EDUCATION
1956  Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Michigan.
1949  M.A., Spanish Language, University of Michigan.
1945  B.A., Japanese Language (with Distinction), University of Michigan.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1942-1946   U.S. Army, active duty

1946-1947   Team Captain, Allied Translating and Interpreting Service, Allied Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan

1948-1952   Teaching Assistant, English Language Institute, University of Michigan

1952-1956   Instructor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

1956-1960   Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

1958-1960   Director, Foreign Service Institute Field School of Arabic Language and Area Study, U.S. Department of State, Beirut, Lebanon

1960-1967   Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

1967-1995   Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

1969-1977   Chairman, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

1974-1983   Director, Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA)

1983-1992   Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan

1988-1997   Director, Program for Interinstitutional Cooperation in Area Studies (PICAS)

1995   Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Kurdish Linguistics

1995-1997   Associate Director for Outreach, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan

1997-2001   Development Committee Chair, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan

EXTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL WORK
1964, September-November Senior Consultant in Japan for ACTT (Advisory Council on Training of Teachers of Foreign Languages).

1965-1967 Arabic Teachers' Workshops.

1973 Workshop on the State of the Art in Middle East Studies, Palo Alto, California.

1973 President, American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA); member, Executive Council, 1979-1981, 1989-1992.

1979-1980 Modern Language Association Task Force #3, The Uncommonly Taught Languages.

1980- Member, Board of Trustees, Project of Translation from Arabic (PROTA).

1981-1988 Member, Language Attrition Project, University of Pennsylvania.

1981-1989 Member, Advisory Committee for the Arabic School of Middlebury College; member, Review Committee 1984.

1983-1987, 1991-1994 Member, Governing Council, Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA).

1983-1990 Member, Board of Governors, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).

Review Panel for Applications for USIA International Partnership Grants and for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

1991-1994 Member, Executive Committee, Arabic Speaking Advanced Immersion Program (ASAIP).

1991- Member, Executive Committee, University of Virginia-Yarmouk University Summer Arabic Program.

1974-1993 External evaluator of Middle East programs at various American universities.

GRANTS AND AWARDS (Selected)
Rockefeller Fellowship for Research in Iraq (1951)
ACLS Grant for work on Newspaper Arabic Reader (1953-1954)
Fulbright-Hays for research on Arabic dialects (1964-1965)
NEH Grant for computerized study of Arabic Syntax (1970-1971)
Rackham grant for computerized study of Arabic Syntax (1995-1996)

PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Grammar of Kurdish of Sulaimania, Iraq. American Council of Learned Societies, New York, 1958. Excerpts translated into Kurdish and published in Roshinbiry Nwe, No. 11 (Sept 1987) pp. 149-192.

A Survey of Intensive Programs in the Uncommon Languages. U.S. Office of Education, Dept of HEW Washington, D.C. 1962 [With H. Hoenigswald, R. Noss and J. Yamagiwa.

Elements of Contemporary Arabic, Part I. Ann Arbor Publishers, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1962 [With A. Yacoub].

Editor, Contemporary Arabic Readers, Volumes I-V, The University of Michigan Press, 1962-1966.

Vol. I, Newspaper Arabic, 1962 [With Adil Yacoub].

Vol. II, Arabic Essays. Part l, Texts; Part 2, Notes and Glossaries, 1962 [With Rashid L. Bashshur].

Vol. III, Formal Arabic. Part 1, Texts; Part 2, Notes and Glossaries, 1963 [With Adil Yacoub and collaboration of Frederic Cadora].

Vol. IV, Short Stories. Part l, Texts; Part 2, Notes and Glossaries, 1963. [With James A. Bellamy and Adil Yacoub].

Vol. V. Modern Arabic Poetry. Part l, Texts; Part 2, Notes and Glossaries. 1966 [With James Bellamy and Adil Yacoub.

First Level Arabic: Elementary Literary Arabic for Secondary Schools, with two sets of tapes to accompany the text, one by Egyptian Arabs and one by Jordanian-Lebanese Arabs. Washington, D.C. U.S. Office of Education, Dept of HEW and the University of Michigan Center Near Eastern and North African Studies, 1964. [With Raji Rammuny] Teacher's Manual to Accompany First Level Arabic, 1964 [With Raji Rammuny].

