Amr has been working and researching in the field of teaching Arabic as a second language since 2011.

Amr worked as an instructor in the Flagship program with the American Councils for International Education from 2013 to 2016. Following this, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, then a lecturer at the University of Michigan until February 2020.

During this time, Amr also worked an instructor at several Arab universities, such as Alakhawayn University in Morocco and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, as well as Alexandria University where he worked with the study abroad programs of Georgetown University and Middlebury College. He was also the director of the Ningxia University study abroad program in 2015.

Amr has developed the following course materials for the Flagship program: Modern Arab Thinkers in 2014, Women in Arab Society in 2015, Contemporary Arabic Literature in 2016, and Issues in Contemporary Arab Media in 2016. He also developed a curriculum on readings in Arabic literature for the University of Texas at Austin in 2018.

In 2018, Amr earned his PhD in literary criticism from Alexandria University. His current research focuses on second language acquisition and the application of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to improve language proficiency.