Shahira Yacout is a Senior Arabic Language Instructor II in the Department of Arabic Language Instruction (ALI) at The American University in Cairo. She holds an MA in Teaching Arabic as Foreign Language (TAFL) from the American University in Cairo and received her PhD in Curricula and Teaching Arabic Language Methodology from Ain Shams University. Yacout taught different skills, many levels and participated in forming new courses in ALI. Moreover, she contributed to materials development projects for a number of universities and schools. She has presented papers in several national and international conferences and participated in workshops in Egypt, the United States and Emirates. Yacout is an examiner for the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) since 2003, in which she is involved in the marking and moderation process. She also has experience in immersion programs; as she taught in Middlebury School for several years and in Japan summer 2016. Based on her effectiveness in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, in May 2012 she was granted CASA Excellence in Teaching Award. Her latest publications was an article released in 2020 entitled “Are Badawi’s Levels of Contemporary Arabic Reflected in Facebook?”