Middle Eastern Studies
How We Live Where We Are - Reflection 4
By the last day of my summer internship in Jordan, I knew the social rules. With handwritten cards for my coworkers and Arabic sweets for everyone in the office I had a working relationship with, I made my rounds and said my goodbyes.
Translating Gender, Translating Empowerment - Reflection 3
What is “empowerment?” A buzzword common in the human development and NGO worlds, I worked this summer in a Jordanian NGO’s department of tamkin almar’a, or gender and female empowerment.
Blonde Braids in Jordan - Reflection 2
One of the most memorable days of my Leadership-in-Action summer was when I had the opportunity to travel with the gender and female empowerment department to a school for deaf and hearing impaired youth run by my host organization.
