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Curriculum Vitae

Education

New York University Steinhardt Ph.D. Candidate in Food Studies

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University of Oxford Master of Philosophy in Modern Middle Eastern Studies

 

Simon Fraser University Bachelor of Arts with a History major, concentration in Middle Eastern History, and English minor

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Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Six-week Arabic immersion program

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Arabic Language Institute in Fez, Morocco Six-week intensive Modern Standard Arabic 

Work Experience

  • Content writer, editor, and translator at Christopher Stewart Wine and Spirits (short-term contract) (February 2021-May 2021). 

  • New York University Instructor (Food, Media, and Cultural Capital in New York – synchronous and asynchronous online course) (Summer 2020)

  • New York University Adjunct Instructor (Food and the City online course) (Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020)

  • New York University Instructor (Food, Media, and Cultural Capital in New York) (Summer 2019)

  • Instructor (intensive experiential learning course on food and migration in New York City between NYU and Bridgewater College)

  • James Beard Foundation Cookbook Awards Judge (2019)

  • New York University Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Instructor/TA (Food and Identity) (2019)

  • New York University Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Instructor/TA (Food History) (2018)

  • Research Assistant (under the supervision of Dr. Ella Shohat) (2017-2018)

  • Assistant/Editor for book manuscript preparation (under the supervision of Dr. Ella Shohat, completed line, copy, and content editing as well as Romanization of Arabic for a book manuscript) (2017-2018)

  • Potts Education Studio Private ESL tutor and marker (2016)

  • York Catholic District School Board’s “The Holocaust in History and Living Memory” Experiential Learning Trip in Germany and Poland (supervised students on travels to former concentration camps and museums to facilitate experiential Holocaust studies) (2015)

  • Muftah online magazine Co-editor Edited Muftah’s Israel/Palestine and Levant pages (six-month internship) (2014-2015)

  • Research Assistant Simon Fraser University History Department (under the supervision of Dr. John Craig, carried out social historical study of transcribed and paleographic churchwardens’ accounts) 

  • Teaching Assistant (Islamic India) Simon Fraser University History Department

  • Research Assistant Simon Fraser University History Department (under the supervision of Dr. Roxanne Panchasi, researched French journalistic depictions of Indira Ghandi)

  • Full-time Research Assistant Simon Fraser University History Department (under the supervision of Dr. Luke Clossey, researched early modern Christianity)

Languages

Arabic (fusha) (spoken and written) - Upper Intermediate

 

Arabic  (amiyya, with a focus on Palestinian Arabic) - Intermediate

 

French (spoken and written) - Advanced

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Hebrew (spoken and written) - Beginner

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English teaching experience

 

Private English tutor and ESL teacher (Potts Education Centre)

 

Adult ESL conversation leader (Immigrant Services Society of BC)

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Awards and Scholarships

  • Provost’s Global Research Initiative, New York University (award to carry out research and fieldwork for three months in Tel Aviv, Israel) (Sept.-Dec. 2019)

  • Provost’s Global Research Initiative, New York University (award to carry out research and fieldwork for two months in Tel Aviv, Israel) (Feb.-April 2018)

  • STAR grants for travel and language study, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (Spring and Autumn 2014)

  • Simon Fraser University Gold Medal and Prize in History and Stephen McIntyre Book Prize in History (top graduating student in History) (Summer 2013)

  • SFU’s Cleveland Prize in Africa Middle-Eastern Asian History for the paper “The Interfaith Studies of a Scandalous Mufassir: Al-BiqaÌ„’iÌ„’s Judeo- Christian Tafsir in the Late MamluÌ„k Empire” (Summer 2013)

  • SFU’s Cleveland Prize in Africa Middle-Eastern Asian History for the paper “Romanticizing the Land: Agriculturally Imagined Communities in Palestine- Israel” (Summer 2012)

  • SFU’s Cleveland Prize in Africa Middle-Eastern Asian History for the paper “The Diffusion of Islam in the Strait of Malacca Region” (Summer 2011)

  • Vice President Research Undergraduate Student Research Awards (Autumn 2010 and Autumn 2011)

  • Dean’s and President’s Honour Roll status at Simon Fraser University (Autumn 2009-Spring 2013)

  • Gordon M. Shrum Major Entrance Scholarship (2009)

Education
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