Abdelaziz Abbassi is the Deputy Director of Testing with McNeil Technologies, a language research company in Falls Church, Virginia. Before that, he was Associate Professor of Arabic, French and English, and then Dean of Extension Programs at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA.  Previously, he had managed a small network of English language institutes in collaboration with several US colleges. His interests are Sociolinguistics and Dialectology.

Dr. Abbassi’s creative writing publications include “Theft in Broad Daylight,” a short story in “Remembering Childhood in the Middle East”, Elizabeth Fernea, editor, UT Press 2002; “Sidi Lahcen Blues,” a short story in Clifford Geertz in Morocco, edited by Susan Slyomovics, Routledge, 2010; and the first English translation of Mohamed Abed al-Jabri’s famous trilogy “naqd al-`aql al-`arabi,” in Arab Islamic Philosophy, a Contemporary Critique, UT Press, 1999 (trans. from the French text: “Introduction a la Critique de la Raison Arabe”).