HAMDI A. QAFISHEH, Professor Emeritus

Department of Near Eastern Studies

The University of Arizona

Ph: (520) 621-2314

Fax: (520) 621-2333

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

EDUCATION:

 

            Degree & Date Obtained                                        Institution

 

            B.A.                    June 1960                                       Baghdad University, Iraq

            Diploma*           April 1962                                      Teachers College, Columbia

            M.A.                   August 1965                                 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

            Ph.D.                  August 1968                                 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

 

            *(This was a diploma in Programmed Instruction; period of study was 4 months.)

 

Doctoral Dissertation:  English Pre-Nominal Modifiers & Corresponding Modern Standard Arabic Structures: A Contrastive Analysis

 

Major fields: Applied Linguistics; Teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Teaching English as a foreign language.

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

Jobs Held Before Coming to the University of Arizona

 

            Teacher of English & Arabic, UNRWA schools in Jordan, 1950-1951

            Teacher of English & Arabic, ARAMCO, Bahrain, 1952-1955

            Lecturer, UNESCO Teacher Training College, Jordan, 1960-1964

            Teaching Fellow & Research Assistant, University of Michigan, 1965-1968

            Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Al-Hikma University, Baghdad, Iraq, 1968-69

 

Appointments at the University of Arizona

 

                        Linguistics Specialist & Assistant Professor, Environmental Research Laboratory and Oriental Studies, 1969-1970

            Training Director, Abu Dhabi, 1970-1971

            Associate Professor, Oriental Studies, August 1972

            Professor, Oriental Studies, August 1977-1990

            Professor, Near Eastern Studies, August 1990–

            Sabbatical leave, August, 1976-January 15, 1977

            Sabbatical leave, 1985-1986

            Sabbatical leave, August 15, 1993-January 15, 1994

 

Overseas Appointments

 

            1968-69                                                                                       Al-Hikma University, Baghdad, Iraq (for Ford

            Asst. Prof. of Linguistics                                                        Foundation)

 

            1970-71                                                                             Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. (for the U. of A.)

            Training Director

 

            1977-78                                                                             Arabic Language Institute, Riyadh University,

            Professor of Arabic                                                                 Saudi Arabia

 

            7/80-8/81                                                                          San’a, North Yemen

            Project Evaluator                                                                      (for A.I.D., Washington)

 

            1980-82                                                                             Arabic Language Institute, Riyadh University,

            Professor of Arabic                                                                 Saudi Arabia

            Chairman, Teacher Preparation Unit

 

            1985-1986                                                                         Arabic Language Institute, King Saud University,

            Professor of Arabic                                                                 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

            Teaching Materials Coordinator

            Chairman, Teacher Training Dept.

 

             Field Experience

 

United Arab Emirates, 1970-71.  Training Director for the U. of A. Environmental Research Laboratory.

 

United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, Summers of 1971, 1972, 1974 and June 1978-May 1977 for research on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Gulf Arabic, Research grants and periods are listed in V above.

 

North Yemen, Summer of 1980.  Contracted by A.I.D., Washington, to make an evaluation of the Yemen-American Language Institute in Sanca.

 

Saudi Arabia, 1980-81 to design an M.A. program in teaching Arabic as a foreign language at the Arabic Language Institute of Riyadh University and head of the Teacher Preparation Unit.

 

Saudi Arabia, 1986-1987 for research on Saudi Arabic, coordination of teaching materials preparation at the Arabic Language Institute of King Saud University.

 

United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain, Sep. 1994-August 1996 for a Dictionary of Gulf Arabic: Gulf-Arabic-English.

 

Sanca, Republic Yemen, Sept. 1996-August 1998 for A Learner’s Dictionary of Sancani Arabic.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

            Faculty Teaching Award (university wide) in 1970.  Rated third best teacher.

            Provost’s Teaching Improvement Award in 1988.

            Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences Course Development Award in 1989.

            Provost’s Teaching Improvement Award for 1993-94.

SERVICE

 

            Outreach

            Local/state

                        Gave talk to Theta Sigma Phi in Tucson, December 1969.  Subject: Systems of Education in the Arab countries.

            Gave talk to Blenman Elementary School in Tucson, March 1973.  Subject: Islam.

                        Wrote and recorded material for Arabic film entitled food for the Desert, published by the Aztec Film Corporation.

           

            National/international

                        Commissioned by President Schaefer for the Arabian Gulf Cultural Exchange Program, 1975-1977.  Worked out details of the program.

                        Collected cultural items from the U.A.E.; at present they are on display in the Franklin Building and in Arid Lands.

 

            Citizenship

            Departmental committees

                        Made the language tapes for Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced Gulf and Levantine Arabic at no cost to the Department.

            Curriculum Committee, member, 1979-80.

                        Teaching Evaluations, Chairman, 1988-1989 and 1991-1992.

            Served as member on thirty thesis and dissertation committees.

            Teaching evaluations, member, 1987-1989, 1992-1993.

            Ad Hoc Committee, Grievance Committee, member, 1982-1984, Chair, 1991-1992.

            Executive Committee, member, 1978-1979, 1991-1992, 1992-1993.

            Grievance Committee, Chairman, 1987-1989, 1991-1992.

                        Performance Evaluation Committee, member, 1987-1988, Chair, 1991-1992.

            Language Coordinator, 1988-1990, 1992-1994.

            Graduate Admissions & Assistance Committee, Chair, 1988-1989, 1992-1994.

            Ad Hoc Committee for Promotion & Tenure, Chair, 1988-1989, 1991-1992.

            Chair for five search committees.

            Ph.D. Review Committee, Chair, 1990-1991.

            Chaired ten M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertation committees.

 

            University Committees

                        Standing Committee of Foreign Languages, College of Liberal Arts, member, 1984-1985.

            Committee on Graduate Study, member, 1988-1992.

            Committee on Language Instruction & Research, member, 1986-

            Faculty Advisor to a number of foreign students’ clubs.

            SLAT, member, 1990–

            Grade Appeal, member & chair 1991-1993.

            Linguistic & Sociolinguistics Committee, member, 1993-

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

            Textbooks

 

   1.      Introduction to Gulf Arabic, Based on Abu Dhabi Dialect.  University of Arizona Environmental Research Laboratory & Khayats, 1970.  Revised, rewritten: Introduction on Gulf Arabic, Khayats, 1976.  312 pages.

 

   2.      Beginning English, A Basic Course for Arab Students, University of Arizona Environmental Laboratory & Khayats, 1971.  370 pages.

 

   3.      A Basic Course in Gulf Arabic, University of Arizona & Librarie du Liban, 1974.  482 pages.

 

   4.      A Course in Levantine Arabic, Center for Near Eastern & North African Studies, University of Michigan, 1974 (co-authors: Ernest N. McCarus and Raji Rammuny).  435 pages.

 

   5.      First Lessons in Literary Arabic, Part One and Part Two (co-authors: Ernest N. McCarus and Raji Rammuny), The Center for Near Eastern & North African Studies, University of Michigan, 1974.  285 pages.

 

   6.      A Short Reference Grammar of Gulf Arabic, University of Arizona Press, 1977.  374 pages.

 

   7.      Assisted in preparing the following Arabic texts at the University of Michigan: Contemporary Arabic Readers V: Modern Arabic Poetry, Ernest N. McCarus, et al., University of Michigan Press, 1966, and Elementary Modern Standard Arabic, Abboud, et al., University of Michigan Press, 1968.  Also made all the recordings that go with this latter text.

 

   8.      Gulf Arabic: Intermediate Level, University of Arizona Press, 1979.  296 pages.

 

   9.      Gulf Arabic-English Glossary, University of Arizona Press, 1979.

 

10.      Arabic Proficiency Test (with others), University of Michigan press, 1979.

 

11.      A Glossary of Gulf Arabic: Gulf Arabic-English, English-Gulf Arabic, Librarie du Liban and University of Arizona Press 1986.  870 pages.

