Biography
In addition to his current position as Director of the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities Program, Salah Hassan is a professor in the Department of English and core faculty in the Muslim Studies at MSU. His areas of research and teaching include postcolonial literature and theory, mid-20th century anticolonial intellectual movements, literatures of empire, and Arab and Muslim North American studies. His research projects have recently focused on representations of Arabs and Muslims in the media and also projects of Arab and Muslim self-representation. He is the author of Portraits of Sam Hallick: Modern Arab Presence in Early 20th century North America (2023). He is also the founder of the Muslim Subjects website and blog (2012-2020), and coordinated the following projects on that site: “Migrations of Islam,” “American Halal,” and “Journal/Islam.” Muslim Subjects was established with grant that he received from the Social Science Research Council in 2011. He produced the short documentary film, “Death of an Imam” (2010) and the feature length film “Migrations of Islam” (2014).
Works
Portraits of Sam Hallick: Modern Arab Presence in Early 20th century North America. London, Canada: Embassy Cultural House (2023)
“Passing Away: Despair, Eulogies, and Millennial Palestine.” Biography Special Issue 36.1 (2013): 27-50.
Editor “Baleful Postcoloniality.” Biography Special Issue 36.1 (2013).
“Infinite Hijra: Migrant Islam, Muslim American Literature, and the Anti-Mimesis of The Taqwacores. Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing.” Edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (Routlege: UK, 2012): 87-100.
“Displaced Nations: Israeli Settlers and Palestinian Refugees.” Studies in Settler Colonialism. Edited by Lionel Pilkington and Fiona Bateman (Palgrave: UK, 2011): 186-203.
“Bondage.” West Coast Line 64 (Fall 2010).
“Unstated: Narrating the Lebanese Civil War.” PMLA 123.5 (2008): 1621-29.
“Other Places: Said’s Map of the Middle East.” Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said. Edited by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, 2006. 221-28.
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