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Speech style as political capital: Barack Obama’s Athens speech
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2020 , Article)This paper provides a speech stylistic analysis of Barack Obama’s 2016 Athens speech, and it argues for a culturally conscious take on speech style, which links it to the accumulation of political capital, at least in the ... -
Challenges of Communication and Identity in the Gulf: Insights from Qatar and the UAE
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Book chapter)In this chapter, I present the case studies of the State of Qatar and the UAE, two countries in the Arabian Gulf where although Arabic is the de jure official language, many foreign languages are widely used for communication ... -
Good Things Come from Small Places: Communicating Qatar to World Cup Tourists
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2023 , Article)This paper deals with the discursive and linguistic ways in which the World Cup 2022 is communicated to a global audience of potential tourists. More specifically, three distinctive communicative phases are identified, ... -
Stancing solidarity: Twitter communication in Qatar during the blockade
( Springer Nature , 2025 , Article)This paper deals with the sociolinguistically under-theorized concept of solidarity in the context of Twitter-based communication during the blockade that was imposed on Qatar from June 2017 until January 2021. The data ... -
Impact of undergraduate language and gender research: Challenges and reflections in the context of Qatar
( Paradigm Publishing , 2017 , Article)The paper aims at raising female students' awareness about sexism in language and designing and applying sociocultural linguistic interventions in Qatar. Contributing to the nascent feminist research tradition in this ... -
Industry Insights: Multilingualism and Safe Workplace Communication in a High-risk Industry in the Gulf
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2025 , Book chapter)While organizations with a linguistically and culturally diverse workforce may face communication challenges, high-risk industries are required to address barriers to effective communication. The nuclear industry is unique ... -
Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam
( Oxford University Press , 2025 , Article)The ‘sociolinguistics of Islam’ refers to the exploration of how language and society intersect within contexts where the Islamic faith is the defining worldview shaping language, literacy, and other processes of semiosis. ... -
Crossing Boundaries: New Frontiers in Digital Humanities for Islamicate Research
( Brill , 2024 , Article)As digital technology has become ubiquitous and more and more data is becoming available in electronic form, The Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR) will brand itself in academia through a unique approach that ... -
Text mining Nahdawi discourses: topic modeling Taha Hussein’s reformist legacy
( Oxford University Press , 2025 , Article)This study re-examines the intellectual, cultural, and literary legacy of Taha Hussein (1889–1973), a pivotal reformist thinker of the Arab Nahda (renaissance or awakening). Integrating computational methods from the digital ... -
Racio-national Imaginary and Discursive Formation of Arabo-Islamic Identity in al-Manār and al-Risālah: A Topic Modeling Study
( Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University , 2024 , Article)This article focuses on the dynamics of culture, language, and race as integral to the discourse on Pan-Islamist/Pan-Arabist national identification in Egypt during an era of drastic change in the Egyptian political and ... -
Translanguaging and Second-Language Reading Proficiency: A Systematic Review of Effects and Methodological Rigor
( MDPI , 2025 , Article Review)Translanguaging has become a significant concept in applied linguistics, promoting inclusive education and equitable treatment of languages. However, despite its increasing prominence, the impact of translanguaging pedagogy ... -
The Potential and Limits of Arabic Digital Humanities
( Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University , 2024 , Article)Culture is a nuanced term that is hard to define conclusively. It is largely used to refer to the totality of values, basic assumptions and life orientations, beliefs, policies, procedures, and codes of conduct. These are ... -
Islamicate Knowledge in the Digital Age: AI, Computational Methods, and the Future of Scholarship
( Brill , 2025 , Article)It is with pleasure that we present this special issue of the Journal of Digital Islamicate Research, published as an open-access volume made possible by the generous support of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) under ... -
Phonetic realization of the Emphasis contrast in voiceless stops by speakers of four Arabic varieties: The case of F2 and VOT
( John Benjamins Publishing Company , 2025 , Article)This paper investigates the role of F2 and VOT in realization of the contrast in emphasis among speakers of Arabic varieties of the Levant (Lebanese, Syrian) and the Gulf (Saudi, Qatari). The results show that the two ... -
RIDING IN THE DESERT: Road Cycling in Qatar
( Routledge , 2022 , Book chapter)This chapter discusses the emergence and growth of road cycling in Qatar. It argues that unprecedented socio-economic changes caused the sport’s decline in the Gulf state in the late 20th century. It further underlines the ... -
Combating Islamophobia: English in the Linguistic Landscape of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
( Taylor and Francis , 2025 , Book chapter)This chapter analyzes Qatar's strategic use of English and other non-official languages in public signage and religious messaging during the FIFA World Cup. In 2022, Qatar became the first Arab and Muslim country to host ... -
A linguistically-driven response categorisation protocol for Arabic nouns and verbs: clinical and research applications
( Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2020 , Article)Research into language breakdown in Arabic has been growing in the last two decades. The field, however, remains challenged by the lack of assessment materials, normative databases, and standards for categorising responses ... -
Ælfric, Boulogne-Sur-Mer 63, and the Institutio Canonicorum Aquisgranensis Get access Arrow
( Oxford University Press , 2020 , Article Review)The first part of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Biblothèque municipale, MS 63 (fols. 1–34), has long been associated with Ælfric of Eynsham. In Enid Raynes’s examination of the manuscript, she finds a ‘high proportion’ of the texts ... -
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2023 , Article)Qatar’s development is intertwined with migration, resulting in the native population forming a minority. Zooming in on the academic world, which is in the midst of reform processes, we investigate the impact of the expat ... -
Beyond dichotomies: a female Qatari’s negotiation of gender and professional identity
( Equinox Publishing Ltd , 2022 , Article)Most research on gender in the Middle Eastern workplace treats gender identities in relation to the polarity of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’. Although some of these studies take a critical perspective, they largely ignore ...
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