Anthology Contributions

• “It’s Not About That”, short story, in Dinarzad’s Children: an Anthology of Arab American Fiction, editors Kaldas and Mattawa, University of Arkansas Press, November 2004.

• “The Coming Out of the Chameleon,” an essay, and “El Greco,” excerpt from new novel, in Scheherazade’s Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing, editor Darraj, Praeger Press, October 2004.
  
• “The Islamic Salon: Elite Women’s Religious Networks in Egypt,” in Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop, editors Lawrence and Cooke, University of North Carolina Press, February 2005.

Selected Essays and Publications

• Reflections and Refractions: Arab American Women Writing and Written, Hawwa, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, vol 1.2, August 2003.

• Constructing Identities: Arabs Writing in the American Context. Seventh International Symposium on Comparative Literature, Cairo University, Egypt, December 2002.

• Mediating Identities in Crisis: Muslim Americans post September 11. Middle East Studies Association conference, Washington DC, November 2002.

• The Role of Novel and Memoir in Muslim Discourses of Modernity. First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Mainz, September 2002.

• The Islamic Salon: Elite Women’s Religious Networks in Egypt, Duke University, March 2001, to be published by UNC Press, 2004.

• Theorizing Modern Alexandria, co-authored with Faiza Shereen, Modern Languages Association conference, New Orleans, December 2001.

Recent Themes in Public Speaking

• “Role of women and the family in Islam,” Summer Institute for Teachers on Teaching about Islam and Muslims Around the World, North Carolina Department of Education, Raleigh, June 17, 2003.
• “Are your Civil Rights Threatened Now?” Panel organized by the Orange County Civil Rights Bill Defense Committee, Chapel Hill Town Hall, March 20, 2003.
• “America: Superpower & Responsibility,” UNC-Wilmington Global Summit, Wilmington, February 11, 2003.
• “Growing up Arab American,” University Center for International Studies series, UNC-Chapel Hill, August 2002.
• “The Insider/Outsider Perspective in Fiction: Privileges & Politics,” Dayton University Literary Festival, April 20, 2001; Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, March 16th, 2001; and the Islamic Heritage Society, New York, May 15th, 2001.
• “Middle Eastern Cultural Overview,” Athena Foundation Conference, Mentoring Orientation and Training, May 3rd, 2001.
• “Growing Up Diglossic: Political, Social and Literary Ramifications,” Duke University, February 2nd, 2001.
  

Activities

• As coordinator and cofounder of “Americans & Muslims for Intercultural Dialogue,” a volunteer speakers group formed in October 2001 to promote understanding and defend civil liberties, Serageldin has also been invited to speak regularly at churches, rotaries, public libraries, etc.
  
• Samia Serageldin is Vice-President of the Alliance française of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill and an active member for the past ten years.
  

Selected Events

Readings:

• October 30, 2003. Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab.
  Studies: Seminar on Muslim Women Writers in America.
• December 3, 2003. Writers Series convocation at Butler University, Indiana.
• December 28, 2003. Arab American Fiction Reading, Modern Languages Association Convention, San Diego.
• June 10, 2004. School of Oriental and African Studies. Khalili Lecture Theatre, London, England.