Round Table Conference Indonesia Nederland Society The Hague, Senate Building, 25 June 2014 When I was contemplating which thoughts I would like to share with…
Posts published by “Dr. Nikolaos van Dam”
Nikolaos van Dam (born April 1, 1945, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a Middle East scholar, former Dutch Ambassador to Iraq, Egypt, and Indonesia, and author. Van Dam studied Arabic and Political & Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (cum laude), where he obtained the degree of Doctor in Literature in 1977. He taught Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Amsterdam (1970–75). A fully updated edition of his best-known book, The Struggle for Power in Syria, was published recently. He studied Arabic and Indonesian language and literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
It has always been the dream and wish of many Arabs that everyone should speak the same classical Arabic. Arabic dialects are considered by some…
How did Arabic loanwords end up in Indonesian?1 Various answers to this intriguing question have been put forward in an effort to trace the long road these…
One of the most often heard cliches is that Bahasa Indonesia is a simple language. I find this cliche is mainly used by those who…
Latar Belakang Salah satu kendala utama dalam mempelajari kata serapan dari bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia, adalah kenyataan bahwa bentuk asli dari beberapa kata itu…
SEJUMLAH ahli yang mempelajari kata serapan dari bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia lebih banyak memberikan perhatian pada atau mementingkan karakteristik bahasa Arab ketimbang pada bahasa…
MEREKA yang mengira bahwa bahasa Indonesia adalah bahasa yang mudah akan segera menyadari betapa rumitnya jika mereka berusaha sungguh-sungguh mempelajari sastra dan bentuk tulisan lainnya.…