Joseph R. Farag

Joseph R. Farag is Assistant Professor of Arab Studies at the University of Minnesota. He holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London where he served as Lecturer in Middle Eastern Literary Studies. Farag was a research fellow for Forum Transregionale Studien, affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin. His most recent publication, ‘Unacknowledged Pioneer: Gender, Nation, and Class in the Short Stories of Samīrah ʿAzzām’, appeared in Journal of Arabic Literature (Brill, 2014).