Amal BouZeineddine has earned her doctoral degree in Bilingual Education from Boston University in Massachusetts, United States of America. She is the Acting Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at the American University of Beirut and a full-time faculty member in the Department of Education at the University. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in elementary education with focus on teaching of language arts, curriculum design and children’s literature.

Dr. BouZeineddine is the chair of the Practice Teaching Committee, Chair of the Comprehensive Examination-Elementary Education and was Chair of Revising the undergraduate program in Elementary Education. In addition, Dr. BouZeineddine is a field editor for the Turkish Journal of Education (TURJE) Editorial Board: Foreign Language Education. In addition, Dr. BouZeineddine has completed two program reviews for Mohammad Bin Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2021.

Dr. BouZeineddine has been a consultant for educational institutions and has conducted in-service training and professional development activities for both pre-university and higher education faculty in Lebanon and the region in places such as Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, KSA, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Sudan.

Dr. BouZeineddine’s research interests and experience include assessing learning outcomes at both the program and course levels. Her passion is in children’s literature where she published 4 books in Arabic for children. In addition, she developed and reviewed research-based training manuals.

Dr. BouZeineddine is the co-founder and the organizer of the Education Pledge Ceremony, the Educators’ Award and founder of the Award for Excellence in Practice Teaching. She has also attended and given presentations in international conferences.