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    +966-13-849-9364- 8502

  • Email:

    lalaoui@pmu.edu.sa

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    F-023

  • 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 Assistant 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.

 

  • 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. (2018). The role of language and cultural orientation in guilt and shame experienced by bilingual female speakers. Journal of Muslim Mental Health.
  • Pilotti, M. A. E., & El Alaoui, K. (in press). Self-efficacy through the veil of two languages. In B. S. Chumbow (Ed.), Multilingualism and bilingualism (pp. __-___). 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). 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

 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CNNqXBMAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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