She was the Interim Director of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo in 2012-2013. Her work has appeared in Yearbook of Comparative Literature, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, and Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford UP, 2011) and is forthcoming in Comparative Literature Studies and Journal of Arabic Literature. Her English translations of poetry by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Mahmoud Darwish, among others, have appeared in Jusoor, Mahmoud Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens (Syracuse UP, 2000), and The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (Interlink Books, 2001). She is currently working on a book manuscript on Arabic, Anglophone and Francophone memoirs in the Arab world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the effects of national liberation movements on the development of the genre.