Nehad Heliel, Ph.D., Director of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in the Middle East.

Nehad obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Translation from Alexandria University. Her academic interests focus on sociolinguistics and Arabic dialectology, as well as literary and religious translation.

Nehad has taught Arabic and Linguistics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Alexandria University and Western Michigan State University.  Nehad also taught Arabic at the Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) Center in Alexandria for several years prior to becoming the first Director of the School in the Middle East.

Paul “Khalid” Wulfsberg, M.A., Resident Coordinator of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in the Middle East.

Paul received his M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University in 2007. He obtained a B.A. in Political Science from Swarthmore College in 2003. After working in Cairo for Al-Ahram Weekly for a year, he was awarded a CASA fellowship, and attended the American University in Cairo from 2004-2005.  Paul was a graduate intern at Middlebury's Arabic Language School during the 2006 summer session, and returned the following year as an Arabic instructor.  Paul taught Arabic at Tufts University during the 2007-2008 academic year, before becoming the Resident Coordinator of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in the Middle East in the summer of 2008.  He is also the translation editor of Arab Insight magazine, and is proficient in both Egyptian and Iraqi dialects.