Bio

AWARDS & HONORS

Eastern Educational Research Association Senior Scholar Award, 41st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Educational Research Association, Clear water, FL, 2018.

The Carl and Emily Fuchs Foundation, FUCHS THE GOLDEN YEARS ANNIVERSARY PROJECT, South Africa, 2016.

GSU Faculty Award for Global Engagement, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2013.

GSU Study Abroad Director of the Year Nomination, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2013.

GSU Instructional Innovation Award for Excellence in Instruction and Learning, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2012.

Service, Teaching and Research (STaR) Fellowship Program Award, National Science Foundation Program. The program included 18-month training seminars for mathematics education fellows, Park City, Utah, 2011.

International Student Colonial Dames Scholarship, University of Minnesota, 2007.

Graduate Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2004-2008.

Conference Award, the Compact for Faculty Diversity, Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Scholars Program, Tampa, Florida, 2010.

Seminar Award, The 22nd Annual convention of Revolutionary Sciences, Association of Psychological Sciences, Boston, MA, 2010.

Seminar Award, NCES/IES 2010 International Database Seminar, Paper presentation “Using PISA (2006) database to examine the effects of time spent on homework on students’ numeracy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries”, Washington DC, USA, 2010.

Conference Award, Long Island University, Paper presented “Mathematics for social justice: The effect of teaching fractions in Lebanese schools using a non-traditional curriculum”, Brooklyn-NY, 2008.

LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
Co-editor, Journal of Mathematics and Culture, a peer – reviewed Journal sponsored by the North American Study Group on Ethnomathematics (2013-present).
Publication Editor, Proceedings of International Consortium on Ethnomathematics– Arabic version (2010-present).
Peer Reviewer for Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2010-present.
Peer Reviewer for Journal of Teacher Education, 2014.
Peer Reviewer for Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2013-present.
Peer Reviewer for International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Research, 2015.
Peer Reviewer for Journal of Progressive Research in Education, 2016- present.
Peer Reviewer for Journal of Indigenous Knowledge: Other Ways of Knowing, 2017.

Invited Proposal Reviewer for International and National Grants
National Research Foundation, South Africa, 2015, 2016, 2017.
Florida 21st CCLC RFP Grant Peer Reviewer, 2013, 2016.
Georgia Department of Education, Title II Improving Teacher Quality Grants, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016.
International Education Fee (IEF) Study Abroad Programs, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2009-2018.
International Education Fee (IEF) Study Abroad Programs, Georgia State University, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
FLAS Scholarship Committee, Global Studies Consortium, University of Minnesota, 2009.
Reader/ Panelist: Critical Language Scholarship Program at the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), 2008.

Conference Proposal Reviewer
Interaction Design & Children Conference, Stanford University, 2017.
AMTE Annual conference. Association of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2012, 2013.
NCTM Annual Conference. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
Youth at Risk Conference, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017.
Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME/NA), 2010, 2013