Al-Raida editor

Organizational Information

The Lebanese American University (LAU) is an American institution of higher education that has been operating in Lebanon since 1924, with initial roots as the first school for girls in the Ottoman Empire. Committed to serving Lebanon, the Arab world and beyond, LAU offers diverse academic opportunities in the fields of arts and sciences, business, engineering, architecture and design, pharmacy, medicine and nursing. The university is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (CIHE) of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), and many of its academic programs have received accreditation from field specific organizations. LAU operates in two campuses, one in Beirut and another in Byblos.

The Middle East Partnership Initiative – Tomorrow's Leaders office at LAU manages 8 LAU TL grants, and supports TL students enrolled at LAU on the grants. The team consists of 25 highly qualified members of faculty and staff.

Project Synopsis

Tomorrow's Leaders grants at LAU provide funding for talented needy students from Lebanon and the MENA region at different academic levels (undergraduate and graduate). The grants foster leadership, civic engagement, citizenship values, and Gender equity.

The project fulfills Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) strategic framework objectives in a) providing economically deserving individuals opportunities to build leadership skills, effectively engage with civil society, the private sector, and/or government actors; and b) increase workforce employability and improve access to higher value opportunities through demand-driven professional training and targeted, localized job placement, primarily in the private sector.

Project Objective

Part of its annual communication plan, the LAU MEPI TL program works on a list of communication tools to showcase students’ achievements and activities. Therefore, LAU would like to engage the services of an editor for the Arab Institute for Women’s bi-annual journal, Al-Raida. Al-Raida, The Pioneer, is a bi-annual interdisciplinary semi peer-reviewed journal published by the Arab Institute for Women (AiW) at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut, Lebanon. For more information on the journal: https://alraidajournal.lau.edu.lb/

Scope of Required Services

LAU is looking for one an editor for Al-Raida to conduct language and format editing for Al-Raida. The editor will be tasked with editing between 64 and 80 pages of papers submitted by the MEPI-TLS students.

Expected Deliverables

LAU is looking for one an editor for Al-Raida to conduct the following tasks:

• Ensuring the originality of the theme for each paper chosen
• Ensuring that the submissions are in line with the guidelines of publication (https://alraidajournal.lau.edu.lb/submissions.php)
• Reviewing the content of the papers submitted for sentence structure, the APA style guide usage, grammar, and spelling mistakes
• Editing and copyediting all articles and papers submitted
• Collaborating with the designer who will be doing the final layout for any required modifications.

Al-Raida should be a minimum of 64 pages and can go up to 88 pages. The service provider is expected to submit a draft of the fully edited Al-Raida issue two weeks after receipt of all required documents. The AiW team will review and send back the issue with comments one week after receipt of the draft. A final version is expected to be received the following week.