"How Do Identities Matter?"

Guest Speakers 2008

March 28, 2008

Sami Chetrit  

Assistant Professor for Hebrew Studies, Israeli culture and politics.

Department of Classical, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures

Queens College, CUNY

Dr. Chetrit is an internationally recognized critic and poet. He has published several collections of poetry, numerous articles, and his first novel appeared in Israel in May of 2007. Dr Chetrit is also a highly-regarded scholar of Hebrew language, literature, culture, education, and politics. His dissertation in Hebrew has been published in Israel (Am Oved, 2004). An Arabic translation was published in 2005, and an English translation entitled Mizrahim in Israel: Between Integration and Alternative, 1948-2003 is nearly complete.

For more information contact: mscarrie@umich.edu