Experience

• Wake Forest University

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Teaching intermediate and advanced Modern Standard and Colloquial Arabic to foreign students.
  • Teaching class on Arabic literature and literary discourse, covering the classical and modern times. (in English)
  • Teaching class on the Arab media which cover recent events in the Arab world, with a special focus on Egypt. These courses examine events from multiple perspectives, including their political, social, artistic, and historical dimensions in the Middle East.

• The American University in Cairo

  Lecturer

  Ahmad worked at The American University in Cairo as a Lecturer

• The American University in Cairo

  Program Manager at Translation Division

  Ensures that quality instruction is being offered throughout the programs by supervising and monitoring translation programs and courses conducted in all SCE facilities
  Works with the assistant division director on planning, piloting and implementing new translation programs including curriculum design
  Assists in the preparation of the part-time faculty hiring roster
  Manages scheduling of classes in coordination with other designated division administrators each term
  Fosters professional growth by planning or providing part-time faculty with information on the latest translation and translation teaching techniques and methods through demonstrations and workshops; encourages faculty to use the video checklists for self-evaluation
  Creates implements and/or maintains a wide range of schemes for translation faculty professional development opportunities
  Visits classes, evaluates teaching and gives feedback to part-time translation faculty as required by SCE policy; improves the inter-rater reliability of teacher observation within the evaluation system
  Conducts interviews of applicants for translation part-time teaching if required; assesses jointly with another administrator demonstration lessons given by new teaching applicants prior to hiring
  Handles student advising and processes all student petitions and cases
  Assists in the selection of translation course materials and the preparation of the annual program materials order
  Supervises division program staff and assists the ADD in evaluating their performance annually
  Prepares statistical reports to assess the overall success of the current translation programs

• Faculty of Arts, Dept of English Language

  Assistant Professor of Linguistics (English/Arabic)

  Ahmad worked at Faculty of Arts, Dept of English Language as a Assistant Professor of Linguistics (English/Arabic)

• College of William and Mary, Virginia, United States

  Assistant Professor

   Teaching language for non-native speakers with a focus on both dialectical level and Modern Standard level. (elementary and intermediate levels).
   Teaching communicative courses on culture in the Arab world, and courses on literature. The purpose of such course is to show the correlation of language and culture on one hand, and literature on the other hand.