Jan Hoogland was born in 1957 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Between 1976 and 1983 he studied Arabic language and literature at Utrecht University. In 1984 he became associate professor of Arabic at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.Between 2009 and 2015 he was director of the Netherlands Academic Institute (NIMAR) in Rabat, Morocco.He has published articles on Arabic linguistics, and a dictionary of Modern Standard Arabic and Dutch (which formed the basis of the 2014 Oxford Arabic English Dictionary).In 1997 he published the Dutch edition of a text book to learn Moroccan Arabic. In 2016 the German translation of this book appeared.Research conducted by Jan Hoogland concentrates on the following themes: Lexicography of Arabic, Moroccan Arabic (Darija) in all its aspects, the linguistic situation of Morocco.
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