French language and Francophone culture ; Technology and the developing world; Socio-cultural history of North Africa; Women and Islam; Technology, culture and business practices
Technology and second language acquisition; culture, technology and business practices; Women and Islam: The Maghribi experience; information and communication technology and the developing world; women's rights moevemnts in the Maghrib Microcredit in the Arab-Muslim world
Women and Islam The headscarf debate Tunisian women's rights
An expert in L2 acquisition and computer-assisted instruction (CALL), she has designed French multimedia educational software and studied the impact of culture on the application of technologies in business. More recently, she has extended her focus to include an examination of issues of female empowerment and technology (ICTs) in Muslim communities in North Africa;; has chronicled the private lives of Muslim women via a photo-documentary and is recently completed a book, The Tunisian Women's Rights Movement: From Nascent Activism to Influential Power-broking with Tunisian colleague and feminist, Khedija Arfaoui. She has taught in France and Morocco and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar and frequent presenter at Maghribi conferences.