I work on ancient Greek literature and literary criticism, as well as the reception of Hellenism in early Islam. I received a BA from the Hebrew University and a PhD from Princeton, before joining Tel Aviv University in 2020. I am currently working to complete a manuscript devoted to the questions of why the Greeks began writing prose, and how it later became “prosaic”.
At the other end of antiquity I have written about a neglected Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics, and argued that Imruʾ al-Qays and Sībawayhi, the founders of classical Arabic poetry and grammar, respectively, died as Greek mythological heroes. More importantly, I wrote A Pile of Pals on the Grass (Carmel, 2022, in Hebrew), about a year I spent living as the only Jew in the town of Sakhnin in the Galilee and about its football team, the lone Arab team in the top Israeli division (Haaretz: "certainly not an academic book").
