Yuval Evri is a professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies on the Marash and Ocuin Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. He is interested in identities that transgress national narratives. His work traces the blurred borderlines between Arab and Jewish culture and radically reimagines Middle Eastern history through this lens. Professor Evri is a cultural historian whose work investigates the intertwined histories and cultures of Arabs and Jews that have shaped the modern Middle East. At the heart of his research is a fascination with how identities are constructed, negotiated, and contested across linguistic, national, and cultural borders. His scholarship is driven by questions at the intersection of identity, language, culture, and power, engaging multiple fields including intellectual history, translation studies, border studies, migration studies, racial and ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies.
