CURRICULUM VITAE
Samar Mohamed Mohamed Abd El-Salam
Department of English,
Faculty of Al-Alsun,
Ain Shams University
Present Occupation:
- Associate Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University. (from April 2007 to the present)
- Coordinator of DES program (Developing English Skills) run by Pathways to Higher Education, Egypt.
- Cambridge ESOL certified BULATS Examiner in Writing, 2012 - the present.
- Cambridge ESOL certified BULATS Examiner in Speaking, 2013.
- IBCT Certified Trainer and HRD Consultant.
- Certified Trainer by the British Council.
Educational Qualifications:
- PhD. of Al-Alsun, 2001. Thesis entitled “Self-Presentation in Susan Glaspell’s The Outside, The Verge, Alison’s House and Marsha Norman’s Getting Out, The Laundromat, and ’night, Mother.”
Grade : Excellent (Honours).
- M.A. of Al-Alsun, 1995. Thesis entitled “Iris Murdoch the Playwright: A Study in Theme and Technique.
Grade : Excellent.
- B.A. of Al-Alsun, Department of English, the Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Teaching Experience 1990 to the present:
Major accountabilities included
Teaching the following courses:
Conversation, Technical Writing, Essay writing, Drama, and Translation to undergraduates.
Consecutive, at sight, and simultaneous interpretation to post-graduates.
Past Experience:
Training Qualifications:
- Certified trainer by the British Council, 2010
- Coordinator of English Program and Trainer at Pathways to Higher Education, Egypt (2011).
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- Certified Trainer by the International Board of Certified Trainers (IBCT), 2008. - Class A Trainer at the National Centre for Faculty and Leadership Development (NCFLD). - Class A Trainer at the Faculty and Leadership Development Centre of Ain Shams University (FLDC). Training Experience: As Trainer: - Training M.Sc. students of the REMENA Project (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency for the MENA Region) run by the University of Kassel, Germany, and Cairo University, Egypt, on “Presentation and Moderation Techniques,” 2011. - Training English specialized Staff members from Egyptian Universities on TKT/ToT within a collaborative contract between Pathways to Higher Education Egypt, Cambridge University, and the British Council in Cairo. (4 batches, 2011-2013)
- Training Egyptian students and fresh graduates within the Pathways project on BULATS and use of Fronter in distant and online training, 2011-the resent).
- “Effective Presentation Skills” training course for the staff of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, 21-22 September, 2010.
- “Project Management” Training Course within the collaboration between NCFLD and PCIQA, May 2010.
- “Training of Trainers (ToT)” for university staff members. March 2010.
- “Active Learning” training course for staff members of the High Institute of Engineering and Technology, 6th October, 2009.
- “Effective Presentation Skills” training courses for project SNG (Scientists of the Next Generation), developed by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, 2009.
- “Effective Presentation Skills” training courses for TAs and staff members at the FLDC, Ain Shams University, 2008-2010.
- “Effective Communication Skills” training course for TAs and staff members at the FLDC, Ain Shams University, 2008-2011.
- Training students of the Business Administration faculty within the Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Maritime Transport on report writing, 2006-2008.
- Training Al-Alsun’s senior students on research ethics, report writing, data collection, time management, and presentation skills.
- Training secondary school teachers of Arabic, Math, and English at the Regional Adult Education Centre, Sers El-Lyan, Monofeya on preparatory courses of the TOEFL exams, 1993-1995.
- Training Officers of the Administrative Control Authority on ESP, 1992-1995.
- Training staff members of the State Information Service (SIS) on Language skills 1995.
- Training Employees of the Ministry of Culture on ESL, 1992-1993.
- Training Employees of the Ministry of Agriculture on ESL, 1992-1993.
As Co-author and Designer of the following Courses for NCFLD - Advanced Training of Trainers Course (ToT2). - “Active Learning” training course for staff members of the High Institute of Engineering and Technology, 6th October. - “Active Learning” training course for the Teaching Assistances’ Preparatory Program. - “Methods of Evaluation” training course for the Teaching Assistances’ Preparatory Program. - “Effective Presentation Skills” training course for project SNG (Scientists of the Next Generation), developed by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology. - Project Management Training Course. - “Advanced Effective Presentation Skills” for the FLDC. - Coordinator of the "Teaching Competency" material delivery (PowerPoint presentations, Lesson Plans, Questions Bank) for the programs of Credit Hours, Test Evaluation and Assessment, and Principles of Quality in Education.
As IBCT Consultant - Co-Auditor in the IBCT preliminary audit visit to Tanta University training centre, 31 March, 2013.
- Co-Auditor in the IBCT preliminary audit visit to the Kafr Elsheikh University training centre, 20 October, 2010.
