He is the coordinator of the www.imaje.msu.edu website. His areas of research include postcolonial literature and theory, mid-twentieth-century anticolonial intellectual movements, literatures of empire, and Arab North American studies. He has published articles in several journals, including Social Text, New Formations, Socialism and Democracy, Radical History Review, Research in African Literatures, and Middle East Report. Recently, Hassan co-edited (with Marcy Newman) a special of MELUS on Arab American literature. For CR, he has edited and co-edited special issues under the following titles: ?The Origins of Postmodern Cuba,? ?Terror Wars,? and ?Cultures of Occupation.? Currently, Hassan is completing a book tentatively titled Palestine in Theory.