Ola A. Moshref is a Ph.D. student of linguistics and a teaching assistant of Arabic language at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her B.S. in physics from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and her B.A. in Arabic language and literature from Ain Shams University in Egypt. She received her M.S. in physics from Ain Shams University and her M.A. in teaching Arabic as a foreign language from AUC. She taught physics at AUC and at the Higher Institute of Optics in Cairo. At AUC, she also taught all levels of English and of Standard and Egyptian Arabic for 15 years. From 2002 to 2005 she was an instructor of Arabic at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates where she was appointed by the Ministry of Education as a member of the Committee for Teacher Preparation and Training.