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    +966-13-849-9364- 8502

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    lalaoui@pmu.edu.sa

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  • Khadija Fritsch-El Alaoui, Ph.D.

  • Job Title :

    Associate Professor

  • College :

    College of Sciences and Human Studies


  • Department :

    Humanities & Social Sciences


She is a scholar of American Culture whose specializations encompass History as well as Peace and Justice Studies. Currently, her research focuses on the history of the Arab and Western worlds, human diversity, and cultural practices. She is currently an Associate Professor at Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia. She previously served as a Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Montreal. She also served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Peace and Justice Studies, at Vassar College, New York, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Dresden, Germany.

 

  • BoJulaia, M.,  El-Alaoui, K., Al-Mulhem, H., Waked, A., & Pilotti, M. (2025). Does developing a study guide impact test performance? A comparison between unguided and guided development of scientific writing. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Higher Education Advances, HEAd’25 (pp. 683-691). Universitat Politècnica de València.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., Al-Mulhem, H., El Alaoui, K., & Waked, A. (2024). Implications of dispositions for foreign language writing: The case of the Arabic-English learner. Language Teaching Research. Advance online publication.
  • El Alaoui, K., Fakhrulddinn, M. A., Mustafa, M. H., & Pilotti, M. A. E. (2024). The people are still alive: Al Bashir show, the Iraqi uprising, and satire in times of death. Culture and Dialogue, 12, 1-24.
  • El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. A. E. (2024). What’s disturbing about power? Reflections on teaching US-Arab encounters in the Middle East. Journal of Social Science Education, 23(4), 1-16.
  • Kort, S., El Alaoui, K., Waked, A., & Pilotti, M. (2024). STEM and Non-STEM learners: Responses to writing in a second language. In M. Shelley & O. T. Ozturk (Eds.), Proceedings of ICRES 2024-- International Conference on Research in Education and Science (pp. 294-304). ISTES.
  • Waked, A., Ashraf, M. W., Abdelsalam, H., El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. (2024). Success through error: Using error analysis of ChatGPT output in English as a foreign language learner writing instruction. In M. Shelley & O. T. Ozturk (Eds.), Proceedings of ICRES 2024-- International Conference on Research in Education and Science (pp. 320-332). ISTES.  
  • Waked, A., Abdelsalam, H., Ashraf, M. W., Pilotti, M., & El Alaoui, K. (2024). The impact of falsely detecting AI-generated text on academic assessment. In M. Shelley & O. T. Ozturk (Eds.), Proceedings of ICRES 2024-- International Conference on Research in Education and Science (pp. 573-586). ISTES.
  • Pilotti, M. A., Alzahid, D., Waked, A., E., & El Alaoui, K. (2024). Approaching academic challenges as either opportunities or threats. The International Journal of Humanities Education, 22(2), 39-60.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Al Mulhem, H., & Waked, A. (2024). Implications of dispositions for foreign language writing: The case of the Arabic-English learner. Language Teaching Research. Advanced online publication. 
  • Waked, A., Elmoussa, O. J., Pilotti, M. A. E., Al Mulhem, H., El Alaoui, K., and Ahmed R. (2024). Cultural considerations for the second language writing anxiety inventory: Saudi Arabian female university students. Frontiers in Education, 9, 1288611.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Abdelsalam, H. M., & Elmoussa, O. J. (2024). Understanding STEM and Non-STEM female freshmen in the Middle East: A post-pandemic case study. Cogent Education. Advanced online publication. 
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., & Waked, A. (2024). Grade prediction in the Middle East: A post-pandemic case study of the optimism bias. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1270621.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., & Waked, A. (2024). “Who is my instructor?” Impression formation in the Middle East. The International Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 31(1), 195-216.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E, Abdelsalam, H. M., El Alaoui, K., & Al Mulhem, H. (2024). Has anything changed? College students’ attitudes toward instruction before, during, and after the pandemic. The International Journal of Assessment and Evaluation, 3(1), 37-52.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., Waked, A., El Alaoui, K., Kort S., & Elmoussa, O. J. (2023). The emotional state of second-language learners in a research writing course: Do academic orientation and major matter? Behavioral Sciences, 13(11), 919.
  • Waked, A., El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, Maura A. E. (2023). Second-language writing anxiety and its correlates: A challenge to sustainable education in a post-pandemic world. Cogent Education, 10(2), 1-17.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Khan, R., Abdelsalam, H. (2023). “Do I need to read to do well?” A post-pandemic case study of STEM and non-STEM students. Discover Education (Collection: STEM Experiences in Education) 2(34), 1-12.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., Waked, A., El Alaoui, K., & Abdelsalam, H. (2023). Changing times in the middle of East and West: Cultural dispositions three years later. Frontiers in Education, 8, 1134190.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., & Waked, A. (2023). Battling unawareness of one’s test performance: Do practice, self-efficacy, and emotional intelligence matter? Behavioral Sciences, 13, 275.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Abdelsalam, H. M., & Khan, R. (2023). Sustainable development in action: A retrospective case study on students’ learning before, during, and after the pandemic. Sustainability, 15(9), 7664.
  • El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. A. E. (2023). Laudable Madness: Seizing Life from the teeth of death. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, , 26(5), 642–660. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190905 
  • Pilotti, M.A.E., & El Alaoui, K. (2023). Lessons learned from online and face-to-face courses: To what extent is students’ academic success just a matter of showing up? The International Journal of Assessment and Evaluation, 30(1), 15-32. doi:10.18848/2327-7920/CGP/v30i01/15-32.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., & El Alaoui, K. (2023). Forecasting honesty: An investigation of the Middle Eastern bicultural mind. Knowledge, 3, 113-128.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., Al Mulhem, H., Al Kuhayli, H., & El Alaoui, K. (2023). A case study of students’performance in Arabic and Islamic culture courses before and during the pandemic (face-to-face and online instruction). Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 4(2), 96-115.
  • Al Mulhem, H., El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. A. E. (2023). A sustainable academic journey in the Middle East: An exploratory study of female college students’ self-efficacy and perceived social support. Sustainability, 15(2), 1070. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/2/1070

