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 Ayhan Kaya FBA
The state and society relations in Europe since the late-20th century; majority and minority relations in Europe; migration-refugee studies; studies on neoliberal forms of governmentality: nationalism, multiculturalism, populism, Islamophobism
Professor Megan Vaughan FBA
History, African Languages and Literature, Social History in Africa, Economic History in Africa, History of Medicine in Africa.
Professor Gavin Flood FBA
Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics
