Ashraf Abdou

Ashraf Abdou is a Lecturer in Arabic at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. His academic work focuses on Arabic linguistics, language pedagogy, and phraseology.

• PhD Linguistics (University of Manchester)
• MA Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (American University in Cairo)
• MA Arabic Linguistics (Cairo University)
• BA Arabic and Islamic Studies (Cairo University)

His research interests include:

• Arabic language pedagogy
• Arabic phraseology
• Arabic lexicography
• Corpus-based linguistic analysis
• Teaching methodology
• Semantic structures

Abdou's publications demonstrate expertise in Arabic grammar, lexicography, and formulaic language through corpus-based approaches. Key themes include pedagogical applications, syntactic behavior of idioms, and lexical pattern analysis.

He teaches courses in:

• Arabic Grammar
• English-Arabic Translation
• Arabic through Literature
• Media Arabic
• Modern Standard Arabic