Katrien Vanpee

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Katrien Vanpee is currently preparing a Ph.D. in Arabic language and literature with a minor in Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University. She holds an M.A. in contemporary Arab studies from Georgetown University (2007) and an M.A. and B.A. in Arabic and Islamic studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (2004). She studied Arabic in Tunis, in Cairo, at the Università Ca’Foscari in Venice, and at Qatar University in Doha, where she specialized in literature and poetry from the Arabian Gulf. She has worked at the Embassy of Belgium in Doha and as an editor for the Dutch–language Arabic teaching method La Mafarr (Peeters, 2007). Her current research interests include modern and contemporary literature and poetry, Arabic–English literature translation, teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL), and Arabic sociolinguistics. She leads a weekly Arabic literature club in Washington, DC.