Special Research Projects
The World Bank Project and the Arabic education in UAE are two of the most important research projects that Prof. Hanada has participated in. The two projects have a significant impact on the education arena in our region.

Advancing Arabic Language Teaching and Learning
A report examines the high prevalence of learning poverty in countries of the MENA region and suggests paths forward by improving Arabic language teaching and learning.

Arabic Language Education in the UAE: Choosing the Right Drivers
This chapter reviews the UAE’s efforts to improve Arabic education and highlights that real progress depends on strengthening teacher preparation and ongoing professional development.
Prof. Hanada Taha in Publication Platforms
Educational reform in the Arab world must rest on research-based solutions, not just ideas, but systems built from evidence.
Prof. Hanada TahaBooks
Taha, H. & AlBatal, M. (2023). Arabic language curricula in the Arab World: Present practices and future prospects, Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ISBN: 978-9948-803-25-6.
Taha, H. (2017). The Hanada Taha Arabic Text Leveling System. Publisher: Educational Book House Publishing, KSA. ISBN: 978-603-8147-31-3 (Shortlisted for the QS Reimagine Education Conference K-12 Awards in 2019).
Taha Thomure, H. (2017). Arabic Language Arts Standards and Performance Indicators. Publisher: Educational Book House Publishing, KSA. ISBN: 978-603-8147-32-0.
Taha, H. (2011). Standards-Based Instruction in the Arabic Language Classroom (Taaleem Allugha Alarabiyyah Almabni ala AlMa’aayeer). Publisher: Academia International, Lebanon. ISBN: 978-9953-27-957-2.
Taha-Thomure, H. (2003). Academic Freedom in Arab Universities. Publisher: University Press of America (Routledge). ISBN: 978-0761824985.
Regional & Global Policy Reports:
Taha Thomure, H., Bailey, L., Gregory, L., and Dempsey Bullard, K. (2025).
BAHRAIN: Strategic Investments in a National Teachers College to Improve Teaching and Learning in Public Schools. In From prospective to prepared teacher: Initial teacher education case studies from around the world. World Bank Group.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/teachers/publication/prepared-teachers-global-study-of-initial-teacher-educationHoracio Alvarez-Marinelli, Izzy Boggild-Jones, Michael Crawford, Margaret “Peggy” Dubeck, Dhir Jhingran, Christopher Lack, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Maria Eugenia Oviedo, Benjamin Piper, Jaime Saavedra, and Hanada Taha (2025). Using evidence to create effective reading programs in LMICs. World Bank Group.
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099448110272527300/pdf/IDU-740c63ca-259a-4fae-8d95-7935242a25db.pdfGregory, L; Taha-Thomure, H., Kazem, A; Bonni, A; Elsayed, M. Taibah, N. (2021).
Advancing Arabic language teaching & learning: A path to reducing learning poverty in the Middle East & North Africa. Washington, D.C. World Bank Group.
Taha-Thomure, H., Tamim, R., Griffiths, M. (2021). Review of Arabic diglossia and its effect on teaching and learning. Queen Rania Foundation. Amman.
Taha-Thomure, H., Mokhtari; K. (2020). Review of the Moroccan grades 1-9 Arabic language curriculum. USAID.
Taha-Thomure, H., Harb, M. (2019). Report on the Proposed National Arabic Framework for the Kingdom of Jordan.
Taha-Thomure, H., Sabella, T. (2015). Assessment & Curriculum 10-year Policy Plan for Jordan. Queen Rania Foundation. Amman.
Taha-Thomure, H. (2015). Review of the Moroccan grades 1-4 Arabic language curriculum: Challenges and 5-year Reform Plan. USAID.
College Level Textbooks
- Taha-Thomure, H. et al (2011). Arabic Language through Dialogue 1. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 978-0-7442-0708-8
- Taha-Thomure, H. & Hanish, S. (2010). Iraqi Dialect through Dialogue. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 978-0-7442-9741-6
- Taha-Thomure, H. & ElCheddadi, Y. (2009). Arabic Language through Dialogue 3. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 973-0-7442-9133-9
- Taha-Thomure, H. & ElCheddadi, Y. (2008). Arabic Language through Dialogue 2. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 978-0-7442-9744-6
K-12 Arabic Language Arts Curriculum:
- Taha, H. (2025). BilArabi, Level PREK to KG2 Arabic Language Curriculum for native learners. MyArabic Publishing.
