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Daniel Behar

Daniel Behar

Daniel Behar is a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, where he teaches Hebrew and Arabic literatures. His forthcoming book is about modern poetry and poetry translation in Syria. His Hebrew and English translations of Arabic poetry have appeared in several literary journals. icon

A Collapse No One Story Can Tell

By Daniel Behar

Ten years since the 2011 Syrian uprising, there has been a veritable literary boom of fiction writing from Syria. What does it reveal?

Resisting the Rhetoric of Disaster

By Daniel Behar

Ever since the Arab world achieved political independence, its great hopes for self-determination and freedom have been built up and razed down several times ...

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