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Hi, I’m Mennan—a doctoral researcher using a psycholinguistic approach to explore metaphors in Arabic novels.

As a self-confessed language nerd, I’ve also been posting on my blog, The Arabic Pages, twice weekly for over five years.

I have experience in content creation, translation, editing, lecturing, public speaking, leading workshops, and consultancy. I’m particularly interested in literary translation and language-learning projects.

Recent news:

• 2/8/25: I wrote a guest post for Aralects, “Let Arabic Speak“

• 26/6/25: I designed and led a workshop titled “Deconstructing the Metaphors of the Mind: How we conceptualise our research experiences” at Techne DTP’s June Congress 2025—find out more

• 15/3/25: I was invited to speak to a group of Arabic students in Indonesia to motivate them in their language-learning journeys

• 19/2/25: One of my poems was shortlisted—and two others longlisted—for the Diving Bell Poetry Prize

• 20/1/24: I was interviewed by Gerald Drißner of Arabic for Nerds—read the interview here

• New downloadable Arabic resources created