Professor Manfred Woidich FBA
The descriptive dialectology, dialect geography of the Arabic language; historical linguistics of Arabic, in particular syntactic and semantic issues in Egyptian dialects. Teaching Arabic as a foreign language, colloquial first
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed FBA
The history and politics of the Middle East with special reference to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, gender and state, religious transnational connections, Islamist movements.
Professor Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA
World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires
