Francesco L. Sinatora

Francesco L. Sinatora holds an MA in Afro-Asiatic Studies (University of Pavia) and a Ph.D. in Arabic (Georgetown University). He specializes in Arabic sociolinguistics and Arabic pedagogy. His current research analyzes political discourse and identity on Syrian social media through the tools of online ethnography and multimodality. He has taught Modern Standard Arabic and Syrian Arabic in Jordan, the UK and the US. In his teaching practice, he combines the use of new technologies and social media with task-based methodology.