| LC control no. | n 82006950 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kurpershoek, P. M. |
| Variant(s) | Kurpershoek, Marcel كوربرشوك، مارسيل |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Author's The short stories of Yūsuf Indrīs, 1981: t.p. (P. M. Kurpershoek) Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia, 1994: v. 1, t.p. (P. Marcel Kurpershoek) jkt. (studied Arabic lang. and lit. at Univ. of Leiden; has served as member of the Netherlands Foreign Service) CIP t.p. (Marcel Kurpershoek) CIP galley (b. 1949) Arabian romantic, 2018: ECIP t.p. (Marcel Kurpershoek) data view (b. 5/17/1949; Paul Marcel Kurpershoek; senior research fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi and a specialist in the oral traditions and poetry of Arabia; he obtained his Ph.D. in modern Arabic literature at the University of Leiden; has written a number of books on historical, cultural and contemporary topics in the Middle East, including the five-volume Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia (1994-2005); in 2016, Al Arabiya television broadcast an eight-part documentary series based on the travelogue of his fieldwork he had undertaken in the Nefud desert of northern Arabia for his book Arabia of the Bedouins (in Arabic translation The Last Bedouin); has also edited and translated Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd, by Ḥmēdān al-Shwē'ir, for the Library of Arabic Literature; he spent his career as a diplomat for the Netherlands, having served as ambassador to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, Poland and special envoy for Syria until 2015; from 1996 to 2002, he held a chair as professor of Literature and Politics in the Arab World at the University of Leiden) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 93033603 |
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