Camelia Suleiman

Camelia Suleiman is an American academic who currently serves as professor at Michigan State University. She has also served as the Academic Director of the school's Arabic Flagship Program (2012-2017) and led the Arabic Program from 2012 to 2020. She has published Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-Perception (I.B. Tauris, 2011) and The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis (University of Edinburgh Press, 2017). Her third book is Arabic between State and Nation: Israel, the Levant and Diaspora (Liverpool University Press. 2022).

Biography

Education Born in Nazareth to an old family from the town, Suleiman graduated from the University of Haifa with a bachelor's degree in psychology and English Linguistics and Literature, and a master's degree in linguistics, as well as a degree in language pedagogy. Suleiman earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University,

Academic career Her research interest lies in the area of "language and identity in relation to gender, politicians" use of language in the media, and national identity, in both the American and the Arab countries’ contexts." She serves as an associate professor of Arabic in the Languages Department at Michigan State University and has served as the Academic Director of the school's Arabic Flagship Program