// 2011 Global Summer Program Faculty //
Tara Graham / Media Instructor and Course Coordinator
_Tara Graham is the Publications Director for the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies at U.C. Berkeley, where she also teaches reporting and
online publishing classes to undergraduate students in the International and Area Studies Academic Program. She was formerly a Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow and Annenberg Graduate Fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she earned an M.A. in online journalism. Graham has worked as a web reporter and photographer for KCET’s SoCal Connected, as an online editor for the London-based New Statesman magazine, as the co-editor-in-chief of USC Annenberg's award-winning digital news website, and as an associate editor at Sugar Inc., a popular Gen-Y women's blog network. She is the recipient of USC Annenberg’s 2010 Penny Lernoux Award for International Reporting and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's 2011 First Place "Best of the Web" Individual Journalism Award. Visit taragraham.com for more information.
Daniel Zoughbie / Lecturer
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Daniel Zoughbie was educated at the University of
California, Berkeley, where he graduated Phi
Beta Kappa and with highest honors. He then studied Social
Anthropology at St Antony's College, Oxford, as a Marshall Scholar and
completed his doctorate in International Relations at Exeter College, Oxford as
a Weidenfeld Scholar. While pursuing his studies, Zoughbie was appointed a
Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion,
Peace and World Affairs. Zoughbie is also the Founder, President & CEO of Micro-Clinic International, a US-based non-profit organization that looks to advance health care
opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and the
Southern United States.
Nezar AlSayyad / Guest Lecturer
_Nezar AlSayyad is a Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Urban
History and the Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the U.C. Berkeley. AlSayyad holds a B.S. in Architectural Engineering and Diploma in
Town Planning from Cairo University, an M.S. in Architecture from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Architectural
History from UC Berkeley. He is the recipient of many grants and awards
for his research, books, films, and projects. In 2008, AlSayyad was
awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest honor U.C. Berkeley bestows on its faculty. In 1988, AlSayyad co-founded the
International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Today, he serves as president of the association and editor of
its highly acclaimed peer-reviewed journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.
Professionally, AlSayyad has an active practice in the Middle East and
United States. Visit the U.C. Berkeley College of Environmental Design website for more information, including a list of AlSayyad's publications.
Ryan Calder / Guest Lecturer
Ryan Calder is a sociologist and freelance journalist who spent time in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout, and Libya, while exploring the social roots of the 2011 "Arab Spring." During that time, he reported on the conflict in Libya for The Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Policy magazine. An Arabic speaker, he interviewed rebels, protesters, doctors, children, journalists, merchants, foreign workers, and officials in the opposition government. He also conducted interviews in Cairo and Manama during the height of anti-government protests in Egypt and Bahrain. He has previously lived in the West Bank, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman, and the UAE. Calder is a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department at the University of California, Berkeley. For more articles and commentary authored by Calder, visit The Berkeley Blog. _
Mona Eltahawy / Guest Lecturer
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and an
international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. She is a columnist for
Canada's Toronto Star, Israel's The Jerusalem Report and
Denmark's Politiken. Her opinion pieces have been published frequently
in The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune, and
she has appeared as a guest analyst in several media outlets. Before she moved
to the U.S. in 2000, Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for many
years, including in Cairo and Jerusalem as a Reuters correspondent, and she
reported for various media from Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Saudi
Arabia and China. In 2005, she was
named a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the American Society for Muslim
Advancement and she is a member of the Communications Advisory Group for
Musawah, the global movement for justice and equality in the Muslim family. Visit monaeltahawy.com for more information._
Jon Jensen / Guest Lecturer
__Jon Jensen is based in Cairo, Egypt, and works as the senior correspondent in the Middle East for GlobalPost. In 2008, he created and launched the multimedia section at Cairo’s English-language Daily News Egypt, the local edition of the International Herald Tribune and one of the first newspapers in the Middle East to broadcast originally produced content. Jensen has worked with Time Magazine, Al-Jazeera English, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Current TV and the Travel Channel while living in Egypt. He has also provided reporting to CNN, PBS NewsHour, WYNC, and others. Before moving to Egypt in 2007, Jensen worked as a producer and editor for National Geographic in Washington, D.C. He has lived in Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Indonesia and has a Master's Degree from the journalism school at the University of Florida. Visit jonjensen.com for more information.