  • Pilotti, M.A.E., Hassan, S. A., El Alaoui, K., & Aldossary, F. (2023). Are law students’ individual differences in the post-pandemic world related to performance? Frontiers in Education.  http://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.1064392

  • Pilotti, M.A.E., & El Alaoui, K. (2022). Emotion and judgment in young women of a society in transition. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 50, 1-14.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., & Al-Zohbi, G. (2022). What are male and female students’ views of science in a society in transition? A self-study of an institution of higher education. Education Sciences, 12, 920. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12120920

  • El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. A. E. (2022). The shifting grounds of humor: The case of Masameer in Saudi Arabia.Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research (JAMMR), 15(1), 107-124.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Razmahang, Y., El Bernoussi, Z., & Abdulrahman, S. O. (2021). Do cognitive dispositions and gender matter in applications of culturally relevant pedagogy? A pilot study at an Iraqi university. IAFOR Journal of Education,9(5), 29-48.

  • Al Kuhayli, H., El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. A. E. (2021). Critical minds in Arabic and Islamic Studies courses: A whiff of change. Teaching Theology & Religion, 24(3), 1-13.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Hamann, K., & Wilson, B. M. (2021). Causal attribution preferences and prospective self-assessment: The unknowns of the Middle Eastern learner. International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 7(1), 265-286.

