P rofessor (2003- until now) of Theoretical Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

• Associate Professor (1997- 2003) at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
• Lecturer (1988 - 1997) at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

MY EDUCATION

• 1988, Ph.D. with a mention of excellent in theoretical linguistics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. Thesis Topic: A Syntactic Study of the Nominal Piece and its Temporals in Dar?eyya Arabic based on the Theory of Government and Binding.
• 1983, a Diploma in theoretical linguistics with a mention of excellent. It was a joint program between the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and University College (UC) at the University of London.
• 1977, MA in T(eaching) E(nglish) as a F(oreign) L(anguage) with a mention of excellent from the American University in Cairo. Topic of the MA dissertation: The Morphophonological Patternings in the Speech of Two Native -speaking Egyptian Children.
• 1972, MA diploma from the Department of English Language and Literature at Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University with a mention of excellent. Topic of Baby Thesis: Unity in Cleanth Brooks.
• 1969, BA, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts , the University of Cairo.

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Academic Supervision

• 2010, A Critical Discourse Analysis of some speeches by Malcom X and Martin Luther King: by Yaasir Hasan Sayyed. Ahmad: PHD thesis, registered at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.
• 2009, The Translation of Color-related Idioms", by Amal Abd-lsattar: MA thesis, registered at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.
• 2008, Disambiguation of the VP for Machine Translation", by Hamid Amad: PHD thesis, registered at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.
• 2007, The Language of Humor in Men and Women in Egyptian Cinema", by Salma Ahmad Saalim: MA thesis, registered at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams Universit.
• 2006, The Arabicization of some English words for Arabic speakers, by Ragia Huseein Hasan: MA thesis, registered at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.
• 2005, A Look at the Non- Gender Agreement in VSO sentences in Modern Standard Arabic", by Mohamad Awad Dawuudy: MA thesis, registered at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.
• 2003, George W. Bush versus Saddam Hussein: A Critical Discourse Analysis”, by Yaasir Hasan Sayyed. Ahmad: MA thesis, registered at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University
• 2001, A Study of the Translation of the Idiomatic and Proverbial Structures in the works of Naguib Mahfuz” by Rania Saber Ahmad: MA thesis, registered at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University .

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Starting from November 2011 will be teaching two new linguistic courses at the English Dept., the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University. These are (i) First Language Acquisition; and (ii) The History of the English Language.

• (1997—until now) The Postgraduate Morpho-syntax Course.

• (1999—until now) Postgraduate Phonetic Course.

• (2007- until now) Postgraduate Sociolinguistic Course:

• 2005 - 2007, The Fourth Year Functional Grammar at the Open Arab University in Cairo.

• 2004 – 2005, The Second Year Course of “Globalization” at the Open Arab University in Cairo.

• 2002- 2003, The fourth Year Syntax course on Generative-Transformational Grammar at the English Department, Faculty of Art, Ain Shams University.

• Sept. 2003 to Feb. 2003: All the Ph.D. Linguistic Courses at King Saud University (Univ of Riyad) when I went there as a visiting Professor. Syntax, Phonetics, First Language Acquisition, Semantics

• Sept. 2003 to Feb. 2003: All the MA Linguistic Courses at King Saud University (Univ of Riyad) when I went there as a visiting Professor. Syntax, Phonetics, Semantics

• Sept. 2003 to Feb. 2003: Two linguistic Courses in the third and fourth years at King Saud University (Univ of Riyad) : Syntax and First Language Acquisition

• 2001- 2003, The fourth Year linguistic course on Functional Grammar in the same department, the Faculty of Art, Ain Shams University.

• 2000-2001, The third Year Sociolinguistics course.

• 1990-2003, The second Year Linguistic Course at the English Dept., Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.

• 1990 -2000, The third Year linguistic course to the students of Honor’s class at the English Dept., Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams.

• 1990 – 199) The MA Syntax Course at the English Department, Al-Alsun School, Ain Shams University.

• 1989 – 1990 The fourth-year Syntax course at the English Department, Al-Alsun School, Ain Shams University.

• 1988 to 1990 and from 2002 to 2003. The first year Phonetic Course at the English Dept., the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.

• 1971 to 1977: Teaching English as a Foreign Language to the non-specialists students, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.

• 1975 to 1977, Teaching English as a Foreign Language to the non-specialists at the American University in Cairo in accordance with a teaching fellowship.

• 1977 to 1982, Teaching linguistics courses such as the History of the English language, English Phonology, English Morphology and Syntax, and English Grammar to the third and fourth-year students of the English Dept., Riyad University.

• 1977 – 1982, Teaching intensive English courses to the non - specialists at Riyad University