Languages spoken:

Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, some Hebrew and Arabic

Working experience:

2000-02
Administrative assistant to the Director, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)

1997-98
Information assistant (free-lance) Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), Hebron, Palestinian

Education:

1999
M.A. (licenciate), University of Ghent, Belgium (Oriental Languages and Cultures, focus Hebrew and Arabic). Masters dissertation (Hebrew literature), “Reizen van de Laatste Benjamin van Tudela” van Yehuda Amichai, vertaling en analyse [“Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela” by Yehuda Amichai, translation and analysis] (Summa cum laud).

1997-98:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Fieldwork in Jerusalem, Israel, for masters dissertation.

University of Ghent, Belgium. Final year of second cycle of Oriental Languages and Cultures, advanced courses in Hebrew and Arabic (Modern and Classical), cultural history and comparative literature.

1996-97
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Erasmus fellow. Courses in Hebrew and Arabic language and literature, and a course in comparative literature of the Middle East

1996
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, intensive language course in Hebrew.

1994-96
B.A. University of Ghent, Belgium (Oriental Languages and Cultures, focus Hebrew and Arabic). (Summa cum laud).

1992-94
B.A. University of Ghent, Belgium (Philosophy).