Tenth lecture in the Aula Árabe Universitaria 4 series, to be given by Reem Bassiouney, a writer and professor at the American University of Cairo.
To mark International Women’s Day, and as part of the series of conferences Aula Árabe Universitaria, this lecture given by Egyptian writer Reem Bassiouney will explore the linguistic realities of Arab women as storytellers.
In doing so, she will raise a series of questions about the differences between men and women in becoming and acting as narrators, as well as the challenges faced by Arab women narrators. Her discussion will be supported with examples drawn from her latest novel translated into English, “Al-Qata’i: Ibn Tulun’s City Without Walls, Georgetown University Press, 2023).
This is the tenth conference in the Aula Árabe Universitaria series organized by Casa Árabe with the cooperation of the School of Arts & Humanities at IE University. The event will include the participation of Celia de Anca, director of the Center for Diversity in Global Management at IE University, with moderation by Karim Hauser, Casa Árabe’s Culture and International Relations Coordinator.
The conference is available on our YouTube channel, in Spanish: youtube.com/live/VCF2rItJs54?feature=share
Reem Bassiouney is a writer and novelist, as well as an expert in sociolinguistics. She heads the Department of Applied Linguistics at the American University of Cairo and edits the Routledge series of studies on language and identity. She has written numerous fictional novels, several of which have won international awards, including the King Fahd Translation Prize in 2009 for her novel “The Pistachio Seller” (2007), the 2010 Sawiris Prize for best novel for “Dr. Hanaa” (2008), the 2019-2020 Naguib Mahfouz Prize for best Egyptian novel for the “Mameluke Trilogy” (2018), and the State Award for Excellence in Literature (2022). “Dr. Hanaa” was published in Spanish by Alba Editorial as “Profesora Hanaa” in 2013.
Bassiouney earned her PhD in Arabic Linguistics from Oxford University, where she also completed an MA on the subject. She has taught Arabic Language and Linguistics at universities in the United Kingdom and the United States, including Cambridge, Oxford and Utah. She has had many articles published on topics in Arabic Linguistics, including code-switching, language and gender, leveling, register, Arabic and advertising, linguistics and literature, and language policy in the Arab world. Her academic works include: Functions of Code-switching in Egypt (Brill, 2006), Arabic Sociolinguistics (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and Language and Identity in Modern Egypt (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and as an editor: Arabic and the Media (Brill, 2010).
Further information: en.casaarabe.es/event/arab-women-…ges-and-realities
