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Matti Philips Khoshaba Al-Bazi
Matti Phillips Khoshaba Al-Bazi was born in Iraqi in 1949. He graduated from Mosul University in 1971 at the College of Art in European Languages with a major in English. He joined and the British Council for educational leadership in 1977. Concurrently, he taught English at high schools, trained teachers, and instructed classes at the Teacher s Training College at the Duhok Directorate General Ministry of Education from 1971-1991. From 1993-1995 he studied the TESOL program at Sacramento State University and in 2000 he received an M.A. in teaching foreign languages from The Monterey Institute of International Studies. Currently he teaches Arabic at the advanced level for varying community institutes in California and has been doing so since 1995. The languages he reads, writes and speaks fluently are English, Assyrian, Kurdish, and Arabic.

His work about the Iraq Dialect in comparison to Standard Arabic: http://www.ankawa.com/upload/19/ankawa/iragi_dialect.pdf