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Ammiel Alcalay
Faculty Profile

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http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/cmal/faculty/ammielalcalay.html

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center

Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures, Queens College; Comparative Literature; Program in Medieval Studies, CUNY Graduate Center

Selected Publications:

  • After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

  • the cairo noteboooks (Singing Horse Press, 1993).

  • Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing (City Lights, 1996).

  • Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinovic, translated from Bosnian (City Lights, 1998).

  • Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays, 1982-1999 (City Lights, 1999).

Recent Publications:

  • from the warring factions (Beyond Baroque, 2002).

  • Nine Alexandrias by Semezdin Mehmedinovic, translated from Bosnian (City Lights, 2003).

Forthcoming Publications:

  • Politics and Imagination (book of essays).

  • Outcast, a novel by Shimon Ballas, translated from Hebrew (City Lights Press).

 

 

  

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