About the Author

Nina Berman is Professor of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.

Reviews

". . . truly a timely and welcome treatise . . . . A seminal resource."
--C. L. Dolmetsch, Choice--C. L. Dolmetsch "Choice" (5/12/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"This wide-ranging study successfully brings together not only vast geographic regions but a multidisciplinary and multifaceted analysis of literary works embedded within their social, political, and economic context--a remarkable challenge."
--Douglas McGetchin, The German Quarterly--Douglas McGetchin "The German Quarterly" (5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"The great strength of this book is the scope of the historical survey, in terms of the period covered, the variety of source material (travel reports, high-brow literature, scholarship, polemics, art works, etc.), and the aspects which indeed comprise, as the author explains, literary, political, economic, and social developments." --Anna Akasoy, Journal of Islamic Studies--Anna Akasoy "Journal of Islamic Studies" (10/25/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"The title alone is ambitious, but the true scope of German Literature on the Middle East is yet greater: to situate a thousand years of literature, Nina Berman argues, requires the political, economic, social and material backgrounds of each era, area and empire of both the German-speaking and Middle Eastern peoples in question, as well as their complex, shifting relations. Her study marshals extraordinary amounts of diverse information to deploy a narrative of enduring and evolving tropes of the Middle East, presenting genres from grisly newspaper reports to travelogues, opera to ethnographies, showing continuities and discontinuities of the attitudes of elites and masses alike."
--Times Literary Supplement--Lydia Wilson "Times Literary Supplement" (2/26/2014 12:00:00 AM)