Omar Khalifah is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at Georgetown University in Qatar. He is the author of Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary (2016) and The Unsettling Nakba: Memory Studies, Palestinian Literature, and the Challenge of Remembering (forthcoming 2027). His novel, Sand-Catcher (2024), translated from Arabic by Barbara Romaine, won the 2025 National Translation Award in Prose.