- Taha, H. (2024). BilArabi, Level 9 Arabic Language Curriculum for native learners. MyArabic Publishing.
- Taha, H. (2023). BilArabi, Levels 7 & 8 Arabic Language Curriculum for native learners. MyArabic Publishing.
- Taha, H. (2020). BilArabi, Levels 4-6 Arabic Language Curriculum for native learners. Pearson, UK.
- Taha, H. (2020). BilArabi, Levels 4-6 Arabic Language Curriculum for non-native learners. Pearson, UK.
- Taha, H. (2019). BilArabi, Levels 1-3 Arabic Language Curriculum for native learners. Pearson, UK.
- Taha, H. (2019). BilArabi, Levels 1-3 Arabic Language Curriculum for non-native learners. Pearson, UK.
- Taha-Thomure, et al, (2012). Hiwaraat (Dialogues) Vol. 1-9: Standards Based Arabic Language for Non-Native Learners. International School Services, Princeton, New Jersey.
- Taha-Thomure, H. et al (2012). Qisas (Stories) Vol. 1-9 Standards Based Arabic Language for Native Learners. International School Services, Princeton, New Jersey.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2011). Human Rights for the Arab Child, grades 1-6. Educational Book House. AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Edition II.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2011). Ardh AlAswat, Vol. I Educational Book House. AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Edition II.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2011). Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Cindershan: Arabic Plays. Educational Book House. AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Edition II.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2007). My Colorful Books: Teaching Writing through Drawing. Educational Book House. AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Edition II.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2007). Teaching Writing Using Art. Educational Book House. AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Edition II.
Articles & Book Chapters:
- Taha, H. (2026). Arabic Language Literacy in Early Childhood Education in the Arabian Gulf. In Coelho, D. Early Childhood Education in the Arabian Gulf. Routledge.
- Taha, H.; Ibrahim, R.; Taha, H. (2026). Visual word recognition and vowelization in Arabic: New evidence from verbal-patterns recognition. Visual cognition. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2026.2615359
- Hanada Taha Thomure, Haitham Taha, Taline Sabella, Rabab Saleh (2025). A systematic review of teaching and learning in the context of Arabic diglossia,Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Volume 12, 2025,102281,ISSN 2590-2911, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102281.
- Nazzal, A., Taha-Thomure, H., Taha, H. (preprint), Saleh, R. (2025). The Reliability and Validity of SARD: A Pilot Study in UAE Primary-Grade Native Arabic Readers. EdArXiv
- Taha, H., Ibrahim, R., & Taha, H. (2025). Morphological skills among native Arab kindergarteners with developmental language disorders. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2571659
- Altarbouch, Kinda, Khalid N. Elmadani, Ossama Obeid, Hanada Taha-Thomure, and Nizar Habash, (2025). BAREC Demo: Resources and Tools for Sentence-level Arabic Readability Assessment. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations (EMNLP Demonstrations).
- Elmadani, Khalid, Nizar Habash, and Hanada Taha, (2025). "A Large and Balanced Corpus for Fine-grained Arabic Readability Assessment." In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria.
- Habash, Nizar, Hanada Taha-Thomure, Khalid Elmadani, Zeina Zeino, and Abdallah Abushmaes, (2025). "Guidelines for Fine-grained Sentence-level Arabic Readability Annotation." In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025), Vienna, Austria, 2025.
- Taha Thomure, H., Zin Oo, C., & Swe-Khine, M. (2025). Reading achievements among students in the United Arab Emirates: A multilevel analysis of PIRLS 2021. International Journal of Educational Research Open, Vol. 8, ISSN 2666-3740, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2024.100421.
