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Anna
Assistant Director

Anna Sophia Habib is the Assistant Director of the University Writing Center and term faculty in the English Department. Anna is currently conducting research with a team of writing center researchers on non-native students' experiences with writing in English and in their native language. Their research findings appear in Valuing Written Accents: Non-native Students Talk about Identity, Academic Writing, and Meeting Teachers’ Expectations, recently published by University Life and George Mason’s Diversity Research Group.

Anna was born in Beirut, Lebanon at the peak of the civil war and fled to the island of Cyprus with her family, where she grew up speaking English, Arabic, French and Greek.

She graduated from George Mason University with her Master's of Fine Arts in Nonfiction writing. She is currently working on a book-in-progress, A Block from Bliss Street, about her experiences as a child of the Lebanese civil war.

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