Dr. Khaled Al-Masri is a university professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has worked as a professor at the University of Virginia and Harvard University, and as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His translations and research have been published in American and British journals. He has translated two books into English on the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and oral history in the United Arab Emirates. His research focuses on the intersections of war, migration, and gender in modern Arabic short stories and novels.