Comparative Literature

Ahmad Abu Ahmad is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, where he works across the modern and classical Arabic literary traditions with a focus on Palestinian literature and film. Ahmad's commitment to questions of sovereignty and violence in Israel/Palestine inform his current research, which examines the intersections of space, language, and memory and attests to the complex politics of linguistic and (inter)cultural contact zones in the project of settler-colonial state-building. For him, language functions as a contact zone and a site of asymmetric force and violence, where translation offers not only a rubric for close textual analysis, but an expanded mode of circulation of meaning both within and outside text.

Education:

B.A. in English Literature, Tel Aviv University, 2018
LL.B. in Law, Tel Aviv University, 2018  

Languages:

Arabic, English, Hebrew