Lecture by Camelia Suliman, Michigan State University

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. Her publications include: 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, and others. Her research also received several awards, press releases, and media coverage.

Suggested readings prior to lecture:

• Camelia Suleiman (2024) “Jerusalem and the limits and affordances of sociolinguistics”

• Camelia Suleiman (2022) “Introduction” to Arabic between State and Nation: Israel, the Levant and Diaspora

• Edward Said (1984) “Permission to narrate” in London Review of Books 6(3), February 16, 1984

• Camelia Suleiman (2008) “Palestine” in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

WGS is cosponsoring this lecture, which is a part of Michel DeGraff's Seminar for MIT Community on Language & Linguistics in Decolonization & Liberation Struggles in Haiti, Palestine & Israel