A. Z. Obiedat

A. Z. Obiedat received his Ph.D. in Arab-Islamic Philosophy and Science from McGill University in Montréal, Canada, in 2012. In 2004 he received his MA from the same institution, in Arabic Discourse Analysis in Islamic Law. For sixteen years, he taught in a fulltime capacity 78 classes in Arabic, Philosophy, and Islamic History and literature at the University of Virginia and Wake Forest University. During that time, he published two academic books and thirteen peer-reviewed articles and chapters (in both Arabic and English), and presented over twenty conference lectures. Regarding administrative responsibilities, from 2011 to 2015 he directed the Arabic Language and Culture Program at the University of Virginia, which had six faculty and an annual enrollment of over 400 students. He also led the 80-student residential Shea Language House at the University of Virginia between 2007 and 2015,  as well as the Wake Forest University Arabic Summer Program in Morocco in 2019. Currently, he is working on his third book, and operate a YouTube book review channel which has had over 23,000 views from the website Academia. In addition, his computer skills include facility with many programs pertaining to teaching, both face-to-face and online, publishing, and audio-visual editing.