Ayman Hamdeh Scholarship Recipients
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Reem Qasem 2020Reem Qasem is a Palestinian American, born and raised in New Jersey. She is currently obtaining her MBA at William Paterson University, with a concentration in Accounting, and is expected to graduate in May of 2020. She started working at the Palestinian American Community Center in 2017 as an Americorps Vista and is currently the Office Manager. She values spending time with her loved ones and traveling in her free time.
Taisir Alfar 2020I’m a pre-med student at Rutgers University. I’m also a member in NSCS (The National Society of Collegiate Scholars). I was living in Jordan before I moved to USA four years ago. I enjoy writing poetry in Arabic language. Also, I used to play karate back in Jordan.
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Helwa Aburas 2019Helwa Aburas is originally from Turmos Aya, Palestine. She joined PACC when she became a committee member of The Homeland Project as well as being the girls dabka instructor for a year and a half. This scholarship went towards completing her higher education. In which she graduated with my B.S. in Supply Chain Management from Rutgers University with High Honors in May 2019.
Nisreen H. Rajab 2019Nisreen Rajab was born and raised in Palestine, she did her undergraduate degree at The Islamic University of Gaza, and received her Bachelor of English Language Education with Honors in 2012. After college she worked as an English teacher for elementary students at United Nations refugees school (UNRWA) in Gaza. In 2013 she was granted the Fulbright (Foreign Language Teaching Assistant) FLTA scholarship, where she moved to the USA and worked at William Paterson University, NJ as an Arabic Language Professor Assistant. She received her Master of Education in Bilingual & ESL in 2019 from William Paterson University. Nisreen Has always been involved in the Palestinian and Arabic Community in New York and North New Jersey. Between 2017 and 2019, she worked as an ESL teacher for adult refugee students at Smile for Charities, NJ. She has been the English conversation instructor at the Palestinian American Community Center Since 2018. She currently works as an ESL Teacher at Wayne Township Public Schools District NJ.
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Dania Niwash 2018Dania Niwash is an active member of the community and has been awarded the Ayman Hamdeh Scholarship for 2017 for her involvement in the Arab American community. She is a student in the Physician Assistant program at Seton Hall University School of Health and Medical Sciences. She is in her clinical phase and looks forward to graduating in May 2019. She is currently collaborating with the National Arab American Medical Association to establish a NJ chapter for the young medical professionals in NJ. Dania has tutored sciences and math at the PACC center. She is present at many of the PACC events and has recently joined the event committee. She is also a former member of the ICPC Girls youth committee in which she served for 3 years.
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Halla Yousef 2017Hala Yousef is currently enrolled at Passaic County Community College in one of the top well known Nursing Program known in New Jersey, with intentions of pursuing a Masters Degree in nursing allowing her for more opportunities. Halla involvement with the Palestinian American Community Center began with tutoring students in all subjects, slowly working towards being a bigger part of PACC. Being born and raised in New Jersey helped Halla keep close connection with the Palestinian Community around her and lose touch with her Palestinian roots.
Diane Issa 2017Diane Issa is the first face you’ll see walking into the Palestinian American Community Center and the last face you’ll see walking out. She is the epitome of a devoted community member in the Arab community and is outstandingly motivated when working in the cause of her very own Palestinian community in northern New Jersey. Her history and hard work earned her an offer as the administrative assistant at the PACC. She served as SJP president and was a prime member of the Student Government Association allocations board. Currently a William Paterson University alumni with a BA in Sociology, Diane is en route to continuing her education with a masters in Counseling to continue to make helping people a life goal.
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