Ramzi Salti
Dr. Ramzi Salti is an Advanced Lecturer for the Arabic Program (SLC) at Stanford University and a fully Certified ACTFL Oral and Written Proficiency Tester of Arabic. Since 2000, he has continuously organized and emceed various events--at Stanford and elsewhere--that center on various Arabic cultural productions, postcolonial theory, Pop Culture, and the use of technology to enhance language proficiency in the classroom.
In addition to teaching at Stanford, Dr. Salti authors his own blog at www.arabology.org and hosts a popular podcast titled 'Arabology' which initially aired on KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM (Podcasts at https://soundcloud.com/arabology) and is now available on all music streaming platforms.
Salti has amassed several prestigious awards during his 25+ years at Stanford, including the Stanford Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (2004-5), the ASSU's Honorable Mention for the Teacher of the Year Award (2009) and the Knight Favorite Professor Award by the John S. Knight Fellowships Program for Professional Journalists in 2005, 2009, and 2013. He also received special recognition in 2024 for his 25 Years of Academic Service at Stanford.
Over the past two decades, Salti has received multiple grants from the Stanford Arts Institute to bring such Arabic cultural icons as Mashrou Leila's Hamed Sinno, Yasmine Hamdan and Pierre Dulaine to Stanford. He co-founded the Stanford Middle East Ensemble in 2013 and has since organized countless cultural and musical events at Stanford--including Arabic film screenings (Arab Film Festival); cultural workshops at Stanford's Markaz Resource Center; annual audio-visual presentations about Arabic music (Stanford Global Studies); and concerts by such iconic/indie musicians as DAM, Omar Offendum, Mike Massy, and "Emel Mathouthi at the Bing" (Stanford Live).
Dr. Salti's collection of short stories, titled 'The Native Informant & Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World,' was first published in 1994 to much critical acclaim and is now available on Kindle and Google Play. He has consistently published essays and articles in such journals as World Literature Today, The International Fiction Review, The Journal of Arabic Literature, Notes on Contemporary Literature, and World Literature Today. Several chapters from his Doctoral thesis, which surveys the (mis)representations of marginalized sexualities in Arabic Literature, have also been published in various scholarly journals.
