Reem Bassiouney is an Egypt

Egypt

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ian author

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 and sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics

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 professor, currently residing at Georgetown University

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. She has written several novels and a number of short stories and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation

Sawiris Foundation for Social Development

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 Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa. While much of her fiction has yet to be translated into English, her novel The Pistachio Seller was published by Syracuse University Press in 2009.

Bassiouney obtained her doctorate from Oxford University and has written a number of books on Arabic sociolinguistics.

Fiction

• The Pistachio Seller (novel), Syracuse University Press, October 2009.
• Dr. Hanaa (novel), 2008. Winner of the 2009 Sawiris Foundation
  Sawiris Foundation for Social Development
  Sawiris Foundation for Social Development is an Egyptian charity organization linked with the Sawiris Family established in 2001 and a prominent institution of economic and social aid in Egypt.Its activities include:...
  
  Literary Prize for Young Writers.
• Eastern Delights (novel), 2007.
• The Smell of the Sea, 2005.

Academic Books

• Arabic and the Media: Linguistic Analyses and Applications, March 2010.
• Arabic Sociolinguistics, Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
• Functions of Code-Switching in Egypt, 2006.