Erin Dickerson earned her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 2026, majoring in Middle Eastern studies with a concentration in Turkish and a minor in political science. She is a Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) recipient, Foreign Language and...
Shayma Al Harthi is a writer and researcher tracing the private lives of language: its capacity to encrypt, translate, and reassemble at the seams. Working bilingually across poetry, policy, and archival practice, she explores how meaning survives, and...
Randi Hendricks is an AM candidate in Regional Studies–Middle East at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Her research focuses on identity, language, and political change in North Africa, with particular interests in contemporary North...
Adi Mahalel teaches Yiddish Studies. He earned his PhD from Columbia University and is the author of The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism (SUNY Press) and the translation and scholarly introduction of Hanan Ayalti’s Boom and...
Mazalit Haim is a scholar of modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture. Her research explores the politics of hope and despair in modern Jewish and Israeli literature, visual art, museums, and public culture. Drawing on affect theory, psychoanalysis...
Nalan Erbil’s research focuses on nineteenth-century Ottoman and modern Turkish literature, migration, and Turkish language pedagogy. Her current project theorizes an Ottoman and Turkish literary critical-ethical method implicit in the concept and...
Jesse S. Arlen is Lecturer in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of many articles and book chapters relating to medieval religious literature and intellectual history, with particular attention to asceticism and mysticism. He is the...
Abdul Manan Bhat is a scholar of Islam, devotional literature, and material religion, specializing in Islamic discourses on poetry with a focus on the Persianate world. Urdu and Persian literature is at the heart of his teaching and research interests. At...