Dr. Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek Mohammed Biography

Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek Mohammed, was born in Erahad in Kordofan - Sudan in 1957. He got his BA in English with MERIT from Khartoum University in 1982, an MA in Translation from the Islamic Institute for Translation in Khartoum, and an M.Ed. in teaching English as a Foreign (TEFL) from University of Juba -Sudan in 2001. He got his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics with EXCELLENT in Language Assessment in 2004 from Omdurman Islamic University-Sudan. Since then, Dr. Siddiek has been lecturing in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. He published many articles in ELT Peer-Reviewed journals in USA, UK, Canada, Finland, Australia, India and Sudan.
He wrote in different topics in language and education. His academic work is widely cited by scholars from all over the world in Google Scholars. He can be visited at (https: //scholar.google.com/citations? user=jejCsoAAAAAJ&hl=en) .
Dr. Siddiek visited Europe, USA and Canada many times. He attended conferences and read papers in Harvard and Purdue in USA. His papers were also accepted in other places such as France, Canada and UK. He is the Author of five books:
1. Assessment of the Sudan School Certificate English Examinations'
2. Language Challenges in Post-War Sudan.
3. At the Edge of the Primeval Forest, by Albert Schweitzer (Noble winner) , translated from English into Arabic.
4. Foreign Consuls and Consultes in Sudan (1830-1830) , translated from Arabic.
5. Lithographic Press in Sudan, translated from Arabic.
Dr. Siddiek's major fields of interest are language testing, language planning, translation & teacher training. He is a member of editorial Boards of many ELT international journals. He has a collection of poems in which he addressed socio-cultural, political and environmental issues at regional and international levels. He is now associate professor in applied linguistics in Al-Zaeem Al-Azhari University and an associate fellow at Khartoum University in Sudan.