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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

Teaching areas

Classical and Modern Arabic literature, Arabic literature in translation, Arabic literary heritage, Arabs and the Other, Arabic composition, creative writing, TAFL

Research areas

Women's literary salons in Arabic, English, French, and Persian, classical and modern Arabic poetry in translation, al-Nahda, postcolonial literature, women's literary production, teaching Arabic, the Arabic press, gender and women's studies in the Arab region, Arab women's literary Assemblies, Classical and Modern Arabic Literature, teaching Arabic language, Pre-modern anthologies, memory studies, women's biographies..etc

Education

PhD, A double major in Arabic and Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington., United States
MA, Comparative Literature, Manouba University, Tunisia
BA, English Literature, Manouba University, Tunisia

Professional experience

Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2020 - Present)
Associate Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2014 - Present)
Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2008 - 2014)
Lector at Yale University, United States(2006 - 2008)
Lecturer at Duke University, United States(2005 - 2006)
Associate Instructor at Indiana University, United States(2002 - 2005)
Assistante at Manouba University, Tunisia(2000 - 2002)

Memberships

International Comparative Literature Association, 2019 - present
Memory Studies Association , 2019 - present
American Comparative Literature Association, USA., 2008 - present
Middle Eastern Studies Association, USA., 2005 - present

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2582

Website

https://aus.academia.edu/BoutheinaKhaldi

Dr. Boutheina Khaldi

Associate Professor
PhD, Indiana University, USA

Boutheina Khaldi is Associate professor of Arabic and comparative literature. She has taught at a number of renowned institutions, including Yale University and Duke University. She has published a monograph in English: Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyᾱdah’s Intellectual Circles (Palgrave, 2012), a book in Arabic: Al-Muḍmar fῑ al-Tarassul al-Niswῑ al-‘Arabῑ (2015) (The Implicit in Arab Women’s Epistolary Writing), a novel titled “Ikhtāl”, and co-edited three books: Al-Adab al-‘Arabῑ al-Ḥadῑth: Mukhtᾱrᾱt, Al-Wafῑ fῑ Turᾱth al-‘Arab al-Thaqᾱfῑ, and Turᾱth al-'Arab al-Ma'rifῑ, ), in addition to a number of peer-reviewed articles.

Publications

Boutheina Khaldi, A House in Words: Al-Ghuzuli as Author’s Alternate, Accepted, 2020
Boutheina Khaldi, Defamiliarizing Pilgrimage: Humor in al-Māzinī’s Journey to the Sacred, Submitted, 2020
Boutheina Khaldi, Betwixt and Between: The Graffiti Found in Adab al-Ghurabā’ by al-Aṣfahānī, Accepted, JAL, 2020
Boutheina Khaldi, Nāzik al-Malāʾikah and Edgar Allan Poe: Their Poetry and Related Poetics, Published, Journal of Arabic Literature , 51, 1-2, pp. 108-129, 2020
Boutheina Khaldi, Conflicts and Configurations in a Liminal Space: Hassouna Mosbahi’s Wadā‘an Rozalie , Accepted, 2020
Boutheina Khaldi, “Al-Thaqafah Istratijiyyah Difa'iyyah: Al-Ta'lim Namuzajan” , Accepted, 2019
Boutheina Khaldi, اختبال, Published, 2019
Boutheina Khaldi, Mayy Ziyadah, Published, pp. 393-407, 2018
Boutheina Khaldi, Gretchen Head, Nizar Hermes, Gretchen Head, Nizar Hermes, The Sufis of Baghdad: A Topographical Index of the City, Published, pp. 223-246, 2018
Boutheina Khaldi, Teaching Arab women’s letters, Published, pp. 44--59, 2017
Boutheina Khaldi, التطبيقات اللغوية , Published, pp. 421, 2016
Boutheina Khaldi, The Ambivalent Émigrée: Mayy Ziyadah's Rhetoric of Nationhood, Published, Journal of Arabic Literature, 47, 3, pp. 260-277, 2016
Boutheina Khaldi, المضمر في الترسل النسوي العربي (Longlisted for Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Author), Published, 2015
Boutheina Khaldi, Wilferd Madelung, Farhad Daftary, Wilferd Madelung, Farhad Daftary, Al-Rabitah al-Qalamiyyah, Published, pp. 6-11, 2013
Boutheina Khaldi, Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyādah's Intellectual Circles, Published, 2012
Boutheina Khaldi, Multiple Intellectual Engagements?, Published, Journal of Arabic Literature, 43, 2-3, pp. 197-226, 2012
Boutheina Khaldi, Microcosming the Nahdah: Mayy Ziyadah's Salon as a Hybrid Space, Published, Journal of Arabic Literature, 41, 3, pp. 1-41, 2011
Boutheina Khaldi, الأدب العربي الحديث: مختارات , Published, 2010
Khaldi Boutheina, Muhsin Al-Musawi, Boutheina Khaldi, Boutheina Khaldi, الوافي في تراث العرب الثقافي, Published, 2010
Boutheina Khaldi, Muhsin Al-Musawi, Khaldi Boutheina, Khaldi Boutheina, تراث العرب المعرفي, Published, 2010
Boutheina Khaldi, Majd al-Mallah, Coeli Fitzpatrick, Majd al-Mallah, Coeli Fitzpatrick, Assia Djebar, Published, pp. 52-57, 2009
Boutheina Khaldi, Majd al-Mallah, Coeli Fitzpatrick, Majd al-Mallah, Coeli Fitzpatrick, Rashid Boudjedra, Published, pp. 40-45, 2009
Boutheina Khaldi, Epistolarity in a Nahdah Climate: The Role of Mayy Ziyadah's Letter Writing, Published, Journal of Arabic Literature, 40, 1, pp. 1-34, 2009
Boutheina Khaldi, Midnight Tales: A Woman's Journey Through the Middle East, Published, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 3, 2, pp. 118-119, 2007
Boutheina Khaldi, Literature and Nation in the Middle East. Eds. Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. vii+ 264 pp., Published, Journal of Arabic Literature, 37, pp. 2, 2006
Boutheina Khaldi, Reading Iraq: Culture and power in conflict., Published, 2006

