B.A. University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1976, Arabic Language & Literature.
M.A. University of Baghdad, 1978, Education & Psychology, (Teaching Foreign Languages).
Master's Thesis Title: A study into the Effect of Early Instruction on the Mastery of Sound SegmentalAspects.
Supervisor: Dr. Hamdi Younis.
Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics) Foreign Language Education Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1982.
Dissertation Title: A Linguistic Evaluative Study of the Textbooks Used to Teach Reading in Libya.
Supervisors: Dr. John Bordie & Dr. Peter Abboud.
(A Certified Tester of Proficiency in Arabic by The American Council on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages 1985, and The Center for Applied Linguistics 1994)