Abdulkareem Said Ramadan

Abdulkareem Said Ramadan is Associate Professor of Arabic and Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) program at Gettysburg College. He earned his Ph.D. in Arabic and Applied Linguistics at the University of Damascus in Syria, where he also earned an M.A. in Arabic Syntax and Morphology and a B.A. in Arabic Language and Literature.

Abdulkareem has been teaching at Middlebury College’s Arabic Language School since 2006. In previous years, he has taught Arabic at the French Institute in Damascus and was the coordinator of the Arabic program at the Arabic Language Center at the University of Damascus, where he taught Arabic as a Second Language. Before joining Gettysburg College, he taught Arabic at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Virginia, where he coordinated the Arabic program.

His research interests include Arabic linguistics, Arabic Syntax and Morphology, Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.