From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:55:12 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:55:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:long form of numbers with nouns
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: long form of numbers with nouns

>Finally an addition to the vocabulary of ethnic disparagement used
>against Christians:
>the term arba'a riisha ("four feathers," in reference to the cross,
>which Copts often have tattooed on their wrists), as in da arba'a
>riisha "he's a Christian."
>  The use of the numeral with -a and singular noun in this context is
>interesting.

The use of the numeral with -a and singular noun sometimes occurs
with units and measures.
For example:

   xamsa gineeh (5 (Egyptian) pounds), instead of xamas ginihaat
   talata litr  (3 liters), instead of talat litraat
   sitta slindar (6 cylinders), instead of sitt -i- slindaraat

Now interestingly, talking about car fans, you have:

   marwaHa arba'a riisha (4 blade fan), which if your car
   overheats in the summer you might consider replacing
   with a marwaHa sitta riisha.

So, it is possible, that the arba'a riisha reference to the cross
is in fact "four blades" and not "four feathers".

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:56:23 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:56:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:cohesion in Arabic reference
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject: cohesion in Arabic reference

The best study of cohesion in Arabic that I know of is Al-Batal's
work, both his dissertation (University of Michigan) and his 1990
article: "Connectives as cohesive elements in a modern expository
Arabic text" in Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics II, eds. Mushira
Eid and John McCarthy (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins).  KC
Ryding

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:57:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:request for poem suggestions
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at email.arizona.edu>
Subject: request for poem suggestions

Dear Fellow Arabic teachers et al,
I am looking for Arabic poems that would be suitable for second semester,
first year students to memorize for recitation at a language fair held here
at the University of Arizona every year. The poems need to be a minimum of
50 words. If they are longer the student could memorize only some verses.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that you may be able to offer
either of specific poems or poets whose poetry might fit the bill. I
am wondering
if there are any particular poems that are used in schools in the Middle
East that would be relatively "easy".
Peace,
Martha S-Nafeh

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:53:19 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:53:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:spelling of G/god
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: spelling of G/god

  Re:  spelling G/god:

The classic commentaries have  /'inna  L-laahu  huwa  l-'ilaahu/  =

"Verily  God is  THE god."            --Mike Schub

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:54:03 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:54:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NCOLCTL 2002
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: NCOLCTL 2002

Date:  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:28:02 -0500
From:  "Scott McGinnis" <smcginnis at nflc.org>
Subject:  NCOLCTL 2002: Schedule and registration form now available
at CouncilNet website

A complete copy of the schedule for the 2002 conference of the National
Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), as
well as a downloadable registration form, is now available at


http://www.councilnet.org/pages/CNet_Announcements.html#fifthannual

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:57:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:57:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:journals query
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: hind sorour <hind_emi at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: journals query

  Dear friends,

Can you please provide me with a list of the most
relevant journals and bulletins that deal with Arabic
Language and its teaching both as a mother tongue and
a foreign language? Of course apart from al-'arabiyya
journal.
thank you
Hind

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 20:01:26 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:01:26 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Iraqi dialects query
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Antonio Caridad Salvador <acaridad at wanadoo.es>
Subject: Iraqi dialects query

I`m very interested in history of two arabic dialects: those of
Baghdad and Northern Mesopotamia (Mosul). Can anybody answer these
questions? do you know anybody that can help me?

My questions are:

- When did appear the first grammars and dictionaries of these
dialects? who wrote them?
- Which influences have received these dialects throughout its history?
- Does exist any literature in these dialects? when was written the first text?
- In which situations are used these dialects today? do they appear
in radio and TV? are they used by politicians in public meetings?
- Does exist any institution that promotes the use of these dialects?
- How did they develope? when did these dialects become the most
spoken variety in Mesopotamia?

If you can help me, I`d very glad. It`s very difficult to find
information about this subject.

Best wishes

Antonio Caridad

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 20:00:49 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:00:49 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ALI at AUC Heritage summer program
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Iman Saad <imansaad at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: ALI at AUC Heritage summer program

From: Mona Kamel Abdel Salam,
Director of the Summer Program

Arab Heritage Students
Intensive Summer Program
in Arabic Language and Culture
at the American University in Cairo
June  4  to  July  25, 2002
-----------------

The Arabic Language Institute at the American University in Cairo
announces its Intensive Summer Program, welcoming learners of Arab
origin.  This program caters to those interested in enhancing their Arabic
language proficiency while reconnecting with their heritage and culture.
Oral and written placement tests allow for homogeneous groups, and
small classes permit individual attention.  Located in Cairo, Egypt, center
of the Arab world, the institute's professional faculty, up-to-date
facilities, and extra curricular activities make the  different cultures and
heritage of the entire area more accessible.

This 6 week program runs from Tuesday, June 4  until Thursday, July 25,
2002.  Participants in this summer program are full-time students,
required to take 20 hours of class per week, for which they earn 8
program credits.  The curriculum allows students to study both Modern
Standard Arabic (MSA) and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA)
simultaneously or to concentrate on one or the other.  Many electives are
also offered, including Media, Qur'an, Colloquial conversation,
Literature, Translation, Writing and Grammar, each earning 1 program
credit.

While becoming more proficient in Arabic, meeting and interacting with
Egyptians, students will also be exposed to fascinating art, architecture,
folklore, history and Arab culture.

Facilities: Computer lab, language lab, university library, study center for
learners who need extra help, individualized tutoring.
Activities: Tours and trips, lectures and films on a variety of
contemporary topics,  folkdance, singing, music, and calligraphy.

Visit our website at:  http://bdingana.aucegypt.edu/summer.htm
For further information please contact:
The American University in Cairo, Cairo Office
       E-mail: alu at aucegypt.edu
The American University in Cairo, New York Office
       E-mail: aucegypt at aucnyo.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 20:03:55 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:03:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Info on setting up IE 5 for Arabic
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Info on setting up IE 5 for Arabic

[I assumed that some of you who are not subscribers to Arabic-Info
would be interested in this query and response about Arabic on IE 5]

From: Moufid Jibreen <moufid.jibreen at wcom.com>
Subject: Re: Query: Configuring Internet Explorer for reading Arabic

<Richard.Taylor at marquette.edu> wrote:

>Would someone be so kind as to point me to directions for configuring
>a Mac or Win version of Internet Explorer to be able to read Arabic
>websites on screen? I use a Mac but also have Virtual PC and so have
>Internet Explorer for both Mac and Win.

