Curriculum Vitae

• BA (1st Class), Arabic and Turkish, Faculty of Oriental Studies and Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge 1969 (MA 1973).
  
• MA in English Language by thesis, Department of English, University of Birmingham, 1972
  
• PhD, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Mediaeval Languages and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 1981

Career

• 1969-71:United Nations Association volunteer teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Bahrain Government secondary schools, Arabian Gulf.
  
• 1971-1983: British Council Overseas Career Service. Postings: training at Birmingham University 1971-2; Kuwait (1972-4), Algeria (1974-6), Baghdad, Iraq (1980), Thailand (1980-2), HQ Consultancies Department, London (1982-3), with oversight of and regular visits to curriculum development projects in Somalia, Yemen, Oman. Resigned 1983.
  
• 1976-9 (whilst on study leave from the British Council): Social Science Research Council Post-Experience Fellowship pursuing PhD research in Arabic socio-linguistics (field-work in Bahrain, 1977-8), Dept of Linguistics, University of Cambridge.
  
• 1983-5: Lecturer in Arabic and Applied Linguistics, University of Salford.
  
• 1985-7: Director, Language Centre, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman.
  
• 1987-96: Lecturer in Islamic Studies, and Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Oriental Studies, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
  
• October 1996: Promoted ad hominem Reader in Arabic, University of Cambridge.
  
• January 1997-now: Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford (endowed statutory Chair); Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College.
  
• Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 2002.

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