Karim Mattar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.  He is author of Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and co-editor with Anna Ball of The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).  He is currently at work on two new books on Palestine and the humanities.