Dr. Reham El Shazly is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the College of Language and Communication, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Cairo. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Education from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. Professor El Shazly serves as Associate Editor for Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression (Routledge) and Insights into Language, Culture, and Communication (AASTMT). Her research spans applied linguistics and interdisciplinary studies, with particular expertise in multimodality, social semiotics, Systemic Functional–Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA), pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, pedagogy, and second/foreign language acquisition. She also works across emerging interdisciplinary areas, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, social communication, forensic linguistics, forensic architecture, and film and game studies. She is a certified IELTS speaking and writing examiner and has presented at leading international conferences, including TESOL International (Seattle, 2007), IALIC (Valencia, 2019; Lisbon, 2022; Nicosia, 2023), and ADDA 5 (Tilburg, 2025). Her most recent publication (2025) appears in Language and Intercultural Communication (Routledge). Her broader publication record also includes Language and Semiotic Studies (De Gruyter Mouton), Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford), Russian Journal of Linguistics (RUDN), Visual Communication (Sage), Review of Cognitive Linguistics (Benjamin), Semiotica (De Gruyter), Expert Systems (Wiley), and the International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (Librairie du Liban Publishers). Email: rshazly@aast.edu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3810-8434 ???? Email: rshazly@aast.edu ???? ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3810-8434
