Sami Alhasnawi

Dr. Sami Alhasnawi is a professor of Applied Linguistics with a PhD from the University of Southampton, UK. He specializes in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), decolonization in higher education, and multilingual academic discourse. He has held academic positions at the University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq, and has been a DAAD Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam, Germany, as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Hacettepe University, Turkey. Prof. Alhasnawi has an extensive international teaching and research collaboration record, including projects with the University of Washington and the University of Southampton. His publications appear in leading journals such as Linguistics and Education, World Englishes, TESOL Quarterly, and Journal of English as a Lingua Franca. His research explores the sociolinguistics of academic English, multimodal discourse, and translanguaging in higher education. He has served in key administrative roles, including Head of the English Department at the University of Al-Qadisiyah (2017–2020), and has been an invited keynote speaker at international symposia.