Michael received his BA from Bard College in 2014 and MA in Near Eastern Studies from NYU in 2019. Prior to pursuing his PhD in Comparative Literature at NYU, Michael worked as Political Economy Project Coordinator for the Arab Studies Institute. Michael's interests include modern Arabic literature, Third-World Marxisms, South-South solidarity, translation studies, the cultural Cold War, and Russian-Arabic literary encounters.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Middle East/Near East Studies
Political Economy
19th-21st Centuries
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Syria
Lebanon
Iraq
Specialties
Russian-Arabic Literary Encounters
Socialist Realism In Egypt
Cultural Cold War In The Arab World
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Russian (advanced)
Education
MPhil
| 2022
| Comparative Literature
| New York University
MA
| 2019
| Near Eastern Studies
| New York University
