Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
3713 S George Mason Dr
#603W
Falls Church
VA
22041
United States
ABOUT
Accomplished linguist, researcher, author and Arabic language professor with 15 years of experience. Excel in merging journalistic and creative writing techniques with innovative foreign language instruction methodologies for better student experience. Extensive knowledge and understanding of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) concepts.
My research interests include the Arabic Great Vowel Shift and the problem of Diglossia in Arabic, second language acquisition (SLA,) comparative literature, and Arabic vernaculars as well as GAL in the digital age (Machine Intelligence.
In my Ph.D. dissertation “Vernacular Themes in The Modern Arab Poetry,” I analyzed Arabic vernacular languages and their various cultural backgrounds. It provided me with an opportunity to use interdisciplinary curricula along with anthropological and sociolinguistic studies. These same vernacular languages make up The General Arabic Language and have been collectively used to create the grammar of formal Arabic language.
Discipline
Linguistics
Sub Areas
Arabic
Cultural Studies
Arab Studies
Language Acquisition
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Iraq
Lebanon
Assyria
Specialties
Arabic Vernaculars
Media Arabic
Arabic SLA
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2019
| Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities & Social
| Lebanese University
MA
| 2011
| Arabic
| Lebanese University
BA
| 1997
| Arabic
| Lebanese University
Abstracts
The Biases in the standardized Arabic Grammar created by traditional Arabic Grammarian Sibawiah: A Case Study of the Glottal Sounds Change
