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Ghenwa Hayek
University of Chicago
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Email:
[email protected]
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
Middle East/Near East Studies
Urban Studies
Cultural Studies
Transnationalism
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