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Jordan: Modernization and Social Change

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Dr. Raed Al-Tabini

Dr. Raed Al-Tabini, a Jordanian national, holds a PhD in Rangeland Management from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Badia Research and Development Center (BRDC) in Jordan. Dr. Al-Tabini has managed a variety of development projects in the Middle East and North Africa on such diverse topics as community-based rangeland rehabilitation, management of scarce water resources, and the development of sustainable livelihoods in agropastoral communities. He also collaborated on the set-up of the Badia Center for Ecological Education. Dr. Al-Tabini is a frequent presenter at international conferences and well published in the field of sustainable development. In 2007, he was Academic Director for SIT Study Abroad’s Jordan: Appropriate Technology and Sustainable Development program; he has been AD for the Jordan: Modernization and Social Change program since fall 2007.

Mokhtar Bouba

Mokhtar Bouba holds a M.Ed in Education for Social Justice from Keene State College, New Hampshire and an M.A. in Service, Leadership and Management from the SIT Graduate Institute. He also hold a BA in English Language and Literature from Qadi Ayyad University in Marrakech.

Mokhtar served for more than eight years as an Academic Coordinator and Development Specialist at the Center for Cross Cultural Learning in Rabat, Morocco, where he was program coordinator for SIT Study Abroad Morocco: Culture and Society program.
He designed and directed many exchange programs in Morocco such as the Experiment in International Living and Elderhostel Morocco Programs. He advised many SIT students and Fulbright fellows and taught Tamazight (Berber) and Moroccan Arabic at Peacecorps Morocco and the Center for Cross Cultural Learning. He was also an Arabic instructor at SIT Graduate Institute where he helped in redesigning the Arabic program for graduate students.

Fluent in several languages (Tamazight, Moroccan Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Hassania, French and English), he has written and lectured about Amazigh (Berber) culture and art. He is also an artist, a musician, a writer and an activist on indigenous people's issues. He joined the Jordan Modernization and Social Change program as Assistant Academic Director in the spring of 2008.