Gunvor Mejdell Assistant Professor Department of East-European and Oriental Studies, University of Oslo POB_1030 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway Phones: +47 22 85 4776 FAX: +47 22 85 4140 Email: Gunvor.Mejdell@easteur-orient.uio.no DESCRIPTION OF YOUR WORK Arabic language, sociolinguistics, dialectology, modern Arabic literature