Expertise

Research areas: Second Language Acquisition; Discourse Level Analysis of the Speech Act of Refusal in Egyptian Arabic; Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication.

Communities
Language Studies, Language Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of South Florida, Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology, 2009
MA, University of Northern Iowa, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2001
BA, Alexandria University, English Language and Literature, 1995