Staff Profile

“Breathing Life into Cookbooks: The Place of Personal Reflections” 20-21 August 2022 – London/Online. Conference organized by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research.

 “Feeding Words with Sugar: Resurrecting Palestine in Children's Picture Books from Egypt.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), April 2021.

 “Muslim Women Writers between Persistence and Precarity.” Round Table. Modern Language Association (MLA), Washington State, Seattle, January 2021.

“The Memory of Latifa Al-zayyat between Influence and Ambivalence.” in a pre-publishing book launch. Seminar title: “Memory, Voice, and Identity: Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East.” The seminar is sponsored by the Social Affairs Journal and Postcolonial/Decolonial Thought Group and organized by Dr. Siri Gamage. December 20, 2020.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EixEliemOeI&fbclid=IwAR10TYAx21fawc6tcXiWeukAnQoLJWl5qUCfffLIGOq5SqYO1lrEzN5mA-Y

“Behind Lock and Key: Arab Women writers unlocking the History of the Nakba.”  Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), 2020.

“God Help the Mother: Maternal Narration in Recent Novels by Toni Morrison.” Al-Alsun International conference, March 2018.

 “Teaching Literature/Teaching Ecology: A CLIL-based approach" in the 23rd TESOL Arabia International Conference, Dubai, co-facilitated by Mona Said. March 2017

 “'That they May Recognize Each Other': The Quran as an Intertext in the works of Mohja Kahf.” ACLA, Utrecht, 2017.

 “The Teacher as Researcher.” a Keynote speech CDELT (Centre for Developing English Language Teaching), 24-25 October 2015.

“Bringing Flavors to Classroom: EFL and Cooking,” a workshop Co-facilitated at the 21st TESOL Arabia International Conference, Dubai, March 2015.

“Teaching English in the 21st Century: New Horizons,” a workshop facilitated at the CDELT Conference Ain Shams University, May 2014.

“The Other Side of Sports: Competition and/or Friendship in Piri Thomas’s 'Amigo Brothers'.” Conference on Literature and Physical Culture, Leicester, UK. April 2014.

“The Afterlife of Poe: Translating Edgar Allan Poe.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York, 2014 Annual Meeting.” (ACLA) entitled USA, 22 March 2014.

 “The Egyptian Afterlife: Translating Edgar Allan Poe in Egypt,” Academic Research Circle, Faculty of women, Ain shams University, October 2013. 

 “Western Feminism from Egyptian Perspectives,” Conference on Feminism, Influence, and Inheritance, Queen Mary University London 23 March, 2012

“Hybrid Imagination: The Road not Taken by Mohja Kahf.” The First International Postgraduate conference on Culture Literature, Anthropology, and History CLASH, Poznan, Poland 8 December 2011.

“From Teaching Revolutionary Literature to Initiating Literary Adaptation.” Humanities Alumni Circle Symposium, Faculty of Arts, Al-Minia University 27 November 2012

“Teaching Literature and Linguistics in Egyptian Universities after the January Revolution: New Perspectives, New Challenges.” Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, 12 May 2011

 “The Silent Mariner: George Eliot’s Silas Marner as a (re)vision of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 'The Ancient Mariner'.” Ain Shams University Conference “New Readings of old Masters: Recent Trends Literature and language.” 30 March 2003.

❑ INVITED LECTURES:

“Connecting (With) Literature: Comprehension Strategies in ECLT”. 8th Annual Liberal Arts Symposium Research and Creativity Convention: Re-envisioning the Comprehensive Reading Classroom: Different Courses, Same Concepts, 2022.

“Muslim Women Writers in American and the Quranic Intertext”. Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Webinar, November, 2021.

“Muslim Women in American”. Keynote speaker. International Conference English Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, Indonesia, July 2021.

“Translating Fahrenheit 451: The Rationale and the Challenges.” Ray Bradbury: A Post Centennial Celebration. American University in Cairo, April 2021.

“The Memory of Latifa Alzayyat.” Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies CSAMES, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, November 2020.

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 “Egypt: Modern Culture and Ancient Traditions.” The Arabic Table, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, March 2020.

