Research interests
Middle Eastern literatures • Arabic Literature • Palestinian literature • Hebrew and Jewish Literatures • Comparative literature • Anticolonial literatures and cultures • Global South Marxisms • Commitment literature • Literature and social movements • Aesthetics and politics • Intellectual histories of the Middle East • Translation • Histories and cultures of the Arab Left • Periodicals study • Feminist and queer theory • Anticolonial and postcolonial theory • Archival theory • Literature and Colonisation in Palestine/Israel • Postcolonial and Anticolonial Theory •
Courses
• Literature and Film in Colonial Times: Palestine and the Middle East
• Third World Aesthetics: Anticolonial Periodicals and Cultural Scenes
• Anticolonial Literatures of East Africa and the Caribbean
• Capitalism, Ecology and Decolonisation
• Radical Reading
• Anticolonial Literature and Thought
Image credit: al-Jadid 1955.
