Faculty

Profile

College / Department

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 Middle Eastern Studies And Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington., United States, 2008

MA, Comparative Literature, Manouba University/Indiana University, Tunisia, 2000

BA, English Literature, Manouba University, Tunisia, 1998

Professional experience

Professor, Department Of Arabic And Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2020 - Present

Associate Professor, Department Of Arabic And Translational Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2014 - 2020

Assistant Professor, Department Of Arabic And Translational Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2008 - 2014

Lector, Department Of Near Eastern Languages And Civilizations, Yale University, New Haven, United States, 2006 - 2008

Lecturer, Department Of Asian And African Languages And Literatures, Duke University, North Carolina, United States, 2005 - 2006

Associate Instructor, Department Of Near Eastern Languages And Cultures, Indiana University, United States, 2002 - 2005

Assistante, Department Of English, Manouba University, Tunisia, 2000 - 2002

Memberships

International Comparative Literature Association, ICLA, International, March 2019

Memory Studies Association, MSA, International, March 2019

American Comparative Literature Association, USA., January 2008

Middle Eastern Studies Association, USA., July 2005

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2582

Dr. Boutheina Khaldi

Professor

PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington., United States

Boutheina Khaldi is a Professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the American University of Sharjah. She holds a PhD (double major) in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). She is the author of Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyᾱdah’s Intellectual Circles (Palgrave, 2012), Al-Muḍmar fῑ al-Tarassul al-Niswῑ al-‘Arabῑ (longlisted for Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Authors). She is the co-editor of three books. Her novel Ikhtibāl (Madness) (2019) was nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). She is also the recipient of Fast Company Middle East’s 2024 Most Creative People in B...

Publications

Ahmed Allaithy, May Zaki, Boutheina Khaldi And Meis Al-kaisi. Linguistic Hegemony in Academia: The Impact of English on Arabic Scholarship, Language Problems And Language Planning

Boutheina Khaldi. “Defamiliarizing Pilgrimage: Humor in al-Māzinī’s Journey to the Sacred.” Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Boutheina Khaldi. “Betwixt and Between: The Graffiti Found in Adab al-Ghurabā’ by al-Aṣfahānī”. Anaquel de Estudios Árabes 35, 1 (2024): 5-18., Anaquel De Estudios Árabes, 13 February 2024

Boutheina Khaldi. "Modern Salafism in Bint al-Shāṭi’’s Journey to the Ḥijᾱz." Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization 13 (2), 1-15., Journal Of Islamic Thought And Civilization, December 2023

Boutheina Khaldi. "Maintaining Ethics Whenever Translating Literary Texts into Arabic." Ethics in Social Sciences Research. Ed. Rezaul Islam. New York: Springer, 2024.

Boutheina Khaldi. “Elegy,” The Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online (RMEO), edited by Hannele Klemettilä & J. Van Steenbergen. London: Routledge. 2023., January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023

Boutheina Khaldi. "Signs and Traces in The Book of Strangers." Al-Markaz: Journal of Arabic Studies 1, 1 (spring 2022): 48-64., Al-markaz: Journal Of Arabic Studies, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2022

Boutheina Khaldi. "Conflicts and Configurations in a Liminal Space: Hassouna Mosbahi's Wada'an Rosalie." Global Identities in Transit. Eds. Bouchra Benlimlih and Lahoussine Hamdoune. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. 155-168., March 2022

Boutheina Khaldi. Review of Maya Kesrouany’s Prophetic Translation: The Making of Modern Egyptian Literature. The Journal of Arabic Literature (JAL). Vol 53 (2022), 175-178., The Journal Of Arabic Literature, March 2022

Boutheina Khaldi. "A House in Words: Al-Ghuzuli as Author’s Alternate." Approaches to the Study of Pre-modern Arabic Anthologies. Eds. Bilal Orfali and Nadia Sheikh. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 84-99., March 2021

Khaldi. Arabic Culture as a Defensive Strategy: Tunisian Education as an Example, Ijaz Arabi: Journal Of Arabic Learning, 10 February 2021

Boutheina Khaldi. "Nāzik al-Malāʾikah and Edgar Allan Poe: Their Poetry and Related Poetics." Journal of Arabic Literature 51. 1-2 (March 2020): 108-129., Journal Of Arabic Literature, March 2020

Boutheina Khaldi. Ikhtibal (Madness). Beirut and Casablanca: al-Markaz al-'Arabi lil Kitab, 2019. 288 pp. (Nominated for Arabic Booker Prize).اختبال, 2019

