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Martin Hinds

مارتن هايندز

Notable figure 1941–1988 · Source: "Martin Hinds" (In Memoriam), Review of Middle East Studies (MESA Bulletin), Cambridge University Press · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hinds, Martin (professor, University of Cambridge)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic (1986)

Biography

Born in Penarth, Wales, he taught Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and moved to the University of Cambridge in 1966. During his years at the American University in Cairo (1970–1975) he began, with El-Said Badawi, A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, an Arabic–English dictionary built on recorded speech, published in Beirut by Librairie du Liban in 1986; it is among the most exact dictionaries of any Arabic dialect.