The following instructions are taken from Al-Jazeera web site

        http://www.aljazeera.net/help/arabic-instr-e.htm

I use the english version of Windows 95, and when I followed
these instructions, I was able to view most Arabic sites.
Occasionally, I run into a quirky site that I cannot read.


----

How to Read Arabic Text
Arabic pages in this site are presented as text , not images, In order
to view Arabic text you need to use the right combination of operating
system and internet browser.

Please read the following options and choose the one that suites you.

If you are using MS  Windows 95, 98 or 2000 [Arabic and non-Arabic
versions]:

Microsoft [Arabic] Internet Explorer 5.0 is the preferred choice for you
if you are looking for a smooth Arabic browsing on different versions of
Arabic and non-Arabic MS Windows. Currently our pages are designed to be
best viewed using this browser. We recommend that you keep watching
Microsoft Internet Explorer homepage to make sure that you have the
latest version of this browser.

IMPORTANT: Please read the following note to make sure that you install
the Arabic support correctly:

Steps to Add Arabic Text Display Support for Internet Explorer 5

If you are installing IE5 for the first time:

Please Choose Custom Setup, then follow steps from 7 to 9 below.

If you have IE5 already installed, please follow these steps:

1. From the Start menu chose Settings.
2. Select Control Panel
3. Select Add/Remove Programs
4. Select Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and Internet Tools
5. Click Add/Remove Programs.
6. Check the "Add Component" radio button, then press OK.
7. Scroll until you find the "multi language support" option.
8. Check "Arabic text display support" , then press next
9. Press finish, then your computer will restart.

To smooth your screen fonts if you are running Explorer 4.0 or Later on
Windows 98 or later

1. Make sure that your display card is configured to use 64K colors
2. double click on my computer
3. choose view from the toolbar menu.
4. choose "folder Options..."
5. click on "view" tab.
6. Scroll down on the dialog box that will appear until you see a check
box with the label: smooth edges of screen fonts.
7. check this box.
8. Click OK.

If you are using MAC OS

Microsoft Internet Explorer can be used on Arabic Mac systems to view
our pages. visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie and download the
latest Mac version of the browser. Please note that this option was not
tested on most of the Mac versions.

If you are using UNIX

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 is on option for this platform. Please
visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie and download the latest
browser available. This option has not been tested.

Why Arabic Text ?
Now you may ask: why do not you just display the Arabic pages in your
site as an images?.

The reasons are compelling:

Loading time for the Arabic text is much faster than images

Using text will help you copy and paste Arabic web content into your
documents.

You can search Arabic web pages for items you are looking for.

Printing text gives much better quality than images.

Finally, this is the natural way of doing things!.

  If you still need our help to read Arabic, please do not hesitate to
send to support at aljazeera.net
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  5 21:25:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:25:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:New issue of Al-Adab
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Date:  05 Feb 2002
From: kirsten scheid idriss <kidriss at cyberia.net.lb>
Subject: New issue of Al-Adab

Please be so kind as to post our announcement about a timely
intellectual debate on this critical matter in this Arabic cultural
review now in its 50th year:

*PALESTINIAN ARMED RESISTANCE: THE MORAL, LEGAL, AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS*

Al-Adab commences its Jubilee year with a major file, prepared by
Omar Barghouthi and Samah Idriss, comprising original contributions
from internationally esteemed thinkers and activists on this most
crucial subject for Palestinians, Arabs, activists and seekers of
human rights everywhere:

Contributors - Noam Chomsky, Sayyid Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah,
George Habash (PFLP), Richard Falk, Moustapha Barghouthi, Sheikh
Na'im Qassem (Hizbullah), Norman Finkelstein, Issam Makhoul (CP -
Knesset), Usaama Hamdan (Hamas) , Suheil Natour (DFLP), and Ibrahim
Alloush. The file ends with "Al-Adab Numbers and Figures" focusing on
the impact of al-Intifada on Israelis and Palestinians.

In Issue Jan - Feb, 2002 (Vol. 50, #1-2), Arabic Literary and Cultural Review,
Published by Dar al-Adab, Beirut,
                                                                     Price:
$10 (includes airmail postage)
                                                                     Contact:
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Al-Adab's jubilee file on Palestinian armed resistance is
unprecedented in both the scope of the issues addressed and the
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Palestine.  Samples of the questions debated follow:

*) In the Palestinian-Israeli context, Jewish "settlers" violate
international law (especially the 4th Geneva Convention) by their
very residence in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza.
Do you consider those settlers civilians, or members of paramilitary
groups, or both? Why?

*) Consider the following case: A bus full of Jewish settlers is
driving in a street on the West Bank in the evening. The bus is
clearly marked as a settlers' bus. Due to a long track record of
abuse and bloody attacks by settlers, the majority of Palestinians
consider anything related to settlers as not just a manifestation of
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their very security. A) Would a Palestinian be justified in attacking
such a bus, as a "pre-emptive strike" to protect himself/herself
against those perceived as armed colonial zealots? Why? B) If some of
the passengers were children, would attacking such a bus be
considered a legitimate act of resistance then? Who would be
responsible for any injury to a child on that bus: his/her parents
who willingly subjected him/her to or the attackers, or both?

*) Besides being created through terror, ethnic cleansing and
dispossession of the indigenous population, Israel is also an
exclusivist state, which unabashedly discriminates against its
"non-Jewish" citizens. How does international law view ethnically
exclusivist states?  Can the UN recognition of Israel, viewed by most
Arabs as blatantly unjust, be interpreted by the Palestinian citizens
of Israel in particular as an invitation for them to give up on
international law, and to pursue their quest for justice through
different means?  Why?

*) Should the Palestinian national liberation movement be more
concerned about the political or the moral dimensions of an act of
resistance? Why?  If an act of resistance raises serious ethical
concerns, but otherwise has the prospects of being politically
effective, can the movement be justified in committing it?

