Arabic Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

George Berg, Instructor
MA, University of Utah
berg@american.edu
Professor Berg has served as a faculty advisor for the Arabic Club and faculty supervisor for visiting Fulbright student teaching assistants for the past two years. His teaching and research interests include empirical research in applied linguistics with a focus on the development of communicative-based teaching materials for students of Arabic. (Read more)

Abdullah Daouk, Instructor
MPhil, Columbia University
daouk@american.edu
Professor Daouk’s teaching interests include developing methods for American students to learn Arabic as a familiar, internal language to express themselves. His research involves a comparative study of melodrama and humor in American and Lebanese cultures.

Shaghaf Hazimeh Glueck, Instructor
MS, University of Southern Mississippi
MA, William Carey College, Hattiesburg, MS
hazimehg@american.edu
Professor Hazimeh Glueck received two masters degrees: an MS in Linguistics from The University of Southern Mississippi and an MA in TESOL from William Carey College, both in Hattiesburg, MS. She has been teaching Arabic and English since 1985. In addition to her teaching career, she has extensive experience at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, where she trained OPI testers and non testers, and DLI faculty.  She has published training manuals for DLI and a course on customer service for the Royal Jordanian Airlines entitled The Customer Is Our Business. From Professor Hazimeh Glueck: “Teaching has been my calling and I love it and would not trade this joy for anything else.”

Jacques Nalabandian, Language Resource Center Director
jnalaban@american.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Mohamed Derbi
MA, University of Colorado
derbi@american.edu

Raslan Moutraji
MA, American University of Cairo
moutraji@american.edu

Ibrahim Sakaji
PhD, Zaytoona University, Tunis, Tunisia
isakaji@american.edu

Abdelrahim Salih
PhD, University of Bayreuth, Germany
salih@american.edu