Literature, North African

World Literature; Literary Translation

Poetics Of Exile

Arabic (native)

English (native)

French (fluent)

Spanish (intermediate)

German (elementary)