A MA student in the Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Department at the American University in Cairo with a concentration in
Arabic Language and Literature. Sylvia's thesis focuses on migration
narratives and literature of forced migration. She has developed an
interest in queer theory and its applications to analyze Arabic
literature. She works as a teaching assistant at AUC and translates
critical texts about the employment of queer theory in reading
Egyptian culture from English to Arabic.
