Mark Shockley is a doctoral candidate in Descriptive Linguistics at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His dissertation focuses on describing and comparing Arabic varieties from the Oman-Emirates border northward into the transnational Ruʾūs al-Jibāl region. He is a recent recipient of the Doctoral Research Grant from the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research in Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E., in support of his work documenting Emirati Arabic varieties. He also has forthcoming journal articles in the Journal of Semitic Studies and the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.