 

12. Yemeni Arabic, Part One, Yemen Center for Research and Studies & Librarie du Liban, 1990.  397 pages.

 

13. Saacani Arabic Reference Grammar, Dunwoody Press, Kensington, MD, 1992.  307 pages.

 

14.      Yemeni Arabic, Part Two, Yemen Center for Research & Studies and Librarie du Liban, 1995.  410 pages.

 

15.      Advanced Gulf Arabic, Librarie du Liban, 1997.  358 pages.

 

16.      Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group, Lincolnwood, IL, 1997.  650 pages.

 

            Articles

 

   1.      “Contrastive Analysis and the AFL Teacher,” ERIC, MLA, 1973 (at the request of ERIC) Ed. Resources Info. Center and Journal of the American Assoc. of Teacher of Arabic, Vol. 9 & 6, 1972-1973, pp. 13-18.

     

   2.      “From Gulf Arabic into Modern Standard Arabic: A Pilot Study,” Journal of American Assoc. of Teachers of Arabic, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1974, pp. 36-39.

 

   3.      “The Affricates … and j in Gulf Arabic,” Journal of the American Assoc. of Teachers of Arabic, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1975, pp. 24-40.

 

   4.      “The Phonology of Gulf Arabic,” Journal of Arabic Studies, Brill, The Hague, Dec. 1978, pp. 98-110.

 

   5.      “The Phonology of Yemeni Arabic,” in Yemeni Studies, Journal of the Yemen Center for Research & Studies.  Vol. 20, No. 1.

 

   6.      “A Sketch of the Sound System of Sancani Arabic,” Journal of Arabic Linguistics 15 (1987), pp. 47-58.

 

   7.      “Phonological Features of Yemeni Arabic,” Yemeni Studies, Journal of the Yemen Center for Research & Studies, Vol. 31, no. 2, 1988, pp. 298-313.

 

   8.      “Yemeni Arabic Verb Morphology,” Yemeni Studies, Journal of the Yemen Center for Research & Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1989, pp. 134-154.

 

   9.      “Salient Features of Yemeni Arabic: Part One,” Yemeni Studies, Journal of the Yemen Center for Research & Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1990, pp. 298-313.

 

10.      “Salient Features of Yemeni Arabic: Part Two,” Yemeni Studies, Journal of the Yemen Center for Research & Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1, 1990, pp. 134-154.

 

11.      “Major Phonological Processes of Sancani Arabic,” Journal of King Saud University, College of Arts, Vol. 2, 1991, pp. 101-112.

 

12.      “Major Phonological Processes of Gulf Arabic,” Journal of King Saud University, College of Arts, Vol. 5, 1993, pp. 39-53.

 

13. “Ablaut in Gulf Arabic,” Journal of Arabic Linguistics, 21 (1995), pp. 37-48.

 

 

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

 

            Colloquia

 

   1.      “Negation in Sancaani Arabic,” In Proceedings of the Colloquium on Logos, Ethos, Mythos in the Middle East & North Africa, Budapest, Hungary, 1996, pp. 31-40.                                                                       

 

            Seminars

 

   1.      “From Literary Arabic into Gulf Arabic,” 14th Seminar on the Teaching of Arabic to Adults in Europe, Paris, France, May 23-25, 1983.

 

            Symposia

 

   1.      “Proficiency-Oriented Approaches and Methodologiesl An Appraisal, “Proceedings: Symposium on Arabic Language Teaching.  University of Leeds, Leeds, England, April 1989, pp. 67-79.

 

   2.      “Proficiency-Oriented Approaches and Methodologies,” in Proceedings of the Symposium On Arabic Language Teaching.  Defense School of Languages, Royal Educational Corps Centre, Beaconsfield, Wilton Park, U.K., 1990, pp. 27-31.

 

   3.      “Suggested Guidelines for the Selection of Arabic Teachers in American Universities,” Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, Fairfax, VA, 1997, pp. 133-141.

