Alexa Firat (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
Professor Firat teaches Arabic and modern Arabic literature and cinema courses at Temple.
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Professor Firat was awarded a Scholars Fulbright for her research project, “The Tangle of Historical Literature: A Study of Three Contemporary Jordanian Novels.” She spent spring 2013 in Amman at the University of Jordan.
Professor Firat’s areas of interest are modern Arabic literature and cinema; contemporary historical fictions; histories of ideas in the modern middle east; and theories of literary and cultural geography.
Scholarly writings and reviews can be found in print and online: Middle Eastern Literatures, Journal of Arabic Literature, Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, Jadaliyya ezine, the publication of the Syrian Studies Association, The Oxford Handbook of the Arabic Novel (forthcoming), and Encyclopedia of Islam (forthcoming) Additionally, Firat is a literary translator. Her translations can be found in The Book of Gaza; Beirut 39; Words without Borders; The Anthology of Saudi Arabian Literature. She is also the translator of Khalil Sweileh’s award-winning novel Writing Love.
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