﴿وَٱبۡتَغِ فِیمَاۤ ءَاتَىٰكَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلدَّارَ ٱلۡـَٔاخِرَةَۖ وَلَا تَنسَ نَصِیبَكَ مِنَ ٱلدُّنۡیَاۖ وَأَحۡسِن كَمَاۤ أَحۡسَنَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَیۡكَۖ وَلَا تَبۡغِ ٱلۡفَسَادَ فِی ٱلۡأَرۡضِۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا یُحِبُّ ٱلۡمُفۡسِدِینَ ۝٧٧﴾ [القصص: 77]

“But seek, through that which Allah has given you, the home of the Hereafter [Paradise]; and [yet], do not forget your share of this world. And do good as Allah has done good to you. And desire not corruption in the land. Indeed, Allah does not like corrupters.” (Holy Quran, 28:77)

Education

2006-2010	​​​​​University of Toronto, Canada 
	​	​​Ph.D. in Linguistics 
	​	​Dissertation Title: 
	​	​	Case in Standard Arabic: The Untraveled Paths
	​	​	الحالات الإعرابية للأسماء في اللغة العربية الفصحى: الطرق التي لم تسلك من قبل

	​	​Dissertation Committee: 
	​	​	Professor Diane Massam (Ph.D. MIT, 1985)
	​	​	​Professor Elizabeth Cowper (Ph.D. Brown University, 1976)
	​	​	​Professor Alana Johns (Ph.D. University of Ottawa, 1987)

	​	​Dissertation External Examiner: 
	​	​​​​Distinguished University Professor Howard Lasnik 
		(University of Maryland, College Park; ​Ph.D. MIT, 1972)

​2001-2003	​University of Florida, USA
		​Master of Arts
		Specialization: Linguistics

1995-1999​	Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
		​Bachelor of Education
		​Specialization: English Language


Research interests

		​​Syntax (Case Theory)
		​Standard Arabic Morphosyntax 
		Omani Arabic Dialects
		Interpretation of Qur’anic Verses


Professional experience

2019-present​	​Associate Professor of Linguistics
		​​Sultan Qaboos University
		​​College of Arts and Social Sciences
		Department of English and Translation 

2010-2019​	​Assistant Professor of Linguistics
		​Sultan Qaboos University
		​​​College of Arts and Social Sciences
		Department of English Language and Literature

2003-2006	​​Language Lecturer
		​Sultan Qaboos University
		​College of Arts and Social Sciences
		​Department of English Language and Literature

2000-2001	​ESL Instructor 
		​Sultan Qaboos University
	​	​Language Centre (now Centre for Preparatory Studies)

1999-2000	​​Senior Administrator, English-Arabic Translator
	​	​​​Diwan of Royal Court
	​	​​The Minister’s Office, The Private Department, Muscat. 


Scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and prizes

Feb. 2024	​SQU Prize for Journal Publication & Patents, Q3 journal.

Feb. 2024	​SQU Prize for Journal Publication & Patents, Q1 journal.

2023-2024	Co-Investigator: Research Council Grant, titled: 
	​	​​​“Machine Translation of Written Omani Arabic ​from Social Media to English 
		​​using Neural Network Transformers and ​Active Slang Detection".

July 2023	​​SQU Prize for Journal Publication & Patents, Arabic list journal.

April 2021	​SQU Prize for Journal Publication & Patents, Q2 journal.

2018-2019	​Sultan Qaboos University: Fully subsidized sabbatical leave
	​	​(University of Vienna, Austria).

Dec. 2010	​​University of Toronto Doctoral Completion Award.

Nov. 2010	​​​​University of Toronto Doctoral Thesis Completion Grant.

2007-2010	​Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Student Researcher Grant.

2006-2010	​University of Toronto Open Fellowship.

2006-2010	​Sultan Qaboos University: Fully Subsidized Ph.D. Degree Scholarship
	​	(University of Toronto, Canada).

2001-2003	​Sultan Qaboos University: Fully Subsidized Master’s Degree Scholarship
	​	​​(University of Florida, USA).

1995-1999	​Ministry of Higher Education, Oman: Fully subsidized Bachelor’s Degree Scholarship
	​	​​(Sultan Qaboos University).