Arabic Today

Arabic Today
Author: John Mace
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780748635573

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

A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic

A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic
Author: Karin C. Ryding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 113944333X

A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet accessible overview of Modern Standard Arabic in which the essential aspects of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. Accompanied by extensive carefully-chosen examples, it will prove invaluable as a practical guide for supporting students' textbooks, classroom work or self-study, and will also be a useful resource for scholars and professionals wishing to develop an understanding of the key features of the language. Grammar notes are numbered for ease of reference, and a section is included on how to use an Arabic dictionary, as well as helpful glossaries of Arabic and English linguistic terms and a useful bibliography. Clearly structured and systematically organised, this book is set to become the standard guide to the grammar of contemporary Arabic.

The Arab World Today

The Arab World Today
Author: Morroe Berger
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1962
Genre: Arab countries
ISBN:

Arabic in Israel

Arabic in Israel
Author: Muhammad Amara
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351663887

In Arabic in Israel, Muhammad Amara analyses the status of Arabic following the creation of the State of Israel and documents its impact on the individual and collective identity of Israel’s Palestinian Arab citizens. The interplay of language and identity in conflict situations is also examined. This work represents the culmination of many years of research on Arabic linguistic repertoire and educational policy regarding the language of the Palestinian citizens of Israel. It draws all of these factors together while linking them to local, regional and global developments. Its perspective is interdisciplinary and, as such, examines the topic from a number of angles including linguistic, social, cultural and political.

Popular Culture in the Arab World

Popular Culture in the Arab World
Author: Andrew Hammond
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789774160547

This volume explores Arab cultural life since World War II. Chapters cover topics such as radio/TV, the press, cinema, music, theatre, popular religion, belly dance, western consumerism, sport and the Arabic language.

Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World

Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
Author: Mary Zeiss Stange
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 2017
Release: 2011-02-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412976855

This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.

By Noon Prayer

By Noon Prayer
Author: Fadwa El Guindi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2020-05-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100018983X

A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical, Egyptological, ethnographic, poetic, scriptural and visual materials. Grounded in long-term observation of Arabo-Islamic culture and society, the study captures the rhythm of Islam weaving through the lives of Muslim women and men.Examples of the rhythmic nature of Islam can be seen in all aspects of Muslims' everyday lives. Muslims break their Ramadan fast upon the sun setting, and they receive Ramadan by sighting the new moon. Prayer for their dead is by noon and burial is before sunset. This is space and time in Islam - moon, sun, dawn and sunset are all part of a unique and unified rhythm, interweaving the sacred and the ordinary, nature and culture in a pattern that is characteristically Islamic.

Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature

Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature
Author: Issa J. Boullata
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789004117631

In this collection of essays, various manifestations of traditional as well as modern and postmodern themes and techniques in Arabic literature are explored. For the first time the tripartite concepts of tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literary works are analyzed in one volume.

Pop Culture Arab World!

Pop Culture Arab World!
Author: Andrew Hammond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2004-12-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1851094547

The first book to explore how Arab pop culture has succeeded in helping forge a pan-Arab identity, where Arab nationalism has failed. Pop Culture Arab World! is the first volume to explore the full scope of Arab cultural life since World War II. The book reveals a homogeneous yet richly diverse culture across the Arab nations. In-depth chapters feature radio/TV (particularly the satellite revolution, which has fostered a shared Arab identity), the press (vibrant and controversial), cinema (once thriving, now in crisis), music (the beating heart of modern Arabness), theater (a largely assimilated Western import), popular religion, belly dance (originating in the Arab world), Western consumerism, sport, and the Arabic language (for Muslims, the tongue of God's final revelation). At a time when almost all we see of the Middle East is violence, oppressive nationalism, dangerous zealotry, and despair, this book is a vivid reminder of the humanity of the region's diverse people.