The R-Shief Initiative--> Arabic for Archive in the Cyber World
Staff
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Dalia Anani is a senior undergraduate art student at the University of California in Santa Cruz. She has focused the subject matter of her intermedia-based work on Arab-American issues. Born and raised in southern California, which has a strong Arab-American community, Anani offers unique perspective on a new diasporic youth post-9/11 generation. In the summer of 2008 she spent 6 weeks volunteering in a Palestinian refugee camp with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA. She visits the Middle East often, and is proficient in Arabic.
Dalia Anani is a senior undergraduate art student at the University of California in Santa Cruz. She has focused the subject matter of her intermedia-based work on Arab-American issues. Born and raised in southern California, which has a strong Arab-American community, Anani offers unique perspective on a new diasporic youth post-9/11 generation. In the summer of 2008 she spent 6 weeks volunteering in a Palestinian refugee camp with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA. She visits the Middle East often, and is proficient in Arabic.
- current location
- Berkeley, California
- contact
- dalia@r-shief.org
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COMPUTER PROGRAMMER
Manal Hassan is an IT consultant, experienced web developer and designer and a foss enthusiast. Her main interest is adapting and delivering technology to non-technical experts, and training them in making it their own. She co-founded the Egyptian gnu/Linux Users Group (eglug) in 2004, and has extensive experience in working with ngos, human rights activists, and children on web technologies and new media. She won the Best of Blogs (BOBs) and Reporters without Borders award together with her husband in 2005. Hassan’s specialties include Drupal, HTML, PHP, CSS, training, Linux, foss, websites, portals, multilingual websites, RTL designs, mentoring, Drupal theming.
Manal Hassan is an IT consultant, experienced web developer and designer and a foss enthusiast. Her main interest is adapting and delivering technology to non-technical experts, and training them in making it their own. She co-founded the Egyptian gnu/Linux Users Group (eglug) in 2004, and has extensive experience in working with ngos, human rights activists, and children on web technologies and new media. She won the Best of Blogs (BOBs) and Reporters without Borders award together with her husband in 2005. Hassan’s specialties include Drupal, HTML, PHP, CSS, training, Linux, foss, websites, portals, multilingual websites, RTL designs, mentoring, Drupal theming.
- current location
- Cape Town, South Africa
- contact
- manal@r-shief.org
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ORIGINAL CREATOR/ PROJECT LEAD
Laila Shereen Sakr is a poet, web designer, VJ, community organizer, and digital artist. In addition to her work on R-Shief, she is also experimenting with a conceptual art project, the VJ Um Amel Video Blog. She spent 12 years in Washington, D.C. working in the fields of publishing and design on issues related to the Middle East for the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Al Hayat newspaper, and Quilting Point Productions. In Fall 2009, Shereen Sakr will be Research Associate at UC Santa Cruz, and will teach a course on "Collaboration and Creativity in Art Practice." Previously, she has lived and worked in Egypt and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Morocco (RPCV 1993-95). Shereen Sakr holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University (1998), and M.F.A. in Digital Arts/New Media from UC Santa Cruz (2009). Recently, she has been awarded the 2009 ADC Jack Shaheen Media scholarship, and published "R-Shief: Proof of Concept" in Parson's Journal for Information Mapping. For more information, see www.lailashereen.com.
Laila Shereen Sakr is a poet, web designer, VJ, community organizer, and digital artist. In addition to her work on R-Shief, she is also experimenting with a conceptual art project, the VJ Um Amel Video Blog. She spent 12 years in Washington, D.C. working in the fields of publishing and design on issues related to the Middle East for the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Al Hayat newspaper, and Quilting Point Productions. In Fall 2009, Shereen Sakr will be Research Associate at UC Santa Cruz, and will teach a course on "Collaboration and Creativity in Art Practice." Previously, she has lived and worked in Egypt and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Morocco (RPCV 1993-95). Shereen Sakr holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University (1998), and M.F.A. in Digital Arts/New Media from UC Santa Cruz (2009). Recently, she has been awarded the 2009 ADC Jack Shaheen Media scholarship, and published "R-Shief: Proof of Concept" in Parson's Journal for Information Mapping. For more information, see www.lailashereen.com.
- current location
- Santa Cruz, California
- contact
- laila@r-shief.org
