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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is a professor of Arabic and comparative literature in the Department of English and an associated faculty in the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at the American University of Beirut. She is the recipient of the 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Reimar Lüst Research Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange and the 2008 Annemarie Schimmel-Prize. In 2017/18, she was an invited resident fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Study in Berlin. She obtained her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2005 and her MA from the Free University of Berlin in 2000. Her research focuses on modern Arabic literature in global perspective and closely intersects with cultural and intellectual history. Interdisciplinary in scope, it engages with memory studies, life writing/biography, literature archives, gender studies, global modernism, book culture and aesthetics and politics.
Contact: American University of Beirut, PO Box 11-0236, Beirut 11072020, Lebanon.