About My Work
Powerful metaphors tend to trespass the borders of language, disciplines, and media; my research follows the migration of images across national divides, textual and visual cultures, as well as geographical centers.
My first book project, Future Perfect, uncovers a rupture in cultural history, namely the absence of futurist narratives in Palestinian and Israeli cultures, on the one hand, and its abundance over the last two decades, on the other hand.
My second project, Traveling Homelands, tracks the dissemination of images across many Palestinian diasporic communities, using NLP to the detect agents of translatability and untranslatability.
Appointments
Oct. 2022-Current—University of Haifa
Assistant professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature
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Sept 2024-2025—Brandeis University
Fellow at the IAIS
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Sept 2020-2022—Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows
Education
Stanford University, PhD
Comparative Literature, 2020
Committee: Amir Eshel (chair), Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Vered Karti Shemtov, David Palumbo-Liu, Ahmad Diab (UC Berkeley)
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. Magna cum Laude, General and Comparative Literature, 2014 B.A. General and Comparative Literature & Art History, 2011
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Mahindra United World College of India,
International Baccalaureate Diploma, 2006
Publications
Articles in peer-reviewed journals:
“Darwish in Hebrew: How Palestinian Exile Shapes Contemporary Israeli Poetry,” forthcoming in Comparative Literature.
“Factoring Asymmetry into the Equation: On Comparing Hebrew and Arabic,” The Journal of Arabic Literature 55 (2024): 124–151.
“Archiving the Undocumented: Minor Detail and the Silence of Sensory Memory,” The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 59:5 (2023): 607–619.
“The Future of Temple Mount: Imagined Possibilities in Contemporary Palestinian and Israeli Art,” Dibur Literary Journal 6 (2018): 7–17.
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Future Perfect: Speculative Imagination in Israel/Palestine, under review at Stanford University Press
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For non-academic writing, see here
Competitive Grants
2023-2027
Winner of personal grant of the ISF (Israel Science Foundation), titled “Shatature: Reorienting Palestinian Literature,” 140,000 NIS a year.
Presentations (selection)
“The Implying Author,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Montreal, February 2026
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“Permission to Empathize: Visions of Inclusion and Exclusion in Palestine/Israel,” Modern Literature Association (MLA), New Orleans, January 2025
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“Going Under—On Underground Palestinian Futures,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Montreal, March 2024
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“Codes of Recognition: Comparing Transnational Literatures,” Modern Literature Association (MLA), San Francisco, January 2023
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“Routes of Unlikely Returns: Can Golah be a Motherland?” Jewish Literatures and their Neighbors, UC Irvine, May 2022
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“Translatability versus Localism: A Digital Humanities Approach,” Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), October, 2020
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“Can the Future Speak? Futurity, Agency, and Voice in Palestinian Literature,” Futurity Beyond the West, Society of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, July 2019
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“Vanished: The Presence of Absent(ee)s in Palestinian Prose,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 2019
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“Conceiving New Horizons in Contemporary Israeli and Palestinian Art,” ASAP/9: The Arts of the Present, UC Berkeley, October 2017
“Reconstituting the Self Through Love: The figure of Rita in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish,” Interfaith Love: Love, Sex and Marriage in the Islamicate World from the Middle Ages to the Present, The University of Leiden, June 2016
Fellowships and Awards
​Benaroya Postdoctoral Fellowship in Israel Studies, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, 2020-22 (awarded and declined)
Stanford Humanities Center’s Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford University, 2020- 21 (awarded and declined)
Association of Jewish Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2020-21 (awarded and declined)
Memorial Fund for Jewish Culture Doctoral Fellowship, 2019-20 Pigott Fellowship, Stanford University, 2017-18
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 2014- 20
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The Lea Goldberg Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013
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School of Literatures Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012-13
The Dean’s List of Outstanding Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010-12