Tarek El-Ariss (born 1973) is the James Wright Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Dartmouth College.

Biography

Tarek El-Ariss was born in 1973 in Beirut. He earned a BA in Philosophy from the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. His works focus on the contemporary Arabic culture, literature and art; new media and cyber culture; digital humanities; Nahda literature and thought; travel writing and the war novel; sci-fi and utopia studies; 18th- and 19th-century French philosophy and literature; gender and sexuality studies; and psychoanalysis and affect theory.

Works

* ''Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political'' * '' Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age'' * ''The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (ed.)''

References

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