Elias Dheeb Atallah is professor of Arabic at a number of universities and colleges and has to date published 24 academic books, foremost among them "Dr Atallah's Encyclopedia of Arabic Science" published in six volumes. Atallah received his doctorate from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Arabic linguistics, a masters from Haifa University in Arabic philology, and a BA from Haifa in Arabic language and history of the Islamic peoples.