Boutheina Khaldi. "Mayy Ziyadah." The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda. Ed. Tarek el-Ariss. New York: MLA Book Series, Texts and Translations, 2018. 397-411., 2018

Boutheina Khaldi, Gretchen Head, Nizar Hermes, Gretchen Head And Nizar Hermes. “The Sufis of Baghdad: A Topographical Index of the City.” Head, Gretchen and Hermes, Nizar. Eds. The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 223-246., May 2018

Boutheina Khaldi. “Teaching Arab Women's Letters.” In Arabic Literature for the Classroom: Teaching Methods, Theories, Themes, and Texts, edited by Muhsin al-Musawi, 24-40. London and New York: Routledge, 2016, 24-40., 2017

Boutheina Khaldi. التطبيقات اللغوية. UAE Ministry of Education. 2016. 421pp., 2016

Boutheina Khaldi. "The Ambivalent Émigrée: Mayy Ziyadah’s Rhetoric of Nationhood." Journal of Arabic Literature 51. 1-2 (March 2020): 108-129., Journal Of Arabic Literature, 1 December 2016

Boutheina Khaldi. المضمر في الترسل النسوي العربي (The Implicit in Arab Women’s Epistolary Writing). Beirut: al-Mu’assasah al-‘Arabiyyah lil Dirasat wal Nashr, 2015. 224pp. (Selected from 335 books from all over the Arab world for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Author)., October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2015

Boutheina Khaldi. "Al-Rabitah al-Qalamiyyah." Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam: Adab, edited by Wilferd Madelung and Farhad Daftary, 5. Leiden: Brill, 2013., December 2013

Boutheina Khaldi. Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyādah's Intellectual Circles. New York: Palgrave, 2012., December 2012

Boutheina Khaldi. "Multiple Intellectual Engagements?" (Spring 2012: Journal of Arabic Literature 43: 2-3): 197-226., Journal Of Arabic Literature, 1 December 2012

Boutheina Khaldi. "Microcosming the Nahdah: Mayy Ziyadah's Salon as a Hybrid Space." Journal of Arabic Literature. Leiden: Brill., Journal Of Arabic Literature, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2011

Boutheina Khaldi And Muhsin Al-musawi. Khaldi, Boutheina and al-Musawi, Muhsin (Eds). الأدب العربي الحديث: مختارات (Modern Arabic literature). Beirut: al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-‘Arabi, 2010. 798 pp., 2010

Khaldi Boutheina And Muhsin Al-musawi. Khaldi, Boutheina and al-Musawi, Muhsin (Eds). الوافي في تراث العرب الثقافي: الأندلس والمشرق منذ سقوط الخلافة العباسية (The exhaustive in the cultural heritage of the Arabs: Andalusia and the Arab East since the fall of the Abbasid caliphate(. Beirut: al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-‘Arabi, 2010.784 pp., September 2010

Boutheina Khaldi And Muhsin Al-musawi. Khaldi, Boutheina and al-Musawi, Muhsin (Eds).حتى نهاية الخلافة العباسية تراث العرب المعرفي (Arabic cultural heritage till the fall of the Abbasid caliphate (. Beirut: al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-‘Arabi, 2010. 744 pp., August 2010

Boutheina Khaldi. "Assia Djebar." 20th Century Arab Writers, Vol. 346 in the Dictionary of Literary Bibliography (DLB) edited by Majd Yaser al-Mallah and Coeli Fitzpatrick. Gale: Cengage Learning, 2009., November 2009

Boutheina Khaldi. "Rashid Boudjedra." 20th Century Arab Writers, Vol. 346 in the Dictionary of Literary Bibliography (DLB) edited by Majd Yaser al-Mallah and Coeli Fitzpatrick. Gale: Cengage Learning, 2009., November 2009

Boutheina Khaldi. "Epistolarity in a Nahdah Climate: The Role of Mayy Ziyadah's Letter Writing." (spring 2009: Journal of Arabic Literature 40:1), 1-34., Journal Of Arabic Literature, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2009

Boutheina Khaldi. Midnight Tales: A Woman’s Journey through the Middle East in The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS). Vol. 2, Iss. 3 (Spring 2007), 118-119., Journal Of Middle East Women's Studies, 2007

Boutheina Khaldi. Literature and Nation in the Middle East. Eds. Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi. Edinburgh University Press, 2006., Journal Of Arabic Literature, 2006

Boutheina Khaldi. Reading Iraq: Culture and power in conflict. The Journal of Arabic Literature (JAL). Vol 37 no.3 (2006), 453-457., 2006

