Ghenwa Hayek Assoc. Prof of Mod Arabic Lit U of Chicago Commons username: @ghenwa Twitter handle: profghen nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/hayek Following 36 members View ProfileActivitySites 1CORE deposits 7Following 36Followers 11Groups 10DiscussionsDocs Academic InterestsArab Middle EastLebanonLiterature and visual culture of the Middle EastModern Arabic literatureNationalismTransnationalismUrban studies Commons GroupsHCCultural StudiesDigital Middle East & Islamic StudiesIslamicate StudiesPlace StudiesUrban StudiesMLACLCS Global Arab and Arab AmericanCLCS Global SouthLLC ArabicTC Marxism, Literature, and SocietyTC Memory Studies Recent Commons Activity joined the group TC Memory Studies joined the group CLCS Global South joined the group TC Marxism, Literature, and S… joined the group LLC Arabic joined the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab Ame… AboutI study the literary and cultural formations of identity in the modern Arab Middle East (19thC – present), with a focus on Lebanon. My research is situated at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, critical geography and urban studies, history, and gender studies. Work Shared in COREArticlesWhitewashing Arabic for global consumption: translating race in The Story of ZahraMaking Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut NovelsRabīʿ Jābir’s Bayrūt Trilogy: Recovering an Obscured Urban HistoryExperimental Female Fictions; Or, The Brief Wondrous Life of theNahḍaSensation StoryBook chaptersThe Urban Gateway: Teaching the City in Modern Arabic Literature‘Carrying Africa’, Becoming Lebanese: Diasporic Middleness in Lebanese Fiction “Beirut” / The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City Other PublicationsSelected Translations: Banipal; The New York Times Blog Posts
