Tahia Abdel Nasser, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature, published a new book, Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). The book examines cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Drawing upon Latin American and Arabic novels, travelogues, memoirs, short stories and chronicles from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq,  Abdel Nasser shows how cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world cemented historical and diplomatic ties.

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