Selected Invited Talks

On the Middle East & North Africa

  • “Governance in Africa: Challenges & Opportunities in 2025.” The Africa Center, January 2025. Webinar.
  • “Lebanon & Hezbollah.” Middle East in Crisis. International Law Association, Fordham Law School, October 2024.
  • “Terrorism, Human Rights, and Violation of International Law in Gaza and Israel.” Israel and Gaza Conflict: History & Politics Behind the Crisis. Shippensburg University, November 2023.
  • “Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Northern Israel.” War in the Middle East: What’s Next for the World? The World Affairs Council of Harrisburg, October 2023. Webinar.
  • “The Beirut Barracks Bombing of 1983: The Stories that America Needs to Hear,” Dickinson, September 2023.
  • “The Invisibility of the Arab American Community in the U.S. Census,” Office of Management and Budget at The White House, July 2023. Online Listening Session.
  • “Lebanon – U.S. Relations: The Marines in Lebanon in 1958, 1982-1984,” U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, June 2023.
  • “History of Beirut 1982-1984.” In collaboration with Provost Jim Breckenridge of the Army War College. Groundbreaking of the Beirut Peacekeepers Tower organized by the William R Gaines Jr. Veterans Memorial Park, Florida, March 2023.
  • “Turmoil in Iran: Women Take to the Streets.” The World Affairs Council of Harrisburg, October 2022. Webinar.
  • “Lebanon Under Siege: The Rise of Hezbollah State.” 2022 International Peace Symposium. People Under Siege. Elizabethtown College, September 2022.
  • “Defining the Conflict: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Greater Middle East.” Online Roundtable on the Legacy of the Great War. Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum, February 2021. Online Seminar.
  • “What Does It Mean to Be Arab-American?” Popel Shaw Center for Race &  Ethnicity, Dickinson, April 2020.
  • “Hummus: A Political Dish.” Seminar on Food Studies, Dickinson, March 2020.
  • “October 17, 2019: The Birth of the Lebanese Nation?” The United States Army War College, February 2020.
  • “Protests Around the World: What is Next for the Arab World?” Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Dickinson, February 2020.

On Women’s Rights

  • “Activism and Self-Care.” Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation, Fellowship Program, February 2025. Webinar.
  • “Gendering Civil War: Lebanese Women Writing the War,” The Lebanese American University, Lebanon, June 2023.
  • “Women Facing Despotism & Destruction.” International Women’s Conference & Fashion Show, The Civic Club of Harrisburg & the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg, March 2023.
  • ”Know Thy Neighbor: Incidents of Immigration and Hospitality in Thérèse Chehade’s Loom / Connaître ses voisins: immigration et hospitalité dans le roman de Thérèse Chehade Loom.” Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France, April 2022. Online Seminar.
  • “The Lebanese Civil War & Francophone Women Writers.” Shippensburg University, March 2022.
  • “Gender Representation in Nadine Labaki’s Caramel.” Fundamentals of Digital Film Production, Dickinson, April 2021.
  • “The Omniscient Narrator or the Voice of Reason in Chedid’s Works.” Juniata College, February 2021. Online Seminar.
  • Toxic Masculinity as Political Strategy : Trump’s Influence from the Street to the Supreme Court/“La Masculinité toxique comme stratégie politique : L’influence de Trump de la rue jusqu’à la Cour Suprême,” Le Droit international à l’épreuve de l’administration Trump : Bilan de l’Amérique au sein des instances internationales. Institut d’Etudes de Géopolitique Appliquée, France, January 2021. Online Seminar.
  • “Dredging the Lower Levels of Higher Education: Perspectives of a Woman of Color.” Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Women’s and Gender Resource Center, Dickinson, April 2019.
  • “A House Divided Cannot Stand: A Conflicted Mother-Daughter Relationship in Hyam Yared’s La Malédiction.” The Lebanese American University, Lebanon, February 2019.
  • “The Story of Zahra.” Middle Eastern Studies Program, Dickinson, February 2019.
  • “Representations of the Female Body in Lebanese Francophone Literature.” Lake Forest College, February 2018.
  • “The Inferiority, Impurity, and Illness of the Female Body in Hyam Yared’s La Malédiction.” Dickinson, February 2018.
  • “The Curse of Femininity in Lebanon.” Stetson University, February 2018.
  • “Teaching French or My Colonial Language in the United States.” Muskingum University, February 2017.
  • “Expressing the female self in French and Arabic war narratives from Algeria and Lebanon.” University of South Florida, January 2016.
  • “What I Wish I Had Known When I Started.” The Faculty Center, Stony Brook University, February 2016.
  • “Domestic Violence, Cyclic Poverty, Human Rights and Making a Difference.” Panel based on the book and documentary ‘A Path Appears’. Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women Scholar, Stony Brook University, April 2015.
  • “Work – Life Balance: Diverse Perspectives and Tips.” Bowling Green State University, March 2014.
  • “Women’s War Narratives from the Maghreb to the Mashreq.” Loyola University Maryland, February 2013.
  • “The Feminine I in the Chaos of the Senses.” Williams College, February 2012.
  • “Francophone Women Narrative Strategies in Postcolonial Algeria and Lebanon.” Bowling Green State University, January 2012.

Selected Conferences 

On the Middle East & North Africa 

  • “Killing Lebanon: Hezbollah’s War on National Memories.” Communities and Change: Seventh Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association, Newcastle University, UK, July 2023.
  • “Teaching While Arab in the United States of America.” Annual Conference Gender and Sexuality in the Neoliberal University: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster – De Montfort University – Leicester, UK, May 2021, Online Conference.

On Women’s Rights 

  • “From Darkness to Spotlight: How Magical Realism brings Women out of Confinement and into the Light in Hyam Yared’s L’Armoire des ombres.” Class, Confinement and Criminality in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, August 2020, Online Seminar.
  • “Arab Women in Current Revolutions. Representations and Accomplishments.” Bold Women. Wilson College Humanities Conference, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, February 2020.
  • “The Multiple Meanings of Flora’s Femininity in La Maîtresse du Notable”. (Post)colonialism in the Female Gaze. Northeast Modern Language Association, Washington DC, March 2019.
  • “Le Grotesque, le Carnavalesque et l’Absurde chez Vénus Khoury – Ghata”. Vénus-Khoury Ghata : Pour Un Dialogue Transculturel. Institut d’Etudes Avancées, Paris, France, March 2017.
  • “The Disappearance of Women’s Voices in Postcolonial Algeria. A Study of Wahiba Khiari’s Nos Silences.” Peace, War, and Literature. Ten Years of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize: A Literary Conference. Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, October 2015.
  • “Algerian and Lebanese women’s voices in war time.” Aesthetics and Catastrophe: Women’s Transnational Narratives in the 21st Century. American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, Washington, March 2015.
  • “Zahra, A Masochist in Times of War”. BDSM/Kink/Fetish Studies. Popular Culture Association – American Culture Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2014.
  •  “Écrire l’Urgence au Féminin au Liban.” Narrative Matters: Life and Narrative, International Conference, American University of Paris, Paris, France, May – June 2012.