Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
The American University of the Middle East
P.O.Box: 220 Dasman
Egaila, Kuwait
15453
Kuwait
ABOUT
Assistant professor of English at the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait. Among his published, translated books (into Arabic) are Louis Couperus’s novel Eline Vere (2015); Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature (2014); and Belzoni’s Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia (2005). His current research focuses on Arab Nah?ah, Harlem Renaissance, modern Arab literature, and travel writing. Recently, he developed special interest in the literature and the arts in Kuwait and the Gulf Region at large.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Gulf
Specialties
The Arab Nahda, Harlem Renaissance, Modern And Con
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
German (intermediate)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2013
| English Language and Literature
| Ain Shams University
Abstracts
Egyptomaniac Egyptians? Ancient Egypt in the Popular Literary Imaginary in Twentieth Century Egypt
