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Invited Book Chapters
“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.
“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
“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.
“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.
“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.
“‘El barrio turco:’ The Cultural Politics and Textual Effects of Late Argentine Modernismo.”
Hispanófila, 163 (September 2011) 53-62.
“Literacy, Sexuality and the Literary in the Self-Inscription of Muhammad Shukri.” Middle
Eastern Literatures, 9:1 (January 2006) 23-45.
“Race/Class/Language: ‘El Negro’ Speaks Cuban Whiteness in the Teatro Bufo.”
Latin American Theatre Review, 39:1 (Fall 2005) 49-69.
“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.
“Language, Literary Legitimacy, and Masculinity in the Writings of Roberto Arlt”
Latin American Literary Review, 33:65 (January-June 2005) 109-134.
“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.
“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.
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, no. 2 (Forthcoming 2022).
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
“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.