- Professor and Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
My PhD is in Arabic Literature, the larger field being Middle Eastern / Islamic Studies, as the Institute at McGill. I have worked in the field now for 25+ years. My specialty is women's fiction, storytelling, and history, particularly in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. I have also worked in Arab Canadian and Arab American studies, particularly solidarities with Black Americans and Canadians. I have done several joint research projects on Black-Arab solidarity.
Also, I am a literary translator between Arabic and English and have published extensively on the politics of translation, translating women, and the dynamics of languages and language use.
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–presentProfessor and Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Education
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1998Oxford University, Arabic Literature
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