Emran El-Badawi is a scholar of Quranic studies.
He is dean of the College of Liberal & Fine Arts at the Tarleton State University.
[1] El-Badawi earned his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and a master's degree from the University of Chicago.
He also holds a master's degree in religion from Temple University and a bachelor's degree in computer science, with a major in religion, from Rutgers University.
[2] He also chaired the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston as Associate Professor and Program Director of Middle Eastern Studies.