Azeddine Bouchiki worked as deputy dean for academic research and cooperation in Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco, and served as a director of the Doctoral Studies Center, director of the Academic Center for Teaching Arabic Language and Civilization, director of the Lab for Applied and Computational Linguistics, head of the Arabic Language Department, and pedagogical coordinator for the Arabic Studies track. He is now the executive director of the ACRPS Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language project in Doha. Bouchiki received his doctorate with distinction in linguistics (on pragmatics and functional linguistics) in 1988 from Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco.