Dr. Hanada Taha Thomure is the Director of Zai Arabic Language Research Center and the Endowed Professor of Arabic Language education at Zayed University, UAE. She previously was the associate dean and later acting dean of Bahrain Teachers’ College. Professor Taha Thomure designed the first system for leveling Arabic texts currently used by regional and international publishers. Dr. Taha’s leveling system has been used to level 11,000 children’s books so far. She developed the Arabic language arts standards currently used by more than 200,000 students. She is the senior author for Pearson’s Arabic language Arts K-9, curriculum BilArabi. She reviewed the national Arabic curricula for Morocco, KSA, Jordan, UAE, and Bahrain and has been an adviser for Queen Rania Foundation, Scholastic, USAID, UNICEF, UAE prime minister’s office, and World Bank. Professor Taha Thomure’s research is in the field of Arabic language teaching and learning, early reading, children’s literature, teacher preparation and curriculum design.