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Rima
Hassouneh
Lecturer
U of M Affiliation(s)
Program in American Culture
Arab American Studies
Department of Near Eastern Studies
M.A, Modern Arabic Literature,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
M.A, English Literature,
Western Washington University, Bellingham, 1997
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Contact Information:
505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
3722 Haven Hall
Phone: 734.615.4614
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email:
rhassoun@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Arab-American literature; Muslim and Arab identities in the U.S.; modern Arabic literature; teaching Arabic (modern standard and colloquial) as a foreign language.
Near Eastern Studies Website
http://www.umich.edu/~neareast/index.html
Publications:
Literary translations (Arabic-English)
"Poems by Naser Rabah,"English PEN World Atlas Online (Palestinian Poetry section), February 24, 2009.
"Coexistence" by Ala Hlehel, Metamorphoses: The Arab World, Spring/ Fall 2007.
"The Bearded Man" by Ala Hlehel, World Literature Today, January 2007.
"Her Tale" by Samira Azzam, Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women, 2006.
Other translations and reviews
"Jordan's UN Country Report on the Status of Women, on behalf of the Jordanian National Commission for Women, New York, 1999" review of textbook proposal for A Complete Program in Levantine Arabic, by Mahdi Alosh, et. al., Yale University Press, June 2008.
"Review of the novel Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London" by Haifa Zangana, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 5(2/Spring): 2009.
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