PAS Staff Profile

PAS Lecturers:

Mousa Khoury (right) (MA and PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)

Dr. Khoury is the teacher coordinator of PAS Arabic Language courses. He teaches MS Arabic levels III and IV. His specializations include:

• Teaching Arabic as a Second Language
• Teaching Arabic for native speakers
• Modern Palestinian Literature.

Sami Sha’ath (right) (MA, Khartoum International Institute)

Mr. Sha’ath teaches Colloquial Arabic levels I and II and MS Arabic levels I and II. His specializations include:

• Teaching Arabic as a Second Language
• Mass Media Communication

Reema Hamami (MA and PhD, Temple University)

Dr Hamami is a member of BZU’s Women Studies Department. Her specializations include:

• Anthropology/Women Studies
• Women in the Middle East
• Anthropology of religion

Abdul Sattar Kasim (PhD, University of Missouri at Columbia)

Dr Kasim teaches political science at Najah University (Nablus) and part-time at BZU. His specializations include:

• Political Science
• Political Theory
• History of Palestinian Landscape since 1948

Raja Bahlul (PhD, Indiana University)

Dr Bahlul is a member of the Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University. His specializations include:

• Metaphysics
• Islamic Philosophy
• Theology

Randa Nasser (Ph.D., University of Utah)

Dr. Randa Nasser has her doctorate degree in Sociology and is a full time faculty member of the Sociology department at Birzeit University. Her specializations include:

• social development
• quantitative methodology

PAS Office Administrative Staff

Muna Giacaman-Tamimi (MA English/Linguistics, with emphasis on teaching English as a second language, San Francisco State University, California, USA)

Ms. Tamimi has been the head coordinator of the PAS Program since the summer of 1998. She is currently working on the expansion of the program to include an intensive one-year Arabic language instruction course for non-native speakers of Arabic as a preparation for their enrollment in the regular BZU undergraduate program. She has also been teaching English as a second language for 12 years, 5 of those at BZU, and specializes in curriculum development and language proficiency testing.

Yoke van der Meulen (BA Sociology, Birzeit University)

Sa’edah Ayesh-Abu Ghosh (BA Mathematics, Birzeit University)