Shehri has been appointed the head of the Department of European Languages and Literature, in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, at King Abdulaziz University (KAU).?Al-Shehri has a BA in English from KAU, an MA in General Linguistics from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex.?This is the second time Al-Shehri will be heading the European Languages Department at KAU. He has been teaching linguistics at KAU since 1994.