User:Karen McNeil

About Me
I have a Ph.D. in Arabic Linguistics from Georgetown University. My research focus is the sociolinguistics of Tunisian Arabic, and I'm also interested in the syntax and description of Tunisian Arabic. I'm also a translator; I did the English translation of Shukri Mabkhout's novel The Italian, along with my co-translator, Miled Faiza. and we working on Amira Ghnayim' s novel Calamity, which will be published in 2024. I am also interested in lexicography and was lead reviewing editor of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary.

My goal in editing Wikipedia is to improve the publicly-available knowledge on subjects that I care about.

Current editing interests

 * Tunisian Arabic
 * Tunisian Arabic (Derja) authors
 * Tunisian women writers
 * Tunisian authors who write in Arabic
 * Arab women writers

Other Arabic literature topics

 * Zaynab (novel)