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Zeinab Taha

  • Position: Professor and Chair of Arabic Language and Linguistics
  • Department: The Department of Applied Linguistics and Educational Studies
  • Email: [email protected]
Brief Biography

Zeinab Taha, PhD, is a professor of Arabic language and linguistics at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She received her PhD from Georgetown University in 1995. She has been working in the field of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) for over 30 years. After obtaining her MA in TAFL from AUC, she taught at highly reputable universities in the USA and Europe. Taha served as the director of the Arabic Language Institute (ALI) at AUC; in addition, she was the co-director of the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA). Throughout her tenure at AUC, she taught Assessment for Learning (AFL) at all levels and has been teaching in the MA TAFL program since 2005. Her publications are in the field of applied and theoretical linguistics, especially on grammatical theory and language variation.

Research Interest
  • Grammatical theory
  • Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL)
  • Language variation and change
  • Language and communication
  • Taha, Z. A., Executive Producer and director, Authors of Arabiyyat Al-Nas series, Cornell University, Routledge, Cairo, Egypt. (March 15, 2017 - November 1, 2017)
  • Wahba, K., L. England, and Z. A. Taha Eds. (2017), Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, (Kassem Wahba, Liz England, Zeinab Taha, Eds.)
  • Taha, Z. A. (2017), Syntactic Variation in Modern Written Arabic, in Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century. Volume II, (Kassem Wahba, Liz England, Zeinab Taha, Eds.), USA, England: Routledge, 10
  • Taha, Z.A. (2017), The Classification of the Verb in the Arab Grammatical Tradition in The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics III, (Georgine Ayoub and Kees Versteegh, Eds.), Brill.
  • Taha, Zeinab A. Book Review: The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition By Ramzi Baalabaki, Brill 2013. In the Journal of Arabic Language Tradition, Volume 13, pp. 62-66, 2015.
  • CEF in the Changing Linguistic Reality of Arabic Language Use. Keynote speech at MAV conference. University of Genoa, September 2018.
  • Formulaic Language and Pragmatic Competence. MESA, November 2017.
  • Addressing Reality: Challenges Facing AFL Teachers. Keynote speech at Symposium on Arabic Language Teaching. Leeds University, March 2017.
  • The Use of Pseudo-titles in Egyptian Newspapers. Conference on Sociolinguistics Perspectives, December 2016, American University in Cairo.
  • Variation in Modern Written Arabic of the Media, MESA conference, November 2016
  • The Mother Language and the Primary Language: Linguistic Reality of the Arab Speaking Countries. Keynote speaker address, Conference on Future of Arabic Language. University of Zayyed, Dubai. March 2016.
  • Allaah, Allaah, Allaah: The Role of Context in Translation. Lecture sponsored by the Center for Translation, American University in Cairo. October 2015.
  • Challenges in Teaching Contemporary Arabic (In Arabic). Lecture at NYU Abu Dhabi, October 2015.
  • Report on selected papers on language change in Egypt. Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco. October 2015.
  • Training the trainers: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Workshop at the akhawayn University--Ifran, Morocco. September 2015
  • Syntactic Variation in Modern Written Arabic, Symposium on Modern Written Arabic. University of Aix-en-Provance, France. June 2015.
  • Co-organizer of the International Conference on Approaches of Arabic Language Pedagogy AUC, 2017.
  • Consultant for the publication of Arabiyyat Al-Nas, Rountledge 2014-Present
  • Hiwar Al Thaqafiyya, Program guest. Nile Culture TV. June 2017
  • Reviewer for the International Journal of Arabic Linguistics
  • Workshop on Teacher Training. Al-Akhawayn University, Morocco. September 2015.
  • Member of Promotion and Tenure Committee at the School level, 2017
  • Development of a new course: Language and Communication, 2017-2018