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MAAS Alumni News: Fall 2008
Published in 2009
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Haizam Amirah-Fernandez (2001) has co-edited a book on North Africa, which was published earlier this year: North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of Transformation (Routledge, 2008).
Rania Atalla (1991) recently moved back to D.C. to serve as Executive Director of Women for Women International/USA, a global NGO that focuses on women's empowerment in conflict and post-conflict countries. Part of Rania's mandate is to establish and develop a policy and advocacy component for the 15-year old organization.
Anita Fabos (1988) will be leaving London at the end of December, where she has been teaching at the University of East London, to accept a position as Associate Professor in the Department of International Development, Community and the Environment at Clark University.
David Greenhalgh (2010) will be marrying Deborah Blinder in Durham, North Carolina on May 17th, 2009.
Andrew Helms (2009) will be presenting a paper at the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators in November in Richmond, Virginia.
Lindsey Jones (2006) is working in Kirkuk, Iraq, as the Director of Reporting and Management Information System (MIS) with ACDI/VOCA, an economic development NGO.
Adila Laidi-Hanieh (1992) received a Fulbright scholarship to do a Ph.D. in cultural studies at George Mason University. Her first book as an editor comes out in September in France and Belgium, and is the first book to study contemporary Palestine in an "introspective, multidisciplinary, and critical manner" as well as to gather literary texts and images such as diaries, memoirs, photographs, and interviews. "It seeks to move beyond current visions of Palestine, to probe mechanisms of survival, adaptation, and how Palestine is perceived, dreamed, and lived," she writes.
Manal Omar (2001) recently moved back to the Washington, D.C. area to join the United States Institute of Peace as a Grants Program Officer for Iraq.
Olivia Orozco de la Torre (2003) recently defended her Ph.D. dissertation in the department of History & Civilization at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. The title of her dissertation is "The Monetary Thought in Islamic and Christian Scholars (13th-16th century): A comparative perspective on debasement and the rise of the quantity theory of money." Olivia is also coordinating the Socioeconomic Area for Casa Árabe and its International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies, a newly established Spanish institution located in Madrid and Cordoba.
Otavio Peixoto (1997) recently served as an interpreter at two major world conferences held in Rio with a substantial audience from the Arab world: the 2008 Rio Oil & Gas Conference and an international financial congress focused on concerns over money laundering and the financing of terrorist activities.
Laila Shereen Sakr (1998) is an Egyptian-American poet, designer, editor, activist, and artist. Having spent 12 years in Washington, D.C. working in the field of publishing and design on issues related to the contemporary Arab world for organizations such as CCAS, Al Hayat newspaper, and Quilting Point productions, Laila is currently a graduate student in Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her current endeavor is creating an innovative publishing model using web 3.0 technology for a variety of material in both Arabic and English. She is also designing a graphical user interface for Warren Sack's software design, Conversation Map, an exhibit running at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's show "The Art of Participation" (11/08-02/09), as well as building a social networking site for UC Santa Cruz's Graduate Division.
Aryah Somers (1999) has moved back to New York to join the Vera Institute of Justice. She is currently the Senior Program Associate on the Unaccompanied Children Pro Bono Project and will continue her work with unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children.
Rami Turayhi (2005) is currently in his second year at Columbia Law School. After his first year, he worked as a summer associate at an American law firm in Dubai, focusing on corporate finance and energy law. He plans to work this summer at an international law firm in Los Angeles, where he will specialize in project finance law exclusively within the renewable energy space. In his spare time, Rami writes bi-weekly editorials on Middle East politics, Iraq, and U.S. energy policy for the Diplomatic Courier, a global affairs magazine based in Washington, D.C. He is also a staff editor on the Columbia Business Law Review, and plans to write his journal note on the rise of sovereign wealth funds around the world, with a specific focus on Middle Eastern funds.
Priscilla Wathington (2007) and her husband Chad welcomed a new addition to their family on October 16, 2008. Elisha Majdi was born weighing 7 pounds and 13 ounces and measuring 21.5 inches.
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