Francesco

My name is Francesco. I am currently a Master’s student and teaching assistant at the American University of Beirut, having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2018 with a BA in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (First Class Honours). My current research looks at the history of political thought in the Arab world, and given the interdisciplinary nature of my studies I feel comfortable tutoring a range of methodological fields across the humanities and social sciences, including modern languages. My capacities lie in areas such as History, Political Philosophy, Political Science and Anthropology/Sociology, along with Arabic, Italian, French and Spanish, from GCSE through to undergraduate level.

Availability: I am free and flexible from Monday — Friday, 0900-1700; please get in touch to arrange a time for us to meet.

Willing to travel: 5 miles

Experience: I have experience teaching undergraduates and marking their written work. In the first year of my Master`s degree (2018-19) I worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the American University of Beirut. In my first semester, my work was primarily involved marking undergraduate essays for a course entitled Arab Political Thought & Ideology. In my second semester, I led two seminars and lectured another two classes for a Senior Seminar in Political and Social Theory, on the work of Hannah Arendt. I also have experience tutoring GCSE and A-Level French, having followed two pupils for six months in 2013-14. I grew up in London, speaking both English and Italian at home and I have published translations of academic (mainly art historical and curatorial) texts from French into English. I also work almost daily with primary sources in written Arabic for my research, so I am available to give language classes in Italian, French and Arabic along with Spanish, a language I have also studied and gained fluency in. I can also help with issues relating to academic writing and presentation, as well as aiding secondary school pupils with exams in Philosophy, Religious Studies, Ancient History/Classical Civilisation and Sociology.