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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi obtained her D.Phil. in modern Arabic literature from the University of Oxford in 2005, with a dissertation on interrelations of modern Arabic literature and art under the supervision of Dr. Robn Ostle, and her M.A. in Arabic literature and comparative literature (double major) from the Free University of Berlin in 2000, with a dissertation on memory in the novels of Elias Khoury under the supervision of Dr. Renate Jacobi and Dr. Hella Tiedemann.

She is an Associate Professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of English and an Associated Faculty in the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at the American University of Beirut.

From 2014-17, she served as Chairperson of the Departme Sonja Mejcher-Atassi obtained her D.Phil. in modern Arabic literature from the University of Oxford in 2005, with a dissertation on interrelations of modern Arabic literature and art under the supervision of Dr. Robn Ostle, and her M.A. in Arabic literature and comparative literature (double major) from the Free University of Berlin in 2000, with a dissertation on memory in the novels of Elias Khoury under the supervision of Dr. Renate Jacobi and Dr. Hella Tiedemann.

She is an Associate Professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of English and an Associated Faculty in the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at the American University of Beirut.

From 2014-17, she served as Chairperson of the Department of English.

In 2017-18, she is on research leave as a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

Her research is in modern and contemporary Arabic literature, comparative literature, book history and art, collection and museum studies, cultural memory and history, and aesthetics and politics/political dissidence. She is currently working on two book projects: In Search of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: a life in literature and art between Palestine and Iraq (Edinburgh University Press) and On Wannous: Critical Studies on the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual (ed. with Robert Myers).

Her publications include: Rafa Nasiri: Artist Books, ed. with May Muzaffar (Skira 2017); Reading across Modern Arabic Literature and Art (Reichert 2012); Museums, Archives and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World, ed. with John Pedro Schwartz (Ashgate 2012); “The Arabic Novel between Aesthetic Concerns and the Causes of Man: Commitment in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and ‘Abd al-Rahman Munif,” in Commitment and Beyond: Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s, eds. Friederike Pannewick and Georges Khalil (Reichert 2015), 143–55; “Abounaddara’s take on images in the Syrian revolution,” Jadaliyya 08.07.2014 and 02.09.2014; “Art and Political Dissent in Post-War Lebanon: Walid Sadek’s fi annani akbar min picasso [bigger than picasso],” IJMES 45.3 (2013): 535–60; "Contemporary Book Art in the Middle East: The Book as Document in Iraq," Art History 35/5 (2012); "The Forbidden Paradise: How Etel Adnan Learned to Paint in Arabic," and "On the Necessity of Writing the Present: Elias Khoury and ‘the Birth of the Novel’ in Lebanon," in: Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives eds. Angelika Neuwirth et al (Saqi 2010); (ed.), Writing a ‘Tool for Change’: ‘Abd al-Rahman Munif Remembered, MIT EJMES 7 (2007).
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	فصول من تاريخ الشرق الأوسط by Helmut Mejcher, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (تحرير) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World by John Pedro Schwartz (Editor), Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (Editor), Robert Myers (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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