Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Marquette Hall 008u
Department of English
1217 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee
WI
53233
United States
ABOUT
Ibtisam received a Master of Arts in Literary Studies and Cultural Theory and Certification in Middle East and North African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently a doctoral student and instructor of Foundations in Rhetoric, Composition, and Research at Marquette University. Her research examines transnationalism and migration, with a focus on gender, race, and the burgeoning field of Critical Muslim Cultural Studies. She is also a poet, with published works in a number of literary journals, including Blue Minaret Literary Journal, Cream City Review 42.2, Rigorous, The Nasiona, Pointed Circle, and Entropy Literary magazine.
Discipline
Interdisciplinary
Sub Areas
Anti-Racism
Gender/Women's Studies
Theory
Middle East/Near East Studies
Transnationalism
Islamic Thought
Cultural Studies
Globalization
Palestinian Studies
Visual Cultural
Geographic Areas of Interest
North America
Palestine
All Middle East
Specialties
Critical Muslim Cultural Studies
Gender, Race, And Ethnic Studies
Muslim Literature And Cultural Productions
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
English (fluent)
Education
MA
| 2016
| Literary and Cultural Studies
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Abstracts
Bint Bent: Embodiment, Gendered Trauma, and Arab Womanhood in al-Tahawy's The Tent
