On Friday the 19th of August, the British Council office in Kabul was attacked by two suicide bombers. Several people were killed, mostly Afghani policemen. The attack took place on the day marking 92 years of Afghanistan’s independence from the British rule in 1919. Although the Guardian said that “it was unclear whether the attack was related to the […]
Read moreLast May, I submitted a proposal for a paper “English Language, Arab Students, Polish Teacher: Hybrid Identities in a Globalised Qatari Classroom” to be presented at the 4th International Adriatic-Ionian Conference, ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1-3 September, 2011. The proposal was accepted in June for presentation at the Intercultural Education/Cultural Identity and Globalisation session. […]
Read moreHere is a link to the powerpoint version of the paper presented at the Qatar-TESOL conference, 8-9 April 2011, Doha, Qatar. I plan to present excerpts from the paper at the LTE conference in June. Reading Kafka in Qatar Presentation 2011
Read moreReasons for going to a conference I love going to conferences, but have recently noticed how the number of conference alerts, announcements and invitations I come across has grown and begun to overwhelm me. Too much choice is never a good thing (as Barry Schwartz argues in The Paradox of Choice, 2004, New York: HarperCollins), so reducing it through eliminating […]
Read moreFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education Most-Popular Education-Technology Articles of 2010 January 3, 2011, 5:14 pm We thought we’d begin a new year of Wired Campus with a quick look back at the biggest tech stories of 2010, as voted by you. Items concerning Facebook, iPads, and cheating ranked high in page views. Here are the top 10 headlines from […]
Read moreEnglish Teaching Excellence in Qatar (ETE-Q) Conference, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) 9/10/2010, Education City, Doha, Qatar On Saturday, the 9th of October 2010, I participated in the ETE-Q conference at CMU-Q in Doha with a poster presentation entitled “Academic Writing: Challenge, Inspiration, Engagement”. The poster summarises my teaching approach […]
Read moreHaving just participated in the post-graduate Induction Week, I would like to share a few comments on this overwhelmingly positive experience. First of all, as an in-context student, I realised the importance of face to face contacts with my supervisors and the rest of the academic community, or other tutors, administrators and fellow PhD students. I have known my supervisors – […]
Read moreI thought I’d post my paper on liberal arts in Qatar that was published last June in Intercultural Education. Here it comes. LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IN QATAR Magda
Read moreI have just read an interesting article in the New York Times – written by an honorary research fellow at Manchester Uiversity. Check it out! Magda
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