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Susan Slyomovics

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Susan Slyomovics is the author of The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Epic Poet in Performance (1988) and The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998), winner of the 1999 Albert Hourani Book Award given by the Middle East Studies Association, and the 1999 Chicago Folklore Prize; co-editor of Women and Power in the Middle East (2001) and editor of The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib (2001).

Her areas of research and teaching are the expressive culture of the Middle East and North Africa, gender studies, the overlap between oral and written literature, approaches to hybrid literatures and bilingualism, and the relationship between visual anthropology and literature.