Zainab Hermes

Zainab Hermes


Areas of Study: Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Associate Instructional Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the College
Biography

Zainab Hermes earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. Her dissertation used Magnetic Resonance Imaging to examine the articulation of pharyngealized speech sounds in Cairene Arabic. She is interested in experimental linguistics and has conducted research on various dialects of Arabic including her native Cairene Arabic, as well as on Lebanese, Jordanian, and Saudi Arabic.

Current and Recent Courses
ARAB 20101 Intermediate Arabic-1
ARAB 20115 Colloquial Egyptian Arabic Language and Culture I
ARAB 20102 Intermediate Arabic-2
ARAB 20114 Themes in Arabic Linguistics
NEHC 49900 Reading and Research
ARAB 10103 Elementary Arabic-III
ARAB 20103 Intermediate Arabic-3
ARAB 20601 High Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I
ARAB 20121 Arabic Through Folktales