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Mourad Diouri

Mourad Diouri

Mourad Diouri is an eLearning Lecturer in Arabic as a foreign language at CASAW (Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World), which a consortium between the three Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, and Durham. He is a registered practitioner and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

His teaching career started at the University of East Anglia, where he taught Arabic at Beginner-Intermediate level for 4 years. In addition, he taught Basic skills (ESOL, Numeracy and Literacy) in futher education colleges, HM prisons and Adult Education Council centres within the Norfolk region of England.

He is also the author of v-Arabic.com and e-Arabic.com.

v-Arabic.com is a searchable database of digitised/virtual language realia (i.e. authentic real-life items which reflects the target language and culture) for Arabic learners and teachers worldwide.

e-Arabic.com is a growing directory of eLanguage Learning Tools designed to encourage and guide Arabic learners and teachers to adopt technology-enhanced learning/teaching tools.

As a result of integrating technology into language teaching, as well as designing a unique Arabic language programme from scratch, Mourad has won an Award of Excellence in Teaching in 2005 for innovative course design and teaching strategies from the University of East Anglia.

To stay in touch, feel free to join me in my Facebook space.

For further information and advise on virtual realia resources for learning and teaching Arabic, please feel free to contact me on:

Mourad Diouri
E-Learning Lecturer in Arabic Studies
Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
University of Edinburgh, 19 George Square
Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, UK
Email : m.diouri@v-arabic.com or m.diouri@ed.ac.uk

One Response to “Mourad Diouri”

1. Abdulwasey Mohammed Says:
   April 21, 2008 at 1:50 pm

   Salaam Akhi Mourad,
   MashaAllah very pleased to know about you and your work.
   May Allah swt reward you for all your contributions in education.
   I am more interested to know about research opportunities in KACST, Riyadh, if you know of anyone there in Remote sensing and environment studies.
   JazakAllahukhairan,
   Mas’salaama,
   Abdulwasey

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