Alaa sitting at a table with a book display and floral arrangements, smiling, with text "Hi, I'm Alaa."

My YA dystopian novel THE TRENCHANT is available now! Get it here!

My debut poetry collection But I Prevail is out now. Get it here!

Research & Education

I graduated with an MA from the Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program at the University of Central Florida. I received a BA in English Literature at UCF in 2019.

My research centers on literary modernism, particularly Arabic modernism, and the way it redefines modernism as a whole. I am also interested in Arabic modernism and its relationship with the West: how Arabic writers situate themselves and their writing within the U.S.; and the way they established a literary society/culture within the West.

Read my thesis here: “Toward an Arabic Modernism: Politics, Poetics, and the Postcolonial

Little magazine that I co-created for a literary modernism course: UNITY

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