Ward Awad is a PhD student in the General and Comparative Literature department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the same department. His MA Thesis titled “’Who Are We Without Exile?’ Said’s and Darwish’s Memory of Palestine Rewriting the Individual-Collective Exilic Voice(s)” was concerned with understanding the nuanced insertion of individual and collective Palestinian identity formation in exile as they appear in Edward Said’s and Mahmoud Darwish’s works. His research interests primarily focus on identity, memory, and exile in mass tragedies, particularly literature of the Holocaust and Nakba. His PhD dissertation centres around the resistance of memories against feelings of internal displacement resulting from a lost past. He has been teaching several courses at the Hebrew University for almost four years: the two main courses are “Academic Writing” and “20^th Century Literary Theories.”