| Intro | Egyptian writer |
| Is | Writer |
| From | Egypt |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1 January 1973, Alexandria |
| Age: | 47 years |
Reem Bassiouney (Arabic: ريم بسيوني Rīm Basyūnī; March 6, 1973) is an Egyptian author and professor of sociolinguistics, currently teaching at The American University in Cairo. She has written several novels and a number of short stories and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa. While much of her fiction has yet to be translated into English, her novel The Pistachio Seller was published by Syracuse University Press in 2009.
Education and career
Reem Bassiouney was born in Alexandria in 1973. She attended El Nasr Girls’ College, and studied English literature at Alexandria University. After graduating, she was appointed at the University, but decided to pursue her studies abroad. She was accepted for a graduate degree in linguistics at the University of Oxford, where she became a member of Somerville College. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Oxford, and worked briefly in the UK, before moving to the United States, where she was appointed professor of linguistics at the University of Utah. From there she moved to Georgetown University, and finally returned to her native Egypt when she joined The American University in Cairo in 2013.
She is the author of several fictional works, and of books on Arabic sociolinguistics.