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Elizabeth Saylor
North Carolina State University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Classical
Colonialism
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
The Levant
North America
Specialties
Arab Women Writers, Early Arabic Novel, Transnatio
Mahjar
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Hebrew (advanced)
German (advanced)
French (fluent)
Persian (intermediate)
Pre-Islamic Arabic (intermediate)
Italian (advanced)
Portuguese (intermediate)
Spanish (advanced)
Sanskrit (elementary)
Latin (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2015 | Near Eastern Studies | UC Berkeley
MA | 2008 | Near Eastern Studies | University of California, Berkeley
BA | 2005 | Comparative Literatue and Society | Columbia University
Abstracts
"And the greatest of these is Love": ‘Afifa Karam's Re-Imagining of Islam in Fatima al-Badawiyya Subversive Sisterhood: Love Between Women in the Arabic Novels of ‘Afifa Karam Visualizing Arab Women’s Writings in the Mahjar: A Digital Humanities Project ‘Afifa Karam and the Challenge of Reconstructing a Life on the Margins A Mahjar Literary Sisterhood: Reconstructing Transnational Feminist Networks of the “Women’s Literary Awakening” Arabic Language Through Cultural Arts, Radio, and Music Listening