Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the MENA Writing Studies Journal editorial board, I am excited to present our first issue: “On Our Terms.” This project seeks to unite writing studies of the region and the diaspora and begin to document and build capacity for our own theories and priorities. You can access the issue from the attached document as well as our website: MENA Writing Studies Journal Volumes.
Our first issue includes content regarding discussion-based pedagogies in Saudi Arabia, writing in nursing curriculums in Qatar, implementing writing centers across Lebanese high schools, negotiating language acquisition between home languages and English, combatting AI use within academic writing centers, and developing institutional memory with an interview on the Symposium of the Teaching of Writing in Lebanon. We are thrilled for the diversity in content and representation for this first issue, and we are hopeful for the ongoing conversations and representation that we are creating space for.
We are currently reviewing manuscripts for our second volume, so if you are working on content pertaining to the region or diaspora, please consider a home with MENA Writing Studies Journal. We are considering full-length articles, thinking pieces, translingual literacy narratives, programmatic interviews, and book reviews.
If you’re interested in additional ways of contributing to the output of scholarship for the region, consider reviewing for us.
Thank you for taking the time to read our first issue, and we hope you will distribute widely.
Best,
MENA Writing Studies Journal Board
Halle Neiderman, Amy Zenger, Dorota Fleszar, Marwa Mehio, and Sarah Elcheikhali