A ballerina with a hijab: An Arab EFL teacher’s identity between cultural norms and change

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Funding

This work was supported by the Mofet Institute’s Post-Doctoral Grant.

Notes on contributors

Rawia Hayik

Dr. Rawia Hayik is a lecturer and pedagogical advisor in the English Department at Sakhnin Academic College for Teacher Education, Israel. She is a recent PhD graduate from the Literacy, Culture, and Language Education Department at Indiana University in the United States. Her PhD research focused on using children’s literature on gender, religious diversity, and minority issues with Israeli-Arab EFL students as a springboard for critical reader responses. Her post-doctoral research explores the use of participatory documentary photography with college students to address social justice issues and problems in the linguistic landscape in the Galilee area.