Reina El Turk, English Copywriter

Reina El Turk

English Copywriter

Commanine

Location
Lebanon
Education
Master's degree, English Literature
Experience
17 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 11 Months

English Copywriter at Commanine
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since September 2016

Content writing and editing

English Copywriter at Freelance
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since June 2006

Copywriter and copy-editor on a freelance basis.

Senior Sales Officer - Head of the English and Educational departments at Sassine branch at Librairie Antoine
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • December 2012 to July 2016

Take care of customer orders, ensure easy access and organized arrangement of books in library, push for orders, receive and display merchandise.

Editor / Copywriter at Beirut.com
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2011 to September 2012

The job requires me to double check on all event/locale/service descriptions submitted, to create descriptions for missing ones, manage Facebook / Twitter statuses and comments, write event articles and reviews, come up with new texts to encourage people to check out the site, create promotional texts and quick links, as well as to ensure the smooth running of the event/locale/service adding on the website. It also requires me to update the movie pages weekly, as well as take care of photo albums (publish and promote them), and writing articles/blog entries occasionally.

Duty Manager at Luanatic Creative Workshop
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • September 2010 to April 2011

Opening and closing of the shop, handling monthly and daily sales, handling customers, organization, cash registers, inventories, order and return of merchandise, contact with suppliers.

Senior sales officer in the bookstore section at Virgin Megastore of Lebanon
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • November 2006 to September 2010

Started in the company as a ticketing officer for 2 years - required dealing with customers, receiving and returning concert tickets and managing event sales.
Then, transferred to bookstore section as a sales officer - required dealing with customers, effectively searching and finding customer requests and needs (and ordering if request was unavailable), receiving and returning books, repricing books.
Got a promotion in 2009 to Senior sales officer in the bookstore department - required organizing staff schedules, rearranging sections within the bookstore and magazine sections.
Got a full training for duty manager position that included working on daily sales, checking on cashiers regularly, opening and closing their registers, surveying staff and organizing schedules, opening and closing of the shop - Occasionally covered for Store and Duty managers when both were unavailable to maintain the shop.

Education

Master's degree, English Literature
  • at Lebanese University
  • June 2015

Expected

Bachelor's degree, English Literature
  • at Lebanese University
  • June 2013
Bachelor's degree, Radio and Television
  • at American University of Science and Technology
  • February 2008

Completed 3 semesters

Diploma, Social and Economic Sciences
  • at Mission Laique Francaise - Lycee Franco-Libanais de Tripoli
  • July 2006

French Baccalaureate

Specialties & Skills

Copywriting
Copy Editing
English Literature
Writing
Correction of English texts
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Very fast typer
Adobe Photoshop

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
French
Expert
Spanish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Listings, editing, writing (Training)
Training Institute:
Time Out Beirut
Date Attended:
June 2010

Hobbies

  • Reading