 

   4.      “Proficiency-Oriented Approaches and Methodologies: A Modest Appraisal,” Symposium on Arabic Language Teaching, Leeds Univ., Leeds, England, April 5-7, 1988.

 

            Conferences

 

   1.      “The Importance of the Text in Arabic Teaching,” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Arabic as a Persian Language, Riyadh, 1981.

 

   2.      “Syntactic Features of Gulf Arabic,” Proceedings of the Conference on Arabic Studies, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Arabic Department at Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 24-35.

 

   3.      “Contrastive Analysis and the EFL Teacher,” TESOL Conference, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1971.

 

   4.      “Actual Problems That Learners Face,” Adult English for National Development Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, May 4, 1971.  Panel Chairperson.

 

   5.      “The Importance of the Text in Arabic Teaching,” First International Conference on Arabic Teaching,” First International Conference on Arabic as a Foreign Language, Riyadh, Saudi Arabic, April 1978.  Panel Chairperson.

 

   6.      “Contrastive and Error Analyses,” First Conference on Arabic to Non-Speakers of Arabic, Medina, Saudi Arabia, March 7-13, 1981.  Panel Chairperson.

 

   7.      “A Sample Lesson in Arabic as a Foreign Language,” Experts Conference on Arabic as a Foreign Language, Doha, Qatar, May 1-5, 1981.  Panel Chairperson.

 

   8.      “Tense and Aspect in Gulf Arabic,” Second International Conference on Arabic as a Foreign Language.  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 1986.  Panel Chairperson.

 

   9.      Chaired a panel on Arabic Dialectology and presented a paper entitled,” Dialectual Mutual Intelligibility,” XVI North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 15-17, 1989, New Orleans.

 

10.      “Unique Phonological Processes of Yemeni Arabic,” XIX North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Berkeley, CA, March 6-9, 1991.

 

11.      Invited by the University of Haifa, Israel, and presented a paper entitled, “On Ablaut in Yemeni Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Approach,” at the International Sociolinguistics Conference, March 16-18, 1998.

 

            Other Presentations

 

   1.      “Contrastive Analysis and the AFL Teacher,” Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1970.

 

   2.      “The Place of the Colloquials in Arabic Studies,” ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), Atlanta, GA, November 24, 1972.

 

   3.      “From Gulf Arabic Into Modern Standard Arabic: A Pilot Program,” Seventh Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 7, 1979.

 

   4.      “Affricates of Gulf Arabic,” Eighth Annual Meeting of the Middle East Association, Boston, Mass., November 6-9, 1974.

 

   5.      “Pharyngeals of Gulf Arabic,” Ninth Annual Meeting of the Middle East Association, Boston, Mass., November 6-9, 1974.

 

   6.      “Distinctive Features of the Phonology of Yemeni Arabic,” Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Middle East Association, San Francisco, California, November 6-9, 1984.

   7.      “Proficiency-Based Gulf Arabic Curricular Materials,” Workshop on Arabic Curricular Materials, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., September 3-4, 1987.

 

   8.      Chaired a panel on Arabic Linguistics: Theory and Analysis and presented a paper entitled “Verb Morphology of Sancani Arabic,” 22nd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Association of North America, Los Angeles, CA, November 4, 1988.

 

   9.      “Major Phonological Features of Sancani Arabic,” Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch, Seattle, WA, October 26-28, 1990.

 

10.      “Imperfect Stem Vowels of Yemeni Arabic Verbs,” 24th Annual Meeting of MESA, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 10-13, 1990.

 

11.      Organized and chaired panel on Arabic Pedagogy, XXV MESA, Washington, D.C., Nov. 23-26, 1991.

 

12.      “Unique Gulf Arabic Phonological Processes,” American Oriental Society, Boulder, CO, Oct. 2-4, 1992.

 

13.      Chaired panel on Studies in Linguistic Analysis and presented paper entitled: “Suprasegmentals of Gulf Arabic,” XXVI, MESA, Portland, OR, Oct. 28-31, 1993.

