Mohammad Alhawary

Professor, Middle East Studies

abuamr@umich.edu

Office Information:

202 South Thayer Street, Suite 3127, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
phone: 734.647.0096

Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; CMENAS Faculty; GISC Faculty; Global Islamic Studies Center; African Studies Center; ASC Faculty

Education/Degree:

Ph.D. Georgetown University, 1999

About

Director/Advisor:
MA Program in Arabic for Professional Purposes (APP)
MA Program in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL)

Mohammad T. Alhawary is Professor of Arabic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Arabic language and Arabic theoretical and applied linguistics. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he had helped develop Arabic and ME studies programs and taught on different campuses in the U.S. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews on Arabic linguistics and second language acquisition. His most recent book publications include: Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax (Yale University Press, 2009), Modern Standard Arabic Grammar: A Learner’s Guide (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Arabic Grammar in context (Routledge, 2016). Currently, he is working on multiple projects with the aim of providing additional empirical data on the process of Arabic a second/foreign language to inform the field of Arabic foreign language teaching in America and elsewhere.

Professional Service:

Editor of Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition

Editor of Al-‘Arabiyya