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Richard Bayly Winder

ريتشارد بايلي وايندر

Notable figure 1920–1988 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1025; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1109 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Winder, Richard Bayly (1920-1988)

From the United States; worked in Lebanon

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Co-author of An Introduction to Modern Arabic (1957)

Biography

He took his doctorate at Princeton (1950) after teaching at the American University of Beirut, taught Arabic at Princeton until 1966, and then became professor at New York University and dean of its Faculty of Arts and Science. With Farhat Ziadeh he wrote An Introduction to Modern Arabic (Princeton, 1957), a textbook reprinted many times, and he translated Tawfiq al-Hakim's Bird of the East (Beirut, 1966) and Constantine Zurayk's The Meaning of the Disaster (1956).