noun
Etymology
Origin of Arabist
Example Sentences
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Elisabeth Kendall, an Arabist and Yemen specialist at the University of Cambridge, put it this way in a recent CNN interview:
From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024
Not least, the great British Arabist Robert Irwin provides a detailed essay analyzing the character and origin of the tales that came to us through Diyab.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021
He is an Arabist, was station chief in Saudi Arabia in the 90s and Chief of Staff to Director George Tenet in the years after 9/11.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2013
The only Arabist with real knowledge of the country was a holdover from the previous administration.
From Newsweek • Sep. 25, 2012
When first the Arabist in Europe landed at Alexandria he could not exchange a word with the people the same is told of Golius the lexicographer at Tunis.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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