  • El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. A. E. (2021). A corruption course through a culturally relevant pedagogy: The need for anassessment that fits.Education Sciences, 11(8), 412.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Mulhem, H., & Salameh M. H. (2021). A close-up on a predictive moment: Illusion ofknowing or lack of confidence in self-assessment?Journal of Education, 201(3), 256-261.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., & Al Kuhayli, H. A. (2020). A Verbatim learning past is not destiny. The International Journal of Learning in Higher education, 28(1), 51-64. https://doi:10.18848/2327-7955/CGP/v28i01/51-64.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., Abdulhadi, E. J., Al Mubarak, H. & El Alaoui, K. (2020). Perception in the Middle Eastern bicultural mind. The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities, 28(1), 1-11.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., & Salameh M. H. (2020). Prospection: Methodological complexities of imagining academia. World Future Review, 12(4), 313–321.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., Abdulhadi, E. J., Alalawi, Z. H., Alluwaimi, I. I., & El Alaoui, K. (2020). The virtuous effect of priming in Al-Arabiya. The International Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 27(2), 1-10.

  • El Alaoui, K., Alajlan, A., & Pilotti, M. (2020). Nailing it a la Saudi: Satire and the subject in times of crisis. Arabian Humanities, 14, 1-19.

  • El Alaoui, K., Inayatullah, S., & Salameh, M. (2020). The Islamic world and COVID-19: Geo-political changes, demographic shifts, and the possibility of a Renaissance.  Journal of Future Studies, Perspectives.

  • El Alaoui, K., Pilotti, M., Salameh, M., & Singh, S. (2020). The Education of Dispute Resolution in Al Jazeera Al Arabiya: A Case for a Culturally Engaging Pedagogy. Education Sciences, 10(4), 89.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Salameh, M., Singh, S., & Mulhem, H. (2020). The new and the old: A Qualitative analysis of modes of conflict resolution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. International Negotiation, 5(2), 339-344.

  • Mulhem, H., Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., & Al Kuhayli, H. A. (2020). Islamic Knowledge or Saudi Knowledge? Female Religious Students and the Problem of Cultural Norms in a Changing Arabian Society. Religious Education, 115 (5), 522-535.

  • Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Mulhem, H., & Al Kuhayli, H. A. (2019). The illusion of knowing in college: A field study of students with a teacher-centered educational past. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 15(4), 789-807.

  • Al Kuhayli, H. A., Abdulhadi, E. J., El Alaoui, K., Pilotti, M. A. E., Aldabbagh, K., & Al Ghazo, R. (2019). Projecting a clean(er) conscience unto others. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, 14(1), 31-44.

