About

Nada Saab

Associate Professor of Arabic Studies

Dr. Nada Saab is an associate professor of Arabic studies in the Department of Communication, Arts and Languages, and an affiliate of the Comparative Literature Program. 

Her interest in Arabic literature seeks to find intersections between the medieval Arabic adab (belles-lettres) tradition and modern Arabic literature, while recognizing that the latter has consciously sought to form a complex nexus of relations with its own heritage and with world literature more generally. She sees texts not as isolated texts but as multi-faceted products of the literary tradition and specific cultural moments that produced them. Fascinated by the inner working of texts and their aesthetic nature, she traces the multiplicity of layers and meanings that lie within them, whether historical, philosophical or intertextual. Her view to literature contributes to a rising trend among scholars of Arabic Studies and comparatists who are exploring the contours of Arabic literature in its varied traditions and who are tracing new links with world literature.