From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  1 19:34:55 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:34:55 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: History of Islam in China
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1) Subject: History of Islam in China

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Date: 01 Mar 1999
From: Jackie Armijo-Hussein <jma40 at cornell.edu>
Subject: History of Islam in China

Dear Colleagues in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies:
Although I have been working on the early history of Islam in China for
many years, I have recently begun a research project on the influence of
international Islamic universities on Chinese Muslim students who study
abroad.  I have planned a series of trips to centers of Islamic learning
around the world to interview Chinese Muslim students about their
experiences at these schools.  I am especially interested in the potential
impact of their educational experiences on their communities upon their
return to China.  My first trip will be to Syria and Egypt, and I am
writing now in the hopes of finding other scholars who have studied the
role of international Islamic education on Muslim students coming from
communities quite distant from the Islamic heartland, and scholars familiar
with al-Azhar and the Islamic universities in Damascus who may be able to
assist me.  I have spent the last 5 years living in China and carrying out
research among Muslim communities there.  And although I have studied both
Qur'anic and Modern Standard Arabic for many years, they are both so rusty
now, I plan to use Chinese alone for the interviews.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


Jackie Armijo-Hussein
jma40 at cornell.edu


Jacqueline M. Armijo-Hussein, Ph.D.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Asian Studies - Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

email: jma40 at cornell.edu

phone: (607) 255-8847 (office)
             253-5431 (home)
fax:         255-1345

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  1 19:36:17 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:36:17 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:GEN:Easter/Summer Courses 1999 in London
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1) Subject: Easter/Summer Courses 1999 in London

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Date: 01 Mar 1999
From: Sherin AbdelHalim <sa15 at soas.ac.uk>
Subject: Easter/Summer Courses 1999 in London

Dear All,

I have received enquiries regarding the SOAS Language Centre Intensive
Courses held over Easter/Summer 1999, and below is the relevant
information.
You may want to also check our complete timetable of Easter/Summer 1999
language courses on    http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/languagecentre/arabic.
Please, do not hesitate to e-mail directly on  << sa15 at soas.ac.uk >>  if
you have any more queries.

________________________________________________________

*	University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies
	Language  Centre - ARABIC LANGUAGE COURSES


The Language Centre provides Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced evening
and daytime Arabic language courses in addition to our  one/two/four-week
intensive courses.  We can also provide individually tailored courses and
in-company instruction.  All our courses are taught in small groups with a
maximum of 12 participants per group.   Classes are held at SOAS in central
London.

The following is information regarding intensive Easter/Summer Courses.

1.	One-week Survival course in Modern Standard Arabic.
2.	One-week Survival course in Colloquial Egyptian Dialect

	Both courses 1 & 2 are offered on the following dates:

	A. 	Monday 22nd March - Friday 26th March 1999
		(closing date for applications 12th March 1999)

	B. 	Monday 12th July - Friday 16th July 1999
		(closing date for applications 2nd July 1999)

	C. 	Monday 9th August - Friday 13th August 1999
		(closing date for applications 30th July 1999)

FEES:  £250 per person, for a total of 25 hours of tuition, including
materials, payable in advance.
VAT is not payable.


3.	Two-week Intensive Course in Modern Standard Arabic
4.	Two-week Intensive Course in Colloquial Egyptian 	Dialect

	Both courses 3 & 4 are offered on the following dates:

	A.	 Monday 6th April - Friday 19th April 1999
		(closing date for applications 22nd March 1999)

	B. 	Monday 19th July - Friday 30th July 1999
		(closing date for applications 9th July 1999)

	C. 	Monday 16th August - Friday 27th August 1999
		(closing date for applications 6th August 1999)

FEES:  £500 per person, for a total of 50 hours of tuition, including
materials, payable in advance.
VAT is not payable.


5.	The Four Week Arabic Course -
	A general preparation for communicating in  Modern Standard Arabic.
6.	The Four Week Arabic Course -
	A general preparation for communicating in Colloquial Egyptian Dialect.

	Both  courses  5 & 6 are offered on the following dates:

	A.	Monday 5th-Friday 30th July 1999
		(closing date for application 21st June 1999)

	B.	Monday 2nd-Friday 27th August 1999
		(closing date for application 19th July1999)


FEES:  £1000 per person, for a total of 100 hours of tuition, including
materials, payable in advance.
VAT is not payable.


 SELF-ACCESS LEARNING
The Resources Room is open to Language Centre students free of charge. It
contains audio listening and recording facilities, reception of 19
satellite TV and
radio stations (including BBC World Service radio programmes), computers
with Internet access, and an increasing range of computer-based language
learning software. Students are encouraged to use the facilities in their
own time in order to build upon skills learnt in the classroom.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Completed application forms, together with fee payment, should be returned to
SOAS Language Centre. Please note that classes fill up quickly. It is best to
apply early in order to avoid disappointment. No charge is made for
cancellations received in writing up to two weeks before the course starts;
thereafter, there is a 10% cancellation fee or the fee may be transferred to an
alternative course. Refunds cannot be made once a course has started. The
information in this leaflet is correct at the time of printing; SOAS
reserves the
right to make amendments where necessary. A minimum of five students is
required for the course to start.


HOW TO CONTACT US
http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/languagecentre/arabic

E-mail:	 	languages at soas.ac.uk

Telephone:	UK: 0171 691 3386
		World: +44 171 691 3386

Fax:		UK: 0171 637 7355
		World: +44 171 637 7355


 Post:		The Courses Secretary
               		Language Centre
                 	School of Oriental and African Studies
                 	Thornhaugh Street
                 	Russell Square
                 	LONDON
                 	WC1H OXG



..........................................................................
Sherin Abdel Halim
Co-ordinator of Arabic Language Courses
Language Centre, SOAS, University of London
Tel UK:  0171 323 6379	World:  +44 171 323 6379
Fax UK:  0171 637 7355	World:  +44 171 637 7355

Check our Language Centre Arabic courses at:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/languagecentre/arabic

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar  2 20:46:34 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:46:34 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Arabic language in US
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1) Subject: Arabic language in US

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Date: 02 Mar 1999
From: Lisa Buckmaster <saxxgod at hotmail.com>
Subject: Arabic language in US

I am an undergraduate student trying to learn Arabic in the US.
Unfortunately, my university does not offer Arabic, so I've had to study
it through intensive summer programs around the country. I've heard that
Middlebury College is the best place for languages, but it's so
expensive! I know it's a long shot, but does anyone know of a comparable
(yet cheaper) program to Middlebury, or any sources of financial aid for
students studying in summer language courses?

Thank you,
Lisa J. Buckmaster
saxxgod at hotmail.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 16:54:13 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:54:13 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: Standard Arabic databases
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.095413.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Standard Arabic databases

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Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: James Dickins <James.Dickins at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Standard Arabic databases

Does anybody have any information about databases for Standard Arabic? I'm
thinking of something along the lines of the COBUILD (Collins Birmingham
University International Language Database) for English.

I would be very grateful for any information.


James Dickins

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 16:58:31 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:58:31 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Arabic language in US Response
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.095831.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Arabic language in US Response

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Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Arabic language in US Response

[In response to a query from Lisa Buckmaster]

Greetings,

In order to suggest some suitable programs in basic acquisition offered by
universities or other sources that are close to you, could you kindly clarify:

o  Where do you live in the US ?

o  Which particular skills in the language you want to develop first?

o  Learn Formal Spoken Arabic (FSA) only or include a regional dialect of
interest?

There is a range of different offerings available, so salection can depend on
your interests, needs, funds, time available and desired application or
ultimate skills(s).

You also might consider transferring to another university.

HTH.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 16:55:27 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:55:27 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: "Zelemy" Query
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.095527.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: "Zelemy"

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Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: Neal Kaloupek <nkaloupek at csi.com>
Subject: "Zelemy"

I have a quick question: when I lived in Jordan I learned the word "zelemy",
meaning "friend", "buddy", "chum", "pal", etc. I recently tried to find it
in Hans Wehr, but couldn't find a root that made sense (also taking into
account that a number of letters are commonly pronounced "z" in Jordan, such
as TH, DH, etc.) Can anyone tell me the root of this word?

Thank you.

Neal Kaloupek

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 21:58:59 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:58:59 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: ALS Conference Update
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.145859.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Room Change

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Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: Khalil Barhoum <khalil at stanford.edu>
Subject: Room Change

Please bring to everybody's attention the following change of rooms in the
ALS conference:

On Friday, March 5, 1999 the meeting will be held in Building 260, Room
113, instead of Building 300, room 300 as advertised. The Saturday meeting
stays the same and will be held in Building 300, room 300. The two
buildings are adjacent to each other.

Thanks.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 21:55:03 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:55:03 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Libyan Arabic
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.145503.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Libyan Arabic

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Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: MaryAnn Cockerill <cockeril at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Libyan Arabic

Does anyone know of teaching materials or grammars of Libyan dialect
Arabic?  (Or even collections of papers on it, particular publications to
check, etc.)  Thanks,

MaryAnn
cockeril at fas.harvard.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 00:15:30 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:15:30 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:LING:"Zelemy" Responses
Message-ID: <THU.4.MAR.1999.171530.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: metathesis
2) Subject: metathesis
3) Subject: stranger, friend

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Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: metathesis

this looks interesting.
it appears that this might be derived from /zamiil/ "colleague", the word
then having undergone metathesis (whereby two consonants are reversed -
consider /comfortable/, which can become /comfterble/ in spoken English.

you can see the same thing with /zoog/ "spouse" "husband", which usually
appears as /gooz/ in speech (of sourse in jordan it would be /jooz/).
a curious thing about this last is the feminine form retains its original
order of consonants:  /zooga/.

david wilmsen
director, arabic and translation studies
american university in cairo

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2)
Date: 04 Mar 1999
From:  Robert Langer <rlanger at ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: metathesis

What I thought of first is "zamîl" = "comrade"; "zamîlî" = "my comrade". Is
there a metathesis in Jordanian Arabic leading to zelem?

Robert Langer
Tutor, Islamwissenschaft, Universität Heidelberg

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3)
Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: stranger, friend

Dear Neal,

"Zelemy" is supposed to mean "Rejjal" or man. "Zameel" means friend.
A "Zelemy" can be either a stranger, or a friend.

George N. Hallak
http://aramedia.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 00:39:20 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:39:20 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:PEDA:Libyan Arabic Response
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1) Subject: Libyan Arabic

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Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: Mark David Luce <mdluce at go.com.jo>
Subject: Libyan Arabic

I used a book called Tripolitanian Arabic around 1966.  I am away from my
library so I can't give you any other details.  Hope that helps.


Mark David Luce
P.O. Box 676,  11118 Abdoun
Amman, Jordan
Tel: 962-6-5857669

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 00:38:02 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:38:02 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:LING:Call for Papers
Message-ID: <THU.4.MAR.1999.173802.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics - Call for Papers

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Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: rapp at usun1.fask.uni-mainz.de (Reinhard Rapp)
Subject: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics - Call for Papers

        ---------------------------------------------------------
       /            34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS              /
      /                                                        /
     /                  September 7-10, 1999                  /
    /                                                        /
   /                University of Mainz, Germany            /
  /                                                        /
 /                        CALL FOR PAPERS                 /
 ---------------------------------------------------------

We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium
of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg-
Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural
Studies, Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999.
The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the
Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the
colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice
of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and
French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes
10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31,
1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference.
The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the
conference with Peter Lang-Verlag.

In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will
be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises
three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a
specific field for audiences with a different focus of research.

We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the
old city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle
on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer,
whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world
cultural heritage.

Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the
attention of interested colleagues. More information can be
found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/

Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber                    Dr. Reinhard Rapp


IMPORTANT DATES

May 31, 1999    - Submission of abstracts
                - Conference registration (reduced rate)
                - Registration for tutorials & excursion
                - Hotel reservation

Nov. 30, 1999   - Submission of full papers for the proceedings


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

-----------------------------------------------------------
               |  Morning    |   Afternoon  |    Evening
---------------+-------------+--------------+--------------
 Tue, Sept. 7  |  Tutorials  |   Tutorials  |  Germersheim
               |             |              |  Guided Tour
---------------+-------------+--------------+--------------
 Wed, Sept. 8  | Opening &   |     Papers   |    Reception
               |   Papers    |              |
---------------+-------------+-----------------------------
 Thu, Sept. 9  |   Papers    |   Excursion to Heidelberg
               |             |          and Speyer
---------------+-------------------------------------------
 Fri, Sept. 10 |    Papers &    |         (Departure)
               | Conference End |
-----------------------------------------------------------


TUTORIALS

-----------------------------------------------------------
    Time     |            Tutorial            |  Language
-------------+--------------------------------+------------
 9.00-12.30  |  Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural  |
             |  Language Parsing, Part 1      |  English
             |                                |
 9.00-12.30  |  Christian Otto: Sprachtech-   |  German
             |  nologie fuer das Internet     |
-------------+--------------------------------+------------
 14.00-17.30 |  Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural  |
             |  Language Parsing, Part 2      |  English
             |                                |
 14.00-17.30 |  Prof. Uta Seewald-Heeg:       |  German
             |  Maschinelle Uebersetzung      |
-----------------------------------------------------------

The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the confe-
rence (Sept. 7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the
second day. For each tutorial, a description can be found at
http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/


CONFERENCE SITE

The Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK)
of the University of Mainz is located in Germersheim in the south-
west of Germany on the Rhine between the cities of Mannheim and
Karlsruhe. It can easily be reached by car, train, and airplane.
With its 2500 students, more than 1000 of whom coming from 70
different foreign countries, the faculty is known as one of the
world's largest institutions dedicated to the training and edu-
cation of translators and interpreters. Within walking distance
from the faculty, six hotels and the student's residence are
available with single rooms priced between 30 and 90 DM per
night. Meals are provided by the university canteen, the cafe-
teria, and by a number of restaurants (with lunch specials).
The main attractions in and around Germersheim are its fortress,
the German wine road, the Palatinate Forest with Hambach Castle,
Speyer, Heidelberg, the Castle Park in Schwetzingen and the
Old Abbey in Maulbronn.


INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Dr. Susanne Beckmann, University of Muenster
Dr. Abraham P. ten Cate, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Dr. Tadeusz Danilewicz, Gdansk University
Prof. Dr. K. Dorfmueller-Karpusa, Univ. of Thessaloniki
Dieter W. Halwachs, University of Graz
Prof. Dr. Mikhail Kotin, State University Moscow
Prof. Dr. Wim Klooster, University of Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kuerschner, University of Osnabrueck
Dr. Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz (Conference Chair)
Prof. Dr. Hans Otto Spillmann, University of Kassel
Prof. Dr. Kazimierz A. Sroka, Gdansk University
Dr. Juerg Straessler, University of Bern
Prof. Dr. Zygmunt Vetulani, University of Poznan
Prof. Dr. Richard J. Watts, University of Bern
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Weber, University of Tuebingen
Dr. Ingo Warnke, University of Kassel
Dr. habil. Lew Zybatow, University of Bielefeld


CONFERENCE ADDRESS

Please send all correspondence to the following address:

34th Colloquium of Linguistics   http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/
c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp            rapp at usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de
Universitaet Mainz, FASK         Phone:  (+49) 7274 / 508-457
D-76711 Germersheim              Fax:    (+49) 7274 / 508-429
Germany


CONFERENCE FEE

The conference fee is 100 DM for early registration (120 DM after
May 31, 1999). This sum includes the registration fee and will,
among other things, cover pre-conference materials, tea and
coffee, the guided tour through Germersheim on Tuesday and the
reception on Wednesday. It will not, however, cover meals,
accomodation, proceedings, the excursion to Heidelberg (30 DM),
and the tutorials (20 DM per tutorial, written documentation
included). Accepted currencies are DM and Euro (exchange rate:
1 Euro = 2 DM).


BANK ACCOUNT

The total amount (registration fee, excursion, and tutorials)
should be transferred until May 31, 1999 to the following
university account (other possibilities of payment see website):

Account holder:                Universitaet Mainz

Account number:                550 015 11

Bank code number:              550 000 00

Bank:                          Landeszentralbank Mainz

Details of payment:            6101 28201 2300 514
(important!)                   34th Colloquium of Linguistics
                               "name of participant"


REGISTRATION FORM

Please fill in a printed copy of this registration form and
send it to the above address together with your abstract and
a copy of your bank remittance by regular mail.

Surname ______________________________________________

First Name(s) ________________________________________

Title ________________________________________________

Affiliation __________________________________________

Street _______________________________________________

Code, City ___________________________________________

Country ______________________________________________

Telephone and Fax ____________________________________

e-mail _______________________________________________


[] I would like to attend the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics

[] I will deliver a paper with the following title: ...........

  .............................................................

Presentation Language:    []  German   []  English   []  French

Field (1 = first choice, 2 = second choice):

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 00:40:27 1999
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:40:27 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: Standard Arabic databases response
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Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Standard Arabic databases response

Hi James,

For my dictionary-project I'm working with a text-corpus that was compiled
by myself:
- OCR-processed novels (about 35 novels)
- OCR-processed non-literary txt (a few meg's)
- data from Al Hayat CD
- data from the internet

If people would have other data and would be prepared to exchange I would
be willing to consider this. However, the huge quantity of data available
already, I'm not really looking out for extra materials.

Furhter, is the Lebanese Qalam site still active? Here they were also
making text-data available.

That's it for now.

Jan (Abu Samir)


Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland
Department of Arabic, Nijmegen University (the Netherlands)
PO Box 9103, NL 6500 HD Nijmegen, the Netherlands
phone +-31-24-3615676, fax +-31-24-3500719, E-mail: J.HOOGLAND at LET.KUN.NL

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 20:12:42 1999
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:12:42 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:LING: Zalama Discussion
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1) Subject: Root is ZLM
2) Subject: No Need for Metathesis!
3) Subject: On Zalamah: Errata

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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Root is ZLM

In rural (Druze) Lebanese dialect zalami is the only word for "man",
equivalent to rijjeel in urban Lebanese and other dialects.  In the plural
it means also may mean "retainer", as in zilimtu 'his henchmen'.

The root is ZLM.

A. Barthelmy in his Dictionnaire Arabe-Francais, which covers Greater
Syria, lists zalame - zlaam as "homme, individu; pieton; homme viril". For
its etymology he says it is borrowed from Bedouin Arabic, giving the
literary Arabic form zalamatu- "apparence, silhouette d'homme".  He adds:
compare it to (Literary Arabic) thalamu- (th = theta) "silhouette d'homme"
and Hebrew shelem "image, spectre" (p. 318).

Lane in his Lexicon (p. 1247) lists the verb zalama - yazlumu 'to cut off
(nose, etc.)' and gives the noun zalam - 'azlaam 'arrow without a head and
without feathers'.  He does not give the meaning "man" for it.

Ernest N. McCarus

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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: No Need for Metathesis!

On "Zalama(h)":  No Need for Metathesis!

	Colleagues Neal Kaloupek, David Wilson, Robert Langer & George N.
Hallak are to be thanked for raising and discussing the word "zalama(h)."
Responses so far tend to see the word as a metathetic form of "zamiil."
Metathesis here would mean letter transposition of the root from "zamal" to
"zalam," not the total reversal evident in the Standard Arabic "zawj" and
the spoken Egyptian "guuz."

	On close examination, however, the word as it stands is a bona fide
Arabic word, and does exist in the Arabic lexicon with different vowelings:
("zulmah," "zulamah, "zalmah" & "zalamah"), the latter being a precursor of
present pronunciation.  While the handy little dictionary *Al-Fraa'id
'd-Durriyyah* has for "zalamah" the meaning of "exterior appearance,"
*Lisaan 'l- at Arab* defines it as "slave."

	The term, which owes it meaning to the shape of the arrow ("zalam;"
plu. "azlaam"), was then used generally in the sense of appearance and - by
extension - silhouette, much like, say, "shakhS," "hay'ah"  & "sawaad" (=
person; figure; shape; appearance, &ct.).  It is worth noting that the
Egyptian and Sudanese dialects use "gada@" and "zuul" (classical Arabic:
"qadha@" & "zawl" = well-built youth; phantom) as counterparts to "zalama(h)
in the Syro-Lebanese & Palestinian dialects.  (Cf. the Umayyad poet
Al-AkhTal's combination of the two terms "qadha@" & zalamah" in the
adjectival phrase: "al-azlam al-qadha@").

	A. Barthelemy in his *Dictionnaire Arabe-Francais: Dialectes de
Syrie: Alep, Damas, Liban, Jerusalem,* (Paris, 1936), confirms my position
and maintains that the word is borrowed from a Bedouin usage in the sense of
"apparence, silhouette d'homme."  He too compares the term to the Hebrew
"shelem" for "image, spectre."

						M. Deeb
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Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E6

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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: On Zalamah: Errata

On Zalamah: Errata

	In my previous post on the subject, I suggested that:  (a) the
colloquial Egyptian "gada@" comes from the classical Arabic "qadha@" and (b)
that the Umayyad poet Al-AkhTal used the adjectival combination "al-azlam
al-qadha at ."  Please read the classical word as "jadha@" and Al-AkhTal's
combination, accordingly, as "al-azlam al-jadha at ."

	Thank you for bearing with me.

								M. Deeb
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Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E6

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 20:15:19 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:15:19 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: Persian Job Opportunity
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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: "Buckwalter, Tim" <TimB at alpinemedia.COM>
Subject: Persian job opportunity

I'm posting the following as a favor for someone who is not on the list.
Sorry, I know this isn't Arabic, but I know of no Persian-L out there.
Please reply directly to Jennifer, not me.

Tim Buckwalter


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I am looking for an experienced, high-level (expert-level) Persian
translator.  The job needed includes the translation of 10 general news
articles and a concordance of Persian words from the same 10 articles.

I can be reached at:

Jennifer Doyon
doyon_jennifer at prc.com
(703) 556-3051 - phone
(703) 556-1174 - fax
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 20:14:04 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:14:04 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Libyan Arabic Response
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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Libyan Arabic

Greetings.

Re the query about materials on Libyan Arabic (LYAR)

Four possible sources:

o   UCLA Library

(David Hirsch, the UCLA ME Bibliographer, should be able to assist you.

His e-mail: < dhirsch at library.ucla.edu >.

He is very competent and conscientious at finding materials, one of the skills
typical of his impressive librarianship.)

o   Georgetown University Library.

Some old materials on LYAR developed (U of MI?) in the 1960s for the Peace
Corps (might be USAID) are in the holdings transferred from the library of the
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) when it moved. I saw those items
(mimeographed texts on yellowing paper and reel-to-reel tapes) during a
research visit to Georgetown in 1993. Usede for training PCV / USAID field
staff on social amenities, building rapport, and technical training. Text was
English and transliterated Arabic only.

o   Prof. Alan S. Kaye at California State University Fullerton (CSUF),
Department of English and Linguistics)

He has conducted and published research on Sudanese, Lybian and Chadian
Arabic, and might have materials or could refer you elsewhere.

o   The Libyan ethnic community accessible here in the Los Angeles area.

Let me know if you have specific questions, and I can contact some of the
shebaab there. They include a number of former engineers, teachers,
businessmen, medical clinic workers, and other articulate bilinguals.

Hope this helps.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  8 23:55:18 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:55:18 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: More of the Zalama Discussion
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1) Subject:  /zelemy/ from /zalam/ or /zulam/
2) Subject: "zha" or "Ttah" --> "Za/Zayn"
3) Subject: Possible Sudanese (Khartoumi) Arabic Variant of "Zalama"

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1)
Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: MOHAMMED M JIYAD <mmjiyad at unix.amherst.edu>
Subject: /zelemy/ from /zalam/ or /zulam/

MarHaban,

No doubt in my mind that the Jordanian /zelemy/ comes from the Arabic word
/zalam/ or /zulam/. The word /zalam-zulam/ means /QidH/ which is an arrow
without feathers, divining arrow, arrow used for oracles. And from that
came the phrase /QidH muCalla/ the seventh of the divining arrows used in
the ancient Arabian game of /maisir/, i.e. the best of them which won
seven shares of the slaughtered camel would exert decisive influence on,
to be the principal agent in, have a major impact on, be of crucial
importance for.

The word /zalam-zulam/ and its plural /'azlaam/ have been used in the
Quran and by Arab poets like Thi Arrummah, Al-HuTai'ah, Ibn Assikkiit,
Al-AKTal, Cabbas ibn Mardaas, Kuthaiir Cazzah, ...  etc. /zalam/ is also
used to describe a horse that is beautiful, energetic and with nice &
perfect conformation.

In modern Iraqi Arabic the word is modified to /zlima/, /zlaam (p.)/, and
used to refer to a man who is brave and canny. However, during the
Monarchy era the word singular and plural forms developed a negative
connotation. The plural /zlaam/, for instance, was used to refer to "the
thugs that surround a landlord, /zlaam al-shaiK/." Therefore, it is no
surprise that when one reads Iraqi Resistance Literature today one would
frequently come accross the expression /zlaam al-sulTah/, "the regime's
thugs."

Best.
Mohammed Jiyad

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2)
Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: "zha" or "Ttah" --> "Za/Zayn"

>  In rural (Druze) Lebanese dialect zalami is the only word for "man",
>  equivalent to rijjeel in urban Lebanese and other dialects.  In the plural
>  it means also may mean "retainer", as in zilimtu 'his henchmen'.
>
>  The root is ZLM.
>
>  A. Barthelmy in his Dictionnaire Arabe-Francais, which covers Greater
>  Syria, lists zalame - zlaam as "homme, individu; pieton; homme viril". For
>  its etymology he says it is borrowed from Bedouin Arabic, giving the
>  literary Arabic form zalamatu- "apparence, silhouette d'homme".  He adds:
>  compare it to (Literary Arabic) thalamu- (th = theta) "silhouette d'homme"
>  and Hebrew shelem "image, spectre" (p. 318).
>
>  Lane in his Lexicon (p. 1247) lists the verb zalama - yazlumu 'to cut off
>  (nose, etc.)' and gives the noun zalam - 'azlaam 'arrow without a head and
>  without feathers'.  He does not give the meaning "man" for it.
>
>  Ernest N. McCarus


Ernest, I think there is a little misunderstanding. [ZaLama -Yazlumu]
"Z" is "zha" or "Ttah" with a dot on it. Zalami, is the letter "Za/Zayn" or
"Ra" with dot on it ;-)

BTW, Yazlumu means to mistreat, or not to be fair to. Maybe that's why
Lane did not bring up "Man" in his Lexicon!

To be "ZaLmit" somebody is not necessarily his henchman, nor restricted
to Druz dialect. If "X" is ZaLmit "Y", that also means that "X" is Ma7soub,
or Ma7soub 3aLa "Y". If "Y" happens to be a big shot, you'd better not
mess with "X". My accent, here, is Lebanese, Beiruti to be specific:
"Ana Mahsoubak", "Ana ZaLi'mtak"; means I am your man. Hissab,
"Arithmatic", Hassaba, Yahsoubu...

