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Michal Raizen
Ohio Wesleyan University
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Ohio Wesleyan University
Comparative Literature 61 S. Sandusky St.
Delaware OH 43015
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Comparative
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Ethnomusicology
Hebrew
Arabic
19th-21st Centuries
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Identity/Representation
Israel Studies
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
The Levant
Egypt
Iraq
Israel
Lebanon
Maghreb
Palestine
Languages
Hebrew (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2014 | Comparative Literature | UT Austin
MA | 2010 | Comparative Literature | UT Austin
MA | 2007 | Middle Eastern Studies | UT Austin
BA | 2004 | French | UT Austin
BMus | 2004 | Music | UT Austin
Abstracts
Homeward Bound: Toward a Pan-Levantine Acoustic Politics in Emile Habiby’s "Sudasiyya" Debunking fayruziat al-hawa: Listening as Individual Prerogative in Hoda Barakat’s The Stranger’s Letters and Disciples of Passion If I Forget Thee, O Alexandria: The Bande Dessinée as Intertextual and Metatextual Commentary on Egyptian Jewish Exile and Return