Conference Presentations

Boutheina Khaldi, Literary Translation from English into Arabic, Tarjim, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February, 2020
Boutheina Khaldi, Academic Programmes for Teaching Translation from and into Arabic, Word to the World, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, November, 2019
Boutheina Khaldi, Nahḍa Literary Feuds: Famous Arab Intellectuals in Court, Mediation: Approaches to Conflict Resolution , Istanbul, Turkey, November, 2019
Boutheina Khaldi, The Arab Islamic City, Arab German Academy for Science and Humanities Summer School, Venice, Italy, October, 2019
Boutheina Khaldi, Graffiti in al-Aṣfahānī’s Adab al-Ghurabā', International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Macau, China, August, 2019
Boutheina Khaldi, Jurjī Zaydān and Muṣṭafā Ṣādiq al-Rāfi‘ī: Canon Formation and the Arabic Literary Curriculum, Conceptions and Configurations of the Arabic Literary Canon, Paris, France, June, 2019
Boutheina Khaldi, Rewriting Gulf War through Magical Realism, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Washington DC, United States, March, 2019
Boutheina Khaldi, Defamiliaryzing Travelogue: Al-Mazini’s Journey to the Sacred, Storytelling, Travel Writing, and Seafaring from Cross-culture Perspectives, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, November, 2018
Boutheina Khaldi, Al-Amn al-Thaqafi: Istratijiyyah Difa‘iyyah, Al-Amn al-Thaqafi, Amman, Jordan, September, 2018
Boutheina Khaldi, The Anthologist as Other Author's Double, American University of Beirut (AUB). Lebanon., Beirut, Lebanon, May, 2018
Boutheina Khaldi, Humor as a Destabilizing Art Form in the Arab World, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), University of California, Los Angeles, California. USA, Los Angeles, California, United States, March, 2018
Boutheina Khaldi, Al-Mudmar fi al-Tarassul al-Niswi, Mohammad V University of Rabat, Morocco. Invited Lecture, Rabat, Morocco, February, 2018
Boutheina Khaldi, Mayy Ziyada's Salon as a 'Modernity' Dynamic, Arabic Studies Seminar, Invited Lecture, New York, New York, United States, November, 2017
Boutheina Khaldi, Al- Urjῡzah as a Viable Adab Medium, Adab as an Interdisciplinary Pursuit, New York, New York, United States, April, 2017
Boutheina Khaldi, (Re) Writing One's Own "History": Why Not a Sīrah Proper?, The Asian Conference on Literature, Kobe, Japan, Kobe, Japan, March, 2017
Boutheina Khaldi, Strategies in Teaching Classical Arabic Poetry, Teachers' Training College, Dubai. Invited Speaker, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March, 2017
Boutheina Khaldi, The Intermingling of Genres in l-Asfahani's The Strangers, Transgression and Invention: Language, Genres, and Interarts in Modern Arabic Poetry, Invited talk, Washington DC, United States, October, 2016
Boutheina Khaldi, Arab Women's Salons, New York University Abu Dhabi. UAE. (Invited with honorarium), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, April, 2016
Boutheina Khaldi, Al-ʿĀmmiyya in Classical and Modern Debates, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Harvard University, Boston. USA., Boston, United States, March, 2016
Boutheina Khaldi, Investing in Arabic: United Arab Emirates as an Example, Investing in Arabic Language: Reality and Expectations, Constantine, Algeria, November, 2015
