Michael C. A. Macdonald

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Michael C. A. Macdonald FBA{{cite web|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/british-academy-announces-new-president-and-elects-66-new-fellows |title=British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows | British Academy |website=Britac.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-07-20}} is a research associate of the Khalili Research Centre,{{cite web|url=https://krc.web.ox.ac.uk/article/michael-macdonald-elected-fellow-british-academy |title=The Khalili Research Centre - Mr Michael Macdonald |website=Krc.web.ox.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2023-12-04}} honorary fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford,{{cite web|url=https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/content/1191-mr-michael-macdonald |title=Wolfson College, Oxford |website=Wolfson.ox.ac.uk |date=2016-05-07 |accessdate=2017-07-20}} and fellow of the British Academy. He is a Trustee of the International Association for the Study of Arabia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theiasa.com/about/structure/|title = Structure | the IASA}} He is a specialist in the languages, scripts and inscriptions of ancient Syria, Jordan and Arabia. He was also the mentor of the epigraphist and linguist Ahmad Al-Jallad.{{Cite news |last=Muhanna |first=Elias |date=2018-05-23 |title=A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-new-history-of-arabia-written-in-stone |access-date=2024-04-17 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}

MacDonald is the leader of the OCIANA (Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of North Arabia). In 2015, the OCIANA project launched the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) project, directed by MacDonald along with Ali Al-Manaser. The goal of this project was to properly document all epigraphic inscriptions from the Jordanian Harrah. Over the course of six seasons of investigation, over 430,000 photos were taken and deposited into the OCIANA database.{{Cite journal |last=Saad Alhatlani |first=Abdullah |last2=Al-Manaser |first2=Ali |date=2024 |title=From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00310328.2024.2363676 |journal=Palestinian Exploration Quarterly |pages=1 |doi=10.1080/00310328.2024.2363676 |issn=|url-access=subscription }}