Shaul Setter is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines the question of collectivity in texts written in and about Israel/Palestine.
Shaul Setter
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Writing on Public Books
Islamic Desire
An Arab Melancholia seems tailor-made for the contemporary cultural wars between liberal humanists and Islamic fundamentalists. “Abdellah Taïa,” the book’s blurb declares, “is the first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco”—not only a Moroccan gay writer but the first one to write autobiographically about his own gay life and to be published in Morocco […]
