Angela Haddad

About

Angela Haddad is a Global Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ). Her research works across Arabic, Spanish, and French traditions and examines the ethno-racial and social imaginaries that emerged outside direct colonial rule but across and within disparate empires, nationalisms, and transregional encounters. She received her PhD from New York University in the field of Comparative Literature in August 2025.

Her dissertation “Arab Print Culture and the Mahjar in the Caribbean, 1900–1940” traces the literary and political connections between the Arab eastern Mediterranean and Caribbean, particularly through the writings of Arab migrants in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. Her essay, “Chronicling ‘the Death of the Arab’ in Colombian Literature,” appears in Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. She is also a literary translator from Arabic into English.

At #IAS_NUQ, Haddad will develop her dissertation into a monograph on Arab Caribbean textual production, incorporating fragile and previously inaccessible materials through a restoration and digitization initiative. She will also begin a new project on Arab travel writing and its role in shaping early South–South intellectual and aesthetic exchanges.