I am an assistant professor of linguistics and speech communication at An-Najah National University in the West Bank, Palestine. I have been teaching there for more than twelve years. Over the past ten years, I have held many administrative positions in addition to my being an academic. As an academic, I have held many administrative positions at the university. I have worked as chair of the English Department and chair of the Graduate Programs in Humanistic Studies at the college of Graduate Studies at An-Najah University. As an instructor, I have had a wide range of teaching experience whether at home or abroad in the U.S.A. I have been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in general linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and speech communication. I have also been instrumental in supervising more than a dozen M.A. theses in our M.A. Program in Applied Linguistics and Translation at an Najah. By and large, I am inclined to describe myself as a bi-cultural linguist. I have obtained an M.A. in Applied linguistics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in humanistic studies, intercultural communication, and general linguistics at the University of Albany.