Haeri, Niloofar

Niloofar Haeri is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She was a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (1999-2000) and is an internationally recognized scholar of Arabic. She has conducted research on language change and its relation to class and gender in Egypt. Among her publications are T"he Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class, and Education" (Kegan Paul International, 1996) and "Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics: Papers Published by Charles Ferguson 1948-1992," with K. Belnap (E. J. Brill, 1997).