Zeinab A. Taha is an associate professor of Arabic language and linguistics at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She received her PhD from Georgetown University in 1995. She has been working in the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) for over thirty years at universities in the United States and Europe and at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo, where she assumed the position of director in addition to being co-director of the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA). She has been teaching in the MA TAFL program since 2005. Her publications are in the field of applied and theoretical linguistics, especially on grammatical theory and language variation.

• ContributorsTranscriptionForewordBadawi’s Levels: The Benefit of a Second PerusalWillem StoetzerIntroductionThe Continuum Model in a Changing Sociolinguistic RealityZeinab A. TahaArabic Levels in Varying Contexts1. The Dialect of Farafra Oasis in the Western Desert of EgyptManfred Woidich2. Time and Tense in Basic Varieties of Arabic Kees Versteegh3. LM YBL? MLK MBL?: The Namara Inscription, Line 4 RevisitedMichael G. Carter4. The Crucial Role of Context in Translating the Qur’anMuhammad Abdel Haleem5. The Levels of Arabic: Linguistic Choice and Narrational Innovation in Yusuf Idris’s “?Arxa? Layali”Margaret LarkinChallenges to the Levels Model6. Entangled Pyramids and Rainbows: On Challenging the Divide in a Written Mixed TextGunvor Mejdell7. The B-Prefix as a Tense Marker in ?Ammiyyat al-Mu?aqqafinHanadi Tawwakol8. ?Ammiyyat al-Mu?aqqafin: Conceptualization and Metaphor in Mustawayat al-?Arabiyya al-Mu?a?iraKarin Christina Ryding9. Are Badawi’s Levels of Contemporary Arabic Reflected in Facebook?Shahira YacoutThe Levels and Teaching of AFL10. Solving the Arabic Language Dilemma: First Steps Munther Younes11. A Contribution to the Lexicography of Egyptian Arabic (II)Mustafa Mughazy and Devin J. Stewart12. Arabic Embodied: A Morphological Romp through a Different ‘Body Language’ Lisa J. White13. Discourse Markers: Essential Tools in Spoken Arabic Diglossic ContextsMona Kamel Hassan14. Communicative Proficiency: Teacher and Learner Needs for a Diglossic SituationWaheed Samy15. Arabizi: A Writing Variety Worth Learning?Mona Farrag AttwaBibliography

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