Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City
NY
11101
United States
ABOUT
Dr. Habiba Boumlik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia. She received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Strasbourg, France in 1996. She also holds an M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies and a BA in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Besancon, France.
Dr. Boumlik teaches Arabic and French courses. Her academic background and teaching experience include Arabic, French language and francophone cultures and literatures, Cultural Anthropology, Women Cross-Culturally, Culture and Society in the West, Middle Eastern History, and Arab Cinema. Prior to her current position at LaGuardia, she has taught in France, Hungary, Egypt, and in several colleges and universities in New York.
Her research interests encompass francophone literatures, North African immigration to France, Moroccan Judaism, and Berber identity.
Her current research examines the use of new media technologies by Muslim seculars and Berber cultural movements. She is particularly interested in self-conscious practices in social movements where cultural material is strategically used as part of political empowerment by various disenfranchised groups.
Discipline
Language
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cultural Studies
Development
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Maghreb Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Maghreb
Specialties
Berber Studies, Gender Studies, Maghrebi Studies,
Secular
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Berber (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 1996
| Anthropology
| University of Strasbourg, France
Abstracts
Teaching French to North African soldiers in the French Colonial Army
Filmmakers Multilocality