My two Cents' worth.

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak       Software. Localizers. Translators
AramediA Group         617-825-3044 F 617-265-9648
761 Adams Street       mailto:sales at aramedia.net
Boston, MA 02122, USA  http://aramedia.com

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Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Possible Sudanese (Khartoumi) Arabic Variant of "Zalama"

Greetings / tahaya tayyiba wa b3ad...

A possible variant of this ZLM construction is a term I heard used similarly
in Khartoum, Sudan:

      < zole > (pronounced as in English "mole" or "poll")

Typical greeting like: "Izaiyak yaa zole? Akhbaarak shinoo?"

Also heard in use in the Sudanese community here in southern California.

HTH.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: mutarjm at aol.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  8 23:55:13 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:55:13 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: 1999 Linguistic Institute Announcement
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Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: Abbas Benmamoun <e-benma at staff.uiuc.edu>
Subject: 1999 Linguistic Institute

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  8 23:55:11 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:55:11 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: More Libyan Arabic Resources
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Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: plarcher at newsup.univ-mrs.fr (Pierre LARCHER)
Subject: Libyan Arabic

For Libyan Arabic, there is a book by Jonathan Owens "A Short Reference
Grammar of East Libyan Arabic", Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1984. Pierre
Larcher

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  8 23:55:15 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:55:15 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Arabic Phonemes Query
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Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: MFN at FRCU.EUN.EG
Subject: Arabic Phonemes

Dear Friends,
	I am searching for a source (better if on the INTERNET) for
Arabic phonemes and allophones.
Nmaes of http,papers or books are greatlly appreciated.
I would like also to contact interested people in  phonological part
of text to speech for the Arabic.
BTW, the Arabic generator gave some results .
thanks in advance for your cooperation,
		Mohamed FArouk Noamany

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar  9 20:56:19 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:56:19 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: More "zalama"
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1) Subject: On "zalamah" again!
2) Subject: /zole/ from a different root

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1)
Date: 09 Mar 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: On "zalamah" again!

On "zalamah" again!

	The word "Zalamah" continues to have its attraction and thus keeps
our linguists both intrigued and busy!  As I'm equally intrigued, may I add
a few more touches to my earlier post on the subject?  Below are a few
passing comments.

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    [NB: In this electronic medium, I use the symbol "@" for the gutteral
         letter "@ayn" as in "@ilm" (= science or knowledge);
	 the lower-case "z" for the zaay / zayn as in "zayt"
         (= oil) and the upper-case Z for the strongly
	 articulated palatal "Zaa'" as in "Zill"
         (= shade)].
         ----------

  > Ernest, I think there is a little misunderstanding. [ZaLama -Yazlumu]
  > "Z" is "zha" or "Ttah" with a dot on it. Zalami, is the letter "Za/Zayn"
  > or "Ra" with dot on it ;-)

*** No, there isn't any misunderstanding.  Professor McCarus and I quoted
    correctly Adrien Barthelemy's *Dictionnaire arabe-francais,*
    (Paris, 1935).  The root "zlm" (zaay, laam, miim) lends
    itself to a variety of verbal forms:

-- (a) triliteral:
       zalama; imperfect: yazlumu = to fill up (a vessel or a trough);

-- (b) derived forms:
       izlamma 		= 	to depart / to leave in a hurry ;
       izla'amma 	= 	to rise / to get on one's feet/
                                to be or become "erect,"
				likely in all senses.

  > BTW, Yazlumu [sic] means to mistreat, or not to be fair to.

*** The word in question "zalama" has nothing to do with "Zalama" /
    "yaZlimu" (= to oppress or treat unjustly).

  > A possible variant of this ZLM construction is a term I heard used
  > similarly in Khartoum, Sudan: "zole" (pronounced as in English "mole"
  > or "poll")

*** In my earlier post on the subject, I noted that "zalamah" in Levantine
    Arabic dialects has as its counterparts "gada@" and "zuul" (pronounced
    as mall or as correctly suggested above) in colloquial Arabic in Egypt
    and the Sudan respectively.  "Zuul" comes from classical Arabic "zawl,"
    plu. "azwaal" (= appearance, phantom, silhouette, mirage).

    With all due respect, I should like to point out that the Sudanese
    "zuul" is not a variant of "zalamah;" as the two words are
    morphologically independent from each other, and derive
    from unrelated entries.

						M. Deeb

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Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E6

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2)
Date: 09 Mar 1999
From: MOHAMMED M JIYAD <mmjiyad at unix.amherst.edu>
Subject: /zole/ from a different root

MarHaban,

This is a fellow up on Stephen H. Franke's comment vis-a-vis /zalama/. I
believe that the word /zole/ comes from a different root and has a
different meaning, in spite of the fact that it is used in the Sudanese
dialect to mean "man". I believe that /zole/ comes from the root
/Saa'-waw-laam/ and the word /Sawl/ means "an aggressive man". It is also
used to describe a male camel that exhibits aggressive behavior such as
chasing, biting and bucking people or other animals.

Best.

Mohammed Jiyad

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:57:57 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Conference Schedule
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Date: 09 Mar 1999
From: William Granara <granara at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Conference Schedule

Harvard University - Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Conference: History as Mythical Discourse in Modern Arabic Literature
March 18-20, 1999
Schedule of events:


Thursday, 3/18, 6:00: Coolidge Hall,  Room 2 (1737 Cambridge St.)
"Eyewitness, Scribe and Story Teller: My Experience as a Novelist"
Prof. Radwa Ashour, Ain Shams University, Novelist

Friday, 3/19: Session 1: 9 -12:00 - Barker Center Room 133  (12 Quincy St.)
"Al-Andalus and the Search for a Lost Continent in Modern Arabic Literature"
William Granara, Harvard University
"A la recherche du temps present: The Evolution of Artistic Identity in
Neoclassical Arabic Poetry"
Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley
"Abu Nuwas in America"
Michael Cooperson, UCLA

Friday, 3/19: Session 2: 2 -5:00 - Coolidge Hall  Room 510
"Palestinian Poets on the Kafr Qasim Massacre"
Susan Slyomovics, MIT
"Rewriting the Pre-Islamic Crisis in Search for a  Hero"
Amin Bonnah, Georgetown University
"The Dual Approach to the Islamic Heritage in Al-Mes'adi's Haddatha Abu
Huraira Qal"
Sarra Tlili, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, 3/20: Session 3: 9:30-12:30 -Coolidge Hall Room 3
"The Line, the Circle, and the Treadmill: History's Structure in
Contemporary  Arabic Narrative"
Hosam Aboul Ela, Hofstra University
"Slaves or Siblings: Black Domestics in the Writings of Abdullah al-Nadim
Eve Troutt-Powell, University of Georgia
"History as Individual Mythos in Al-Ghitani's Mutun Al-Ahram"
Ayman El-Desouky, Harvard University

Saturday, 3/20: Session 4: 2: 5:00-Coolidge Hall Room 3
"Sexualizing History: Imra'at al-Qarura by Salim Matar Kamil."
Sinan Antoon, Harvard University
"Commemorative Proliferation at the 50-Year Mark: Lamenting Palestinian
Catastrophe, Celebrating Israeli Independence"
Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
"History and Writing the Novel"
Prof. Bensalem Himmich, Novelist, Morocco

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 10 16:48:22 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:48:22 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Query
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Date: 10 Mar 1999
From: "R. Hoberman" <rdhoberman at ccmail.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Geographical names like Rawabdeh

The names of two Jordanian prime ministers, Tarawneh and Rawabdeh,
reminded me of Palestinian terms like these:

talaaHme (pl. of talHami)-- people from beet laHm (Bethlehem)
sawaaHra --people from beet saaHuur
bajaajle -- " "  beet jaalaa
xalaayle -- "  " al-xaliil (Hebron)
fawaaghra -- " "  beet faaghuur
maqaadse -- " " al-quds /bayt al-maqdis (Jerusalem)

(I got most of these from Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's memoir Al-Bi'r al-'Uulaa;
the less familiar of them are villages in the Jerusalem-Bethlehem area).
These sometimes become family names, but mainly they're adjectives
describing people. This type of term is very productive among
Palestinians.  Is it elsewhere as well?  I'm interested both in how widely
these are used, and in the word-formation processes that form them in
Palestinian Arabic.  I'd like to collect as many of these as I can, so
I'll be grateful for contributions if you know of other examples!

Another question, especially for Palestinian colleagues: are there towns
which CANNOT form this kind of adjective?  What about Ramallah, Hayfa,
Yaafa, Naablus, 'ariiHa....?

Thanks for your help.

Bob Hoberman

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 10 16:52:59 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:52:59 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: "zole" clarification
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Date: 10 Mar 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: "zole" clarification

Greetings to all.

M. Deeb is right about the distinction between Sudanese colloquial "zole"
versus "zalama" used elsewhere.

After his gracious citation of the plural form "azwaal" jogged my memory, I
found that entry in one of my notebooks from Khartoum (Um Durman and Tuti
Island). I had been elsewhere misinformed about the source of that expression
re a spurious tie-in to zalama.

Regards and my thanks for his clarification.

Sincerely,

Stephen H. Franke

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 10 21:47:45 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:47:45 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Response
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Date: 10 Mar 1999
From: "Chouairi, R. MR           DFL" <GR6548 at exmail.usma.army.mil>
Subject: Geographical Names Response

Dear Mr. Hoberman

	Many are the Levantine names of that nature Kisirwani (from
Kisirwan), Shami (from Sham), Bayrouti (from Beirut), Ladhkani (from
Latakia), Halabi (from Aleppo) etc..

> My own family name does not refer to my original name, but is an adjective
> to where the family came from.  That means the family came from the town
> of Chouair, or Dhour-El-Chouair (in  Lebanon).  All the families that came
> from that town were referred to by that name. (Korban, Mouja`es, Merhej,
> Rahbani, Kiameh, Sawaya etc..)
>
In Levantine Dialect, many are the ways of expressing the same adjective of
Nassab especially in plural.  For example people coming from Zahle could be
referred as: zihlAwiyyeh or zahAlneh, from Beirut:  beirUtiyeh or ByArteh,
from the Damascus:  shwAm.

	I hope I have helped.

				Rajaa Chouairi
				   Abu Fouad

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar 11 17:13:34 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:13:34 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Discussion
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1) Subject: kaslaawi, etc.
2) Subject: Egyptian Arabic

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Date: 11 Mar 1999
From: "Mohammad A. Mohammad" <mohammad at aall.ufl.edu>
Subject: kaslaawi, etc.

Dear Mr. Hoberman,

I am (originally) from 'Iksal, a village near Nazareth.  I am, therefore, a
kaslaawi and my feloow kaslaawis are kaslaawiyye. Here is what I remember
from my parents about many of the surrounding villages and their nisbas.

First your list:

Ramallah , ramlaawi. pl. ramlaawiyye (same for people from Ramleh)
Hayfa (=Heefa), heefaawi, heefawiyye
Yaafa, yaafaawi, yaafaawiyye
 Naablus (Naanbles) naabelsi, naabelsiyye or nawaabelse
'ariiHa (=RiiHa) riiHaawi, riHaawiyye ( I remember this in a fruit-pedler
selling bananas saying "riHaawi yaa mooz 'RiHaawi are my bananas."

>>From my memory:

9een Duur (pronounced 'in duur) 'induuri, 'induuriyye
dabburiye, dabbuuri, dabburiyye or dabaabre
naaSre, naSraawi, naSraawiyye
Tabariyya, Tabari, Tabriyye or Tabaarne
zir9iin, zir9iini, no plural (see below)
samax, samxaawi, samxaawiyye

I have gone through some other examples in my head and found that for some
names like biisaan I do not accept nor do I remember hearing the nisba
biisaanii.  Many of our neighbors are from biisaan. So one person is from
biisaan. For all it is 'ahl biisaan. Hope this helps.

Mohammad A. Mohammad
University of Florida
African and Asian
470 Grinter Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA

email:  mohammad at aall.ufl.edu

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2)
Date: 11 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Egyptian Arabic

You can see the same sort of thing in Egyptian Arabic:

maSr-i/maSarwa  (alexandrian reference to cairenes)
desuu'i/desai'a  (people of desuuq)
Sa at iid-i/Sa at aida )upper Egyptians)
baHraaw-i/baharwa (lower Egyptians)

the same can apply to family names (in fact desuu'i is a family name)

in a recent soap opera the two main (feuding) families were
@zaiza and sawalmi, presumably from @ziiz and siwailim (which itself
looks like a plural).

david wilmsen
director, arabic and translation studies division
american university in cairo

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar 11 17:14:28 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:14:28 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Classification of Foreign Languages
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Date: 11 Mar 1999
From: Gunvor Mejdell <Gunvor.Mejdell at easteur-orient.uio.no>
Subject: Classification of Foreign Languages

Dear colleagues

At our department (of East-European and Oriental studies), University of
Oslo, Norway, we are under strong pressure from the central authorities to
reduce the number of semesters and teaching hours required for obtaining
our university level of "grunnfag" - which is normally 2 semesters (for
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish  etc.), but for Chinese,
Japanese, Turkish, Persian, Urdu/Hindi and (my own subject) Arabic is 3
semesters.

I have observed, some time and somewhere, that some US foreign language
teaching institution has made a classification of foreign languages based
on an evaluation of the difficulties/time needed to achieve various levels
of competence in them (from an English speaker background). It might be
most helpful for our argumentation against this proposed reduction, to have
access to such a classification/rating of languages.

I would be most grateful if any of you could assist me in this matter.

Sincerely
Gunvor Mejdell (Ass. Professor of Arabic)


1. aman. Gunvor Mejdell
Institutt for |steuropeiske og orientalske studier
POB 1030, Blindern
0315 Oslo
tel. + 47 22 85 47 76    FAX +47 22 85 41 40

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 22:11:13 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:11:13 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Language Classification Responses
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1) Subject: Defense Language Institute URL
2) Subject: Accurate Classifications?
3) Subject: Department of Defense
4) Subject: Foreign Service Institute

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1)
Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: "T.A. MCALLISTER" <ecl6tam at lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: Defense Language Institute URL

You could try:
http://dli-www.army.mil/pages_/catalog/acadcred.htm

The classification is based on the difficulty of learning the
language for speakers of American English, so it might not be exactly
equivalent for Norwegians, who might, for example, find learning
German easier than Americans would find it.

Best wishes.

Alec McAllister
Arts Computing Development Officer
Computing Service
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
tel 0113 233 3573
email: T.A.McAllister at Leeds.AC.UK
fax: 0113 233 5411

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2)
Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Jackie Murgida <jmurg at star.net>
Subject: Accurate Classifications?

Gunvor, I think you're referring to the classification system used by the
U.S. government. I don't know if there's anything in writing that you could
request, but the most likely source for it would be the State Department.
Their Foreign Service Institute bases length of courses on that
classification. The system was devised quite some time ago [over 25 years, I
believe], and I don't know if the rationale and justification for the
ratings of difficulty were ever really articulated in a document.

Perhaps someone on the list who's in the Washington area can check with the
Library of Congress and FSI itself to see if there's anything available that
would help you. Also, the military people use the system -- that might be a
source, too.

My own feeling, having worked in the gov. on foreign language projects is
that some of the classifications are kind of dubious. They seem to have
decided that languages were difficult or easy for English speakers based on
a mix of characteristics. For instance, Chinese is in the most difficult
category, because it has a difficult writing system, and Japanese and Arabic
are in the same category. But spoken Arabic is much easier than spoken
Japanese, and the Arabic writing system is alphabetic and, in my opinion,
far easier than Japanese and Chinese orthography. But Chinese grammar isn't
that strenuous, compared to Japanese. On the other hand, you have the Arabic
diglossia situation to contend with if you're learning both spoken and
written Arabic.

The thing that always seemed wrong to me is that languages like Turkish and
Finnish are considered "easier" than Arabic [presumably because of the Latin
orthography], when they are far more difficult to learn to speak. But if
you're in a speaking-only course [like colloquial Egyptian, in
transliteration], you get more credit for Arabic than for Turkish.

When I was involved with this there were three categories, by the way.

I don't know if this has helped, but I feel better having vented my
dissatisfaction with the system. At least if the American bureaucrats
consider these languages to warrant two to three times as much course time
than Spanish, French, and German, it should give you some ammunition with
your university authorities. I would try to point out to them that learning
Arabic is like learning a language and a half [a dialect + MSA], and some
would even say it's like learning two languages, if you want to learn to
both speak/understand and read.

Best regards,
Jackie Murgida
[we met at a conference once, didn't we?]

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3)
Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Bill Turpen <BTURPEN at ossm.edu>
Subject: Department of Defense

     The United States Department of Defense Foreign Language
Institute in Monterey, California, uses some such system.  As I
recall the basic courses in Spanish and French are 24 seven
hour per day weeks, German is 32 weeks, and Russian is 47.  Other
languages, including MSA and other Arabic courses, are taught there
as well.     You might be able to get their listing of courses, then
you would know which languages are considered to take more time in
achieving a basic knowledge than others.
     (The "other Arabic courses," I believe, are taught to those who
have already completed the MSA course.  I do not remember its length,
but I believe the MSA course  is more than 47 weeks--and I am not
certain that they use the Arabic alphabet, either!}
     Bill L. Turpen
     Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics

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4)
Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Taoufik Ben-Amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject: Foreign Service Institute

Greetings,

The language classification you alluded to is that produced by the FSI
(Foreign Service Institute). It classifies Arabic as a Category 4
language. Unfortunately, I do not have an address or e-mail for them, but
they are based in Washington DC.

good luck,

T. ben Amor
Columbia University

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 20:43:13 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:43:13 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Summer Job Opportunity
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1) Subject: Summer Job Opportunity

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Farouk Mustafa <f-mustafa at uchicago.edu>
Subject: Summer Job Opportunity

The University of Chicago Intensive Summer Arabic Program announces an
opening for an
instructor of Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (open rank) for the Summer
of 1999 (June
20--August 20, 1999.)

Applicants should have at least an M.A. in Arabic language, literature,
linguistics or a related
discipline.  A proven track record of teaching experience at the Elementary
level is essential.

Applications with all supporting documentatiuon should be received at the
address given below no
later than March 31, 1999.

                                                   Intensive Summer Arabic
                                                   Center for Middle
Eastern Studies
                                                   The University of Chicago
                                                   5828 University Avenue
                                                   Chicago, IL  60637
                                                   USA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 20:37:38 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:37:38 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: More Zalama (ZLM and ZWL)
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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Antoine LONNET <lonneta at cybercable.fr>
Subject: ZLM and ZWL

The most recent volume of David Cohen's Dictionnaire des racines semitiques,
at the moment under the press, has on p. 739:

ZLM (...) -3. AR. zalamat- "corne du pied fendu (des ruminants), caroncule
du pied (des brebis et des chevres)", muzla'imm- "passant, voyageur",
'izdalama, [oriental] tazallam "marcher a pied", zalame "pieton, homme,
individu".
Notes:
(...) V. LA III/42, Q. 1008, LANE 1247, KAZIMIRSKI I/1007, BELOT 296. (...)
pour
l'ar. or. zalame, BARTHELEMY 318. (...) -3. Le rapport entre la marche du
pieton et le
nom de l'homme, comme celui qu'illustre l'oriental zalame n'est pas
exceptionnel.
C'est le cas de raJul- en rapport avec riJl- "pied, jambe", rAJil- "pieton",
etc.,
v. s. RGL; c'est aussi celui du maghrebin terrAs "pieton, homme"; v. aussi
les
remarques s. ZW/YL. (...)


and on p. 703:

ZW/YL (...) - AR. zAla (ZWL) "passer, quitter un endroit, s'en aller, se
deplacer, disparaitre, quitter"; zawAl- "mouvement", zawl- "agile,
spirituel, genereux, brave";  (...) ; zawl- "forme, figure qu'on voit a
distance, qui apparait et disparait, personne, individu",  (...) ;
[oriental] zOl "personne, individu", [soudanais] zOl "homme, personne", zOla
"femme";  (...) ETH. tigre zol "(belle) figure" (...)

Notes:
(...)  tigre zol "figure" parait etre un emprunt a l'ar.; BARTHELEMY 323
semble lier
le mot a la notion de "passant non identifie, passant en tant que tel". On
peut rappeler que certains noms de "l'homme", en arabe, sont
etymologiquement lies a la notion de "marche à pied", v. s. ZLM, RGL. - Ar.,
V. LA 65, Q. 910, FARHAT 454, LANE 1270, 1278, BELOT 302, 304, KAZIMIRSKI
I/1028, 1033, BEAUSSIER 448, ALCALA 110/4. LANDBERG GLOS. 1145, BEAUSSIER
103, MARCAIS TAKROUNA 479; (...) eth. te. WTS 502. Les valeurs en ar. clas.
se pretent a une interpretation de type analogue, mais non identique, si on
rattache le vocable a la notion
de "ce qui passe, apparait et disparait". (...)

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 20:53:23 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:53:23 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Political Metaphor in Arabic Query
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1) Subject: Query: Political Metaphor in Arabic

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: nasalski at smail.Uni-Koeln.DE
Subject: Query: Political Metaphor in Arabic

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to ask you for any hint or advice on the political metaphor
in Arabic.

I am preparing a doctoral dissertation at the Cologne University on the
semiotic and pragmatic aspects of political communication in Arabic with
the special reference to the political metaphor. The idea is to examine
the specifics of the approaches and commitments to politics that are
manifest in Arabic language (metaphor, citations, conventional and
non-conventional expressions, direct and indirect speech acts etc.) on the
one hand, and to try to assess on that account the differences, if any,
between the western and eastern countries (western and Islamo-Arabic
tradition) on the other.

I would be grateful for any hint, reference or any information about
similar studies whatsoever.

Ignacy Nasalski
nasalski at smail.uni-koeln.de

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 21:53:10 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:53:10 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Discussion (More)
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1) Subject: Iraqi Names
2) Subject: Saudi Names
3) Subject: Egyptian Names
4) Subject: Nisbas & Broken Plurals

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: "A. FERHADI" <af3 at is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Iraqi Names

Let me add a few such geographical names from Iraq. Please note that /gh/
represents /ghayn/ as in gharb = west. /@/ is /@yn/ is @asal =honey.

/baghdaadi/ is a male person from Baghdad, pronounced /baghdaad/ and the
plural is /baghaadda/. The middle daal is elided and the remaining daal is
stressed.

As for the city of al-mawSil, locally pronounced as /muuSil/, a male person
from that city is referred to as muSlaawi. The plural is miSaalwa in the
city itself but elsewhere it is often miwaaSla. Whether you metathesize or
not, the vowel immediately following /m/ is more of a schwa than a kasra.
The same is true of the singular  /miSlaawi/ in the ideolect of many.
Incidentally, the famous musicians ziryaab and isHaaq al-muuSilli or
al-mawSilli of medieval times are originally from this city. So is the
famous medieval poet abu tammaam who worked as a 'postman' there. Today,
you see a statue  of the poet greeting you when you enter al-mawSil, from
the east.

Curiously, Kirkuk /karkuuk/ has a Turkish-based suffix nisba in the
singular: karkukli and the plural is karkukliyya. al-mawSil and karkuuk are
in the north.

In the south:

Basrah /baSra/ ----> baSraawi (sg) and baSaarwa (pl)

al- at imaara (ending in taa' marbuuTa) pronounced /@imaara/ or /i at maara/ with
a pronthetic vowel. In both cases, the vowel preceding or following @ is a
schwa  not a kasra. A male person from this city is @maaratli as in mas at uud
il-i at maaratli, the renowned muTrib al-baadiya whose name  is synonymous
with country music. His "soda sh-lahhaani yaa buuya" is still ringing in my
ears! Our friend, Muhammad Jiyad, may want to elaborate on this.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: Saudi Names

Greetings everyone,

This phenomenon is also evident in Saudi Arabia (where I come from).
Adjective examples: Najdi (pl. Nijada) is a person (people) from najd ( the
central part of Saudi Arabia), Hijazi (pl. Hijz) from the western part
(Hijaz), sharqawi (pl. sharqaweiyeh) from eastern part, and Qassimi (pl.
Qussman) from Qassim region. Examples of adjectives taken from city names:
Braidawi (a person from the city of Buraidah). And Yes there are cities that
do not form these adjectives, for example: for the city of Riyadh, we don't
say Riyadhi (may be because the word already exist and used to refer to an
athlete).

As for family names, the answer is also yes. Here are some examples:
Al-Najdi, al-onaizan (my family name is derived from the city of "Unaizah" in
central Saudi Arabia).

Hope that helps,
Yaser

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Egyptian Names

You can see the same sort of thing in Egyptian Arabic:

maSr-i/maSarwa  (alexandrian reference to cairenes)
desuu'i/desai'a  (people of desuuq)
Sa at iid-i/Sa at aida )upper Egyptians)
baHraaw-i/baharwa (lower Egyptians)

the same can apply to family names (in fact desuu'i is a family name)

in a recent soap opera the two main (feuding) families were
@zaiza and sawalmi, presumably from @ziiz and siwailim (which itself
looks like a plural).

david wilmsen
director, arabic and translation studies division
american university in cairo

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: "Munther A. Younes" <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Nisbas & Broken Plurals

Bob,
	I think that your question touches on nisba adjectives and two
processes of broken plural formation. I'll start with the broken plural
first.
	Based on a limited statistical study of broken plurals in
Palestinian that I have coducted, it appears that the most common broken
plural pattern in this dialect is fa<aalil with its variants
fawaa<il/fa<aawil/fa<aa<il:
	?arnab-?araanib
	masjid-masaajid
	jaami<-jawaami<

As these examples show, the singular source can be a true quadriliteral
(?arnab, xanjar, etc.) or a derived one (with a prefix like miim or a long
vowel like aa).

The taa' marbuuta (pronounced a or i in Palestinian, depending on the
preceding consonant) is used in Levantine dialects (and possibly others) as
a plural marker in certain nouns, all human as far as I know, and generally
referring to professions: Hajjaara or dakkiika "stone-cutters", muHaamiyyi
"lawyers", xayyaali "horsemen", Haraamiyyi "thieves", etc.

Words like rawaabde and talaaHme combine both types of plural the fa<aalil
type and the taa' marbuuta. (The idea of having two levels of plural is
familiar: sayyid/saada-saadaat, shajara/shajar-ashjaar, etc.) However, I
think they are derived from two distinct types of sources:

1. from nisba adjectives, regardless of the number of consonants or vowels
in the source word,
2. from quadriliteral names.

The way to distinguish the two types is to check for a singular
counterpart: rawaabde doesn't have a singular form, while talaaHme
does:talHami. According to this test, rawaabde would be derived directly
from the quadriliteral source and is not the plural of a nisba adjective.

