Education:

Languages:

Proficiency: Arabic, French
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Career:

Associate Professor of English

Harford Community College

Bel Air, Maryland

September 2004-Present

Freelance Writer, 1997 - Present

Managing Editor, The Baltimore Review, 2004-Present. See www.BaltimoreReview.org.

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PUBLICATIONS*

Books:

Books for Young Adults:

Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab-American Women’s Voices on Writing. Praeger Publishers, August 2004.

The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly . Short story collection, Finalist in AWP Award Series in Short Fiction, 2003. Forthcoming.

Women in Politics: Queen Noor. Chelsea House Publishers, February 2004.

Women in Medicine: Mary Eliza Mahoney. Chelsea House Publishers, September 2004.

The Life of John F. Kennedy. Chelsea House Publishers, October 2003.

Daughter of Fate: A Biography of Indira Gandhi. Forthcoming from Chelsea House Publishers.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Forthcoming from Chelsea House Publishers.

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Book Chapters:

"Introduction to Arab Feminism." Essay in Introduction to the Arab World, edited by Mohja Kahf. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

“It’s Not an Oxymoron: The Case of Arab-American Feminism.” Essay in Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Feminism (Seal Press, Summer 2002).

“Third World, Third Wave Feminism: The History of Arab Feminism.” Essay in Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern University Press, Spring 2003).

“Quiet Times: Peppermint Tea in Middle Eastern Culture.” Steeped: In the World of Tea (Interlink Books, 2004).
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Short Stories:

"An Afternoon in Jerusalem," Arab-American and Diaspora Literature. Edited by Nathalie Handal. Interlink Books, 2005.

“The New World.” Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction . Edited by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa. University of Arkansas Press, November 2004.

“Preparing a Face.” Orchid Literary Review. November 2004, Issu 4.

“Sufficing.” Mizna, Spring 2003.

“Back to the Surface.” New York Stories, Spring 2001.

“Nadia’s Fan.” Mizna, December 2001.

“East of the Earth, West of the Moon.” Short story, published in Guava Shakti: A Journal of Third World Women’s Literature. Summer 2000.
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Creative
Nonfiction:

“Ripe Figs and Ruined Proms.” Full Circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. Volume 5:1, Summer 2003.

“Looking Over Our Shoulders.” Baltimore City Paper. September 2001.

“The Inheritance of Exile.” Personal essay, published in Mizna, November 1999.


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Articles:

"Palestinian Women: Fighting Two Battles." The Monthly Review. May 2004.

“Carving Out a Niche: A Profile of Syracuse University Press.” Al-Jadid, Winter/Spring, 2003.

“In Black and White: Laura Wexler’s Fire in a Canebrake.” City Paper, December 30, 2002.

“How to Break Into Book Reviewing.” The Writer’s Journal. (forthcoming, Spring 2003).

“Balancing History and Ministry: The Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg.” The Living Church Magazine (Forthcoming, Spring 2002).

“Move Over Sherlock: Carole Nelson Douglas Recreates Holmes.” The Fort Worth Weekly (October 28, 2002).

“Human Capital Tops Campaign Priorities.” Johns Hopkins Public Health, September 2002.

“T.gondii: The Movie.” Johns Hopkins Public Health, September 2002.

“Community Action: The Injury Prevention Research and Policy Center’s Latest Initiative.” Johns Hopkins Public Health, September 2002.

“Voice of Peace: An Interview with Kathy Bergen.” The Mennonite, May 2002.

“Understanding the O ther Sister: The Case for Arab Feminism.” The Monthly Review, March 2002.

“It’s Feminism, My Dear Watson: Women Writers Challenge the Holmes Canon.” Forthcoming in The Mystery Review.

“Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: A Sense of Otherness.” Pages Magazine, January 2002.

“Hanging in the Balance.” The Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine. November 2001.

“School by the Pool: The History of SAIS.” The Johns Hopkins Magazine. November, 2001.

“Backlash: Revisiting the Veil.” Sojourner. October 2001.

“Beyond the Three R’s: Education in Baltimore.” Baltimore Magazine (Metroguide). September 2001.

“Looking Over Our Shoulders.” Baltimore City Paper. September 2001.

“A Career Fighting Injustice.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 29, 2001.

“Rome: A City for Romance.” The Baltimore Sun, Travel Section. May 27, 2001.
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Book Reviews:

Quitting America, by Randall Robinson. Christian Science Monitor, February 2004.

Earth and Ashes, by Atiq Rahimi. Baltimore City Paper, November 13, 2002

Only in London, by Hanan al-Shaykh. Near East Review, January 2003.

Mr. Potter, by Jamaica Kincaid. Baltimore City Paper, May 29, 2002.

The Red Dancer: The Life and Times of Mata Hari, by Richard Skinner. Baltimore City Paper, April 3, 2002.

The Binding Vine, by Shashi Deshpande. Rain Taxi Review of Books, December 2001.

The Vine of Desire, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Baltimore City Paper, January 2002.

Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, by Katherine Frank. BookPage, August 2001.

Riot: A Love Story and Show Business, by Shashi Tharoor (double review). Baltimore City Paper, August 2001.

Breeder: Real Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers, edited by Ariel Gore. Sojourner, August 2001.

Soledad, by Angie Cruz. Sojourner, July 2001.

The Map of Love, by Ahdaf Soueif. Calyx: A Journal of Women’s Arts and Literature. Spring 2000.
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Conferences

"Literary Journals." Baltimore Writers Conference. November 13, 2004. Towson University, Towson MD.

"Breaking Into Publishing," 18th Annual Summer Writers Conference, Rutgers University-Camden Campus. June 21-30, 2004, Camden NJ.

"Getting Published." The Business of the Book, CityLit Project, May 22, 2004, Pikesville MD.

“Scheherazade Spins American Tales: Writing by Arab-American Women.” Presented at the Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), November 16-17, 2002, Baltimore MD.

“Freelance Writing Strategies.” To be delivered at the Baltimore Writers Conference, November 22, 2002, Towson University, Towson MD.

“Arab Women: Writing Back.” Delivered as part of the panel on “International Women Writers” at the NEMLA Conference, Pittsburgh PA, April 16, 1999.

“The Sword Phillipan: Orientalism in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.” Delivered as part of a panel on “Women in Shakespeare” at the Graduate Literary Studies Conference, Temple University, November 1999

“Chopin, Woolf, and Beauvoir: Representations of the Beauty Shell.” Delivered as part of the panel on “Women in Modern Literature” at the Women and the Arts Conference at Rutgers University, May 1998.

“Traveling Orientalism: The Journals of Gustave Flaubert.” Delivered at the annual Rutgers University – Camden Research Symposium, March 1998.
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Awards

Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Award Series in Short Fiction, Finalist, for short story collection, The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly.

James Freeman Fellowship, September 1998 – June 1999
I was awarded this fellowship, in the amount of $11,000, by the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia to research various aspects of the Middle East peace process and to produce a document for the AFSC based on my findings.

Betty Harris Jones Award, May 1997
This is an award given by the Rutgers University English Department to “the graduating senior most likely to make significant contributions in future teaching and scholarship.
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* Note: This is a very abbreviated list of my publications.