Board of Directors

Rehab joined Kalamna in 2020 and opened the first ever franchise in Newcastle while continuing to work on professional English-Arabic translations. Before moving to the UK, Rehab worked with one of the Arab World’s most prominent publishers. She is a mother of two and is currently studying Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

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