saali@mail.utexas.edu
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College: Liberal Arts

Home Department: Middle Eastern Studies

Additional department affiliations: Religious Studies, Comparative Literature


Education: PhD, Indiana University

Research interests:Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages, oral performance, Islamic kingship, court literature and patronage, classical historiography, modern and medieval folklore and folklife, Arab women poets, literary criticism.

Courses taught:
Arabic literature and Language