Overview
In addition to editing texts, I specialise in book project consultancy—from 'pitch to print.' Working as a consultant, I have brought more than fifty books to print, working with authors at each step of their journey. This includes:
- Assistance with initial conceptual building
- Drafting successful submission proposals for publishing houses
- Preparing a manuscript for review
- Final production
- Covers, front matter and illustrations
- Effective book promotion and marketing (including SEO, social media engagement and public relations)
In addition to academic texts, I have experience of non-fiction works, especially non-fiction history.
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*As many academic books are not published through Google Play or Amazon Kindle, but are available at Google Books and Amazon, the images of a number of publications that I have edited, in full or partially, have been added to the image gallery with the ISBN details shown.
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Awards
- Rusa Award Winner 2015 (Outstanding Reference Source)
Certifications
- BA Hons. Arabic
- Arabic Language Diploma (Egypt)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Law
- MA Social Sciences
- Ph.D. History (Expected 2021)
Work experience
Gorgias Press LLC
Established three existing book series (medieval and modern history) and two pre-existing series (late antiquity and reprints). Across these series, I acquired more than 50 books and managed the acquisitions, reviews, copy editing, production and post-production of all published works. This included advising authors on how to convert manuscripts into monographs/edited volumes and about promotional strategies.
Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law
I taught and helped to supervise more than 40 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students across three internationally recognised academic programs. One of my roles was to instruct eleven Ph.D. students, all specialising in domestic and international law, in academic writing skills through a series of intensive workshops and lessons. The ultimate objective of this was to help the students to successfully complete Ph.D.s at leading academic institutions across the European Union.
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
As a research assistant, I conducted research on several academic projects relating to late antiquity, as well as copy editing texts for academic journals and books.
Self-employed
Some of the services that CWS offers include:
- Proofreading and copy editing
- Assistance with style and formatting (flow, readability, transitions, referencing, etc.)
- Review of the transliteration of foreign languages (including Arabic, Persian, and Urdu)
- Compilation of the front and back matter (table of contents, glossary, index, description, etc.)
- Selecting royalty-free images
- Designing of diagrams
- Production management of publishing a book
- Assistance with online optimisation, marketing and media materials for the publication of books
De Gruyter
Proofread and copy edited academic articles submitted to the academic journal Open Theology.
Fons Vitae
Assistant on a four-volume translation of an important medieval text from Arabic into English.
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