This book complements A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill: 2000) thus completing the author's description of Bedouin dialects of Sinai. Earlier and new data are synthesized in a dialectometrical approach for a subdivision into eight groups.

Rudolf E. de Jong, Ph.D. (1999) in Humanities, University of Amsterdam, is currently Guest Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, teaches Arabic at Leiden University, is co-General Editor for the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online and is Secretary of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA). He has published A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill: 2000), as well as several articles.