About
Elizabeth Holt is Associate Professor of Arabic at Bard College, where she teaches courses at the Center for Ethics and Writing. She is a founding member of the Translation and Translatability Initiative at Bard, and author of *Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel* (Fordham UP 2017), and more recent articles on the cultural Cold War, Palestine, and comparative studies of energy and the humanities. Education
PhD in Comparative Literature and Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
BA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Work Shared in CORE
Articles
- Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut
- Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung
- “In a Language That Was Not His Own”: On Ahlām Mustaghānamī’s Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair
- “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67) (complete)
- From Gardens of Knowledge to Ezbekiyya after Midnight: The Novel and the Arabic Press from Beirut to Cairo, 1870-1892
- Cartography and Clandestinité in Leïla Sebbar’s Shérazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts
- “In a Language That Was Not His Own”: On Ahlām Mustaghānamī’s Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair
- “‘A Fabrication in Fabrication’: Ya’qub Sarruf’s *Fatat Misr* and the Fiction of Finance in Colonial Egypt”
- Narrative and the Reading Public in 1870s Beirut
- “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67)
Book chapters
