Tarek El-Ariss (PhD Cornell - 2004) is the James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. His research interests include contemporary Arabic literature, visual culture, and new media; 18th- and 19th-century French and Arabic philosophy and travel writing; and literary theory. He is author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (2013) and Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (2019), and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (2018). In 2021, he received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete his new book, Water on Fire: A Memoir of War (2024).