Carmel Alabbasi

• Contributed editing expertise to online visual content and performed editorial work for various cultural entities ( Record labels, cultural festivals, publications, sound producers).
• Participated in creative meetings to assist in developing ideas for different creative initiatives in Berlin.
• Edited motion design and visual effects for a video promotion of CANAL 93-8 Music festival in Barcelona 2021.
• Curated Framing Home Photography exhibition in Berlin 2020.
• Developed and managed storyboards, post-production editing and final delivery formats of her first Experimental Documentary film "Burden" 2019.
• Photographed high-quality images and videos for various cultural events in Berlin 2018-2020 ( ALberlin festival- Yalla party,
  XJazz Berlin festival, etc).

In October 2020 DOX BOX inaugurated a new training program for aspiring women documentary filmmakers. Mouatheqat/Women in Dox is a nine month fellowship incubator for female professionals to acquire, get hands-on experience, and exchange the necessary skills to write, research, direct, produce and edit a documentary film. Its main focus lies in the exploration of and experimentation with different forms of storytelling emanating from individual perspectives, voices and experiences. Mouatheqat is designed to connect and
cross-pollinate intergenerational, interdisciplinary and intercultural imaginaries of women who are keen on transmitting their voices to a worldwide audience.

• Created and updated physical records and digital files to maintain current, accurate and compliant documentation.
• Produced highly accurate internal and external letters and memoranda.
• Sorted, opened and routed incoming correspondence to help senior leaders respond quickly to modifications because of Covid 19 requirements.
• Delivered top-notch administrative support to both project manager, and the participated film makers, promoting excellence in the project operations.
• Compiled reports both ( written, visual ) and recorded activities for projects as part of comprehensive, compliance-driven recordkeeping strategies.
• Kept updated with both literature and films that were discussed during the project.

• Conducting 20 photography workshops to children and adolescents as part of recreational program for back on track Syria NGO in Berlin.

Jasmina is a cultural project that I founded in Barcelona, where we held
evenings with live music, film screenings, creative writing workshops,
books readings and hosting activities that concerns about and target
refugees or “paperless” migrants in Barcelona.

• Organized, coordinated and deployed events while focusing on including as many beneficiaries as possible from different backgrounds.
• Executed on-time and under-budget project management on complex issues.
• Cut costs and doubled mobilizing to show volume by delivering effective solidarity strategies to optimize outreach.
• Strategized long-term project needs while driving participant's feedback for process improvements.
• Evaluated existing plans, processes and events planning services to identify opportunities for collaborations with similar projects in town.

• Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain effective working relationship with the hosted artists.
• Coordinating all details related to receiving bands from outside
  Barcelona preforming at the festival.
• Booking flight tickets, renting cars for transferring equipments , and booking residencies for the artists.
• Booking gig's tickets for the hosted artists, or any aside activities
  that would be scheduled for them beside their participation at the
  festival.
• Actively listened to artists, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
• Resolved problems, improved operations and provided solutions outside the box.
• Proved successful working within last minute modifications and fast-paced atmosphere.

• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to costumer's problems.
• Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between our partners and our costumers.
• Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues, my average of costumer satisfaction was around 12, however the required target was 9.
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for my team's improvement.
• Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.

I volunteered as photographer, creative facilitator, and farmer in different places in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda through for 9 months.
I have learned about, the cultural, political, sociological background of those countries, and offered my own experiences in exchange.

Conducting training materials to update social workers and therapists who are working with refugees from different backgrounds on latest concerns on those countries, what are the best methods dealing with different cases, and exchange experiences in between workers in different sectors as they face different situations, each one in their own context.

• Researched and kept updated with latest socio-political events for Afghanistan and Palestine regions.
• Created training manuals for municipality employees who are in contact with migrants from both countries .
• Appropriately allocated resourced, budgets, inventories, training support and team building materials to increase employee's knowledge towards their clients.
• Analyzed department's training methods and made adjustments to rectify issues, with the internal protocols in regards their clients.
• Coordinated workshops for employees to better understand their client's cultural backgrounds, social codes, and religions.
• Developed curriculum, instructions, documentation and written manuals for new hired employees in different departments.
• Educated managers on complex nuances associated with immigration policies to support recommended solutions that met individual cases needs, especially with the law issued in 2011, of forced transfer of Afghanis adolescents when they turn 18 years old.
• Managed alternative education projects by fundraising and developing program opportunities.

