Our Teachers

Noha Guindy

Noha joined Kalamna in 2021 and teaches students from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria & Switzerland). Shortly after moving to Germany in 2015, she noticed her kids’ struggle to learn the language and maintain their spoken dialect. After a lot of failing attempts with learning Arabic the traditional way, Noha found Kalamna and initially took master […]

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Miranda Bishara

Miranda is an Egyptian children’s author and translator based in France. She joined Kalamna in 2021 and teaches 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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Mariam Azzam

Mariam wears multiple hats at Kalamna. When she’s not teaching our youngest students in Cambridge on Sundays, she’s making sure we run a smooth operation across all our Kalamna classes. Before moving to the UK, Mariam worked at a nursery in Alexandria, Egypt. She is an avid photographer and traveller.

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Dalia Nabil

Dalia joined Kalamna in 2021 opening our second franchise in Manchester. Before moving to the UK, Dalia founded one of the first sensory play classes for babies in the Arab region. A certified Positive Educator, she is a mother of two and a passionate student of all things child-psychology who has a natural talent for

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Rehab Bassam

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.

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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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