Education

  • B.A., Columbia University, 2008
  • M.A., UCLA, 2012
  • Ph.D., UCLA, 2018

Current Courses

  • TFT188A. Israel/Palestine on Screen – Film and Television from the Middle East. Spring 2024, 2023, 2022.
  • CL 2BW. Survey of Literature: Middle Ages to 17th Century: Around the Mediterranean – Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Medieval Period. Spring 2024, 2023, 2020.
  • M162. Israel as Seen Through Its Literature. Fall 2021, Winter 2021, Fall 2019
  • CL 4DW. “Washed Ashore”: Great Books from the World at Large. Winter & Spring 2015

Field of Interest

Modern Arabic and Hebrew literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Film & Television / Visual Culture, Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies, Mediterranean Studies, German-Jewish Intellectual History, Migration and Refugee Studies, Medieval Jewish and Islamic mysticism

Languages

ARABIC: Modern Standard (fluent); Moroccan, Palestinian dialects (intermediate). HEBREW: Modern, Biblical, and Rabbinic (fluent). ARAMAIC: Reading (advanced). GERMAN: (intermediate)

Publications