I am an Assistant Professor of digital literary studies at Minia University, Egypt and previously, I was a Lecturer of cultural studies at the University of Leeds, UK. My interdisciplinary and comparative research falls on the intersections of creative writing and digital media in the MENA and Anglo-American contexts. Additionally, I am an award-winning creative writer. My co-authored AI novel, Al-Barrah [The Announcer] (2019, 2021), won the international 2022 Robert Coover Award’s Honorable Mention and my paper-based short story collection Amma Ba’d [And Thereafter] (2012) won the national Ihsan Abdel Quddous Literary Prize for short story writing.

I am the first Arab and African to be elected as a board member of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) and work as an international consultant for the Electronic Literature Collection 4 issued by the ELO. I am directing arabicelit, the first initiative focusing on globalizing Arabic electronic literature in the English language. I have participated in many international conferences and symposiums and delivered guest lectures at different places around the world such as the USA, the UAE, the KSA, Canada, Scotland, Norway, Egypt, Jordan, Germany, and the UK.