Taghrid Elhanafy (Egypt) has an MA in Intercultural Anglophone Studies and a PhD from the University of Bayreuth on knowledge encounters between Europe and the MENA region in Elizabethan literature. As part of the research group on Shakespeare’s African and Asian sources, she researches Arabic and Persian sources of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In addition, she works on migration literature in Arabic and Mahjar literatures.