Salwa El-Awa

Salwa El-Awa is an Egyptian-British linguist and Islamic scholar. She is currently a lecturer of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Swansea University.

Academic career El-Awa's academic interests include Arabic linguistics, modern linguistic analysis of the Qur'an, translation studies, discourse analysis, hadith studies, and modern Islamist movements.

El-Awa was previously a lecturer in Qur'anic studies at the University of Birmingham.

Articles Discourse Markers as Indicators of Text Structure in the multiple-topic Qur’anic suras: a meta-analysis of Q:2. Journal of Qur'anic Studies (2019) Governance and Counter-Terrorism: engaging moderate and non-violent extremist movements in combatting Jihadist-linked Terrorism. (2019) Discourse markers and the structure of intertextual relations of medium length Qur'anic suras: the case of Sūrat Ṭā Hā. (2017) The Linguistic Structure in Andrew Rippin and Jawid Mujaddidi (ed.), Blackwell's Companion to the Qur'an, 2nd edition.