Abbas Al-Tonsi is Senior Lecturer at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar and a faculty member at the Arabic Language Institute (ALI) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He has authored or co-authored a number of Arabic textbooks including Al-Kitaab with Kristen Brustad and Mahmoud Al-Batal, Arabiyyat Wasaa’il al-iclaam (Media Arabic) with Nariman Warraki, An Intensive Course in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic with Layla Al-Sawi, Egyptian Colloquial: A Structure Review, and An Advanced Reader in Egyptian Colloquial with Kristen Brustad. He has written many articles in literary criticism, Arabic media, and politics. He is now working on three new Arabic textbooks.