Now, to answer your question, it seems that when a quadriliteral source
exists, then a plural, involving both a fa<aalil process and a taa'
marbuuta is derived. In addition to rawaabe and Taraawne, I can think of
the following based on family names in my village (Barta'a) and neighboring
villages. None of them has a singular.

midlij-madaalji
<abbaas-<abaabsi
saalim-sawaalme
manSuur-manaaSra
naaSir-nawaaSri

To these you can add bajaajli (from btjl which becomes bjjl by
assimilation) and possibly other plurals you mentioned.

Nisba adjectives can be derived from sources with any number of consonants,
and they have singular and plural forms. The ones from quadrilitarl sources
have two plural forms: one with the nisba and the taa' marbuuta and the
other a fa<aalili (fa<aalli by syncope) plural.

Beet laHim: talHami-talHamiyyi, talaaHmi
ilxaliil: xaliili-xaliiliyyi, xalaayli
ghazzi: ghazzaawi, ghazzaawiyyi, ghazaazwi

(I am claiming here that ghazaazwi is derived from ghazzaawi and not from
the tri-consonantal ghazzi directly.)

According to this analysis, words like yaafa, Heefa, ramli and lidd have
too few consonants to have a fa<aalli plural:

Heefa:Heefaawi-Heefaawiyyi
yaafa: yaafaawi-yaafaawiyyi
ramli: ramlaawi-ramlaawiyyi
lidd: liddaawi-liddaawiyyi
(?a)riiHa: riiHaawi-riiHaawiyyi

Words like Ramalla,Tuulkarim, and Nablis have two many elements to have
fa<aalli plural,  but two of them have nisbas, both singular and plural:

raamallaawi-raamallaawiyyi
naabilsi-naabilsiyyi, naawaabilsiyyi. (My plural for this form differs from
Mohammed Mohammed's who has nawaabilsi)
As for Tuulkarim, I haven't heard a nisba form in my dialect or a fa<aalli
plural. (I am familiar with the adjective karmi, but it is not used in my
dialect; people would say those from Tuulkarim or the people of Tuulkarim.)

Munther

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 17:54:38 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:54:38 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Arabic Political Metaphor Response
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1) Subject: Arabic Political Metaphor

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1)
Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: al-harrasi at msn.com
Subject: Arabic Political Metaphor

Hello all,

It was interesting for me to read the recent message by Ignacy Nasalski who
is preparing a Ph.D. thesis on Arabic political metaphor. I am doing
something similar.

I am currently working on a Ph.D. thesis (at Aston University, England) on
translation of Arabic political metaphor into English. I am analysing a
corpus of Arabic political texts (speeches and interviews) and their English
translations. I base my study on some recent developments of the theory of
metaphor, particularly the conceptual theory of metaphor. The results that I
have arrived at up to now (as far as Arabic political metaphor is concerned)
can be summarised as follows: Arabic politicians use particular conceptual
metaphors such as seeing THE ARAB WORLD as ONE FAMILY in speeches of
President Saddam Hussein or seeing DEVELOPMENT as PROGRESS FROM ONE POINT TO
ANOTHER POINT as in the case of the political discourse of Sultan Qaboos bin
Said of Oman. These metaphors are interwoven in the political and cultural
contexts in which they are used. They are also very related, often in highly
implicit ways, to the ideological orientations of the different politicians.

I have written and published some studies on translation of metaphor which
include analysis of metaphorical expressions and concepts. I feel that the
area of Arabic political metaphors is one that needs intensive 'urgent'
studies. To understand a politician one needs to understand his metaphors.
Arabic metaphors are not studied so one wonders whether we really
understands what Arab politicians are saying (or more precisely, what they
are telling us).

I welcome a discussion with any one interested in this topic or with Arabic
political discourse in general.
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ADDRESS:
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TEL/FAX: (0044)1206-825175
E-MAIL: Al-Harrasi at bigfoot.com
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 17:57:48 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:57:48 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: ALS Hotel Rebate
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1)
Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: Khalil Barhoum <khalil at stanford.edu>
Subject: ALS Hotel Rebate

Please announce to the ALS participants who stayed at the Stanford Terrace
Inn that the hotel has agreed to reimburse them (either to their credit
cards or with a check, depending on how their hotel payment was made) 50%
of the cost of their hotel room rates during their stay for the
conference.

All they have to do is get in touch with the hotel and refer the hotel
attendant to the agreement made with me by the Sales Manager, Susan. The
hotel can be reached at:

Tel  (800)729-0332
     (650)857-0343

Fax  (650)857-0343


Khalil

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 17:50:51 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:50:51 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Language Classification Reference
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Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Language Classification Reference

You can find the table giving the Foreign Service Institute's expected
levels of proficiency in various languages according to contact hours in at
least the following places:

Page 28 in:

Omaggio Hadley, A. 1993. TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT (2nd ed.).  Boston,
MA: Heinle and Heinle.

Omaggio Hadley gives the following source:

Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E.  ETS ORAL PROFICIENCY TESTING MANUAL.
Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 1982.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 17:58:34 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:58:34 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: arabic speech synthesis
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1) Subject: arabic speech synthesis

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1)
Date: 15 Mar 1999
From:  Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh <bzawayde at indiana.edu>
Subject: arabic speech synthesis

Hello
I am interested in knowing if there is a list of companies that are
do Arabic speech synthesis.  If there is, could you please e-mail
it to me.

thank you for your help

Bushra

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Department of Linguistics
Indiana University
1021 E. 3rd Street
Memorial Hall East Room, 322
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005


e-mail:  bzawayde at hamlet.ucs.indiana.edu
URL:  http://php.indiana.edu/~bzawayde

Tel at AI CRANIUM Lab (Lindley Hall 406): 855-8702
Tel at Phonetics Lab (Memorial Hall 331): 855-8154

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 18:00:36 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:00:36 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Discussion
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1) Subject: "geographical names" = nisba
2) Subject:  daar 0l- at luum

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Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: MOHAMMED M JIYAD <mmjiyad at unix.amherst.edu>
Subject: "geographical names" = nisba

MarHaban,

What has been referred to as "geographical names" is really a form of
nisba. As you well know, it is a common practice among Arabs that one
usually goes by the name of the tribe/clan one belongs to. Prophet
Mohammed was Qarashi/Quraishi because he belonged to Bani Quraish or just
Quraish. And so we have nisba from every Arabian tribe/clan such as 'Awsi,
Khazraji, Kalbi, Thubyaani,  Mudhari, RabiCi, 'Asadi, Cabsi, Hilaali,
Numairi, KaCbi, Shammari, etc.... Late King Hussein was Haashimi because
he belonged to Bani Haashim.

However, when the tribal origin was not clear, or when a certain tribe was
subjected to persecution by whoever in power, people tended to drop their
Kuniya and take instead the name of the town/city or area. Therefore, we
have Al-Baghdaadi, Al-BaSri, Al-Kuufi, Al-DimashQi, Al-Najdi, etc .....
Notable Muslim authors of great works in Arabic language, linguistic, and
literature, who were of non-Arab origin,  used this form of nisba.
Examples are Al-Faraahidi, Al-Zamakhshari, Al-'ASfahaani, Al-Qaali,
Al-Shahrastani, etc....  Under this category falls another tendency that a
family will take the name of its country of origin when it moves somewhere
else, and so we have Al-MaSri, Al-Maghribi, Al-'Andalusi, Al-Yamani, etc
......

The third form of nisba is based on profession/trade, and thus we have
Al-Haddaad, Al-Najjaar, Al-Sabbaagh, Al-QaTTaan, Al-Hallaaj, etc ..... In
Iraq under Turkish influence, some new forms of nisba in this category
began to emerge. It ends with the syllable /chi/, and thus we have
Qahwachi for the owner of a cafe, and Qundarch for a shoemaker, Qubbanchi,
Pachachi, QachaQchi, Calawchi, Klaawchi, etc.......

In the early 70's the Iraqi government legislated that for last name one
should only use the name of his/her grandfather. Therefore, my name in all
official documents, including birth certificate and passport, was changed
to Mohammed Jiyad instead of Mohammed Al-'AzraQi, nisba to the Kharijite
tribe, Bani 'AzraQ. The reason for that law was that almost everyone in
higher positions in the Iraqi government, army, police and BaCth Party was
Takriiti, nisba to Takriit, the hometown of you know who!

Best.
Mohammed Jiyad

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2)
Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: daar 0l- at luum

oh and by the way, someone who has attended  daar 0l- at luum is known
as dar at ilmi, i dont know if that has a plural or not but i will check
it

david wilmsen
arabic and translation
etc

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 16 20:48:47 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:48:47 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Arabic Speech Synthesis Response
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Date: 16 Mar 1999
From: ghazali salem <ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn>
Subject: Arabic Speech Synthesis Response

The Language Technology Department at IRSIT , Tunis, Tunisia has developed an
Arabic
text-to-speech synthesis system. It has been  operational on a Sun station in
the our lab. for the last six years, but we are now porting it on a PC (
Windows environment) so that it can be more useful for those who need it.
Salem Ghazali.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 16 20:55:21 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:55:21 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: daar 0l-@luum Responses
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1) Subject: "Nisbah" Coinage in Arabic Grammar
2) Subject: more common -- D at r9ami

In response to:

>oh and by the way, someone who has attended  daar 0l- at luum is known
>as dar at ilmi, i dont know if that has a plural or not but i will check it

From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu

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Date: 16 Mar 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: "Nisbah" Coinage in Arabic Grammar

*** There are a few oversights in the above post, most likely stemming from
the haste associated with the electronic medium rather than unfamiliarity
with the concept of "naHt" in the formation of certain relative adjectives.
Here is a brief explanation:

(a) Reference is made to "Daar 'l- at uluum" (= literally, the home of
sciences).

(b) The relative adjective ("nisbah") is "dar at amiyy;" plu.: "daraa at imah."
Classical examples often cited for illustration are "HaDramiyy" &
"@Abshamiyy" (rel. adjs. coined from "HaDramawt" & "@Abdushams, with regular
plurals: "HaDaarimah" & @Abaashimah.")  Similarly, the "nisbah" to
"Kulliyatu 'l-Lughati 'l- at Arabiyyah" of Al-Azhar (= College of the Arabic
language") is "kalghariyy," plu.: "kalaaghirah."  Although the rel. adj.
"kalghariyy" might have started as a facetious reference to affiliates of
this college, it follows the grammatical and morphological rules of coinage
(= "naHt") in Arabic.

    I'm tempted here to distinguish the concept of coinage in Arabic as
instanced above, and coinage in English, which stands for a neologism or
a newly-created lexeme.  But that will have to wait until another occasion.

								    M. Deeb

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PS:

Established in 1870 by @Ali Mubaarak (1823/4 - 1893), "Daar 'l- at uluum" was
initially intended to offer subjects other than the traditional ones taught
at Al-Azhar.  Arguably, "Daar 'l- at Uluum" is now viewed as a happy mean
between the "secular" and "religious" approaches to the study of Arabic
language and literature in Cairo University, for instance, and Al-Azhar
respectively.


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Date: 16 Mar 1999
From: Waheed Samy <waheed at mishmish.aucegypt.edu>
Subject: more common -- D at r9ami

a more common form is D at r9ami (D@@D, fatHa, r@@', 9ayn, fatHa, miim, yaa');
the plural is D at raa9ima; which is like 9abaadila (plural of 9abdalla).

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 17 17:27:48 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:27:48 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: The AUC Controversy: Summing Up
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freedom controversy.  This message contains a statement by AUC, two
articles from the Middle East Times, and a response from Dr. Abbas
Al-Tonsi.]

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1) Subject: AUC official statement on al-Khubz al-Hafi
2) Subject: Middle East Times, February 28
3) Subject: Middle East Times, March 7
4) Subject: Dr. Abbas Al-Tonsi

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1)
Date: 17 Mar 1999
From: [By way of Magda Al-Nowaihi <ma181 at columbia.edu>]
Subject: AUC official statement on al-Khubz al-Hafi

The American University in Cairo
March 3, 1999

Statement on Al Khubz Al Hafi

The American Univeristy in Cairo confirms the statement of the Minister
of Higher Education, the Honorable Moufid Shehab, that the issue of the
use of a Moroccan novel, Al-Khubz Al-Hafi, is being dealt with within
the University.  The novel in question has been sold in English, French
and Arabic versions in Egypt since it was first published in 1971.
Decisions regarding the curriculum are the prerogative of the faculty.
The University relies on the individual and collective wisdom of its
faculty to select and assign works that they believe are appropriate to
the subject matter and that respect the culture and values of the
society in which we work.  Following complaints by students and parents
about the book, the Department of Arabic Studies decided not to use it
in the required introductory Arabic literature course.  The faculty is
also engaged in a serious and responsible effort to produce an agreed
list of readings for core courses.  No action will be taken against the
professor, who is a tenured member of the Arabic Studies Department.
The purpose of tenure is to protect faculty members form threats of
intimidation and to ensure stability and continuity without which a
university cannot operate.  Egypt has a tradition of tolerance and
scholarship that accounts for its intellectual leadership in the Arab
world and AUC will continue to operate within that context.

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2)
Date: 17 Mar 1999
From: [By way of Magda Al-Nowaihi <ma181 at columbia.edu>]
Subject: Al-Khubz al-Hafi

Middle East Times, February 28

Book controversy strikes at AUC
    Paul Schemm Middle East Times Staff

    The December 17 summons of Professor Samia Mehrez by the
    American University in Cairo (AUC) administration to explain
    her choice of a book containing "obscene" passages has
    mushroomed into something far bigger than anyone originally
    involved expected.

    What began as complaints by a few parents over the use of a
    book in class that was "destroying the morals of our children"
    and was an act of "sexual harassment" has turned into an issue
    involving not only the faculty and administration of AUC, but
    also newspapers, parliament, and Arabic literature professors
    all over the world.

    At the heart of the argument is the disturbing issue of what
    constitutes a liberal education and how that can be carried out
    by an "American" institution located in Egypt. AUC once again
    finds itself as a lightening rod for criticism, a position it has
    never been comfortable with.

    LITERARY HARASSMENT

    Professor Mehrez was called out of her class in December to
    meet with AUC President John Gerhart as well as the dean, the
    provost, and the AUC doctor, Ikram Seif Eddin, who was
    representing the complaints of the parents. Parts of the book, Al
    Khubz Al Hafi by Muhammad Choukri (For Bread Alone)
    contain passages of an explicitly sexual nature which offended
    two students in the 35-member Modern Arabic Literature class
    (ARBS 208). The parents felt that the students' morals were
    being corrupted and they claimed sexual harassment. By some
    reports, Dr. Ikram then lectured Mehrez on the nature of
    Egyptian values.

    Mehrez defended the book as an important classic of Arab
    literature widely taught in universities, including AUC.

    "It is a very moving and candid tale of an illiterate Moroccan
    child of the underclass who accedes to literacy, at age 20, and
    is able to weave the appalling conditions of his life history into
    a mesmerizing text," she wrote in a memo to AUC faculty.

    Mehrez took her case to the AUC faculty as well as the wider
    world of academia when she became concerned that the
    principles of academic freedom and reading choices of
    professors might be under attack.

    Her description of the meeting ended up on a e-mail list
    service that prompted some 150 responses, led by professors
    Muhammad Siddiq of Berkeley University and Magda Al
    Nowaihi of Columbia University, expressing concern to
    Gerhart.

    Gerhart responded to AUC faculty and Mehrez by assuring
    them that he remained true to the ethos of the liberal arts
    education.

    The fate of the book itself remains in question, however.
    According to her statements, Mehrez has reserved the right to
    teach the book again, but Gerhart says that it will not be
    appearing again in the basic ARBS 208 course.

    The departmental advisory committee, Gerhart said, has
    decided to no longer use the book in the course "in view of the
    widely differing appraisals of the usefulness of this book in the
    course."

    "They even said this is not the banning of the book," said
    Gerhart, just a recognition that the book does not belong in a
    lower level course. "One doesn't normally teach [James
    Joyce's] Ulysses in freshman English," he added.

    A number of faculty members in the department, however, say
    that this recommendation was taken without their knowledge
    and were not pleased.

    There is now talk of drawing up a list of some 40 books
    teachers of this course would draw from. Gerhart backs the
    measure, but other faculty members remain vehemently
    opposed.

    In general the situation has caused a great deal of disquiet
    among faculty, with divisions appearing between those
    counseling avoiding raising public ire over curricula and those
    fearing self-censorship.

    "People are against the way the whole thing was being
    treated," said one staff member. "I think this is the source of
    most of the resentment of the faculty."

    Some members feel that the administration has not been
    sufficiently supportive of their rights to choose readings and
    are too ready to acquiesce to outside demands, an allegation
    that Gerhart dismisses.

    "Then where is Didier?" asked one faculty member in
    annoyance, referring to the professor whose contract was not
    renewed following the controversy over Maxine Rodinson's
    Muhammad last spring.

    That particular controversy unfolded in a similar manner, with
    outraged parents (this time on religious grounds) going to the
    newspapers and starting an aggressive public campaign that
    resulted in the government banning the book and much turmoil
    at AUC. Many faculty see ominous comparisons between the
    two book incidents.

    OUTSIDE INTEREST

    The specter of the government removing books is one that
    hangs heavy over AUC. Since the Rodinson affair, there has
    been a vast increase of books requested by the censor for
    review (see box). According to Gerhart, in the past 11 months,
    40 books have been censored, including four that were being
    used for classes.

    While For Bread Alone has not been banned, and in fact sold
    like crazy during the book fair, there have been rumblings. In
    response to the press campaign against the book and AUC that
    began in January when the parents went to the press, Minister
    of Higher Education Hussein Kamal Baha Eddin said he would
    look into the matter. The issue is also supposedly to be brought
    before parliament soon.

    Gerhart said he sent a letter assuring the minister that the issue
    had been taken care of and that the book would not be taught in
    the course again.

    Some faculty, however, see this pattern of apology for teaching
    controversial books as a dangerous one. There is a fear that
    faculty will avoid teaching controversial books for fear of
    coming under attack in the press and then not being defended by
    the university.

    Gerhart, finds this possibility extremely remote.

    "One would have thought that last year [after the Rodinson
    controversy] people would have scurried around and removed
    books from their reading lists, which didn't happen," he said,
    adding that "there is no evidence that a domino theory is taking
    place."

    One interesting incident that did take place immediately after
    Mehrez was called into account is that the director of the core
    curriculum removed Tayib Saleh's Arabic classic Season of
    Migration to the North from the reading list. It was only after
    core curriculum professors returned from the winter break that
    there was a unanimous vote to restore the book to the reading
    list.

    While Mehrez was obviously not intimidated by the fallout
    from the Rodinson book or the For Bread Alone case, it is
    noteworthy that she is tenured faculty. Whether non-tenured
    junior faculty would be willing to brave the ire of the Egyptian
    press or AUC administration is less clear.

    Currently the focus among the faculty and the administration
    has been to come up with defined guidelines and procedures
    for dealing with complaints about courses. Gerhart emphasizes
    the need to be responsive to the concerns of parents and
    students.

    WHAT ABOUT NEXT TIME?

    Professor Dan Tschirgi of the Political Science department
    says that the issue has strengthened the commitment to the
    principles of a liberal arts education among the faculty, but
    also shown everyone what more needed to be done.

    "It has sensitized [the administration] to the need to fill a gap ‚
    a need that has been neglected ‚ the need to explain more
    clearly to everyone that asks, parents, public, what exactly is a
    liberal education," he said.

    The indications are that Egypt's increasingly conservative
    environment may require that explanation again and again.

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3)
Date: 17 Mar 1999
From: [By way of Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]
Subject: Another Episode in the AUC Controversy


Another Episode in the AUC Controversy


			NB:

			The proper noun "Maetouh" Salwa Bakr uses in her tale
			for the one of the monkeys, has its lexical
			denotations and connotations of "ma at tuuh,"
			which would mean, among other things,
			lunatic;  crazy; idiot.
							--
							MD
			* * *

    Animals and the AUC book affair
    Paul Schemm Middle East Times Staff

    Middle East Times -  Egypt Edition  7 March 1999


    Everyone at some point in their life has to decide whether
    they are going to be a monkey or a goat.

    Professor Samia Mehrez, who has been accused by some American
    University in Cairo students and the Egyptian press of
    teaching obscene material, decided not only to be a monkey,
    but a defiant one that would go on teaching.

    "I watched people around me be docile monkeys, and for one
    month, wrestled with my monkey trainer and I wondered, was I
    going to become a goat?" she said.

    In one of her first public statements since the controversy
    surrounding the book Al Khubz Al Hafi (For Bread Alone),
    Mehrez gave a talk on March 3 at AUC that used a short story
    by Salwa Bakr to tell her tale.

    In the story, three monkeys are caught and placed in a cage,
    where a trainer has decided to teach them tricks. Instead of
    teaching the monkeys directly he brings in a goat and every
    day, in front of the monkeys, tells the goat to perform a
    trick. When it doesn't, the trainer beats the goat into
    unconsciousness.

    This continues until the goat dies. At which point the three
    monkeys have a conference. The first two suggest learning the
    tricks being taught by the trainer so they don't suffer the
    fate of the goat. The last monkey, Maetouh, suggests that they
    use their claws and fangs to overcome the trainer and win
    their freedom. He is ignored.

    When the trainer returns the first two monkeys perform his
    tricks, but when it is Maetouh's turn, the young monkey leaps
    on the trainer and savages him. The trainer is carted away to
    the hospital and Maetouh is sent to a zoo, where he spends the
    rest of his days teaching young monkeys born in captivity
    about the freedom and beauty of their native forests.

    "The image of Maetouh surrounded by young monkeys was
    important to me," she said, adding, "that's my mission."

    The lecture filled the classroom and drew a crowd of some 70
    students and professors who went on to discuss the issue of
    academic censorship at the university. A number of students
    complained about censorship within the institution itself.

    "Should we all be Maetouh or should we be like the goat?"
    asked one student. "Because if we are all Maetouh, the
    administration is going to suffer."

    Mehrez, obviously eager to avoid being seen as inciting
    students to march on the administration building, counseled
    the students to be responsible for their actions, but to
    choose which animal they feel most suited to.

    At least two students at the lecture, however, did not see
    censorship as necessarily all wrong, but instead felt that it
    was necessary in some cases.

    "We are against censorship if it is against our freedom, but
    if censorship is to protect us, I think it is a good thing,"
    one of them said.

    Another student brought up the negative press that AUC
    received during the controversy, when papers like Al Wafd
    accused Mehrez of attempting to corrupt young Egyptians'
    morals by teaching the book.

    "We have like a campaign against AUC from the press and from
    the outside society," he said, adding that he felt it had
    gotten much worse in the past few years. He also said that the
    administration's response was inadequate.

    "I think we're going the wrong way about it, giving in every
    time," he said.

    Mehrez herself expressed reservations about how the affair,
    which played out in January and February, was handled. She
    said that she herself could not have responded to some of the
    virulent press attacks on her.

    "I think it should have been an institutional response, it did
    not come and it is too late now," she said, expressing the
    hope that in the future the administration's response would be
    stronger.

    There have been reports that some feel the administration
    gives in too easily to the censor and the government's
    demands.

    On March 2 Egyptian newspapers reported that Minister of
    Higher Education Mufid Shehab told parliament that the AUC
    Arabic Studies department had decided that the book should not
    be studied. He added that a committee would be formed to
    review the books for study in the department to ensure they
    comply with the morals and traditions of the country.

    In press release issued on the following day, AUC confirmed
    the minister's statement saying that the university would rely
    on the faculty to select and assign its works in the manner
    that they see fit, adding that the book would no longer be
    studied in the introductory course and that "a serious and
    responsible effort [is underway] to produce an agreed list of
    reading for core courses."

    Faculty in the department, however, have reserved the right to
    continue to teaching the book and a number are opposed to any
    efforts to come up with a list of agreed upon titles for
    introductory courses.

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Date: 17 Mar 1999
From: Abbas Al-Tonsi <tons at acs.auc.eun.eg>
Subject: AUC&Academic Freedom


Having read the responses of Drs. Al-Nowaihi and Siddiq, I hesitated to
answer. After all, it was I who started and thus have no reason to get
upset with Dr. Siddiq either when he generously upgrades me from a
reactionary to a supporter of censorship or when he sloppily deconstructs
my text. Indeed his answer is full of self-contradictions, e.g. his
exclusion of the social context in defining persecution, all the while
ignoring the fact that such persecution was not limited to the parameters
of Islamic/Arabic civilization. As for Dr. Siddiq's gullible portrayal of
his student labeling Darwish an infidel, such a student is not he only
stereotype of a Muslim, or does Dr. Siddiq exclude as terrorists Hamas and
the Hizbu-laah freedom fighters?

Perhaps I had presumed that both Dr. Siddiq would be understanding of my
position since he claims to defend everybody's freedom of speech and would,
accordingly, defend my right to disagree with them. Perhaps he did not know
that I was not only referring to them but also to a group of lamentors
«here in Cairo who saw it fit to jump on the bandwagon of lamenting
repressing academic freedom. Let me make a few points clear:

1.	The principle of the administration dictating the syllabus is
rejected by all.

2.	We must always consider careful the balance among the intertwined
relations between the teacher and the department, the teacher and the
students, and the teacher and the environment.

3.	The course description is a contractual agreement between all these
parties.

4.	The teacher and the student are their own guardians.

5.	Freedom is both for you and me.

6.	The text of alkhbuz alHafi is unfit to be mandated in an
undergraduate survey course.

7.	Season of Migration to the North was taught with no protest (is
quality a variable?).

8.	Using sex as a shock instrument is simply counterproductive if not
in bad taste, especially when it is as repulsive as Shukri's.

9.	We must acknowledge the reality around us. The bad decision of one
professor led to banning Rodinson's Muhammad; the poor judgment of a second
professor instigated banning another book. Furthermore, All books coming
into the AUC library are checked with a fine tooth comb. Hurrah for the
freedom fighters!

10.	Uncalculated heroics narrow the margins of freedom.

11.	Dictatorship, whether of a regime or the professor, is rejected. A
la Siddiq: even the Mu øtazla betrayed their original call when they forced
their ideas upon others.

12.	Dr. Siddiq's historical anecdotes reflect intolerance of any
variance in opinion, but do not demonstrate the tendency to fight for
freedom. Indeed, do we reject guardianship of the other only to appoint
ourselves as guardians? Was it not the students, whom we stripped of the
ability to have their own mind, who vocally and bravely protested the
American invasion of Iraq and who liberated Arnun with their bare hands
while we, the teachers, were busy taboo bashing?! Was it not these students
that some other pseudo academic freedom advocates called as rich only in
money and ignorance?!

