Zeina G. Halabi is a writer, editor, and scholar of modern Arabic literature. Her research explores the contemporary legacy of 20th-century emancipatory traditions, texts, and figures, with a regional focus on Egypt and the Levant. She is the author of The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual (2017) and essays and translations on topics ranging from literature to contemporary music and visual culture. She is currently Research Associate at the Orient-Institut in Beirut and the Arabic Editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal.
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