Youness Elbousty teaches at the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. His specialties range from Arabic literature to teaching pedagogy, and he works as a consultant and external examiner to numerous institutions, offering advice that pertains to Arabic program development and training workshops to language faculty. He is contracted as an Arabic language expert to provide final stage review and evaluation of test passages (written and auditory) and their associated test items (questions) for the Defense Language Institute’s Language Proficiency Test. Responsibilities include evaluation of the authentic nature of passage content and target language use, appropriateness to identified ILR proficiency level, as well as a report on the overall quality of the pool of test items at the conclusion of the project. He serves as member on many advisory boards, including American Councils for International Education. He has taught widely in the areas of Arabic language and literature, including courses on North Africa literature, contemporary Arabic Literature, Media Arabic, Moroccan dialect, Arabic Seminar, Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic poetry, beginning to Advanced Arabic classes, and Arabic discourses. Professor Elbousty is certified OPI Rater and Tester by The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages . He is also certified as an external reviewer to the Defense Language Institute. He has conducted many national and international workshops in language teaching pedagogy, and he has published various articles in pedagogy and grammar. He has served as plenary speaker and presenter at national and international conferences. He is currently working on a multimedia tool for advanced learners of Arabic, editing a collection of literature for Arabic studies, co-editing three volumes on contemporary Moroccan literature, and preparing two complete anthology of short stories for prominent Moroccan writers. With an international team of researchers based at the University of Siegen, He is very involved in teaching, designing, and directing Arabic overseas programs across North African and the Middle East. He is a consultant to many intensive Arabic programs internationally, including Qalam wa Lawh Arabic center, Arabic Academy. CEMNAS, TAG, and CIL. He works very closely with Arabic programs that are sponsored by the Departments of State and Defense.

Literature

Arabic

Arab Studies

Middle East/Near East Studies

Maghreb Studies

Language Acquisition

Pedagogy

Cultural Studies

Maghreb

All Middle East

Arabic Literature

Arabic Language

North African Literature, Modern Arabic Literature

Arabic (native)

French (fluent)

English (fluent)

Berber (advanced)

Spanish (advanced)

Italian (intermediate)

Persian (intermediate)

Moroccan (native)

Tashelhit (advanced)

Hebrew (intermediate)

Tunisian (advanced)

Urdu (elementary)

Pre-Islamic Arabic (fluent)