In this debate about a text presumed to belong to Arabic literature,
several issues need to be seriously discussed:

1.	Is the integrity of a work of art a function of its language,
citizenship of the author, and/or the issues discussed?

2.	English literature in Berkeley aside, what is the canon for Arabic
literature? And do we have the right to exclude Naguib Mahfuz and Yusuf
Idris to accommodate Nawal Al-Sadawi and Alifa Rifat?

3.Can we realize an Arab renaissance following the Islamic model (Muhammad
Abdu's, for example) or must we reach out beyond it? At the risk of being
dubbed as a petro-dollar agent by Dr. Siddiq, I would like to argue that
Islam is an essential ingredient to any such attempt.

The last issue I would like to raise concerns the standpoint of all those
who practice Postcolonial culture studies(PCS) and speak highly of alkhbuz
alHafi.

Thank God I am only a language instructor as Drs. Al-Nowaihi and Siddiq
call me. Accordingly I am not involved in academic politics, nor am I
affiliated with what is known as interdisciplinary studies. A misnomer
which, to my mind, is-in most cases-like TV dinners, or like the old
Egyptian tramway that allows everyone easy access on and off. I do not have
to swim with the current or join the elite of the Avant-garade Academic
PCSists .In my opinion; PCS is a mere recycling of bastardized Marxism
topped with some Lacanian or Bakhtinian dressings. These studies, disguised
under many buzzwords, reproduce Reflection theory which constitutes a
misreading of Marxist dialectics because it focuses on dualism and
presupposes a homogeneous, levelled totality inside each and every
superstructure and the base.

What Strikes me in most of the literary criticism done by the followers of
PCS is their talk about colonial discourse, cultural discourse, gender
discourse, and all kinds of discourses except narrative discourse or
textual analysis. As for them the language of the text, its narrativity or
fictionality are not the point. Instead, they place emphasis on the reality
that the text reflects; Therefor, they are only interested in knowledge and
that every text is worthy of being considered literature (V.Y.Mudimbe: The
Invention of Africa) consequently, these texts are canonized by Them, the
academic elite.

Tom Cohn was right when he says Cultural studies arrives as if at the end
of (critical) history-an occurrence affiliated with a hypothetical
globalization of formal democracy, with the installation of new
transnational or hyper-media, the end of the Cold War. (Tom Cohn: Ideology
and Inscription)

He considers that pcs is a return to mimetic humanism and historicist
method where the epistemological is the political.

I just wonder can we say that postcoloniality is the condition of what we
might ungenerously call a comprador intelligentsia: a relatively small,
Western-style, Western-trained group of writers and thinkers, who mediate
the trade in cultural commodities of word capitalism at the periphery.
Kawme Anthony Appiah (cited: The John Hopkins Guide to literary
Theory&Criticism)

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar 18 17:42:44 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:42:44 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: daar 0l-@luum mistake
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Date: 18 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: daar 0l- at luum mistake

i stand corrected.

the mistake was indeed due to the extemporaneous nature of email.  after
i posted it i realized the mistake.  ha''u ku @alaya!

david wilmsen
etc

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar 18 17:46:32 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:46:32 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: On-line Arabic bookstore
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Date: 18 Mar 1999
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: On-line Arabic bookstore

Greeting all,

I came across this on-line book store that specializes in Arabic books
and I thought it might be of interest to others. The bookstore can be
reached at: http://www.neelwafurat.com/ and it is based in Lebanon.  The
web site is in Arabic and it requires a web browser with CP-1256
support.

Here is an excerpt from their web site that describes it (it is not
Amazon.com but it is a step):

Arabization & Software Center* introduces the first
              commercial Arabic library on the internet (Nile &
              Euphrates www.neelwafurat.com) containing more than
              50,000 books encompassing all subjects with discounts up
              to 30%. This service provides the capability to search in
              Arabic either directly for the book through its title,
author,
              keywords or by browsing through the books under a
              specific category. The site also offers an image for each
              bookcover with informtion on its author, publisher, size,
              cover type, publishing date, price, discount, and an
              accompanied summary. Purchases can be made through
              credit card or bank transfer -noting that all information
is
              encoded through SSL a security precaution that prevents
              anyone from reading data except the person entitled to-
              then books are send either by fast courier or registered
              mail to any place in the world.



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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 19 18:18:59 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:18:59 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Symposium Announcement
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1) Subject: "Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium..."

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Date: 19 Mar 1999
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: "Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium..."

	Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium
		Bridging Past, Present and Future

			Wayne State University

The Department of Near Eastern and Asian Studies and the Foreign Language
Technology Center at Wayne State University will be hosting the symposium
"Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium: Bridging Past, Present
and Future" on October 15-17, 1999 and invites the submission of
papers. The symposium will accommodate presentations of 20 minutes on the
teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. There will be three panels to
address the following themes: past and present trends, new directions for
the coming millennium, and technology and the teaching of Arabic.

Authors are asked to send three copies of an anonymous abstract. Please
also include a legible 3x5 card with paper titles, name of author,
affiliation, address, telephone number and email address. Abstracts should
be submitted by June 15, 1999 to:

Department of Near Eastern and Asian Studies
Wayne State University
Arabic Symposium, 1999
437 Manoogian
Detroit, MI 48202
Attn: Jayne McGee

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by the program committee by
July 15, 1999.

For further information please call 313/577-3016, or email
<a.rouchdy at wane.edu>. Check:

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/NearEast/Events.html

Registration information: The conference is open to the public, but
registration is required. The registration fee is $10 for students, $25 for
early registration, and $35 for late registration.  Please include payment
with your registration forms and make checks payable to Wayne State
University.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 19 18:16:47 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:16:47 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: "Why learn Arabic?" on websites
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Date: 19 Mar 1999
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: websites addressing "Why learn Arabic?"

I just had a call from a grant writer wanting more information on why
Arabic is important.  I'm going to send off a somewhat updated version of
the AATA pamphlet that addresses this, but I'd like to ask if you know of
any websites that do a good job of answering this question--or aspects of
it.  Please send them directly to me at <rkb at email.byu.edu> and I'll
summarize for the list.  If you happen to have something else (a handout,
pamphlet, quote...) you'd recommend, let me know.  I'd like to include this
sort of thing on AATA's website.

Thanks,

Kirk

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 19 17:38:36 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:38:36 -0700
Subject: ARABI-L: GEN: New CD on Palestinian Folk Music
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Date: 19 Mar 1999
From: sjabbour at usa.healthnet.org
Subject: New CD on Palestinian Folk Music

Dear Colleagues,

El-Funoun, Palestinian Popular Arts Troupe, has just released their
first CD called ""Zaghareed,"" Arabic for Ululations.  The CD is a
modern interpretation of traditional Palestinian wedding songs.
Inspired by the ceremonial songs, the music was composed and arranged by
Mohsen Subhi. The first work of Palestinian folk music ever released in
the US, "Zaghareed" is passionate and inspirational, a truly remarkable
piece of Arab heritage.

I quote from the accompanying book: "It is a remarkable project,
combining the unforgettable sounds of the zaghareed with a traditional
Arab ensemble to address the sensitive issue of arranged marriages, the
right to choose, and the crucial need to release Palestinian folk music
from the chains of purists - all this, set against the even larger hope
of building a Palestinian cultural identity amidst the day to day
struggles of living under the Israeli occupation."

Zaghareed is released under the label "Cafe International."  Their web
page is: www.cafeint.com.

Samer Jabbour
Boston, MA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 23 17:51:35 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:51:35 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Classification of Languages--Thanks
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Date: 23 Mar 1999
From: Gunvor Mejdell <Gunvor.Mejdell at easteur-orient.uio.no>
Subject: Classification of Languages--Thanks

Dear collegues
thanks to all of you who responded either directly to me or to the list,
you have been most helpful. The information I received has been
incorporated, as supportive  evidence`, into our note to the University
administration - and the matter (ressources and levels for Oriental
languages) will be decided next Fall

as you may have gathered from the answers on this list, the Defence
Language Institute is the source of the classification most commonly
referred to. Roger Allen also reminded me of his article

"Teaching Arabic in the United States: Past, Present, and Future," in THE
ARABIC LANGUAGE IN AMERICA ed. Aleya Rouchdy, Detroit: Wayne State
University, 1992, pp. 222-50.

which comments on  this classification with  a "handle with care" approach.

The number of semesters recommended before entering post-graduate
programmes (for the languages taught at our Department) are:

Russian and other Slavonic languages: 4 (a higher degree of proficiency is
expected in these languages than in the following)
Persian, Hebrew, Finnish and Turkish: 4
Arabic, Sanskrit, Urdu/Hindi 5
Japanese, Chinese (and Korean from next year) 6

best wishes
Gunvor Mejdell

(plese note change of address : @east.uio.no  . I shall  inform  the
list-server.)


1. aman. Gunvor Mejdell
Institutt for |steuropeiske og orientalske studier
POB 1030, Blindern
0315 Oslo
tel. + 47 22 85 47 76    FAX +47 22 85 41 40
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:47:12 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Al-Adab's New Issue
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Date: 23 Mar 1999
From: dar eladab <d_aladab at cyberia.net.lb>
Subject: Al-Adab's New Issue

AL-ADAB #3-4/99: DIALOGUES

GEORGES TARABISHI contributes the editorial for this issue with an essay
critiquing the recent files in Al-Adab on "A Critique of Modernism" and
"A Critique of Arab Modernism."

Featured in this issue are 3 extensive dialogues:

1) with Egyptian political expert SAYYID YASIN on "Intellectual Identity
in an era of Cultural Siege and Globalization."

2) with Syrian Marxist-nationalist philosopher TAYYIB TIZINI, "Towards a
Counter-Globalization."

3) with Lebanese novelist RASHID AL-DA'IF on "Fear, Confession, and the
Collapse of Politics."

Also, 3 critical essays:

1) `Abd al-Razzaq `Id of Syria analyzes the career of the recently deceased
HADI AL-`ALAWI, the Iraqi exile whose eclectic life brought
meaning to a mixture of faith, struggle, and multi-denominational
morality.

2) Sa`id `Allouche, the monumental Moroccan literary critic, challenges
Mohammad Miftah and `Abdallah al-Ghadhami's understanding of two newly
emerging concepts in Arab literary criticism: al-`Ama' (chaos) and
al-Tashwish (distortion).

3) Fateh `Abd al-Salam, from Iraq, proposes some foundations for ARAB
CREATIVITY on the brink of the millenium.

Book Reviews and Studies: on Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said,
al-Yater by Hana Mina, Bab al-Shams by Elias Khuri, Ru'a wa Dhilal by
`A.-R. M. al-Rubay`i, and the corpus of Evelyn Accad.

Poems and Short Stories: Poetry by `Abd al-`Aziz al-Maqalih and `Izz
al-din al-Manasra, and others.  Fiction by Shawqi Baghdadi, `Abd
al-Sitar Nasr, and others.

TO ACQUIRE A COPY of this issue, please contact Dar al-Adab's subscriptions
manager, Kirsten Scheid, by e-mail at the following address:
kidriss at cyberia.net.lb. Each issue with postage
by airmail costs US$13 (or equivalent in your local currency) which can
be paid by money-order,check, credit card, or bank transfer (Dar al-Adab
at the Arab Bank, Verdun Branch, Beirut, #338-756059-810-1).  Payment
should be sent to Dar al-Adab, P.O. Box 11-4123, Beirut, Lebanon.

SUBSCRIPTIONS to Al-Adab, a 104-page, bimonthly Arabic-language journal,
are available for $75 for individuals and $100 for institutions, postage
by registered mail included.  Contact the subscriptions manager at the
e-mail address above.

***********************************************************************
         Al-Adab: "...represents to me connection between the present,
the heritage, and the modern age." -- Naguib Mahfuz
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 23 17:52:27 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:52:27 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Adverbials/Adverbs
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Date: 23 Mar 1999
From: Bugeja Alan John at MFA <alan-john.bugeja at magnet.mt>
Subject: Adverbials/Adverbs

Dear Arabic list subscribers.

I am currently working on research on adverbialisers (Subordinating morphemes
that mark clauses for time, location and manner) in Tunisian in order to
conduct
a comparitive study with the closed class in Maltese.

Examples of adverbialisers in Tunisian are as follows :

Time : waqtaash (when); tawwa (now); qbel (before); bikri (early) etc.

Location : wiin (where); femma (there is); ghadi (over there); lfouq (up
there);
louta (down there/downstairs) etc.

Manner : hakka (thus); yaser (too much) ; barsha (a lot) etc..


Any works or references on adverbials/adverbs in other
Arabic dialects/fusha which you could recommend would be appreciated.

Thanks for your attention and assistance.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 26 00:54:31 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:54:31 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: Arabic Music Notation
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1)
Date: 25 Mar 1999
From: abder.kazzoul at vx.cit.alcatel.fr
Subject: Arabic Music Notation


  Bonjour

Je suis un musicien a la recherche de logiciel pour ecrire  des partitions
de musique arabe. Est-ce vous pourriez me dire ou je pourrai trouver ce
genre de produit.
Je vous remercie.
Abderrahman


I'm an arabic musicien and looking for a software in order who permits me
to write an arabic music (Rasd, Saba, Houzam...). Could you tell me please
where can I find this kind of product.
Abderrahman --
Adresse:
        100 Rue E.BRANLY
        91 700 Ste GENEVIEVE DES BOIS
Tel:    33 1 64 49 22 75 Bureau(W)
        33 6 15 02 63 04 Portable (Mobile)
mailto:abder.kazzoul at vx.cit.alcatel.fr

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 26 00:45:24 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:45:24 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Arabiyya articles
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1)
Date: 25 Mar 1999
From: AATA <aata at byu.edu>
Subject: Arabiyya articles


Al-cArabiyya
The Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic
Al-cArabiyya, is the annual journal of the American Association of Teachers
of Arabic serving scholars in the U.S. and abroad.  Al-cArabiyya
publishes scholarly and pedagogical articles and reviews which contribute
to the advancement of study, criticism, research, and teaching in the
fields of Arabic language, literature, and linguistics.  Occasionally,
translations of important Arabic texts are published.  Subscriptions are
annual at the following rates:  Students - $15.00,  Individuals - $25.00,
Institutions - $200.00.  These fees include membership in the American
Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) and subscription to the AATA
Newsletter.  For more information please write:

The American Association of Teachers of Arabic
280 HRCB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
aata at byu.edu

Contents of Volumes 30 and 31 include:

Volume 30 1997 CONTENTS

Articles

The Problem of Diglossia in the Arab World
ABDALLAH AL-KHATANY	 				        1

Araa' Wa Ittijahat hawla Al-Fusha Wal-'ammiyya
BADER S. DWEIK	 					       31

On Acquisition Order of Agreement Procedures in Arabic
Learner Language
HELLE LYKKE NIELSEN					       49

Feminist Discourse Between Art & Ideology: Four Novels
by Nawal El-Saadawi
WEN-CHIN OUYANG					        95


Book Reviews

Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi,
Alif Baa: An Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds
and Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic Part I
(MUSHIRA EID)						         117

Hedi Bouraoui, Retour à Thyna
(AIDA A. BAMIA)						         125

Monique Bernards, Changing Traditions: Al-Mubarrad's
Refutation of Sibawayh and the Subsequent Reception of
the Kitaab
(ADRIAN GULLY)					          129

Mushira Eid and Dilworth Parkinson, eds., Perspectives on
Arabic Linguistics IX
(PAUL STEVENS)						          133

Bruce Ingham, Najd¬ Arabic: Central Arabian
(F.J. CADORA)						           143

Jacques Cotnam, ed., Hédi Bouraoui: Iconoclaste et chantre du transculturel
(DRISS CHERKAOUI)					           147

Muhammad Sawaie, Linguistic Variation and Speakers'
Attitudes: A Sociolinguistic Study of Some Arabic Dialects
(NILOOFAR HAERI) 					           151

Baha' Taher, Aunt -afiyya and the Monastery
(ADNAN HAYDAR)					           159

Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi,
Al-Kitaab fii Tacallum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for
Arabic. Part II.
(SAL¡M A. KHALDIEH)					            165

Muhammad Sawaie, reviewer, Al-Tanbih cAla Ghalat Al-Jaahil
wa-An-Nabih
(MOHAMMAD ISSA)					             171


Corrigenda to"A Diatribe in Displacement: The Mataalib
 al-Wazirayn of Al-Tawhidi" by Asma Afsaruddin in Al-Arabiyya,
 Volume 29





Volume 31 1998 CONTENTS

Articles

Relativization in Egyptian Educated Spoken Arabic
	DALIA ABOU HAGAR					        1

Language Attitude and the Promotion of Standard Arabic and Arabicization
	FAWWAZ AL-ABED AL-HAQ				               21

Ellipsis in Arabic and its Impact on Translation
	SAID EL-SHIYAB						       39

Vocabulary Studies from Arabic and Western Perspectives: Theory
and Practice
	ADEL GAMAL						        55

Case-Checking by Morpholigical Causatives in Standard Arabic: A
Minimalistic Approach
	MARK LETOURNEAU					                89

Women's Speech and Language Variation in Arabic Dialects
	JUDITH ROSENHOUSE				            	125


Report

The Arabic Language in a Global Age
	ALI  FARGHALY				            		155

     Book Reviews

Mahdi Alosh, Learner, Text, and Context in Foreign Language Acquisition
(NABIL M.S. ABDELFATTAH)			            		199

Alaa Elgibali, ed., Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic
Linguistics in Honor of El-Said Badawi
(R. KIRK BELNAP)					           	 205

Muther A. Younes, Elementary Arabic: An Integrated Approach
(AMIN BONNAH)					            		211

Terri DeYoung, Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq
(ISSA J. BOULLATA)					            	215

Asma Afsaruddin and A.H. Mathias Zahniser, eds., Humanism, Culture, and
Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff
(MICHAEL FISHBEIN)				            		217

Susanne Enderwitz, Liebe als Beruf: Al-cAbbas Ibn al-Ahnaf und das Gazal
(BEATRICE GRUENDLER)				           		221

Salih Sa'id Agha, Dhu R-Rumma: khulaasat at-tajriba as-sahraawiyya
(SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI)				            	        229

Andrea Rugh, Within the Circle: Parents and Children in an Arab Village
(ALEYA ROUCHDY)					            	235

R. Kirk Belnap and Nilofar Haeri, eds., Structuralist Studies in Arabic
Linguistics: Charles A. Ferguson's Papers, 1954 - 1994
(KARIN C. RYDING)					           	239

In Memorium: Charles A. Ferguson
R. KIRK BELNAP					           		243
			           		243

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 26 17:59:33 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:59:33 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:PEDA: U of Pennsylvania Summer Arabic
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Date: 26 Mar 1999
From:  Mary Martin <marym at mec.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Arabic announcement.

PLEASE NOTE THAT INTERMEDIATE HAS BEEN ADDED TO ELEMENTARY. The previous
notice that went out over this list was for elementary. Thanks, MM



 Summer Intensive Courses in Elementary and Second year Arabic
 Summer Session 1:  May 17th-June 25th, 1999.
 The University of Pennsylvania

 Elementary Arabic is an intensive, full year courses in Modern Standard
 Arabic, the Arabic used in formal discourse in the contemporary Arab
 world.  Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able
 to read and understand texts on familiar topics, carry on simple
 conversations, and engage in basic written correspondence.  The course
 will cover the same material as Penn's year-long Elementary Arabic course

 (AMES 030), and will prepare students for Penn's second-year course,
 Intermediate Arabic (AMES 031).

 Second year Arabic assumes knowledge of first year Arabic or the
 equivalent.  The goal of the course is to expand the student'
 vocabulary, ability to apply the grammar learned in first year Arabic
 and acclimatize the student to a native speaking environmen

 Graduate students studying medieval Islamic civilization or comparative
 Semitic studies will be introduced to bibliographic tools for the study
 of early and classical Arabic.

 For more information, contact the Penn Language Center at
 plc at ccat.sas.upenn.edu  or  (215) 898-6039.  Questions on the content of
 the courses may be sent to dahollen at sas.upenn.edu.


--
Mary Martin
Assistant Director
Middle East Center
838 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
(215) 898 4690
Fax: (215) 573 2003
email: marym at mec.sas.upenn.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 29 17:15:52 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:15:52 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Fiction; Web Publishing Queries
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Date: 29 Mar 1999
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Fiction; Web Publishing Queries

Hi,

  I am getting ready to scan in a as large a quantity of Arabic text as I
can do in one summer so that I can use Sakhr's OCR program to convert them
to character data, in shaa' allaah.

I have two broad purposes:
1)
  I want to create a relatively small (100,000< words < 1,000,000,) corpus
of both Modern Standard and Classical Arabic texts.

  I would like to compare Modern Standard with Classical Texts

	a) fiction
	b) theology
	c) science
	d) kalaam
	e) fiqh


  I would also like to compare MSA from the Maghrib with MSA from the
Mashriq
	a) fiction
	b) newspapers
	c) technical writing

	Question one:

	Who should I use for good examples of fiction????
SO far
I have:
        Mashriq			Maghhreb
	Huda Barakaat		Mohammed Barrada
	Naguib Mahfouz		Bahouche Yacine
	Hanan Al-Shaykh		????????
	Yusif Idriis
	Tayeb Salih
	Abdul Rahmaan Al-Sharqawi
	Ibrahim al-Hariri
 	Rashid Al-Da'if
	Elias Khoury
	Salim Barakaat
	Salwaa Bakr
	Najwaa Barakaat
	Ahmed Baydoun
	Ghada Samman
Classical:

	kalila wa damma, 1001 nights, ibn Khaldoun, ibn Arabi, ibn Batouta

2) I would also like to put up as much as I can onto a Web page.

   Does anybody know what any of the copyright issues are?? What, if
anything, can I put up with impunity?  If I protect it behind a password
and make it into a "library", for language teachers and linguists does
that make a difference???? Can anybody point me at a relevant Web page or
something?
   Also any contact information for any Authors or journals would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanx,

Andrew Freeman
Ph.D. student Arabic Linguistics
U of M,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 30 17:45:29 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:45:29 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Fiction; Web Publishing Reply
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Date: 30 Mar 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Copyrights

>  2) I would also like to put up as much as I can onto a Web page.
>
>     Does anybody know what any of the copyright issues are?? What, if
>  anything, can I put up with impunity?  If I protect it behind a password
>  and make it into a "library", for language teachers and linguists does
>  that make a difference???? Can anybody point me at a relevant Web page or
>  something?
>     Also any contact information for any Authors or journals would be
>  greatly appreciated.
>
>  Thanx,
>
>  Andrew Freeman
>  Ph.D. student Arabic Linguistics
>  U of M,
>  Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

My partner and I, were talking about starting a website dedicated
to free information about Arabic language and technology. We did
register "arabicsoftware.org", soon will be up soliciting contributions
from my fellow Arabic-L mailing list.

Ah, copyright?! I could not start telling you how much it hurts
to see your work being plagiarized. AramediA's site has been
plagiarized in its entirety, by someone who was given the first
Webpage making lesson by the undersigned: "ittakou Sharra
Mann A7santa iLayhem".

Do not tell the thief, but I spoke to our attorney, Internet copyright
is not defined and without precedent; a copyright warning at the
bottom of the page is not a protection, unless copyrighted at an
attorney's, the right way.

I think it is OK to post material that is not used for profit, and credit
given to authors/writers/composers in recognition for their work, and
asking for permission, when possible, will not hurt.

George N. Hallak
www.aramedia.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 31 16:55:44 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:55:44 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: More Arabic Music Notation
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Date: 31 Mar 1999
From: "Chouairi, R. MR           DFL" <GR6548 at exmail.usma.army.mil>
Subject: Arabic Music Notation Response

To the friend who wrote in French asking where to find a software for the
writing of Arabic music.

Cher Monsieur
Les logiciels employes en musique occidentale peuvent bien vous aider.  La
partition necessaire pour determiner un Maqam en musique Arabe ne rend pas
l'ecriture musicale Orientale tellement differente pour necessiter l'emploi
d'un logiciel special.  Comme vous le savez bien, vous pouvez determiner les
quarts de tons (1/4 ou 3/4) en mettant un trait sur le bemol.  Quant a la
direction de l'ecriture, les meilleures ecritures et orchestrations de
musique orientale jamais, sont ecrites de gauche a droite (comme en musique
occidentale).  Cela dit, je doute de l'efficacite artistique de n'importe
quel logiciel.  Il me parait que le musicien passe beaucoup plus de temps a
resoudre des problemes d'ordre informatique, que de s'occuper de la creation
artistique dictee par son imagination.  (Comme je viens de le faire en
evitant de mettre les accents necessaires pour ecrire en Francais a travers
un logiciel Anglais).
					Rajaa Chouairi
					  Abou Fouad


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 31 16:58:51 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:58:51 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Fiction; Web Publishing Discussion
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Date: 31 Mar 1999
From: Michael Fishbein <FISHBEIN at humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject: Fiction; Web Publishing Discussion

In response to Andrew Freeman's question about works to include in a corpus of
Classical Arabic, I have some questions about the list of genres that he
proposes. To
begin with the first, fiction is not a well-defined category of pre-modern
Arabic
prose. There is much narrative prose in older Arabic literature, but most
of it
occurs within works of history, geography, biography, and (for want of a
better term)
adab. So I would rework the fiction category into a series of categories
closer to
those used in classical Arabic.

Kalila wa Dimna, which is a close translation from a Pahlavi original,
itself a
translation from Sanskrit, is not a typical work of Arabic literature. Ibn al-
Muqaffa' was heavily influenced in his syntax and idioms by the original.

The 1001 Nights would be interesting. However, it belongs to what can best
be called
Middle Arabic, not to Classical Arabic.

As for including technical works (grammar, exegesis, jurisprudence, theology,
philosophy, medicine, etc.), I think it is a bad idea, because one will be
comparing
apples and oranges. Each of these fields has its own vocabulary of
technical terms
and its own conventions of presentation and argumentation. I would avoid
technical
literature entirely and concentrate on classical texts of history, biography,
geography (travels), and adab. As for authors, round up "the usual
suspects"--Ibn
Hisham, the Aghani, Jahiz, Tabari, Mas'udi, Tawhidi, Yaqut, Ibn Khallikan, Ibn
Khaldun. Do, however, try to do examples the mainstream of non-technical
prose first.