*) In view of the Palestinian Authority's recent declaration banning
armed attacks against Israel (even within the 1967 borders) and its
insistence on the oneness of the source of authority among
Palestinians, wouldn't military operations inside 67 or 48 endanger
Palestinian national unity, a unity without which liberation may not
be possible altogether?

Also included in this issue is a translation of an interview
conducted by David Barsamian with June Jordan, award-winning
African-American poet and activist.

And Al-Adab's Creative Core:
Original Poems: Nazih Abu 'Afash, Mahmood Saleh, Muhammad Dibo, Imad
Jabbar, Hassan Fath Al-Bab
  Short Stories: Hisham Ghraybeh, Lana Abd al-Rahman, Ala' al-Lami,
Yaseen Lmaqdam, Khalid Zaghreet
Testimony from Iraq:  Abd as-Sattar Naser
Book Reviews: Suheil Idris's "Dhikrayat" reviewed by Jean Tannous and
Elias Khuri's "Yalo" by Abido Basha
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:15:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition
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Date:  05 Feb 2002
From: Elizabeth Schultz <Eschultz at nafsa.org>
Subject: Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition

The Cooperative Grants Program (COOP), implemented by NAFSA: Association of
International Educators and funded by the U.S. Department of State, is
accepting proposals for a Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant competition.
These grants are awards in the range of $2,001-$10,000.  The deadline for
the competition is March 8, 2002.  Projects must accomplish one or more of
the following objectives:

*	Create opportunities for students from predominantly Muslim
countries to engage in substantive exchange with their U.S. peers and their
host communities;
*	Increase resources and understanding on U.S. campuses about the
Muslim world; and/or
*	Address issues related to women in Muslim cultures.

For additional eligibility criteria, application materials, and grant
writing resources, visit the NAFSA website at www.nafsa.org.  Go to the
Professional and Educational Resources heading and then click on Grants and
Scholarships.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  5 21:17:44 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:17:44 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Numbers with nouns
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Date:  05 Feb 2002
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

	In Yemen they use Habbat in construct and Habbaat with the three
through 10 preceding the the Habbaat which of course precedes the
non-count noun for almost all market place items.

	However, for money it is always the amount,and compound numerals
involving alf and milyoon, wth the alf and milyoon in the singualr form
and the name for the money in its singular form.
i.e.
xams alf ryal
cheers,
andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 20:11:04 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:11:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Numbers with nouns
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1)
Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Manfred Woidich <mwoidich at hotmail.com>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

Dear all,

for those interested in "numbers with nouns" in Arabic, I should like
point out the following items: Karl Mörth, Die Kardinalzahlwörter von
eins bis zehn in den neurarabischen Dialekten. Dissertationen der
Universität Wien XVI. Vienna: WUV-Universitätsverlag 1997. XVI + 370
p. - Catherine Taine-Cheickh, Les numéraux cardinaux de 3 a 10 das
les dialectes arabes. In: Actes des premieres journées
internationales de dialectolgoie arabe de Paris. (27 au 30 janvier).
Editées par Dominique Caubet er Martine Vanhove. INALCO 1994,
Publications Langues'O - 1994, p.251 - 266. - Manfred Woidich,
Langform versus Kurzform: die Kardinalzahlwörter von 3 bis 10 im
Kairenischen. In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 12 (1989)
p.199-232.

maCa aTyab ittaHiyyaat
Manfred Woidich

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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

In Egyptian the /xams kutub/ and /xams banaat/
would be /xamas kutub/ and /xamas banaat/.

In answer to the question, one does indeed reply /xamsa/.

As you say, the foreign origin might have something
to do with the following:

  xamsa gineeh
  talata litr
  sitta slindar

On the other hand consider:

'arbaca baab = 4 door
xamsa Hsaan = 5 horsepower
sabca raakib = 7 seater, (7 passengers allowed, typically to show
max. allowable capacity for taxis).

Waheed

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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

So why "4 door" and not "4 doors"??  "Four score and seven years ago,..."
Wouldn't "three doors" be  /tlat  'abwaab/ (short form) in Cairene Ar.??
My point is that your examples are types of "fixed/frozen expressions," i.e.
not generally productive in the dialect.

      Best wishes,              Mike Schub

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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

[moderator's note: this message is a response to message #3; in
general, I encourage this kind of personal exchanging of messages and
then posting the conversation all at once, since it adds a certain
coherence to the dialogue.]

Yes, in Cairene Arabic "three doors" would be in
the (short form), which would be talat 'abwaab.
In contrast with, say, the Lebanese tlat, the Egyptian
equivalent is talat, because of the different phonological
characteristics of Lebanese and Egyptian.
The following is the Egyptian (short) from 3-10:
talat 'abwaab
'arbac 'abwaab    [or 'arbactibwaab] (from fusHa: 'arbacat 'abwaab)
xamas 'abwaab    [or xamastibwaab]
sitt (-i-) 'abwaab [or sittibwaab]
sabac 'abwaab    [or sabactibwaab]
taman 'abwaab    [or tamantibwaab]
tisac 'abwaab      [or tisactibwaab]
cashar 'abwaab  [or cashartibwaab]

Concerning the (long form), for example talaata, 'arbaca, ...,
At a restaurant, or sandwich place, you might ask the
waiter for:

talaata samak ma'li  [3 (orders of) fried fish]
w itneen mashwi     [and 2 (orders of) grilled (fish)]
w 'arbaca fraax         [and 4 (orders of) chicken]
wi xamsa THiina     [and 5 (orders of) tahiina]
w tamanya salata baladi [and 8 (orders of) salad]
w sitta Hilw            [and 6 deserts]

Taking the fried fish above,
talaata samak means 3 (of the) fish (kind, order, class...)
whereas
talat samakaat would mean "3 fishes".

The above is slightly different from the original
examples of
'arbaca riisha
sitta slindar
in so far as the noun (singular VS plural, or non-count):

xamsa gneeh  (singular: gineeh)
'arbaca baab  (plural: baab)
talata sukkar  (non-count: sukkar)  = [(give me) 3 bags of sugar].

