David Wilmsen Editor, Translator & Author

Karin Christina Ryding is Professor Emerita of Arabic linguistics in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. In 2008, she was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Georgetown Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. Recent publications include Arabic: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge 2014). David Wilmsen is Professor and Head of the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah. He has lived thirty years in the Arabophone world, studying the local dialects of the regions in which he has lived, publishing numerous studies in Arabic dialectology, and teaching in and administering translation and Arabic-as-foreign-language study-abroad programs.