He is the translator of three Arabic novels, including Sonallah Ibrahim's Stealth. He is the author of numerous critical articles in the areas of literature of the Americas, Latin American cultural studies, and Arab cultural studies and of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition (Pittsburgh, 2007), and co-editor with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak of the Palgrave/Macmillan series, "Theory in the World." "HCJ’s ruling construes a right for Israel to extensively exploit the natural resources in the OPT for the benefit of the Israeli private market."