So the issues involved include whether the number
is (short form) or (long form), as well as the form
of the counted noun (singular, plural, non-count).
In addition, one has to be aware of the context of when
to use the (long) form:  Restaurants, spare parts, ...,
which might be in the contexts of units, measures,
types, groups, non-count,....

I'm not sure that these would be "fixed/frozen".  Perhaps
for learners of dialects it would be more helpful to
come up with situation based rules explaining
when to employ:
(long form) number + noun (singular, or plural, or non-count)
(short form) number + noun (singular, or plural, or non-count)

Waheed

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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Humphrey Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

Wahid's suggestion that "arba'a riisha" in reference to a Copt is a
borrowing from auto terminology (4-blade fan) sounds very plausible; indeed
the use of the long form of the numeral seems to require an explanation of
this sort.  Can anyone date the appearance of this slur, or more
interestingly of the use of long numeral forms with sums of money/units of
measurement, etc.?

Humphrey Davies
c/o School of Humanities (223)
American University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 19:59:34 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:59:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Traditional Grammar Book Order Query
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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: asif khanan <asifkhanan at www.com>
Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order Query

I was wondering if you could help me. I need to know in what order
are the following books studied in traditionally, with the easiest
first and the most difficult last:

Awdah al-Masalik ila Alfiyah ibn Malik

Shudhur al-Dhahab

Mughni al-Labib

Sharh ibn Aqueel

al-Kafiah al-Shafiah

I appreciate your help.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 20:00:23 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:00:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Columbia Job
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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: George Saliba <g.saliba at columbia.edu>
Subject: Columbia Job

Senior Position in Arabic Literature

The department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures has been
authorized to seek an additional appointment in Arabic literature at the
senior level.

The successful candidate must exhibit an extensive teaching and
publication record, and must be prepared to teach courses covering
classical as well as modern Arabic Literature at both the graduate and
the undergraduate levels.  The person should also be prepared to
supervise graduate dissertations in a variety of fields relating to
Arabic and Comparative Literature.

The successful person should also be willing to participate in the
general undergraduate curriculum, and should naturally possess the
leadership qualities that are necessary for this senior post.

Interested persons who would like to nominate candidates or wish to be
considered for the position themselves should address their
correspondence by March 15, 2002, to:

Professor George Saliba, Chair
Senior Arabic Search Committee
Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University
1140 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 3942
New York, NY 10027

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages
applications from people with a minority status.

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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:01:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:poem suggestion responses
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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: poem suggestion responses

Iliya Abou Maady's al-Talaasim is a good one.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 20:23:30 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:23:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA: BYU Summer Intensive Arabic
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: BYU Summer Intensive Arabic

The Center for Language Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU)
will offer first-, second- and third-year intensive Arabic during its
Summer Term (June 24 - August 15, 2002).  At BYU, we take an
innovative approach to learning Arabic.  The emphasis is on exposing
students to Arabic as it is actually used in the Arab world.  From
the first day of class (101), students begin learning to speak
Egyptian Arabic (the most widely understood Arabic dialect and one
closely related to neighboring dialects such as urban Palestinian).
Students pursue learning Arabic outside of class using
state-of-the-art software in the language lab.  Scheduled one-on-one
conversations with an Arab tutor, film evenings, soccer games,
cooking lessons... are also an integral part of the experience.
Students are encouraged to room with Arab BYU students.  The focus of
the second- and third-year courses will be Modern Standard Arabic;
however, students will be exposed to Egyptian and Levantine Arabic in
and outside of the classroom.

There is no financial aid available for non-BYU students, however,
the low cost of BYU tuition makes this a particularly good buy.  For
information on the program (including registration and costs) see:

http://humanities.byu.edu/CLS/home.html

Students enrolling in the second-year course should have completed
lesson 16 in Al-Kitaab, vol. 1 (or the equivalent).  The third-year
course will begin with lesson 10 of Al-Kitaab, vol. 2.

If you are interested in our summer Arabic program but are not
familiar with Brigham Young University, you should take time to
familiarize yourself with this unique institution, which is sponsored
by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  One need not be
a member to attend BYU, but all students are expected to live
according to the BYU Honor Code.  The Honor Code and other
information about BYU can be found at:

http://www.byu.edu

Please address Arabic-specific questions to:

Kirk Belnap
4072 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
801/378-6531
rkb at byu.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 13 18:37:59 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:37:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Traditional Grammar Book Order
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: "Muhammad S. Eissa" <eissa at umich.edu>
Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order

Salaam All:

	Here is an attempt to respond to the following query:

>are the following books studied in traditionally, with the easiest
>first and the most difficult last:
>
>Awdah al-Masalik ila Alfiyah ibn Malik
>
>Shudhur al-Dhahab
>
>Mughni al-Labib
>
>Sharh ibn Aqueel
>
>al-Kafiah al-Shafiah
>
>I appreciate your help.



	The order from the easier to the less easier would be Ibn Aqiil,
Shuthur al-Dhahab, AwaDah al-masaalik then al-Kafia of Ibn Maalik. Mughni
al-Labiib is more of reference than a textbook due to its arrangement of
material and precondition. Below I will try to elaborate a bit.

  	Citing my grammar curriculum in the years of my study in Al-Azhar,
we started with Al-TuHfah al-Saniyya BisharH al-Muqaddima al-Ajrumiyya of
Muhammad muHiy al-Din AbdelHamid. This was the textbook for the first year
of the elementary level of al-ma`had al-dini (12-14 year old students).

	Three years later we studied first Shudhur al-Dhahab followed by
SharH ibn Aqiil then AwaDaH al-Masaalik. In the interim years we studied
TanqiiH al-Azhariyya and QaTr al-Nada wa ball al-Sada of Ibn Hishaam. We
completed AwaDaH al-Masaalik in the fifth and last year of the secondary
level.

	In the Faculty of Arabic Language, students in the linguistic
department used al-Kafiyah and Mughni al-Labiib but I can not elaborate
since I was transferred to the history department in the same college. I am
under the impression that al-Mughni is used more as a reference book than a
textbook due to the nature of its arrangement and presentation of material.

	In my currently taught course of Classical Arabic Grammar I use
AL-TuHfa al-Saniyya as the basic text supported by Ibn Aqiil, AwaDah
Al-Masaalik and al-Shaafiya al-Kafiya in addition to Mughni al-Labiib as
references for those who like to do further research on a particular
Grammatical point.

