Georgetown University: School of Foreign Service in Qatar

Amira El-Zein is Visiting Associate Professor with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. She is a published poet, literary critic, and translator. She has written extensively in Arabic, French, and English on an ample range of topics including but not limited to Sufism in medieval and contemporary Islam, Francophone literature, Arabian Nights, and contemporary Arabic poetry and fiction. Her publications include The Jinn and Other Poems (a book of poetry in English with Arrowsmith Press, 2006); Culture, Creativity and Exile, co-edited with Munir Akash (Jusoor, Kitâb Publications, 1996); Bedouin of Hell (a book of poetry in Arabic, with Kitâb Publications, 1992); and Islam, The Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn (Syracuse University Press, forthcoming in spring 2009).

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