Joseph R. Farag

Joseph R. Farag is Assistant Professor of Modern Arab Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Politics and Palestinian Literature in Exile, published in 2017, and his scholarly writings have appeared in the Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle East Literatures, and the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. Farag's research focuses on the intersection between modern Palestinian cultural production and Palestinian history and politics. He also serves as board president of New Arab American Theater Works, a Minneapolis-based collective of Arab and Arab American theater artists.