Mosab Abu Toha, who was a 2019–2020 fellow in Harvard’s Scholars At Risk program and a visiting poet in our department, received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. His essays in The New Yorker offered an intimate portrayal of life in Gaza amidst ongoing conflict, which the Pulitzer committee commended for combining “deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience.”
Abu Toha, a poet and educator, founded Gaza’s first English-language library. He is the author of Forest of Noise and Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, the latter a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of an American Book Award.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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