Daniel Behar completed his BA degree in Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University (2010). He obtained a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University with a dissertation thesis titled The New Austerity in Syrian Poetry (2019). He later went on to receive a two-year Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College, where he was affiliated with programs in Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. He joined the Department of Arabic Language and Literature in 2021. Daniel specializes in modern Arabic literature, and specifically works on the literary and historical context for the rise of the modern prose poem in Syria. His work approaches this material by means of broad comparative frameworks such as translation studies, world literature, and comparative modernisms.