Dr.Reem Bassiouney Assistant Professor of Arabic linguistics.
Dr.Reem Bassiouney obtained her M.phil and doctorate from Oxford University in Arabic lingustics. She has taught Arabic language and linguistics at UK and USA universities including, Cambridge, Oxford and Utah as well as the Foreign and Commonwealth office in the UK. She has 14 years of experience of teaching Arabic and linguistics. Her academic books include, Functions of Code-switching in Egypt (2006), Arabic sociolinguistics (forthcoming 2008), Arabic and the Mass media (forthcoming 2009). She has published numerous articles on Arabic lingusitics topics including code-switching, Language and gender, levelling, register, Arabic and advertisements, linguistics and literature and language policies in the Arab world.
She is also the author of three novels. Her novel, The pistachio seller was voted the best novel of the year 2006 and will come out in English very soon.

Publications:
1- Academic Books

• Functions of code-switching in Egypt. Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands. December 2005.

• Arabic Sociolinguistics. Under contract with Edinburgh University Press. I am currently working on it.

• Arabic language and the mass media. Currently in preparation.

2- Creative writing
• ‘The smell of the sea’ novel, published by Boustany’s publishing house in Egypt and Lebanon, came out May 2005. It has been highly acclaimed by critics and most of the first edition is sold out.
• ‘The Pistachio seller’ novel, published by Madbuly publishing house in Egypt, came out November 2006. Voted the best novel of the year in al-sharq al-awsat newspaper, by the Egyptian prolific writer Yusif al-Qaed who wrote the novel “a war on Egypt”.
• ‘Eastern Delights’, novel, currently in preparation will come out fall 2007.
• Since 1995, I have been contributing regularly to Akhbar al-Adab (Literature news). Some of the short stories published there include, At seven AM, French Fries, A national hero, my grandmother’s advice, Futility…etc.

3-Articles published

The Lemma “register” in Encyclopeadia of Arabic language and linguistics. Brill: Leiden. 2008

The Lemma “Levelling” in Encyclopeadia of Arabic language and linguistics. Brill: Leiden. 2007

Examining code-Choice in advertisements in Egypt. Al-Arabiyya 2005-2006 (forthcoming)

“Diglossic Switching and implications for teaching”. in: N. Kassabgy & Z. Ibrahim (eds) Contrastive Rhetoric: Issues, Insights, and Pedagogy Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2004

“Theories of code switching in the light of empirical data from Egypt” in: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 15 (2003).

The lemma “Women, language and society in the Islamic world” in: Encyclopaedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (EWIC). Brill: Leiden, 2003

“The relationship between code choice and speaker’s roles in political
speeches” in: al-Lughah 3 (2002)

“Diglossic switching and the phenomenon of blending: evidence from Egypt” in: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 1999.