Challenges in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

Dalal Abo El Seoud is a senior instructor in the Department of Arabic Language Instruction at the American University in Cairo, where she has been teaching since 1997, and served as chair of the department during 2013–2019. She is co-author of the three-volume series Uktub al-‘arabiya: Writing Skills in Modern Standard Arabic (AUC Press, 2012–2014) and The Concise Arabic–English Lexicon of Verbs in Context (AUC Press, 2011), and author of Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions (AUC Press, 2022).