Affiliation

Dialectologist; Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian (1994)

Biography

Professor of Arabic dialect studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He described the dialects of north-eastern Arabia, southern Iraq and Khuzestan in North East Arabian Dialects (1982), wrote Bedouin of Northern Arabia (1986), and described the speech of Najd in Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian (1994).