Director
Dr. Khaled Huthaily
Dr. Khaled Huthaily is Assistant Professor and Head of the Arabic Studies Program. He is a Fulbright scholar, holding an Ed.D. in curriculum and Instruction, with a focus on Arabic language curriculum development and instruction based on linguistics awareness, an M.A. in Applied Linguistics, focusing on English‐Arabic Contrastive Linguistics, and a B.A. in Education, majoring in Second Language Acquisition and Instruction. Dr. Huthaily teaches intermediate and advanced Arabic courses and is the advisor of the Arabic Studies academic minor. He is also a member of the UM's General Education Committee.
Instructional Team
Ms. Amal Al-Misbahi
Ms. Amal Al-Misbahi holds an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction and a B.A. in education. Her area of interest is in the use of technology in second language acquisition and instruction with emphasis on Arabic as a foreign language in the US. Ms. Al-Misbahi is a native speaker of Arabic with native-like proficiency in English. She has worked as a bilingual teacher (English and Arabic) at the Missoula County Public Schools and as an Arabic language tutor to college-level students and community members. In summer 2012, she worked at the STARTALK Arabic student program at the 猎奇重口 as an instructor. The site visit team rated her performance very highly, and the students spoke highly of her. As a mother of two bilingual children (with English and Arabic language skills), she is passionate about foreign languages and their role in bridging cultural gaps. By being a female native speaker of Arabic, she has added to the program an essential cultural component. She was able to address cultural topics from a female perspective, which has enriched cultural discussions and broadened cultural awareness.
Mr. Brendan Work
Brendan Work is the Arabic language instructor for the three Missoula high schools and has been studying Arabic for six years. He previously worked for MASI as a teaching assistant and was a reporter and translator in the West Bank before that. He recently began his Master's degree in Curriculum & Instruction at the 猎奇重口 and lives in Missoula with his girlfriend, her son, and their indomitable beagle.
Mr. Work team-teaches the two Arabic courses with Ms. Al-Misbahi and Dr. Huthaily.Teaching Assistants
Ms. Hannah Peters
Hannah Peters is a rising senior at Middlebury College, originally from Thompson Falls, MT. She has studied Arabic at Middlebury for three years, including a summer at their Arabic language school and the last academic year in Alexandria, Egypt, where she signed a pledge agreeing to only communicate in the target language. Having just gotten back from Egypt, she is excited for the chance to share Arabic and her experience in Egypt with others in her home state. In the following month, she will continue teaching as an Arabic camp counselor at Concordia Language Villages before returning to Middlebury for her final year. Hannah assists the instructors on a daily basis and works closely with the students in both levels during their daily cultural sessions.