Ghayde Ghraowi

Ghayde Ghraowi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Yale University. He works within the fields of Arabic literature and Islamic studies. His dissertation focuses on the reception and transformation of the Arabic literary tradition (or adab) in seventeenth-century Egypt. Generally, his research is concerned with the problems and methods of Arabic literary history: how modern scholars conceive of, teach, and appreciate the classical Arabic canon(s); and how these practices are equally subject to historical and institutional conditions as their objects of study. More specifically, he is interested in anthologies, the maqāma, biographical writing, the Quran and/in adab, humor and satire, and wisdom literature.

In the fall of 2020, he co-organized a workshop on Ottoman Arabic literature hosted at Harvard University. He also co-edited the special issue on the subject, published in Philological Encounters (2022). During the 2019-2020 academic year, he was a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Amman, Jordan. Prior to this, in 2018, he was the inaugural editorial fellow at Words Without Borders, where he co-edited the May 2019 issue on contemporary Arabic literature from Oman. He has also served as an editorial assistant at the Journal of Arabic Literature and archivist at the Jack G. Shaheen Archives at New York University. Currently, he is the managing editor at the Review of Middle Eastern Studies.