Teaching TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS 2011 TEFL England, Dingwall, Scotland Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 2001 Hammersmith and West London College, Hammersmith City & Guilds 7307 for Higher Education and Adults WORK EXPERIENCE: 2013-now Online Shi‘a Studies Set up an educational centre, www.onlineshiastudies.com, for teaching short courses on-line. Subjects include the Tenets of Tashayyu’, Early Shī‘ī History, Esoteric Knowledge in Tashayyu’, Islam in Africa and Comparative Literature. Sold courses to Jafari Seminary, Sidhpur, Gujarat, which they have translated into Gujarati. Taught Early Shī‘ī History at Hawzatul Hidayat, Trinidad, summer 2019. 2019 Astan e Quds Razavi, Mashhad Editing and proofreading translation of the Qur’ān. 2011 Islamic Institute for Post-GraduateStudies, Damascus and Birmingham Gave two series of live on-line lectures in Islamic culture, Islamic mysticism and media. 2009-now Ahlulbayt TV, London Present a live programme with a range of scholars, three times a week. Topics are social, historical and religious. Also present an arts show and giving a number of lectures for a series. Broadcasted twice-daily shows live from Karbala, Iraq. 2009 Hadi TV, London Presenter for a series of lectures on Islamic mysticism broadcasted to Asia. 2008-2013 Islamic College for Advanced Studies, London Position: Senior Lecturer. Created a twelve-unit 350 page on-line textbook on Islamic mysticism which I teach as a module for an MA Islamic Studies Comparative Philosophy Distance Learning program. Created a textbook on Western mysticism which I also teach for this program. Teach BA Islamic mysticism and MA Islamic mysticism in-house. Member of the Academic Board. Supervise Masters and DProf dissertations. Course manager for BA Muslim Cultures and Civilisations. 2007-2008 School of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College Sessional Lecturer for courses on Islamic mysticism. 2007-2008 Press TV, West London Co-producer and presenter for a twice-weekly religious and cultural affairs programme called Nexus for this Iranian English language satellite channel. 2005-2006 Sahar Satellite TV, Iran and London Producer and presenter for a twenty-part series, locating and interviewing Muslim women, both convert and born, about their work and thought. Additional interviews with university professors on subjects related to Islam, society, science and politics. 2004-2006 School of Oriental & African Studies; Centre for Asian and African Studies Assistant researcher for Prof. Kate Zebiri on a publication entitled British Muslim Converts; assistant editor for publication entitled Translating Other; proofreading PhDs for publication. 2002-2004 Institute of Islamic Studies, London Freelance editorial work on articles about Islamic philosophy and mysticism for Transcendent Philosophy, a quarterly publication. Translating academic articles from French to English 2001-2004 Islamic College for Advanced Studies, College of Northwest London Lecturer for ‘A’ level English literature