Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
162B Louis A. Simpson International Building
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Princeton
NJ
08544
United States
ABOUT
Centering Black epistemologies on race, ethnicity, and religion, my research studies Afro-Arab race consciousness through a Black diasporic lens in literature. I use literature—primarily the novel—to identify the ways in which religion, culture, and politics intersect and inform nineteenth and twentieth century Black and non-Black African novelists’ literary discourse on race and ethnicity, slavery, Arabness, and Blackness vis-à-vis Egypt.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
African Studies
Critical Race Theory
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Egypt
North America
Specialties
African Diaspora
Race, Religion, And Literature
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
| Graduate Theological Union
MA
| 2016
| Islamic Studies
| Graduate Theological Union
Abstracts
The Race Question: Egyptian Anti-Colonialist Nationalism on the Periphery of the African Diaspora
Cultural Identity, Race and Modern Egypt's Location in the African Diaspora
… And Bid Him Sing: A Tale of Longing and (un)Belonging Centering 1960s Cairo in African Diasporic Memory
Fateful Triangles: Locating Egyptian Race-Consciousness in Bahā’ Tāher’s Wāhat al-ghurūb
The Docile, the Vulgar, and the Beautiful: Depictions of Black, Egyptian, and White Women in the Afro-Arab and African Diasporic Novel