********************
Michael Fishbein
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511

(310) 206-2229 (office, 389A Kinsey Hall))
(310) 206-6456 (fax)
fishbein at humnet.ucla.edu
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  1 19:34:55 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:34:55 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: History of Islam in China
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1) Subject: History of Islam in China

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Date: 01 Mar 1999
From: Jackie Armijo-Hussein <jma40 at cornell.edu>
Subject: History of Islam in China

Dear Colleagues in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies:
Although I have been working on the early history of Islam in China for
many years, I have recently begun a research project on the influence of
international Islamic universities on Chinese Muslim students who study
abroad.  I have planned a series of trips to centers of Islamic learning
around the world to interview Chinese Muslim students about their
experiences at these schools.  I am especially interested in the potential
impact of their educational experiences on their communities upon their
return to China.  My first trip will be to Syria and Egypt, and I am
writing now in the hopes of finding other scholars who have studied the
role of international Islamic education on Muslim students coming from
communities quite distant from the Islamic heartland, and scholars familiar
with al-Azhar and the Islamic universities in Damascus who may be able to
assist me.  I have spent the last 5 years living in China and carrying out
research among Muslim communities there.  And although I have studied both
Qur'anic and Modern Standard Arabic for many years, they are both so rusty
now, I plan to use Chinese alone for the interviews.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


Jackie Armijo-Hussein
jma40 at cornell.edu


Jacqueline M. Armijo-Hussein, Ph.D.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Asian Studies - Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

email: jma40 at cornell.edu

phone: (607) 255-8847 (office)
             253-5431 (home)
fax:         255-1345

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  1 19:36:17 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:36:17 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:GEN:Easter/Summer Courses 1999 in London
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.123617.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Easter/Summer Courses 1999 in London

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Date: 01 Mar 1999
From: Sherin AbdelHalim <sa15 at soas.ac.uk>
Subject: Easter/Summer Courses 1999 in London

Dear All,

I have received enquiries regarding the SOAS Language Centre Intensive
Courses held over Easter/Summer 1999, and below is the relevant
information.
You may want to also check our complete timetable of Easter/Summer 1999
language courses on    http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/languagecentre/arabic.
Please, do not hesitate to e-mail directly on  << sa15 at soas.ac.uk >>  if
you have any more queries.

________________________________________________________

*	University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies
	Language  Centre - ARABIC LANGUAGE COURSES


The Language Centre provides Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced evening
and daytime Arabic language courses in addition to our  one/two/four-week
intensive courses.  We can also provide individually tailored courses and
in-company instruction.  All our courses are taught in small groups with a
maximum of 12 participants per group.   Classes are held at SOAS in central
London.

The following is information regarding intensive Easter/Summer Courses.

1.	One-week Survival course in Modern Standard Arabic.
2.	One-week Survival course in Colloquial Egyptian Dialect

	Both courses 1 & 2 are offered on the following dates:

	A. 	Monday 22nd March - Friday 26th March 1999
		(closing date for applications 12th March 1999)

	B. 	Monday 12th July - Friday 16th July 1999
		(closing date for applications 2nd July 1999)

	C. 	Monday 9th August - Friday 13th August 1999
		(closing date for applications 30th July 1999)

FEES:  ?250 per person, for a total of 25 hours of tuition, including
materials, payable in advance.
VAT is not payable.


3.	Two-week Intensive Course in Modern Standard Arabic
4.	Two-week Intensive Course in Colloquial Egyptian 	Dialect

	Both courses 3 & 4 are offered on the following dates:

	A.	 Monday 6th April - Friday 19th April 1999
		(closing date for applications 22nd March 1999)

	B. 	Monday 19th July - Friday 30th July 1999
		(closing date for applications 9th July 1999)

	C. 	Monday 16th August - Friday 27th August 1999
		(closing date for applications 6th August 1999)

FEES:  ?500 per person, for a total of 50 hours of tuition, including
materials, payable in advance.
VAT is not payable.


5.	The Four Week Arabic Course -
	A general preparation for communicating in  Modern Standard Arabic.
6.	The Four Week Arabic Course -
	A general preparation for communicating in Colloquial Egyptian Dialect.

	Both  courses  5 & 6 are offered on the following dates:

	A.	Monday 5th-Friday 30th July 1999
		(closing date for application 21st June 1999)

	B.	Monday 2nd-Friday 27th August 1999
		(closing date for application 19th July1999)


FEES:  ?1000 per person, for a total of 100 hours of tuition, including
materials, payable in advance.
VAT is not payable.


 SELF-ACCESS LEARNING
The Resources Room is open to Language Centre students free of charge. It
contains audio listening and recording facilities, reception of 19
satellite TV and
radio stations (including BBC World Service radio programmes), computers
with Internet access, and an increasing range of computer-based language
learning software. Students are encouraged to use the facilities in their
own time in order to build upon skills learnt in the classroom.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Completed application forms, together with fee payment, should be returned to
SOAS Language Centre. Please note that classes fill up quickly. It is best to
apply early in order to avoid disappointment. No charge is made for
cancellations received in writing up to two weeks before the course starts;
thereafter, there is a 10% cancellation fee or the fee may be transferred to an
alternative course. Refunds cannot be made once a course has started. The
information in this leaflet is correct at the time of printing; SOAS
reserves the
right to make amendments where necessary. A minimum of five students is
required for the course to start.


HOW TO CONTACT US
http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/languagecentre/arabic

E-mail:	 	languages at soas.ac.uk

Telephone:	UK: 0171 691 3386
		World: +44 171 691 3386

Fax:		UK: 0171 637 7355
		World: +44 171 637 7355


 Post:		The Courses Secretary
               		Language Centre
                 	School of Oriental and African Studies
                 	Thornhaugh Street
                 	Russell Square
                 	LONDON
                 	WC1H OXG



..........................................................................
Sherin Abdel Halim
Co-ordinator of Arabic Language Courses
Language Centre, SOAS, University of London
Tel UK:  0171 323 6379	World:  +44 171 323 6379
Fax UK:  0171 637 7355	World:  +44 171 637 7355

Check our Language Centre Arabic courses at:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/languagecentre/arabic

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar  2 20:46:34 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:46:34 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Arabic language in US
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAR.1999.134634.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Arabic language in US

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Date: 02 Mar 1999
From: Lisa Buckmaster <saxxgod at hotmail.com>
Subject: Arabic language in US

I am an undergraduate student trying to learn Arabic in the US.
Unfortunately, my university does not offer Arabic, so I've had to study
it through intensive summer programs around the country. I've heard that
Middlebury College is the best place for languages, but it's so
expensive! I know it's a long shot, but does anyone know of a comparable
(yet cheaper) program to Middlebury, or any sources of financial aid for
students studying in summer language courses?

Thank you,
Lisa J. Buckmaster
saxxgod at hotmail.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 16:54:13 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:54:13 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: Standard Arabic databases
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.095413.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Standard Arabic databases

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1)
Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: James Dickins <James.Dickins at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Standard Arabic databases

Does anybody have any information about databases for Standard Arabic? I'm
thinking of something along the lines of the COBUILD (Collins Birmingham
University International Language Database) for English.

I would be very grateful for any information.


James Dickins

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 16:58:31 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:58:31 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Arabic language in US Response
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.095831.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Arabic language in US Response

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1)
Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Arabic language in US Response

[In response to a query from Lisa Buckmaster]

Greetings,

In order to suggest some suitable programs in basic acquisition offered by
universities or other sources that are close to you, could you kindly clarify:

o  Where do you live in the US ?

o  Which particular skills in the language you want to develop first?

o  Learn Formal Spoken Arabic (FSA) only or include a regional dialect of
interest?

There is a range of different offerings available, so salection can depend on
your interests, needs, funds, time available and desired application or
ultimate skills(s).

You also might consider transferring to another university.

HTH.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 16:55:27 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:55:27 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: "Zelemy" Query
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.095527.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: "Zelemy"

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Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: Neal Kaloupek <nkaloupek at csi.com>
Subject: "Zelemy"

I have a quick question: when I lived in Jordan I learned the word "zelemy",
meaning "friend", "buddy", "chum", "pal", etc. I recently tried to find it
in Hans Wehr, but couldn't find a root that made sense (also taking into
account that a number of letters are commonly pronounced "z" in Jordan, such
as TH, DH, etc.) Can anyone tell me the root of this word?

Thank you.

Neal Kaloupek

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 21:58:59 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:58:59 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: ALS Conference Update
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.145859.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Room Change

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1)
Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: Khalil Barhoum <khalil at stanford.edu>
Subject: Room Change

Please bring to everybody's attention the following change of rooms in the
ALS conference:

On Friday, March 5, 1999 the meeting will be held in Building 260, Room
113, instead of Building 300, room 300 as advertised. The Saturday meeting
stays the same and will be held in Building 300, room 300. The two
buildings are adjacent to each other.

Thanks.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar  3 21:55:03 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:55:03 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Libyan Arabic
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.145503.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Libyan Arabic

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1)
Date: 03 Mar 1999
From: MaryAnn Cockerill <cockeril at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Libyan Arabic

Does anyone know of teaching materials or grammars of Libyan dialect
Arabic?  (Or even collections of papers on it, particular publications to
check, etc.)  Thanks,

MaryAnn
cockeril at fas.harvard.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 00:15:30 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:15:30 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:LING:"Zelemy" Responses
Message-ID: <THU.4.MAR.1999.171530.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: metathesis
2) Subject: metathesis
3) Subject: stranger, friend

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1)
Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: metathesis

this looks interesting.
it appears that this might be derived from /zamiil/ "colleague", the word
then having undergone metathesis (whereby two consonants are reversed -
consider /comfortable/, which can become /comfterble/ in spoken English.

you can see the same thing with /zoog/ "spouse" "husband", which usually
appears as /gooz/ in speech (of sourse in jordan it would be /jooz/).
a curious thing about this last is the feminine form retains its original
order of consonants:  /zooga/.

david wilmsen
director, arabic and translation studies
american university in cairo

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2)
Date: 04 Mar 1999
From:  Robert Langer <rlanger at ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: metathesis

What I thought of first is "zam?l" = "comrade"; "zam?l?" = "my comrade". Is
there a metathesis in Jordanian Arabic leading to zelem?

Robert Langer
Tutor, Islamwissenschaft, Universit?t Heidelberg

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3)
Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: stranger, friend

Dear Neal,

"Zelemy" is supposed to mean "Rejjal" or man. "Zameel" means friend.
A "Zelemy" can be either a stranger, or a friend.

George N. Hallak
http://aramedia.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 00:39:20 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:39:20 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:PEDA:Libyan Arabic Response
Message-ID: <THU.4.MAR.1999.173920.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Libyan Arabic

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1)
Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: Mark David Luce <mdluce at go.com.jo>
Subject: Libyan Arabic

I used a book called Tripolitanian Arabic around 1966.  I am away from my
library so I can't give you any other details.  Hope that helps.


Mark David Luce
P.O. Box 676,  11118 Abdoun
Amman, Jordan
Tel: 962-6-5857669

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 00:38:02 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:38:02 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:LING:Call for Papers
Message-ID: <THU.4.MAR.1999.173802.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics - Call for Papers

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Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: rapp at usun1.fask.uni-mainz.de (Reinhard Rapp)
Subject: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics - Call for Papers

        ---------------------------------------------------------
       /            34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS              /
      /                                                        /
     /                  September 7-10, 1999                  /
    /                                                        /
   /                University of Mainz, Germany            /
  /                                                        /
 /                        CALL FOR PAPERS                 /
 ---------------------------------------------------------

We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium
of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg-
Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural
Studies, Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999.
The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the
Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the
colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice
of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and
French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes
10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31,
1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference.
The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the
conference with Peter Lang-Verlag.

In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will
be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises
three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a
specific field for audiences with a different focus of research.

We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the
old city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle
on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer,
whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world
cultural heritage.

Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the
attention of interested colleagues. More information can be
found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/

Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber                    Dr. Reinhard Rapp


IMPORTANT DATES

May 31, 1999    - Submission of abstracts
                - Conference registration (reduced rate)
                - Registration for tutorials & excursion
                - Hotel reservation

Nov. 30, 1999   - Submission of full papers for the proceedings


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

-----------------------------------------------------------
               |  Morning    |   Afternoon  |    Evening
---------------+-------------+--------------+--------------
 Tue, Sept. 7  |  Tutorials  |   Tutorials  |  Germersheim
               |             |              |  Guided Tour
---------------+-------------+--------------+--------------
 Wed, Sept. 8  | Opening &   |     Papers   |    Reception
               |   Papers    |              |
---------------+-------------+-----------------------------
 Thu, Sept. 9  |   Papers    |   Excursion to Heidelberg
               |             |          and Speyer
---------------+-------------------------------------------
 Fri, Sept. 10 |    Papers &    |         (Departure)
               | Conference End |
-----------------------------------------------------------


TUTORIALS

-----------------------------------------------------------
    Time     |            Tutorial            |  Language
-------------+--------------------------------+------------
 9.00-12.30  |  Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural  |
             |  Language Parsing, Part 1      |  English
             |                                |
 9.00-12.30  |  Christian Otto: Sprachtech-   |  German
             |  nologie fuer das Internet     |
-------------+--------------------------------+------------
 14.00-17.30 |  Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural  |
             |  Language Parsing, Part 2      |  English
             |                                |
 14.00-17.30 |  Prof. Uta Seewald-Heeg:       |  German
             |  Maschinelle Uebersetzung      |
-----------------------------------------------------------

The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the confe-
rence (Sept. 7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the
second day. For each tutorial, a description can be found at
http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/


CONFERENCE SITE

The Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK)
of the University of Mainz is located in Germersheim in the south-
west of Germany on the Rhine between the cities of Mannheim and
Karlsruhe. It can easily be reached by car, train, and airplane.
With its 2500 students, more than 1000 of whom coming from 70
different foreign countries, the faculty is known as one of the
world's largest institutions dedicated to the training and edu-
cation of translators and interpreters. Within walking distance
from the faculty, six hotels and the student's residence are
available with single rooms priced between 30 and 90 DM per
night. Meals are provided by the university canteen, the cafe-
teria, and by a number of restaurants (with lunch specials).
The main attractions in and around Germersheim are its fortress,
the German wine road, the Palatinate Forest with Hambach Castle,
Speyer, Heidelberg, the Castle Park in Schwetzingen and the
Old Abbey in Maulbronn.


INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Dr. Susanne Beckmann, University of Muenster
Dr. Abraham P. ten Cate, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Dr. Tadeusz Danilewicz, Gdansk University
Prof. Dr. K. Dorfmueller-Karpusa, Univ. of Thessaloniki
Dieter W. Halwachs, University of Graz
Prof. Dr. Mikhail Kotin, State University Moscow
Prof. Dr. Wim Klooster, University of Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kuerschner, University of Osnabrueck
Dr. Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz (Conference Chair)
Prof. Dr. Hans Otto Spillmann, University of Kassel
Prof. Dr. Kazimierz A. Sroka, Gdansk University
Dr. Juerg Straessler, University of Bern
Prof. Dr. Zygmunt Vetulani, University of Poznan
Prof. Dr. Richard J. Watts, University of Bern
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Weber, University of Tuebingen
Dr. Ingo Warnke, University of Kassel
Dr. habil. Lew Zybatow, University of Bielefeld


CONFERENCE ADDRESS

Please send all correspondence to the following address:

34th Colloquium of Linguistics   http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/
c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp            rapp at usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de
Universitaet Mainz, FASK         Phone:  (+49) 7274 / 508-457
D-76711 Germersheim              Fax:    (+49) 7274 / 508-429
Germany


CONFERENCE FEE

The conference fee is 100 DM for early registration (120 DM after
May 31, 1999). This sum includes the registration fee and will,
among other things, cover pre-conference materials, tea and
coffee, the guided tour through Germersheim on Tuesday and the
reception on Wednesday. It will not, however, cover meals,
accomodation, proceedings, the excursion to Heidelberg (30 DM),
and the tutorials (20 DM per tutorial, written documentation
included). Accepted currencies are DM and Euro (exchange rate:
1 Euro = 2 DM).


BANK ACCOUNT

The total amount (registration fee, excursion, and tutorials)
should be transferred until May 31, 1999 to the following
university account (other possibilities of payment see website):

Account holder:                Universitaet Mainz

Account number:                550 015 11

Bank code number:              550 000 00

Bank:                          Landeszentralbank Mainz

Details of payment:            6101 28201 2300 514
(important!)                   34th Colloquium of Linguistics
                               "name of participant"


REGISTRATION FORM

Please fill in a printed copy of this registration form and
send it to the above address together with your abstract and
a copy of your bank remittance by regular mail.

Surname ______________________________________________

First Name(s) ________________________________________

Title ________________________________________________

Affiliation __________________________________________

Street _______________________________________________

Code, City ___________________________________________

Country ______________________________________________

Telephone and Fax ____________________________________

e-mail _______________________________________________


[] I would like to attend the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics

[] I will deliver a paper with the following title: ...........

  .............................................................

Presentation Language:    []  German   []  English   []  French

Field (1 = first choice, 2 = second choice):

[]  Theory of Linguistics      []  Syntax
[]  Comparative Linguistics    []  Semantics
[]  Phonology / Phonetics      []  Morphology
[]  Diachronic Linguistics     []  Text / Discourse
[]  Translation Theory         []  Semiotics
[]  Computational Linguistics  []  Pragmatics
[]  Lexicography / Lexicology  []  Sociolinguistics
[]  Psycholinguistics          []  Other: ......................

[]  An abstract is enclosed (200 to 300 words, printout plus
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 00:40:27 1999
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:40:27 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: Standard Arabic databases response
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Date: 04 Mar 1999
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Standard Arabic databases response

Hi James,

For my dictionary-project I'm working with a text-corpus that was compiled
by myself:
- OCR-processed novels (about 35 novels)
- OCR-processed non-literary txt (a few meg's)
- data from Al Hayat CD
- data from the internet

If people would have other data and would be prepared to exchange I would
be willing to consider this. However, the huge quantity of data available
already, I'm not really looking out for extra materials.

Furhter, is the Lebanese Qalam site still active? Here they were also
making text-data available.

That's it for now.

Jan (Abu Samir)


Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland
Department of Arabic, Nijmegen University (the Netherlands)
PO Box 9103, NL 6500 HD Nijmegen, the Netherlands
phone +-31-24-3615676, fax +-31-24-3500719, E-mail: J.HOOGLAND at LET.KUN.NL

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 20:12:42 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:12:42 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:LING: Zalama Discussion
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1) Subject: Root is ZLM
2) Subject: No Need for Metathesis!
3) Subject: On Zalamah: Errata

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1)
Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Root is ZLM

In rural (Druze) Lebanese dialect zalami is the only word for "man",
equivalent to rijjeel in urban Lebanese and other dialects.  In the plural
it means also may mean "retainer", as in zilimtu 'his henchmen'.

The root is ZLM.

A. Barthelmy in his Dictionnaire Arabe-Francais, which covers Greater
Syria, lists zalame - zlaam as "homme, individu; pieton; homme viril". For
its etymology he says it is borrowed from Bedouin Arabic, giving the
literary Arabic form zalamatu- "apparence, silhouette d'homme".  He adds:
compare it to (Literary Arabic) thalamu- (th = theta) "silhouette d'homme"
and Hebrew shelem "image, spectre" (p. 318).

Lane in his Lexicon (p. 1247) lists the verb zalama - yazlumu 'to cut off
(nose, etc.)' and gives the noun zalam - 'azlaam 'arrow without a head and
without feathers'.  He does not give the meaning "man" for it.

Ernest N. McCarus

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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: No Need for Metathesis!

On "Zalama(h)":  No Need for Metathesis!

	Colleagues Neal Kaloupek, David Wilson, Robert Langer & George N.
Hallak are to be thanked for raising and discussing the word "zalama(h)."
Responses so far tend to see the word as a metathetic form of "zamiil."
Metathesis here would mean letter transposition of the root from "zamal" to
"zalam," not the total reversal evident in the Standard Arabic "zawj" and
the spoken Egyptian "guuz."

	On close examination, however, the word as it stands is a bona fide
Arabic word, and does exist in the Arabic lexicon with different vowelings:
("zulmah," "zulamah, "zalmah" & "zalamah"), the latter being a precursor of
present pronunciation.  While the handy little dictionary *Al-Fraa'id
'd-Durriyyah* has for "zalamah" the meaning of "exterior appearance,"
*Lisaan 'l- at Arab* defines it as "slave."

	The term, which owes it meaning to the shape of the arrow ("zalam;"
plu. "azlaam"), was then used generally in the sense of appearance and - by
extension - silhouette, much like, say, "shakhS," "hay'ah"  & "sawaad" (=
person; figure; shape; appearance, &ct.).  It is worth noting that the
Egyptian and Sudanese dialects use "gada@" and "zuul" (classical Arabic:
"qadha@" & "zawl" = well-built youth; phantom) as counterparts to "zalama(h)
in the Syro-Lebanese & Palestinian dialects.  (Cf. the Umayyad poet
Al-AkhTal's combination of the two terms "qadha@" & zalamah" in the
adjectival phrase: "al-azlam al-qadha@").

	A. Barthelemy in his *Dictionnaire Arabe-Francais: Dialectes de
Syrie: Alep, Damas, Liban, Jerusalem,* (Paris, 1936), confirms my position
and maintains that the word is borrowed from a Bedouin usage in the sense of
"apparence, silhouette d'homme."  He too compares the term to the Hebrew
"shelem" for "image, spectre."

						M. Deeb
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Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E6

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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: On Zalamah: Errata

On Zalamah: Errata

	In my previous post on the subject, I suggested that:  (a) the
colloquial Egyptian "gada@" comes from the classical Arabic "qadha@" and (b)
that the Umayyad poet Al-AkhTal used the adjectival combination "al-azlam
al-qadha at ."  Please read the classical word as "jadha@" and Al-AkhTal's
combination, accordingly, as "al-azlam al-jadha at ."

	Thank you for bearing with me.

								M. Deeb
-------------------------------------
Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E6

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 20:15:19 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:15:19 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: Persian Job Opportunity
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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: "Buckwalter, Tim" <TimB at alpinemedia.COM>
Subject: Persian job opportunity

I'm posting the following as a favor for someone who is not on the list.
Sorry, I know this isn't Arabic, but I know of no Persian-L out there.
Please reply directly to Jennifer, not me.

Tim Buckwalter


=============
I am looking for an experienced, high-level (expert-level) Persian
translator.  The job needed includes the translation of 10 general news
articles and a concordance of Persian words from the same 10 articles.

I can be reached at:

Jennifer Doyon
doyon_jennifer at prc.com
(703) 556-3051 - phone
(703) 556-1174 - fax
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar  5 20:14:04 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:14:04 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Libyan Arabic Response
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Date: 05 Mar 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Libyan Arabic

Greetings.

Re the query about materials on Libyan Arabic (LYAR)

Four possible sources:

o   UCLA Library

(David Hirsch, the UCLA ME Bibliographer, should be able to assist you.

His e-mail: < dhirsch at library.ucla.edu >.

He is very competent and conscientious at finding materials, one of the skills
typical of his impressive librarianship.)

o   Georgetown University Library.

Some old materials on LYAR developed (U of MI?) in the 1960s for the Peace
Corps (might be USAID) are in the holdings transferred from the library of the
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) when it moved. I saw those items
(mimeographed texts on yellowing paper and reel-to-reel tapes) during a
research visit to Georgetown in 1993. Usede for training PCV / USAID field
staff on social amenities, building rapport, and technical training. Text was
English and transliterated Arabic only.

o   Prof. Alan S. Kaye at California State University Fullerton (CSUF),
Department of English and Linguistics)

He has conducted and published research on Sudanese, Lybian and Chadian
Arabic, and might have materials or could refer you elsewhere.

o   The Libyan ethnic community accessible here in the Los Angeles area.

Let me know if you have specific questions, and I can contact some of the
shebaab there. They include a number of former engineers, teachers,
businessmen, medical clinic workers, and other articulate bilinguals.

Hope this helps.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  8 23:55:18 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:55:18 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: More of the Zalama Discussion
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1) Subject:  /zelemy/ from /zalam/ or /zulam/
2) Subject: "zha" or "Ttah" --> "Za/Zayn"
3) Subject: Possible Sudanese (Khartoumi) Arabic Variant of "Zalama"

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1)
Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: MOHAMMED M JIYAD <mmjiyad at unix.amherst.edu>
Subject: /zelemy/ from /zalam/ or /zulam/

MarHaban,

No doubt in my mind that the Jordanian /zelemy/ comes from the Arabic word
/zalam/ or /zulam/. The word /zalam-zulam/ means /QidH/ which is an arrow
without feathers, divining arrow, arrow used for oracles. And from that
came the phrase /QidH muCalla/ the seventh of the divining arrows used in
the ancient Arabian game of /maisir/, i.e. the best of them which won
seven shares of the slaughtered camel would exert decisive influence on,
to be the principal agent in, have a major impact on, be of crucial
importance for.

The word /zalam-zulam/ and its plural /'azlaam/ have been used in the
Quran and by Arab poets like Thi Arrummah, Al-HuTai'ah, Ibn Assikkiit,
Al-AKTal, Cabbas ibn Mardaas, Kuthaiir Cazzah, ...  etc. /zalam/ is also
used to describe a horse that is beautiful, energetic and with nice &
perfect conformation.

In modern Iraqi Arabic the word is modified to /zlima/, /zlaam (p.)/, and
used to refer to a man who is brave and canny. However, during the
Monarchy era the word singular and plural forms developed a negative
connotation. The plural /zlaam/, for instance, was used to refer to "the
thugs that surround a landlord, /zlaam al-shaiK/." Therefore, it is no
surprise that when one reads Iraqi Resistance Literature today one would
frequently come accross the expression /zlaam al-sulTah/, "the regime's
thugs."

Best.
Mohammed Jiyad

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2)
Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: "zha" or "Ttah" --> "Za/Zayn"

>  In rural (Druze) Lebanese dialect zalami is the only word for "man",
>  equivalent to rijjeel in urban Lebanese and other dialects.  In the plural
>  it means also may mean "retainer", as in zilimtu 'his henchmen'.
>
>  The root is ZLM.
>
>  A. Barthelmy in his Dictionnaire Arabe-Francais, which covers Greater
>  Syria, lists zalame - zlaam as "homme, individu; pieton; homme viril". For
>  its etymology he says it is borrowed from Bedouin Arabic, giving the
>  literary Arabic form zalamatu- "apparence, silhouette d'homme".  He adds:
>  compare it to (Literary Arabic) thalamu- (th = theta) "silhouette d'homme"
>  and Hebrew shelem "image, spectre" (p. 318).
>
>  Lane in his Lexicon (p. 1247) lists the verb zalama - yazlumu 'to cut off
>  (nose, etc.)' and gives the noun zalam - 'azlaam 'arrow without a head and
>  without feathers'.  He does not give the meaning "man" for it.
>
>  Ernest N. McCarus


Ernest, I think there is a little misunderstanding. [ZaLama -Yazlumu]
"Z" is "zha" or "Ttah" with a dot on it. Zalami, is the letter "Za/Zayn" or
"Ra" with dot on it ;-)

BTW, Yazlumu means to mistreat, or not to be fair to. Maybe that's why
Lane did not bring up "Man" in his Lexicon!

