EDUCATION
June 1991  Ph.D., University of Michigan. Dissertation: M. Jalal's Nineteenth-Century Translations of French Drama and Fiction: Transformation and Reception into the Egyptian Literary Tradition.

1982-83  Center for Arabic Study Abroad (C.A.S.A.) Program, The American University of Cairo, Egypt.

1982  M.A., University of Michigan, Arabic Language and Literature.

1979-81  Two years graduate coursework at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept of Arabic Language and Literature.

1979  B.A., University of Michigan, Near Eastern Studies.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2004 - present  Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

1998-2004  Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.

1991-1998  Assistant Professor, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Arabic Language and Literature, Dartmouth College.

1987-1991  Instructor, Asian Studies Program, Arabic Language and Literature, Dartmouth College.

1980  Teaching Assistant for course "The Contemporary Middle East," Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
CMENAS/Dept. of Education Grant for Development of “Arabic Across the Curriculum” Instructional Project, Summer 2005 -

Mini-grant: Institute for the Humanities, for visit by Israeli author David Grossman,
Spring 2005.

OVPR/LSA Discretionary Funds for Faculty Research: For travel and research to Israel/
West Bank, Summer 2004, for work on two projects.

CMENAS/Dept. of Education Grant for Development of “Arabic Across the
Curriculum” Instructional Project, Summer 2004 – Spring 2005.

Mini-grant: Institute for the Humanities, for Mideast Film Series, bringing
Egyptian film director Magdi Ali to campus for screening, Spring 2004.

LS&A Discretionary Fund Grant (Book Publication), Spring 2004

Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant, 2002 (with graduate student)

Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Fellowship 2000-01

Dartmouth Humanities Institute on “Cultural Memory and the Present,”
awarded fellowship for Spring 1996 term

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Research Grant, to complete
research and field-work in West Bank and Israel for book on “Contested
Symbols of Indigenousness in Palestinian and Israeli Literary and Political
Discourse,” Fall 1995 and Winter 1996

Council of American Oriental Research Centers Abroad (CAORC) Grant, for
travel and research in West Bank & Israel on “Trees and Rootedness” Book,
March-April 1995

Consortium for Language Learning and Instruction, Grant for Phase II of
Arabic Multi-Media Project to develop Arabic multi-media instructional
material, 12/94-12/95

Hewlitt Foundation, Grant for Phase II of Arabic Multi-Media Project,
12/94-8/95

Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation Travel Grant, (Israel/West Bank), for
archival and field research on “Trees and Rootedness in Palestinian and Israeli Literary and Political Discourse” project, Summer 1994

Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA III) Fellowship/Course for
Professors of Humanities and Social Sciences, American University in
Cairo, awarded for Summer 1994 (declined)

Dartmouth Faculty Research Grant, to research and film for “The Arabian
Nights in the British Christmas PantomimeTradition,” England, Dec. 1990 - Jan. 1991.

Fulbright-Hayes Department of Education Doctoral Dissertation Research
Grant in Egypt, England, and France 1985-86.

Ernest Abdelmessih Prize for Academic Work in Arabic Literature;
April 1984.

Foreign Language Aptitude Scholarship (FLAS) 1981-82, 1984, 1984-85.

Center for Arabic Study Abroad (NDFL Scholarship), 1982-83.

University of Michigan-Hebrew University Graduate Exchange Scholarship,
1979-81.

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Translation and Transformation in Modern Arabic Literature: The Indigenous Assertions of Muhammad 'Uthman Jalal, "Studies in Arabic Language and Literature" Series, eds. Alexander Borg and Sasson Somekh, Otto Harrassowitz Press, 2005.

Man of Defiance: A Political Biography of Anwar Sadat, (Collaborator/Co-Author) Raphael Israeli with Carol Bardenstein, Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, Barnes & Noble, 1985.

Articles
Encyclopedia Entry on Palestinian author Samira Azzam, for the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam, 2005 (at press).

"Figures of Diasporic Cultural Production: Some Entries from the Palestinian Lexicon," to appear in special volume of book series Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, eds. Marie-Aude Baronian, Stephan Besser, and Yolande Jansen, Rodopi Press (At press, due out January 2006).

