I am an assistant professor in Postcolonial, Comparative and American Studies at An-Najah National University in Palestine and their director in Minor in American Studies Program. I finished my PhD studies in 2016 from Lancaster University in the UK. My thesis, entitled “Expatriation versus Exile: Departures and Returns in Modern American Expatriate Narratives and Post-1948 Exilic Palestinian Writing”, analyses two literary experiences (American and Palestinian) at different historical moments (interwar modernist period and post-1948, respectively) around two notions of “expatriation” and “exile,” and through a “contrapuntal reading.” I currently teach a wide range of courses at An-Najah that are relevant to my field of specialization, including contemporary American Novel, Modern American Literature, Orientalism and Oriental Studies, Postcolonial Literature and Comparative Literature.