Curriculum Vitae Hasan Zagha

Hasan Zagha
Al-ausat Street, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine
+970 92399132 +970 599869479

hazag100@hhu.de

Sex Male | Date of birth 17.3.1976 | Nationality Palestinian

WORK EXPERIENCE
2007 - 2016, Office Manager and Deputy Director
Project Hope, Nablus www.projecthope.ps

- Establishing and developing the teaching Hebrew language programme for local students
- Establishing and developing the Arabic language programme for international students
- Overseeing a number of programs, including French, English, IT and general activities programmes
- Providing logistical support to international volunteers and office headquarters
- Managing office supplies and sale of products for fundraising
- Supervising, managing and creating schedules for a large team of employees
- Cooperating with local organizations to help newly arrived volunteers teach and experience local culture

2005 - 2006, Research Assistant / Interpreter, Part Time

Nichole Argo, PhD candidate at MIT
- I was the sole field research assistant for a doctoral thesis in Political Science on the conflict in Palestinian territories. Facilitated
meetings between researcher and families of the deceased soldiers
- Provided oral and written translation between Arabic and English to doctoral standard
- Enhanced the researcher’s knowledge of cultural nuances and mores

2003 - 2006, Field worker, Part Time

Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), Nablus
- Responsible for collecting data on political prisoners using qualitative research methods, including key informant interviews that
sought to analyse the prisoners’ investigation period and treatment by the State of Israel
- Actively reporting human rights violations against Palestinian population in Nablus
- Excelling in advanced personal communication skills by interacting with diverse segments of the population

2003 - 2006, Legal Coordinator

Anssar Al-Sajeen (Prisoners’ Supporters legal advocacy NGO), Nablus office
- Responsible for coordinating legal unit involving large team of lawyers providing legal protection and advocacy to up to 350
prisoners
- Chief responsibility for allocating tasks and documents to lawyers in the organization
- Translation of legal documents from Hebrew to Arabic
- Liaised between the organization and families of the accused
- Represented the organization to a wide range of national and international organizations

2002- 2003, Research Assistant

International Solidarity Institution for Human Rights, Nablus
- Responsible for translation of legal documents from Hebrew to Arabic
- Supported legal office with provision of relevant concepts applicable and evaluation of cases
- Created prisoners’ database for the legal office

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

( 2017 ) MA in European Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, (Germany)

( 2017 ) Participation in an executive training programme of one month in European

and international affairs at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (Austria)

( 2015 ) BA in Political Science and International Relations at The Open University of

Israel (Israel)

( 2009 ) Participation in International Human Rights Training Program at the Canadian

Human Rights Foundation "Equitas" for one month (Canada)

( 2005 ) Participation in an executive training in public relation and press (Ramallah-

Palestine)

PERSONAL SKILLS

Communication skills ▪ Excellent communication skills gained through my experience as an office manager, teacher,
researcher and deputy director

Organisational / managerial skills ▪ Excellent leadership skills and abilities obtained through a number of managerial positions that
necessitated leadership role (currently responsible for a team of 9 people)
Mother tongue(s) Arabic language

Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

Hebrew Proficient Proficient Proficient Proficient Proficient

English Proficient Proficient Proficient Proficient Proficient
French Independent Independent Independent Independent Basic
German Basic Basic Basic Basic Basic

Digital SELF-ASSESSMENT
competence
Information Content Problem
Communication Safety
processing creation solving

Independent user Proficient user Independent user Proficient user Independent user

Driving licence Category B

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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