Contact
American University of Sharjah
Department of Arabic and Translation Studies
PO Box 26666
Sharjah
United Arab Em
ABOUT
Boutheina Khaldi is a Professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the American University of Sharjah. She holds a PhD (double major) in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). She is the author of two monographs: Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyᾱdah’s Intellectual Circles (2012) and Al-Muḍmar fῑ al-Tarassul al-Niswῑ al-‘Arabῑ (longlisted for Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Authors, 2015), in addition to a number of peer-reviewed articles. She is also the co-editor of three books in Arabic: Al-Adab al-‘Arabῑ al-Ḥadῑth (2010), Al-Wᾱfῑ fῑ Turᾱth al-‘Arab al-Thaqᾱfῑ (2010), and Turᾱth al-‘Arab al-Ma‘rifῑ (2010). Her novel “Ikhtibāl” (2019) was nominated for the Arabic Booker.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Comparative
Colonialism
Middle East/Near East Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
North America
Europe
Specialties
Comp Lit
Women's Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Persian (advanced)
Italian (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2008
| Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
| Indiana University
PhD
| 2008
| Comparative Literature
| Indiana University
Abstracts
Living Outside, Living Inside: Women’s Journey in Memory
Arabic Literature in a Digital Age: Transitional Narratives
Tweeting the "nahdah"?
Aziz al-Sayyid Jasim’s critique of Sufism in Modern Arabic Poetics
Nahda Literary Feuds: Was it an Issue of Adaptation or (Mis) adaptation?
An Ecocentric Reading of ‘Abd al-Raḥmᾱn Shukrῑ’s Poetry and Criticism
