Invited Book Chapters

“The Arab Novel of Latin America,” co-authored with Tracey Maher. In The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel. Ignacio López-Calvo and Juan E. de Castro, eds. Oxford University Press (2023) 348-65.

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“The Arab Gaucho: Historical Fictions and Fictional Histories.” In Sajjilu Arab American:
A Reader in SWANA Studies. Louise Cainkar, Pauline Homsi Vinson, Amira Jarmakani, eds. Syracuse University Press (Forthcoming 2022) 382-99.

 

“Writing on al-Andalus in the Modern Islamic World.” In The Routledge Handbook of Muslim 
Iberia, Maribel Fierro, ed. Routledge Press (2020) 598-619.

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“The Arab Novel of Argentina and Hispano-America.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Arab

 Novelistic Traditions.  Waïl S. Hassan, ed.  Oxford University Press (2017) 501-522.

 

“Migration and Diaspora.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture.  Dwight F.

 Reynolds, ed.  Cambridge University Press (2015) 293-311.

 

“Resisting Naming and Naming Resistance:  Arab-North American Feminists Anthologize”

 In Evolving Origins, Transplanting Cultures:  The Literary Legacy of the New Americans. 

 Laura Alonso Gallo and Antonia Domínguez Miguela, eds.  Universidad de Huelva (2002),

 137-154.

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters

“The Pliable Page: Turn-of-the-21st-Century Reworkings of Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés.” Latin American Literary Review 49:99 (Fall 2022) 2-12.

 

“On Becoming an Arab Argentine Writer: Juan José Saer’s La grande.” Review: Literature and

 Arts of the Americas, 52:2 (Fall 2019) 177-184. Invited submission for special issue on Arab

 Latin America.

 

“Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic: Gabriel García

 Márquez and Elias Khoury.” In The Global South Atlantic:  Region, Vision, Method.  Kerry

 Bystrom and Joseph Slaughter, eds.  Fordham University Press (2017) 165-185. 

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“The View from Beyond:  Diaspora and Intertextuality in Ilyās Khūrī’s Majmaʿ al-asrār.  Journal

 of Arabic Literature, 46:2-3 (Fall 2015) 193-215.

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“Orientalism Criollo Style:  Sarmiento, ‘The Orient,’ and the Formation of an Argentine

 Identity.”  In Orientalism and Identity in Latin America:  Fashioning Self and Other from the

 (Post)Colonial Margin.  Erik Camayd-Freixas, ed.  University of Arizona Press (2013) 44-61. 

 

“Reading and Writing an Egyptian Woman Intellectual:  The Politics of Literacy in the

 Autobiography of Nabawiyya Musa.”  Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 9:2

(Spring 2013) 4-31.

 

“Ali Bla Bla’s Double-Edged Sword:  Argentine President Carlos Menem and the Negotiation of

 Identity.”  In Between the Middle East and the Americas:  The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. 

 Evelyn Alsultany and Ella Shohat, eds.  University of Michigan Press (2012).  108-129. 

 Honorable Mention for the 2014 Arab American Book Award of the Arab American

 National Museum.

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“‘El barrio turco:’ The Cultural Politics and Textual Effects of Late Argentine Modernismo.” 

 Hispanófila, 163 (September 2011) 53-62.

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“Literacy, Sexuality and the Literary in the Self-Inscription of Muhammad Shukri.”  Middle

 Eastern Literatures, 9:1 (January 2006) 23-45.

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“Race/Class/Language: ‘El Negro’ Speaks Cuban Whiteness in the Teatro Bufo.”  

 Latin American Theatre Review, 39:1 (Fall 2005) 49-69.

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“Pechos de leche, oro y sangre:  las circulaciones del objeto y el sujeto en Cecilia Valdés.” 

 Revista Iberoamericana, 71:211 (April-June 2005) 505-519.

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“Language, Literary Legitimacy, and Masculinity in the Writings of Roberto Arlt”

 Latin American Literary Review, 33:65 (January-June 2005) 109-134.

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 “Exile Inside (and) Out:  Woman, Nation, and the Exiled Intellectual in José Mármol’s Amalia.” 

  Latin American Literary Review, 30:59 (January-June 2002), 55-78.

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“Custom-Building the Fictions of the Nation:  Arab Argentine Re-Writings of the Gaucho.” 

 International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4:1 (March 2001), 69-87.

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Annotated Bibliography

“Spanish American Arab Literature.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ben Vinson, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, www.oxfordbibliographies.com. 2019.

 

Reviews

Argentina in the Global Middle East by Lily Pearl Balloffet. Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies 9:2 (2022) 66-69.

 

Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution: The Arabic-Language Moroccan Novel, 1957–72

by Ian Campbell.  International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46 (2014) 822-824.

 

Women in Argentina:  Early Travel Narratives, by Mónica Szurmuk.

Latin American Literary Review, 31:62 (July-December 2003) 122-125.

 

Food for Our Grandmothers:  Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists, ed.

Joanna Kadi.  The Stanford Humanities Review, 5:1 (Fall 1995), 168-171.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

Women, Gender, and Stereotypes:  Argentina

Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.  On Line Supplement, Vol. VII No. 1.  July 2013

(4991 words).

 

Representation of Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Fiction:  Modern:  Argentina

Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. V.  Suad Joseph, ed.  Brill (2007) (1208 

words). 

 

Translations

“On Averroes’s Balcony,” co-translation with Nadia Naami. [“Du balcon d’Averroès,” 2007].

Abdelfattah Kilito. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, 75 (Autumn/Winter 2022) 41-56.

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“Tariq, the One Who Didn’t Conquer al-Andalus.” [“Ṭāriq alladhī lam yaftaḥ al-Andalus,” 1979].  Mustafa al-Misnawi.  Middle Eastern Literatures, 18:3 (December 2015) 236-39.

 

New paradigms, culture, and subjectivity. [Nuevos paradigmas, cultura y subjetividad, 1994]. 

With co-translators Sean Kelly and Graciela Smith.  Jorge Schnitman and Dora Fried

Schnitman, eds.  Cresskill, N.J.:  Hampton Press, 2002. 

 

Non-Refereed Essays

“The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives: A Synopsis,” Middle East Report 284/285 (Fall/Winter 2017 [Released in April 2018]) 55-57. Invited essay.

 

“Today’s Syrian Refugees and Middle Eastern Migration to Latin America,” Americas Quarterly

 10:1 (2016). Invited essay.