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 Charles Tripp FBA
Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.
Professor Roel Sterckx FBA
Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China
Professor Timothy Brook FBA
China’s social, cultural, and international history from the 13th to the 17th century; global history of the 16th and 17th centuries; Asian conflict and human rights in the 20th century
