FIELDS OF INTEREST, STUDY AND SPECIALIZATION:

1. Translation & interpreting to & from English:

1. German: Deutsch
2. Italian: Italiano
3. Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
4. Portuguese: Português 
5. Arabic: العربية 
6. Spanish: Español
7. French: Français   

2. Exploring and studying three more exiting world languages:

• Modern Hebrew or Israeli Hebrew (עברית חדשה : Ivrit Hadasha)
• Farsi (زبان فارسى  : Zabani Farsi)  
• Russian (русский язык: Ruskiy Yazik)
  

3. Using the Translation technique as one of the learning techniques in the classroom for effective learning and creative production of the target language.

4. Learning foreign languages using the Word/Concept/Image association technique: making connections between the target language and one's native language (s) based on one's education, life experiences and personal background  (one' s socialization) 

5. Islamic history, particularly North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. 

6. Law and the US legal system.

PROJECTS / RESEARCH:

1. A semi-biographical novel in Arabic :  Diaries of a country dweeb يوميات قروي نجيب

2. Mutterzunge:  Mother tongue اللغة الأم (Translation of the German semi-biographical novel Mutterzunge by Emine Sevgi Özdamar)

3. Thirty five Common errors students of Arabic consistently make and how to avoid them.

4. Demystifying the Arabic language: "Tricks and Hacks" for learning and memorizing the Ten-verb Arabic Measure Chart.

5. Word and Image/concept association as an effective tool in learning Lexicon in foreign languages. 

6. Revisiting the kinship between Arabic and other languages:  Hebrew, Turkish, Spanish, Swahili and beyond !