Jonathan Smolin
|Professor
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Director, The Dartmouth Initiative for Middle East Exchange (DIMEX)
Acting Chair, Middle Eastern Studies Program
Faculty Advisor, The Middle East Initiative at the Dickey Center
Affiliate, Jewish Studies
I teach the Middle East from multiple perspectives and a wide array of sources, from classical texts to social media. I believe passionately that the classroom is a space of curiosity, open dialogue, and critical thinking. I am committed to building a learning environment where students engage deeply with different viewpoints and experiences. In my teaching, the Middle East is a site of nuance and complexity, not rigid categories and polarization.
Contact
6-3975
Reed, Room 320
HB 6178
Center(s)
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Education
- Ph.D. Harvard University
- M.A. Harvard University
- M.A. University of Chicago
- B.A. University of Chicago
Selected Publications
The Politics of Melodrama: The Political and Cultural Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser (Stanford University Press, 2025).
Translation and Introduction of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, A Nose and Three Eyes: A Novel with Foreword by Hanan al-Shaykh (Hoopoe, 2024).
"Arab Crime Fiction" in The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction, edited by Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Alistair Rolls (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 160-177.
Translation and Introduction of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, I Do Not Sleep: A Novel (Hoopoe, 2021).
Works In Progress
Open Access Digitization of Rose El Youssef Magazine, 1926-1970.