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Nabeel Kandah
Nabeel Shihadeh Kandah is an American German language educator, web designer, and amateur musician.

Biography
Nabeel Kandah is of Jordanian and Palestinian descent. He was raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. In 1979 he began to play guitar, starting with a Fender Stratocaster he bought with money made from delivering newspapers. Later Kandah went on trips to Europe and the Middle East. He then attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he joined the Xi chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity. Kandah received his undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Science, in 1987. In 1989 he was married and began attending graduate school. It was then that he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

While working at Southern High School in Durham, Kandah created and maintained the school's German website, Cybergerman. The website won a Doctor Faustus Award for best German website of the month. McDaniel College German professor and author Mohamed Esa, one-time president of the American Association of Teachers of German, praised the website as "an excellent site for beginners".

Around 1995 Kandah began playing bass guitar. Kandah later became the chairman of the language department at Enloe High School in Raleigh. He also founded the school's board game club. He is known among the student body for his strange and humorous quotes. Kandah helped organize the November 2014 "Deutsches Wochenende" event. That year he was also awarded the Klett-Langenscheidt Award for outstanding teaching by the American Association of Teachers of German of North Carolina.

Kandah currently serves as the chair of the Philip Watts Foundation.