El-Sawi, Laila
Education: B.A. in Arabic Studies from the American University in Cairo in 1978. She received a Master's degree in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language from the same university in 1981.
Ms. El-Sawi has been teaching Modern Standard Arabic, reading, writing, listening, speaking and media, in addition to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic at various levels since 1981. She has participated in a number of material development projects, one of which is co-authoring a book entitled "An Intensive Course in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic." She also participated in a number of conferences and workshops; her last presentation was entitled "Culture Learning: Technology in Need is Technology Indeed" for the 2005 MESA conference.
Awards/Honors:
2006 recipient of the CASA Award for Excellence in Teaching.
