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Max Shmookler

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Max Shmookler

Max Shmookler received his PhD in Arabic literature and Middle Eastern history from Columbia University in 2020. His work focuses on trends in contemporary Sudanese literature and, more broadly, the place of Arabic as a language of thought, rhetoric, and religiosity in Sahelian Africa. He lived for many years in Cairo and traveled widely in the Middle East.

Articles by Max Shmookler

Biting their Mother Tongue: Three Sudanese Short Stories about Estrangement
By Max Shmookler
Arabic is a language of literary culture in Khartoum and other urban centers but a language of profound violence elsewhere in the country.
Conjunctions
By Nagi Al-Badawi
President Numiri's military vehicles were crossing over the playground of doves.
Translated from Arabic by Max Shmookler & Najlaa Eltom
Multilingual
A Condition
By Adil al-Qassas
The only thing that’s left is the noose itself.
Translated from Arabic by Max Shmookler & Najlaa Eltom
Multilingual
Isolation
By Sabah Babiker Ibraheem Sanhouri
Perhaps, at the least, I would remember who I was.
Translated from Arabic by Max Shmookler & Najlaa Eltom
Multilingual