Overview
Want to pack a lot into your text but not sure how? Whether I am working on a book, a journal article, a project proposal or a report, my focus is on flow and clarity. I relish helping authors organize their content in the most logical and economical way possible.Too much context and background weighing your book down? I can help you highlight your most insightful arguments and make your work clear and accessible to a broader audience. Is English your second language? I will polish your prose by reducing ambiguities and redundancies.
Services
Non-Fiction
History
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
Political Science & Current Affairs
Languages
English (UK)
Certifications
- Editorial Skills for Business, Publishing Training Centre - 2018
- Essential Proofreading, Publishing Training Centre - 2022
Work experience
Freelance
Jun, 2010 —
Present
Copyediting assignments have included Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The 'Dangerous Classes' Since 1800 and a special issue of Iranian Studies (Russian Orientalism to Soviet Iranology, Iranian Studies 48/5) .
Chatham House
Mar, 2012 —
Present
My role includes managing the production of approximately seven research papers per year; I organize peer reviews and liaise with the authors and the editing team. I copyedit and rewrite project proposals and offer structural advice on short and long papers. I regularly help ESL authors with organizing their content and making their prose clear and accessible.
Portfolio
In recent years bitter controversies have erupted across Europe and the Middle East about women’s veiling, and especially their wearing of the face-veil or niqab. Yet the deeper issues contained within these controversies – secularism versus religious belief, ... read more
The concept of the 'dangerous classes' was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new societies, surviving by their wits or vario... read more
