Biography
Haidar Khezri uses language teaching, translation, literary criticism, and minority and refugee studies to help students, scholars and the broader public understand the complexities of the Middle East.
His research interests include Middle Eastern literatures and cultures, comparative literature (including Arabic, Persian, Kurdish and Turkish), postcolonial studies (internal colonialism), poetry, Middle Eastern minority cultures (Kurdish and Yezidi cultures), Middle Eastern cinema, Arabic, Persian and Kurdish as second/foreign languages, with fieldwork and archival research in Kurdistan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Morocco, Germany and Scotland.
As a scholar of languages and literatures, he’s published several books, translations of dozens of poems and journal articles and worked on major sponsored projects that have been discussed in academic circles and featured in national and international media, such as the Financial Times, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, La Tribune, Kurdistan 24, Reuters and The Washington Post.
He’s also written for media outlets, such as The Conversation and openDemocracy, and he has been interviewed about minority and human rights by various media outlets, such as Voice of America.
- College
- College of Arts and Humanities
- Department
- Modern Languages
