Riham Abdalla Tahoun

Dr. Riham Abdalla Ahmed Tahoun, Associate Professor, is currently affiliated from Helwan University, Faculty of Arts to King Salman International University, Faculty of Al-Alsun and Applied Languages, German Department. She was granted in 2004-2006 a PHD scholarship from the DAAD at the Göttingen University in Germany and received many research scholarships from the DAAD. She is trainer of trainers at the Goethe Institute and the DAAD Kairoer Akademie and interpreter (German-Arabic) and is working as certified translator for the German Embassy in Cairo. She has a long experience in the field of German as Foreign Language, E-Learning and Translation and is a staff member of the joint Master degree (Teaching German as a Foreign Language) between the Ain Shams University and the Leipzig University. She is furthermore a member of numerous professional bodies such as “Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik” (IVG), “Mittelmeer-Südeuropa-Germanistik” (MSEG), “Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Germanistik” (GIG). She is a member of the selection committees for many scholarship programs of the DAAD.