 

14.      Invited by the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences, Washington, D.C., to chair a panel on “The Teaching of Arabic in the U.S.A.,” on the occasion of the inauguration of the Institution, Jan. 23-24, 1993.

 

15. Chaired “Aspects of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language,” MESA, Research Triangle Park, N.C., November 13, 1993.

 

16. Chaired “Issues in Middle Eastern Linguistics,” MESA, Research Triangle Park, N.C., November 14, 1993.

 

17.      Invited by the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Washington, D.C., and presented paper, “Criteria for the Selection of Teachers of Arabic in American Universities,” March 26-17, 1994.

 

18. Invited by the Center for Applied Linguistics to participate in a simulated Oral Proficiency Rater Training Workshop, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, April 15-16, 1994.

 

19.      Invited by the Department of Arabic Studies of Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, and presented paper entitled “Syntactic Features of Gulf Arabic,” Dec. 2-3, 1994.

 

20.      Invited by the Department of Arabic Studies of Eotovos Lovand University, Budapest, Hungary, and presented a paper entitled “Negation in Sancani Arabic,” September 18-22, 1995.

21.      “Negation In Sancani Arabic Revisited,” Linguistic Society of the Southwest (LASSO), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Oct. 11-13, 1996.

 

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

 

            Type   Dates                                Amount                                                       Source

            Scholarship                                 1956-1960                                                    $12,000            UNRWA & UNESCO

            Fellowship                                   1961-1962                                                        8,680            UNESCO

            Fulbright                                      1964-1965                                                        9,400            U.S. Govt.

            Scholarship                                 1965-1968                                                      19,900            U.S. Govt.

            Dissertation Grant                      Jan. 1968                                                         1,500            Univ. of Michigan

            *Research Grant                         Summer 1971                                                10,500            U.S.O.E.

            *Research Grant                         June 1972-Aug. 1973                                  26,460            U.S.O.E.

            Research Grant                           Summer 1973                                                  3,300            U. of A.

            Publications Grant                     November 1973                                              3,500            Abu Dhabi

            *Research Grant                         May 1974-May 1976                                   29,840            U.S.O.E.

            Research Grant                           June 1975-Aug. 1975                                    2,500            U. of A.

            *Research Grant                         June 1976-May 1977                                   20,790            U.S.O.E.

            Research Grant                           June 1977-August 1978                                9,853            U.S.O.E.

            Research Grant                           June 1980-July 1980                                      5,000            U.S.O.E.

            *Research Grant                         Nov. 1983-Dec. 1984                                   31,178            U.S.D.E.

            *Research Grant                         Dec. 1984-Jan. 1986                                     63,276            U.S.D.E.

            *Research Grant                         July 1989-June 1991                                    78,500            U.S.D.E.

            *Research Grant                         Sept. 1992-Aug. 1993                                104,776            U.S.D.E.

            *Research Grant                         1994-1996                                                    130,000            U.S.D.E.

            *Research Grant                         Sept. 1996-Aug. 1998                                143,832            U.S.D.E.

 

Other Professional Activities

 

Rated one of the top five professors for the academic year 1969-70 at the University of Arizona (See ASUA Course Evaluation, June 1970).

 

Scored the highest among the Oriental Studies faculty on a course evaluation by students administered in 1973.

 

Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Middle Eastern and North African Affairs.

 

Field Reader and Project Evaluator 1975-(on-going).  Evaluate and report on proposals and draft manuscripts of Arabic projects for the International Research Program of the U.S. Dept. of Education, N.S.F. and others.  I have evaluated at least 35 research proposals.

 

Paved the way for the University of Arizona membership in The Western Consortium of Universities.

 

Served as member of the Academic Council, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1981-82 and 1985-87.

 

Taught at least ten NDEA and non-NDEA intensive summer courses in Arabic nationwide.

 

Evaluated a number of projects for Title VII, SAIP in 1994.

 

     

 

16.       Review Article of Arabic Adeni Textbook 1990 and Arabic Adeni Reader 1991, Dunwoody Press, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 113, 4 (1993), pp. 637-639.