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Max Shmookler
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
African Studies
Comparative
Arab Studies
Ethnography
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Sahara
Sudan
Egypt
Mauritania
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Specialties
Sudanese Arabic Literature (1989 - Present)
Afro-arabic Literary Aesthetics
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Swahili (elementary)
French (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2011 | Near Eastern Studies | NYU
BA | 2005 | Philosophy | Vassar College
Abstracts
Bowdlerizing the Past to Shape the Present: Muhammad Abduh’s 1889 Edition of al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāmāt