Tarek El-Ariss
James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College
Tarek El-Ariss is the James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. Born and raised in Beirut during the Civil War (1975–1990) and trained in philosophy, literary theory, and visual and cultural studies at the American University of Beirut, the University of Rochester, and Cornell University, his work deals with questions of displacement, war, and desire. He has written about disoriented travelers, outcasts, queers, hackers, and characters with complicated relationships to home and power. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham, 2013) and Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton, 2019), and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA, 2018). His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, and Choice.
In 2021, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete his forthcoming book, Water on Fire: A Memoir of War.
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