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Protest in the Age of Cyberatomism (2021)

PUBLICATION: Protest XX (2021) ABSTRACT How can we account for the exponential increase in worldwide mass protests over the past twenty years? While protests are

Nawal El Saadawi – Activist, Writer, and Physician

KEYNOTE “Celebrating Arab Women”International Conference UAENovember 7, 2020 Download PDF of the keynote slides

Hijabi Activism (2020)

PUBLICATION: Al Raida Journal Vol. 44, Issue 2, 2020 ARTICLE I was eating a veg dosa at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University cafeteria when a

Murad vs. ISIS (2019)

PUBLICATION: JMEWS 209 ABSTRACT This article analyzes recent Iraqi texts, some authorizing and others condemning rape as a weapon of war. The focus is on

The Syrian Revolution, Art and the End of Ideology (2018)

PUBLICATION: The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East ARTICLE In May 2013, Syrian graphic artist Sana Yazigi launched The Creative Memory of the Syrian

Arab Women Writers 1980-2010 (2017)

“Arab Women Writers 1980-2010” in Muhsin al-Musawi Arabic Literature for the Classroom: Teaching Methods, Theories and Texts London: Routledge 2017,

Nawal el Saadawi: Writer and Revolutionary (2016)

We live in one world under patriarchal capitalism. I am opposed to anything that divides us. The differences between people and cultures that literature erases, theory

Women and the Arab Spring: A Transnational, Feminist Revolution (2016)

Spanning the Middle East and North Africa region and using real cases, this chapter traces the trajectory of euphoria, backlash, and persistence that has marked

Creativity and Resilience in the Syrian Revolution (2016)

R/evolutions: Global Trends & Regional Issues In Syria, a country cowed into silence and compliance for forty years, a revolution broke out in march 2011.