yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy A bou t the Au thor D r. Margaret Nydell is a widely respected scholar and professor of Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic dialectolog y, and many Arabic regional dialects. She was a visiting professor at Georgetown Universit y and an Arabic linguist for the Foreign Ser vice Institute and the U.S. Department of State, and has directed the latter's School of Advanced Arabic Training in Tunis, Tunisia. She has also headed several Arabic materials development projects and directed a summer Arabic program