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...
With a career spanning over three decades to give voice to voiceless especially women, I’ve had the privilege of working across TV, radio, and print media since 1992. I’ve created hundreds of TV commercials and numerous clips for UNICEF, and I’ve been...
As a linguist and scholar of Persian language and literature, my work bridges the fields of language teaching and the politics of literary translation. With graduate training from Allameh Tabataba'i, and over a decade of teaching experience at Yale...
Laura Anne Thompson is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the study of Islam in North Africa and of religion more broadly in the Mediterranean region. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Boston University. She was previously a...