Lisa J White

Lisa J. White was a senior instructor of Arabic (2009-2019) and former executive director (1993-97) of CASA (the Center for Arabic Study Abroad) at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo, where she taught for over thirty years. A morphology and translation enthusiast, she received the 1999 University of Arkansas Translation Prize for her translation of Mohammed Afifi's Little Songs in the Shade of Tamaara (2000).

Lisa J. White was a senior instructor of Arabic (2009-2019) and former executive director (1993-97) of CASA (the Center for Arabic Study Abroad) at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo, where she taught for over thirty years. A morphology and translation enthusiast, she received the 1999 University of Arkansas Translation Prize for her translation of Mohammed Afifi's Little Songs in the Shade of Tamaara (2000). See less