To be "ZaLmit" somebody is not necessarily his henchman, nor restricted
to Druz dialect. If "X" is ZaLmit "Y", that also means that "X" is Ma7soub,
or Ma7soub 3aLa "Y". If "Y" happens to be a big shot, you'd better not
mess with "X". My accent, here, is Lebanese, Beiruti to be specific:
"Ana Mahsoubak", "Ana ZaLi'mtak"; means I am your man. Hissab,
"Arithmatic", Hassaba, Yahsoubu...

My two Cents' worth.

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak       Software. Localizers. Translators
AramediA Group         617-825-3044 F 617-265-9648
761 Adams Street       mailto:sales at aramedia.net
Boston, MA 02122, USA  http://aramedia.com

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Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Possible Sudanese (Khartoumi) Arabic Variant of "Zalama"

Greetings / tahaya tayyiba wa b3ad...

A possible variant of this ZLM construction is a term I heard used similarly
in Khartoum, Sudan:

      < zole > (pronounced as in English "mole" or "poll")

Typical greeting like: "Izaiyak yaa zole? Akhbaarak shinoo?"

Also heard in use in the Sudanese community here in southern California.

HTH.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: mutarjm at aol.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  8 23:55:13 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:55:13 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: 1999 Linguistic Institute Announcement
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Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: Abbas Benmamoun <e-benma at staff.uiuc.edu>
Subject: 1999 Linguistic Institute

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  8 23:55:11 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:55:11 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: More Libyan Arabic Resources
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1)
Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: plarcher at newsup.univ-mrs.fr (Pierre LARCHER)
Subject: Libyan Arabic

For Libyan Arabic, there is a book by Jonathan Owens "A Short Reference
Grammar of East Libyan Arabic", Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1984. Pierre
Larcher

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  8 23:55:15 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:55:15 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Arabic Phonemes Query
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1)
Date: 08 Mar 1999
From: MFN at FRCU.EUN.EG
Subject: Arabic Phonemes

Dear Friends,
	I am searching for a source (better if on the INTERNET) for
Arabic phonemes and allophones.
Nmaes of http,papers or books are greatlly appreciated.
I would like also to contact interested people in  phonological part
of text to speech for the Arabic.
BTW, the Arabic generator gave some results .
thanks in advance for your cooperation,
		Mohamed FArouk Noamany

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar  9 20:56:19 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:56:19 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: More "zalama"
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1) Subject: On "zalamah" again!
2) Subject: /zole/ from a different root

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1)
Date: 09 Mar 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: On "zalamah" again!

On "zalamah" again!

	The word "Zalamah" continues to have its attraction and thus keeps
our linguists both intrigued and busy!  As I'm equally intrigued, may I add
a few more touches to my earlier post on the subject?  Below are a few
passing comments.

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    [NB: In this electronic medium, I use the symbol "@" for the gutteral
         letter "@ayn" as in "@ilm" (= science or knowledge);
	 the lower-case "z" for the zaay / zayn as in "zayt"
         (= oil) and the upper-case Z for the strongly
	 articulated palatal "Zaa'" as in "Zill"
         (= shade)].
         ----------

  > Ernest, I think there is a little misunderstanding. [ZaLama -Yazlumu]
  > "Z" is "zha" or "Ttah" with a dot on it. Zalami, is the letter "Za/Zayn"
  > or "Ra" with dot on it ;-)

*** No, there isn't any misunderstanding.  Professor McCarus and I quoted
    correctly Adrien Barthelemy's *Dictionnaire arabe-francais,*
    (Paris, 1935).  The root "zlm" (zaay, laam, miim) lends
    itself to a variety of verbal forms:

-- (a) triliteral:
       zalama; imperfect: yazlumu = to fill up (a vessel or a trough);

-- (b) derived forms:
       izlamma 		= 	to depart / to leave in a hurry ;
       izla'amma 	= 	to rise / to get on one's feet/
                                to be or become "erect,"
				likely in all senses.

  > BTW, Yazlumu [sic] means to mistreat, or not to be fair to.

*** The word in question "zalama" has nothing to do with "Zalama" /
    "yaZlimu" (= to oppress or treat unjustly).

  > A possible variant of this ZLM construction is a term I heard used
  > similarly in Khartoum, Sudan: "zole" (pronounced as in English "mole"
  > or "poll")

*** In my earlier post on the subject, I noted that "zalamah" in Levantine
    Arabic dialects has as its counterparts "gada@" and "zuul" (pronounced
    as mall or as correctly suggested above) in colloquial Arabic in Egypt
    and the Sudan respectively.  "Zuul" comes from classical Arabic "zawl,"
    plu. "azwaal" (= appearance, phantom, silhouette, mirage).

    With all due respect, I should like to point out that the Sudanese
    "zuul" is not a variant of "zalamah;" as the two words are
    morphologically independent from each other, and derive
    from unrelated entries.

						M. Deeb

-------------------------------------
Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E6

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2)
Date: 09 Mar 1999
From: MOHAMMED M JIYAD <mmjiyad at unix.amherst.edu>
Subject: /zole/ from a different root

MarHaban,

This is a fellow up on Stephen H. Franke's comment vis-a-vis /zalama/. I
believe that the word /zole/ comes from a different root and has a
different meaning, in spite of the fact that it is used in the Sudanese
dialect to mean "man". I believe that /zole/ comes from the root
/Saa'-waw-laam/ and the word /Sawl/ means "an aggressive man". It is also
used to describe a male camel that exhibits aggressive behavior such as
chasing, biting and bucking people or other animals.

Best.

Mohammed Jiyad

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar  9 20:57:57 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:57:57 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Conference Schedule
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Date: 09 Mar 1999
From: William Granara <granara at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Conference Schedule

Harvard University - Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Conference: History as Mythical Discourse in Modern Arabic Literature
March 18-20, 1999
Schedule of events:


Thursday, 3/18, 6:00: Coolidge Hall,  Room 2 (1737 Cambridge St.)
"Eyewitness, Scribe and Story Teller: My Experience as a Novelist"
Prof. Radwa Ashour, Ain Shams University, Novelist

Friday, 3/19: Session 1: 9 -12:00 - Barker Center Room 133  (12 Quincy St.)
"Al-Andalus and the Search for a Lost Continent in Modern Arabic Literature"
William Granara, Harvard University
"A la recherche du temps present: The Evolution of Artistic Identity in
Neoclassical Arabic Poetry"
Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley
"Abu Nuwas in America"
Michael Cooperson, UCLA

Friday, 3/19: Session 2: 2 -5:00 - Coolidge Hall  Room 510
"Palestinian Poets on the Kafr Qasim Massacre"
Susan Slyomovics, MIT
"Rewriting the Pre-Islamic Crisis in Search for a  Hero"
Amin Bonnah, Georgetown University
"The Dual Approach to the Islamic Heritage in Al-Mes'adi's Haddatha Abu
Huraira Qal"
Sarra Tlili, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, 3/20: Session 3: 9:30-12:30 -Coolidge Hall Room 3
"The Line, the Circle, and the Treadmill: History's Structure in
Contemporary  Arabic Narrative"
Hosam Aboul Ela, Hofstra University
"Slaves or Siblings: Black Domestics in the Writings of Abdullah al-Nadim
Eve Troutt-Powell, University of Georgia
"History as Individual Mythos in Al-Ghitani's Mutun Al-Ahram"
Ayman El-Desouky, Harvard University

Saturday, 3/20: Session 4: 2: 5:00-Coolidge Hall Room 3
"Sexualizing History: Imra'at al-Qarura by Salim Matar Kamil."
Sinan Antoon, Harvard University
"Commemorative Proliferation at the 50-Year Mark: Lamenting Palestinian
Catastrophe, Celebrating Israeli Independence"
Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
"History and Writing the Novel"
Prof. Bensalem Himmich, Novelist, Morocco

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 10 16:48:22 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:48:22 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Query
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1) Subject: Geographical names like Rawabdeh

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Date: 10 Mar 1999
From: "R. Hoberman" <rdhoberman at ccmail.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Geographical names like Rawabdeh

The names of two Jordanian prime ministers, Tarawneh and Rawabdeh,
reminded me of Palestinian terms like these:

talaaHme (pl. of talHami)-- people from beet laHm (Bethlehem)
sawaaHra --people from beet saaHuur
bajaajle -- " "  beet jaalaa
xalaayle -- "  " al-xaliil (Hebron)
fawaaghra -- " "  beet faaghuur
maqaadse -- " " al-quds /bayt al-maqdis (Jerusalem)

(I got most of these from Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's memoir Al-Bi'r al-'Uulaa;
the less familiar of them are villages in the Jerusalem-Bethlehem area).
These sometimes become family names, but mainly they're adjectives
describing people. This type of term is very productive among
Palestinians.  Is it elsewhere as well?  I'm interested both in how widely
these are used, and in the word-formation processes that form them in
Palestinian Arabic.  I'd like to collect as many of these as I can, so
I'll be grateful for contributions if you know of other examples!

Another question, especially for Palestinian colleagues: are there towns
which CANNOT form this kind of adjective?  What about Ramallah, Hayfa,
Yaafa, Naablus, 'ariiHa....?

Thanks for your help.

Bob Hoberman

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 10 16:52:59 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:52:59 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: "zole" clarification
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1) Subject: "zole" clarification

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Date: 10 Mar 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: "zole" clarification

Greetings to all.

M. Deeb is right about the distinction between Sudanese colloquial "zole"
versus "zalama" used elsewhere.

After his gracious citation of the plural form "azwaal" jogged my memory, I
found that entry in one of my notebooks from Khartoum (Um Durman and Tuti
Island). I had been elsewhere misinformed about the source of that expression
re a spurious tie-in to zalama.

Regards and my thanks for his clarification.

Sincerely,

Stephen H. Franke

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 10 21:47:45 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:47:45 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Response
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Date: 10 Mar 1999
From: "Chouairi, R. MR           DFL" <GR6548 at exmail.usma.army.mil>
Subject: Geographical Names Response

Dear Mr. Hoberman

	Many are the Levantine names of that nature Kisirwani (from
Kisirwan), Shami (from Sham), Bayrouti (from Beirut), Ladhkani (from
Latakia), Halabi (from Aleppo) etc..

> My own family name does not refer to my original name, but is an adjective
> to where the family came from.  That means the family came from the town
> of Chouair, or Dhour-El-Chouair (in  Lebanon).  All the families that came
> from that town were referred to by that name. (Korban, Mouja`es, Merhej,
> Rahbani, Kiameh, Sawaya etc..)
>
In Levantine Dialect, many are the ways of expressing the same adjective of
Nassab especially in plural.  For example people coming from Zahle could be
referred as: zihlAwiyyeh or zahAlneh, from Beirut:  beirUtiyeh or ByArteh,
from the Damascus:  shwAm.

	I hope I have helped.

				Rajaa Chouairi
				   Abu Fouad

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar 11 17:13:34 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:13:34 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Discussion
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1) Subject: kaslaawi, etc.
2) Subject: Egyptian Arabic

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Date: 11 Mar 1999
From: "Mohammad A. Mohammad" <mohammad at aall.ufl.edu>
Subject: kaslaawi, etc.

Dear Mr. Hoberman,

I am (originally) from 'Iksal, a village near Nazareth.  I am, therefore, a
kaslaawi and my feloow kaslaawis are kaslaawiyye. Here is what I remember
from my parents about many of the surrounding villages and their nisbas.

First your list:

Ramallah , ramlaawi. pl. ramlaawiyye (same for people from Ramleh)
Hayfa (=Heefa), heefaawi, heefawiyye
Yaafa, yaafaawi, yaafaawiyye
 Naablus (Naanbles) naabelsi, naabelsiyye or nawaabelse
'ariiHa (=RiiHa) riiHaawi, riHaawiyye ( I remember this in a fruit-pedler
selling bananas saying "riHaawi yaa mooz 'RiHaawi are my bananas."

>>From my memory:

9een Duur (pronounced 'in duur) 'induuri, 'induuriyye
dabburiye, dabbuuri, dabburiyye or dabaabre
naaSre, naSraawi, naSraawiyye
Tabariyya, Tabari, Tabriyye or Tabaarne
zir9iin, zir9iini, no plural (see below)
samax, samxaawi, samxaawiyye

I have gone through some other examples in my head and found that for some
names like biisaan I do not accept nor do I remember hearing the nisba
biisaanii.  Many of our neighbors are from biisaan. So one person is from
biisaan. For all it is 'ahl biisaan. Hope this helps.

Mohammad A. Mohammad
University of Florida
African and Asian
470 Grinter Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA

email:  mohammad at aall.ufl.edu

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Date: 11 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Egyptian Arabic

You can see the same sort of thing in Egyptian Arabic:

maSr-i/maSarwa  (alexandrian reference to cairenes)
desuu'i/desai'a  (people of desuuq)
Sa at iid-i/Sa at aida )upper Egyptians)
baHraaw-i/baharwa (lower Egyptians)

the same can apply to family names (in fact desuu'i is a family name)

in a recent soap opera the two main (feuding) families were
@zaiza and sawalmi, presumably from @ziiz and siwailim (which itself
looks like a plural).

david wilmsen
director, arabic and translation studies division
american university in cairo

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar 11 17:14:28 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:14:28 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Classification of Foreign Languages
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Date: 11 Mar 1999
From: Gunvor Mejdell <Gunvor.Mejdell at easteur-orient.uio.no>
Subject: Classification of Foreign Languages

Dear colleagues

At our department (of East-European and Oriental studies), University of
Oslo, Norway, we are under strong pressure from the central authorities to
reduce the number of semesters and teaching hours required for obtaining
our university level of "grunnfag" - which is normally 2 semesters (for
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish  etc.), but for Chinese,
Japanese, Turkish, Persian, Urdu/Hindi and (my own subject) Arabic is 3
semesters.

I have observed, some time and somewhere, that some US foreign language
teaching institution has made a classification of foreign languages based
on an evaluation of the difficulties/time needed to achieve various levels
of competence in them (from an English speaker background). It might be
most helpful for our argumentation against this proposed reduction, to have
access to such a classification/rating of languages.

I would be most grateful if any of you could assist me in this matter.

Sincerely
Gunvor Mejdell (Ass. Professor of Arabic)


1. aman. Gunvor Mejdell
Institutt for |steuropeiske og orientalske studier
POB 1030, Blindern
0315 Oslo
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 22:11:13 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:11:13 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Language Classification Responses
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1) Subject: Defense Language Institute URL
2) Subject: Accurate Classifications?
3) Subject: Department of Defense
4) Subject: Foreign Service Institute

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: "T.A. MCALLISTER" <ecl6tam at lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: Defense Language Institute URL

You could try:
http://dli-www.army.mil/pages_/catalog/acadcred.htm

The classification is based on the difficulty of learning the
language for speakers of American English, so it might not be exactly
equivalent for Norwegians, who might, for example, find learning
German easier than Americans would find it.

Best wishes.

Alec McAllister
Arts Computing Development Officer
Computing Service
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
tel 0113 233 3573
email: T.A.McAllister at Leeds.AC.UK
fax: 0113 233 5411

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2)
Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Jackie Murgida <jmurg at star.net>
Subject: Accurate Classifications?

Gunvor, I think you're referring to the classification system used by the
U.S. government. I don't know if there's anything in writing that you could
request, but the most likely source for it would be the State Department.
Their Foreign Service Institute bases length of courses on that
classification. The system was devised quite some time ago [over 25 years, I
believe], and I don't know if the rationale and justification for the
ratings of difficulty were ever really articulated in a document.

Perhaps someone on the list who's in the Washington area can check with the
Library of Congress and FSI itself to see if there's anything available that
would help you. Also, the military people use the system -- that might be a
source, too.

My own feeling, having worked in the gov. on foreign language projects is
that some of the classifications are kind of dubious. They seem to have
decided that languages were difficult or easy for English speakers based on
a mix of characteristics. For instance, Chinese is in the most difficult
category, because it has a difficult writing system, and Japanese and Arabic
are in the same category. But spoken Arabic is much easier than spoken
Japanese, and the Arabic writing system is alphabetic and, in my opinion,
far easier than Japanese and Chinese orthography. But Chinese grammar isn't
that strenuous, compared to Japanese. On the other hand, you have the Arabic
diglossia situation to contend with if you're learning both spoken and
written Arabic.

The thing that always seemed wrong to me is that languages like Turkish and
Finnish are considered "easier" than Arabic [presumably because of the Latin
orthography], when they are far more difficult to learn to speak. But if
you're in a speaking-only course [like colloquial Egyptian, in
transliteration], you get more credit for Arabic than for Turkish.

When I was involved with this there were three categories, by the way.

I don't know if this has helped, but I feel better having vented my
dissatisfaction with the system. At least if the American bureaucrats
consider these languages to warrant two to three times as much course time
than Spanish, French, and German, it should give you some ammunition with
your university authorities. I would try to point out to them that learning
Arabic is like learning a language and a half [a dialect + MSA], and some
would even say it's like learning two languages, if you want to learn to
both speak/understand and read.

Best regards,
Jackie Murgida
[we met at a conference once, didn't we?]

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Bill Turpen <BTURPEN at ossm.edu>
Subject: Department of Defense

     The United States Department of Defense Foreign Language
Institute in Monterey, California, uses some such system.  As I
recall the basic courses in Spanish and French are 24 seven
hour per day weeks, German is 32 weeks, and Russian is 47.  Other
languages, including MSA and other Arabic courses, are taught there
as well.     You might be able to get their listing of courses, then
you would know which languages are considered to take more time in
achieving a basic knowledge than others.
     (The "other Arabic courses," I believe, are taught to those who
have already completed the MSA course.  I do not remember its length,
but I believe the MSA course  is more than 47 weeks--and I am not
certain that they use the Arabic alphabet, either!}
     Bill L. Turpen
     Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics

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4)
Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Taoufik Ben-Amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject: Foreign Service Institute

Greetings,

The language classification you alluded to is that produced by the FSI
(Foreign Service Institute). It classifies Arabic as a Category 4
language. Unfortunately, I do not have an address or e-mail for them, but
they are based in Washington DC.

good luck,

T. ben Amor
Columbia University

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 20:43:13 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:43:13 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Summer Job Opportunity
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1) Subject: Summer Job Opportunity

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Farouk Mustafa <f-mustafa at uchicago.edu>
Subject: Summer Job Opportunity

The University of Chicago Intensive Summer Arabic Program announces an
opening for an
instructor of Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (open rank) for the Summer
of 1999 (June
20--August 20, 1999.)

Applicants should have at least an M.A. in Arabic language, literature,
linguistics or a related
discipline.  A proven track record of teaching experience at the Elementary
level is essential.

Applications with all supporting documentatiuon should be received at the
address given below no
later than March 31, 1999.

                                                   Intensive Summer Arabic
                                                   Center for Middle
Eastern Studies
                                                   The University of Chicago
                                                   5828 University Avenue
                                                   Chicago, IL  60637
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 20:37:38 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:37:38 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: More Zalama (ZLM and ZWL)
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1) Subject: ZLM and ZWL

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Antoine LONNET <lonneta at cybercable.fr>
Subject: ZLM and ZWL

The most recent volume of David Cohen's Dictionnaire des racines semitiques,
at the moment under the press, has on p. 739:

ZLM (...) -3. AR. zalamat- "corne du pied fendu (des ruminants), caroncule
du pied (des brebis et des chevres)", muzla'imm- "passant, voyageur",
'izdalama, [oriental] tazallam "marcher a pied", zalame "pieton, homme,
individu".
Notes:
(...) V. LA III/42, Q. 1008, LANE 1247, KAZIMIRSKI I/1007, BELOT 296. (...)
pour
l'ar. or. zalame, BARTHELEMY 318. (...) -3. Le rapport entre la marche du
pieton et le
nom de l'homme, comme celui qu'illustre l'oriental zalame n'est pas
exceptionnel.
C'est le cas de raJul- en rapport avec riJl- "pied, jambe", rAJil- "pieton",
etc.,
v. s. RGL; c'est aussi celui du maghrebin terrAs "pieton, homme"; v. aussi
les
remarques s. ZW/YL. (...)


and on p. 703:

ZW/YL (...) - AR. zAla (ZWL) "passer, quitter un endroit, s'en aller, se
deplacer, disparaitre, quitter"; zawAl- "mouvement", zawl- "agile,
spirituel, genereux, brave";  (...) ; zawl- "forme, figure qu'on voit a
distance, qui apparait et disparait, personne, individu",  (...) ;
[oriental] zOl "personne, individu", [soudanais] zOl "homme, personne", zOla
"femme";  (...) ETH. tigre zol "(belle) figure" (...)

Notes:
(...)  tigre zol "figure" parait etre un emprunt a l'ar.; BARTHELEMY 323
semble lier
le mot a la notion de "passant non identifie, passant en tant que tel". On
peut rappeler que certains noms de "l'homme", en arabe, sont
etymologiquement lies a la notion de "marche ? pied", v. s. ZLM, RGL. - Ar.,
V. LA 65, Q. 910, FARHAT 454, LANE 1270, 1278, BELOT 302, 304, KAZIMIRSKI
I/1028, 1033, BEAUSSIER 448, ALCALA 110/4. LANDBERG GLOS. 1145, BEAUSSIER
103, MARCAIS TAKROUNA 479; (...) eth. te. WTS 502. Les valeurs en ar. clas.
se pretent a une interpretation de type analogue, mais non identique, si on
rattache le vocable a la notion
de "ce qui passe, apparait et disparait". (...)

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 20:53:23 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:53:23 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Political Metaphor in Arabic Query
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1) Subject: Query: Political Metaphor in Arabic

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: nasalski at smail.Uni-Koeln.DE
Subject: Query: Political Metaphor in Arabic

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to ask you for any hint or advice on the political metaphor
in Arabic.

I am preparing a doctoral dissertation at the Cologne University on the
semiotic and pragmatic aspects of political communication in Arabic with
the special reference to the political metaphor. The idea is to examine
the specifics of the approaches and commitments to politics that are
manifest in Arabic language (metaphor, citations, conventional and
non-conventional expressions, direct and indirect speech acts etc.) on the
one hand, and to try to assess on that account the differences, if any,
between the western and eastern countries (western and Islamo-Arabic
tradition) on the other.

I would be grateful for any hint, reference or any information about
similar studies whatsoever.

Ignacy Nasalski
nasalski at smail.uni-koeln.de

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 12 21:53:10 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:53:10 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Discussion (More)
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1) Subject: Iraqi Names
2) Subject: Saudi Names
3) Subject: Egyptian Names
4) Subject: Nisbas & Broken Plurals

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: "A. FERHADI" <af3 at is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Iraqi Names

Let me add a few such geographical names from Iraq. Please note that /gh/
represents /ghayn/ as in gharb = west. /@/ is /@yn/ is @asal =honey.

/baghdaadi/ is a male person from Baghdad, pronounced /baghdaad/ and the
plural is /baghaadda/. The middle daal is elided and the remaining daal is
stressed.

As for the city of al-mawSil, locally pronounced as /muuSil/, a male person
from that city is referred to as muSlaawi. The plural is miSaalwa in the
city itself but elsewhere it is often miwaaSla. Whether you metathesize or
not, the vowel immediately following /m/ is more of a schwa than a kasra.
The same is true of the singular  /miSlaawi/ in the ideolect of many.
Incidentally, the famous musicians ziryaab and isHaaq al-muuSilli or
al-mawSilli of medieval times are originally from this city. So is the
famous medieval poet abu tammaam who worked as a 'postman' there. Today,
you see a statue  of the poet greeting you when you enter al-mawSil, from
the east.

Curiously, Kirkuk /karkuuk/ has a Turkish-based suffix nisba in the
singular: karkukli and the plural is karkukliyya. al-mawSil and karkuuk are
in the north.

In the south:

Basrah /baSra/ ----> baSraawi (sg) and baSaarwa (pl)

al- at imaara (ending in taa' marbuuTa) pronounced /@imaara/ or /i at maara/ with
a pronthetic vowel. In both cases, the vowel preceding or following @ is a
schwa  not a kasra. A male person from this city is @maaratli as in mas at uud
il-i at maaratli, the renowned muTrib al-baadiya whose name  is synonymous
with country music. His "soda sh-lahhaani yaa buuya" is still ringing in my
ears! Our friend, Muhammad Jiyad, may want to elaborate on this.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: Saudi Names

Greetings everyone,

This phenomenon is also evident in Saudi Arabia (where I come from).
Adjective examples: Najdi (pl. Nijada) is a person (people) from najd ( the
central part of Saudi Arabia), Hijazi (pl. Hijz) from the western part
(Hijaz), sharqawi (pl. sharqaweiyeh) from eastern part, and Qassimi (pl.
Qussman) from Qassim region. Examples of adjectives taken from city names:
Braidawi (a person from the city of Buraidah). And Yes there are cities that
do not form these adjectives, for example: for the city of Riyadh, we don't
say Riyadhi (may be because the word already exist and used to refer to an
athlete).

As for family names, the answer is also yes. Here are some examples:
Al-Najdi, al-onaizan (my family name is derived from the city of "Unaizah" in
central Saudi Arabia).

Hope that helps,
Yaser

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Egyptian Names

You can see the same sort of thing in Egyptian Arabic:

maSr-i/maSarwa  (alexandrian reference to cairenes)
desuu'i/desai'a  (people of desuuq)
Sa at iid-i/Sa at aida )upper Egyptians)
baHraaw-i/baharwa (lower Egyptians)

the same can apply to family names (in fact desuu'i is a family name)

in a recent soap opera the two main (feuding) families were
@zaiza and sawalmi, presumably from @ziiz and siwailim (which itself
looks like a plural).

david wilmsen
director, arabic and translation studies division
american university in cairo

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: "Munther A. Younes" <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Nisbas & Broken Plurals

Bob,
	I think that your question touches on nisba adjectives and two
processes of broken plural formation. I'll start with the broken plural
first.
	Based on a limited statistical study of broken plurals in
Palestinian that I have coducted, it appears that the most common broken
plural pattern in this dialect is fa<aalil with its variants
fawaa<il/fa<aawil/fa<aa<il:
	?arnab-?araanib
	masjid-masaajid
	jaami<-jawaami<

As these examples show, the singular source can be a true quadriliteral
(?arnab, xanjar, etc.) or a derived one (with a prefix like miim or a long
vowel like aa).

The taa' marbuuta (pronounced a or i in Palestinian, depending on the
preceding consonant) is used in Levantine dialects (and possibly others) as
a plural marker in certain nouns, all human as far as I know, and generally
referring to professions: Hajjaara or dakkiika "stone-cutters", muHaamiyyi
"lawyers", xayyaali "horsemen", Haraamiyyi "thieves", etc.

Words like rawaabde and talaaHme combine both types of plural the fa<aalil
type and the taa' marbuuta. (The idea of having two levels of plural is
familiar: sayyid/saada-saadaat, shajara/shajar-ashjaar, etc.) However, I
think they are derived from two distinct types of sources:

1. from nisba adjectives, regardless of the number of consonants or vowels
in the source word,
2. from quadriliteral names.

