Working in the West Bank Palestinian institution Birzeit University, writing English-language newsletter, other brief publications and press releases; developing an e-mail system and other computer systems for the P.R. office; developing a network of international contacts; constructing and maintaining university website, the largest Palestinian website; training students and faculty in authoring for the Web; assisting with human rights publicity and campaigning, special events and conferences at BZU; organising study tour itineraries and logistics; and briefing delegations and guests about BZU with the Public Relations Office team.

Day-to-day running of this London-based charity set up to ‘support education at Bir Zeit’; writing and desktop publishing newsletter, press releases and other publications; organising and leading trips to the Occupied Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip; orientation of international students visiting the University; lobbying and campaigning; database work and fundraising.

Day-to-day administration of this British organisation that promotes links between the Christian communities of the Middle East and Christians in Britain; writing and desktop publishing magazine, and fundraising.

Worked on a variety of projects for this London-based human rights organisation, including computerising the case files of prisoners in detention and producing a 133-page report on the sexual abuse of street children in the Philippines; writing press releases, lobbying, and database work.

Worked in a number of capacities for this Hong Kong-based church, including full-time work with Vietnamese boat people in a number of detentioncentres, offering free financial services, purchasing goods for detainees, distributing clothes, and holding services for Christian detainees.

Worked for a month in this Christian community based in Hong Kong, helping ex-Triad (Chinese Mafia) heroin addicts in a first-stage rehabilitation house.

Served for a sabbatical year in this elected post after graduating in this college of about 700 full-time students, one of four in the Roehampton Institute. The student union provides educational, social, sporting, welfare and financial facilities; represents students on college and Institute committees, and local and national bodies; and provides an official channel of communication between the student body and college authorities.

Served for a year during my degree course in this elected post that exists to maintain links with campaigning and charitable bodies that the Student Union is affiliated to, publicising these links, the work of the bodies, and campaigns run by the bodies to the Student Union Executive and Student Union.

Worked full-time voluntarily for two months in the Scottish headquarters of this registered charity that both campaigns for a change in debt, aid, trade, agriculture and arms policies between UK and the rest of the world, and raises money for direct-aid projects in developing countries world-wide. Research was into "Edinburgh’s links with the Third World", uncovering local links with the developing world to be used in campaign materials.

BA (Hons.) in English and Psychology (University of Surrey ).

S Level English; A Level English Literature and Politics & Economics; Higher (Scottish equivalent) Economics.

O Level English Literature and Language, Computer Studies, Maths, Physics, Biology, Craft Design and Technology; O Grade (Scottish equivalent) French.

Design, construction and maintainance of several key Palestinian websites. Please see the full list on this website.

Many news articles, news feature stories and book reviews on Palestinian higher education, human rights and the general political situation, published in Middle East International magazine and Al-Muhajir (The Immigrant) and Jerusalem Times newspapers. Article on the Palestinian Securities Exchange and economy for the Israeli business magazine Link. Articles on Christianity in the Middle East published in the Living Stones Magazine and Pilgrim magazine. Articles on the Chinese church published in Prophesy Today and Renewal magazines. Many articles for the Southlands College Student Union magazine.

Street Children in the Philipines, a report for Jubilee Campaign UK (1992); Making Education Illegal: Students from the Gaza Strip: Israeli restrictions and international reactions, a report for the Human Rights Action Project at Birzeit University (1995); A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1989-present day, a website for Birzeit University (1996).

Elected to represent students on the college governing body, raising issues and gaining better welfare and social facilities for the students.

Elected to represent students at an Institute level in this mainly academic forum for the first term, being co-opted by my position of Student Union President for the second term. The Council is like an Institute-level Board of Governors, which I was co-opted onto.

We raised a record £2000 compared to an average of £200 before and after this year. This was considered to be a very successful rag week considering the small number of students at the college.

After participating in a Friends of Birzeit University (UK) study tour of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel in August 1989, we initiated and fought a campaign within the college to introduce Student Union policy supporting the then-closed Palestinian universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which included a mechanism for a twinning link.

Including the Anti-Apartheid Society, the Nicaragua Libre Group and others.

Computer skills:
Literate on Apple Macintosh and IBM systems. Familiar with software for word-processing (Microsoft Word, ClarisWorks and WordPerfect); software for desktop publishing (Aldus PageMaker, Microsoft Publisher); various scanning software, software for database design (Claris FileMakerPro 1.0 and Microsoft Access 2.0) and e-mail software (WordPerfect Office, Pegasus Mail); Internet software including HTML authoring tools (HotDog, Microsoft Word Internet Assistant, HTML Assistant Pro 2.0), image manipulation, construction and creation programmes (Photoshop 4.0), FTP and Telnet software, and various Web browsers; with some diagnostic skills both in general and particular to the software listed above. Photography, presentation and graphic design skills.

Language skills:
Spoken Arabic to a fair standard.