Leila Ayyad is a faculty member of the Language Center. She has an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Al-Quds University and a BA in English from Bethlehem University. She is currently a postgraduate student at Tel-Aviv University in the department of English and American Literature. Her research interests include Orientalism, Lacanian analysis, Human rights in American literature, and postcolonial literature in the Arab world after 9/11.