Associate Professor in the Department of Arabic Language at UAE University, Latifa al-Najjar was appointed to the College of Human and Social Sciences at the University and as Director of the GCC's Center for Arabic Language Education. She was a member of the judging panel for the Rashid bin Hamid al-Nuaimi Prize and the Foundation of Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain's Prize for Poetic Creativity. She has worked on the development of Arabic language curricula in public education in the UAE and has published a number of research papers and books, including "The Status of Meaning in Arabic Grammatical Theory," "Language: The Dialectic of Identity and Knowledge," "Grammatical Functions between the Central and the Marginal: The Example of the Adverbial Clause," "Tension of Grammatical Functions in The Teacher's Corpus: Meaning and Function in Redrawing the Map of Grammar for Education."