Faculty & Staff Research Series Presents a Research in Progress Talk with Adey Almohsen

Research in Progress Talk: “Minds in Exile: An Intellectual History of Palestinians 1945–70” by Adey Almohsen, 2023–24 Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University
Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 4:15 p.m.
Location: Burling First Floor Lounge

Please join the Grinnell College Libraries at 4:15 p.m., Nov. 28, as we present our final fall semester Faculty and Staff Research Series talk with Adey Almohsen, 2023–24 Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, for his Research in Progress talk, “Minds in Exile: An Intellectual History of Palestinians 1945-70.” Almohsen will discuss the rise and demise of democratic trends in Palestinian intellectual history. Refreshments will be served.

Almohsen is currently at Georgetown as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), He was the 2021–23 A.W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at Grinnell College’s Department of History and will be returning to Grinnell as a senior lecturer in history in fall 2024.

Almohsen studies the history of intellectual networks, ideas, critique, and print culture in the Middle East and North Africa from the 19th century to the present. Building on his award-winning doctoral dissertation, Almohsen is presently authoring a monograph, Minds in Exile: An Intellectual History of Palestinians 1945–70, set to investigate the contested, multivalent history of Palestinian thought (and its Arab discontents) in the wake of national ruin and to examine the ideas and lives of Palestinian poets, journalists, critics, and translators dispersed across Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Gaza, Jerusalem, Khartoum, and Kuwait. In terms of sources, Minds in Exile is primed on the largely untranslated and woefully neglected expressions of Palestinian (and Arab) writing and thinking as they appeared in magazines, newspapers, books, pamphlets, essays, scrapbooks, poetry volumes, correspondences, posters, and various ephemera. Almohsen’s research has consistently attracted funding from institutions and foundations in the Middle East, Europe, and the US.

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