I worked at the unaccompanied minors department, I was the main contact for 2 adolescents who lived there beside my daily duties and responsibilities at the department on everyday shifts.

• Helped adolescents develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behavior modification.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams of school psychologists, teachers and administrators to create and implement Individualized Education Plans.
• Encouraged socialization and engagement through therapy, music therapy and social activities.
• Maintained record of daily individual activities, behaviors and pertinent incidents for adolescents analysis and assessment.
• Developed Functional Behavioral Assessment and Positive Behavioral Intervention Plan to identify cause of problem behavior, formulate strategies to address behavior and teach new behavioral skills.
• Offered therapeutic services and crises intervention to emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.
• Administered assessments and developed academic goals based on specific disabilities and barriers to learning.
• Recommended long-term residential treatment, short-term residential treatment and individualized and group drug counseling for adolescents with substance abuse issues.
• Advocated for rights and sought solutions by tracking and monitoring legislation and arranging and attending meetings with politicians, lawmakers and municipality staff.

I joined the MAAN development office in Gaza, to establish Youth and Adolescent Development Program. At the time the center was focused on improving the food security situation of the poorest and most marginalized sectors of the Palestinian society at the family & community level, through their Agricultural and Food Security Program.

• Identified, reviewed the youth and adolescents needs in different areas in Gaza strip.
• Established partnership with 16 CBOs and NGOS in different areas in Gaza strip, in order to implement our different projects for youth and adolescents together with them.
• Identified plans and resources required to meet program goals and objectives.
• Recruited and oversaw personnel to achieve performance and quality targets.
• Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on program status to UNICEF our donor at the time.
• Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project coordinators to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
• Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in obstacles or delays.
• Adhered to budget requirements with excellent planning and consistent expense monitoring.
• Provided accurate, detailed quantity take-offs from projects drawings and technical specifications.
• Updated operational methods, oversaw accounting procedures, tracked information and compiled data to improve efficiency.

• Organized and managed program development from conception through successful execution.
• Orchestrated smooth and efficient program development by collaborating cross-functionally across our local partners.
• Designed program implementation and maintenance plan together with our partners.
• Addressed and resolved technical, financial and operational concerns by working closely with my directors.
• Developed and organized routine for field visits to talk with the program beneficiaries directly and modify objectives depending on the their needs.
• Writing monthly reports to my direct senior, and quarterly - yearly evaluation reports.
• Presenting the Gaza office in the yearly international conferences that were held by NPA to evaluate their contributions in different countries and get feedback on how to improve their work for the coming years. ( I was attending the South Africa meeting, Bosnia and Herzegovina) .
• Participated in a training for the Youth program coordinators in Cambodia.
• worked for 3 months in Oslo office, together with the Middle East programs Manager in NPA head office in Oslo.
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First I have to mention that I grew up in this great institution, since I moved to Gaza when I was 13 years old I joined Yaraat Program which is for adolescents who are interested in creative writing and books readings. Most of my experiences at this institution shaped my life, and my mindset until now.

I understood that the Learning process is continues as long as we are able to breath. It's not limited to university walls, it comes from reading, moving to places, observing the environment around us, analyzing critically what we read, listen, and see. Ask the question of who produced those materials we consume? why? how they want us to react? and where do we stand from it?

Munir Fasheh quit his job at Birzeit University in 1989 and started the Tamer Institute for Community Education, applying his evolving concepts of Mujaawarrah to educational models where young people would form non-hierarchical learning groups to explore concepts through reading and discussion.

Observing his illiterate mother and her complex mathematics sewing clothes for women in the neighborhood, Munir realized that Macaulay's education policies were based not only on the will to control the native population but also on the assumption of the innate superiority of Western modes of thought, and hence the moral justness of colonialism, and TAMER institute was a beginning to establish an alternative educational system in the Palestinian society.

I was project coordinator for different teams there :

- Yaraat Team . ( Creative writing and books readings ).

- Al Nakhel Team . ( Voluntary work team in local communities and book reading ).

- Al Hanoon Team ( Film making ).

- The campaign of " I donated a book ".