<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Needs Saudi and Gulf Facebook friends<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 05 Jul 2011<br>From: moderator<br>Subject: Needs Saudi and Gulf Facebook friends<br><br><div>I have received the following appeal from Dr. John Myhill of the University of Haifa who is working with an Israeil-Arab MA student on a sociolinguistic project involving the use of Arabic in Facebook in various Arab countries. If you have ideas about how this problem can be solved, you can email him directly, or email me <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>> and I will pass it on to him.</div><div>dil</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Dr. Parkinson,<br>My name is John Myhill, I'm a sociolinguist at the University of Haifa. I have a<br>student, Dua'a Abu Elhija Mahajna, who is doing her MA thesis research on how<br>Arabic is used in Facebook in different countries. She's been able to get data<br>from almost everywhere, but she's having serious problems with Saudi Arabia and<br>the Gulf because people there don't want to be Facebook friends with her. What<br>she is doing is just basic sociolinguistic research on language usage. Any help<br>in finding Facebook friends for her in these countries would be much<br>appreciated.<br>Thanks,<br>John Myhill<br>Professor of Linguistics<br>Dept. of English Language and Literature<br>University of Haifa<br>Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905<br>Israel<br><a href="mailto:john@research.haifa.ac.il">john@research.haifa.ac.il</a></div><div><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2011</div></body></html>