*****Research Papers Publications: - "Medieval Islamic Roots of Medical and Health Humanities," "Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities" 2024 - “Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great and the Tragedy of Karbala,” Cultural and Religious Studies, August 2023, Vol. 11, No. 8, (Serial Number 105) DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177 doi: 10.17265/2328-2177/2023.0X.000 - "Feline Trauma in Ahmed Saadawi," Journal of Arts & Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 05 (18/8/2023). https://doi.org/10.18533/jah.v12i05.2364 - “Terroristic Torture in George Orwell's 1984 and Abdul-Sattar Nasir's Eggplant Peels”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Volume 15, Number 2 (31 July 2023), https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2. -“Survival and Storytelling: Scheherazade and Lutfiya al-Dulaimi’s Saturn Ladies”, English Language and Literature Studies; Vol. 13, No. 2; 2023 (published online March 5, 2023). DOI:10.5539/ells.v13n2p16 ISSN 1925-4768 E-ISSN 1925-4776 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education - “Medical and Health Humanities as a New Rapidly Growing Transdisciplinary Academic Field”, ARID International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Journal, 9th Edition, Vol. 5, 2023 "العلوم الانسانية الطبية والصحية كمجال اكاديمي حديث متعدد الاختصاصات وسريع النمو"، مجلة أريد الدولية للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية العدد التاسع، المجلد الخامس2023. https://doi.org/10.36772/arid.aijssh.2023.597 - “Traces of Scheherazade in Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen: A Transcultural Intertextual Reading”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 13, No. 4, 2021. 1-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.12 -‘The Search for Identity in Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist and Abdallah Thabit’s The Twentieth Terrorist’, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 17/10/2020. -‘Retelling ‘The Nights’; Reappropriating Shahrzad? An Ancient Classic or an Orientalist Other?! The complex history and reception of ‘The Thousand and One Nights’ and the role of Shahrzad as its story-teller’, Proceedings of Narrative and Postcolonialism International Conference, College of Arts, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, 15-16 April, 2019 -‘Narrative as Soft Violence in Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby’, SOCRATES 3.1 (2015), pp. 1-34 - ‘Violence as the Abject in Iraqi Literature: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’, International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS), 1.4 (March 2015), pp. 321-336 - ‘Gastronomic Identity and Connectivity in Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby (2013)’, Track Changes: The Postgraduate Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, The University of Sheffield, Issue 7 (Winter 2014) - ‘Staff Happens: David Hare’s Iraq war Drama’. The College of Arts Magazine, Al-Mustansiriya University. 22 September 2010 - ‘The Position of Culture in Shakespeare’s Hamelt and Marlowe’s Tamburlaine The Great’ Al-Ustath/Teacher’s Journal, Baghdad University, College of Education, issue 170 (2011). *****Research Papers Presented at Conferences: -“Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great and the Tragedy of Karbala”, the 2023 (SCRC) South Central Renaissance Conference’s “Exploring the Renaissance 2023 An International Conference”, April 27-April 29. Berkeley, USA. - Reading a short story, “Dreams and Nightmares”, 6th Trauma and Nightmare International Interdisciplinary Conference (ONLINE) 16-17 March 2023, University of Gdańsk, Poland. -“Postmemory and exile: Samir Naqqash’s life and work and the Culture of an Ancient Iraqi Jewish Minority” 4th "Postmemory and the Contemporary World", International Interdisciplinary Conference, 23-24 February 2023, online, University of Gdańsk, Poland. -“Language and Deixis of Nostalgia in Samir Naqqash’s Tenants and Cobwebs”, The Critical Approaches to Language, Literature and Translation Studies Conference, 24-25 of November 2021 at the Middle East University in Amman, Jordan. - “Traces of Scheherazade in Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen: Transcultural Intertextuality Reading”, 2nd Rupkatha International Open Conference (RIOC), virtually, 28-30/08/ 2021. - “Medical and Health Humanities as a New Rapidly Growing Transdisciplinary Academic Field”, “العلوم الانسانية الطبية والصحية كمجال اكاديمي حديث متعدد الاختصاصات وسريع النمو”, The 8th virtual conference of Arid Platform 15-20 June 2021. - ‘The Search for Identity in Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist and Abdallah Thabit’s The Twentieth Terrorist’, 1st Rupkatha International Open Conference (RIOC), virtually, 20/08/ 2020. - ‘The Impact of Orwell’s 1984 on Abdul-Sattar Nasir’s Novel, Eggplant Peels (2007)’, UCL’s conference, Rebel? Prophet? Relic? Perspectives on George Orwell in 2019 on 24-25 May 2019 in UK. - ‘Retelling ‘The Nights’; Reappropriating Shahrzad? An Ancient Classic or an Orientalist Other?! The complex history and reception of ‘The Thousand and One Nights’ and the role of Shahrzad as its story-teller’, Narrative and Postcolonialism International Conference, College of Arts, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, 15-16 April, 2019 -‘The Reincarnation of Scheherazade as a Leader and figure for fictional narrative in Saturn Ladies’, Women’s Leadership Symposium in Oxford on 5, 6 and 7 December, 2018 - ‘Feline Trauma in Frankenstein in Baghdad’, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), 11-14 August 2016 in Berkeley University in California - ‘The Reincarnation of Scheherazade as a figure for fictional narrative in Saturn Ladies: Lutfiya Al-Dulaimi and her female characters Recall their Grandmothers’ desperate fight to survive’, in ‘Scheherazade in Classical, Modern and Postmodern Worlds Conference’, The School of English, The University of Sheffield, 19 May 2016 -‘Violence as the Abject in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad: An Iraqi Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’, Romantic Heirs conference, School of English/ The University of Sheffield, 17 Jan. 2014 -‘Dietary Transgression in Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby’, Transitions and Transgressions: A postgraduate and early-career researcher conference Thursday 11th September 2014. A one-day postgraduate and early-career researcher conference Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University -‘Gastronomic Identity in Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby’, School of English PG Colloquium, The University of Sheffield, 29 May 2014 -‘Marlowe’s Tamburlaine The Great and Imam Hussein’. The Third Al-Taf Forum, College of Arts, Al-Mustansiriya University, 2013. -‘The Origin of Tashabih (Passion) Plays’. The Second Al-Taf Forum, College of Arts, Al-Mustansiriya University, 2012. *****Workshops: - Moderated a virtual seminar entitled, “Artificial and Augmented Intelligence (AI) in the University: Implications for Teaching and Research,” by Dr Craig Klugman, Vincent de Paul Professor of Bioethics & Health Humanities, DePaul University, Chicago, USA, held by the Continuing Centre of Al-Nahrain University on 6 June 2023 - “Creative Writing” workshop, College of Medicine, Apr. 12, 2022. - “Speed Reading” workshop, College of Medicine, Mar. 7, 2022. - “Proofreading” workshop, College of Medicine, Feb. 22, 2022. - “How to Cope with Exam Stress” workshop, College of Medicine, Jan. 10, 2022. - A workshop on “How to Avoid Plagiarism – Proofreading”, College of Medicine, Nov. 2, 2021. - Moderating a workshop on “Art in Shelter: Creativity and Mental Health” given by Professor Victoria Tischler from Exeter University, UK arranged by the Continuing Education Center in Al-Nahrain University on Oct. 28, 2021. - Presentation Skills in English Language, College of Medicine, on 12 Oct. 2021. - Self-Publishing and Beyond, online workshop, college of Medicine, on 10 July 2021 - Reading for the Exam, Online workshop for students, College of Medicine on 9 July 20201 - Self-Publishing, online workshop 25 June 2021, College of Medicine - Speed Reading Techniques, College of Medicine on 27 May 2021 - Health Humanities with Professor Paul Crawford from the University of Nottingham, on 21 May 2021, online workshop, College of Medicine - ‘How to deal with Exam Anxiety’, 7-9 January 2019, Extramural Studies (Continuing Education), Al-Mustansiriya University - ‘How to deal with Exam Anxiety’, 15 January 2019, Dept. of English Language and Literature, College of Arts, Al-Mustansiriya University - ‘Presentation Skills’, 28-29 April 2019 Extramural Studies (Continuing Education), Al-Mustansiriya University *****Posters: 1- Poster ‘Study Maze’, Doctoral Academy Conference on Tuesday 21 July 2016, The University of Sheffield Organizing Conferences: 1- Organizing a conference: ‘Scheherazade in Classical, Modern and Postmodern Worlds Conference’, The School of English. The University of Sheffield. 19 May 2016 2- Co-organizing a conference: ‘University of Sheffield School of English Interdisciplinary Postgrad Colloquium on ‘Silence’ 2nd June 2016’ *****Other Activities 1- ‘MasterWork’, a short play performed in Terra Incognita Festival, Theatre Department, School of English, The University of Sheffield, 12 June 2014 2- ‘The Date Palm Tree’, a short play performed by Iraqi children in ‘We are All Iraq’ event held on 28 April 2017 by the Iraqi Society at the University of Sheffield