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Degrees
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1998 |
PhD in Cultural Studies, School of Sociology, University of New South Wales:“Shifting Margins, Imaginary Journeys: Writing Migrant Experience”. Supervised by Maria Markus, Senior Lecturer. Thesis Examiners: Professor Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds; Dr. Michael Symonds, University of Western Sydney; Professor John Milfull, University of New South Wales |
1993 |
B.A. 1st Class Honours, School of Sociology, University of New South Wales. Thesis: Habermas and Foucault: An Ethics of Intersubjectivity. Awarded the Sol Encel Prize for best Honours thesis in the School of Sociology. |
Fellowships/Stipendiums 
2009-10 |
Guest Fellow, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies |
2008 |
January -March, Guest Fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
2000-01 |
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for Behavioral Research, American University of Beirut |
1993-1997 |
Australian Postgraduate Research Award, University of New South Wales |
Current Affiliations
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Associate Researcher, Lebanese Emigration Research Center, Notre Dame University, Lebanon. http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/Index.htm |
Selected Publications
Essays, Articles, Chapters
1996 |
“Proust and Kefala in Dulwich Hill”. Inklings: A Journal of Words and Images, Sydney. No 6. |
1997 |
“Lispector in Translation”. Inklings: A Journal of Words and Images, Sydney. No 7. |
1998 |
“Antigone Kefala: Translating the Migratory Self”. Southerly, Sydney. No 1, March. |
1999 |
“Translating Passages: Experiencing Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage”. Southerly, Sydney. No 3, June. |
1999 |
“Translating Passages: Experiencing Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage”. Arabic translation in Al Karmel, Ramallah. No 61, Autumn. |
1999 |
“Madness Cannot Be Thought: Mahmoud Darwish”. Al Shuara, Ramallah. Nos 4-5, May. |
2001 |
“The Self as Stranger: Re-Viewing The Cars That Ate Paris”. Southerly, Sydney. No 1, April. |
2001 |
“Interminable Murmurs, Art’s Estrangement”. Published in the catalogue for the East of Somewhere, Australian-Arab art exhibition, March-April, Sydney. |
2002 |
“Driving the Valiant with Lacan”. The Millennial Lecture Series, NDU Press, Louaize. |
2002 |
“Packing my Library”. NDU Spirit, No 26, December. |
2003 |
“Elias Khoury: Approaching Time’s Forgetfulness”. In Lorraina Pinnell (ed) Interruptions: Essays in the Poetics/Politics of Space. Eastern Mediterranean University Press, North Cyprus. |
2005 |
“Writing Lebanese Diaspora”. In Paul Tabar (ed) Lebanese Diaspora: History, Racism, and Belonging. LAU Press, Beirut. |
2006 |
“David Malouf: Exploring Imperial Textuality”. Postcolonial Text, Vol 2, No 2. May. |
2010 |
“Memory in a Paratactic Register: Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain: A Memoir”. Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1. |
2010 |
“Between Anaesthesia and Analepsia: Transformational Aesthetics in Jakob Roepke’s Compact Collages”. In Plurale: Zeitschrift für Denkversionen, Vol. 9. |
2010 |
“Seductive Identifications: Parody and Power in Loubna Haikal’s Seducing Mr Maclean”. In Paul Tabar (ed) Politics, Culture and Lebanese Diaspora. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge. |
2011 |
Disrupting dismemory: the memoir of Jean Said Makdisi, ZMO Working Papers 3, 2011 |
Editorial
1993-98 |
Founding Editor, Inklings: A Journal of Words and Images |
2008 |
Guest editor for the journal Al Raida at the Lebanese American University. Vol 118-119, February. Theme: Arab Women Writing in English. |
Reviews
2001 |
Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture. Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, Heft 13, February. |
2001 |
White Nation: Fantasies of Supremacy in a Multicultural Society. The UTS Review, August, Sydney. |
2006 |
Bin Laden in the Suburbs. Journal of Intercultural Studies, March. |
2009 |
Jad El Hage’s The Myrtle Tree. Southerly, Vol. 69, No. 1. |
2010 |
“Out-Posting Edward Said”. Postcolonial Text, Vol. 5. No 4. 2009. |
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