Dr. Faraj Hamdan is a scholar of Arabic language, literature, and Middle Eastern cultural studies. His academic work explores intersections between classical and modern Arabic poetry, exile and identity in modern Arabic literature, and the dynamics of cultural and literary criticism in the Arab world.
Dr. Hamdan’s research engages with questions of displacement, belonging, and aesthetic modernity in Arabic poetics, offering a comparative lens that bridges classical traditions with contemporary expressions of Arab identity and experience. He has authored and edited several books and scholarly articles on Arabic poetry, exile literature, and cultural criticism, contributing to the dialogue between literary analysis and cultural theory in the modern Arab intellectual context.
In his teaching, Dr. Hamdan offers courses on Arabic language, classical and modern Arabic literature, poetics, and Middle Eastern cultural thought. His pedagogy emphasizes critical inquiry, textual analysis, and the exploration of literature as a space for cultural and intellectual encounter across time and geography.