Lamees Fadl

(She/her)

Lecturer of Arabic Language & Literature

Lamees teaches Arabic language and literature at The City University of New York, CUNY. She received her M.A degree in Comparative Literature from Cairo University. Lamees is the coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies Minor at John Jay College, CUNY. She is the Arabic language editor of Otherness, the online students’ magazine of the Education and Language Acquisition Department at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. She implemented multiple virtual exchange projects with partners in the Middle East, such as The American University in Cairo and MSA University. Lamees’s virtual exchange project with The University of Oklahoma was published by IGI Global Book “Developments in Virtual Learning Environments and the global workplace.” She supports COIL professional development at LaGuardia CC and across CUNY. In addition, she is a member and co-translator of the Future Language Educators Recruitment Project FLERP, logistically supported by The American Council on The Teaching of Foreign Languages ACTFL. She taught at several institutions in the U.S, such as Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Temple University. She received a grant from The Association For the Study of the Middle East and Africa ASMEA to promote her project of translating May Ziadah’s Poetry into English. She presented at several conferences such as ACTFL, NECTFL, ASMEA, NYSED/NYSDOE World Languages Conference,