Exile and the Franco-Arab Literary Landscape | Suja Sawafta
In this conversation, we talked to Suja Sawafta about exile and ecocriticism at the Franco-Arab intersection.
Suja Sawafta is an assistant professor of Arabic studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Her research focuses on exile and ecocriticism at the Franco-Arab intersection. She is currently working on her first book project which examines the impact of exile, intellectual commitment, and political dissent in the works of the formative Saudi-Iraqi novelist Abdulrahman Munif. She teaches interdisciplinary content courses on literature and cinema as well as Arabic and French language.
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