Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is a professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the American University of Beirut. She is the author of An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948 (Columbia University Press 2024), Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art (Reichert 2012), and Geschichten über Geschichten: Erinnerung im Romanwerk von Elias Khoury (Reichert 2001). She is the co-editor of The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual (Cambridge University Press 2021), Rafa Nasiri: Artist Books (Skira 2016), Archives, Museums, and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (Routledge 2012), and Helmut Mejcher. Zeithorizonte im Nahen Osten: Studien und Miszellen zur Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert (LIT 2012).