Hold a Bachelor in Science in Chemistry, Diploma for teaching science at the secondary level, and Master of Arts in Science Education from the American University of Beirut (AUB). She earned her Doctorate in Education from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in fall 1997 with a specialty in [K-12] Educational Administration and Supervision and a focus on school principalship, organizational change and educational policy.

She currently serves as  the program advisor for the Educational Management and Leadership program in the department. She is also a co-principal investigator in the TAMAM school reform project- a joint project of the Arab Thought Foundation and the American University of Beirut to initiate and research school based reform in Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

Her areas of professional interest are: educational reform, role of the school principal, principal training, qualitative research, women in educational administration and educational services to marginalized population in schools.

Department of Education American University of Beirut
Email: ra10@aub.edu.lb
 Phone: 01-350000, ext# 3058
Office: Fisk Hall, Room 133