A University of Wisconsin specialist in Semitic languages, Professor Menahem Mansoor, will make a comprehensive study of all Arabic documents and Arab international agreements from 1930 to 1960, the University announced today. The project also will include Israeli documents on the Middle East.
Professor Mansoor, who is chairman of the University department of Hebrew and Semitic studies, will go to Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies as a research fellow. There he will work with Sir Hamilton Gibb on the documentary study, which will also include prior agreements by the Arab countries relevant to the 1930-1960 period.
The project developed from a program supported by the United States Office of Education to prepare an advanced reader in legal and documentary Arabic which is now nearing completion. The study results will be published in two volumes. The documents will be reproduced in English translation later in 13 volumes.
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