El Samad had taught at a girls’ public high school and a public technical school for over ten years before acquiring full-time status at the university. She specializes in postcolonial studies and deconstruction with research interests that include phenomenology, discourse analysis, and cultural studies. Apart from participating in international conferences, she has conducted seminars at the Lebanese Doctoral School, supervised master’s students, and has been active in teacher training workshops, the most recent being (July 30th): “Effective Communicative Language Teaching in ESL/EFL Classes.”