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Dr. Natalie Khazaal is Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech, where she directs the Arabic and Middle East & North Africa programs. Her work spans the Arabic language, exploring the lives of atheists and apostates in Arab and Muslim communities, nonhuman animal ethics, and the media’s role in normalizing speciesism and racism. Natalie is the co-creator of the MARS test (Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism), an evaluative framework—similar to the Bechdel and DuVernay tests—that measures racism and speciesism in media.

Natalie is non-religious and has a naturalistic worldview. She is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

Natalie at Georgia Tech
“Nonbelievers, Apostates and Atheists in the Muslim World” (ed)
“Pretty Liar: Television, Language and Gender in Wartime Lebanon”
“Like an Animal’: Critical Animal Studies Perspectives on Borders, Displacement, and Othering” (ed)