Abdel Malek, Kamal

Raised in Alexandria and educated in Montreal, Kamal Abdel-Malek is a novelist and a scholar. He has taught at Princeton and Brown universities. While at Brown University, he received the prestigious Wriston Fellowship for excellence in teaching and research. How people from different cultural backgrounds relate to one another without losing their authentic selves is what preoccupies Kamal's scholarly and fictional work alike. America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature, 1688 to 9/11 and Beyond (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011), examines Arab images of America: the unchan...