Boutheina Khaldi, Fadwa Tuqan's Poetics of Writing, Modern Arabic Poetry and Theory. Invited talk, Washington DC, United States, October, 2015
Boutheina Khaldi, The War on the Maristan: An Inmate's Narrative, American Comparative Literature Association, Washington, United States, March, 2015
Boutheina Khaldi, The Critique of Sufism in Modern Arabic Poetics, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington DC, United States, November, 2014
Boutheina Khaldi, Chair of a session on Arabic Literature, Mapping Arabic Heritage (ATS-BRISMES), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, April, 2014
Boutheina Khaldi, The Sufis of Baghdad: Aziz al‐Sayyid Jasim's Reading of a City, The City in Pre‐Modern and Modern Arabic Literature. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), New York, United States, March, 2014
Boutheina Khaldi, The Ambivalent Emigrée: Mayy Ziyadah's Rhetoric of Nationhood, Arabic Literature: Migration, Diaspora, Exile, Estrangement, New York, United States, November, 2013
Boutheina Khaldi, The Blood of the Poet in Translation: Between Cocteau and al‐Bayati, American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, Canada, February, 2013
Boutheina Khaldi, Tweeting the 'Nahda', Annual Conference for Middle East Studies Association, Washington DC, United States, December, 2011
Boutheina Khaldi, Imprinting Women of the Public: From Nahda to Revolution, Teaching Arab Intellectual Thought and the Changing Role of the Literati, New York, United States, May, 2011
Boutheina Khaldi, Teaching Arabic at AUS, Teaching Arabic for Arabs at the college level (Invited with honorarium), Doha, Qatar, April, 2011
Boutheina Khaldi, Arabic Poetry in a Digital Age, Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California, United States, November, 2010
Boutheina Khaldi, Teaching the Imperatives of Love in Arabic, Magic in Clarity: Teaching Arabic literature, New York, United States, May, 2010
Boutheina Khaldi, Living. Outside, Living Inside: Women's Journeys in Memory, Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, November, 2009
Boutheina Khaldi, Teaching Arabic through Film, The New School for General Studies, New York, United States, May, 2009
Boutheina Khaldi, Engaging the Public Sphere: Mayy Ziyadah's Salon as an Arab Nahdah Model, American Comparative Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, March, 2009
Boutheina Khaldi, Female Imagery in Khalil Hawi's Poetry, Khalil Hawi wa Tatawwur al-Shi'r al-Hadith, Beirut, Lebanon, June, 2007
Boutheina Khaldi, How to Teach al- Maqamat, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, May, 2005

Grants and sponsorships

Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Stamford, UK and Manouba University, Tunisia, 1997

Awards and Honors

Received, Guinness World Record (GWR) for the largest simultaneous book signing, Sharjah International Book Fair, 2019
Received, Sabbatical Leave Award, 2019
, Best Arabic Instructor Award, Indiana University. USA., 2005
, Amin Zaki Scholarship for the Best Arabic Graduate Student, Indiana University, USA., 2004
Received, Graduate Assistantship Award, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Indiana University, 2002

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