About Me

I am a Lecturer at Minia University, Egypt and previously, I was a Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK. My research focuses on creating links between the well-established western electronic literature communities and the growing digital culture innovators of other underrepresented communities. I am particularly interested in investigating the cultural, social, and political contexts of Arabic and Anglo-American electronic literature. Additionally, I am a creative writer. 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 English language. I am an international consultant for the Electronic Literature Organization’s ELC4. I was also the key organizer of the first international conference on Arabic electronic literature at RIT Dubai, Feb. 25-27, 2018. I delivered the first electronic literature workshop in the Arab World in collaboration with the President of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) at RIT Dubai, and co-curated the first e-lit exhibit in the Arab World at RIT Dubai.

I initiated the first autobiographical collection of Arab electronic literature authors on the ELMCIP Knowledge Base in 2015. I have some years of teaching experience of English and Arabic literature at Minia University and University of Leeds. I spent two years as a visiting scholar at College of Liberal Arts at RIT, New York and West Virginia University. 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, Egypt, Jordan, and England.

Besides my scientific achievements, I received the Ihsan Abdel Quddous Literary Prize for short story writing for my short story collection Amma Ba’d (and thereafter) (2012). I also wrote Al-Barrah (The Announcer), the first Arabic augmented reality and hologram novel, in collaboration with Mohamed Nasef (2019 – 2021).