Dr. Behar specializes in modern and contemporary Arabic poetry and works in comparative frameworks of world literature, translation studies, and global modernism. Dr. Behar completed his BA degree in Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University (2010). He attained a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University with a dissertation thesis titled The New Austerity in Syrian Poetry (2019). He later went on to receive a two-year Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College, where he was affiliated with programs in Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. He joined the Department of Arabic Language and Literature in 2021.
Research Interests:
- Modern Arabic Poetry
- Translation Studies
- Syrian Culture and Arts
Contact
Department of Arabic Language and Literature
Faculty of Humanities, Room 6325
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem, 9190501
Recent Publications
- Socialist Realism in the Language of Ḍād : A Literary Identity for Syria, a Test-Case for World Literature
- From Tukhmah to Wamḍah: The Literary Forum at the University of Aleppo, Its Critical Enterprise, and the New Poetics of Minimalism
- Syrian literary culture in retrospect
- In the shadow-imagination: a brief literary history of Syrian poetry of witness
- Muhammad al-Maghut's Rhetoric of Sincerity: A Major Voice in Modern Arabic Poetry
- The Theatre of Saʿdallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual