Date of Birth : 19/01/1963 Place of Birth: Amman, Jordan Nationality: Jordanian Academic Degree : PhD in Geography Languages : Arabic (native), English, Russian, German (fluent), Bulgarian (reading and talking), French and Ukrainian (reading) Professional Career |
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Since 05/2005 | Assistant Professor , Institute for Geography, University of Mainz |
Since 01/2004 | Senior Researcher , Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), Institute for Geography, University of Mainz |
01/2004 - 12/2006 | Project Manager/ Senior Researcher : Project on “ Development of Tourism in the Arab World after 9/11 ” |
10/1998 - 12/2003 | Post-doctoral Studies , Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW) Project on “Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan” Project on “Gated Communities” ( Lebanon, Russia, Ukraine) Project on “Cinema and Orient” |
01/2000 - 03/2004 | Part-time Researcher at FAZ-Institute / Prime Research International ( Mainz, Germany) |
2001 | Part-time Researcher for a project on “ Poverty in Palestinian Refugee Camps ” , Center for Research on Poverty and Development, University of Giessen, Germany |
September 2000 | Founding member of the “International Interdisciplinary Network on Cinema, Media and Orient ” , Institute of Geography, University of Mainz |
1996 | Main researcher on “ Evaluation of the Housing Real Estate Situation in Leipzig ( Germany) ” , “ Willstein Immobilien ” ( Mannheim) |
Education |
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1996 - 2003 | Post-Graduated Studies Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW) University of Mainz , Germany |
1990 - 1994 | Ph.D. in Geography (Urban and Social Geography) Thesis “Spatial Planning of Big Cities’ Periphery” Kiev State University, Kiev-Ukraine |
1984 - 1990 | Diploma in Social and Economic Geography Faculty of Geography Kiev State University, Kiev-Ukraine (former USSR) |
1979 - 1982 | Medical Academy of Bulgaria , Sofia (not finished Study of Human Medicine, Physicum) |
1979 | Jordanian Tawjihi Examination , Scientific Stream |
1973 - 1979 | Greek Catholic Secondary School , ( Jordan) |