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Nahrain Al-Mousawi is currently a postdoctoral fellow living in Berlin and working on a book on migration across the Mediterranean. She spends her time between Germany, Morocco, and the US. She writes on popular and literary culture from the MENA region. She has had her work published in Al Jazeera, The National, Globe and Mail, and Chicago Tribune, among other publications. Twitter: @NahrainAM
The Arab Spring’s seismic impact on the region not only shifted the political landscape, it also sparked a new wave of cultural thought. It refocused attention onto Arabic arts and literature as a prism through which various scholars sought to understand ongoing social changes.
