Mohammad Salama
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Director, The Arabic ProgramAssistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures DepartmentHumanities, Room 340Phone: (415) 338-1338Email: mrsalama@sfsu.edu
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Mohammad Salama is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Arabic Program at San Francisco State University. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, with a minor in film (2005). He also holds an M.A. in English Literature from the ‘Ayn Shams University- Egypt. His main areas of research are intellectual history and theories of Modernity, with an emphasis on comparative literary, social and cultural trends in colonial and post-colonial Europe and the Middle East. Salama’s scholarly interests include modern Arabic literature, Arab cultural identity, Arab visual culture, colonial and post-colonial thought. Salama has published numerous articles on comparative literature and modern Arabic literature and film in various journals, including Critical Sense, Journal of Arabic Literature, Pacific Coast Philology, , as well as Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Cultural and Intellectual Studies. Salama is currently completing an edited volume on German colonialism to be published by Columbia University Press in the fall of 2009. His book, Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun ( I.B. Tauris) will appear in 2010.
