Academically, I am a development specialist in the area of democracy and governance. My PhD research examines the role of illiterate women in political change. I have extensive experience working on civil-military affairs, including as a North Africa expert for the NATO Civil-Military Fusion Centre and with the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia on civil-military cooperation training exercises.
Funded by the National Security Education Program Boren Fellowship, I completed field work on the Soulaliyates women’s movement in Morocco and managed a US State Department-funded project on offender-focus domestic violence reform for Search for Common Ground’s Rabat office.
I have worked in Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. In addition to a Boren Fellowship in Morocco, I am a former Fulbright Scholar (Germany) and a three-time recipient of the US State Department Critical Language Scholarship for Arabic (Jordan, Morocco, and Egypt). I hold a Ph.D. in international studies with an emphasis in international political economy and development and comparative socio-political studies from Old Dominion University, and I speak Arabic, French, and German.
A friend and fellow classmate directed me to this article about the Center in Beni Suef we visited last month. It's informative if inaccurate. For example, it is Dr. (not Mr.) Hassanein’s center.
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