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Sadam Issa
Michigan State University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Primary Phone: (608) 630-2024
422 Phillips Hall
1950 Willow Drive
Madison WI 53706
United States
ABOUT
Sadam Issa earned his PhD. in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics at Michigan State University. His research interests range from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, heritage learners, and the use of technology and anxiety in second language classrooms to visual rhetoric, and political cartoons.
Discipline
Linguistics
Sub Areas
Arabic
Conflict Resolution
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Language Acquisition
Media
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Political Cartoons
Languages
English (fluent)
Arabic (native)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2013 | African Languages and Lit | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstracts
Constructing Palestinian/Arab Nationalism in Exile: An Exploratory Study of Cartoonist N?ji? al-‘Ali?’s Cartoons Women’s Cartoonists and Palestinian/Arab Nationalism: An Exploratory Study of Omayya Juḥa’s Cartoons Ibrahim Qashoush’s Revolutionary Popular Songs: Resistance Music in the 2011 Syrian Revolution Go hybrid: Desire2Learn can enhance the desire to learn Arabic Political comics and cartoons in language education: Suggestions for Arabic as a Foreign Language in classrooms in the USA Stigmatizing Portrayals of Former President Donald Trump in Arabic Political Cartoons: A Visual Framing of Trump’s Decision to Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem and his Middle East Peace Plan