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Shir Alon
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arabic
Colonialism
Comparative
Hebrew
Modernization
Theory
Security Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Israel
Palestine
Specialties
Modern Arabic And Hebrew Literatures
Narratives Of Modernization
Literature And Economic Theory
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2017 | Comparative Literature | UCLA
BA | 2009 | Comparative Literature | Columbia University
Abstracts
Jurji Zaydan and the Problem of Hebrew Literary Revival The Risky Business of the Occupation: New Narratives of Resilience in Palestinian Literature Contemporary Gulf Art as Archive of the Petroeconomy