Maher Jarrar Professor at the American University of Beirut, in both the Civilization Sequence Program and the Department of Arabic. He is Director of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature. Currently, he is the Shawwaf Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Professor Jarrar has published extensively on both classical and modern Arabic literature.... Read more about The Harbor of Narrative: Beirut, the Novel, and the Memory of War (talk in Arabic)
