Petrone Faculty Scholar at the University of Oregon. He recently completed his first book In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton 2016), and is currently writing a book on the travels of the Lumière Brothers film company across North Africa and the Middle East. Beginning in February, he will be an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Forum for Transregional Studies in Berlin and connected to CNMS at Philipps University in Marburg.