Haytham Bahoora

Haytham Bahoora is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. His research has explored the relationship between aesthetics and politics, the emergence and transformations of new genres and styles in modern Arabic prose and poetry, and the intersections of textual, material, and visual forms in Arabic cultural production. His work has appeared in the Journal of Arabic Literature, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, the Review of Middle East Studies, The Arab Studies Journal, and numerous edited volumes. His book Aesthetics of Arab Modernity: Modernism in Colonial Baghdad is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.