The way to distinguish the two types is to check for a singular
counterpart: rawaabde doesn't have a singular form, while talaaHme
does:talHami. According to this test, rawaabde would be derived directly
from the quadriliteral source and is not the plural of a nisba adjective.

Now, to answer your question, it seems that when a quadriliteral source
exists, then a plural, involving both a fa<aalil process and a taa'
marbuuta is derived. In addition to rawaabe and Taraawne, I can think of
the following based on family names in my village (Barta'a) and neighboring
villages. None of them has a singular.

midlij-madaalji
<abbaas-<abaabsi
saalim-sawaalme
manSuur-manaaSra
naaSir-nawaaSri

To these you can add bajaajli (from btjl which becomes bjjl by
assimilation) and possibly other plurals you mentioned.

Nisba adjectives can be derived from sources with any number of consonants,
and they have singular and plural forms. The ones from quadrilitarl sources
have two plural forms: one with the nisba and the taa' marbuuta and the
other a fa<aalili (fa<aalli by syncope) plural.

Beet laHim: talHami-talHamiyyi, talaaHmi
ilxaliil: xaliili-xaliiliyyi, xalaayli
ghazzi: ghazzaawi, ghazzaawiyyi, ghazaazwi

(I am claiming here that ghazaazwi is derived from ghazzaawi and not from
the tri-consonantal ghazzi directly.)

According to this analysis, words like yaafa, Heefa, ramli and lidd have
too few consonants to have a fa<aalli plural:

Heefa:Heefaawi-Heefaawiyyi
yaafa: yaafaawi-yaafaawiyyi
ramli: ramlaawi-ramlaawiyyi
lidd: liddaawi-liddaawiyyi
(?a)riiHa: riiHaawi-riiHaawiyyi

Words like Ramalla,Tuulkarim, and Nablis have two many elements to have
fa<aalli plural,  but two of them have nisbas, both singular and plural:

raamallaawi-raamallaawiyyi
naabilsi-naabilsiyyi, naawaabilsiyyi. (My plural for this form differs from
Mohammed Mohammed's who has nawaabilsi)
As for Tuulkarim, I haven't heard a nisba form in my dialect or a fa<aalli
plural. (I am familiar with the adjective karmi, but it is not used in my
dialect; people would say those from Tuulkarim or the people of Tuulkarim.)

Munther

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:54:38 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Arabic Political Metaphor Response
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1)
Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: al-harrasi at msn.com
Subject: Arabic Political Metaphor

Hello all,

It was interesting for me to read the recent message by Ignacy Nasalski who
is preparing a Ph.D. thesis on Arabic political metaphor. I am doing
something similar.

I am currently working on a Ph.D. thesis (at Aston University, England) on
translation of Arabic political metaphor into English. I am analysing a
corpus of Arabic political texts (speeches and interviews) and their English
translations. I base my study on some recent developments of the theory of
metaphor, particularly the conceptual theory of metaphor. The results that I
have arrived at up to now (as far as Arabic political metaphor is concerned)
can be summarised as follows: Arabic politicians use particular conceptual
metaphors such as seeing THE ARAB WORLD as ONE FAMILY in speeches of
President Saddam Hussein or seeing DEVELOPMENT as PROGRESS FROM ONE POINT TO
ANOTHER POINT as in the case of the political discourse of Sultan Qaboos bin
Said of Oman. These metaphors are interwoven in the political and cultural
contexts in which they are used. They are also very related, often in highly
implicit ways, to the ideological orientations of the different politicians.

I have written and published some studies on translation of metaphor which
include analysis of metaphorical expressions and concepts. I feel that the
area of Arabic political metaphors is one that needs intensive 'urgent'
studies. To understand a politician one needs to understand his metaphors.
Arabic metaphors are not studied so one wonders whether we really
understands what Arab politicians are saying (or more precisely, what they
are telling us).

I welcome a discussion with any one interested in this topic or with Arabic
political discourse in general.
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ADDRESS:
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TEL/FAX: (0044)1206-825175
E-MAIL: Al-Harrasi at bigfoot.com
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 17:57:48 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:57:48 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: ALS Hotel Rebate
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1)
Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: Khalil Barhoum <khalil at stanford.edu>
Subject: ALS Hotel Rebate

Please announce to the ALS participants who stayed at the Stanford Terrace
Inn that the hotel has agreed to reimburse them (either to their credit
cards or with a check, depending on how their hotel payment was made) 50%
of the cost of their hotel room rates during their stay for the
conference.

All they have to do is get in touch with the hotel and refer the hotel
attendant to the agreement made with me by the Sales Manager, Susan. The
hotel can be reached at:

Tel  (800)729-0332
     (650)857-0343

Fax  (650)857-0343


Khalil

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 17:50:51 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:50:51 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Language Classification Reference
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Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Language Classification Reference

You can find the table giving the Foreign Service Institute's expected
levels of proficiency in various languages according to contact hours in at
least the following places:

Page 28 in:

Omaggio Hadley, A. 1993. TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT (2nd ed.).  Boston,
MA: Heinle and Heinle.

Omaggio Hadley gives the following source:

Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E.  ETS ORAL PROFICIENCY TESTING MANUAL.
Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 1982.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 17:58:34 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:58:34 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: arabic speech synthesis
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1)
Date: 15 Mar 1999
From:  Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh <bzawayde at indiana.edu>
Subject: arabic speech synthesis

Hello
I am interested in knowing if there is a list of companies that are
do Arabic speech synthesis.  If there is, could you please e-mail
it to me.

thank you for your help

Bushra

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BUSHRA ADNAN ZAWAYDEH, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Indiana University
1021 E. 3rd Street
Memorial Hall East Room, 322
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005


e-mail:  bzawayde at hamlet.ucs.indiana.edu
URL:  http://php.indiana.edu/~bzawayde

Tel at AI CRANIUM Lab (Lindley Hall 406): 855-8702
Tel at Phonetics Lab (Memorial Hall 331): 855-8154

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 15 18:00:36 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:00:36 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Geographical Names Discussion
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1) Subject: "geographical names" = nisba
2) Subject:  daar 0l- at luum

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Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: MOHAMMED M JIYAD <mmjiyad at unix.amherst.edu>
Subject: "geographical names" = nisba

MarHaban,

What has been referred to as "geographical names" is really a form of
nisba. As you well know, it is a common practice among Arabs that one
usually goes by the name of the tribe/clan one belongs to. Prophet
Mohammed was Qarashi/Quraishi because he belonged to Bani Quraish or just
Quraish. And so we have nisba from every Arabian tribe/clan such as 'Awsi,
Khazraji, Kalbi, Thubyaani,  Mudhari, RabiCi, 'Asadi, Cabsi, Hilaali,
Numairi, KaCbi, Shammari, etc.... Late King Hussein was Haashimi because
he belonged to Bani Haashim.

However, when the tribal origin was not clear, or when a certain tribe was
subjected to persecution by whoever in power, people tended to drop their
Kuniya and take instead the name of the town/city or area. Therefore, we
have Al-Baghdaadi, Al-BaSri, Al-Kuufi, Al-DimashQi, Al-Najdi, etc .....
Notable Muslim authors of great works in Arabic language, linguistic, and
literature, who were of non-Arab origin,  used this form of nisba.
Examples are Al-Faraahidi, Al-Zamakhshari, Al-'ASfahaani, Al-Qaali,
Al-Shahrastani, etc....  Under this category falls another tendency that a
family will take the name of its country of origin when it moves somewhere
else, and so we have Al-MaSri, Al-Maghribi, Al-'Andalusi, Al-Yamani, etc
......

The third form of nisba is based on profession/trade, and thus we have
Al-Haddaad, Al-Najjaar, Al-Sabbaagh, Al-QaTTaan, Al-Hallaaj, etc ..... In
Iraq under Turkish influence, some new forms of nisba in this category
began to emerge. It ends with the syllable /chi/, and thus we have
Qahwachi for the owner of a cafe, and Qundarch for a shoemaker, Qubbanchi,
Pachachi, QachaQchi, Calawchi, Klaawchi, etc.......

In the early 70's the Iraqi government legislated that for last name one
should only use the name of his/her grandfather. Therefore, my name in all
official documents, including birth certificate and passport, was changed
to Mohammed Jiyad instead of Mohammed Al-'AzraQi, nisba to the Kharijite
tribe, Bani 'AzraQ. The reason for that law was that almost everyone in
higher positions in the Iraqi government, army, police and BaCth Party was
Takriiti, nisba to Takriit, the hometown of you know who!

Best.
Mohammed Jiyad

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2)
Date: 15 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: daar 0l- at luum

oh and by the way, someone who has attended  daar 0l- at luum is known
as dar at ilmi, i dont know if that has a plural or not but i will check
it

david wilmsen
arabic and translation
etc

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 16 20:48:47 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:48:47 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Arabic Speech Synthesis Response
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Date: 16 Mar 1999
From: ghazali salem <ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn>
Subject: Arabic Speech Synthesis Response

The Language Technology Department at IRSIT , Tunis, Tunisia has developed an
Arabic
text-to-speech synthesis system. It has been  operational on a Sun station in
the our lab. for the last six years, but we are now porting it on a PC (
Windows environment) so that it can be more useful for those who need it.
Salem Ghazali.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 16 20:55:21 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:55:21 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: daar 0l-@luum Responses
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1) Subject: "Nisbah" Coinage in Arabic Grammar
2) Subject: more common -- D at r9ami

In response to:

>oh and by the way, someone who has attended  daar 0l- at luum is known
>as dar at ilmi, i dont know if that has a plural or not but i will check it

From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu

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1)
Date: 16 Mar 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: "Nisbah" Coinage in Arabic Grammar

*** There are a few oversights in the above post, most likely stemming from
the haste associated with the electronic medium rather than unfamiliarity
with the concept of "naHt" in the formation of certain relative adjectives.
Here is a brief explanation:

(a) Reference is made to "Daar 'l- at uluum" (= literally, the home of
sciences).

(b) The relative adjective ("nisbah") is "dar at amiyy;" plu.: "daraa at imah."
Classical examples often cited for illustration are "HaDramiyy" &
"@Abshamiyy" (rel. adjs. coined from "HaDramawt" & "@Abdushams, with regular
plurals: "HaDaarimah" & @Abaashimah.")  Similarly, the "nisbah" to
"Kulliyatu 'l-Lughati 'l- at Arabiyyah" of Al-Azhar (= College of the Arabic
language") is "kalghariyy," plu.: "kalaaghirah."  Although the rel. adj.
"kalghariyy" might have started as a facetious reference to affiliates of
this college, it follows the grammatical and morphological rules of coinage
(= "naHt") in Arabic.

    I'm tempted here to distinguish the concept of coinage in Arabic as
instanced above, and coinage in English, which stands for a neologism or
a newly-created lexeme.  But that will have to wait until another occasion.

								    M. Deeb

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PS:

Established in 1870 by @Ali Mubaarak (1823/4 - 1893), "Daar 'l- at uluum" was
initially intended to offer subjects other than the traditional ones taught
at Al-Azhar.  Arguably, "Daar 'l- at Uluum" is now viewed as a happy mean
between the "secular" and "religious" approaches to the study of Arabic
language and literature in Cairo University, for instance, and Al-Azhar
respectively.


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2)
Date: 16 Mar 1999
From: Waheed Samy <waheed at mishmish.aucegypt.edu>
Subject: more common -- D at r9ami

a more common form is D at r9ami (D@@D, fatHa, r@@', 9ayn, fatHa, miim, yaa');
the plural is D at raa9ima; which is like 9abaadila (plural of 9abdalla).

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 17 17:27:48 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:27:48 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: The AUC Controversy: Summing Up
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freedom controversy.  This message contains a statement by AUC, two
articles from the Middle East Times, and a response from Dr. Abbas
Al-Tonsi.]

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1) Subject: AUC official statement on al-Khubz al-Hafi
2) Subject: Middle East Times, February 28
3) Subject: Middle East Times, March 7
4) Subject: Dr. Abbas Al-Tonsi

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1)
Date: 17 Mar 1999
From: [By way of Magda Al-Nowaihi <ma181 at columbia.edu>]
Subject: AUC official statement on al-Khubz al-Hafi

The American University in Cairo
March 3, 1999

Statement on Al Khubz Al Hafi

The American Univeristy in Cairo confirms the statement of the Minister
of Higher Education, the Honorable Moufid Shehab, that the issue of the
use of a Moroccan novel, Al-Khubz Al-Hafi, is being dealt with within
the University.  The novel in question has been sold in English, French
and Arabic versions in Egypt since it was first published in 1971.
Decisions regarding the curriculum are the prerogative of the faculty.
The University relies on the individual and collective wisdom of its
faculty to select and assign works that they believe are appropriate to
the subject matter and that respect the culture and values of the
society in which we work.  Following complaints by students and parents
about the book, the Department of Arabic Studies decided not to use it
in the required introductory Arabic literature course.  The faculty is
also engaged in a serious and responsible effort to produce an agreed
list of readings for core courses.  No action will be taken against the
professor, who is a tenured member of the Arabic Studies Department.
The purpose of tenure is to protect faculty members form threats of
intimidation and to ensure stability and continuity without which a
university cannot operate.  Egypt has a tradition of tolerance and
scholarship that accounts for its intellectual leadership in the Arab
world and AUC will continue to operate within that context.

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2)
Date: 17 Mar 1999
From: [By way of Magda Al-Nowaihi <ma181 at columbia.edu>]
Subject: Al-Khubz al-Hafi

Middle East Times, February 28

Book controversy strikes at AUC
    Paul Schemm Middle East Times Staff

    The December 17 summons of Professor Samia Mehrez by the
    American University in Cairo (AUC) administration to explain
    her choice of a book containing "obscene" passages has
    mushroomed into something far bigger than anyone originally
    involved expected.

    What began as complaints by a few parents over the use of a
    book in class that was "destroying the morals of our children"
    and was an act of "sexual harassment" has turned into an issue
    involving not only the faculty and administration of AUC, but
    also newspapers, parliament, and Arabic literature professors
    all over the world.

    At the heart of the argument is the disturbing issue of what
    constitutes a liberal education and how that can be carried out
    by an "American" institution located in Egypt. AUC once again
    finds itself as a lightening rod for criticism, a position it has
    never been comfortable with.

    LITERARY HARASSMENT

    Professor Mehrez was called out of her class in December to
    meet with AUC President John Gerhart as well as the dean, the
    provost, and the AUC doctor, Ikram Seif Eddin, who was
    representing the complaints of the parents. Parts of the book, Al
    Khubz Al Hafi by Muhammad Choukri (For Bread Alone)
    contain passages of an explicitly sexual nature which offended
    two students in the 35-member Modern Arabic Literature class
    (ARBS 208). The parents felt that the students' morals were
    being corrupted and they claimed sexual harassment. By some
    reports, Dr. Ikram then lectured Mehrez on the nature of
    Egyptian values.

    Mehrez defended the book as an important classic of Arab
    literature widely taught in universities, including AUC.

    "It is a very moving and candid tale of an illiterate Moroccan
    child of the underclass who accedes to literacy, at age 20, and
    is able to weave the appalling conditions of his life history into
    a mesmerizing text," she wrote in a memo to AUC faculty.

    Mehrez took her case to the AUC faculty as well as the wider
    world of academia when she became concerned that the
    principles of academic freedom and reading choices of
    professors might be under attack.

    Her description of the meeting ended up on a e-mail list
    service that prompted some 150 responses, led by professors
    Muhammad Siddiq of Berkeley University and Magda Al
    Nowaihi of Columbia University, expressing concern to
    Gerhart.

    Gerhart responded to AUC faculty and Mehrez by assuring
    them that he remained true to the ethos of the liberal arts
    education.

    The fate of the book itself remains in question, however.
    According to her statements, Mehrez has reserved the right to
    teach the book again, but Gerhart says that it will not be
    appearing again in the basic ARBS 208 course.

    The departmental advisory committee, Gerhart said, has
    decided to no longer use the book in the course "in view of the
    widely differing appraisals of the usefulness of this book in the
    course."

    "They even said this is not the banning of the book," said
    Gerhart, just a recognition that the book does not belong in a
    lower level course. "One doesn't normally teach [James
    Joyce's] Ulysses in freshman English," he added.

    A number of faculty members in the department, however, say
    that this recommendation was taken without their knowledge
    and were not pleased.

    There is now talk of drawing up a list of some 40 books
    teachers of this course would draw from. Gerhart backs the
    measure, but other faculty members remain vehemently
    opposed.

    In general the situation has caused a great deal of disquiet
    among faculty, with divisions appearing between those
    counseling avoiding raising public ire over curricula and those
    fearing self-censorship.

    "People are against the way the whole thing was being
    treated," said one staff member. "I think this is the source of
    most of the resentment of the faculty."

    Some members feel that the administration has not been
    sufficiently supportive of their rights to choose readings and
    are too ready to acquiesce to outside demands, an allegation
    that Gerhart dismisses.

    "Then where is Didier?" asked one faculty member in
    annoyance, referring to the professor whose contract was not
    renewed following the controversy over Maxine Rodinson's
    Muhammad last spring.

    That particular controversy unfolded in a similar manner, with
    outraged parents (this time on religious grounds) going to the
    newspapers and starting an aggressive public campaign that
    resulted in the government banning the book and much turmoil
    at AUC. Many faculty see ominous comparisons between the
    two book incidents.

    OUTSIDE INTEREST

    The specter of the government removing books is one that
    hangs heavy over AUC. Since the Rodinson affair, there has
    been a vast increase of books requested by the censor for
    review (see box). According to Gerhart, in the past 11 months,
    40 books have been censored, including four that were being
    used for classes.

    While For Bread Alone has not been banned, and in fact sold
    like crazy during the book fair, there have been rumblings. In
    response to the press campaign against the book and AUC that
    began in January when the parents went to the press, Minister
    of Higher Education Hussein Kamal Baha Eddin said he would
    look into the matter. The issue is also supposedly to be brought
    before parliament soon.

    Gerhart said he sent a letter assuring the minister that the issue
    had been taken care of and that the book would not be taught in
    the course again.

    Some faculty, however, see this pattern of apology for teaching
    controversial books as a dangerous one. There is a fear that
    faculty will avoid teaching controversial books for fear of
    coming under attack in the press and then not being defended by
    the university.

    Gerhart, finds this possibility extremely remote.

    "One would have thought that last year [after the Rodinson
    controversy] people would have scurried around and removed
    books from their reading lists, which didn't happen," he said,
    adding that "there is no evidence that a domino theory is taking
    place."

    One interesting incident that did take place immediately after
    Mehrez was called into account is that the director of the core
    curriculum removed Tayib Saleh's Arabic classic Season of
    Migration to the North from the reading list. It was only after
    core curriculum professors returned from the winter break that
    there was a unanimous vote to restore the book to the reading
    list.

    While Mehrez was obviously not intimidated by the fallout
    from the Rodinson book or the For Bread Alone case, it is
    noteworthy that she is tenured faculty. Whether non-tenured
    junior faculty would be willing to brave the ire of the Egyptian
    press or AUC administration is less clear.

    Currently the focus among the faculty and the administration
    has been to come up with defined guidelines and procedures
    for dealing with complaints about courses. Gerhart emphasizes
    the need to be responsive to the concerns of parents and
    students.

    WHAT ABOUT NEXT TIME?

    Professor Dan Tschirgi of the Political Science department
    says that the issue has strengthened the commitment to the
    principles of a liberal arts education among the faculty, but
    also shown everyone what more needed to be done.

    "It has sensitized [the administration] to the need to fill a gap ?
    a need that has been neglected ? the need to explain more
    clearly to everyone that asks, parents, public, what exactly is a
    liberal education," he said.

    The indications are that Egypt's increasingly conservative
    environment may require that explanation again and again.

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3)
Date: 17 Mar 1999
From: [By way of Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]
Subject: Another Episode in the AUC Controversy


Another Episode in the AUC Controversy


			NB:

			The proper noun "Maetouh" Salwa Bakr uses in her tale
			for the one of the monkeys, has its lexical
			denotations and connotations of "ma at tuuh,"
			which would mean, among other things,
			lunatic;  crazy; idiot.
							--
							MD
			* * *

    Animals and the AUC book affair
    Paul Schemm Middle East Times Staff

    Middle East Times -  Egypt Edition  7 March 1999


    Everyone at some point in their life has to decide whether
    they are going to be a monkey or a goat.

    Professor Samia Mehrez, who has been accused by some American
    University in Cairo students and the Egyptian press of
    teaching obscene material, decided not only to be a monkey,
    but a defiant one that would go on teaching.

    "I watched people around me be docile monkeys, and for one
    month, wrestled with my monkey trainer and I wondered, was I
    going to become a goat?" she said.

    In one of her first public statements since the controversy
    surrounding the book Al Khubz Al Hafi (For Bread Alone),
    Mehrez gave a talk on March 3 at AUC that used a short story
    by Salwa Bakr to tell her tale.

    In the story, three monkeys are caught and placed in a cage,
    where a trainer has decided to teach them tricks. Instead of
    teaching the monkeys directly he brings in a goat and every
    day, in front of the monkeys, tells the goat to perform a
    trick. When it doesn't, the trainer beats the goat into
    unconsciousness.

    This continues until the goat dies. At which point the three
    monkeys have a conference. The first two suggest learning the
    tricks being taught by the trainer so they don't suffer the
    fate of the goat. The last monkey, Maetouh, suggests that they
    use their claws and fangs to overcome the trainer and win
    their freedom. He is ignored.

    When the trainer returns the first two monkeys perform his
    tricks, but when it is Maetouh's turn, the young monkey leaps
    on the trainer and savages him. The trainer is carted away to
    the hospital and Maetouh is sent to a zoo, where he spends the
    rest of his days teaching young monkeys born in captivity
    about the freedom and beauty of their native forests.

    "The image of Maetouh surrounded by young monkeys was
    important to me," she said, adding, "that's my mission."

    The lecture filled the classroom and drew a crowd of some 70
    students and professors who went on to discuss the issue of
    academic censorship at the university. A number of students
    complained about censorship within the institution itself.

    "Should we all be Maetouh or should we be like the goat?"
    asked one student. "Because if we are all Maetouh, the
    administration is going to suffer."

    Mehrez, obviously eager to avoid being seen as inciting
    students to march on the administration building, counseled
    the students to be responsible for their actions, but to
    choose which animal they feel most suited to.

    At least two students at the lecture, however, did not see
    censorship as necessarily all wrong, but instead felt that it
    was necessary in some cases.

    "We are against censorship if it is against our freedom, but
    if censorship is to protect us, I think it is a good thing,"
    one of them said.

    Another student brought up the negative press that AUC
    received during the controversy, when papers like Al Wafd
    accused Mehrez of attempting to corrupt young Egyptians'
    morals by teaching the book.

    "We have like a campaign against AUC from the press and from
    the outside society," he said, adding that he felt it had
    gotten much worse in the past few years. He also said that the
    administration's response was inadequate.

    "I think we're going the wrong way about it, giving in every
    time," he said.

    Mehrez herself expressed reservations about how the affair,
    which played out in January and February, was handled. She
    said that she herself could not have responded to some of the
    virulent press attacks on her.

    "I think it should have been an institutional response, it did
    not come and it is too late now," she said, expressing the
    hope that in the future the administration's response would be
    stronger.

    There have been reports that some feel the administration
    gives in too easily to the censor and the government's
    demands.

    On March 2 Egyptian newspapers reported that Minister of
    Higher Education Mufid Shehab told parliament that the AUC
    Arabic Studies department had decided that the book should not
    be studied. He added that a committee would be formed to
    review the books for study in the department to ensure they
    comply with the morals and traditions of the country.

    In press release issued on the following day, AUC confirmed
    the minister's statement saying that the university would rely
    on the faculty to select and assign its works in the manner
    that they see fit, adding that the book would no longer be
    studied in the introductory course and that "a serious and
    responsible effort [is underway] to produce an agreed list of
    reading for core courses."

    Faculty in the department, however, have reserved the right to
    continue to teaching the book and a number are opposed to any
    efforts to come up with a list of agreed upon titles for
    introductory courses.

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Date: 17 Mar 1999
From: Abbas Al-Tonsi <tons at acs.auc.eun.eg>
Subject: AUC&Academic Freedom


Having read the responses of Drs. Al-Nowaihi and Siddiq, I hesitated to
answer. After all, it was I who started and thus have no reason to get
upset with Dr. Siddiq either when he generously upgrades me from a
reactionary to a supporter of censorship or when he sloppily deconstructs
my text. Indeed his answer is full of self-contradictions, e.g. his
exclusion of the social context in defining persecution, all the while
ignoring the fact that such persecution was not limited to the parameters
of Islamic/Arabic civilization. As for Dr. Siddiq's gullible portrayal of
his student labeling Darwish an infidel, such a student is not he only
stereotype of a Muslim, or does Dr. Siddiq exclude as terrorists Hamas and
the Hizbu-laah freedom fighters?

Perhaps I had presumed that both Dr. Siddiq would be understanding of my
position since he claims to defend everybody's freedom of speech and would,
accordingly, defend my right to disagree with them. Perhaps he did not know
that I was not only referring to them but also to a group of lamentors
?here in Cairo who saw it fit to jump on the bandwagon of lamenting
repressing academic freedom. Let me make a few points clear:

1.	The principle of the administration dictating the syllabus is
rejected by all.

2.	We must always consider careful the balance among the intertwined
relations between the teacher and the department, the teacher and the
students, and the teacher and the environment.

3.	The course description is a contractual agreement between all these
parties.

4.	The teacher and the student are their own guardians.

5.	Freedom is both for you and me.

6.	The text of alkhbuz alHafi is unfit to be mandated in an
undergraduate survey course.

7.	Season of Migration to the North was taught with no protest (is
quality a variable?).

8.	Using sex as a shock instrument is simply counterproductive if not
in bad taste, especially when it is as repulsive as Shukri's.

9.	We must acknowledge the reality around us. The bad decision of one
professor led to banning Rodinson's Muhammad; the poor judgment of a second
professor instigated banning another book. Furthermore, All books coming
into the AUC library are checked with a fine tooth comb. Hurrah for the
freedom fighters!

10.	Uncalculated heroics narrow the margins of freedom.

11.	Dictatorship, whether of a regime or the professor, is rejected. A
la Siddiq: even the Mu ?tazla betrayed their original call when they forced
their ideas upon others.

12.	Dr. Siddiq's historical anecdotes reflect intolerance of any
variance in opinion, but do not demonstrate the tendency to fight for
freedom. Indeed, do we reject guardianship of the other only to appoint
ourselves as guardians? Was it not the students, whom we stripped of the
ability to have their own mind, who vocally and bravely protested the
American invasion of Iraq and who liberated Arnun with their bare hands
while we, the teachers, were busy taboo bashing?! Was it not these students
that some other pseudo academic freedom advocates called as rich only in
money and ignorance?!

