Assistant English Teacher
Resume:
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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