What is Shmuel Moreh?
[[File:Shmuel Moreh.JPG|right|thumb|180px|Shmuel Moreh]] '''Shmuel Moreh''' ({{lang-he|שמואל מורה}}; December 22, 1932 &ndash; September 22, 2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/shmuel-moreh-guardian-of-iraqs-jewish-memory-dies/|title=Shmuel Moreh, guardian of Iraq’s Jewish memory, dies|website=blogs.timesofisrael.com}}</ref> was a [[professor]] of Arabic Language and Literature at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University]] in Jerusalem. He was awarded the [[Israel Prize]] in [[Middle Eastern studies]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.dangoor.com/71page50.html | title=Professor Shmuel Moreh Autobiography and Poetry | access-date=March 1, 2011}}</ref> He was born in [[Baghdad]], Iraq. In addition to having written many books and articles dealing with Arabic literature in general and Iraqi Jewish Arabic literature in particular, he has been a major contributor to ''[[Elaph]]'', the first online independent daily journal in the [[Arabic language]]. Professor Moreh wrote in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Moreh died on September 22, 2017 in [[Tel Aviv]], Israel at the age of 84. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Moreh, Shmuel}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Iraqi Jews]] [[Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty]] [[Category:Jewish academics]] [[Category:Jewish Israeli writers]] [[Category:Linguists]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:People from Baghdad]] {{bio-stub}}