Zainab Hermes

Zainab Hermes


Areas of Study: Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Associate Instructional Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the College
Biography

Zainab Hermes earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. Her dissertation used Magnetic Resonance Imaging to examine the articulation of pharyngealized speech sounds in Cairene Arabic. She is interested in experimental linguistics and has conducted research on various dialects of Arabic including her native Cairene Arabic, as well as on Lebanese, Jordanian, and Saudi Arabic.

Current and Recent Courses
ARAB 20101 Intermediate Arabic-1
ARAB 20601 High Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I
ARAB 20121 Arabic Through Folktales