[right][img]https://i.imgur.com/G8vXk3a.png[/img] [sub][color=319177][b]Application for Writer on production of {WORKING TITLE} Vacant Worlds[/b][/color][/sub][/right] [center][h3][sub][color=319177][b]P R O F E S S I O N A L S U M M A R Y[/b][/color][/sub][/h3][/center] [indent][indent] Noor grew up in a middle class household in Windsor, Ontario, the second oldest of five. She read frequently, a habit which her parents encouraged, particularly her father, a paralegal who had at one point aspired to a literary career. She went to University of Michigan where she lived a reclusive life, having only a few loyal friends and devoting herself to her studies. She went on to graduate school where she wrote a few papers she cared about, a lot she didn’t, and taught bored undergraduates who saw English electives as more of an impediment to drinking than an actual opportunity to learn. In between she found the time to read a considerable amount and write a little for pleasure, keeping just to her close circle of friends and penpals. With careful study and the advice of those more experienced, she refined her eclectic style and started to get her stories published in a few minor journals. They attracted notice for their metafictional elements and philosophical themes, but she remained relatively obscure. Her first real break came when she wrote her first novel, Psychic Distance, a psychological novel with elements of magic realism that focuses on a man in country in the midst of a revolution. It received good reviews and minor commercial success, enough to increase interest in the rest of her work. She published a few short stories for several years while she worked on the book that would become her best known work. The Folding of Space was somewhere between a collection of related stories and full-fledged novel, but either way it was greatly praised and won awards. Despite being experimental, it was successful enough for Noor to concentrate on her writing career full-time and marked her as one of the newest members of the literary elite. She’s currently planning her next large-scale work and exploring opportunities. [/indent][/indent] [center][h3][sub][color=319177][b]A R E A S O F E X P E R T I S E[/b][/color][/sub][/h3][/center] [indent][indent][list] [*]Literature and Literary Criticism, which is quite a broad category. In the interest of providing some more distinctive details, below are some of her favorite genres: [*]Patristic writings [*]Maqama [*]Medieval Morality Plays [*]Sturm und Drang [*]Speculum Literature [*]Science Fiction, but only in a narrow period roughly congruent with the 1960s [*]20th century Latin American fiction [/list][/indent][/indent] [center][h3][sub][color=319177][b]W O R K E X P E R I E N C E[/b][/color][/sub][/h3][/center] [indent][indent] Campus Bookstore, Off campus bookstore, Teaching Assistant, Adjunct Professor, during which she found time to author two novels, Psychic Distance and The Folding of Space, the latter of which won the Man Booker Prize, in addition to numerous short story collections, literary essays and research papers.[/indent][/indent] [center][h3][sub][color=319177][b]E D U C A T I O N[/b][/color][/sub][/h3][/center] [indent][indent]PhD from University of Michigan in English Language and Literature, Bachelors double majoring in English and Math also from University of Michigan[/indent][/indent] [center][h3][sub][color=319177][b]P E R S O N A L I N F O R M A T I O N[/b][/color][/sub][/h3][/center] [center][img] https://secretfire.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/madeleine-soe-file-photo2.jpg[/img][/center] [indent][b][u][color=14A989][sup]Name[/sup][/color][/u][/b] [indent] Noor Jurji Bahadur Al-Madina [/indent][/indent] [indent][b][u][color=14A989][sup]Age[/sup][/color][/u][/b] [indent]42[/indent][/indent] [indent][b][u][color=14A989][sup]Gender and Preferred Pronouns[/sup][/color][/u][/b] [indent]Female, she, her[/indent][/indent] [indent][b][u][color=14A989][sup]Why You Want to Work With Emerald Studios[/sup][/color][/u][/b] [indent]Film is a unique medium. It has the immediacy of like other visual arts, gripping the senses at base level but also offers a totally encompassing experience that more ancient forms cannot provide. The grandeur of the film industry and it’s epic ambitions allow it to explore territory that other visual media struggle with, and the process is inherently collaborative and the sum of many visions to make a whole product. For someone whose own work has acquired a reputation of being unfilmable, a sentiment I agree with at present, joining this project would be a way to experience this world in a way I could not otherwise. It is also true that international tax law is quite complex, and I would like some manner of financial security after I complete the purchase of my new home in Niagara [/indent][/indent] fav film = Metropolis (the Fritz Lang one)