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Desouky, Ayman A. El-

​​Associate Professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature. He studied English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo and the University of Texas in Austin. El-Desouky has been lecturing in Arabic and Comparative Literature since 2002 and was the Founding Chair of the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies at CCLPS from 2009-2012 as well as being co-founder of a pioneering program in Global English Literary Studies (launched in 2014) at SOAS, the University of London. In 1993 to 1995, he lectured on World Literature and American Literature at the University of Texas in Austin and from 1995 to 1996, he lectured on Arabic Language and Literature at Johns Hopkins University, where he also founded a new program in Arabic Language and Literature there and at Harvard University (1996-2002). El-Desouky is a member of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), the Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America (MESA) and the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) and has lectured widely on Hermeneutics, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory in Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East.