Omar Khalifah
Omar Khalifah is an assistant professor of Arabic literature and culture at Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He received his M.A and PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His PhD dissertation (2013) studied the representations of Egyptian president Nasser in Egyptian fiction and film. In addition to modern Arabic literature, Khalifah’s research interests include textual and visual representations of memory, world literature, and cinema and nationalism in the Arab world. His forthcoming book, Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary, will be published by Edinburgh University Press. A Fulbright scholar, Khalifah is also a short story writer in Arabic. His collection Ka’annani Ana (As If I Were Myself) was published in Amman, Jordan in 2010. He has taught classes on the Arabic novel, freedom in modern Arabic literature, and Arab women's autobiography.
Address: Doha, Qatar
Address: Doha, Qatar
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