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., Assistant Director 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.  He then joined the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in the Middle East in the summer of 2008 as the Resident Coordinator, and now acts as the School's Assistant Director.  Paul is also the translation editor of Arab Insight magazine, and is proficient in both Egyptian and Iraqi dialects.


LIZZ HUNTLEY, B.A., Resident Coordinator of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in the Middle East.

Lizz received her B.A. in International Studies,  focusing on Middle Eastern history,  from Middlebury College in 2008.  She spent her junior year abroad in Syria, studying at the University of Damascus before returning to work at the Concordia Language Village's Al-Waha Arabic Language Village during the summer of 2007.  Following graduation, Lizz was awarded a fellowship to study at the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA), based at the American University in Cairo, from June 2008 through May 2009.  After a summer of teaching Arabic at the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy during the summer of 2009, Lizz is looking forward to returning to Egypt and helping students access and enjoy the best of what Alexandria has to offer.


RASHA EL HAWARY, Ph.D., Director of the TAFL Center

Rasha el Hawary received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, TAFL) from Alexandria University, Egypt in 2005. She obtained her M.A. in Teahing English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from the University of Warwick, UK, in 1994. She has extensive experience in teaching Arabic at Alexandria University, and has been teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language since 1992. Her interests include Comparative Linguistics and Material Design.