Lecturer of English Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University in Egypt, and is currently a Postdoctoral fellow (2020-2022) at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. ElHalawani’s research interests include: performance theory; 20th century literature and global modernism; trauma and memory; contemporary migrant literature; home writing; post-coloniality and the Global South. Her current research project is entitled: “Vignettes of Homes in the Making: Towards a Theory of Home Between Practices and Affect”.