Ulrich Seeger Heidelberg University
Dept. for Languages and Cultures of the Near East
Semitic Studies
Schulgasse 2
D-69117 Heidelberg
e-mail seeger@uni-hd.de
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Arabic Dialectology: Thesis (M.A.) on the Arabic Dialect of il-Xalil (Hebron), 1996.
Researchers interested in the Arabic population of Khorasan (east Iran), will find data here.
The Arabic dialects of Central Palestine. A short report of my findings during my one year research leave in Bir Zeit (West Bank).

Recommended Wikipedia Articles (German): Arabische Dialekte
Palästinensisch-Arabisch
Chorasan-Arabisch

Fonts and layouts: Because the commonly used fonts lacked the characters I required, I designed new fonts appropriate for the transcription of Arabic and Aramaic texts. Some of them can be downloaded free of charge here. Most of the fonts have been composed in PostScript Type1 format for Macintosh.
I also prepared the layout of some books and designed appropriate fonts.


...and some photographs from Iran:

In 1997 my wife and I visited Isfahan, Shiraz and Yazd. A selection of the best photographs can be found [here].

... and a report on our godchild Mohammad:

Mohammad is 9 years old and lives in Burj ish-Shimâli, a Palestinian refugee-camp in southern Lebanon ... [more]


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