Omar Khalifah is an associate professor of Arabic literature and culture at Georgetown University in Qatar. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2013. In addition to modern Arabic literature, Khalifah’s research interests include Palestine studies, memory studies, world literature, and cinema and nationalism in the Arab world. His book Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2017, and his articles have appeared in Middle East Critique and Journal of World Literature.