  • Al Kuhayli, H. A., Pilotti, M. A. E., El Alaoui, K., Cavazos, S. E., Hassan, S. A. M., & Al Ghazo, R. (2019). An Exploratory Non-Experimental Design of Self-Assessment Practice. The International Journal of Assessment and Evaluation, 26(1), 49-65.
  • El Alaoui, K. & Pilotti, M. A. E. (2019). Walking with lips raining fire and love: Arab poets' testimony to the world. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 21(5), 708-726.  
  • El Alaoui, K., Aldabbagh, K., Pilotti, M. A. E., Mulhem, H., Salameh, M., Zaghaab, S., & Al Kuhayli, H. (2019). The curious case of the Arabic-English bilingual speaker with substantial rote rehearsal practice. American Journal of Psychology, 132 (1), 39-56.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., & El Alaoui, K. (2018). A study of memory, evaluation, and choice with an (un)clean conscience. Australian Journal of Psychology, 71, 1-9.
  • Hassan, S. A. M., Mustafa, A. H., El Alaoui, K., Pilotti, M. A. E., Aldabbagh, K., & Zaghaab, S. (2018). Law students’ memories of a crime scene: Does the practice of memorization and recitation matter? Athens Journal of Law, 4(4), 317-336. 
  • Mulhem, H., El Alaoui, K. Hamdan, A.K., Abdul-Rahim, M.B., Pilotti, M., & Tallouzi E.A. (2018). Responses to the statements of new general self-efficacy scale: The case of the Arabic-English bilingual speaker. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1(18), 1-18.
  • El Alaoui, K., Pilotti, M. A. E., Mulhem, H., Tallouzi, E. A., & al Mqbas, M. M. A. (2017). The role of language and cultural orientation in guilt and shame experienced by bilingual female speakers. Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 11(2), 17-45.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., & El Alaoui, K. (2017). Bilingualism and self-perception: Self-efficacy through the veil of two languages. In B. S. Chumbow (Ed.), Multilingualism and bilingualism (pp. 101-118). Rijeka, Croatia: InTechOpen.
  • El Alaoui, K., Pilotti, M. A. E., Tallouzi, E. A., Aamir, S., Rzhavskaya, E., & Mulhem, H. (2017). Self-Efficacy in the presence of “small talks” in college: The harms and the needs of the tongue. Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science, 10(3), 117-127.
  • El Alaoui, K., Mulhem, H., Pilotti, M. A., & al-Mqbas M. M. A. (2017). Priming of self-Assessment: Do words speak louder than images? Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science, 10(3),101-111.
  • El Alaoui, K., Mulhem, H., Pilotti, M. A. E., Amir, S., & Tallouzi, E. (2017). Arabic-English bilingual speakers’ reactions to the statements of the new general self-efficacy scale. The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities, 24(2), 21-38.
  • El Alaoui, K. The wisdom of stubbornness (2016). Contexto International: Journal of Global Connections on Decolonial/Postcolonial International Relations, 38 (3), 593-611.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2016). An Afro-Asian tune without lyrics. In Q. Pham and R. Shilliam (Eds.), Meanings of Bandung: Decolonization and International Relations (pp. 61-74). Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2014). The ethics of Tahreer Square. Peace Review: A journal of Social Justice, 26 (1), 78-84.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2011). Chanting tahreer and compassion: People as poetry. InTensions, 5, 1-39.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2011). Scenes of Obscenity: The Meaning of America under epistemic and military violence. In N. Inayatullah (Ed.), Autobiographical International Relations: I, IR (pp. 41-55). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 
  • El Alaoui, K. (2009). Teaching the meter of the impossible in a classroom on liberal Hollywood’s mission impossible. Transformations, 20(2), 129-137.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2008). Fissures and fomentation: A critique of neo-liberalism in the Arab World. In P. McGreevy (Ed.), Liberty and Justice: America and the Middle East. Selected Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut (pp. 50-63). Beirut, Lebanon.
  • Hones, S. Leyda, J & El Alaoui, K. (2003). Space and place in geography and American Studies. In T. D’Haen, P. Giles, D. Kadir, and L. Parkinson Zamora (Eds.), How Far is America from Here? Selected Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association (pp. 527-547). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

 

  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Peace and Justice Studies, Vassar College, NY, USA. American Culture Program, 2008-2011.
  • Saxony State Dissertation Fellowship (Graduiertenstipendium), Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Institute for North American Studies, 1999-2002.
  • DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service Award), October 12, 1999.
  • Annual prize from Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Literature and Linguistics, December 10, 1999.

 

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Selected Conference Presentations

 

