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is a literary translator and Assistant Professor for Arabic Language and Modern Arabic Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages at Portland State University. Until 1995 she has been living in Iraq and then resettled to the US where she completed her BA in Philosophy and World Religions at the University of Michigan (2001) and her MA in Arabic Studies (2003). In 2008 she completed her PhD in Middle Eastern Studies with a dissertation on The Politics of Minority: Chaldeans between Iraq and America. She taught at al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Marokko (2003, 2005), at the American University in Beirut, Libanon (2004), at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA (2003), and at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA (2007-2008). Her translations appeared in literary journals, among them Banipal and The Iowa Review. Her translation of the Iraqi novel Scattered Crumbs by Muhsin al-Ramli won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize 2002; excerpts were published in various publications and in the volume Literature from the Axis of Evil: Writing from Iran, Irak, North Korea and Other Enemy Nations (2006).