“Che Guevara in Cairo: Cuba-Egypt Literary Ties and South-South Internationalism.” Invited panelist, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (online), UCLA, September 15, 2022.
“José Martí’s Chronicle, Che Guevara’s Diary: Arab-Latin American Exchanges and World Literature.” Invited panelist, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April 11, 2021. Via Zoom.
Organizer and chair of a roundtable: “Latin America and the Arab World.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, New York, USA, January 4, 2018.
“Gabriel García Márquez and Che Guevara in Egypt.” Invited speaker at “América Latina-África del Norte-España: Translaciones Culturales entre el ‘Nuevo’ y el ‘Viejo’ Mundo (Colonial)” Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, July 6, 2017.
“Latin America and the Arab World: Lettered Exchange.” Invited speaker at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, July 4, 2017.
“Between Latin America and the Arab World: Héctor Abad Faciolince and Rodrigo Rey Rosa in Egypt and Morocco.” “Invited speaker at "Re-mapping World Literature. Estéticas, Mercados y Epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global” Conference. University of Cologne, January 31, 2017.
Invited panelist, “Palestine in the Latin American Imagination.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Austin, January 9, 2016.
“Palestine and Latin America: Lina Meruane’s Volverse Palestina.” ACLA, Harvard University, March 18, 2016.
“Latin American Literature in the Arab World and the Representation of Arab Culture in Latin American Novels.” Workshop on Encounters in ArabLatinAmerican Literatures. Invited presentation in the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, June 30, 2014.
“Reading Gabriel García Márquez in Egypt.” Invited presentation in the Lateinamerika-Institut Freie Universität Berlin, June 23, 2014.
“Translations of Nasser Between the Public and the Private.” Invited Presentation in In Translation Series, Center for Translation Studies, American University in Cairo, September 24, 2013.
“Nasser: An Intimate Portrait.” Invited talk at the American Arabic Language Institute, Tunis, May 2009.
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