TEACHING

I am interested in language, literature, and creativity and how they shape what it means to be human. Through the exploration of literary history, grammar, and writing craft, I inspire students to re-examine the ways we identify ourselves as members of diverse communities.

​I would love to facilitate creative writing workshops for your students and cultural center members, prepare in-depth lectures and seminars on language, literature, and creativity, and develop longer courses on how to write fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Please visit my Workshops and Lectures page to see what I am currently offering:

List of workshops and lectures

For my resume, CV, or media kit (and rate card), please visit my Events page.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: WORKSHOPS & LECTURES

Gulf University for Science and Technology (Kuwait)
Teaching-Artist
Mar 15, 2022

• Giving a writing workshop on Docupoetics to members of The English Club

Dec 28, 2021

• Giving a lecture to Dr. Shahd Al-Shammari’s Poetry Class titled “Does Literature Impact the World?”

May 8, 2021

• Giving a lecture during GUST’s Mental Health campaign on Clubhouse titled “Madness or Magic? A Brief History of Poetry”

 
Unootha Magazine (United Arab Emirates)
Teaching-Artist
Jul 8, 2021

• Giving a virtual lecture on docupoetics and leading a creative writing exercise to help students write documentary poetry

 
Columbia University (New York, USA)
Teaching-Artist
Mar 30, 2021

• Giving a poetry workshop on personalizing the sonnet for Shyanne Figueroa Bennett’s Beginning Poetry Workshop using Terrence Hayes’ American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Columbia University's Center for Science and Society (Institute Initiative to Enhance Remote Learning and Teaching) funded my honorarium

Jul 2, 2020

• Giving a workshop on found poetry following Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus and Suzanne Buffam’s “Books I’d like to Read Someday” for Shelby Wardlaw’s students in the High School Summer Program

Oct 2018--Dec 2018

• Designing and leading a six-week poetry workshop (The List Poem) for the Columbia Artist/Teacher Community Classes Program (CCC)

 
Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA)
Teaching-Artist
Apr 2, 2021

• Giving a writing workshop on how to use dream poetry to deal with adversity and healing using various sample poems for the Palestinian Children Relief Fund (PCRF). The event was co-sponsored by MFA - Muslim Feminists for the Arts, Arab Cultural Club (ACCC), United Muslim Relief (UMR), Unicef Rutgers Chapter, Bengali Student Association, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Lambda Theta Alpha (LTA), Sigma Lambda Gamma (Gammas), Pencils of Promise, Ahlul Bayt Student Association (ABSA), ALPFA Rutgers New Brunswick, Rutgers Thaakat, Rutgers GlobeMed, and Answer for Cancer

Apr 1, 2021

• Giving a lecture titled “'Dreams Are Like Poems': The Radical Healing Potential of Poetry” for the Palestinian Children Relief Fund (PCRF)

Oct 2, 2020

• Leading a writing workshop on how to personalize the sonnet using Terrence Hayes’ American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin for Shelby Wardlaw’s undergraduate Creative Writing Class

 
Contemporary Art Platform (Kuwait)
Teaching-Artist
Jan 6, 2020

• Giving a poetry workshop titled “Documentary Poetics: Poetry for Non-Poets”

Feb 21, 2018

• Invited again to give “The Arabic Language Will Not Save Us” in Arabic. The new title became: “Kuwaiti Identity between Arabic and English”

Jan 17, 2018

• Giving a lecture titled “The Arabic Language Will Not Save Us” (in English)

 
Arab Open University (Kuwait)
Teaching-Artist
Nov 5, 2017

• Giving a lecture titled “Why Read or Write Literature?” for Tasneem Solie’s English Class

 
American University of Kuwait (Kuwait)
Teaching-Artist
Mar 9, 2017

• Giving a lecture on Anglowaiti Literature titled “Between Experimentation and Communication” for members of Diwaniya Book Club

 
Universal American School (Kuwait)
Teaching-Artist
Apr 16, 2016

• Giving a lecture on the history of performance poetry in early Arab history at the Promenade Mall for an English class

 
The Divan (Kuwait)
Scholar of Literature
Feb 11, 2016

• Giving a lecture and facilitating a discussion on Victor Frankl’s Man's Search for Meaning at Sirdab Lab

 
Humanity Club (Kuwait)
Scholar of Literature
Dec 25-26, 2013

• Giving a lecture titled “Writing in the Age of Social Networks” (in Arabic)

 
Jumana High School (Kuwait)
English Language Instructor
Mar 21, 2013

• Giving two essay writing workshops: “Thinking about the Essay’s Form” and “Syntax and Argumentation”

 
Split This Rock (Washington, USA)
Scholar of Literature
Nov 8, 2013

• Giving a poetry writing workshop to the DC Youth Slam team using Shurooq Amin’s poems as model texts.

 
The University of Iowa (Iowa, USA)
Scholar of Literature
Oct 24, 2013

• Giving a lecture titled “Women/Gender, Class, and Soccer in Kuwait,” Seaman’s Engineering Center

Oct 23, 2013

• Giving a lecture titled “The Kuwaiti Invasion of 1990 and its ramifications,” Adler Journalism Building

 
Better Books Café (Kuwait)
Teaching-Artist
Jun 1, 2013

• Giving a writing workshop titled “How to Write a Short Story”

 
New Horizon, Human Soft (Kuwait)
English Language Instructor
Oct 2006--Apr 2007

• Giving English language courses to a broad student base

WHERE I'VE TAUGHT

I have taught at numerous venues and in front of students of all ages in public and private cultural and academic institutions, locally and internationally.

For a list of my past events, click here.

FOR UPCOMING EVENTS & A FULL RESUME

To stay up-to-date on my readings, performances, and events; and for a full resume, please click here.