Faculty

Manal Mohamed Al Marzooqi, Lecturer of Arabic Language Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: manal.almarzooqi@nyu.edu
Education: BA (Arabic Literature) College of Arabic and Islamic Studies; MA (Arabic Linguistics and Syntax) Col...

Research Interests: Arabic Language, Classical Arabic, Linguistics, Syntax, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics.

Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil, Professor of Practice of Arabic Language Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: muhamed.alkhalil@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Damascus (1993); MA Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1998); PhD University of A...

Research Interests: Arabic language computing, Arabic corpora, literary biography, literary archives, language policy, a...

Omima El Araby, Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: oe7@nyu.edu
Education: BA Arabic Language and Literature, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; MA Teaching Foreign Languages...

Research Interests: Arabic language and literature

Laila Familiar, Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lailafamiliar@nyu.edu
Education: MA The American University in Cairo; PhD Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Research Interests: Language Teachers Education, Instructional Coaching, Curricular Design, Corpus Linguistics, Arabic L...

Nasser Isleem, Senior Lecturer of Arabic Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nasser.isleem@nyu.edu
Education: teaching Arabic language, use of songs, proverbs, and other cultural expressions

Khulood Kittaneh, Senior Lecturer, Arabic Language Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kk83@nyu.edu

Bilal Orfali, Program Head, Arabic; Visiting Professor of Middle East and Arab Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bo29@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Yale University

Research Interests: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Literature, Philology

Corinne Stokes, Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: corinne.stokes@nyu.edu
Education: MA in Arabic Studies and PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas a...

Research Interests: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages, linguistics, and pedagogy; music, popular culture, and socia...