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Kamran Rastegar
Assistant Professor of Arabic Program
Director of Arabic Program

Education
B.A., Hampshire College (1992)
M.A. Columbia University (2000)
Ph.D. Columbia University (2005)

Research Interests
Modern literary interactions between Arabic, Persian and English literatures, the representation of violence and social trauma in contemporary literature and visual culture, postcolonial theory, film studies of Arab and Iranian cinemas.

Biography
Coming soon.

Major Publications

Books

• Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe: Transactions in Nineteenth-Century Arabic, Persian and English Literatures. London: Routledge, 2007. ISBN 0415425654

Articles

• "The Changing Value of Alf Laylah wa Laylah for Nineteenth-Century Arabic, Persian and English Readerships," Journal of Arabic Literature. 36: 3 (2005), 269-287. ISSN 0085-2376.
• "Trauma and Maturation in Women's War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India,"Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Volume 2, Issue 3, November 2006, 22-47.
• "The Unintended Gift: The Adventures of Hajji Baba Ispahani as Transactional Text Between English and Persian Literatures" Middle Eastern Literatures. 10: 3 2007, 251-271. ISSN 1475-2623
• "Literary Modernity Between Arabic and Persian Prose: Jurji Zaydan’s Riwayat in Persian Translation." Comparative Critical Studies, 4:3, 2007. ISSN 1744-1854

Book translation

• Mahmoud Dowatabadi, Missing Soluch, a Novel. New York: Melville House, 2007.