  • El Alaoui, K., Aldabbagh, K., Alajlan, A., & Pilotti, M. (2017). Nailing it a la Saudi: Satire in the service of social transformation. Paper presented at the Conference for Popular Culture and World Politics
  • Pilotti, M., El Alaoui, K., Aamir, S., & Ahmad Tallouzi, E. (2017). General self-efficacy, language and customs. Paper presented at the 24th International Conference on Learning.
  • Aamir, S., Ahmad Tallouzi, E., El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. (2017). The new general self-efficacy scale: A matter of language. Paper presented at the 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Advanced Research.
  • El Alaoui, K., & Mavuso, A. M. (2016). Social media as opportunities for cultural expression and communication: A cross-sectional survey of changing habits and contents. Paper presented at theSocial Media and Social Change Symposium hosted by the Center for Gulf Studies.
  • Karolak, M., Guta, H. El Alaoui, K. & Mavuso, A. A. (2016) Saudi women in political leadership: a change of attitudes or status quo? Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Women's Political Participation and leadership in the Developing World.
  • Karolak, M. Guta, H. El Alaoui, K. & Mavuso, A. A. (2015). Cross-cultural encounters with globalization: How a Global design resides in today's classroom. Paper presented at the 20th Annual AUSACEConference on Global Trends and Prospects in Mass Communication.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2014). On transnationalism and the exchange of gifts. Paper presented at CASAR Fifth International Conference on Transnational American Studies.
  • El Alaoui, K.  (2013). The wound that doesn’t bargain: Reclaiming al-karam-(a), Resistance and Other Designs of Global Politics. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.
  • El Alaoui, K.  (2013). Chanting tahreer and compassion: People as poetry. Theorizing contemporary insurrections and systemic transformations. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.
  • El Alaoui, K.  (2010). Talking compassion and liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh in conversation with Mahmoud Darwish. Re-(b)ordering the global: (Post)colonial imaginary. Paper presented at the ISA Northeast Annual conference.
  • El Alaoui, K.  (2010). The Postmodern and the postcolonial in international relations. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. 
  • El Alaoui, K. (2010). A Scene of obscenity: Bodies devoured by studies. Tales from the Postcolony. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2010). American studies in the Middle East: Scenes of obscenity or scenes of multiplicity? Paper presented at the CASAR Third International Conference on Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2009). Rethinking the interlocutor: Egyptian cinema’s conversation with the U.S. East/West visual encounter. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2008). Mission Impossible: Wealth at home and justice abroad in liberal Hollywood. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Studies Association.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2008). Encountering liberty and justice: The old new move of constructing the MENA. Paper presented at CASAR Second International Conference.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2006). Redefining America: Redefining race, ethnicity, and immigration. Salzburg Seminar. Paper presented at the American Studies Alumni Association.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2004). Response to keynote speakers Ella Shohat, Yvonne Haddad, Douglas Little etc. Paper presented at the Post-Graduate Forum, the German Association for American Studies.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2003). Locating terrorism: Safe and unsafe space in The Siege and The Other. cinematic geographies. Paper presented at the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2002). The reel bad Arabs. Paper presented at Salzburg Seminar, American Studies Center Session 29: The Continuing Challenge of America's Ethnic Pluralism.

 

Invited Lectures

 

  • El Alaoui, K. (2017). The missing link between Islamic Science and the European Renaissance. Paper presented at the Diwaniyya Al-Mubarak. Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2017). Is it possible to know the other? The problems of representations. Paper presented at Dammam University, Saudi Arabia.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2015). Women in the Media: Stereotypes and role models in Western and Arab Media. Keynote speech at Engagement Global: Service for Development Initiative. Leipzig, Germany.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2015). Islam and Science: The Renaissance that was and the Renaissance that could be. A conversation with Dr. Huda Al-Mulhem. Paper presented at Prince Mohammed bin Fahd University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2015). Reading the book, reading the globalized word. Paper presented at Teach-in, Quewam Club. Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2013). The Wound that is al-karam(a). Paper presented at The Institute of Islamic Studies. McGill University, Montréal, QC. November 19, 2013.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2011). What can the U.S. Learn from the Arab uprisings? Paper presented at Teach-in, Vassar College, New York.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2008). Black American politics. Paper presented at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Iran.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2007). Where is the MENA? The local/global in the US-MENA’s encounters. Paper presented at the Salzburg Seminar International Study Program, Austria.
  • El Alaoui, K. (2006). The clash that cashes: Unpacking the relationship between power, knowledge and culture in US representations of the Arabs. Paper presented at the Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
  • El Alaoui, K. (1999). Scattered Speculations on the Question of Belonging. Speaker at Awards Banquet, university-wide audience.  Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

 

Google Scholar

 

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U.S. –Arab relations, history of the Arab and Western worlds, human diversity and cultural practices.