Kurdish Basic Course. Dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq. University of Michigan Press, 1967 [With Jamal Abdullah].

Editor, Kurdish Readers, 1967 [With Jamal Abdulla]. Vol. I, Newspaper Kurdish. Vol. II, Kurdish Essays. Vol. III, Kurdish Short Stories.

A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq, 1967.

Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic Pronunciation and Writing. Inter-University Committee on Near Eastern Languages. 1968 [With P. Abboud, N. Bezirgan, W. Erwin, M. Khouri and R. Rammuny].

Elementary Modern Standard Arabic. (EMSA). Part One and Part Two. 1968. [With P. Abboud, N. Bezirgan, W. Erwin, M. Khouri and R. Rammuny] As of 1983 EMSA has been published by Cambridge University Press.

A Programmed Course in Modern Literary Arabic Phonology and Script, 1970. [With R. Rammuny].

Modern Standard Arabic. Intermediate Level (IMSA). Part I, Lessons 1-13; Part II, Lessons 14-30; Part III, Drills, Glossary, and Indexes. Ann Arbor, MI, Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, 1971. [With P. Abboud, E. Abdel-Massih, S. Altoma, W. Erwin, and R. Rammuny].

Associated author with E. Abdel-Massih, ElSaid Badawi and Z. Abdel-Malek, A Comprehensive Study of Egyptian Arabic. Vol. II, Proverbs and Metaphoric Phrases; Vol. III, A Reference Grammar of Egyptian Arabic; Vol. IV, Lexicon, 1978-1979.

A Course in Levantine Arabic. Ann Arbor, Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies. 1978. [With H. Qafisheh and R. Rammuny].

English Grammar for Students of Arabic, The Study Guide for Those Learning Arabic, Ann Arbor: Olivia and Hill Press, 2006.

Edited Monograph
The Development of Arab-American Identity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Articles and Contributions to Books
"Phonetic Training as an Aid to Language Learning," Report on the Sixth Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching, Georgetown University Press, 1955, 50-58.

"The Use of Proverbs in the Teaching of Arabic," Language Learning VIII, 1 and 2 (1956-1957).

"A Linguist Looks at Aphasia in Children," Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 23, 1 (1958) 54-58 [With Dr. Alfred A. Strauss].

"Kurdish Language Studies," Middle East Journal, XV 3, 325-335.

"Supplement to Kurdish Language Studies," Middle East Journal, XV No. 1 (Winter 1961), 123-125.

"Asian Dialects of English" (Editorial), Language Learning, XIII (1963), 3 and 4, 151-152.

"Programmed Materials for Teaching Arabic Script," Proceedings of the Conference on Language and Language Behavior, edited by Eric M. Zale, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1968, pp. 124-140 [With R. Rammuny].

"A Semantic Analysis of Arabic Verbs," Michigan Oriental Studies in Honor of George G. Cameron, ed. Louis L. Orlin, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976, 3-28.

"Department of Near Eastern Studies" in The University of Michigan. An Encyclopedic Survey. Vol. VI, The University of Michigan. 1940-75, Ed. by Ferol Brinkman, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Bentley Historical Society, 1981, 187-190.

"Identification of the Meters of Arabic Poetry," Al-Arabiyya 16 (1983) 57-83.

"Arabic-Specific Oral Proficiency Guidelines" in Proceedings of the Symposium on the Evaluation of Foreign Language Proficiency, edited by Albert Valdman, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1987 73-76.

"The Study of Arabic in the United States: A History of its Development," Al-Arabiyya, 20 (1987), 13 27. Reprinted as "History of Arabic Study in the United States" in The Arabic Language in America, ed. Aleya Rouchdy, Wayne State University Press, 1992, 207-221.

"A Case of Semantic Reconstruction: The Egyptian Arabic Verbal Prefix bi-" in Studies in Near Eastern Culture and History. In Memory of Ernest T. Abdel-Massih, ed. James A. Bellamy, Ann Arbor, Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, 1990, 99-107.

"Kurdish Language" in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, 1992, Vol. 4, 289-294.

Chapter, "A Lust for Language" in Summing Up: Ten Scholars of the Middle East Look Back, Thomas Naff, editor, State University of New York Press, 1993, 181-198.

