Dalal Abo El Seoud is chair of, and senior instructor in, the Department of Arabic Language Instruction at the American University in Cairo, where she has been teaching since 1997. She is co-author of the three-volume series Uktub al-'arabiya: Writing Skills in Modern Standard Arabic (AUC Press, 2012-2014) and The Concise Arabic-English Lexicon of Verbs in Context (AUC Press, 2011).