Anna Galietti

Anna (pronouns: she/her) received her B.A. in French literature and Arabic language and literature from Dartmouth College in 2011. She was a Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) fellow in Cairo, Egypt from 2011-2012. She completed her M.A. in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 2020, and is now a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford. She also works as a freelance translator in French and Arabic; her first book translation, Between Memory and Power: the Syrian space under the late Umayyads and the early Abbasids, was published by Brill in 2023. Her second translation, Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. Her current project, a translation of a volume on Mamluk military tactics and strategy, is forthcoming with Brill.
 
Her dissertation research examines questions of literary canon formation through the lens of the early Islamic Arabic invective poetry of Jarīr and al-Farazdaq.