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Camelia Suleiman

Biography

Camelia Suleiman (Ph.D. Linguistics, Georgetown University), is an associate professor at the Linguistics and Languages department at Michigan State University. She has led the Arabic Program from 2012-2020. Her current research interests are in the Sociolinguistics of Arabic and its contact with Hebrew. Other research interests are on language, race and gender, language and the media and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Suleiman published three books: Arabic between State and Nation: Israel, the Levant and Diaspora. Sussex Academic Press (Imprint of Liverpool University Press), November 2022.  The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis. University of Edinburgh Press. May 2017, and Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-Perception in the Middle East. November, 2011. London: I.B. Tauris Press. Her articles appeared in  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Pragmatics, ‘Middle East Critique, The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Working Papers in Urban Langugaes and Literacies, and others. Her research also received several awards, press releases, and media coverage.

Works

 

Books

  • Arabic Between State and Nation: Israel, the Levant and Diaspora.UK: Liverpool University Press. 2022.  Here
  • The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis. University of Edinburgh Press, 2017. Here
  • Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-Perception in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris Press, 2011. Here

Articles and Book Chapters

Working Papers:

Lanuage and the Media:

  • Camelia Suleiman and Russell Lucas, “Debating Arabic on al-Jazeera: Endangerment and Identity in Divergent Discourses,” The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. Vol. 5, No. 2 (2012), 1-21. Here
  • Camelia Suleiman and Daniel O’Connell, “Race and Gender in Current American Politics: A Discourse-Analytic Perspective.” Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Vol. 37, No.6 (December 2008), 373-389. Here
  • Camelia Suleiman and Daniel O’Connell, “Perspective and Gender Differences in the Media Interviews of Bill and Hillary Clinton.” Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2008), 33-48. Here
  • Camelia Suleiman and Daniel O’Connell, “Perspective in the Discourse of War: The Case of Colin Powell,” Pragmatics. Vol. 13, No. 3 (Fall 2003), 401-422. Here
  • Camelia Suleiman, Daniel O’Connell, and Sabine Kowal, “Perspective in Political Interviews,” Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Vol. 31, No. 2 (May 2002), 269-287. Here
  • Camelia Suleiman and Daniel O’Connell, “Bill Clinton on the Middle East: Perspective in Media Interviews.” Studies in Language and Capitalism. Vol. 2 (Spring 2007), 75-100.
  • “Pronouns and Self Presentation in Public Discourse: Yasser Arafat as a Case Study”, in Yasir Suleiman ed., Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Curzon Press. 1999.

Social Media:

  • Camelia Suleiman, Ayman Mohamed, Amr Madi “Covid-19 and the Middle East: Social Media Analysis across Political Imaginaries”. In C. Cotter and M.A. Peterson (eds.) Covid Semiotics: Magical Thinking and the Management of Meaning. Routledge, forthcoming.
  • Yiftach Ron, Camelia Suleiman and Ifat Maoz (December 2020). “Women for Peace: Promoting Peace through Social Media Dialogue.” Social Media and Society (special issue). Here

Arabic in American Academia:

  • “Contending Visions of Arabic Linguistics and their Historical Roots.” Middle East Critique. Vol. 19, No. 2 (July 2010), 115-134. Here
  • “The State of Arabic Grammar Books Published in English,” Review essay, MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Bulletin. Vol. 42 (2008), 108-116.

Reflections on Identity

  • “Arabic in Michigan: An American Linguistic Landscape”. In Fathiya Al Rashdi and Sandhya Rao Mehta (eds.), Language and Identity in the Arab World, Taylor and Francis, 2022. Here
  • “The Arabic Language Ideology and Communication: An Image from Egypt” in Donal Carbaugh, ed., Handbook of Cross-Cultural Communication. Taylor and Francis, 2016. Here
  • “Who Am I in America? Reflections on Exile and Social Distress”. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 2008), 254-263

Guest Editor

  • Kaveh Askari, Marc Bernstein, Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai and Camelia Suleiman “Locating Muslim Cinema: Special Issue, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Vol. 33.3 Fall 2021 Here

Selected Other Publications

  • “Palestinians”. In John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, Anthony Smith, and Xiaoshuo Hou (eds.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. 2016. Wiley, Blackwell.
  • “Palestine”. In Peter Stearns (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford. 2008
  • “West Bank and Gaza Strip”. In Peter Stearns (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press. 2008

Selected Book Reviews and Notices

  • “Book Review of Sahar Khalifeh, My First and Only Love. Translated to English by Aida Bamia. Cairo: American University in Cairo, Hoopoe Press. March 2021, World Literature Today (Spring 2021).
  • “Book Review of Yonatan Mendel and Abeer AlNajjar (eds.), Language, Politics and Society in the Middle East: Essays in Honour of Yasir Suleiman. Language 95:3 (September 2019).
  • “Book Review of Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi, Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Third Edition.” Al-Arabiyya, ‘Journal of the American Teachers of Arabic, Vol. 47(2014).
  • “Book Review of Faruk Abu-Chacra, Arabic: An Essential Grammar.” MESA Bulletin, Vol. 43, (2009).

 

 

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