	Hope you find this helpful.

	Salaam

Muhammad S. Eissa, Ph. D.
Department of Near Eastern Studies,
University of Michigan,
2097 Frieze Building,
Ann Arbor,  MI 48109

Ph. (734) 647-0099

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2)
Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order

Of the following three,

   'awDaH al-masaalik ila 'alfiyat ibn-maalik
   shuDhuur al-Dhahab
   sharh ibn-aquiil

I think  shuDhuur al-Dhahab, might be the easiest.

I am not familiar with al-Kafiah al-Shafiahi.

mughni al-Labiib is different from the others, and
would probably be used after.

However, I don't know whether this is the 'traditional' order.

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 13 18:39:41 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:39:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:UCSB Conference Marhc 22-23
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: UCSB Conference Marhc 22-23

Dear Colleagues,

Below you will find the preliminary program for UCSB's fourth annual
Middle East Studies conference to be held on March 23, 2002.  Both the
number and quality of the proposals were exceptional this year and the
program looks to be a particularly exciting one, not least beacuse our
plenary session will feature Dr. Rema Hamami (Birzeit University, Center
for Women's Studies/Department of Anthropology) who will be speaking on
the Palestianian situation since 9/11.

Several of the working groups, panels, and individual papers address the
two main themes of conference -- "Middle East Studies in the Wake of 9/11"
and "The Middle East & South Asia: Connections and Comparisons," but there
a wide variety of other topics are included, as well.

We will soon be sending out a more detailed message with logistical
information regarding local hotels, travel to and from the airport as well
as driving instructions, shuttle van times from hotels to the
conference, and so forth.

If you have not visited Santa Barbara before, you may wish to allot some
time on Sunday to walk around town, go to the beach, go wine-tasting in
the Santa Ynez Valley, or even go hiking in the Santa Ynez mountains.

Please also note that on Friday, March 22 (the day previous to our
conference) there will be a day-long workshop at UCSB entitled <New
Approaches to Women, Culture, and Development> featuring Rema Hamami, Raka
Ray, Shahnaz Rouse, Sondra Hale, Mary Hancock, Nancy Gallagher and others.
The two events have been scheduled on consecutive days so that those who
wish to can attend both.

Again, you will receive additional logistical information from us soon,
but until then, I look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara in March!

Best,
Dwight

*************************************************************************
Dwight F. Reynolds, Director
Center for Middle East Studies
Chair, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Office: (805) 893-7143         Department office: (805) 893-7136
FAX: (805) 893-2059            Email: dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu
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                          SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2002
               4TH ANNUAL MIDDLE EAST STUDIES REGIONAL CONFERENCE
                       Center for Middle East Studies
                    University of California, Santa Barbara

            McCune Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
                 6th floor, Humanities & Social Sciences Building

9:30-9:45  Welcome
            (Dwight Reynolds, Director, Center for Middle East Studies)


9:45-11:45 SESSION I

  1) Working Group: TEACHING ARABIC LANGUAGE IN THE WAKE OF 9/11

     Conveners: Aziz Abbassi (Defense Language Institute, Monterey)
                Kirk Belknap (Brigham Young University)
                John Eisele (College of Willam and Mary)


  2) Paper panel: POLITICS OF MYTHOLOGY

      Nancy Stockdale (U of Central Florida):
         "Citizens of Heaven" versus "The Islamic Peril": The Anti-Islamic
         Rhetoric of Orlando's Holy Land Experience since 9/11

      Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College, LA):
         The Resurrection of "Holy War" in Israel

      Abdul Karim Khan (University of Hawaii--Leeward Community College):
         The Jewish Connection of Afghan Pukhtuns

      Esra Ozyurek (University of Michigan/UCSB):
         Nostalgia as Political Battleground: Kemalist and Islamist
         Versions of the Early Turkish Republic


  3) Paper Panel: MIDDLE EAST/SOUTH ASIA--HYBRIDITIES AND BOUNDARIES

      Anna Bigelow (UCSB):
       Tales of Two Saints: Traditions without a Tradition in Maler Kotla,
       Punjab

      Peter Cowe (UCLA):
       Reconfiguring Armenian Political Identity in India: The Radical
       Madras Constitution of the late 1870's

      Jackie Armijo (Stanford):
       International Islamic Education and its Impact on Muslims in China

      Caroline Sawyer (SUNY College at Old Westbury):
       Ahmad-ed Sirhindi and the Central Asian Context of the Naqshbandi
       Sufi Order


  4) Paper Panel: HISTORY AND MEMORY

      Firoozeh Papan-Matin (UCLA):
       Kashf al-Asrar: A Medieval Autobiography in Perspective

      Mark Pettigrew (UC Berkeley):
       History and Fantasy: Perspectives on the Legacy of Pre-Islamic Egypt

      Keiko Ohta (Japan):
       Christian Communities in `Abbasid Egypt in the Ninth Century AD

      Toru Miura (Japan):
       Salihiyya (Damascus) in the Nineteenth-Century according to the
       Ottoman Archives


11:45--1:00 LUNCH

      [All presenters and conveners will be provided lunch.
       Other attendees wil be able to purchase lunch at the
       conference or at the many nearby restaurants]


1:00--3:00  SESSION II

   1) Working Group: TEACHING MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN THE WAKE OF 9/11

      Conveners: Elizabeth Dahab (CSU Long Beach), Salaam Yousif
      (CSU San Bernardino), Wendy Smith (CSU San Bernardino), Masashi
      Haneda (Japan)


   2) Paper Panel: POPULAR AND FOLK CULTURE

       Maryann Walter (MIT):
        Arabic Card Jargon: A Sociolinguistic Study in the Transmission of
        Popular Culture

       Richard Wainthropp (UCLA):
        Exposing Ebced for what it is--and isn't

       Nadine Sinno & William Taggart (U of Arkansas):
        Osama's New Look: Tragedy, Humor, and 9/11

       Amita Sarin (U of Maryland):
        The Hand in South Asian and Ancient Near Eastern Art


