Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

Dr. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is Assistant Professor in the Civilization Sequence Program at the American University of Beirut. She studied Oriental Studies at Oxford University (DPhil 2005) and Comparative Literature and Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin (MA 2000). Her research interests are in modern and contemporary literature and art in the Arab world, interrelations of word and image, politics and art, book art, collection and museum studies, gender studies, cultural memory and...See more

Dr. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is Assistant Professor in the Civilization Sequence Program at the American University of Beirut. She studied Oriental Studies at Oxford University (DPhil 2005) and Comparative Literature and Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin (MA 2000). Her research interests are in modern and contemporary literature and art in the Arab world, interrelations of word and image, politics and art, book art, collection and museum studies, gender studies, cultural memory and history. See less