Maha Alawdat

Maha Alawdat holds Ph.D in Composition and TESOL from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Master degree in foreign English Literature from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Currently, she teaches at Kaye College of Education and Ort Abu Rabe’a Multidisciplinary school. Previously, she taught at Indiana University of PA and the Language Center in the United States. During her career, she got a number of awards like Teaching Excellence Award from IUP, Graduate Women’s Leadership, Fulbright Scholarship from the American Embassy, and Award for Dissertation Completion, and Exceptional English Teacher Award from the Israeli Ministry of Education. She has also a number of publications including articles, poems, and a book.

Publications

Expressive Multilingual Writing: A Transformational Healing Skill for a Pandemic Challenge
Expressive Multilingual Writing: A Transformational Healing Skill for a Pandemic Challenge
Eda Başak Hancı-Azizoglu, Maha Alawdat. © 2022. 16 pages.
The purpose of this chapter reveals the healing power of writing at times of stress, turmoil, and crisis from multilingual perspectives. Writing relieves emotional chaos, stress...
Multilingual Writing in Digital World: The Necessity for Reshaping Teaching
Multilingual Writing in Digital World: The Necessity for Reshaping Teaching
Maha Alawdat. © 2022. 18 pages.
This chapter examines teachers' practices and strategies while using digital tools for writing. The chapter argues that when teachers use digital writing, they need to change...
I'm an Arab Muslim Palestinian Israeli Bedouin Girl: An Autoethnography of a Multilingual Female
I'm an Arab Muslim Palestinian Israeli Bedouin Girl: An Autoethnography of a Multilingual Female
Maha Alawdat. © 2022. 22 pages.
As a requirement of life conditions today, many nations around the world speak several languages. This creates multi-social, cultural, and linguistic identities which bring about...
Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis
Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis
Eda Başak Hancı-Azizoglu, Maha Alawdat. © 2021. 419 pages.
Crises often leave people in vulnerable situations in which a moment in time can function as a turning point of a catastrophic situation for the better or worse. From another...
Multilingual Writing in Digital World: The Necessity for Reshaping Teaching
Multilingual Writing in Digital World: The Necessity for Reshaping Teaching
Maha Alawdat. © 2021. 18 pages.
This chapter examines teachers' practices and strategies while using digital tools for writing. The chapter argues that when teachers use digital writing, they need to change...
Expressive Multilingual Writing: A Transformational Healing Skill for a Pandemic Challenge
Expressive Multilingual Writing: A Transformational Healing Skill for a Pandemic Challenge
Eda Başak Hancı-Azizoglu, Maha Alawdat. © 2021. 16 pages.
The purpose of this chapter reveals the healing power of writing at times of stress, turmoil, and crisis from multilingual perspectives. Writing relieves emotional chaos, stress...
Quaran-Teens 2020 Blog Series: Collaborative Digital Auto-Ethnography During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quaran-Teens 2020 Blog Series: Collaborative Digital Auto-Ethnography During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Maha Alawdat, Rebecca Hodges. © 2021. 23 pages.
The aim of this chapter is to examine Quaran-Teens 2020, a collaborative, digital, high school anthropology blog project during COVID-19 to demonstrate the effectiveness of...