   3) Paper Panel: MIDDLE EAST/SOUTH ASIA -- WOMEN AND GENDER

       Shahnaz Rouse (Sarah Lawrence):
        Mean Streets: Male Domination of Public Space in Pakistan

       Huda Jadallah (UCSB):
        The Study of Honor Crimes among Arab-Americans

       Huma Bashir Dar (UC Berkeley):
        Islamizing the Tawa'if or Tawa'ifing the Muslims: the Lucknow
        Tawa'if Partitioned

       Sondra Hale (UCLA);
        Title TBA


   4) Paper Panel: ARABIC LITERATURE

       Shaden Tageldin (UC Berkeley):
        Translating the Sovereign Self into Subalternity: al-Tahtawi's
        <Takhlis al-ibriz fi talkhis Bariz> (1834)

       Noha Radwan (UC Berkeley):
        Fuad Haddad: A Modern Poet in Traditional Garb

       Rochelle Davis (De Anza College):
        Writing Down Memories: Accounts of Life in Palestine before 1948

       Douglas Young (Stanford):
        Epic Conflict in al-Andalus: Otherness in Orality and Writing


3:00--3:30 COFFEE BREAK


3:30--5:00 PLENARY SESSION AND DISCUSSION

                   Dr. Rema Hammami
     (Birzeit University/Center for Women's Studies &
              Department of Anthropology)

       <<THE PALESTINIAN SITUATION SINCE 9/11>>


5:00--6:00 WALK ON THE BEACH // WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION


6:00-8:00 DINNER


8:00-9:30 CONCERT -- UCSB MIDDLE EAST ENSEMBLE

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:38:44 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mozilla Browser supports Arabic on MAC
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: YemenLC at aol.com
Subject: Mozilla Browser supports Arabic on MAC

For those of you who are MacAddicts!
The latest release of Mozilla browser supports Arabic beautifully. I only had
difficulty with Java Applet!
Try it and report any bugs to the folks at Mozilla project.

  <A HREF="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.8/">
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.8/</A>

Cheers,
Mohammed Rahawi
PS. I only tried the OS 9.X version. For OS 10.1 version, go to mozilla.org
and download that version. Make sure you download the latest version. The
earlier versions do not support Arabic.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:40:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UPENN Summer Intensive Arabic
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Maher Awad <awadm at sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: UPENN Summer Intensive Arabic

The Arabic Language Program at the University of
Pennsylvania is pleased to announce its Summer Intensive
Program for the year 2002. This 6-week program runs from May
20 to June 28. Two proficiency-oriented courses in Modern
Standard Arabic are offered: Intensive Elementary (1st year)
Arabic and Intensive Intermediate (2nd year) Arabic. The 2
overlapping classes meet Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. for 6 weeks. Students earn 2 University of
Pennsylvania course units for either course. (1 course unit
is equivalent to 4 semester hours at many American
universities.) *Al-Kitaab* is the syllabus used in the
classes. Enrolled students will have access to the full
range of the University of Pennsylvania facilities.

For further information, please contact:

MAHER AWAD, Coordinator
Arabic Language Program
Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA  19104-6305
E-mail: awadm at sas.upenn.edu
Phone: 215-898-6653

For information about the University of Pennsylvania or its
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, please visit
this web site and links there:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ames/

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:41:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic Linux query
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Arabic Linux query

Howdy good arabic linguists,
alsalaamu 9alaykum wa ra7matu llaah wa barakaatuh,
ma9 'aTyaB at-ta7aayaa wa kull maa ba9duh

	Does anybody on the list have any experience with getting Arabic
text to display on a linux OS running on an intel processor???
many thanks in advance,
Andrew Freeman

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:43:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Films on Iraqi and Iranian women
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Educate <educate at wmm.com>
Subject: Films on Iraqi and Iranian women

********* TILTING THE AXIS: FILMS ON IRANIAN & IRAQI WOMEN  ***********

Recently deemed two of the key countries on the "Axis of Power," Iran and
Iraq stand today as highly complex nations still widely unknown and
misunderstood by many Westerners.  To shed new light on these regions of the
Middle East, Women Make Movies is pleased to present four highly acclaimed
films profiling Iranian and Iraqi women and girls in their modern-day
environments.  Featuring two films by Kim Longtinotto and Ziba Mir Hosseini,
RUNAWAY and DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, A PLACE CALLED HOME by Persheng
Sadegh-Vaziri and IRAQI WOMEN: VOICES FROM EXILE by Maysoon Pachachi, this
timely group of films offer an intimate entry into the daily lives of women
from two of the most widely discussed countries now in the media, while
forcefully demonstrating the universal experiences of surviving the
emotional strains of divorce, coming of age under difficult circumstances,
overcoming cultural displacement, and embracing one's faith.

**************** RUNAWAY & DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE  *********************

RUNAWAY
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c550.htm
2001, 87 minutes
Rental video $90.00 film $250.00/VHS Sale $295.00
Order # E750

"'Runaway' is a powerful and heart-breaking documentary about a group of
young runaway girls who are taken to a women's shelter in Tehran-Iran. The
film focuses on the sufferings of young girls who struggle to free
themselves from the tyrannical and abusive power of their families, mainly
their fathers, brothers, and stepfathers -- a subject rarely touched upon by
Iranian filmmakers. The sisterly feelings of the girls towards each other,
their spiritual strength, their courage to rebel, and their wit are shown
with a great degree of compassion and empathy in the film...Although the
film focuses on the poor uneducated families, one can imagine that the issue
of confinement and abuse goes beyond the issue of class when it comes to the
problem of domestic violence and the desire to control women through anger,
aggression, and madness." Mehrnaz Saeed, Colombia College

"...a compelling mingling of feminist anthropology and documentary
filmmaking...its powerful images remain with you long after the credits have
run." Shiva Balaghi, Associate Director, Kevorkian Center, NYU

DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c454.htm
1998, 80 minutes
Rental video $90.00 film $200.00/VHS Sale $295.00
Order # E619

Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in
an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate
circumstances of Iranian women's lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband
beats her; Ziba, a 16 year old trying to divorce her 38 year old husband;
and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to gain custody of her daughters,
this deadpan chronicle showcases the strength, ingenuity, and guile with
which they confront biased laws, a Kafakaesque administrative system, and
their husbands' and families' rage to gain divorces.  Dispelling images of
Iran as a country of war, hostages, and "fatwas", and Iranian women as
passive victims of a terrible system, this film is a subtle, fascinating
look at women's lives in a country which is little known to most Americans.

