Ph.D. Psychology (Consciousness and Society), the University of West Georgia, USA, 2017

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1 Melsn Hall (The Psychlgy Department), Rm 124, The University f West Gergia, 1601 Maple St., Carrlltn, GA rbeshara@westga.edu Website: Educatin Ph.D. Psychlgy (Cnsciusness and Sciety), the University f West Gergia, USA, 2017 M.F.A. Independent Film and Digital Imaging, Gvernrs State University, USA, 2012 B.A. Theatre (Minr: Music), the American University in Cair, Egypt, 2007 E.H.S.C. Math, Cllège de la Sainte Famille, Cair, Egypt, 2001 Jbs The University f West Gergia Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructr) nging The University f West Gergia Graduate Research Assistant Gvernrs State University Graduate Assistant (Media Lab Assistant/Teaching Assistant) Presentatins Beshara, R. (2013, May). Transcinema: The purpse, uniqueness, and future f cinema. Paper presented at the 2013 Key West Internatinal Multidisciplinary Academic Cnference, Key West, FL. Beshara, R. (2013, April). Facebk Friends as Mental Health Amateurs. Paper presented at the Student Psychlgy Annual Research Cnference (SPARC), Carrlltn, GA. Glazier, J. W., Skalski, J. E., Gibsn, M. D., Beshara, R., Atlas, N., Beck, T., Friedman, E., Gimen, R., Pratte, E. A., & Rland, K. N. (2013, March). University f West Gergia Research Prjects. Pster presentatin at Pacifica Graduate Institute fr the American Psychlgy Assciatin, Divisin 32 Annual Cnference, Santa Barbara, Califrnia. Publicatins Beshara, R. et al. (2014). Uncmmn Cair. H. Habib (Ed.). Lndn, UK. Beshara, R. (2013). The chakra system as a bi-sci-psych-spiritual mdel f cnsciusness: Anahata as heart-centered cnsciusness. Internatinal Jurnal f Yga-Philsphy, Psychlgy and Parapsychlgy, 1(1), 29. Beshara, R. (2013). Transcinema: The purpse, uniqueness, and future f cinema. Review f Scial Studies, Law, and Psychlgy, 7(1),

2 Page 2 Teaching Experience Curses taught: Persnal Relatinships (UWG) Fall 2013 & Spring 2014 Guest lectures: Sexuality and Buddhism (Sexuality and Spirituality, UWG) Fall 2013 Meditatin (Psychlgy f Mind/Bdy, UWG) Fall 2012 & Spring 2013 Editing Using Final Cut Pr (Advanced Vide Editing, GSU) Winter 2010 Acting in Film vs. Theatre (Directing Drama fr TV/Film, GSU) Winter 2010 Prfessinal Develpment Music Cmpsitin at Access Cntemprary Music 2011 Sundance: ShrtsLab: Chicag 2011 Active Imaginatin Intensive: Explratins in Sandplay and the Expressive Arts Therapies at the C G Jung Institute f Chicag Training f trainers wrkshp rganized by the Arab Digital Expressin Fundatin Screenwriting wrkshp with Syd Field 2008 Electrnic Music wrkshp rganized by Studi Emad Eddin Fundatin Affiliatins/Memberships Independent Feature Prject & Internatinal Expressive Arts Therapy Assciatin Vlunteered at Dc Films and the Chicag Internatinal Film Festival 2009

