Dr. Meera Al Kaabi

 

 

Dr. Meera Al Kaabi, Associate Professor

United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi

College of Humanities and Social Sciences,

Cognitive Science Department

Linguistics Program

 

 

 

Dr. Meera Al Kaabi is a linguistics scholar who is interested in neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language disorders, Arabic morphology, Aphasia, and Semitic Languages. In 2015, she joined UAEU as an assistant professor and New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) as a visiting scholar. She then chaired the linguistics department at UAEU in 2017. In 2019, the college of Humanities and social sciences went through major restructuring, resulting in the merger of the linguistics, philosophy and psychology programs which now falls under the cognitive science department that Dr. Meera chaired. The Department offers the three above mentioned programs in addition to the speech language pathology program that will be offered next year.  In 2020, she got promoted to the associate professorship rank. Dr. Meera has published many papers in highly regarded journals such as "brain and language"," Frontiers in Psychology ", " Glossa: a journal of general linguistics", "Cortex" and others. She recently co-authored a book entitled "Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar" which was published by Routledge: Taylor & Francis in 2020.E-mail: m_alkaabi@uaeu.ac.ae

Dr. Meera is a frequent participant at many regional and international venues such as the Neuroscience of Language Conference, the International Conference on Educational Neuroscience, the Arabic Experimental linguistics Conference (EXAL), the annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) and more. She is also a member of the Society of the Neurobiology of Language, Emirates Speech Language Pathology Society (ESLPS), Qiyadiyaat Exclusive women leaders in Abu Dhabi, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), among others.

Dr. Meera received many awards such as the Young Emirati Researcher (YERP) Award by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum Distinction Award, MacCracken Graduate Fellowship, NYU, and Al Faheem Prize as a reward for scoring the highest grade in the UAE in the high school certificate (99%). She is currently on a sabbatical leave to work on her neurolinguistic research projects at New York University, NYC.

Education & Credentials

• PhD., Linguistics, New York University, NYC
• M.A., Linguistics, New York University, NYC
• B.A., English Language & Literature United Arab Emirates University, UAE