Category: research

November 13, 2020

Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa (AUC Press)

Conference Paper — Bearing Witness to Securitized Subjectivities: Kwīr Arabic Digital Zines and Arrest Accounts in Morocco (Georgetown)

Phantom Limbs: Socio-Psychic Contours of the Maimed Body in ‘I used to Count my Friends on my Fingers’

November 29, 2018

Invited Lecture — Baghdad After Curfew: Memory and the City (UNM)

November 15, 2018

Invited Lecture — Modern Literary Appropriations of 1001 Nights (UCLA)

“Getting to Abu Nuwas Street” by Dheya al-Khalidi

Invited Lecture — “On the land or in the poem?”: the Poetical Andalusia of Mahmoud Darwish (UCLA)

Conference Paper — Translational Solidarities: Intersectionality, Women of Color Feminism, and Kwīr Knowledge Production (UCSB)

November 17, 2017

Conference Paper — Translational Solidarities: Intersectionality, Women of Color Feminism, and Kwīr Knowledge Production in Arabic (Baltimore, MD)

“The Moment the Cell Door Opened” by Ahmed Alfaitouri

“I used to Count My Friends on My Fingers” by Ahmed Saadawi

January 11, 2014

“For Every Fox, An End” by Zakariya Tamer

February 23, 2013

Inhumanities: Comparative Literature Conference, Feb 22-23, 2013 (UCLA)

January 1, 2013

National Allegory and the Parallax View in Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm’s Maṣīr Ṣurṣār

Intellectual Space in Naguib Mahfouz’s Thartharah fawq al-Nīl