Global English and Arabic

Biographical notes

Ahmad Al-Issa (Volume editor) Laila S. Dahan (Volume editor)

Ahmad Al-Issa is an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics in the Department of English at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. His areas of research include intercultural communication, language and culture, global English, pragmatics, classroom research, and curriculum design. He earned his PhD in Rhetoric and Linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He is currently a visiting professor at Al-Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Laila S. Dahan is an instructor in the Department of Writing Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Her research interests include global English, language and identity, cross-cultural communication, and academic writing. She is currently writing her PhD dissertation through the University of Exeter, UK, on the topic of language education and identity construction among Arab university students.