3 Page 3 Statement As a transdisciplinary nartist 1 experienced in the fields f theatre, film, writing, and music, I push myself t explre my full ptential as a nartist, as well as a human being. I strive fr my nart t be bth persnal and universal, shcking yet inspiring, enlightening but entertaining, healing and therapeutic. As a teacher, I mtivate my students t becme mre bdymindwrldful 2 by valuing their individuality and their diversity while encuraging them t creatively and cmpassinately cntribute t their cmmunities in a cnstructive way as active citizens f the wrld. As a researcher, I tend t explre cntrversial tpics with curisity using a multiperspectival apprach t be able t think utside the bx and see the big picture, hence, challenging nrmativity and embarcing the fringe in this regard, my bias will always be tward the ppressed. Skills and Interests Languages: Arabic, English, and French. Cmputer Skills: prficient cmputer user: Additinal Skills: Familiar with Micrsft Office, Pr Tls, and Dreamweaver. Expert f Final Cut Pr, Adbe Phtshp, and GarageBand. Additinally, an avid user f and cntent creatr fr scial media websites, such as YuTube and Facebk. Leader, phtgrapher, designer, keybardist, guitarist, vcalist, and recrding artist. Scut member fr 6 years (Wadi El Nil/Pinniers). Intermediate knwledge and practice f yga and meditatin (TM, Zen, and Mindfulness). Interests: psychlgy (analytical, Buddhist, neurscience, scial cnstructinism, systems thery, transpersnal, psychmagic and metagenealgy), film studies, pstclnialism, ethnfictin, DIY, expressive arts therapy (esp. cinema therapy), mdernist aesthetics (e.g., the experimental & the avant-garde, surrealism, the theatre f the absurd, etc.), minimalism, Resurce-Based Ecnmy, universal ethics, wrld-/bi-centrism, veganism, quantum & electrmagnetic theries f cnsciusness, panpsychism, cnspiracy theries, dreams & symbls, nnverbal cmmunicatin, sacred gemetry, CAM, re-/ne-mdernism, estericism, and scialist libertarianism. Experience FILM: FOUR writer/prducer/editr /directr [M.F.A. thesis prject; in pst-prductin] (2014) MOONDOG actr/translatr/c-writer/cmpser [Wrld Premiere at the Dubai Internatinal Film Festival] (2012) Shikaakwa editr/directr [screened at SHP] (2012) 1 Nartist means nn-artist, but N.A.R.T. als stands fr the Netwrk f Artists, Researchers, and Teachers. 2 Bdymindwrldfulness implies an awareness f the interdependence between ur bdymind and the wrld.

4 Page 4 DA! Cncert Film cinematgrapher/editr/directr [screened at the Lgan Theatre as part f the Chicag Internatinal Mvies and Music Festival (CIMMFest)] (2012) An Octpus in the Sky cinematgrapher/directr/editr/cmpser (2011) N.W.O. writer/cmpser/editr/directr [film market f the Palm Springs Internatinal ShrtFest] (2011) Till Our Eyes and Lips Meet c-cinematgrapher/editr/directr [screened at the Art Institute f Chicag's Mdern Wing as part f the One-Minute Film Festival] (2010) Mnkey n Back writer/prducer/editr/directr [screened at Chicag Filmmakers] (2010) A Dream Within A Dream writer/cinematgrapher/editr/directr [exhibited at the Internatinal ArtExp Liquid Cities & Temprary Identities at Zelena Dvrana in Zabk, Cratia (May 6-7 / 13-14, 2011) and Liquid Cities & Temprary Identities at the Festival Miden in the Amfeia s Square histric center f Kalamata, Greece (July , 2011) ] (2010) MAQAM c-cinematgrapher/editr/directr [music vide fr Cltaire K (featuring Natacha Atlas n vcals)] (2010) Cryptic Reflectins actr/cinematgrapher/additinal music/c-editr/prducer/directr [screened at the New Yrk Internatinal Film & Vide Festival, the American University in Cair, El Sawy Internatinal Film Festival, and the Op Shp v. III] ( ) Awqat Faragh (Free Times) cmpser [prduced by Al-Alamiya fr Cinema and Televisin] (2006) TRILOGY: Partially Me, 6 O clck SEX 666 (aka Lnging fr a Bnding), and Pliticity: A Shrt Circuit f Plitical Rape writer/cinematgrapher/editr/directr [screened in 2010 at the at the Op Shp v. II] (2006) THEATRE: A Trip: Gibberish Philsphical Quest writer/directr [perfrmed at the Op Shp v. III as part f ECLECTIC] (2010) INFINITY: a multi-media experience in seven clrs - playwright/prducer [an experimental healing arts prject in Arabic prduced by Alternative Art and premiered at Rawabet Theatre (Cair, Egypt)] (2008) Testicles, Mr. Black Testicles: A Slumber f Seven Hurs inside Bbby Brwn as dreamt by Bbby Brwn - playwright/sund designer/prducer/directr [an absurd tragi-cmedy prduced by the Artaudians, funded by the Yung Arab Theatre Fund (YATF), and premiered at the Hward Theatre (AUC)] ( ) The Illusin actr/cmpser (2006) The Lver set & sund designer/directr [B.A. Senir Hnrs Prject] (2006) Jack, r the Submissin set, lighting, and sund designer/directr [prduced by Theatriques] (2006) On Air writer/directr [in Arabic] (2005) Al-Mahrusa cmpser/sund designer (2005) Redwd Curtain stage manager/assistant directr (2005)

