About the Author Reem Bassiouney is professor of linguistics at the American University in Cairo.
She is the coeditor of Arabic Language and Linguistics , editor and founder of the series Routledge Studies in Language and Identity, and an award-.
Her books include Language and Identity in Modern Egypt and Functions of Code Switching in Egypt , and her edited volumes include Identity and Dialect Performance and Arabic and the Media .
About the Author Reem Bassiouney is professor of linguistics at the American University in Cairo