Manar Hazzaa

Profile

Hazzaa is an Egyptian award-winning children’s book author. She is currently a postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. Hazzaa served for four years as the Egyptian Arabic Instructor in the African Language Program at Harvard University. Hazzaa received her Master of International Education Policy degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education and has a Master of Anthropology from the American University in Cairo. Hazzaa was a Research Fellow for two years at the Language for Learning Lab at Harvard University. She also collaborated with the Pedagogy of Play (POP) team at Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education; her work involved reviewing the Arabic POP academic literature.
Manar’s current academic focus for her PhD is Family Storytime in Arabic: Studying Diglossia and the Attitudes and Behaviors of Arab Adult Readers.

Research interests

Family Literacy, Early Childhood Literacy, Home Learning/Literacy Environment, Shared Reading, Playful Reading, Arabic Language and Literacy, Diglossia, Parent Support Programs, Family Story Time Programs, and Children's Literature.

Qualifications

• Master of International Education Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Master of Anthropology, the American University in Cairo.
• Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Folklore, Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University.