Dr. Zahra Al-Saqqaf teaches English Literature at Faculty of Education, University of Aden. Her MA dissertation and Ph.D. thesis discuss issues of female self-fulfilment and self-empowerment, migration and the construction of female gender identity, and mother-son and mother-daughter relationships. Arabic-English comparative and contrastive studies is another field of research in which she participated with papers in international conferences. She published research papers and translated short stories. She is a member of APETAU (Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities), the editing board of Gender and Development (A Refereed Journal published by WRTC, University of Aden), and GRACE.