2006 – 2007: University of Aberdeen, Postgraduate Diploma of Education (Secondary Schools) Religious, Moral, Philosophical Studies
1999 - 2002: University of Exeter, PhD, (Dissertation: “Young Middle Class Women in Jordan: Taking Part in Social Change”)
1997 - 1999: University of Kassel/Goethe-Institute, Teaching German as a Foreign Language; Diploma
1994 - 1996: University of Leipzig Social Anthropology, Arabic, Islamic Studies; M.A., (Master’s thesis: “Beschneidung bei Muslimen in Deutschland”/ Circumcision among Muslims in Germany), 2.1
1993 - 1994: University of St.Andrews, Social Anthropology, Arabic, Islamic Studies; Certificate of Distinction
1991 - 1993: University of Bayreuth, Social Anthropology, Arabic, Islamic Studies
Employment history:
August 2012 – today: Coordinator Women’s Studies master programme, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
June 2010 - today: Assistant Professor, Sociology, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
September 2008 – June 2010: Teaching Fellow, Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK
August 2007 – June 2008: Teacher of Religious, Moral, and Philosophical Studies, Ardrossan Academy, Ardrossan, UK
March 2005 – August 2006: Lecturer in the Study of Islam and Muslims, Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Dundee, UK
Jan. 2004 – February 2005: Part time Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Tübingen, Germany
August 2002 – Dec. 2003: Assistant Professor, Ethnology, Sociology, International and Comparative Politics, American University – Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
October 1999 – July 2002: Teaching Assistant, Social Anthropology and Middle East Studies, University of Exeter, UK
November 1997 – Sept. 1999: Teacher of German as a Foreign Language, Goethe-Institute, Amman, and University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan