Hala Salem is a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis in Language, Culture, and Society, at The Pennsylvania State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Education and a master’s degree in Curriculum and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Instruction from Zagazig University, Egypt. She has over ten years of experience teaching EFL courses to pre-service teachers in Egypt. At Penn State, she has taught academic English courses in the Intensive English Communication Program (IECP) in the Department of Applied Linguistics, as well as Arabic in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research interests include language teacher education in multilingual contexts, translanguaging, and identity. More recently, her work has expanded to engage with Southern epistemologies and decolonial discourses, with a particular focus on Egypt.