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NCATC Advisory Committee

Representing a diversity of teaching settings and student ages, NCATC advisory council members provide oversight of the NCATC, guide the planning of future professional development programs, and advocate on behalf of statewide Arabic programs during their two-year term.

Caroline Sibley

NCATC Coordinator, Teaching Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Samia Touati
Researcher, curriculum developer and educator for Arabic Montessori immersion in North Carolina and Florida.

  

 

Najoua Benramak
High School Arabic Teacher at Seventy-First High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina

 

  

 

Elizabeth Saylor
Assistant Professor of Arabic at NCSU and specializes her research and teaching on Arab women’s literature, mahjar literature, the early Arabic novel, and early Syrian immigration to North and South America.

 

Fatima Amalaoui
Arabic upper elementary teacher from Al-Iman School of Raleigh.

 

  

Alaa Hammouda
Outreach Director for UNC’s Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Rotary Peace Fellow and MPH graduate from Gillings School of Global Public Health