Board of Directors

Miranda Beshara

Miranda is an Egyptian children’s author and translator based in France. She joined Kalamna in 2021 and taught Stage 3 online classes to heritage students worldwide. She is also the co-founder of Hadi Badi, an initiative that aims at making Arabic children’s literature accessible to all through engaging reading experiences. Miranda holds a BA in […]

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Rehab Bassam

Rehab joined Kalamna in 2020 and opened the first ever Kalamna franchise branch in Newcastle, UK. When she’s not teaching Arabic to her students in-person and online, she’s working on English-Arabic translations or editing Arabic books. She’s the author of the best-selling book Rice Pudding for Two (Dar ElShorouk, 2008). Through her translation career, she translated over 25 books

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Saussan Khalil

Saussan teaches at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, with a PhD in Arabic sociolinguistics and an MA by Research in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, University of Leeds, postgraduate Certificate for Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (CTAFL), SOAS, London and BA English Literature, Alexandria University, Egypt. She

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