Manar Shabouk

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EDUCATION

PhD Program in Comparative Literature at University of South Carolina

Aug 2011-

Women and Gender Studies Program (USC) Aug 2011-

Prague Film School, Prague, Czech Republic Sept 2010-Dec

2010

Film directing program

University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina August 2007- May

2009

Masters of Arts in Linguistics

Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria September 1999-October 2003

Bachelors of Arts in English Literature,

AWARDS, CERTIFICATES, HONORS and LEADERSHIP

. Teaching Assistanship USC August 2011- 2013

. The Fulbright scholarship August 2007- May 2009

. Member at the International Media Lawyers Association August

2006

. Human Rights Trainer June 2006

. The Nesteby Award for Writing Essay Writing (the American Embassy,

Syria, Damascus) April

2005

Essay subject: "Stereotyping: How Do Americans Stereotype Syrians and

the Opposite"

. The Nesteby Award for Excellence in the March

2001

study of American Literature

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Teaching Arabic as a Second Language (University of South Carolina) Jan

2012-

Assistant with (ACLA) American Comparative Literature Association at USC in

spring 2012 and Fall/Spring 2013-2014

Executrain Center (ESL teacher) Aleppo, Syria summer 2009

Summer 2010

(Jan

2011- )

IUST (The International University for Science and Technology) Princeton

Review, ESL Teacher, Damascus

Sep 2009-June 2010

Palmyra LANGUAGE CENTER, Aleppo, Syria June 2004- March 2006

English Teacher

THE INSTITUE OF LANGUAGES, Aleppo, Syria September 2005- January 2006

Aleppo University

Faculty of Science - Department of Statistics and Geology

Faculty of Engineering - Department of Environmental Engineering

English Teacher

Responsibilities:

. Taught English as a second language for undergraduate and graduate

students

. Prepared examining questions/forms for the department

. Grading and assessing

ICARDA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, Aleppo, Syria September 2004- April 2005

Resource Assistant Teacher

ACADEMIA INSTITUTE, Aleppo, Syria June 2002- December 2003

Assistant Principal / English Teacher

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATION

. ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association Conference ) Canada,

Toronto 2013

. Women and Gender Studies Conference ( University of South Carolina

2014).

. ACLA, NYU, New York 2014.

. Teaching Academic Reading and Writing. Language Symposium. Princeton

Review (Syria, Damascus) 2010.

. Graduate students in Linguistics Spring Colloquium at the University

of South Carolina April

2008

Presented a paper on Sociolinguistics (Language and Gender)

www.cas.sc.edu/ling GSLING.Spring.Colloquium.poster2008final.doc

. Lectured in a Training for Trainers on CIDAW March - June

2006

Socio-Legal Studies Center

Irbid, Jordan

. World Women Artists Festival, Syria, Aleppo (Poetry Reading) Aug

2005

TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS

. Prague Play House Acting Studio,

Acting Workshops. Sep -Dec

2010

. Conciliatory Democracy workshop August 2006

Middle East Studies Center for Democracy Studies

St. Catherine College, Oxford, United Kingdom

. Comparative Media, Law and Policy (MLAP) Course July - August 2006

Socio-Legal Studies Center

Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

. Monitoring Violations of Human Rights Conference March

2006

Amman International Center for Human Rights

Amman, Jordan

Voluntary Work

. Carolina Peace Organization (Columbia, South Carolina)

. Human Rights NGO-Syria

. International Media Lawyers Association

SKILLS

. Computer:

o Operating Systems: Windows XP and Windows Vista

o Microsoft Office suite

o Power Point 2013

. Languages:

o Arabic: Mother Tongue

o English: Fluent

o Spanish: basic

ACHIEVEMENTS

. Translating a novel from Arabic to English.

. Poetry book in Arabic The Cotton Woman, to be published soon.

. Participated and helped in organizing the International Festival for

Women Artists in Aleppo (2003-2005).

. Human rights volunteer activist. Have the zest and the motivation to

work in the human rights field, especially when it relates to women's

and children's rights and the freedom of expression and thought.

. Obtained the Fulbright scholarship to do an MA in Sociolinguistics

(2007-2009).

INTERESTS

. Screenwriting, poetry, translation, photography, social work and

travelling.

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