Dr. Basem Al-Raba'a has joined the Department of English Language and Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at the University of Jordan, where he will hold a lecturer position. Dr. Al-Raba'a received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington under the supervision of Dr. Yoshihisa Kitagawa. Dr. Al-Raba'a'smain area of research ismodern syntactic theory. He has published numerous articles in reputed international journals. We, the faculty members in the Department of English Language and Literature, welcome Dr. Al-Raba'a to our department. We are happy to have him here among us.