“Education and Creativity.” Keynote Speaker. Annual Conference of the Department of English, Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University, 2019.

“Preparing for Exams/Preparing for Life.” Workshop, Tanta University April 2018.

“Innovative Methods for teaching Literature.” Faculty of Arts, Banha University 18 October 2016.

“A Comparative Perspective on Arabo-Muslim Feminisms,” an in-class talk, the department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The University of Miami, Florida, November, 2012.

“East-West Cultural Translation,” in-class talk, The University of Miami, Florida, November, 2012.

“Hybrid Imagination: The Muslim American Writer Mohja Kahf.” A public lecture, the University of Miami, Florida, November, 2012.

Facilitated a hands on Workshop on literature instruction techniques in the LT528 Teaching Culture and Literature course, November, 2016.

“Teaching Literature in Language Classes,” the University of Oregon Language Council, November, 2016.

❑ CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS

“Breathing Life into Cookbooks: The Place of Personal Reflections” 20-21 August 2022 – London/Online. Conference organized by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research.

 “Feeding Words with Sugar: Resurrecting Palestine in Children's Picture Books from Egypt.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), April 2021.

 “Muslim Women Writers between Persistence and Precarity.” Round Table. Modern Language Association (MLA), Washington State, Seattle, January 2021.

“The Memory of Latifa Al-zayyat between Influence and Ambivalence.” in a pre-publishing book launch. Seminar title: “Memory, Voice, and Identity: Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East.” The seminar is sponsored by the Social Affairs Journal and Postcolonial/Decolonial Thought Group and organized by Dr. Siri Gamage. December 20, 2020.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EixEliemOeI&fbclid=IwAR10TYAx21fawc6tcXiWeukAnQoLJWl5qUCfffLIGOq5SqYO1lrEzN5mA-Y

“Behind Lock and Key: Arab Women writers unlocking the History of the Nakba.”  Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), 2020.

“God Help the Mother: Maternal Narration in Recent Novels by Toni Morrison.” Al-Alsun International conference, March 2018.

 “Teaching Literature/Teaching Ecology: A CLIL-based approach" in the 23rd TESOL Arabia International Conference, Dubai, co-facilitated by Mona Said. March 2017

 “'That they May Recognize Each Other': The Quran as an Intertext in the works of Mohja Kahf.” ACLA, Utrecht, 2017.

 “The Teacher as Researcher.” a Keynote speech CDELT (Centre for Developing English Language Teaching), 24-25 October 2015.

“Bringing Flavors to Classroom: EFL and Cooking,” a workshop Co-facilitated at the 21st TESOL Arabia International Conference, Dubai, March 2015.

“Teaching English in the 21st Century: New Horizons,” a workshop facilitated at the CDELT Conference Ain Shams University, May 2014.

“The Other Side of Sports: Competition and/or Friendship in Piri Thomas’s 'Amigo Brothers'.” Conference on Literature and Physical Culture, Leicester, UK. April 2014.

“The Afterlife of Poe: Translating Edgar Allan Poe.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York, 2014 Annual Meeting.” (ACLA) entitled USA, 22 March 2014.

 “The Egyptian Afterlife: Translating Edgar Allan Poe in Egypt,” Academic Research Circle, Faculty of women, Ain shams University, October 2013. 

 “Western Feminism from Egyptian Perspectives,” Conference on Feminism, Influence, and Inheritance, Queen Mary University London 23 March, 2012

“Hybrid Imagination: The Road not Taken by Mohja Kahf.” The First International Postgraduate conference on Culture Literature, Anthropology, and History CLASH, Poznan, Poland 8 December 2011.

“From Teaching Revolutionary Literature to Initiating Literary Adaptation.” Humanities Alumni Circle Symposium, Faculty of Arts, Al-Minia University 27 November 2012

“Teaching Literature and Linguistics in Egyptian Universities after the January Revolution: New Perspectives, New Challenges.” Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, 12 May 2011

 “The Silent Mariner: George Eliot’s Silas Marner as a (re)vision of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 'The Ancient Mariner'.” Ain Shams University Conference “New Readings of old Masters: Recent Trends Literature and language.” 30 March 2003.