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Denijal Jegić is co-editor of Muftah’s Israel/Palestine and Levant pages. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar, and has studied and conducted research within the fields of American Studies, Anglophone, Francophone, and World Literature, Linguistics, and Social and Political Sciences in Germany, Canada, Palestine, Cyprus, and in Lebanon, where he has been based for the past years. Denijal has published several academic and journalistic papers, given lectures, and participated in conferences in North America, the Middle East, and Europe. He speaks English, German, Spanish, Arabic, French, and Croatian/Serbian. In 2018, Denijal completed his PhD degree at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). His dissertation, “Trans/Intifada. The Politics and Poetics of Intersectional Resistance,” combines historiographic, political, cultural, and literary analyses of subaltern articulations of resistance. 

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