Conference Presentations

Multilingualism and the Influence of English Dominance on Arabic Academic Publications, Multilingual And Multicultural Learning: Policies And Practices 3, 24 May 2024

"The Reception of Goethe in the Arab World." Global Weimar/Global Nahda symposium. Princeton University. Berlin. (January 25-27, 2024). Invited., Global Weimar/global Nahda Symposium, 25 January 2024

“An Ecocentric Reading of al-Dῑwān Group Poetry and Criticism,” Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Montreal, Canada, (November 2-5, 2023)., Middle Eastern Studies Association (mesa), Montreal, Canada, (november 2-5, 2023)., November 2023

“An Ecocentric Reading of ‘Abd al-Raḥmᾱn Shukrῑ’s Poetry and Criticism” . (MLA). San Francisco, California., Modern Language Association (mla). San Francisco, California, 5 January 2023

"Bint al-Shᾱṭi’: A Revisionary Reading of the Arabic Literary Canon". Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism. Columbia University, New York., Thresholds To Arabic Literary Criticism. Columbia University, New York, 16 December 2022

Texts and Visions Across Genres and Media: Re-thinking Arab Cultural History. ICLA. Tbilisi University, Georgia., International Comparative Literature Association (icla). Tbilisi University, Georgia, 29 July 2022

Unveiling Pseudonymous writing by Twentieth Century Arab Women, Keynote Address. The Lisbon Consorium. Portugal, The Lisbon Consortium, Lisbon. Portugal, 1 July 2022

The Critique of Closure in Classical Arabic Self-Elegy. American University of Beirut and University of Bamberg Germany., How To End Things In Arabic. American University Of Beirut, Lebanon, 4 May 2021

Nahḍa Literary Feuds: Was it an Issue of Adaptation or (Mis) adaptation? Georgetown University, Middle East Studies Association, 15 October 2020

Literary Translation from English into Arabic. Workshop leader. The Sharjah World Book Capital 2019, British Council, Kalimat Group, and New Writing North. Invited with honorarium., Tarjim, 13 February 2020

Academic Programmes for Teaching Translation from and into Arabic. The 7th Abu Dhabi International Translation Conference. Invited with honorarium., Word To The World, 28 November 2019

Nahḍa Literary Feuds: Famous Arab Intellectuals in Court, Mediation: Approaches to Conflict Resolution. Istanbul, Turkey, Mediation: Approaches To Conflict Resolution, 9 November 2019

The Arab Islamic City. Arab German Academy for Science and Humanities. Ca’ Foscari University. Italy. Invited., Arab German Academy For Science And Humanities Summer School, 17 October 2019

Graffiti in al-Aṣfahānī’s Adab al-Ghurabā'. ICLA. University of Macau. China., International Comparative Literature Association (icla), 1 August 2019

Jurjī Zaydān and Muṣṭafā Ṣādiq al-Rāfi‘ī: Canon Formation and the Arabic Literary Curriculum. Columbia University Global Center in Paris., Conceptions And Configurations Of The Arabic Literary Canon, 17 June 2019

Rewriting Gulf War through Magical Realism. Georgetown University., American Comparative Literature Association (acla), 9 March 2019

Defamiliaryzing Travelogue: Al-Mazini’s Journey to the Sacred. American University of Sharjah., Storytelling, Travel Writing, And Seafaring From Cross-culture Perspectives, 2 November 2018

Al-Amn al-Thaqafi: Istratijiyyah Difa‘iyyah. Shoman and Owais Cultural Foundations (Invited with honorarium), Al-amn Al-thaqafi, 27 September 2018

The Anthologist as Other Author's Double. American University of Beirut (AUB). Lebanon., American University Of Beirut (aub). Lebanon., May 2018

Humor as a Destabilizing Art Form in the Arab World. University of California, Los Angeles., American Comparative Literature Association (acla), University Of California, Los Angeles, California. Usa, March 2018

Al-Mudmar fi al-Tarassul al-Niswi. Mohammad V University of Rabat, Morocco. Invited Lecture., Mohammad V University Of Rabat, Morocco. Invited Lecture, February 2018

Mayy Ziyada's Salon as a 'Modernity' Dynamic. Columbia University. Invited lecture., Arabic Studies Seminar, Invited Lecture, November 2017

Al- Urjῡzah as a Viable Adab Medium. Adab as an Interdisciplinary Pursuit. Columbia University., Adab As An Interdisciplinary Pursuit, April 2017

