I am a sociocultural linguist and a foreign language educator. My research focuses on Arabic sociocultural linguistics, particularly examining how linguistic practices relate to identity, ideology, power, and social structures. My work is interdisciplinary, bringing together linguistics, anthropology, media studies, and history to examine the linguistic knowledge of language users.
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Arabic language, teaching Arabic as a foreign language, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology
ANTH 4800 - Language and Culture
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Principles of language structure and how language and culture interrelate, how language and language use are affected by culture and how culture may be affected by use of, or contact with, particular languages. Recommended prerequisites: ANTH 2100 or LING 1000 or LING 2400 and students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) only. Same as LING 4800.
ARAB 1010 - Beginning Arabic 1
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Introduces students to speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in the standard means of communication in the Arab world. This course is proficiency-based. All activities within the course are aimed at placing the student in the context of the native-speaking environment from the very beginning.
ARAB 1020 - Beginning Arabic 2
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Continuation of ARAB 1010.
ARAB 2110 - Intermediate Arabic 1
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Proficiency-based course emphasizes speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Covers a variety of topics. Students give classroom presentations and write short essays in Arabic. Speaking ability is assessed through an oral proficiency interview.
ARAB 2120 - Intermediate Arabic 2
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Continuation of ARAB 2110.
ARAB 3110 - Advanced Arabic 1
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Designed to train students further in the four language skills (writing, speaking, reading, listening/comprehension) at an advanced level. Enables students to acquire a better and broader understanding of Arabic culture and texts drawn from various genres of Arabic letters.
ARAB 3120 - Advanced Arabic 2
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Continues training in the four language skills (writing, speaking, reading, listening/comprehension) at an advanced level. Enables students to acquire a better and broader understanding of Arabic culture and texts drawn from various genres of Arabic letters.
ARAB 3251 - Language in Arab Society
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Spring 2025 / Fall 2025
This course introduces the multilingual situation of Arab societies and presents fundamental concepts in sociolinguistics. Students study the major theories and frameworks of language variation and change and the influence of variables such as gender, social class, religion, and colonization on language choice. Students will understand the relationship between language, identity and ideology revealing power dynamics in Arab communities. The course is taught in English and no prior knowledge of Arabic language is required. Same as LING 3251.
LING 3251 - Language in Arab Society
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Spring 2025 / Fall 2025
This course introduces the multilingual situation of Arab societies and presents fundamental concepts in sociolinguistics. Students study the major theories and frameworks of language variation and change and the influence of variables such as gender, social class, religion, and colonization on language choice. Students will understand the relationship between language, identity and ideology revealing power dynamics in Arab communities. The course is taught in English and no prior knowledge of Arabic language is required. Same as ARAB 3251.
LING 3430 - Semantics
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Fall 2022
Theoretical and practical study of meaning in natural language. Considers both semantic theories and semantic phenomena from diverse languages.
LING 4800 - Language and Culture
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Principles of language structure and how language and culture interrelate, how language and language use are affected by culture and how culture may be affected by use of, or contact with, particular languages. Recommended prerequisite: LING 1000 or LING 2400 or ANTH 2100. Same as ANTH 4800.
