On May 15, 2013, Richard Díaz-Cataldo, defended his thesis titled El alma de Tahrir: poética de una revolución, a translation from English into Spanish of The Soul of Tahrir: Poetics of a Revolution by Samia Mehrez.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Roselina Rivera, M.A., María M. Carrión, Ph. D., and thesis advisor Aurora Lauzardo, Ph. D., awarded his thesis the grade notable.