Saqer Almarri
Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BBA American University in Dubai; MA American University of Sharjah; PhD Binghamton University State University of New York
Research Areas: Premodern Arabic literature, translation studies, intersex studies, gender and Islam, coloniality of gender and language
Saqer A. Almarri completed his PhD in Translation Studies in 2019 at Binghamton University – State University of New York. Almarri's research explores the depictions and narrative of gender ambiguous subjects in the Arabic and Islamic written tradition. This began through Almarri's investigations of the depiction of the khuntha in Islamic jurisprudence and its translations across scholarly languages. He continues this investigation through an investigation of these narratives and depictions and conceptualizations in pre-modern Arabic scholarship and literature. Almarri was previously a research fellow in NYUAD's Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World.