Souhad Zendah

Souhad Zendah is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University. She holds an EdM in Language and Literacy from Harvard University (2013) and a BA in Communications/French from the University of Tulsa (2006). Her expertise spans Arabic language education, curriculum design, and modern Arabic literature, with a focus on bilingualism's cognitive and educational impacts. She has taught at Harvard University, Middlebury College, and the University of Maryland before joining Tufts in 2008.

Her teaching includes all levels of Arabic language instruction, Arabic literature, and dialect courses such as Levantine Colloquial Arabic. Professional development highlights include workshops on cultural perspectives in teaching (2018), course design (2017), and leadership in Arabic language instruction (2016).

She has organized and presented at academic events, including discussions on Arab education systems' impact on sustainable development (2017) and vocabulary acquisition's role in reading comprehension (2018). Her administrative roles include leading the Middle Eastern Studies Program since 2020.