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Rita Sakr
Rita Sakr is lecturer in postcolonial and global literatures at Maynooth University, Ireland. Among various other publications, she is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (Continuum, 2012; paperback, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), and of ‘Anticipating’ the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies (Palgrave, 2013), co-editor of The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut (Routledge, 2013) and co-director/co-producer of the RCUK-funded documentary on Beirut, White Flags (2014). Her recent and forthcoming publications focus on migrant cultural production at the crossroads of biopolitics, the environmental humanities and experimental aesthetics of forced displacement.
Contact: Department of English, Iontas Building, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.