(Re) Writing One's Own "History": Why Not a Sīrah Proper? The Asian Conference on Literature, Kobe, Japan., The Asian Conference On Literature, Kobe, Japan, March 2017

Strategies in Teaching Classical Arabic Poetry. Teachers' Training College, Dubai. Invited Speaker., Teachers' Training College, Dubai. Invited Speaker, March 2017

The Intermingling of Genres in l-Asfahani's The Strangers. Georgetown University. Invited., Transgression And Invention: Language, Genres, And Interarts In Modern Arabic Poetry, Invited Talk, October 2016

Arab Women's Salons. New York University Abu Dhabi. UAE. Invited with honorarium., New York University Abu Dhabi. Uae. (invited With Honorarium), April 2016

Al-ʿĀmmiyya in Classical and Modern Debates. ACLA. Harvard University., American Comparative Literature Association (acla). Harvard University, Boston. Usa., March 2016

Investing in Arabic: United Arab Emirates as an Example. Constantine as Capital of Arab Culture. 2015., Investing In Arabic Language: Reality And Expectations, November 2015

Fadwa Tuqan's Poetics of Writing. Invited talk. Georgetown University. Invited., Modern Arabic Poetry And Theory. Invited Talk, October 2015

The War on the Maristan: An Inmate's Narrative. ACLA. Washington DC., American Comparative Literature Association, March 2015

The Critique of Sufism in Modern Arabic Poetics. MESA. Washington DC., Middle Eastern Studies Association, November 2014

Chair of a session on Arabic Literature, Mapping Arabic Heritage (ats-brismes), April 2014

The Sufis of Baghdad: Aziz al‐Sayyid Jasim's Reading of a City. ACLA. New York., The City In Pre‐modern And Modern Arabic Literature. American Comparative Literature Association (acla), March 2014

The Ambivalent Emigrée: Mayy Ziyadah's Rhetoric of Nationhood. Columbia University., Arabic Literature: Migration, Diaspora, Exile, Estrangement, November 2013

The Blood of the Poet in Translation: Between Cocteau and al‐Bayati. ACLA. Toronto. Canada., American Comparative Literature Association, February 2013

Tweeting the 'Nahda'. MESA. Washington DC., Annual Conference For Middle East Studies Association, December 2011

Imprinting Women of the Public: From Nahda to Revolution. Teaching Arab Intellectual Thought and the Changing Role of the Literati. Columbia University., Teaching Arab Intellectual Thought And The Changing Role Of The Literati, May 2011

Teaching Arabic at AUS. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Invited with honorarium., Teaching Arabic For Arabs At The College Level (invited With Honorarium), April 2011

Arabic Poetry in a Digital Age. MESA. San Diego. California., Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2010

Teaching the Imperatives of Love in Arabic. Magic in Clarity: Teaching Arabic literature. Columbia University., Magic In Clarity: Teaching Arabic Literature, May 2010

Living. Outside, Living Inside: Women's Journeys in Memory. MESA. Boston., Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2009

Teaching Arabic through Film. The New School for General Studies. New York., The New School For General Studies, May 2009

Engaging the Public Sphere: Mayy Ziyadah's Salon as an Arab Nahdah Model. ACLA conference. Boston., American Comparative Literature Association, March 2009

Female Imagery in Khalil Hawi's Poetry. American University of Beirut, Khalil Hawi Wa Tatawwur Al-shi'r Al-hadith, June 2007

How to Teach al- Maqamat, Stanford University, May 2005

Grants and sponsorships

Fellowship, Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Stamford, UK and Manouba University, Tunisia, August 1997 - September 1997

Awards and Honors

Fast Company Middle East's Most Creative People in Business 2024, Fast Company Middle East, 30 May 2024

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), also known as "the Arabic Booker", 2019

Guinness World Record (GWR) for the largest simultaneous book signing, Sharjah International Book Fair, I took part in the Sharjah International Book Fair signing ceremony, the largest simultaneous book signing ceremony in the world with 1,502 authors signing copies of their own books and broke the Guiness World Record (GWR) . My name entered Guinness, 7 November 2019

Sabbatical Leave Award, February 2019

My book Al-Muḍmar fῑ al-Tarassul al-Niswῑ al-‘Arabῑ (The Implicit in Arab Women’s Epistolary Writing was longlisted for Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Authors, 2015

Best Arabic Instructor Award, Indiana University. USA., 9 May 2005

Amin Zaki Scholarship for the Best Arabic Graduate Student, Indiana University, USA., 28 April 2004

Graduate Assistantship Award, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Indiana University, 2002-2005, April 2002