Areas of Expertise
Globalization and Transnationalism
Middle Eastern and Latin American Ties
Immigrant identities
Scholarship/Creative Work
"The Middle East in Brazil" Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Thematic Converstaion, Boston, MA, November 2006
"Arabs Writing the Brazilian Nation" Braziliain Studies Association (BRASA), Nashville, TN, October 2006
"Reading Brazil in Arabic" Latin American Studies Association conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Spring 2006
"Multiple Homelands: Heritage and Migrancy in Brazilian Mahjari Literature", forthcoming
Previous Posts:
Instructor, Intensive Arabic Language Program, Middlebury College: 2003, 2004, 2006