Tamara Sleiman

Tamara Sleiman is an instructor of linguistics at the American University of Beirut and a research and operations team member at afikra. Sleiman had been a researcher at the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and a research consultant at Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, politics of language, and language policy and planning. Her master’s thesis was titled “Dialect Identifiability, Language Attitudes, and Perception of Employability in Lebanon.”