Minute Specialization: Contemporary Drama
and Postcolonial Literature
Courses Attained:
1.
A four-week training course for TOT about the communicative approach. It
was held in Baghdad during September
2001 and sponsored by UNESCO.
2. A two-week training workshop for TOT at Al-Rasheed Hotel (Baghdad) in
April 201
3. An extensive workshop for TOT for 6 weeks at Arizona State
University from 16 August to 26
September 2010. .
4. An online course "process drama" sponsored by TESOL
International during January
and February 2011 about the use of drama in teaching English language.
5. Three online courses with Oregon State University starting
with "Shaping the Way We Teach
English" from January till March 2009.
6. A training workshop on Human Rights held in Wasit University in February
2011.
7. A three-week course on the methods of teaching in April 2011 held in
the Centre of Lifelong
Education/Wasit University.
8. A training workshop on "Financial Management for
Non-Government Organizations in Iraq" from 5-7 February 2012. It was held at 4
points office in Baghdad .
Professional
Membership:
1. Iraqi
Association of Translators since 1992.
3. TESOL Iraq board
member since November 2011.
4. Postcolonial
Studies Association since 2015.
5. New Zealand Studies
Association since 2015.
Conferences:
1. A conference for
the teachers of English language at Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad (Iraq), January
2009 guided by Mark Algren, president of TESOL International.
2.
The Third Conference of Wasit University (Iraq), 2009.
3.
The Fourth Conference of the College of Education/ Wasit University (Iraq),
April 2011.
4. TESOL Arabia in
Dubai (UAE), 8-10 March 2012.
5. IATEFL conference
in Glasgow (Scotland/ UK), 19-23 March 2012.
6. 1st TEFL
conference in Erbil (Iraq), 6th of December 2012.
7. TESOL International
in Dallas (USA), 20th-23th of March 2013.
8. The Sixth
Conference of the College of Education/ Wasit University (Iraq), April 2013.
9. The
University of Sheffield, School of English Postgraduate Colloquium entitled
‘Space and Place’ on the 28th of May 2015, Sheffield (UK).
11. The University of Sussex, School of English
conference entitled ‘Pacific Waves: Reverberations from Oceania’, 6-7 November
2015.
12. Minor Culture conference, held on behalf of the
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia at the University of Melbourne (Melbourne/Australia),
1-3 December 2015.
13. ‘All
that Glitters Is Not Gold: Critiques of Globalization in New Zealand and the
Pacific’, 8-9 July 2016, Regent’s University, London, UK.
14. 16th Triennial EACLALS Conference in Oviedo
(Spain), 3-7 April 2017, ‘Performing the Urban: Embodiments, Inventories and
Rhythms’.
16. The 11th International Annual Conference for
the College of Education for Humanities, Wasit University, 10-11 April 2019.
17.
The 14th Annual Conference at the Department
of English, College of Education for Women, University of Baghdad on Wednesday 27/3/2019
18. The 11th International Annual Conference for
the College of Education for Humanities, Wasit University, 10-11 April 2019.