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1 ZEINAB AHMED TAHA Education - Ph.D., Arabic linguistics Georgetown University, March Dissertation topic: Issues of Syntax and Semantics: A Comparative Study of Sibawayhi, Al-Mubarrad, and Ibn AL-Sarraaj. - Master of Arts in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language American University in Cairo, Thesis topic: Syntactic and Lexical Variation in Front Page Newspaper Arabic. - Bachelor of Arts in Political Science The American University in Cairo, Teaching Experience - Courses taught in the TAFL MA program since 2005: Principles of Linguistic Analysis, The Linguistics of Arabic, Advanced Arabic Grammar, Selected Topics in Applied Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Arabic Sociolinguistics, Seminar on Challenges Facing AFL Teachers, Supervised Study in TAFL (Arabic Pragmatics), and taught all levels of Modern Standard Arabic, and Colloquial Arabic as well as Arabic content courses on Medieval Arabic Texts, Medieval Grammar and Women Studies for CASA ( ). Employment - Associate Professor of Arabic Linguistics: September, 2012-Present. American University in Cairo - Director of the Arabic Language Institute (ALI) January July CASA Executive Director June 2003-January Assistant Professor of TAFL American University in Cairo. - Full time Arabic Language Instructor American University in Cairo. - CASA Executive Director ALI Summer Coordinator, 1995 and American University in Cairo. - Lecturer in Arabic, Georgetown University. - Arabic Language Instructor, 1985, , 1991, 1992, Middlebury College, School of Arabic. - Arabic Language Instructor, Cairo American College. 1

2 - Part-time Editorial Assistant/Translator, New York Times, Cairo Bureau. - Editor of the Arabic Section, Caravan, American University in Cairo newspaper. Presentations - Allaah, Allaah, Allaah: The Role of Context in Translation. Lecture sponsored by the Center for Translation, American University in Cairo. October, Challenges in Teaching Contemporary Arabic (In Arabic). Lecture at NYU Abu Dhabi, October Report on selected papers on language change in Egypt. Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco. October Training the trainers: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Workshop at the akhawayn University--Ifran, Morocco. September Syntactic Variation in Modern Written Arabic, Symposium on Modern Written Arabic. University of Aix-en-Provance, France. June "The Verb in Arab Grammatical Treatises: Conformity and Contradictions", Foundations of Arabic Linguistics- FAL 3, October The Variety we teach: A realistic or an existentialist issue?, MESA October Teaching Arabic on Line, MESA Sibawayhi s Terminology: more on iltibaas Cambridge University- September Why Do We Need Spoken Corpora?, MESA- November Educated Spoken Arabic and the ACTFL Guidelines, MESA, November The Effect of Media on Spoken Arabic. Workshop on Media and Language. University of Utah, Beyond Main Ideas: Accuracy Revisited. MESA, November Ta diyy al-fi l fil nahw al Arabi ; min Sibawayhi ilaa ibn Al- Sarraaj (In Arabic). The Second International Conference on Language and Linguistics, The American University in Cairo, May, Transitivity in Early Arab Grammatical Theory. MESA, November, Cohesion in Early Arabic Grammar: the concept of iltibaas. The International Conference on History of Linguistics, Oxford University, September Social Meaning and Cultural Misconceptions, MESA, December,

