Reem Bassiouney Explained

Reem A. Bassiouney
Birth Date:6 March 1973
Birth Place:Alexandria, Egypt
Occupation:Professor
Notable Works:Dr. Hanaa, The Mumluk Trilogy, Fountain of the Drowning, and Ibn Tulun Trilogy
Awards:Sawiris Cultural Award, King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award, Naguib Mahfouz Award, and National Prize for Excellence in Literature, Sheikh Zaid Award.

Reem Bassiouney (ريم بسيونى  pronounced as /ɾiːm bæsˈjuːni/; March 6, 1973) is an Egyptian author, professor of sociolinguistics and Chair Department of Applied Linguistics at The American University in Cairo.[1] In Addition, Bassiouney is the editor of the Routledge Series of Language and Identity.[2] She is also the editor and creator of the journal Arabic Sociolinguistics Edinburgh.[3] She has written several novels and a number of short stories[4] and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa.[5] While a substantial amount of her fiction has yet to be translated into English, her novel The Pistachio Seller was published by Syracuse University Press in 2009, and won the 2009 King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award.[6] Bassiouney also won Naguib Mahfouz Award from Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture in the best Egyptian novel category for her best selling novel, The Mamluk Trilogy.[7] She was also the winner of the National Prize for Excellence in Literature of the year 2022 from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.[8] Bassiouney won Sheikh Zaid Literature Award for her novel Al Halwani: The Fatimid Trilogy in 2024. [9]

Education and career

Reem Bassiouney was born in Alexandria in 1973. She attended El Nasr Girls' College, and studied English literature at Alexandria University. After graduating, she was appointed at the University, but decided to pursue her studies abroad. She was accepted for a graduate degree in linguistics at the University of Oxford, where she became a member of Somerville College. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Oxford, and worked briefly in the UK, before moving to the United States, where she was appointed professor of linguistics at the University of Utah. From there she moved to Georgetown University and then returned to her native Egypt when she joined the faculty of The American University in Cairo in 2013.

She has written several fictional works and multiple books on Arabic linguistics/sociolinguistics.

Bibliography

Fiction

Academic Books

References

  1. Web site: Reem Bassiouney . 2022-08-04 . The American University in Cairo . en.
  2. Web site: Routledge Studies in Language and Identity - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press . 2022-08-04 . www.routledge.com.
  3. Book: Bassiouney, Reem . Arabic Sociolinguistics . 2009-08-27 . en.
  4. http://www.arabworldbooks.com/authors/reem_bassiouney.htm Reem Bassiouney entry at Arab World Books
  5. Bayoumi, Khaled (خالد بيومي). "القفاش وهناء عطية وفتحي وعبد المريد يفوزون بجائزة ساويرس الأدبية." ("Alagafash and Hana gift, Fathi Abdel-disciple Win Sawiris Literary Award"). Daily Rose El Youssef, January 11, 2010. No. 1831.
  6. Book: 978-0815610311. The Pistachio Seller. Bassiouney. Reem. 29 November 2013.
  7. Web site: 'Naguib Mahfouz Awards' to Reem Bassiouney, Mohamed Abdellatif. mlynxqualey. 2020-05-07. & Arablit. en. 2020-05-08.
  8. Web site: 2022-06-07 . بعد فوزها بجائزة التفوق.. ريم بسيونى: الحصول على جائزة الدولة شرف لأى مبدع . 2022-08-04 . اليوم السابع . ar.
  9. Web site: Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Winners of its 18th Edition . 2024-05-13 . sheikh zayed book award . en.
  10. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. Rāʼiḥat al-baḥr : riwāyah. 2005. Dār al-Bustānī lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ. Cairo. 9789775383600. 60801746. 1st.
  11. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. Bāʼiʻ al-fustuq : riwāyah. 2007. Maktabat Madbūlī. Cairo. 9789772086245. 83745624. 1st.
  12. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. The pistachio seller. 2009. . Syracuse, N.Y. . 9780815609193. registration.
  13. Book: 978-0815610311. The Pistachio Seller. Bassiouney. Reem. 29 November 2013.
  14. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. Duktūrah Hanāʼ : riwāyah. 2008. Maktabat Madbūlī. Cairo. 9789772086924. 185535337. 1st.
  15. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. Professor Hanaa. 2011. Garnet Publishing. Reading. 9781859642740. 778432248. 1st.
  16. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. al-Ḥubb ʻalá al-ṭarīqah al-ʻArabīyah. 2009. Dār al-Hilāl. Cairo. 9789770713334. 313637274. 1st.
  17. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. Ashyāʼ rāʼiʻah. 2010. Dār al-Ādāb lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ. Beirut. 9789953891644. 660216458. 1st.
  18. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. Murshid siyāḥī. 2017. Dār Nahḍat Miṣr lil-Nashr. al-Muhandisīn, al-Jīzah. 9789771455387. 1042891324. 1st.
  19. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. Awlād al-nās: Thulāthīyat al-mamālik. 2017. Dār Nahḍat Miṣr lil-Nashr. al-Muhandisīn, al-Jīzah. 9789771456544. 1st.
  20. Web site: Reem Bassiouney. 2021-11-24. www.amazon.de. en-gb.
  21. Web site: 'Naguib Mahfouz Awards' to Reem Bassiouney, Mohamed Abdellatif. mlynxqualey. 2020-05-07. & Arablit. en. 2020-05-08.
  22. Web site: سبيل الغارق - ريم بسيوني - دار نهضة مصر. 2021-11-24. Diwan. en-US.
  23. Web site: Behance . Fountain of the drowning Novel رواية سبيل الغارق . 2022-06-22 . Behance . en.
  24. Book: Bassiouney . Reem . Al-Qata'i: Ibn Tulun's City Without Walls . 2023 . Georgetown University Press . Georgetown, DC . 9781647122874 .
  25. Web site: Radjy . Amir-Hussein . No safety in greatness: A turbulent tale of ninth-century Cairo . TLS . 1 March 2023.
  26. Web site: القطائع ثلاثية ابن طولون - ريم بسيوني. 2021-11-24. Diwan. en-US.
  27. Book: بسيوني, ريم . ‫الحلوانى: ثلاثية الفاطمين‬ . ar.
  28. Web site: Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Winners of its 18th Edition . 2024-05-13 . sheikh zayed book award . en.
  29. Book: بسيونى, ريم . ماريو وابوالعباس . 2023-09-20 . دار نهضة مصر للنشر . 978-977-14-6227-9 . Erste Ausgabe . hi.
  30. Book: Functions of code-switching in Egypt : evidence from monologues. Bassiouney. Reem. 2006. Brill. 9789004147607. Leiden. 61178235.
  31. Book: Arabic sociolinguistics. Bassiouney. Reem. 2009. Edinburgh University Press. 9780748623747. Edinburgh. 863184831.
  32. Book: Arabic and the media : linguistic analyses and applications. Bassiouney. Reem. 2010. Brill. 9789004182585. Leiden. 843860186.
  33. Book: Arabic language and linguistics. Bassiouney. Reem. Katz. Graham. 2012. Georgetown University Press. 9781589018853. Washington, DC. 747534363.
  34. Book: Bassiouney. Reem. Language and identity in modern Egypt. 2014. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh. 9780748689651. 881286481.
  35. Book: بسيوني, د ريم . ‫البحث عن السعادة: رحلة في الفكر الصوفي وأسرار اللغة‬ . 2023-06-14 . دار المعارف . ar.

External links

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Reem Bassiouney".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.