Sidebar, "Berber: Linguistic Substratum of North Africa," Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, XIII, 5 (Jan/Feb 1994), 31.

Chapter, "Kurdish Phonology" in Phonologies of Asia and Africa, edited by Alan S. Kaye, 1997, Vol. 2, 691-706.

Consultant for Hamdi A. Qafisheh, NTC's Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary, 1997.

"Arabic Performative Verbs," Zeitschrift fur Arabische Linguistik [With Aziz Khalil]. Vol. 36 (1999), 7 - 20.

"Foreword" in Mark W. Cowell, A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic with Audio CD. Georgetown University Press, 2005, p. xv.

"Kurdish Morphology," in A.S. Kaye, ed., Morphologies of Asia and Africa, Winona Lake, IN, Eisenbrauns, 2007. 1021-1049.

"Foreword" in Margaret K. Omar, The Acquisition of Egyptian Arabic as a Native Language, 2007. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, page xv.

"Modern Standard Arabic," in K. Versteegh, Ed., Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, E.J. Brill, 2007. Pp. 235-262.

In Press
"Kurdish," in G.L. Windfuhr, ed., Iranian Languages and Linguistics.

Book Reviews
Hassan el-Hajje, Le Parler arabe de Tripoli (Liban), Language 31 (1955), 580-583.

Rudolph Selheim, Die klassisch-arabischen Sprichwortersammlungen insbesondere die des Abu `Ubaid, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 78, 2 (April-June 1958), 124-125.

C. Ferguson and M. Ani, Damascus Arabic; C. Ferguson and M. Ani, Lessons in Contemporary Arabic: Lessons 1-8; F. Ziadeh, A Reader in Modern Literary Arabic; and C. Ferguson, editor, Contributions to Arabic Linguistics; Middle East Journal, 16, (1962) 3, 385-387.

D.N. MacKenzie, Kurdish Dialect Studies Vols. I and II, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 84 (1964), 3, 305-310.

D.A. Schmidt, Journey Among Brave Men and D. Adamson, The Kurdish War, Middle East Journal, 20, 1 (Winter 1966) 116.

W.M. Erwin, A Basic Course in Iraqi Arabic, Middle East Journal, 27 (1973), 3, 405-406.

Salman Al-Ani, Arabic Phonology, Linguistics 12 (1974), 99-102.

Alan S. Kaye, A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic and Alan S. Kaye, Nigerian Arabic - English Dictionary, in Language Sciences, 9 (1987), 291-293.

A. Bloch, Studies in Arabic Syntax and Semantics, in Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, 2:2 (1989), 227-229.

Theodore Prochazka, Saudi Arabian Dialects in International Journal of Middle East Studies 25, No. 4 (Nov 1993), 712-714.

G. Bohas, J-P Guilliaume, D.E. Kouloughi, The Arabic Linguistic Tradition, in The Middle East Studies Bulletin, 27 (1993), 94-95.

K. Versteegh, The Explanation of Linguistic Causes. Az-Zaggagi’s Theory of Grammar, in Al-Arabiyya, 29 (1996), 225-230.

A. Hassanpour, Nationalism and Language in Kurdistan, 1918-1985 in Middle East Journal, 51, 2, (Spring 1997), 300-301.

K. C. Ryding, A reference grammar of Modern Standard Arabic, in Language, 84, 1 (March 2008), pp. 204 - 206.

FESTSCHRIFT AND HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa, 1945.

R. Rammuny and D. Parkinson, Editors, Investigating Arabic: Linguistic, Pedagogical and Literary Studies in Honor of Ernest N. McCarus. Greyden Press, 1994.

Plaque from the Kurdish National Congress "for his services and contributions to the Kurdish Language," 1998.

Plaque from the Department of Near Eastern & Asian Studies, Wayne State University, "in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the field of teaching Arabic language," 1999.

The CASA Lifetime Achievement Award, Center for Arabic Study Abroad, November 2004.

Jere L. Bacharach Service Award of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, 2005.

The 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award of The American Association of Teacher of Arabic (AATA).

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Linguistic Society of America (Life member)
American Oriental Society
American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
Arabic Linguistic Society
Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) (Life member)