Reem Bassiouney

Reem Bassiouney (Egyptian Arabic: ريم بسيونى‎ Rīm Basyūni  [ɾiːm bæsˈjuːni]; March 6, 1973) is an Egyptian author and professor of sociolinguistics, currently teaching at The American University in Cairo. She has written several novels and a number of short stories[1] and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa.[2] 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[3]. 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.[4]

Reem A. Bassiouney
Born(1973-03-06)March 6, 1973
Alexandria, Egypt
OccupationProfessor
Notable work
Dr. Hanaa
AwardsSawiris Cultural Award, King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award, Naguib Mahfouz Award

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
  • The Smell of the Sea, 2005. رائحة البحر[5].
  • The Pistachio Seller, 2007. بائع الفستق.[6] English translation, 2009.[7] Winner of the 2009 King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award.[8]
  • Dr. Hanaa, 2008. دكتورة هناء.[9] Winner of the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers. English translation, 2011.[10] Spanish and Greek translation.
  • Love, Arab style, 2009. الحب على الطريقة العربية[11].
  • Mortal Designs, 2010. أشياء رائعة[12].
  • The Tour Guide, 2010. مرشد سياحي[13].
  • The Mamluk Trilogy, 2018. اولاد الناس: ثلاثية المماليك[14]. Best seller and winner of the 2019- 2020 Naguib Mahfouz Award in the best Egyptian novel category from Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture.[15]

Academic Books
  • Functions of Code-Switching in Egypt, 2006.[16]
  • Arabic Sociolinguistics, 2009.[17]
  • Arabic and the Media: Linguistic Analyses and Applications, 2010. Edited volume.[18]
  • Arabic Language and Linguistics, 2012. Edited volume.[19]
  • Language and Identity in Modern Egypt, 2014.[20]

References
  1. Reem Bassiouney entry at Arab World Books, accessed Dec. 11, 2010.
  2. 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.
  3. www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Pistachio-Seller-Middle-Literature-Translation/dp/0815610319. Retrieved 2020-05-08. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. mlynxqualey (2020-05-07). "'Naguib Mahfouz Awards' to Reem Bassiouney, Mohamed Abdellatif". & Arablit. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  5. Bassiouney, Reem (2005). Rāʼiḥat al-baḥr : riwāyah (1st ed.). Cairo: Dār al-Bustānī lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ. ISBN 9789775383600. OCLC 60801746.
  6. Bassiouney, Reem (2007). Bāʼiʻ al-fustuq : riwāyah (1st ed.). Cairo: Maktabat Madbūlī. ISBN 9789772086245. OCLC 83745624.
  7. Bassiouney, Reem (2009). The pistachio seller. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815609193.
  8. www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Pistachio-Seller-Middle-Literature-Translation/dp/0815610319. Retrieved 2020-05-08. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. Bassiouney, Reem (2008). Duktūrah Hanāʼ : riwāyah (1st ed.). Cairo: Maktabat Madbūlī. ISBN 9789772086924. OCLC 185535337.
  10. Bassiouney, Reem (2011). Professor Hanaa (1st ed.). Reading: Garnet Publishing. ISBN 9781859642740. OCLC 778432248.
  11. Bassiouney, Reem (2009). al-Ḥubb ʻalá al-ṭarīqah al-ʻArabīyah (1st ed.). Cairo: Dār al-Hilāl. ISBN 9789770713334. OCLC 313637274.
  12. Bassiouney, Reem (2010). Ashyāʼ rāʼiʻah (1st ed.). Beirut: Dār al-Ādāb lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ. ISBN 9789953891644. OCLC 660216458.
  13. Bassiouney, Reem (2017). Murshid siyāḥī (1st ed.). al-Muhandisīn, al-Jīzah: Dār Nahḍat Miṣr lil-Nashr. ISBN 9789771455387. OCLC 1042891324.
  14. Bassiouney, Reem (2017). Awlād al-nās: Thulāthīyat al-mamālik (1st ed.). al-Muhandisīn, al-Jīzah: Dār Nahḍat Miṣr lil-Nashr. ISBN 9789771456544.
  15. mlynxqualey (2020-05-07). "'Naguib Mahfouz Awards' to Reem Bassiouney, Mohamed Abdellatif". & Arablit. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  16. Bassiouney, Reem (2006). Functions of code-switching in Egypt : evidence from monologues. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004147607. OCLC 61178235.
  17. Bassiouney, Reem (2009). Arabic sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748623747. OCLC 863184831.
  18. Bassiouney, Reem (2010). Arabic and the media : linguistic analyses and applications. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004182585. OCLC 843860186.
  19. Bassiouney, Reem; Katz, Graham (2012). Arabic language and linguistics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. ISBN 9781589018853. OCLC 747534363.
  20. Bassiouney, Reem (2014). Language and identity in modern Egypt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748689651. OCLC 881286481.
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