Jamal Assadi Jamal Assadi, associate professor, currently chairs the Department of English Language and Literature at the College of Sakhnin. He received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In addition to numerous articles n professional journals, Prof. Assadi is the author of Acting, Rhetoric and Interpretation in Selected Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow (2006) and co-editor of A Distant Drummer: Foreign Perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). Prof. Assadi, a writer of children's stories and a renowned poet, has translated a few volumes of Palestinian poetry and short fiction into English.