- ElSayyari, A., Eppard, J., Mohebi, L., Bailey, F. Thomure, H. (2024). The effectiveness of an online training module for pre-service and in-service teachers: A case study. Journal of Educators Online, 21(3). DOI: 9743/JEO.2024.21.3.13
- Habash, Nizar, Hanada Taha-Thomure, Khalid Elmadani, Zina Zino, and Abdullah Abu Shmais. Precise Annotation Guidelines for Sentence-level Arabic Readability in the BAREC Project. In Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language: Arabic Language Computing and Data Enrichment, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2024). معاییر التوسیم الدقیقة لمستویات انقرائیة الجمل العربیة في مشروع بارق. المؤتمر السنوي الثالث لمجمع الملك سلمــان العالـمي للغـــة العربیـــــة: حوسبة اللغة العربیة وإثراء البیانات اللغویة، الریاض، المملكة العربیة السعودیة
- Taha H, Taha H, Shaheen H. (2023). The Effect of the Linguistic Status of Text Previewing in Arabic on the Reading Comprehension Outcomes Among Second and Sixth Grade Native Arabs Readers: A Cross-Sectional View. J Psycholinguist Res. 2023 Dec;52(6):2661-2676. doi: 10.1007/s10936-023-10013-0. Epub 2023 Sep 13. PMID: 37702797.
- Thomure, H. T., Brown, G., Baroudi, S., AlMohsin, F., & Tamim, R. (2023). Arabic language teacher professional development. Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8(1), 89–125. https://doi.org/10.1234/ajal.v8i1 Retrieved from https://www.arjals.com/ajal/article/view/378
- Taha Thomure, H. (2023). Arabic language teacher training in the Arabian Peninsula: Great teachers don’t grow on trees. In Coelho, D. & Steinhagen, T. Transformed and Empowered: Plurilingual pedagogy in the Arabian Peninsula. ISBN 9781032326467.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2023). What Brain Imaging Research and Science of Reading Can Do for Arabic Language Teaching & Learning? In Saleh, I. & Swe-Khine, M. New Science of Learning: Exploration in Mind, Brain, and Education, p: 20-39. Brill Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004540767_003
- Taha-Thomure, H; Harb, M. (2023). Arabic grammar at the advanced level Arabic Grammar at the Advanced Level: A Paradigm Shift. In Wehba, K., Taha, Z., Giolfo, M. (Eds.) Teaching and learning Arabic grammar: Theory, practice and research (232-252). Routledge.
- Batakji, A.; Taha-Thomure, H. (2022). Arabic language in education policy: Opportunities, pathways to policy change. European Journal of Language Policy. 14, (2), 205–226. DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/ejlp.2022.12
- Taha Thomure, H., Brown, G., Speaker, R., Taha, H., Tamim, R., & O’Neill, N. (2022). Arabic Reading Fluency Rates: An Exploratory Study. Gulf Education and Social Policy Review, 3(1), 1–24 DOI:10.18502/gespr.v3i1.11493
- Taha-Thomure, H (2022). Linguistic implications of the nanny culture. In Hopkyns, S. & Zaghbor, W.(Eds). Linguistic Identities in the Arabian Gulf: Waves of Change. Routledge.
- AlHashmi, M; Taha-Thomure, H; AlMazroui, K. (2022). Arabic language teachers' perceptions of standards-based educational reform. Gulf Education and Social Policy Review 2 (2), 91-114 https://doi.org/10.18502/gespr.v2i1.10044
- Kahmis-Dakwar, R., Taha, H., AlKhoshman, A. (2021). How Arabs can win back their language? Mondoweiss 12, 2021. https://mondoweiss.net/2021/12/how-arabs-can-win-back-their-language/
- Tsimpera Maluch, J. Taha Thomure, H; (2021). Shifting paradigms in Arabic pedagogy and policy in the UAE: Opportunities and challenges for teacher education. In Bakkali, N. & Memon, N. (Eds.) Teacher Training and Education in the GCC: Unpacking the Complexities and Challenges of Internationalizing Educational Contexts. Rowan & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-7936-3673-7
- Alosh, M.; Taha-Thomure, H. (2021). The assessment of language proficiency and its implementation in classrooms. In AbuAmsha, K. (2021). Applications of ACTFL’s standards in teaching Arabic to non-native learners. Dar Kunooz. Amman, Jordan.
