Dr Uri Horesh

Dr Uri Horesh

Lecturer (Education and Research) in Arabic Studies

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 1781
Email
uh4@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 9
Location
United Colleges
Office hours
Tuesday 1-2, Thursday 1-2

 

Research areas

Uri Horesh is a Lecturer in the Department of Arabic and Persian at the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. They hold a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex (2014) and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Essex between 2016 and 2019. They have taught linguistics, translation, and Arabic at a number of universities and colleges in the United States, Palestine, and the United Kingdom.

They are interested in Sociolinguistics, particularly language variation and change and language contact in the Middle East, historical sociolinguistics, Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish dialectology. They are a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics (2019) and a co-author of the textbook Arabic Sociolinguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Prospective PhD students are invited to email Uri for an initial informal consultation.

PhD supervision

  • Abdul Rahman Al Farsi

Selected publications

  • Al-Wer, E., Horesh, U., Herin, B. & De Jong, R., 1 Jul 2022, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 238 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Horesh, U., 1 Sept 2021, In: Multilingua. 40, 5, p. 647-673 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Horesh, U., 1 Sept 2021, The Cambridge handbook of Arabic linguistics. Ryding, K. C. & Wilmsen, D. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 181–198 18 p. (Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter