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Clive Holes

كلايف هولز

Notable figure b. 1948 · Source: The British Academy, Fellow profile: Professor Clive Holes FBA · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Holes, Clive D. (1948-....), professor, Cambridge, then Oxford (1997-)

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; Modern Arabic (1995)

Biography

Professor of Arabic at Cambridge and then at Oxford from 1997. He wrote Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia (1984), Gulf Arabic (1990) and Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions and Varieties (1995), and described the dialects of Bahrain and eastern Arabia, with glossary and texts, in Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia (2001–2016). With Said Salman Abu Athera he studied contemporary Bedouin poetry in Poetry and Politics in Contemporary Bedouin Society (2009).