Contributors
- Contributors
Jamal Ali teaches Arabic at Rutgers University. He earned his PhD from UCLA in Near Eastern languages and cultures. He is the author of Using Numbers in Arabic (Georgetown University Press, 2013) and, with Kamal Al Ekhnawy, Arabi Liblib (American University in Cairo Press, 2010–11), a three-volume reference for advanced learners of Egyptian Arabic.
Mahdi Alosh is Visiting Distinguished Professor, San Diego State University. He has served as an ACTFL consultant and oral proficiency tester trainer for many years and is a member of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. He has recently developed Arabic proficiency tests for listening, reading, and writing as well as professional standards for teachers of Arabic to speakers of other languages for King Saud University. Among his many publications is the Ahlan wa Sahlan textbook series of functional Modern Standard Arabic, published by Yale University Press.
Basem Ibrahim Malawi Al-Raba’a is currently a PhD candidate at Indiana University Bloomington in the Departments of Linguistics and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. He holds an MA in Near Eastern languages and cultures from Indiana University Bloomington and an MA in linguistics from Yarmouk University. His research interests are Arabic syntax, phonology, and sociolinguistics.
Maher Awad is senior lecturer of Arabic at Rice University. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia. He did his undergraduate studies in linguistics and English literature in California and his master’s and doctoral studies in linguistics in Colorado. His areas of training and expertise are in general and Arabic linguistics, language acquisition and pedagogy, language proficiency assessment, and study abroad. He is a certified ACTFL and ILR tester for Arabic.
Mahmoud Azaz is assistant professor of Arabic language and linguistics at the University of Arizona. Dr. Azaz received his PhD with Distinction from the Doctorate [End Page 167] Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona. His main research interests include language processing, linguistic approaches to second language acquisition, Arabic linguistics, and methods of teaching Arabic as a foreign language.
Marilyn Booth is the Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor of the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford, and a Governing Body Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2014–15 she was Senior Humanities Research Fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi and prior to that held the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her most recent book is Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History through Biography in Fin-de-siècle Egypt (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). She has translated over a dozen novels, short story collections, and memoirs from the Arabic. Her most recent translation is The Penguin’s Song by Hassan Daoud (City Lights, 2014).
Brahim Chakrani is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at Michigan State University. His research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and second and heritage language acquisition and learning.
William Cotter is a joint PhD student in the School of Anthropology and Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He specializes in Arabic sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, with a focus on Palestinian dialects of Arabic and the varieties of Arabic spoken in the Gaza Strip. In particular, his work investigates the influence of protracted political conflict on language and social change for speakers of Palestinian Arabic.
Alexander Magidow is an assistant professor of Arabic at the University of Rhode Island. He received his MA and PhD in Arabic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and has spent time in Syria, Jordan, and Morocco. His work focuses on the history of Arabic, both the spoken dialects and the written language.
Jonathan Owens is professor of Arabic linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His research interests include Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics, and dialectology, the Arabic grammatical tradition, and the history of Arabic, Creole Arabic, and African languages. Among his many books are A Short Reference Grammar of Eastern Libyan Arabic (1984), A Grammar of Harar Oromo (Northeastern Ethiopia) (1985), The Foundations of Grammar: An Introduction to Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory [End Page 168] (1988), Early Arabic Grammatical Theory...
