Projects
- The Kids Are All Right: Sexuality, Space and Subversion among Arab Youth in BeirutAn independent ethnographic research project that investigated the ways in which LGB youth navigated the complications--and opportunities--of non-heterosexual life in the Lebanese capital. Read the full thing at https://bit.ly/2kXmPJm . [Image credit: album art concept by Leo Burnett and illustrations by Fouad Mezher for Mashrou Leila.]
Work history
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Editor, Gulf States & YemenMuftah
- New York, United StatesInternship
Worked remotely as a section editor, writing weekly blog posts on Gulf culture, politics and society, conducting picture research and commissioning articles.
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Research InternHeinrich-Böll-Stiftung
- Beirut, LebanonInternship
Completed an independent, 28,000-word research paper from thesis formulation, methodology and questionnaire to interviews, data analysis, and the final write-up.
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Skills
- Writing
- Editing
- Research
- German
- Swedish
- Presentations
Education
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MSt in Modern LanguagesUniversity of Oxford
- Oxford, United Kingdom
An intensive, one-year degree in German literature, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. MA thesis: Neocolonial Tendencies in Contemporary German Travel Literature.
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Arts and Science BAScUniversity College London (UCL)
- London, United Kingdom
An interdisciplinary degree with a focus on the social sciences and German literature. BA thesis: 'Tempelhofer Freiheit': The Void as Heritage and Utopia. Graduated with First Class Honours.