Luluah Mustafa

Luluah Mustafa is a senior Arabic lecturer at Boston University where she teaches Modern Standard Arabic courses at all levels and Levantine colloquial Arabic. She is recently serving as the head of the Arabic program, first-year courses coordinator and co-coordinating the Brown Bags Seminars at the Romance and World Languages and Literatures departments.

She arrived at the US in December 1999 and began the journey of teaching Arabic as a foreign language and Islamic Studies at a private middle school in Massachusetts since 2001. She has been particularly active in helping Islamic schools reviewing and evaluating their schools’ Arabic curricula and she also held multiple workshops for all their Arabic teachers throughout the past few years. Ms. Mustafa is also volunteering as an educator to share her expertise whenever she is asked by the board members of Boston Islamic Seminary that is currently under establishment.

As the head of the Arabic program, Ms. Mustafa’s responsibilities include plan and set up Fall and Spring schedule, monitor enrollment, close and open courses, ensure all courses as staffed, recruit/hire and train part-timers if needed, place students with previous Arabic study in the appropriate level, conduct interview for language exemption , review and approve credit transfer requests, Attend Head meetings, keep track of all the students who are studying Arabic abroad in Rabat and what levels, represent the Arabic program at events such as WLL Open House, Global Cafe, and Language Fairs, collaborate with the Arabic Society , review and select a candidate to serve as an FLTA and coordinates all the extracurricular and  cultural  activities.