Arabic Today

Author : John Mace
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780748635597

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Arabic Today by John Mace Pdf

Audio material to accompany the book is available at the following website: www.euppublishing.com/page/ArabicToday/audioA student, business and professional course in spoken and written Arabic aimed at those with no prior knowledge of the language.Suitable for business professionals and students wanting to communicate directly with people and institutions in the Arab world, Arabic Today is a self-contained course in contemporary Arabic. Tuition tends to concentrate either on the written language (never used in everyday speech) or on a selected regional dialect (which is never written down). Arabic Today breaks with this tradition, capitalising on the emerging form of spoken Pan-Arabic. This supraregional form of educated speech is drawn from the most influential areas, as well as the modern written word. So whether you wish to speak the language or add writing skills as well, this course book and accompanying audio website are the ideal tools for self-tuition and classroom use. The second edition of this book has been thoroughly revised and updated to make it relevant to a new generation of readers. Grammar is explained more clearly and precisely, the reading material has been updated and the typography is clearer. New word indexes give meanings and reference for the vocabulary and together with the grammar index they offer an invaluable additional reference function.

Author : Ghassan Hage
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0522849792

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Arab-Australians Today by Ghassan Hage Pdf

The Arab community in Australia is one of the oldest and most established of its immigrant ethnic communities. Together, the various works brought together here cover most aspects of Arab–Australian lives that are of importance today: the history of settlement, attitudes about citizenship, Arab women’s activism, Arab antiracism activism, the position of Arab youth between two cultures, nostalgia and homesickness, everyday life in an Arab “ethnic” suburb, and questions of identity.

Author : Sebastian Maisel,John A. Shoup
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313344435

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Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab States Today [2 volumes] by Sebastian Maisel,John A. Shoup Pdf

This extremely timely and helpful ready reference will familiarize all students and readers with the Gulf region and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Dubai, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, and Qatar. These states are bound by the desert culture, the Gulf, new oil economy, and Islam, to name some commonalities. Most Americans know something about the region, such as oases, dates, camels, oil, Bedouin tribes, and the legends of Lawrence of Arabia to Osama bin Laden. Islamic concepts and practices are still unfamiliar. On one extreme, Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islam, has been largely closed off to Western tourists. On the other extreme, Dubai courts tourist dollars as it constructs modern architectural showcases. This is the first A-Z encyclopedia to focus on the Gulf, illuminating the land, people, religion, culture and traditions, institutions, economy, and much more for general readers. The more than 200 essay entries have a current focus with historical context as necessary. The breadth of coverage means that this resource will be of use for a wide range of researchers and browsers. Besides individual entries on each state, major cities and regions are also profiled. The natural environment and human adaptation to it receives significant space. Islamic customs and rules and various interpretations are clearly explained. Essays on topics such as key public figures, institutions, major events, politics, and state structures—some based on sources often not available in English—make this two-volume set the first-choice resource for accurate information. Suggestions for further reading accompany most entries; a chronology, selected bibliography, and photos also complement the text.

Author : Amnon Shiloah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317756460

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The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today by Amnon Shiloah Pdf

Israel, with its highly heterogeneous immigrant society, offers to the observer a fascinating instance of multifaceted performance practice. Within a relatively limited area, there are numerous musical traditions and styles which encompass sacred and secular, old and new, folk and sophisticated forms. The ten contributions included in these issues of Musical Performance represent a discussion of the most significant traditions that were established during the period before 1948: the search for the establishment of a new and typically Israeli art and folk music; the attitude of the protagonists of this tendency toward the old exiled traditional heritage of the Jewish people, and the struggle of the immigrants after the creation of the State of Israel to ensure the survival of their musical tradtions as well as to cope with the new physical and cultural environment. Altogether the general scope of these contributions correspond to a large extent to major events which marked the m

Author : John Mace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0748635572

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Arabic Today by John Mace Pdf

Accompanying CD contains ... "dialogues and exercises ... [to] help with pronunciation and fluency in speech and reading."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : A.F.L. Beeston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315512792

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The Arabic Language Today by A.F.L. Beeston Pdf

This book, first published in 1970, provides a description of the standard Arabic language used today as the universal means of written communication throughout the Arab world and in formal spoken communication (vernaculars differ both from each other and from the standard language). The principal emphasis is on syntax and morphology of which there exists no comprehensive account. Phonology and lexicon are treated briefly and there is a chapter on the script.

Author : Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748655700

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Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel by Wen-chin Ouyang Pdf

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel. The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics and politics relevant to cultural and literary transformations of the Arabic speaking world in the 19th and 20th centuries. She reveals nostalgia and madness as the tropes through which the Arabic novel writes its own story of grappling with and resisting the hegemony of both the state and cultural heritage.

Author : Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cookery
ISBN : 0415929946

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Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe by Melitta Weiss Adamson Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Elabbas Benmamoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291301

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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics by Elabbas Benmamoun Pdf

This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.

Author : Jan Retsö
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9004088180

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Diathesis in the Semitic Languages by Jan Retsö Pdf

Author : Dona S. Straley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313058882

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The Undergraduate's Companion to Arab Writers and Their Web Sites by Dona S. Straley Pdf

This companion provides information on the lives and works of about 150 authors who write primarily in Arabic, covering the first known works of Arabic literature in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D. to the present day. While concentrating on literary authors, writers from the fields of history, geography, and philosophy are also represented. The individuals represented were chosen primarily from the Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Among the major authors are Najib Mahfuz, the 1988 Nobel laureate; Nawal Saadawi, the Egyptian physician who is the leading female literary author in the Arab world and the most frequently translated into English; Abu al-Ala' al-Ma'arri, the 11th century poet whose verses are taught to every Arab schoolchild; and Avicenna, the great physician and philosopher, transmitter and interpreter of Aristotle, whose work on medicine was long the standard not only in the Middle East but also (in Latin translation) in Europe. In addition, entries will be included for the anonymous romances so common in Arabic literature, such as The Arabian Nights, a cycle of stories perhaps even better known in the West than in the Arab world. Interest in the history and culture of the Arab world at U.S. universities has taken a quantum leap since the events of September 11, 2001. In this book, the author demonstrates that at least three major, distinct literary and cultural traditions are included within the fields of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies—Arabic, Persian, and Turkic. The Arabic tradition is the oldest, largest, and most widely dispersed. Undergraduate courses in Arabic literature and culture are now being taught at both lower- and upper-levels at many universities. Such courses are often used by undergraduates to fulfill basic educational requirements for their degrees. Students in such courses often have difficulty finding information on Arab writers, and this volume fills the void.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCAL:B3099149

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Learning Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410340245

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A Study Guide for Sir Richard Burton's "The Arabian Nights" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Morroe Berger
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Arab countries
ISBN : UOM:39015009005953

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The Arab World Today by Morroe Berger Pdf

Author : Andrew D. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317861171

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Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language by Andrew D. Cohen Pdf

Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language learning from language-use strategies, Andrew D. Cohen disentangles a morass of terminology to help the reader see what language strategies are and how they can enhance performance. Particular areas of research examined in the book include: - links between the use of task-specific strategies and language performance - how multilinguals verbalise their thoughts during language learning and use strategies that learners use in test-taking contexts In this fully revised and substantially rewritten second edition, every chapter has been reworked, with material either updated or replaced. Entirely new material has also been developed based on examples of specific strategies supplied by actual learners, mostly drawn from a website featuring these strategies in the learning of Spanish grammar.Strategies in Learning and Using a Second language will be an invaluable resource for language teachers and researchers, as well as for administrators of second language programmes and for students of applied linguistics.