Professor at Michigan State University

Author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature: The Emergence of a Tradition, The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature, African Cinema: Postcolonial and Feminist Readings, and Less than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women's Writing.

Tunisian short story writer, novelist and playwright

Author of Maratij (Locks), Tamas (The Attic), Al Tawba (The Repentance) and Al B'ud al Khamis (The Fifth Dimension).