Session: 
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Ghenwa Hayek is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Her research spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Arab Middle East, focusing on the relationships between literary and cultural production, space and place, and identity formation. Hayek is also a translator whose works have appeared in the literary magazine Banipal and the anthology Beirut 39: New Writing From the Arab World, as well as in mainstream publications like The New York Times and The International New York Times.