Recent Work

Spring 2023

• “Transformations in the Philosophy of Poetic Imagination Between Aristotle and Kant” [تحولات فلسفة الخيال الشعري بين أرسطو وكانط] published in Al-Bahrain Al-Thaqafiyya [The Bahrain Cultural Quarterly], Vol. 111 (January 2023).
• “The Art of Regressive Abstraction: Introducing Leonard Nelson’s Theory of Philosophical Inquiry” [فن الهبوط التجريدي: تمهيد حول نظرية ليونارد نلسون في التساؤل الفلسفي] published on the Baseera blog.
• Translation of Peter Worley, The If Machine: 30 Lesson Plans for Teaching Philosophy forthcoming with Dar Baseera (Saudi Arabia).
• Translation of John Rees, Religion in International Politics and Development: The World Bank and Faith Institutions forthcoming with Nohoudh Publications (Kuwait).

Spring/Fall 2022

• “Sublime Horror in the Arab Spring: Reading A. K. Tawfiq’s Utopia” under review with Horror Studies.
• “Jabra Ibrahim Jabra as Critic and Theorist of Modern Arabic Poetry” is under review at Edinburgh Press; part of Khalid Lyamlahy and Suja Sawafta (eds.), Jabra Illuminated: Legacies, Influences, and Dialogues.
• “Qassim Haddad and Amin Saleh’s ‘The Torrential Blood,’” a translation with an introductory essay appeared in in Huda Fakhreddine (ed.), Decades of Fire, special issue, Michigan Quarterly Review Online.
• “Personhood, Community, and Inquiry in the Community of Philosophical Inquiry: An Examination of Ann Sharp’s and David Kennedy’s Contributions” accepted pending revisions at Childhood and Philosophy.
• Invitation to serve as an anonymous reviewer at Childhood and Philosophy.
• My translation of Omar Alshehabi’s Contested Modernities: Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Bahrain is out with Nohoudh Publications, Kuwait.

Spring 2021

• My translation of Jonathan Israel’s A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Roots of Modern Democracy is out with Nohoudh Publications, Kuwait.
• Invited essay contribution to upcoming volume on Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, eds. Khalid Lyamlahy (University of Chicago) and Suja Sawafta (University of Miami), through Edinburgh University Press.
• Co-editor, Stasis and Change in the Arab Gulf States: Ecology [Arabic] (Gulf Centre for Development Policies, Kuwait & Centre for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut).

Spring/Fall 2020

• “Sublime Horror in the Aesthetics of E. T. A. Hoffmann” published in Diseases of the Head: Essays on the Horrors of Speculative Philosophy (Santa Barbara: Punctum Books, 2020).
• Arabic translation of Jonathan Israel’s A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy commissioned for Dar Nuhudh (Kuwait), 2021.
• Panel organizer and co-chair, “Projects of Modernity in Twentieth Century Arabic Poetry,” the 54th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington, DC.
• Co-edited volume, Stasis and Change in the Arab Gulf States: Sustainability in the Gulf [Arabic] (Gulf Centre for Development Policies, Kuwait & Centre for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut).
• “A Speculative Poetics of Tammuz: Myth, Sentiment, and Modernism in Twentieth Century Arabic Poetry” accepted for publication in Philosophy, Art(theory), and Literature, special issue of Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics (Vol. 21, No. 2 (2020/21)).
• “‘The Still Shadow, the Guiding Sun’: A Translation from Amin Saleh’s A Hymn to the Universal Room” accepted for publication, with an introductory essay, in Translation Review, Vol. 108, No. 1 (Spring 2021).
• “Is the Community of Philosophical Inquiry a Person?” under review with Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis.

Fall 2019

• Co-Editor, Stasis and Change in the Arab Gulf States [Arabic], Gulf Center for Development Policies, 2020.
• Translator (Arabic), Omar Al-Shehabi, Contested Modernity: Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Bahrain, London: One World, 2019.
• Sneak peek at Diseases of the Head: it’s coming together!
• “On the Margins of Shi’r: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Development of Modern Arabic Poetry,” panel co-organizer for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). [VIEW/SEARCH THE PROGRAM.]
• “Exhuming the Dead Chorus in Qassim Haddad and Amin Saleh’s Al-Jawashin,” my presentation for the “On the Margins of Shi’r” panel.

Spring/Summer 2019

• Participant, Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC) Summer Seminar.
• “Philosophical Allegories for Philosophical Children: Challenges and Perspectives for Authors, Illustrators, and Scholars” poster session presentation at the 2019 Biennial Philosophy Learning And Teaching Organization (PLATO), Rollins College, FL, June 21-22, 2019. [CONFERENCE DETAILS HERE.]
• The Cave, a children’s philosophy picture-book based on Plato’s allegory of the cave, commissioned for Loyola University New Orleans’ Philosopher Kids Program. To be delivered April 15, 2019.
• “The Philosophical Imagination in Qassim Haddad and Amin Saleh’s Al-Jawashin” [Arabic], in process for the Bahrain Cultural Quarterly.
• “The Centrality of Intuition in Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics as Evidenced in His Theory of Geometrical Demonstration” [Arabic], under review for the Arab Journal for the Humanities.

Fall 2018

• “Beauty and Horror in the Aesthetics of E. T. A. Hoffmann” accepted for publication in the anthology Diseases of the Head: Essays at the Intersection of Speculative Philosophy and Horror, New York: Punctum Books, 2020. [READ DRAFT HERE.]
• “The Resurrection of Hasan II” published in The Society of Misfit Stories Volume II, New Jersey: Bards & Sages Publishing, 2018. [BUY IT HERE.]
• Translation + introduction to Abdallah Laroui’s The Concept of Reason for the forthcoming Arab Left Reader, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Spring 2018

• Presentation on Abdallah Laroui’s thought at the Arab Left Reader Workshop, Cambridge University, April 12-14, 2018.
• Coaching/Guest Judging, Lincoln High School Constitutional Debate Team, Portland, OR (they made it to nationals!).
• Program Liaison, “Exit West,” Delve Readers Seminar, Literary Arts, Portland, OR.

 Fall 2017

• Publication, “Dingmaro,” Glint, No. 8, December 2017.
• Publication, “The Resurrection of Hasan II,” The Society of Misfit Stories (Standalone Kindle Edition), September 2017.
• Program Liaison, “Herodotus’ Histories,” Delve Readers Seminar, Literary Arts, Portland, OR.
• Program Liaison, “Another Kind of Life: Examining the Short Fiction of John Cheever and James Salter,” Delve Readers Seminar, Literary Arts, Portland, OR.
• Presentation, “The Forgotten Origins of Arab and Jewish Nationalism,” Florida Gulf Coast University, March 2017.