My name is Islam Karkour, and I am the Lecturer of Arabic at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). I have a Ph.D. in Education, Curriculum, and Instruction, with concentrations in Second Language Acquisition and Intercultural Competence, from UNH. I am a former Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, and I am an ACTFL-certified Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) tester/Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL) rater. My interests include the relationship between intercultural competence and foreign language education, curriculum design and development, and educational technology. As an Arabic instructor, I utilize a flipped classroom method to help my students improve their language skills and intercultural communicative competence.