Ahmed is a Ph.D. candidate in Arabic Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Michigan. He holds an M.A. in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language from the same institution and a B.A. in Simultaneous Interpretation from Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Ahmed has experience teaching Arabic at different levels and has served as a Graduate Student Instructor at the University of Michigan in both Arabic and Linguistics. He has taught at SLI in 2021 and 2022 and is excited to return this year. His research focuses on heritage language acquisition and the development of instructional materials for Arabic L2 learners.