3 - The Category of Adjectives in Arabic Grammar. The First International Linguistic Conference, the American University in Cairo, December, Government and Binding in Arab Grammatical Theory. The Second Shaban Conference, Exeter University, U.K., Summer Teaching Listening and Speaking, CASA Workshop at the American University In Cairo, spring Important Terms of Early Arabic Grammar, Workshop, Colloquium on Arabic Lexicology, Budapest, summer The Term Silah in Arabic Grammar: The Case of Ibn AL-Sarraaj, Colloquium on Arabic Lexicology, Budapest, summer Semantic Valency in 10 th Century Arabic Grammatical Theory, MESA Parts of Speech in Arabic Grammar International Conference of Language Sciences (ICHOLS), Washington, D.C., summer Teaching the Listening Skill in Context Workshop in Alexandria University, Faculty of Arts, Egypt, fall Towards Pragmatic Competence. The CASA Experience MESA, The Grammar Controversy: What to Teach and Why? Symposium on Arabic Teaching Middlebury College School of Arabic, Teaching Listening Comprehension, MESA Publicationstions - Taha, Zeinab A. Development of Arab Grammatical Thought from the 2 nd to the 4 th century of Hijra, (In Arabic) Cairo: Maktabat al-adab, Taha, Zeinab A. Ta addii. In Encyclopedia Of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Kees Versteegh, ed. Brill: Vol. IV, pp Taha, Zeinab A. Educated Spoken Arabic: How could it help in redefining ACTFL guidelines?, Al- Arabiyya. AATA: Vol , PP Taha, Zeinab A. Maf uul. In Encyclopedia Of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Kees Versteegh, ed. Brill:2006. Vol.III, pp Taha, Zeinab A. Toward Pragmatic Competency in Arabic. In Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21 st Century, Wahba, Kassem M., Taha, Zeinab A., and England, Liz (eds.) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers: 2006, pp Wahba, Kassem M., Taha, Zeinab A., and England, Liz (Eds.) Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21 st Century, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers:

4 - Taha, Zeinab A. Language of the Media (In Arabic). In abhath lughawiyya wa tarbawiyya, Elgibali, Alaa and Badawi, ElSaid. Cairo: 2002, AUC Press, pp Taha, Zeinab A. Semantic Valence in Tenth-Century Arabic Grammar: The Case of Ibn As-Sarraaj s Usuul Fil Nahw. In Multiple Perspectives on the Historical Dimensions of Language, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (Ed.), Munster: Nodus Publikationen, pp Taha, Zeinab A. The Grammar Controversy: What to teach and Why?. In The Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language : Issues and Directions, ATAA: 1995, pp ElGibali, Alaa and Taha, Zeinab A. Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language: Challenges of the Nineties. In The Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language: Issues and Directions. ATAA: 1995, pp Taha, Zeinab A. The term Sila in Early Arab Grammatical Theory: The Case of Ibn As- Sarrag. Proceedings of the colloquium on Arabic Lexicology and Lexicography. Budapest: Pp Other Professional Activities - Reviewed the Virginia-Yarmouk summer program in 2001 and 2013 and submitted final. - 9aalim wa fikra program guest to discuss the future of the Arabic Language in Egypt. Nile TV-Culture Channel. May Submitted annual report to the CASA Governing Council every year in capacity of CASA Co-Director Reviewed for publication and endorsement several books on teaching Arabic for nonnative speakers for AUC press, Cambridge University Press, Rutledge, and Al-Arabiyya Journal. - Reviewed of Zayed University curricula to teach Arabic as a Foreign Language. Acted as head of the materials development team for the intensive summer program. Dubai, Reviewed Effat College s Arabic programs and gave consultancy for future program. Saudi Arabia, summer Participated in building linguistic corpus workshop, University of Chicago, March Keynote speaker for symposium on Language and the Media. University of Utah, March 2007,. - Participated in ACTFL Oral proficiency Interview workshop, AUC Participated in training workshop for TAFL. Alexandria University, faculty of Arts. December

5 - Theses advising for TAFL students years: 1996,1997,1998, Present. University Services - Trip to initiate collaboration with Effat University in Jeddah. Saudi Arabia, June Trip to promote the Arabic language programs at AUC. Chicago, HUSS representative in Admissions Committee At large representative of the school of Humanities and Social Sciences in the AUC Senate, Member of the Senate Awards - CASA Life-time Service Award, AUC 25Years Teaching Award, AUC President's Distinguished Service Award, AUC Merit Bonus,

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