5 Page 5 Family Stries actr/sund designer/cmpser (2005) OTHER: CEO and Funder f Hippptamus Cinematgraphus (a digital n-budget vide prductin cmpany), the Artaudians and Theatriques (avant-garde theatre cmpanies), Overdze (a DIY recrd label), and Alternative Art (a nnprfit that prduces and prmtes experimental healing arts prjects). Directr f Mndgers LLC. Music albums prduced: Space Chicks, Ladies and Gentle Castrats, A Sundtrack fr Westernized Orientalists, Nuveau, AUM, and Spidey and the Thunderstrm. My pian cmpsitin Anahata was featured n Plum Village s website [ (2012) The Plymath & Pixelated experimental electrnic music/live art perfrmance, the Abbey Pub [Chicag, IL] (2012) Blgger at (2012 present) Funder f The Netwrk f Artists, Researchers, and Teachers [N.A.R.T.] and writer f the Nartist Manifest [presented at SHP and featured n the Chicag Center fr Literature and Phtgraphy s website] (2012) Spidey and the Thunderstrm - live electrnic music perfrmance at the Hyde Park Neighbrhd Club [feat. Daniel DC Christain] (2011) Music fr Plants c-rganized by the Chicag Sundcluders [the Op Shp v. IV] (2011) Funder and C-Organizer f Veggie Fest Cair [the first vegetarian festival in Cair, Egypt] (2011) Organized a screening at SHP f three American dcumentary films abut the Middle East directed by Dr. Pamela Nice: Letters frm Cair, Dreaming in Mrcc, and Desert in the Cffeehuse (2011) Artist-in-residence at Chicag Wisdm Prject [ develping Oedipus/Kingsley ( ) The Immemrial Myth f Lve and Enlightenment (aka Psi-Key) screenwriter (2010) ECLECTIC a sl exhibitin at the Op Shp v. III [ (2010) Daily News Egypt (a subsidiary f the Internatinal Herald Tribune) freelance drama critic (2009) ENA (a musical cmpsitin) was featured in Zeppelin 2009 Sunds f pwer / Listening f fear and was played at the Centre de Cultura Cntemprània de Barcelna (2009) Eva s Dream playwright (2006) CIPHER playwright (2005) ne a cllectin f writings (2004 present) Student Representative Perfrming and Visual Arts Department, AUC ( )

6 Page 6 Selected Reviews: Mndg: Frm the Midwest t the Middle East: Veggie Fest Cair: Cryptic Reflectins: Testicles, Mr. Black Testicles: A Slumber f SEVEN Hurs Inside Bbby Brwn as dreamt by Bbby Brwn: The Illusin: Family Stries: Links: Sundclud: sundclud.cm/theplymath & sundclud.cm/spideyandthethunderstrm YuTube: yutube.cm/sayeddarwish Vime: vime.cm/rbertbeshara Blg: LinkedIn: Facebk: Twitter: IMDB: The Nartist Manifest: (PDF) and (audi) 20Nartist%20Manifest_edited%20audi-MP3%20fr%20Audi%20Pdcasting.mp3