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André d'Alverny

أندريه دالفرني

Notable figure 1907–1965 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1079; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 503 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Alverny, André d' (1907-1965)

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Teacher of Arabic; Petite introduction au parler libanais

Biography

Born in Toulon, he lived in Lebanon in 1929–1933 and again from 1946, directing the Centre for Arabic Studies at Bikfaya and teaching at the Institute of Oriental Letters of Saint Joseph University in Beirut. He wrote an Arabic course of vocabulary and texts (Beirut, 1959), a Petite introduction au parler libanais in three parts – texts, vocabulary, grammar (Beirut, 1964) – and a manual of translation between Arabic and French (1965).