Charles Häberl

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Charles G. Häberl is a scholar of the Middle East. He is currently an instructor of Middle Eastern Studies at Brookdale Community College, where he also serves as the Assistant Director for Development and Communication at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the English-language editor of the AIC Update, the official bimonthly newsletter of the American Iranian Council, and a senior editor for the Arab Washingtonian [1], a weekly bilingual (Arabic and English) based in Washington, D.C.

He is a linguist and an authority on the Mandaic language which is the liturgical language of the Mandaean religion; a vernacular form is still spoken by a small community in Iran around Ahwaz and as well in Iraq. He has recently completed writing a descriptive grammar of the Neo-Mandaic dialect of Khorramshahr.

Charles is a member of the American Oriental Society (AOS) and the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL). He is responsible for designing and maintaining the web presence of the latter organization and is organizing its 35th annual meeting.

[edit] Publication and articles

Häberl, C.G. 2004. "Mandaean Studies Since the Millennium" in Folia Orientalia 40 (Kraków).

Häberl, C.G. 2006. "Iranian Scripts for Aramaic Languages" in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 341: 21-30 (Boston).

Häberl, C.G. (in press) "The Relative Pronoun d- and the Pronominal Suffixes in Mandaic" in Journal of Semitic Studies (Manchester).

Häberl, C.G. (in press) Review of J.B. Segal and E.C.D. Hunter, Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 2000) in Orientalistiche Literaturzeitung (Berlin).