"...fascinating...counters with compassion, humor, and a keen nose for
spotting empathetic characters, strong-willed women, and dramatic
moments..." Hamid Naficy, Author, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian
Television in Los Angeles

********************* A PLACE CALLED HOME  **************************

A PLACE CALLED HOME, A film by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c476.htm
1998, 30 minutes
Rental video $60.00/VHS Sale $225.00
Order # E638

Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri grew up in pre-Revolution Tehran daydreaming about an
ideal life in the West. Nineteen years later, after living and working in
the U.S., Persheng explores her controversial decision to move back to Iran,
to return to the place she never stopped calling home. In this fascinating
and very personal documentary, Persheng's interviews with her family--with
her mother and sister in the U.S. and with her father, who chose to remain
in Iran--reveal some of the complex layers of expatriate, national and
cultural identities. The film features a rare glimpse at women's lives in
contemporary Tehran.

"Can you go home again? Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri documents here the searing
angst of exile and the equally devastating experience of return to Iran."
Ellen Fairbanks Bodman, University of North Carolina

*************** IRAQI WOMEN: VOICES FROM EXILE ****************

IRAQI WOMEN: VOICES FROM EXILE, A videotape by Maysoon Pachachi
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c32.htm
1994, 54 minutes
Rental video $75.00/VHS Sale $250.00
Order # E203

Iraqi Women-Voices from Exile provides a fascinating and rare look at the
recent history of Iraq through the eyes and experiences of Iraqi women
living in exile in Britain. The Arab world usually speaks to the outside
with a male voice and Arab women's voices are rarely heard. This documentary
features moving interviews with women about life in Iraq before Saddam
Hussein came to power, in the years of repression under his regime and
through the Gulf War in 1991. As well as providing a forum for Iraqis to
tell their own stories to a western audience, Iraqi Women-Voices from Exile
also contributes to a process of Iraqi self-criticism.

"Quietly powerful...The restraint of both the women and the film intensfies
the emotional impact of their experiences and testimonials." Hamid Naficy,
Rice University

These titles are part of WMM's growing collection of work by and about women
in the Middle East.  Please check out our website at www.wmm.com for
information on these and other titles.  You can also request a copy our 30th
Anniversary catalogue or get information on other new releases at
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/newrelse/new_releases.htm.

*************** WMM CONTACT & ORDERING INFO *****************

To order RUNAWAY, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, A PLACE CALLED HOME or IRAQI WOMEN:
VOICES FROM EXILE, please visit our website www.wmm.com, or contact us at:

Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500E, New York, NY  10013
P/212.925.0606 x360, F/212.925.2052
orders at wmm.com / www.wmm.com

*********************** ABOUT WMM ***************************

Women Make Movies is a non-profit feminist media organization which
facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition.
Celebrating our 30th year as the world's largest distributor of films and
videos made by and about women in 2002,  we provide a diverse collection of
more than 450 titles to the viewing public and are supported in part by
grants from such agencies as the MacArthur Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts. Our catalogue is used by thousands of educational,
community and cultural organizations annually.

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:44:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Adonis' e-mail
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Safa Jubran <jubran at osite.com.br>
Subject: Adonis' e-mail

I need Adonis e-mail, can you help me!
Thanks
Safa

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:44:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grants
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Elizabeth Schultz <Eschultz at nafsa.org>
Subject: Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grants

The Cooperative Grants Program (COOP), implemented by NAFSA: Association of
International Educators and funded by the U.S. Department of State, is
accepting proposals from U.S. based institutions of higher education and
non-profit organizations for the Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant
competition.  Proposals must be received by March 8, 2002.

Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grants are awards in the range of
$2,001-$10,000. Projects must meet all regular COOP eligibility criteria and
accomplish one or more of the following objectives:

----- Create opportunities for students from predominantly Muslim countries
to engage in substantive exchange with their U.S. peers and their host
communities;
----- Increase resources and understanding on U.S. campuses about the Muslim
world; and/or
----- Address issues related to women in Muslim cultures.

For eligibility criteria, application materials, and grant writing
resources, visit the NAFSA website at www.nafsa.org.  Go to the Professional
and Educational Resources heading and then click on Grants and Scholarships

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 13 18:42:02 2002
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:42:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dutch/Arabic Arabic/Dutch Dictionary
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Hans Paulussen <paulussen at altern.org>
Subject: Dutch/Arabic Arabic/Dutch Dictionary

		Dictionary Arabic-Dutch / Dutch-Arabic

		 Leerwoordenboek Arabisch-Nederlands
		 Leerwoordenboek Nederlands-Arabisch

		     Mark Van Mol & Koen Berghman

			  Bulaaq - Amsterdam

		A new learners' dictionary for Arabic:
	     An innovative instrument for Arabic learners


The international Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie) and the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have recently published two volumes of
new learners' dictionaries Arabic-Dutch and Dutch-Arabic. Both
dictionaries, which can be considered as a new milestone in Arabic
lexicography, have a number of features unknown in Arabic dictionaries
until now.

1. Corpus linguistic approach:
The dictionaries are based on an extensive representative sample of
texts of Modern Standard Arabic of approximately 3,000,000 words.

2. Spoken and written language:
The compilation of the dictionaries is based on written and spoken
Arabic. The spoken corpus consists of transcribed spoken Standard
Arabic from radio and TV programs from all over the Arab world,
encompassing more than 1,000,000 words.

3. Translation methodology:
The translation of all dictionary entries is based on words in
context.

4. Context-oriented:
To help learners to produce foreign language, the entries are
presented in context. More than 10,000 sample sentences and
expressions were included.

5. Modern corpus analysis techniques:
An encoding system developed at the University of Leuven has helped to
detect any word in any context.

6. Database management:
All data are stored in a database, making further electronic
explorations possible.

7. Learners' dictionary:
This is probably the first learners' dictionary of Arabic on the
market, containing a treasure of information going from usage notes to
cultural information.

