About

Hi, I’m Alaa.

I’m a writer and author with a background in literary analysis. 

I earned my MA in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies at the University of Central Florida, where I focused on Arabic modernism and how it challenges dominant literary narratives. My thesis, Toward an Arabic Modernism: Politics, Poetics, and the Postcolonial, examined how Arabic writers positioned themselves within Western literary spaces while building their own traditions.

As an author, I write fiction rooted in emotional depth, character development, and layered storytelling.