Dina Mahmoud Gomaa is an instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition. She first joined AUC as an undergraduate student in 1981. She has a BA in journalism and mass communications with a minor in political science. She holds an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), 2000. She has been with AUC since alternating between CACE, ELI in the English 100 Unit until she joined the Department of Rhetoric and Composition in 2013.

Gomaa studied in Germany, Syria, and New Zealand.