09:30 – 10:00

Welcoming the participants, Opening of the workshop

10:00 – 11:00

Introduction

Chairperson: Helma Pasch

Meikal Mumin

The Arabic Script in Africa: Understudied Literacy

Peter T. Daniels:

The Type and Spread of Arabic Script

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee-/Tea-break

11:15 – 12:15

West Africa

Chairperson: Peter T. Daniels

Nikolay Dobronravin:

West African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande Languages)

Anneke Breedveld:

Ajami manuscripts of Fulfulde Jihad poetry from 'Yola

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch-break

13:15 – 14:15

West Africa

Chairperson: Nikolay Dobronravin

Valentin Vydrin:

Arabic-based scripts for Manding languages

Andy Warren-Rothlin:

West African Ajami Orthographies in Socio-Political Context

14:15 – 14:30

Coffee-/Tea-break

14:30 – 15:30

North Africa

Chairperson: Valentin Vydrin

Lameen Souag:

Non-Arabic Arabic in Southwestern Algeria

Maarten Kossmann:

Tuareg Ajami in its Regional Setting

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee-/Tea-break

15:45 – 16:45

South Africa

Chairperson: Lameen Souag

Muhammed Haron:

Revisiting Al-Qawl Al-Matin: A Carefully Crafted Socio-Linguistically Engineered Arabic-Afrikaans Text

Kees Versteegh:

An Arabic-Afrikaans grammar in Arabic script: Sheikh Ismail Ganief Edwards' Nailoel 'arabie fee loeqhatiel 'arabie

19:00

Dinner at a Restaurant (Location TBA)

09:30 – 10:00

Welcoming the participants

10:00 – 11:00

East Africa & the Horn

Chairperson: Kees Versteegh

Andreas Wetter:

The use of the Arabic script for Ethiopian languages

Bana Banafunzi & Allessandra Vianello:

Chimiini in Arabic Script: Examples from the Poetry of Brava

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee-/Tea-break

11:15 – 12:15

East Africa & Central Africa

Chairperson: Andreas Wetter

Clarissa Vierke:

Kala Shairi. Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script

Xavier Luffin:

Swahili Documents from Congo (19th Century): Variation of Orthography

12:15 – 13:15

 Lunch-break

13:15 – 14:15

Applied Linguistics

Chairperson: Andy Warren-Rothlin

Mohammed Chtatou:

Using Arabic Script In Writing African Languages, Revisiting Isesco's Experience 25 Years Later: Field Successes And Shortcoming

Marie-Eve Humery:

A case of restricted literacy : writing in ‘Ajami in the Haalpulaar society of Fuuta Tooro (Senegal/Mauritania)

14:15 – 14:30

Coffee-/Tea-break

Chairperson: Meikal Mumin

14:30 – 15:30

Concluding Discussions

19:00

Dinner at a Restaurant (Location TBA)