Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) (Colloquial Series)
Leslie Mcloughlin is Honarary research fellow at the department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Exeter. He was Director of Studies at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS), Shemlan,  Lebanon 1965-68 and 1970-75. He also taught at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and 1970. In 1987 he founded the MECAS Association. He has published several text books for modern Arabic, spoken and writtten.He has lectured in Arabic in many Arabic countries and most recently in Oman and Saudi Arabia.He interpreted for HM The Queen and Her Majesty's Government from 1983-2004.As a University Fellow at Exeter he has taught all years of the undergraduate programme in Arabic and has taught a Master's course in translation.As a historian he has specialized in the history of Saudi Arabia and published a biography of the first King, Ibn Saud, in 1993.  --This text refers to theAudio CDedition.