- Co-Auditor in the IBCT audit visit to Cairo University training centre, 28 October, 2010. Academic Experience 2010-to the present - Peer reviewer for the online journal “Postcolonial Text.”
2009-2010 - Peer reviewer of English language Course (2) for the Electronic University “EELU” in Egypt. 2007-2008 Subject matter expert and content provider of the English Language course for the Electronic University “EELU” in Egypt. 2006-2007 Ministry of Education’s English Language Consultant on the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination, 2007. Job included conducting training sessions on exam methods to senior inspectors in charge of putting the second and third secondary year exams. 2006-2008 Member of the Environment Affairs and Community Service committee of the Quality and Accreditation team at the Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams university. 2005-2008 Teaching various TOEFL, ESL, and report writing courses at the Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Maritime Transport.
2001-2005 Conducting oral and written English language examinations for Youth Exchange programs at the Ministry of Youth.
Translation 1996-2011 Teaching written translation to undergraduate students at the Faculty of Al-Alsun
2001- 2010 Teaching at sight and consecutive interpretation to post graduate students at the Faculty of Al-Alsun
2003-2004 Teaching at sight, consecutive, and written translation over two academic semesters at the Faculty of Languages and Translation, 6th October University.
1992-1997 Class A Translator and Simultaneous Interpreter at the National Defense Council, Cairo, Egypt.
Published translations include: - Translation of Susan Glaspell’s The Outside in Al-Alsun’s Translation Magazine, January 2007. - Chapter one of Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty, Al-Alsun’s Translation Magazine, January 2011.
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Courses and Workshops:
I attended the following courses and Workshops:
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No. |
Course / Workshop |
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Date |
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1 |
Teacher Orientation Course |
Ohio University, USA |
1992 |
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2 |
University Lecturer Preparation Course |
Ain Shams University |
1995 |
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3 |
Text and Context: Literature in Twentieth-Century Britain |
Edinburgh University |
08/07-16/08/1996 |
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4 |
Professional Ethics |
FLDP/Faculty of Education |
9-11/11/2004 |
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5 |
Research Management |
FLDP/Al-Alsun |
10-13/09/2005 |
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6 |
International Publication of Research |
FLDP/Al-Alsun |
2-4/09/2006 |
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7 |
Time Management and Work Pressures |
FLDP/Al-Alsun |
3-5/10/2006 |
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8 |
Quality Assurance and Accreditation |
FLDP/Al-Alsun |
30/01-01/02 2007 |
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9 |
Use of Technology in Teaching |
FLDP Centre |
16-18/02/2008 |
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10 |
Training of Trainers (ToT1) |
NCFLD |
6-10/04/2008 |
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11 |
Training of Trainers (ToT2) |
NCFLD |
19-28/07/2008 |
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12 |
Certified Trainers Course (CT) |
NCFLD
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21/9–18/12/2008 |
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13 |
Strategic Planning. Part I: SWOT Analysis |
Cairo University |
19-4-2009 |
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14 |
Strategic Planning. Part II |
Cairo University |
8-5-2009 |
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15 |
Workshop entitled “Coaching Fellow Colleagues on EUL (Egyptian Universities Libraries)”. |
Ain Shams University |
16-17 June,2009 |
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16 |
Workshop entitled “Teacher Training: Teaching English in Large Classes, The Issues and Options." |
The British Council and the American University in Cairo. |
12-12-2009 |
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17 |
Seminar on “Reflective Practice in ELT”. |
British Council in Cairo |
1-2-2010 |
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18 |
Strategic Planning |
Al-Alsun |
15,17-18/April, 2010 |
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19 |
Pursuing Professional Development |
Online Course –ELT Advantage Courses |
20 Jan-12 Mar. 2010 |
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20 |
90 hour course in training English teachers to deliver - Teaching Knowledge Test preparation courses - Blended Learning BULATS preparation courses |
British Council Cairo |
11Dec. 2010 to 24 Jan. 2011 |
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21 |
Motivation: Communicating |
American Chamber |
October 2011 |
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22 |
Motivation: Leading with a Vision |
American Chamber |
October 2011 |
Published Papers:
1) Fears of Remembrance: Recovered Versus False Memory in Arnold Wesker’s Denial. Philology June 2003.
2) Introspection and Retrospection in Doris Lessing’s Play with a Tiger. Philology June 2004.
3) Simply María, or the American Dream: The Chicana's Yellow Brick Road. Sahifatul Alsun, January 2006.
4) Against Oblivion: Gamal El-Ghitany's “Tales of the Stranger” and Anne Nelson's The Guys. Philology Jan 2006.
5) Poetics of Place in Aphra Behn's The Rover, or The Banished Cavalier. Philology June 2006.
6- كريم جثير: عندما يدوى صوت الصمت. فصول العدد 73. ربيع-صيف 2008. ص 229-236.
