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Edmond Saussey

إدمون سوساي

Notable figure 1899–1937 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 248; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 700 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Saussey, Edmond (1899-1937)

From France; worked in Syria

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Author of Turkish words in Damascene Arabic (1929)

Biography

A graduate of the School of Oriental Languages in Paris, he worked at the French Institute in Damascus. He published a study of the Turkish words in the colloquial Arabic of Damascus (1929) and another on Karagöz shadow-play texts in that colloquial (1937–1938), and wrote in the Bulletin d'études orientales on Ibrahim al-Mazini and his novel Ibrahim al-katib (1932).