Dr. Abdullatif is an Associate Professor of Arabic Grammar, Morphology and Prosody in the Department of Arabic Language, College of Arts, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. He serves on the editorial board of the Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences, and is a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Makkah, the International Union of the Arabic Language in Beirut, and the Saudi Scientific Society for the Holy Qur’an and Its Sciences (Tebyan). He is also an editor and strategic developer of a Scopus-indexed journal, with a particular interest in reforming Arabic academic journals and raising their standards. Born in Egypt, he graduated from the Faculty of Dar Al-Ulum, Cairo University, where he also earned his MA and PhD in Arabic Language Sciences, specialising in Grammar, Morphology and Prosody, both with first-class honours. He has peer-reviewed numerous research papers and has published in Scopus- and Clarivate Analytics (ISI)-indexed journals, with more than one hundred research papers and books in Arabic and English. He has taken part in a wide range of courses, forums and international conferences, and has delivered a number of training courses and programmes.