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Kristen Brustad

كريستين بروستاد

Notable figure · Source: Georgetown University Press, book page: Al-Kitaab fii Taʿallum al-ʿArabiyya, Part One · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Brustad, Kristen E., associate professor of Arabic, Emory University (2002)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Co-author of Al-Kitaab fii Taʿallum al-ʿArabiyya (1995–)

Biography

She taught Arabic at the University of Texas at Austin. With Mahmoud al-Batal and Abbas al-Tonsi she wrote the Al-Kitaab fii Taʿallum al-ʿArabiyya series (Georgetown, from 1995), one of the most widely used Arabic courses in North America, and she wrote The Syntax of Spoken Arabic (2000), a comparative study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti dialects.