Olivia Harrison

Olivia Harrison holds a PhD from Columbia University and teaches Mediterranean Studies at the University of Southern California. She is currently working on two books on the question of Palestine in North Africa and France, respectively, and has forthcoming and published articles in Postcolonial Text, Social Text, and PMLA. She is also co-editing a translation of selected texts from the literary and political Moroccan journal Souffles-Anfas.

How to Live Together: Lessons from Algeria

Albert Camus’s Algerian Chronicles, Pierre Bourdieu’s photo-book Picturing Algeria, and Denis Guénoun’s moving family biography, A Semite, invoke lessons on how to live together well....

OLIVIA HARRISON

NONFICTION

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

Deconstruction, Religion, Politics

The political limits and potential of deconstruction....

OLIVIA HARRISON

Judith Butler and the Cause of the Other

ISRAEL'S RECENT MILITARY ASSAULT on Gaza serves as a reminder of the continuing urgency of the Palestinian question, which has been a topic of worldwide debate since the June 1967 war and returns to the center stage of global politics whenever ...

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