In this debate about a text presumed to belong to Arabic literature,
several issues need to be seriously discussed:

1.	Is the integrity of a work of art a function of its language,
citizenship of the author, and/or the issues discussed?

2.	English literature in Berkeley aside, what is the canon for Arabic
literature? And do we have the right to exclude Naguib Mahfuz and Yusuf
Idris to accommodate Nawal Al-Sadawi and Alifa Rifat?

3.Can we realize an Arab renaissance following the Islamic model (Muhammad
Abdu's, for example) or must we reach out beyond it? At the risk of being
dubbed as a petro-dollar agent by Dr. Siddiq, I would like to argue that
Islam is an essential ingredient to any such attempt.

The last issue I would like to raise concerns the standpoint of all those
who practice Postcolonial culture studies(PCS) and speak highly of alkhbuz
alHafi.

Thank God I am only a language instructor as Drs. Al-Nowaihi and Siddiq
call me. Accordingly I am not involved in academic politics, nor am I
affiliated with what is known as interdisciplinary studies. A misnomer
which, to my mind, is-in most cases-like TV dinners, or like the old
Egyptian tramway that allows everyone easy access on and off. I do not have
to swim with the current or join the elite of the Avant-garade Academic
PCSists .In my opinion; PCS is a mere recycling of bastardized Marxism
topped with some Lacanian or Bakhtinian dressings. These studies, disguised
under many buzzwords, reproduce Reflection theory which constitutes a
misreading of Marxist dialectics because it focuses on dualism and
presupposes a homogeneous, levelled totality inside each and every
superstructure and the base.

What Strikes me in most of the literary criticism done by the followers of
PCS is their talk about colonial discourse, cultural discourse, gender
discourse, and all kinds of discourses except narrative discourse or
textual analysis. As for them the language of the text, its narrativity or
fictionality are not the point. Instead, they place emphasis on the reality
that the text reflects; Therefor, they are only interested in knowledge and
that every text is worthy of being considered literature (V.Y.Mudimbe: The
Invention of Africa) consequently, these texts are canonized by Them, the
academic elite.

Tom Cohn was right when he says Cultural studies arrives as if at the end
of (critical) history-an occurrence affiliated with a hypothetical
globalization of formal democracy, with the installation of new
transnational or hyper-media, the end of the Cold War. (Tom Cohn: Ideology
and Inscription)

He considers that pcs is a return to mimetic humanism and historicist
method where the epistemological is the political.

I just wonder can we say that postcoloniality is the condition of what we
might ungenerously call a comprador intelligentsia: a relatively small,
Western-style, Western-trained group of writers and thinkers, who mediate
the trade in cultural commodities of word capitalism at the periphery.
Kawme Anthony Appiah (cited: The John Hopkins Guide to literary
Theory&Criticism)

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar 18 17:42:44 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:42:44 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: daar 0l-@luum mistake
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Date: 18 Mar 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: daar 0l- at luum mistake

i stand corrected.

the mistake was indeed due to the extemporaneous nature of email.  after
i posted it i realized the mistake.  ha''u ku @alaya!

david wilmsen
etc

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar 18 17:46:32 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:46:32 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: On-line Arabic bookstore
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Date: 18 Mar 1999
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: On-line Arabic bookstore

Greeting all,

I came across this on-line book store that specializes in Arabic books
and I thought it might be of interest to others. The bookstore can be
reached at: http://www.neelwafurat.com/ and it is based in Lebanon.  The
web site is in Arabic and it requires a web browser with CP-1256
support.

Here is an excerpt from their web site that describes it (it is not
Amazon.com but it is a step):

Arabization & Software Center* introduces the first
              commercial Arabic library on the internet (Nile &
              Euphrates www.neelwafurat.com) containing more than
              50,000 books encompassing all subjects with discounts up
              to 30%. This service provides the capability to search in
              Arabic either directly for the book through its title,
author,
              keywords or by browsing through the books under a
              specific category. The site also offers an image for each
              bookcover with informtion on its author, publisher, size,
              cover type, publishing date, price, discount, and an
              accompanied summary. Purchases can be made through
              credit card or bank transfer -noting that all information
is
              encoded through SSL a security precaution that prevents
              anyone from reading data except the person entitled to-
              then books are send either by fast courier or registered
              mail to any place in the world.



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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 19 18:18:59 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:18:59 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Symposium Announcement
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1) Subject: "Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium..."

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Date: 19 Mar 1999
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: "Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium..."

	Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium
		Bridging Past, Present and Future

			Wayne State University

The Department of Near Eastern and Asian Studies and the Foreign Language
Technology Center at Wayne State University will be hosting the symposium
"Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium: Bridging Past, Present
and Future" on October 15-17, 1999 and invites the submission of
papers. The symposium will accommodate presentations of 20 minutes on the
teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. There will be three panels to
address the following themes: past and present trends, new directions for
the coming millennium, and technology and the teaching of Arabic.

Authors are asked to send three copies of an anonymous abstract. Please
also include a legible 3x5 card with paper titles, name of author,
affiliation, address, telephone number and email address. Abstracts should
be submitted by June 15, 1999 to:

Department of Near Eastern and Asian Studies
Wayne State University
Arabic Symposium, 1999
437 Manoogian
Detroit, MI 48202
Attn: Jayne McGee

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by the program committee by
July 15, 1999.

For further information please call 313/577-3016, or email
<a.rouchdy at wane.edu>. Check:

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/NearEast/Events.html

Registration information: The conference is open to the public, but
registration is required. The registration fee is $10 for students, $25 for
early registration, and $35 for late registration.  Please include payment
with your registration forms and make checks payable to Wayne State
University.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 19 18:16:47 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:16:47 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: "Why learn Arabic?" on websites
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Date: 19 Mar 1999
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: websites addressing "Why learn Arabic?"

I just had a call from a grant writer wanting more information on why
Arabic is important.  I'm going to send off a somewhat updated version of
the AATA pamphlet that addresses this, but I'd like to ask if you know of
any websites that do a good job of answering this question--or aspects of
it.  Please send them directly to me at <rkb at email.byu.edu> and I'll
summarize for the list.  If you happen to have something else (a handout,
pamphlet, quote...) you'd recommend, let me know.  I'd like to include this
sort of thing on AATA's website.

Thanks,

Kirk

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 19 17:38:36 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:38:36 -0700
Subject: ARABI-L: GEN: New CD on Palestinian Folk Music
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Date: 19 Mar 1999
From: sjabbour at usa.healthnet.org
Subject: New CD on Palestinian Folk Music

Dear Colleagues,

El-Funoun, Palestinian Popular Arts Troupe, has just released their
first CD called ""Zaghareed,"" Arabic for Ululations.  The CD is a
modern interpretation of traditional Palestinian wedding songs.
Inspired by the ceremonial songs, the music was composed and arranged by
Mohsen Subhi. The first work of Palestinian folk music ever released in
the US, "Zaghareed" is passionate and inspirational, a truly remarkable
piece of Arab heritage.

I quote from the accompanying book: "It is a remarkable project,
combining the unforgettable sounds of the zaghareed with a traditional
Arab ensemble to address the sensitive issue of arranged marriages, the
right to choose, and the crucial need to release Palestinian folk music
from the chains of purists - all this, set against the even larger hope
of building a Palestinian cultural identity amidst the day to day
struggles of living under the Israeli occupation."

Zaghareed is released under the label "Cafe International."  Their web
page is: www.cafeint.com.

Samer Jabbour
Boston, MA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 23 17:51:35 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:51:35 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Classification of Languages--Thanks
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Date: 23 Mar 1999
From: Gunvor Mejdell <Gunvor.Mejdell at easteur-orient.uio.no>
Subject: Classification of Languages--Thanks

Dear collegues
thanks to all of you who responded either directly to me or to the list,
you have been most helpful. The information I received has been
incorporated, as supportive  evidence`, into our note to the University
administration - and the matter (ressources and levels for Oriental
languages) will be decided next Fall

as you may have gathered from the answers on this list, the Defence
Language Institute is the source of the classification most commonly
referred to. Roger Allen also reminded me of his article

"Teaching Arabic in the United States: Past, Present, and Future," in THE
ARABIC LANGUAGE IN AMERICA ed. Aleya Rouchdy, Detroit: Wayne State
University, 1992, pp. 222-50.

which comments on  this classification with  a "handle with care" approach.

The number of semesters recommended before entering post-graduate
programmes (for the languages taught at our Department) are:

Russian and other Slavonic languages: 4 (a higher degree of proficiency is
expected in these languages than in the following)
Persian, Hebrew, Finnish and Turkish: 4
Arabic, Sanskrit, Urdu/Hindi 5
Japanese, Chinese (and Korean from next year) 6

best wishes
Gunvor Mejdell

(plese note change of address : @east.uio.no  . I shall  inform  the
list-server.)


1. aman. Gunvor Mejdell
Institutt for |steuropeiske og orientalske studier
POB 1030, Blindern
0315 Oslo
tel. + 47 22 85 47 76    FAX +47 22 85 41 40
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:47:12 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Al-Adab's New Issue
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Date: 23 Mar 1999
From: dar eladab <d_aladab at cyberia.net.lb>
Subject: Al-Adab's New Issue

AL-ADAB #3-4/99: DIALOGUES

GEORGES TARABISHI contributes the editorial for this issue with an essay
critiquing the recent files in Al-Adab on "A Critique of Modernism" and
"A Critique of Arab Modernism."

Featured in this issue are 3 extensive dialogues:

1) with Egyptian political expert SAYYID YASIN on "Intellectual Identity
in an era of Cultural Siege and Globalization."

2) with Syrian Marxist-nationalist philosopher TAYYIB TIZINI, "Towards a
Counter-Globalization."

3) with Lebanese novelist RASHID AL-DA'IF on "Fear, Confession, and the
Collapse of Politics."

Also, 3 critical essays:

1) `Abd al-Razzaq `Id of Syria analyzes the career of the recently deceased
HADI AL-`ALAWI, the Iraqi exile whose eclectic life brought
meaning to a mixture of faith, struggle, and multi-denominational
morality.

2) Sa`id `Allouche, the monumental Moroccan literary critic, challenges
Mohammad Miftah and `Abdallah al-Ghadhami's understanding of two newly
emerging concepts in Arab literary criticism: al-`Ama' (chaos) and
al-Tashwish (distortion).

3) Fateh `Abd al-Salam, from Iraq, proposes some foundations for ARAB
CREATIVITY on the brink of the millenium.

Book Reviews and Studies: on Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said,
al-Yater by Hana Mina, Bab al-Shams by Elias Khuri, Ru'a wa Dhilal by
`A.-R. M. al-Rubay`i, and the corpus of Evelyn Accad.

Poems and Short Stories: Poetry by `Abd al-`Aziz al-Maqalih and `Izz
al-din al-Manasra, and others.? Fiction by Shawqi Baghdadi, `Abd
al-Sitar Nasr, and others.

TO ACQUIRE A COPY of this issue, please contact Dar al-Adab's subscriptions
manager, Kirsten Scheid, by e-mail at the following address:
kidriss at cyberia.net.lb. Each issue with postage
by airmail costs US$13 (or equivalent in your local currency) which can
be paid by money-order,check, credit card, or bank transfer (Dar al-Adab
at the Arab Bank, Verdun Branch, Beirut, #338-756059-810-1).? Payment
should be sent to Dar al-Adab, P.O. Box 11-4123, Beirut, Lebanon.

SUBSCRIPTIONS to Al-Adab, a 104-page, bimonthly Arabic-language journal,
are available for $75 for individuals and $100 for institutions, postage
by registered mail included.? Contact the subscriptions manager at the
e-mail address above.

***********************************************************************
???????? Al-Adab: "...represents to me connection between the present,
the heritage, and the modern age." -- Naguib Mahfuz
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 23 17:52:27 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:52:27 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LING: Adverbials/Adverbs
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Date: 23 Mar 1999
From: Bugeja Alan John at MFA <alan-john.bugeja at magnet.mt>
Subject: Adverbials/Adverbs

Dear Arabic list subscribers.

I am currently working on research on adverbialisers (Subordinating morphemes
that mark clauses for time, location and manner) in Tunisian in order to
conduct
a comparitive study with the closed class in Maltese.

Examples of adverbialisers in Tunisian are as follows :

Time : waqtaash (when); tawwa (now); qbel (before); bikri (early) etc.

Location : wiin (where); femma (there is); ghadi (over there); lfouq (up
there);
louta (down there/downstairs) etc.

Manner : hakka (thus); yaser (too much) ; barsha (a lot) etc..


Any works or references on adverbials/adverbs in other
Arabic dialects/fusha which you could recommend would be appreciated.

Thanks for your attention and assistance.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 26 00:54:31 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:54:31 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: Arabic Music Notation
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1)
Date: 25 Mar 1999
From: abder.kazzoul at vx.cit.alcatel.fr
Subject: Arabic Music Notation


  Bonjour

Je suis un musicien a la recherche de logiciel pour ecrire  des partitions
de musique arabe. Est-ce vous pourriez me dire ou je pourrai trouver ce
genre de produit.
Je vous remercie.
Abderrahman


I'm an arabic musicien and looking for a software in order who permits me
to write an arabic music (Rasd, Saba, Houzam...). Could you tell me please
where can I find this kind of product.
Abderrahman --
Adresse:
        100 Rue E.BRANLY
        91 700 Ste GENEVIEVE DES BOIS
Tel:    33 1 64 49 22 75 Bureau(W)
        33 6 15 02 63 04 Portable (Mobile)
mailto:abder.kazzoul at vx.cit.alcatel.fr

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 26 00:45:24 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:45:24 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: PEDA: Arabiyya articles
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1)
Date: 25 Mar 1999
From: AATA <aata at byu.edu>
Subject: Arabiyya articles


Al-cArabiyya
The Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic
Al-cArabiyya, is the annual journal of the American Association of Teachers
of Arabic serving scholars in the U.S. and abroad.  Al-cArabiyya
publishes scholarly and pedagogical articles and reviews which contribute
to the advancement of study, criticism, research, and teaching in the
fields of Arabic language, literature, and linguistics.  Occasionally,
translations of important Arabic texts are published.  Subscriptions are
annual at the following rates:  Students - $15.00,  Individuals - $25.00,
Institutions - $200.00.  These fees include membership in the American
Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) and subscription to the AATA
Newsletter.  For more information please write:

The American Association of Teachers of Arabic
280 HRCB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
aata at byu.edu

Contents of Volumes 30 and 31 include:

Volume 30 1997 CONTENTS

Articles

The Problem of Diglossia in the Arab World
ABDALLAH AL-KHATANY	 				        1

Araa' Wa Ittijahat hawla Al-Fusha Wal-'ammiyya
BADER S. DWEIK	 					       31

On Acquisition Order of Agreement Procedures in Arabic
Learner Language
HELLE LYKKE NIELSEN					       49

Feminist Discourse Between Art & Ideology: Four Novels
by Nawal El-Saadawi
WEN-CHIN OUYANG					        95


Book Reviews

Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi,
Alif Baa: An Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds
and Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic Part I
(MUSHIRA EID)						         117

Hedi Bouraoui, Retour ? Thyna
(AIDA A. BAMIA)						         125

Monique Bernards, Changing Traditions: Al-Mubarrad's
Refutation of Sibawayh and the Subsequent Reception of
the Kitaab
(ADRIAN GULLY)					          129

Mushira Eid and Dilworth Parkinson, eds., Perspectives on
Arabic Linguistics IX
(PAUL STEVENS)						          133

Bruce Ingham, Najd? Arabic: Central Arabian
(F.J. CADORA)						           143

Jacques Cotnam, ed., H?di Bouraoui: Iconoclaste et chantre du transculturel
(DRISS CHERKAOUI)					           147

Muhammad Sawaie, Linguistic Variation and Speakers'
Attitudes: A Sociolinguistic Study of Some Arabic Dialects
(NILOOFAR HAERI) 					           151

Baha' Taher, Aunt -afiyya and the Monastery
(ADNAN HAYDAR)					           159

Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi,
Al-Kitaab fii Tacallum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for
Arabic. Part II.
(SAL?M A. KHALDIEH)					            165

Muhammad Sawaie, reviewer, Al-Tanbih cAla Ghalat Al-Jaahil
wa-An-Nabih
(MOHAMMAD ISSA)					             171


Corrigenda to"A Diatribe in Displacement: The Mataalib
 al-Wazirayn of Al-Tawhidi" by Asma Afsaruddin in Al-Arabiyya,
 Volume 29





Volume 31 1998 CONTENTS

Articles

Relativization in Egyptian Educated Spoken Arabic
	DALIA ABOU HAGAR					        1

Language Attitude and the Promotion of Standard Arabic and Arabicization
	FAWWAZ AL-ABED AL-HAQ				               21

Ellipsis in Arabic and its Impact on Translation
	SAID EL-SHIYAB						       39

Vocabulary Studies from Arabic and Western Perspectives: Theory
and Practice
	ADEL GAMAL						        55

Case-Checking by Morpholigical Causatives in Standard Arabic: A
Minimalistic Approach
	MARK LETOURNEAU					                89

Women's Speech and Language Variation in Arabic Dialects
	JUDITH ROSENHOUSE				            	125


Report

The Arabic Language in a Global Age
	ALI  FARGHALY				            		155

     Book Reviews

Mahdi Alosh, Learner, Text, and Context in Foreign Language Acquisition
(NABIL M.S. ABDELFATTAH)			            		199

Alaa Elgibali, ed., Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic
Linguistics in Honor of El-Said Badawi
(R. KIRK BELNAP)					           	 205

Muther A. Younes, Elementary Arabic: An Integrated Approach
(AMIN BONNAH)					            		211

Terri DeYoung, Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq
(ISSA J. BOULLATA)					            	215

Asma Afsaruddin and A.H. Mathias Zahniser, eds., Humanism, Culture, and
Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff
(MICHAEL FISHBEIN)				            		217

Susanne Enderwitz, Liebe als Beruf: Al-cAbbas Ibn al-Ahnaf und das Gazal
(BEATRICE GRUENDLER)				           		221

Salih Sa'id Agha, Dhu R-Rumma: khulaasat at-tajriba as-sahraawiyya
(SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI)				            	        229

Andrea Rugh, Within the Circle: Parents and Children in an Arab Village
(ALEYA ROUCHDY)					            	235

R. Kirk Belnap and Nilofar Haeri, eds., Structuralist Studies in Arabic
Linguistics: Charles A. Ferguson's Papers, 1954 - 1994
(KARIN C. RYDING)					           	239

In Memorium: Charles A. Ferguson
R. KIRK BELNAP					           		243
			           		243

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 26 17:59:33 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:59:33 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L:PEDA: U of Pennsylvania Summer Arabic
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Date: 26 Mar 1999
From:  Mary Martin <marym at mec.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Arabic announcement.

PLEASE NOTE THAT INTERMEDIATE HAS BEEN ADDED TO ELEMENTARY. The previous
notice that went out over this list was for elementary. Thanks, MM



 Summer Intensive Courses in Elementary and Second year Arabic
 Summer Session 1:  May 17th-June 25th, 1999.
 The University of Pennsylvania

 Elementary Arabic is an intensive, full year courses in Modern Standard
 Arabic, the Arabic used in formal discourse in the contemporary Arab
 world.  Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able
 to read and understand texts on familiar topics, carry on simple
 conversations, and engage in basic written correspondence.  The course
 will cover the same material as Penn's year-long Elementary Arabic course

 (AMES 030), and will prepare students for Penn's second-year course,
 Intermediate Arabic (AMES 031).

 Second year Arabic assumes knowledge of first year Arabic or the
 equivalent.  The goal of the course is to expand the student'
 vocabulary, ability to apply the grammar learned in first year Arabic
 and acclimatize the student to a native speaking environmen

 Graduate students studying medieval Islamic civilization or comparative
 Semitic studies will be introduced to bibliographic tools for the study
 of early and classical Arabic.

 For more information, contact the Penn Language Center at
 plc at ccat.sas.upenn.edu  or  (215) 898-6039.  Questions on the content of
 the courses may be sent to dahollen at sas.upenn.edu.


--
Mary Martin
Assistant Director
Middle East Center
838 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
(215) 898 4690
Fax: (215) 573 2003
email: marym at mec.sas.upenn.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 29 17:15:52 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:15:52 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Fiction; Web Publishing Queries
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Date: 29 Mar 1999
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Fiction; Web Publishing Queries

Hi,

  I am getting ready to scan in a as large a quantity of Arabic text as I
can do in one summer so that I can use Sakhr's OCR program to convert them
to character data, in shaa' allaah.

I have two broad purposes:
1)
  I want to create a relatively small (100,000< words < 1,000,000,) corpus
of both Modern Standard and Classical Arabic texts.

  I would like to compare Modern Standard with Classical Texts

	a) fiction
	b) theology
	c) science
	d) kalaam
	e) fiqh


  I would also like to compare MSA from the Maghrib with MSA from the
Mashriq
	a) fiction
	b) newspapers
	c) technical writing

	Question one:

	Who should I use for good examples of fiction????
SO far
I have:
        Mashriq			Maghhreb
	Huda Barakaat		Mohammed Barrada
	Naguib Mahfouz		Bahouche Yacine
	Hanan Al-Shaykh		????????
	Yusif Idriis
	Tayeb Salih
	Abdul Rahmaan Al-Sharqawi
	Ibrahim al-Hariri
 	Rashid Al-Da'if
	Elias Khoury
	Salim Barakaat
	Salwaa Bakr
	Najwaa Barakaat
	Ahmed Baydoun
	Ghada Samman
Classical:

	kalila wa damma, 1001 nights, ibn Khaldoun, ibn Arabi, ibn Batouta

2) I would also like to put up as much as I can onto a Web page.

   Does anybody know what any of the copyright issues are?? What, if
anything, can I put up with impunity?  If I protect it behind a password
and make it into a "library", for language teachers and linguists does
that make a difference???? Can anybody point me at a relevant Web page or
something?
   Also any contact information for any Authors or journals would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanx,

Andrew Freeman
Ph.D. student Arabic Linguistics
U of M,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 30 17:45:29 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:45:29 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Fiction; Web Publishing Reply
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Date: 30 Mar 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Copyrights

>  2) I would also like to put up as much as I can onto a Web page.
>
>     Does anybody know what any of the copyright issues are?? What, if
>  anything, can I put up with impunity?  If I protect it behind a password
>  and make it into a "library", for language teachers and linguists does
>  that make a difference???? Can anybody point me at a relevant Web page or
>  something?
>     Also any contact information for any Authors or journals would be
>  greatly appreciated.
>
>  Thanx,
>
>  Andrew Freeman
>  Ph.D. student Arabic Linguistics
>  U of M,
>  Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

My partner and I, were talking about starting a website dedicated
to free information about Arabic language and technology. We did
register "arabicsoftware.org", soon will be up soliciting contributions
from my fellow Arabic-L mailing list.

Ah, copyright?! I could not start telling you how much it hurts
to see your work being plagiarized. AramediA's site has been
plagiarized in its entirety, by someone who was given the first
Webpage making lesson by the undersigned: "ittakou Sharra
Mann A7santa iLayhem".

Do not tell the thief, but I spoke to our attorney, Internet copyright
is not defined and without precedent; a copyright warning at the
bottom of the page is not a protection, unless copyrighted at an
attorney's, the right way.

I think it is OK to post material that is not used for profit, and credit
given to authors/writers/composers in recognition for their work, and
asking for permission, when possible, will not hurt.

George N. Hallak
www.aramedia.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 31 16:55:44 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:55:44 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: GEN: More Arabic Music Notation
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Date: 31 Mar 1999
From: "Chouairi, R. MR           DFL" <GR6548 at exmail.usma.army.mil>
Subject: Arabic Music Notation Response

To the friend who wrote in French asking where to find a software for the
writing of Arabic music.

Cher Monsieur
Les logiciels employes en musique occidentale peuvent bien vous aider.  La
partition necessaire pour determiner un Maqam en musique Arabe ne rend pas
l'ecriture musicale Orientale tellement differente pour necessiter l'emploi
d'un logiciel special.  Comme vous le savez bien, vous pouvez determiner les
quarts de tons (1/4 ou 3/4) en mettant un trait sur le bemol.  Quant a la
direction de l'ecriture, les meilleures ecritures et orchestrations de
musique orientale jamais, sont ecrites de gauche a droite (comme en musique
occidentale).  Cela dit, je doute de l'efficacite artistique de n'importe
quel logiciel.  Il me parait que le musicien passe beaucoup plus de temps a
resoudre des problemes d'ordre informatique, que de s'occuper de la creation
artistique dictee par son imagination.  (Comme je viens de le faire en
evitant de mettre les accents necessaires pour ecrire en Francais a travers
un logiciel Anglais).
					Rajaa Chouairi
					  Abou Fouad


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 31 16:58:51 1999
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:58:51 -0700
Subject: ARABIC-L: LIT: Fiction; Web Publishing Discussion
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Date: 31 Mar 1999
From: Michael Fishbein <FISHBEIN at humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject: Fiction; Web Publishing Discussion

In response to Andrew Freeman's question about works to include in a corpus of
Classical Arabic, I have some questions about the list of genres that he
proposes. To
begin with the first, fiction is not a well-defined category of pre-modern
Arabic
prose. There is much narrative prose in older Arabic literature, but most
of it
occurs within works of history, geography, biography, and (for want of a
better term)
adab. So I would rework the fiction category into a series of categories
closer to
those used in classical Arabic.

Kalila wa Dimna, which is a close translation from a Pahlavi original,
itself a
translation from Sanskrit, is not a typical work of Arabic literature. Ibn al-
Muqaffa' was heavily influenced in his syntax and idioms by the original.

The 1001 Nights would be interesting. However, it belongs to what can best
be called
Middle Arabic, not to Classical Arabic.

As for including technical works (grammar, exegesis, jurisprudence, theology,
philosophy, medicine, etc.), I think it is a bad idea, because one will be
comparing
apples and oranges. Each of these fields has its own vocabulary of
technical terms
and its own conventions of presentation and argumentation. I would avoid
technical
literature entirely and concentrate on classical texts of history, biography,
geography (travels), and adab. As for authors, round up "the usual
suspects"--Ibn
Hisham, the Aghani, Jahiz, Tabari, Mas'udi, Tawhidi, Yaqut, Ibn Khallikan, Ibn
Khaldun. Do, however, try to do examples the mainstream of non-technical
prose first.

********************
Michael Fishbein
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511

(310) 206-2229 (office, 389A Kinsey Hall))
(310) 206-6456 (fax)
fishbein at humnet.ucla.edu
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