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Independent Scholar
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ABOUT
I have a DPhil in 'Oriental' Studies from University of Oxford and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS.
Currently, I am researching the interactional formation of discursive authority in communications about the environment. My case study is in olive cultivating communities in a conflictual borderzone south of Jerusalem.
As the Research Fellow at the Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in 2019, I analysed audience receptivity to women's testimonies that have been translated between Arabic and English in human rights organisations.
My main research has been on the sociolinguistics of Palestinian Arabic and Modern Israeli Hebrew in zones of contact and conflict. After publishing Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices (2013), my Leverhulme Fellowship at Oxford University (2014-2019) resulted in The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship (2019).
I previously worked at Amnesty International’s Secretariat in London.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Environment
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Human Rights
Identity/Representation
Political Economy
Sociolinguistics
Geographic Areas of Interest
Palestine
Mashreq
Arab States
Israel
Europe
Other
Specialties
Translation Of Women's Testimonies
Communication Of Environmental Knowledge
Language Contact In Political Contexts
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Hebrew (advanced)
French (fluent)
Czech (native)
English (native)
German (elementary)
Russian (elementary)
Education
DPhil
| 2013
| Faculty of Oriental Studies
| University of Oxford
MA
| 2006
| Near and Middle East Studies
| School of Oriental and African Studies
BA
| 2004
| Near and Middle East Studies
| School of Oriental and African Studies
Abstracts
Cultivating communication: Palestinian olive growers in two villages south of Jerusalem
