Khadijah Bawazeer

GRM 2013 Workshop: Educational Challenges in the GCC in the 21st Century

- King Abdulaziz University

Dr. Khadijah Bawazeer is an assistant professor of English Literature, criticism and translation at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in postcolonial feminism and her MA from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bawazeer works on translation, writing and editing. She has a weekly column in the Saudi newspaper, Saudi Gazette. Besides book reviews, she has written articles on history. She is currently working on a book about learning English in Saudi Arabia taking into consideration the specific cultural and study patterns of Saudi students, the natural processes of language acquisition, student’s autonomy and their familiarity with the Internet and smart phone technology. Dr. Bawazeer spent last summer as a visiting professor to Clare Hall College at Cambridge University and is in the process of publishing a translation of a book on Artificial Intelligence.