Natalie El-Eid specializes in contemporary transnational literatures and cultures of the Arab world. She is a former instructor of Women’s & Gender studies and a Graduate Research Associate in the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Syracuse University, where she earned her PhD in English. She also holds a master’s degree in English from SUNY Cortland.

Dr. El-Eid, whose dissertation is titled “Transnational Druze and Reincarnation: Remembering, Recording, and Reconnecting,” focuses her research on diverse and interdisciplinary textualizations of transnational Arab identities, cultures, and lived experiences across racial and ethnic frameworks and solidarities. Her work calls attention to transnational Druze communities, most notably to their fundamental belief in reincarnation as an intervention into the fields of transnational, Arab American, memory, and trauma studies of the U.S. and the Global South. Through her work, Dr. El-Eid has introduced the concept of "Druze afterlives" to provide a new way of understanding how empire, war, trauma, memory, and gender intersect within and across the borders, bodies, and stories of the transnational Arab world.