Hoda El Shakry

Hoda El Shakry is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago, focusing on twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural production from North Africa and the Middle East. She specializes in Arabic and Francophone literature, visual culture, and criticism from the region of the Maghreb. Her book, The Literary Qur’an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb (2020), examines the influence of the Qur’an and Islamic philosophical traditions on twentieth-century novels from Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.