She holds a PhD in Modern Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Aleppo and is a professor of Modern Literature and Cultural Studies at the American University of Madaba in Jordan. Her novel “A Sky Close to Our House” was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2015, and her novel “Summer with the Enemy” was shortlisted for the same prize in 2019. Her novel “The Cat’s Eye” received the Jordanian State Prize for Literature in 2010. She has also published “Persian Carpet” (2012), Summer with the Enemy (2018), and a digital novella “titled To Chekhov” (2020). In short fiction, she published the collection “The Mashrabiyya”, and her collection “The King’s Daughter’s Bed” won the Al-Multaqa Prize for Arabic Short Story, awarded by the American University of Kuwait in 2017 — the most prestigious short story award in the Arab world. It was also shortlisted for the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in London in 2021. In criticism and academic studies, her notable works include: The Stranger’s Mirror: Essays in Cultural Criticism, The Syrian Novel: Experience and Theoretical Propositions, Cultural Specificity in the Arabic Novel, The Aesthetic Identity of the Arabic Novel: A Postcolonial Perspective, and The Arabic Dystopian Novel: Cultural Context and Artistic Features. She has also co-authored books on identity and narrative, and published a range of peer-reviewed research in Arab and international journals. Her works have been translated into several languages, including English, German, Italian, Spanish, and Persian.)