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Rudolf De Jong Author

Enam Al-Wer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex. A specialist in sociolinguistics, her research focusses on variation and change and dialect contact in Arabic. She is co-author of A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic (2022) and co-editor of three books, including The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics (2019). Uri Horesh is a sociolinguist specialising in language variation and change and language contact, especially in Palestine. They formerly held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Essex and are a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics (2019). Bruno Herin is a lecturer at INALCO (Paris) where he teaches Levantine Arabic and Arabic dialectology. His chief interest is in the description of Arabic vernaculars and minority languages of the Middle East and in linguistic variation. He is co-author of A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic (2022). Rudolf de Jong is Director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. He specialises in Arabic dialectology and has authored several articles and two books on dialects of Bedouin tribes in Sinai (2000 and 2011). He served as General Secretary of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA).