University of London – The Centre for Financial and Management Studies
[1996-1999] Oriental philology - research grants
Faculty of Philosophy and Literature (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
General Commission for International Relations (Belgium)
- Focus on Semitic languages : Arabic, Hebrew, and others : Persian, Yiddish
- Working paper : Three men in the Sun, by Ghassan Kanafani (an analysis of the fate of Palestinian refugees in the Near East)
- Tunisia – Institut Bourguiba des Langues vivantes (1997-1998)
- Israel – Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998)
- Egypt – Department of Arabic studies (1998-1999)
Faculty of economics (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Focus: Economics of Less Developed Countries – socio-economic analysis of Middle East and South Asia (India esp.)
Facyulty of philosophy and Literature (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Focus on Political and cultural journalism
- Thesis: Manufacturing Myths : Mass Media and the myth of Hobo (magna cum laude)