Graduate Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
About
Professional Experience:
Co-organizer (with Jessica Andruss and Uri Shachar), “Borders in Jewish Thought”, an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Chicago, February 13, 2012. http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/borders/
Academic Editor, "Ha-Tehiyah ha-Shi‘it", the Hebrew translation of Vali Nasr’s "The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future". Zilla Elazar, trans. Tel Aviv: Yedi‘ot Aharonot, 2011. http://www.text.org.il/index.php?book=1104026
Conference Papers:
Liran Yadgar. “Beneath the Fetter of Edom, or in Arab Chains? The Conversion of Ibrāhīm ibn Sahl of Seville”. 'Mutual Perceptions: 26th Annual Middle East History and Theory (MEHAT) Conference'. The University of Chicago, May 2011.
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference
Liran Yadgar. “Tasliyat ahl al-maṣā’ib: al-Manbijī’s Consolation Treatise for Bereaved Parents” (in Hebrew). 'Death and Burial in Palestine and Around the World: Historical, Cultural, and Archeological Aspects'. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, March 2006.
