Mrs. Jamila Chahboun is senior lecturer of Arabic at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth. She is also a co-advisor of the Arabic Language Community-Global village at Dartmouth. She holds a master’s degree in social justice in Intercultural Relations from SIT graduate Institute (School for International Training), Brattleboro, VT. She also holds a BA in English linguistics from Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco. Jamila served more than 10 years as a language instructor and a cross –cultural educator and language trainer at the Center for Cross-Cultural Learning in Rabat, Morocco. She worked as a program coordinator for SIT Study Abroad, Elderhostel and Experiment in International Living (EIL) and many other international exchange programs. In 2003, Jamila served as a Fulbright scholar where she taught Arabic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also worked as an Arabic instructor for Undergraduate students at Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT and also at the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, VT where she helped in redesigning the Arabic program. Jamila has been working as a consultant and curriculum design specialist at SIT Study Abroad assisting to conceptualize and design SIT Study Abroad Arabic language programs in North Africa and the Middle East. She is a member of the Institute of Study Abroad (IFSA) Middle East Advisory Committee (MEAC) at Butler University in Indiana where she helps review Middle East Study Abroad programs and Arabic Language Curricula. Jamila has been serving as applications’ reader with the Critical language scholarship (CLS). The CLS is the United Department of State cultural and educational exchange program. She is in charge of choosing students who will receive the scholarship. Jamila is member of the Middle East Association (MESA) and has presented on topics related to languages and dialects in the Middle East and North Africa. She lives with her husband, Mokhtar and their daughter in Vermont.

Language

Arab Studies

Arabic

Cultural Studies

Education

Morocco

North America

Maghreb

Berber (native)

English (fluent)

French (fluent)

Arabic (native)