Talk in Arabic: Egyptian Clothes between Religious Ideology and Social Change

Date: 

Monday, November 21, 2016, 12:00pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a talk in Arabic

Zeinab TahaZeinab Taha
Associate Professor Arabic Linguistics, Department of Arabic Language (former Arabic Language Institute), The American University of Cairo

Zeinab Taha received her PhD in Arabic linguistics from Georgetown University in 1995. She served as CASA executive director for two terms in 1997 to1999 and 2003 to 2005. She joined AUC as a full-time language instructor in 1981. She also served as director of the AUC Arabic Language Institute from 2005 to 2013. Her research interests lie in two major areas of Arabic linguistics: language variation and change, and development of Arab grammatical thought.

Please note:  this talk will be in Arabic.

Contact: Liz Flanagan