Hala Khalaf was the editor and journalist of the campus newspapers at the University of Waterloo in Canada for three years. She was a volunteer for 2 1/2 months as an English teacher at Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon in the summer of 2001. Her journalistic working experience mostly comes from Jordan where she has been working freelance for some big national newspapers and magazines: "The Star," a weekly newspaper, and the monthly magazines "Jo and Living Well," In "The Star" Hala Khalaf had a weekly column where she wrote about the cultural beat/daily life of Jordan. She also worked for