Afaf Khoshman

Class of 2015

Since Fall 2017, Afaf Khoshman has been enrolled in the PhD program in Education and Anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her focus is on education in the Arab world and diaspora between schooling (as led by government and private institutions) and communities, mainly families. Prior to that, Afaf received her Masters of Arts in Arab Studies from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., funded by a generous scholarship from the Kuwait-America Foundation (KAF), where she also interned in 2015.

Before coming to the United States, Afaf worked as a translator and interpreter with several organizations and NGOs, including NDI, USAID, Noor Al-Hussein Foundation, and Peace Corps in her home country of Jordan. She also taught English for four years in her hometown Shobak, 200km south of Jordan’s capital city, Amman. Upon graduating from Georgetown University, Afaf worked for a year at the Eurasia Foundation in Washington, D.C. on education projects in the Middle East. 

Afaf has a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in Translation from Yarmouk University and the University of Jordan respectively, in addition to a teaching certificate from Teachers College at University of Columbia in New York City.