Yasmeen Hanoosh (2010) Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Ph.D. 2008
University of Michigan

Dr. Hanoosh received her Ph.D. in Arabic Language and Literature from The University of Michigan (2008). She specializes in the literatures and history of ethno-religious minorities in the Middle East, and also in Arabic literary translation. Her English translations of Arabic short stories have appeared in various literary journals and publications, including Banipal and The Iowa Review. Dr. Hanoosh’s translation of the Iraqi novel Scattered Crumbs (al-Ramli)won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize in 2002, and has been since excerpted in a number of publications and anthologized in Literature from the Axis of Evil: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Other Enemy Nations (2006).Dr. Hanoosh’s teaching interests include modern Arabic fiction, the politics of minority in the Middle East, and Applied Arabic literary translation. She is spending the academic year 2009-2010 in Berlin, Germany, as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg institute for advanced studies, where she will work on completing the manuscript of her book, The Politics of Minority: Chaldeans between Iraq and America. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Hanoosh has been teaching the Arabic language for several years at The University of Michigan. She has also taught as a visiting instructor at al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco (2003, 2005); The American University in Beirut, Lebanon (2004); The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA (2003); and Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA (2007-2008).

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Phone: 503-725-3522