Emil Yaqub

Emil Yaqub
Native name	إميل يعقوب
Born	1950 Kfarakka
Occupation	writer
Nationality	Lebanon

Emil Badi' Ya'qub (born November 27, 1950) is a scholar in the field of Arabic language studies and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Arabic Studies at Suleiman International University. He is a contemporary editor and commentator with numerous annotations and explanations of key classical works in Arabic linguistics, such as his work on Sharh Shudhur al-Dhahab by Ibn Hisham al-Ansari, for which he provided an introduction, footnotes, and indexes. He is also the author of the well-known and beneficial work Al-Mu'jam Al-Mufassal fi Al-Shawahid Al-Arabiyya (The Detailed Dictionary of Arabic References) and has written extensively on Arabic calligraphy and edited numerous classical texts.

Birth and education

Emil Badi' Ya'qub was born in Kfarakka, Koura District, Northern Lebanon in 1950. He began teaching at the Faculty of Arts at the Lebanese University. In 1990, he earned another doctorate from the Lebanese University. Currently, he serves as a professor of linguistic sciences at the Faculty of Arts in Tripoli and teaches postgraduate studies in Beirut. He is also the head of the Arabic Language Department at the Faculty of Arts, Lebanese University (Third Branch).