Refqa Abu-Remaileh is Associate Professor in Residence in the Liberal Arts Program. She specializes in modern Arabic literature, with a focus on Palestinian literary history and cultural production. She is the author of the digital interactive award-winning monograph, Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature, published by Stanford University Press in 2023.
Prior to joining NUQ, Abu-Remaileh was Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 2018 and 2023, she was also the Principal Investigator of a large grant project, PalREAD–Country of Words, funded by the European Research Council.
Abu-Remaileh earned her MSt and DPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, with a focus on Modern Arabic Literature and Film, from the University of Oxford, and her BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia.
Further information on publications and activities is available on Abu-Remaileh's ORCID profile page.
