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Jacques Jomier

جاك جومييه

Notable figure 1914–2008 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, pp. 449–451 (no al-Aqiqi page in the batch row) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Jomier, Jacques (1914-2008)

From France; worked in Egypt

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Manual of Egyptian Arabic (1964); a Cairo-dialect lexicon

Biography

Born in Paris, he graduated from an engineering school, learned Arabic at the Sorbonne (1941–1944), went to Egypt in 1945 and worked at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, taking a doctorate in letters at the Sorbonne (1953). He wrote a Manual of Egyptian Arabic (Paris, 1964) and a practical French-Arabic lexicon of Cairo Arabic (Cairo, 1976), and wrote on modern Egyptian fiction: Yahya Haqqi, Yusuf Idris, Naguib Mahfouz and Tharwat Abaza.