Graduate Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. candidate
Thesis Title: A Linguistic Frame of Mind: ar-Raghib al-Isfahani and what it meant to be ambiguous
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Wolfhart Heinrichs
Roy Mottahedeh Khaled El-Rouayeb |
About
Alexander Key is a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Language & Civilizations at Harvard University and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of St Andrews.
In September 2012 he will be joining the faculty of Stanford University as an assistant professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature.
His interests range across the intellectual history of the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds from the seventh century, and Western political thought and philosophy.
He is a founding editor of New Middle Eastern Studies (http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/), where he has edited articles on femininity in 1920s Lebanon, and women Muslim leaders in Central Asia.