7) “The Politics of Performance versus the Performance of Politics: in Catherine Filloux’s Silence of God and Kitty Felde’s A Patch of Earth.” Published in the Proceedings of Cairo University for the 10th International Symposium on comparative Literature: “The Marginalised: Literary and Linguistic Studies,” December, 7-9/2010.
Conferences and Cultural Events:
Conducting a workshop for postgraduate students entitled “How to Use Self-Presentation Theories in Theatrical Analysis,” March, 2001.
Conference of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, 2003, entitled “Hermeneutics between Theory and Application,” with a research paper entitled “Introspection and Retrospection in Doris Lessing’s Play with a Tiger.”
Faculty of Al-Alsun’s Cultural Week 2005, entitled “Language Learning and its Effect in Cultural Interaction”, with a reading of Sameh Mahran’s play “Alshater . . . Set El-Hosn”
Simultaneous interpreter of the inaugurating session of the Conference of the Faculty of Al-Alsun entitled “Translation and Cultural Diversity”, 2005.
International Conference of the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 2005, entitled “Power and the Role of the Intellectual,” with a research paper entitled “Simply María, or the American Dream: The Chicana's Yellow Brick Road.”
International conference of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, Minya University 2006, entitled “The Challenges of Language and Culture against Globalization,” with a research paper entitled “Against Oblivion: Gamal El-Ghitany's “Tales of the Stranger” and Anne Nelson's The Guys.”
Participation in the symposium held by Daratul Karaz Publishing House, with a reading of Ayda Khaldoun’s novel “Wahdahu Ya’alam,” December, 2006.
Conference of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, April, 2007, with a research paper entitled “Revolving Use/Abuse of Power in A. A. Milne’s The Boy Comes Home.”
Seminar of the English Department, Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, celebrating the 433 anniversary of William Shakespeare, with a research paper entitled “Bellona’s Bridegroom Versus the Dead Butcher: Macbeth from the Assertive to the Offensive,” April, 2007.
Cairo University 10th International Symposium on comparative Literature: “The Marginalised: Literary and Linguistic Studies,” December, 7-9/2010, with a paper entitled “The Politics of Performance versus the Performance of Politics: in Catherine Filloux’s Silence of God and Kitty Felde’s A Patch of Earth.”
Cairo University 11 th International Symposium on comparative Literature: "Creativity and Revolution," November 13-15, 2012, with a paper entitled Setting the Revolution/Revolutionizing the Setting in Smith Likongwe's Long Live Vava, Boomerang Kratos, and A Push for Motherland.
A presentation at the Nile TESOL 17th Annual Conference, at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, on 28 & 29 January, 2013, on the English program and the collaboration between Pathways to Higher Education, Egypt, University of Cambridge-ESOL, and the British Council in Egypt.
A presentation at Ain Shams University Scientific Conference: "University and Green Economy: Towards a New Sustainability Culture", held on 21-24 April, 2013, entitled "Pathways: 10 Years of Achievements". (Further information in Appendix ---)
A talk at the IATEFL international conference in Liverpool, England, on 7-11/4/2013, entitled "Collaboration: The Formula for Success."
Interpretation into Arabic of the Inaugurating session of the First National Conference of Training and Development in Higher Education: "Vision and Challenges." 21 April, 2013.
Participation in Dissertation Panels
PhD thesis entitled “Pragmatic Strategies and Humour inThe Birthday Party and No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter” by Hoda Ahmed Hamdy.
الحيل التداولية ولغة الفكاهة في "حفل عيد الميلاد" و "العزلة" ل هارولد بنتر
By Hoda Ahmed. Benha University 28/12/2010
MA thesis entitled “The Search for Freedom in Dorothy Sterling's Freedom Train and Deborah Layton's Seductive Poison: A Comparative Study” by Osama Mohammad Abd Elthaher Said. 5 January 2011. Minia University
البحث عن الحرية في رواية " قطار الحـريـة " لـ ( دوروثي سترلينج) ورواية " السم اللذيذ " لـ (ديبورا لايتون) : دراسة مقارنة.
MA thesis entitled Recognition and Rejection of Victimization in Some Novels of Margaret Atwood: A Thematic and Analytic Study.
by Sahar Amal Kamal Soliman. 12 Jan. 2011. F. of Arts, Benha University
إدراك ورفض فكرة الأضحية فى بعض روايات مارجريت أتوود: دراسة موضوعية وتحليلية
PhD thesis entitled A Critical Study of Children’s Poetry: Theme and Technique, by Alshaimaa Adham Basheer Mohamed. 4 May, 2011. F. of AlAlsun, Minia University.
دراسة نقدية لشعر الأطفال: الموضوع والجوانب الفنية.