Michael C. A. Macdonald FBA is a research associate of the Khalili Research Centre, honorary fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and fellow of the British Academy. He is a Trustee of the International Association for the Study of Arabia. He is a specialist in the languages, scripts and inscriptions of ancient Syria, Jordan and Arabia. He was also the mentor of the epigraphist and linguist Ahmad Al-Jallad.
- Occupation
- philologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- May 25, 1947