"Cross/Cast: Passing in Israeli and Palestinian Cinema," for volume Palestine/Israel and the Politics of popular Culture, Duke University Press, 37 pp., 2005.

"Transmissions Interrupted: Reconfiguring Food, Memory and Gender in the Cookbook-Memoirs of Middle Eastern Exiles," in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 28, Number 1, pp. 353-387, Fall, 2002.

"Trees and Forests Reconsidered: Palestinian and Israeli Acts of Memory," in volume Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, eds. Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, Leo Spitzer, New England University Press, 1999.

"Threads of Memory in Discourses of Rootedness: Of Trees, Oranges and Prickly-Pear Cactus in Palestine/Israel," Edebiyat: A Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, Spring, 1998.

"Stirring Words: Traditions and Subversions in the Poetry of Muzaffar al-Nawwab," Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol.19, Number 4, Fall 1997.

"Matters of Non-Equivalence: Egyptianizing French Literature," Essays in the Art and Theory of Translation, eds. Lenore Grenoble and John Kopper. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.

"Territorialism and Desire in Palestinian and Israeli Discourses of Exile and Return," The EuropeanJournal for Semiotic Studies, special issue on "Territorialism and Desire," 1997.

"Raped Brides and Steadfast Mothers: Appropriations of Palestinian Motherhood," in The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right, University Press of New England, 1997.

"The Role of the Target-System in Theatrical Adaption: Jalal's Egyptian-Arabic Adaption of Tartuffe," in The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture, ed. Holland and Scolnicov, Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Reviews
Review of Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine, by Raja Shehadeh, Journal of Palestine Studies. 126: Volume 32, No. 2, pp. 106-108, Winter 2003.

Review of The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967, by Michael Dumper for The Boston Review of Books, October 1997.

Review of Egyptian Earth ('Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi) for IJMES (International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies), Winter 1994.

Review of My Grandmother's Cactus: Stories by Egyptian Women, tr. by Marilyn Booth, Middle East Journal, Autumn 1992.

Review of Diglossic Tension: Teaching Arabic for Communication, ed. by Dionysus Agius, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, July 1991.

Review of The Circling Song by Nawal al-Saadawi, Middle East Journal, Summer, 1990.

"Three By a Nobel Laureate," Review of three novels by Naguib Mahfouz in the New York Times Book Review, December, 1989.

Translations
"Bridge of Old Wonders" -- Translation of samizdat cassette poem (Jisr al-Mabahij al-Qadima, commonly known as Tel al-Zaatar) by Iraqi poet-in-exile Muzaffar al-Nawwab; [Transcribed and translated from hour-long performance of poem]. For volume Iraqi Poetry Today, No. 19, eds. Saadi Simawe, Daniel Weissbort, 2003, pp. 151-185. A North American Edition of this is being published, 2005.

Translations of poems by Murid al-Barghouthi, Izz al-Din al-Manasra, and Khairi Mansour in Modern Poetry in Translation (journal published in U.K.), "Palestinian and Israeli Poets" special issue; No. 14, 1999.

Translation of selected poems by Palestinian poet Michele Haddad, Jerusalem Quarterly, Number Forty, 1986.

Translated play The Writer on His Honeymoon (al-Katib fi shahr al-'asal) by Egyptian playwright Ali Salem, commissioned by playwright for use in performance of play in England 1982-83, and recently requested by producer for possible performance in New York (2003).

WORKS IN PROGRESS
Books
Cultivating Attachments: Palestinian and Israeli Discourses of Rootedness and Dispersion, (submitting to Stanford University Press, Cultural Memory and the Present Series). Submitting revised/completed manuscript Summer 2006.

Articles
"Fifty Years After: Marking '1948' in Palestinian and Israeli Film," in volume on Discourses of the Nakba, Eds. Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad Sa'di, Columbia University Press.

"Problematizing Discourses of Empathy and Analogy: The Holocaust in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict," submitting for upcoming issue of the journal Memory and History.

Reviews
Review of Crisis and Memory: The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative, by Ken Seigneurie, Weisbaden, Germany: Reichart, 2003. (Submitting review August 2005, to IJMES--International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Middle East Studies Association
British Middle East Studies Association (BRISMES)
Modern Languages Association
American Comparative Literature Association
American Association of Teachers of Arabic

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