EDUCATION
2004   Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies

2001   M.A. Near Eastern Studies, concentration in literature and linguistics

1999 - 2004   Enrolled in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

1995   Digital Video Training - The Institute of Academic Technology (IAT), University of North Carolina (UNC)

1993   Multimedia Training - IAT, UNC 1985 Advanced Career Certificate in Computers - The Center of Adult and Continuing Education (CACE) at AUC

1984   Career Certificate in Computers - CACE at AUC

1980   MA Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language -ALI-AUC

1974   BA. English and American Literature - The Department of English and American Literature at AUC

EMPLOYMENT
Summer   2004 - present   Mellon Lecturer IV, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Fall 2001- Summer 2004
Graduate Student Instructor/Graduate Student Research Assistant at the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Leading role in development, design and programming of Arabic multimedia instructional software authored by Raji Rammuny.

1999 - 2000   Research aide at the Language Resource Center, involved in design and programming of Arabic multimedia instructional software.

1995 - 1999   Founder and Head of the Arabic Computer Aided Language Learning (ACALL) Lab at the Arabic Language Unit (ALU) at the Arabic Language Institute (ALI) at the American University in Cairo (AUC).

1994 - 1999   Developer, multimedia computer teaching materials at the ALU.

1989 - 1999   Director, Summer Intensive Arabic Language Program, ALI-AUC.

1978 - 1999   Senior Arabic Language Teacher ALI-AUC.

1976 - 1978   Lexical Analyst: A Dictionary of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, the Arabic Lexicography Project, AUC.

HONORS AND AWARDS
2002 – Spring 2003   Recipient of Rackham FY03/ IT Center for Advanced Research and Academic Technologies (CARAT) Fellowship.

1993   Teaching Distinction Merit Bonus awarded by American University in Cairo.

1978   Awarded Teaching Fellowship at the Arabic Language Institute, the American University in Cairo.

GRANTS
Two year (2007-2009) Grant from US Department of Education to develop an: Advanced Arabic Media Communication. With Raji Rammuny as principal investigator.

PUBLICATIONS
Article
"Arabic and the Internet." In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007.

Book Chapters
"Instructional Media and Learning Arabic." In A Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Eds. Kassem Wahba et al. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2006.

"Word Frequency Counting in Arabic." In Essays in Honor of El-Said Badawi, Ed. Alaa El Gibaly, The American University in Cairo Press, 1996.

Book
al-Kitaba wa al-‘usluub (Arabic Writing for Style). The American University in Cairo Press, 1999.

Reviews
Brittanica
Reviewer for Encyclopedia of Religions (Summer 2007).
Reviewer for The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (Fall 2007).

Routledge
Reviewer for the author's proposal for a Frequency Dictionary of Arabic (Fall 2006).

Barron's Educational Series
501 Verb; pre-publication review (Summer 2006).
Egyptian Arabic The Fast/Fun Way (Fall 2007).

• Ahlan wa sahlan; pre-re-publication review (Winter 2006).
• Modern Standard Arabic curriculum for the first three semesters of colleges and universities; pre-publication review (Fall 2005).
• Arabic Around the world; pre-publication review (Winter 2005).
• Proposal review for: Ahlan bikum fi Masr (Winter 2007).

• Syllabical structure and accent in Cairene Arabic; pre-publication review (Fall 2006).
• Arabic Language Study in the United States and the Middle East after 9/11; pre-publication review (Winter 2006).
• Can the Hamza-writing rules be simplified?; pre-publication review (Winter 2007).
• Examining code choice in advertisements in Egypt; pre-publication review (Winter 2007).

Georgetown University Press
Arabic Dialect Comparison Software: a software package for learners, providing a detailed comparison between Egyptian, Saudi, Iraqi, Syrian, and Moroccan Arabic (Fall 2006).

CONSULTING
Spring 2008   Wiley Publishing Inc., review of transliteration for Arabic Phrases for Dummies.

2007 - 2008   Cybernet Systems, Ann Arbor; translations of documents used in training optical character recognition systems.

2006 - present   Ordinate, 800 El Camino Real, suite 400, Menlo Park, California, 94025 USA; Arabic consultant: project to develop a computer-scored telephone-administered proficiency test for Modern Standard Arabic.

2004 - 2005   National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland, Washington; development of multi-media software for discursive elements in al-Jaziira, to be used in Arabic language instruction.

2004 - 2005   Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, Washington; pedagogical review of online Arabic language instruction materials.

1996   Consultant for the book The Story of Egypt, Chicago, World Book Inc.

LANGUAGES
Arabic and English: native.
French: spoken and written - fair.
German: reading.

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