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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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DE PINTO, Marco Syrayama
Born in São Paolo, Brazil in 1979. Received a BA in Languages with specialization in Arabic
language, literature and culture in 2002 at the Universidade de São Paulo (University of São
Paulo). In 2006, at the same university, he received a Master’s degree with a dissertation entitled:
“Arabic loanwords in Modern Standard Turkish: on borrowing and linguistic purism”.
Graduated cum laude. Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Philology and Portuguese
Language, at the same university. He translated several Turkish books into Portuguese, which
were published in Brazil. In August 2009 he translated from Arabic into Portuguese a certificate
bestowed by the King of Saudi Arabia on the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Author of several articles.
DI GIOVINE, Paolo
Professor of ‘historical /Indo-European linguistics’ at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
Among his numerous publications, one may mention his work in 3 volumes dealing with the
complex issue of the verbal system (in particular its perfect tense) within the Indo-European
languages (Studio sul Perfetto Indo-Europeo; Roma: Il Calamo, 1996). Prof. Di Giovine is a
distinguished member of what can be called the ‘Italian school’ of historical linguistics, that has a
‘conventional’ (as against ‘realist’) approach to reconstruction of language families in general,
and to the reconstruction of the Indo-European family in particular.
EKUKLU, Bülent
Was born in 1973 and graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Computer
Engineering Department. In 1998 he started his MA studies at the Cinema-TV Department at
Yeditepe University; he did further research in cinema in 2001 in Italy. In 2003 he successfully
completed his master degree education with the thesis "Change of Cultural Society of Turkey in
post-1980 and Cultural Construction of Yavuz Turgul Cinema". Since then he has been working
in various TV series, short films, radio programs, documentary films as script writer and
consultant. Starting from 2005, he attended a master class called "Playwriting Workshop" for a
period of one year at Mehmet Ergen management. After that class, he finished his first play
entitled "Amber-eyed woman". Since 2006, he is giving lectures called “Dramatic Writing and
Script Writing Workshop” at Sinematek Association. Since 1998 he has been working in different
roles in the IT sector and currently is working as IT consultant.
HIRTH, Friedrich (1845-1927)
German-American sinologist who was born at Gräfentonna, Saxe-Gotha. He was educated at
the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Greifswald. He was in the Chinese maritime customs
service from 1870 to 1897. In 1902, Professor Hirth was appointed to the professorship of Chinese
in Columbia University, New York. He is the author of numerous books and articles.
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