Academic Work
As Nicholas Awde, Hill has written or edited books on non-European languages and cultures, including a Chechen Phrasebook, a Georgian Phrasebook, Women In Islam: An Anthology from the Qur'an and Hadiths, An Illustrated History of Islam and an Arabic Dictionary. He has written three other dictionaries for Swahili, Serbo-Croatian and Hausa, as well as 15-plus dictionary-phrasebooks. He has a good working knowledge of more than 25 languages, including several endangered languages.
He believes in collaboration as a way of forming bridges between cultures - and thus helping those in privileged nations to empower those in less privileged societies particularly children and women. This is reflected in the large number of co-authors he has worked with - most of who come from economically or war-ravaged countries such as Chechnya, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. He has commissioned many more authors in the same spirit, particularly from the Caucasus, editing and designing their books for other publishers.
He is also a long-standing consultant on the Caucasus, and, with Fred James Hill, runs the publishing companies Bennett & Bloom (academic) and Desert Hearts (general arts).
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