Article: Colloquial Arabic (Levantine), rev. ed.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. (CD-ROM ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2006 ;     475 words ...8086277429 Egyptian colloquial Arabic. (CD-ROM included) Ondras ... those interested in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, students of Arabic language ... of the grammar of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, followed by a corresponding ...

Article: The Verb in Literary and Colloquial Arabic.(Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The Verb in Literary and Colloquial Arabic. By MARTINE CUVALAY-HAAK. Berlin: MOUTON DE GRUYTER ... speaker from non-native-speaker usage. Consider Egyptian Colloquial Arabic: [[blank].sup.[contains]]ana mrattib ilhudum ...

Article: JORDAN: UJ ARABIC PROGRAM.(Brief Article)
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  April 17, 2000 ;     582 words ... ... Arabic of various levels. Even though the emphasis in the program is on modern standard Arabic, a number of hours in colloquial Arabic was incorporated into the program at the beginning of the 1999-2000 academic year, he said. The number of students ...

Article: The Eye of the Mirror.(Brief Article)
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... depth of characterization. Moreover, the English translation does not always succeed in capturing the cadences of the colloquial Arabic the characters speak in the original. Despite these shortcomings, The Eye of the Mirror remains a powerful and ambitious ...

Article: Discussions in Egyptology; 61.(book)(Brief ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2006 ;     464 words ... ... sexual in ancient Egypt, a late Egyptian verbal construction with a sense of criticism and sarcasm still used in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, and the latest hieroglyphic word-processing software. Six book reviews are also included. The articles are reproduced ...

Article: Globally speaking; motives for adopting English vocabulary in ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2008 ;     541 words ... ... borrow from its vocabulary, then describe specific phenomena in Icelandic, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Hebrew, colloquial Arabic as used in Israel, Amharic, Farsi, Indian languages, Chinese in Taiwan, and Japanese. The collection closes with ...

Article: A star is born ...(anti-Israel song lyrics)(Brief ...
The Middle East;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... claims he came up with the popular hate lyric. Badawi says that in late October he was playing around with a phrase in colloquial Arabic that goes something like "I hate Israel and I love Ezrael (Angel of Death). If he took the Jews he'd be a really ...