Heba Arafa Abdelfattah is visiting assistant professor of Arabic Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Literature. She completed her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Georgetown University in 2017. Her research interest falls in the interdisciplinary area of humanities with special focus on modernity, religion and popular culture. She works with literary texts, archival documents, films, and artistic production to understand discourses of modernity. She is especially interested in issues of cultural production in the context Islamic legal traditions in MENA and global flows.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Democratization
History Of Religion
Islamic Law
Pop Culture
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Globalization
Identity/Representation
Modern
Modernization
Theater
Human Rights
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2017
| Arabic and Islamic Studies
| Georgetown University