- Taha, H. & Taha, H. (2020) Morpho-orthographic preferences among typical and poor native Arab readers, Writing Systems Research, 11:2, 212-225, DOI: 1080/17586801.2020.1805394
- Harb, M; Taha-Thomure, H. (2020). Connecting Literacy to Curriculum Ideologies. Curriculum Perspectives, 40, 27–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41297-020-00099-0
- Taha Thomure, H; Kreidieh, S; Baroudi, S. (2020). Arabic children's literature: Glitzy production, disciplinary content. Issues in Educational Research, 30(1), 323-344. http://www.iier.org.au/iier30/taha-thomure.pdf
- Taha Thomure, H. (2020). The Status of Arabic language mirrors the status of its teachers. In (AlBatal, M. 2020) Status report of Arabic language. Ministry of Culture & Youth, UAE.
- Taha, H. (2019). Arabic Language Education in the UAE: Choosing the right drivers. In: Gallagher, K. (ed), Education in the UAE: Innovation and transformation. Doi:10.1007/978-981-13-7736-5_5.
- Taha-Thomure, H; Speaker, R. (2018). Arabic Language Arts Standards: Revolution or Disruption? Research in Comparative and International Education. (14)4, 551-569. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745499918807032.
- Taha, H. (2017). Investing in Cutting Edge Arabic Language Education. In Arabic language, present and future. In AlBalawi, I. (ed.). L’Arabe Langue de culture universalle: Ouvrage publie a l’occasion de la celebration de la journee mondiale de la langue Arabe. Paris: UNESCO Plan Arabia, (p.67-76). ISBN: 978-92-990087-1-3
- Taha, H. (2017). Arabic Language Teacher Education. In A. Gebril (ed.) Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (p. 267-287). ISBN 9789027265791. DOI: 1075/aals.15.12tah
- Taha, H. (2015). Education & Development in the Arabian Gulf Society. In the Proceedings of the Development Issues in the Arabian Gulf Societies, University of Kuwait.
- Gebril, A; Taha-Thomure, H. (2013). Assessing Arabic. In Antony Kunnan (Ed.), The companion to Language Assessment (pp. 1779–1789). Wiley-Blackwell, MA. Doi: 1002/9781118411360.wbcla065
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2009). AlGhoul, the Phoenix, the Loyal Friend and Reading. In the proceedings of The Arab Thought Foundation’s Conference on Literacy held in Beirut, Lebanon Fall 2009.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2009). The Distinguished Arabic Language Program at the San Diego State University. Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language Journal: depaul.edu, Vol.1, no. 1, 2009.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2008). The Status of Arabic language Today, in Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern. Volume: 1 Issue: 3 Page: 186 – 192. (Won the Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009).
Creative Literary Work:
Children’s Books:
- Thomure, Y. & Taha, H. (2025). Shakshouki. Asala Publishing, Beiut-Lebanon.
- Taha, H. (2023). Altaf Alamakin. Kalimat Publishing House. (Shortlisted for the Arab Publishers Awards Children’s Literature Award 2024 for the Early Childhood Category).
- Taha, H. (2022). Ahyanan. Shajarah Publishing House. Egypt
- Taha, H. (2019). Jawaribi AlMajnouna. Kalimat Publishing House. Sharjah-UAE.
- Taha, H. (2018). Indma saraqu AlAfkar. Academia International. Beirut-Lebanon.
- Taha, H. (2018). Aqdamun Katheera. Asala Publishing House. Beirut-Lebanon (Shortlisted for the Arab Publishers Children’s Literature Award 2019).
- Taha, H. (2018). Ma AlSa’adah? Asala Publishing House. Beirut-Lebanon.
- Taha, H. & Speaker, R.(2017). Wujooh. Asala Publishing House. Beirut-Lebanon.
- Taha, H. & Speaker, R.(2016). Badr, Thu Alrijl Alwahida. Asala Publishing House. Beirut-Lebanon.
- Taha, H. (2015). Hal nanu Haqqan Ma’an? Academia International. Beirut-Lebanon.
- Taha, H.(2011). Uhibbuhum Kullahum. Educational Bookhouse. AlKhobar, KSA.
Prose:
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2012). Scribbles of an Arab Woman 2. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
- Taha-Thomure, H. (2010). Scribbles of an Arab Woman 1. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 978-0-9794921-3-6


















