Dr. Issa has worked as a qualified primary school teacher and as an adviser for various Education Authorities for a number of years before his appointment as a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University in 2003. He currently lectures on the Primary as well as Secondary (Modern Foreign Languages) teacher training programmes. He is the director of Centre for Multilingualism in Education, London Metropolitan University. Dr. Issa’s research interests include Ethnic Minority Education with an emphasis on language, culture and identity. He has written extensively in this area. His latest book co-authored with Claudette Williams is entitled ‘Realising Potential: Complementary schools in UK published by Trentham Books (2009).