Our Faculty

Background

Select Publications

• “Reading Cultural Translation in Two ‘New Arrival’ Arab American Novels.” Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies. Eds David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023, pp. 263-272.
• “Together from Womb to Tomb: Sisters, Brothers, and the Nation in Mahfouz and Kanafani.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43, 2023, pp. 61-89.
  
• Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
• “Framing the (In)sensible in Egypt’s Post-2011 Satirical Novels in The Queue and Cats of the Eluded Year.” Journal of African Literature Association/JALA, vol. 15, no. 3, 2021, pp. 348-363.
• “The Aesthetics of Difference: History and Representations of Otherness in al-Nubi and Wahat al-ghurub.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics: New Paradigms in the Study of Modern Middle Eastern Literature, no. 35, 2015, pp. 75-99.
  
• Review of Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo by Mara Naaman. International Journal of Islamic Architecture, vol. 3. no. 1, 2014, pp. 201-4.

Education

• PhD, MA, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• BA, Cairo University

Research Interests

• The Contemporary Egyptian Novel
• Modern Arabic Literature
• Arab Diasporic Literature
• African Literature
• Postcolonial Studies
• Migration Studies
• Race Studies
• Gender Studies

Teaching Interests

• Modern Arabic Literature
• Arab American and Diasporic Literature
• Postcolonial Theory
• Translation Theory
• The Arabic Language