תחומי מחקר: תיאטרון מחאה בישראל, לבנון וסוריה, תיאטרון וקולנוע פלסטיניים, תיאוריה ספרותית ופואטיקה, ספרות ערבית מודרנית, לימודי תרבות.

 קורות חיים ורשימת פרסומים:

Education

Ph.D.:Comparative Literature and Drama, Haifa University, 1996- 1999

Ph.D. Thesis: Artistic Genre as an Intuitive Perception of Reality and an Aesthetic Reflection of Culture and Personality: Israel and the Arab World in the Speculum of Grotesque and Satiric Protest Theaters.
(Cum Laude; The Landau Fund Prize & The Yitzhak Rabin Prize)

M. A. Comparative Literature and Drama Haifa University 1992 - 1996
M. A. Thesis: The Theater Play as an Aesthetic Medium for Alternative Mass Communication
(Cum laude; The Lis Miller Prize)

B. A. Sociology & Comparative Literature, Haifa University 1982 – 1986

Academic Positions

1997-2000 Department of Hebrew Literature & Department of Arabic Language and Literature,Haifa University, Research & Teaching Assistant

1997-2000 Department of Comparative Literature,The Open University, Instructor

1997-2000 Department of Arabic Literature, Gordon College, Lecturer

2001-2002 Department of Theatre & Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Haifa University Doctoral Instructor

2002 – 2003 Department of Arabic Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Lecturer

2002 - Department of Theatre & Department of Arabic Language and iterature, Haifa University, Lecturer

Publication

Articles

3. “Psycho-Cultural Trends as Mirrored in Modern Hebrew and Arab Theater and Poetry”,Journal of Theater and Drama(in print).

4. "War, Theatre (on War) and Criticism (on Theatre) as a Defense Apparatus",Nefish13-14 (2003) 122-129 (Hebrew).

5."From Class to Nation: Popular Arabic Drama in Past and Present",Hamizrah Hakhadash(in print) (in Hebrew).

6."The Homeland of the Nation, the Countries of the Rulers: A Reading in the Protest Poetry of Nizar Qabbani",Masharif 20 (2003) 190-215 (Arabic).

7. “The Death of the Tantalic World: Increasing Hierarchy in the Circle of Grotesque Stranglehold”, in:Hanoch Levin: The Man With The Myth In The Middle, Nurit Yaari, Shimon Levy, ed. Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Tel-Aviv, 2004: 187-202 (Hebrew).

8. "The Carnivalesque Strategy of the Act of Protest in Durayd Lahham and Muhammad al-Maghut Theatre",Al-Carmel, 20 (1999) 63 - 96 (Arabic).

9. Local Arabic Theatre Between Taha`s Garbage Man and Lorka`s Lady ", Al-Aittihad, 06/07/2001 (Arabic)

10. "The Stone of Burden and The Vanished Fruit: Reflection of Psycho-Cultural Orientations in Modern Hebrew and Arab Literature and Thought", in:Ben Avar Liarav2, Y. Tobi, Y. Avishur, ed, Afikim, Tel-Aviv, 2000/01: 173-192 (Hebrew).

Submitted

1. "Parallel Currents in Italian and Syrian Comedy: Ghawwar meets Mirandolina" (With Dr. Erith Jaffe-Berg)Text and Performance Quarterly.

2. "The Artist as Daemon: “Tonio Kröger” and the Urge for Creativity",Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 

3. "Syrian Critical Films in the Late Eighties: A Border, a Tap, and One another Small Revenge in the Realm of the Serio-Comical",Middle Eastern Literatures

4. "Bathroom Queen: An Anti-Carnival of Polar Collision"Literature and Aesthetics.

Books:(forthcoming)

The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain: Politics, Poetics and Protest in the Arab Theatre (Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, UK, in print, Sep. 2005)

Literary, cinematic and theatrical works in Arabic:

1.The Price for Objectivity, Novelette (Shafa`mro 1981).

2.Sound of the Stone, Short Stories (Shafa`mro 1984)Prize granted by the Prime Minister.

3.A Dream of Pure Laugh, Poems (Acre, 1986).

4,The Command, Play (Shafa`mro 1988) The Bet Hagefen Prize.

5.The Book of Death, Poems (Shafa`mro 1990).

6.Sheikh M`arouf`s File, Film (Script, Translation, Direction and Production, Isifya 1993).
   The film was presented at the Ninth International Film Festival, Haifa, October, 1993.

7.Leaves to the Naked Time, Poems (Nazareth 2001)

8.The Hole of the Spout, Play (2004)

9.Horus and Ahriman, Play (To be produced 2005)

Lectures at International Scholary Conferences

1. The Jewish-Arab Center, The Gustav Heinemann Institute of Middle Eastern