Ahmad Qabaha is currently working as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Chicago. His teaching and research focus on literature and art, with a particular interest in the paradigms of literary, historical, sociopolitical, and cultural displacement in the twenty-first century. His first book, Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing (Palgrave, 2018 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-91415-2), offers a nuanced comparative study of displacement in modern American and Palestinian literature. The book distinguishes between exile and expatriation, challenging romanticized notions of exile common in American literature and foregrounding the political realities of mobility in a post/colonial context. Qabaha’s work listens attentively to voices that have long been marginalized—especially Palestinian perspectives—while charting the traumas and tensions that emerge through truly comparative literary analysis. Qabaha is also co-editor of Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance (Liverpool University Press, 2021 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781800348271), a collection that explores how Palestinian writers and artists reimagine memory and resistance in light of ongoing spatial and temporal dispossession, regional instability, and the stagnation of the peace process. The volume introduces fresh critical approaches to understanding how post-millennial Palestinian literature responds to shifting political and historical conditions. Through his scholarship, Qabaha makes a distinctive contribution to both postcolonial and comparative literary studies, advancing critical frameworks that engage deeply with questions of voice, displacement, and resistance in the contemporary world.
