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Recognition
Awards & Honors
Faculty Recipient of the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service Learning Award
UniversityService Learning · 2014The faculty recipient of this award is selected for meaningful integration of the service experience with course content, consideration for the needs of community partners, impact of the partnership, and involvement in the service-learning community at Duke. The Service Learning office recognized my effort in establishing strong ties between the Arab immigrants and refugees’ communities in the Triangle as a means to increase community engagement in Duke’s academic language programs.
Contributing to Teaching Excellence
UniversityDean of Arts& Sciences and Dean of Academic Afairs at Duke · 2012In the category of Quality of Course and/or Intellectual Stimulation, my course evaluations in three consecutive semesters were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke for a small class (less than 20 students).
In the News
Published March 28, 2024
Winning National Arabic Debate Championships with Coach H
Published November 18, 2013
Iraqi program brings together students, Iraqi population
