After studying for an MA in Near & Middle Eastern History at SOAS, Muzna Al-Qaiti began working as a lecturer of Contemporary World History and Art Appreciation at Dar Al Hekma College in Jeddah. She is a great believer in having pride in one's past and believes that this helps us to hope for a brighter future.  Muzna tries to spread such values via her teaching to "the daughters" of the MENA region.

Yasmine El-Mehairy is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of supermama.me, an Arabic language parenting portal for mothers and mothers-to-be. Her YouTube video channel and portal serve over 3 million mothers and women each month and have become the #1 online destination for mothers in Egypt! Previously, Yasmine worked as a Usability Engineer & Business Analyst at ITWORX in Egypt.

 

Riad Imdjdoubene graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management, before attending Modul University in Vienna, where he studied for an MBA in Tourism Management. Here he tells us about his long term plans for his career in the hospitality industry.

Ahmed Badawi is the Co-Executive Director of Transform: Centre for Conflict Engagement and Political Development , a Berlin-based organisation which he co-founded in 2007, as well as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at the Free University of Berlin.  He was awarded a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University, Berlin in 2011.

“At the moment I’m in my house in Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip. It’s quiet, but there is no electricity and there are some airplanes in the sky. It’s a bit tense because we don’t know what will happen. It seems that there are some escalations, from what we heard on the news, so we don’t know what is going to happen.”

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Dr. Othman Al-Helli has written a joint paper “High resolution MR anatomy of the subthalamic nucleus: Imaging at 9.4 T with histological validation” NeuroImage 59 (2012) 2035–2044.

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"There has been a trend in recent years of Palestinian permanent residents of East Jerusalem applying for – and getting – Israeli citizenship. Will this trend provide freedom, or further fragment Palestinian national identity?"

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Antar Abdellah Antar launches a new website detailing his work as a Associate professor of TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) at South Valley University, Faculty of Education, Qena, Egypt. It includes his CV, blog and photo diary. He is a published author of many books on linguistics, translation and analysing Shakespeare.

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Fadel Al-Hababi publishes an article on Virology: Gene Expression Profiling Indicates the Roles of Host Oxidative Stress, Apoptosis, Lipid Metabolism, and Intracellular Transport Genes in the Replication of Hepatitis (2010).

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Ahmed Badawi, Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient speaks about politics with Quadriga TV, Kevin Hoffmann (Business Correspondent for Der Tagespiegel) and Quentin Peel (International Affairs Editor of the Financial Times).

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