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Deborah A. Starr (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 2000) is Associate Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Her interests include contemporary Egyptian culture, Mizrahi literature and culture, minority communities of the Middle East, Middle Eastern cinema, cosmopolitanism, and urban studies. Her book, /Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Culture, Society, and Empire/ (forthcoming Routledge, 2009) investigates the close relationship between the cosmopolitan and empire through an analysis of literary and filmic texts that represent Egypt’s former diversity. She is editing an interdisciplinary and pan-historic collection of essays, /Cosmopolitan Alexandria/. With Sasson Somekh, she is also co-editing a volume of writings by essayist Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff. She is currently working on another book on the place of foreigners and minorities in the Egyptian film industry and their role in shaping the national imaginary in the period from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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