Karam, Nicoletta

Nicoletta Karam graduated with honors from Swarthmore College, where she was an editor of the Phoenix and a correspondent for the New York Times. She has a degree in Arabic from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and a Ph.D in American history from Brandeis University. Her 2005 dissertation, "Kahlil Gibran's Pen Bond: Modernism and the Manhattan Renaissance of Arab-American Literature," explores how the liberating clash of Oriental and Occidental worldviews influenced early 20th-century Middle Eastern immigrant writers.