Francesco L. Sinatora
| Title: | Assistant Professor of Arabic |
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| Office: | Rome 651 |
| Address: | 801 22nd St NW |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
Francesco L. Sinatora holds an M.A. in Afro-Asiatic Studies (University of Pavia) and a Ph.D. in Arabic (Georgetown University). He specializes in Arabic sociolinguistics and Arabic pedagogy. His current research analyzes political discourse and identity on Syrian social media through the tools of online ethnography and multimodality. He has taught Modern Standard Arabic and Syrian Arabic in Jordan, the UK and the US. In his teaching practice, he combines the use of new technologies and social media with task-based methodology.
Publications
Sinatora, Francesco L. 2019. Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media. New York: Routledge.
Sinatora, Francesco L. 2019. "Entextualization, Chronotopes and Syrian Political Activism on Facebook, Special Issue: Society in Digital Contexts: New Modes of Identity and Community Construction, Guest Editor: Najma Al Zidjaly. Multilingua, 38(4): 427-458.
Giolfo, Manuela E.B., Francesco L. Sinatora. "Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism: Arabic Representations and the Study of Arabic". In Tugrul Keskin (ed.) Middle East Studies after September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia, 81-99. Leiden: Brill.
Classes Taught
ARAB 1001: Beginning Arabic I and II
ARAB 3105: Arabic and Social Media
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
801 22nd St NW
Admin Office: Rome Hall Suite 650
Faculty Offices: Rome Hall 651 - 675
Washington, DC, 20052
Phone: 202-994-6125 | Fax: 202-994-2156
