We are delighted to invite you to celebrate the launch of Designing Your Academic Life by Dr Nabil Zary. This insightful book offers practical guidance and thoughtful reflections on navigating an academic career with purpose, balance, and impact.

Drawing on Dr Zary’s extensive experience in academic leadership and medical education, Designing Your Academic Life explores strategies for building a meaningful academic journey, covering career planning, professional growth, resilience, and aligning personal values with institutional goals. The book is an essential read for students, early‑career academics, educators, and anyone seeking to thrive in academia.

Description
‘Designing Your Academic Life’ is a three-book series for academics at all career stages who aim to live and work intentionally. Authored by Nabil Zary, a Professor of Medical Education with a career spanning Morocco, Sweden, the USA, Singapore, and Dubai, the series guides readers on a complete journey: from gaining clarity about their lives to making confident decisions and testing their paths through action. ‘Ten Lives’ features vivid portraits of academic careers and the questions they raise. ‘Hard Choices’ provides a neuroscience-backed framework for important career decisions. ‘Small Experiments’ concludes the series by demonstrating how small, structured tests can replace indecision with concrete evidence.

Author Biography
Nabil Zary is a Professor of Medical Education at MBRU. Born in Casablanca, he studied in Sweden and earned a PhD in Medical Sciences from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. His research examines how emerging technologies are reshaping health professional education worldwide. Throughout his career, he has worked in five countries: the United States, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates, navigating the transitions he discusses in his trilogy. Morocco, Sweden