Enass Khansa is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. Enass holds a PhD from Georgetown University, and was the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture, both at Harvard University. Enass works on premodern Arabic literature and is currently an editor at the Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) at NYU-Abu Dhabi.