Dr. Mostafa Hussein

Biography

Mostafa Hussein is an Assistant Professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, specializing in the intellectual and cultural intersections between Jews and Arabs in modern Israel and Palestine. His research focuses on how Arabo-Islamic culture has contributed to the development of Jewish thought in Palestine and Israel during the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. He explores perceptions of Jews in Arabic-speaking countries and the evolution of Jewish imagery over that time period. Currently, he is working on a book titled 'Islam and Jewish Culture in Palestine, 1881-1948', which examines how Jewish intellectuals utilized Islamic and Arabic sources to create a distinctive Jewish culture and the significance of engaging with Arabo-Islamic civilization during Palestine's nation-building process. His work, 'Refiguring Loss: Jews Remembered in Maghrebi Middle Eastern Cultural Production', forthcoming from Penn State University Press, investigates Jewish-Muslim memories in the context of loss and cultural production in the Maghreb and Middle East.

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