8. Vocalization:
All word, expressions and sample sentences of the two dictionaries are
completely vocalized.

9. Discriminating pointers:
In order to help het learner in search of the different shades of
meaning, discriminating meaning pointers have been included in both
dictionaries.

10. Lay-out:
Much attention was given to the lay-out, including the different fonts
and font sizes, to make dictionary look-up an easy task.


Further information can be found at:
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/ilt/arabisch/engels.htm

or contact Prof. Dr. Mark Van Mol:
Mark.VanMol at ilt.kuleuven.ac.be

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:45:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:poem suggestion repsonse
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Eltoukhi at aol.com
Subject: poem suggestion repsonse

Hello,

I suggest  Hafez Ibrahim ( shaer Ennil )  "Allogha  Alarabia Tanii Hathaha
bayna
Ahliha".


Zahra Eltoukhi

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:36:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL 30
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Robin Thelwall and Rebecca Bradley <eubule at telusplanet.net>
Subject: NACAL 30

NACAL 30 Houston, Texas March 22-23 2002
From Robin Thelwall & Lionel Bender

It’s not too late to register for NACAL 30 and there are a few paper
slots still available

Venue: Drury Inn & Suites
Houston/Near the Galleria
1615 West Loop South
Houston, Texas 77827
Rooms $82/$94 including taxes (let us know if you are interested in
sharing a room)
(NB about ten blocks from American Oriental Society Venue)

Phone/Fax: 713 963 0700
email: Mr Keith Kirk email: <dis.hg.80.gm at druryinn.com>
If you book please confirm to Lionel Bender <eswg at siu.edu>

Registration Fee
Please send a cheque for $50/$25 (Faculty/postgraduate rate)
made out to: Robin Thelwall
and mail to him at
2121 1st Avenue NW
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 0B6, Canada

Friday AM NACAL at Drury Inn

Registration
Papers: 9:30 - 12.00

Friday Joint Session at  J. W. Marriott by the Galleria, 5150
Westheimer Road, Houston, TX 77056.
A. Ancient Near East I: AOS/NACAL: Linguistics.
Leo Depuydt, Brown University, Chair (1:30 p.m.—3:30 p.m.)
1. Alan Kaye, California State University, Fullerton
The Career of Carleton T. Hodge as Orientalist and Linguist
2. Peter T. Daniels, Independent Scholar, New York, New York
An Old New Approach to the History of Langiage Families: Kienast’s
Semitische Sprachwissenschaft
(Break)
3. Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit¨at Frankfurt
am Main
Piel / parras in Central African Hamitosemitic / Afroasiatic?
4. David Testen, Macalester College
The Role of Kassite in the Development of Middle Babylonian

Saturday NACAL Papers
AM
&
PM

7.00 (to be confirmed) Dinner

NACAL Papers confirmed (not yet assigned a time-slot)
Lionel Bender, Southern Illinois: Mao (Omotic?) Lexicon
David L. Elias, Harvard: Three Tigre Dialects: A Preliminary Grammatical Sketch
Julie Glachant, Paris: La morphologie des pronoms en Inor (Gurage)
Olga Kapeliuk, Israel: Sentence-nouns: the case of Amharic
G.Kapchits, Moscow: Focus in Somali Proverbs
Ron Kim, U of Pennsylvania: Cliticization and the evolution of the
copula in Modern Aramaic
Adrian Macelaru, Romanian Embassy, Riyadh: Some Notes on
Ethio-Semitic Particle  s/s and the
Egyptian js
Mustafa A. Mughazy, Ohio: 1. Adjectival passives in Egyptian Arabic
2. Events in Disguise: The semantics and  Pragmatics of Participles
in Egyptian Arabic
Andrew Ira Nevins, MIT: Hebrew Verbal Morphology
Ahmad Khalaf Sakarna, Jordan: Morphological Characteristics of
Classical Arabic Numerical System
Jamal Al-Shareef, Leeds: Language change and Variation in Palestinian Arabic
Nehad Shawky, Cairo: The Effect of Learners’ Beliefs and Attitudes on
the Aquisition of Arabic
Olga Stolbova, Moscow: Present-day problems of Chadic Comparative Studies
Mikael A Thompson, Indiana U: Definiteness and Specificity in Tigrinya
Pete Unseth, Austin: Amharic Laryngeals and Reduplication
MaryAnn Walter, MIT: The Arabic Dialect of Hadramaut, Yemen



Future Meetings (AOS dates and hotels)  For your forward diary!
We are looking for volunteers to run NACAL at these venues.

Nashville, TN (28-31 March: 2003: The DoubleTree);
  San Diego (26-29 March 2004: Mission Valley DoubleTree);
  Toronto (2005)

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:49:47 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Numbers with nouns
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2) Subject: Numbers with nouns
3) Subject: Numbers with nouns

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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Ignacio Ferrando Frutos <ignacio.ferrando at uca.es>
Subject: Numbers with nouns (more refs)

Dear members,
concerning the issue of "numbers with nouns", I would suggest, in
addition to the works indicated by M. Woidich, a reading of L.
Drozdík (2001), Modern Written Arabic, where you will find a chapter
entitled "The 3-10 cardinal nimbers in Arabic" (pp. 69-86), including
very interesting remarks on the distribution of short vs. long forms,
in both Written and Native Arabic.
Best wishes to all,
ignacio ferrando

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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: "L.Boumans" <l.boumans at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

Dear all,

Joining in the discussion on long form vs short form numerals, I
would suggest the following hypotheses on the basis of Waheed Samy's
examples:

1) the long form + SG is used in modifying compounds, like in the examples

'arbaca baab = 4 door
xamsa Hsaan = 5 horsepower
sabca raakib = 7 seater, (7 passengers allowed, typically to show
max. allowable capacity for taxis).

which design types of cars, or the four-blade fan. Cf. Eng.
four-wheel drive etc.

This raises the question of how these compounds are used, are they
dependents of possessive phrases, i.e. nouns ( carabiyyat 'arbaca
baab ), or adjectives ( carabiyya 'arbaca baab ) ?



2) the "four fish" type: in the case of dishes in restauraunt /samak
ma'li/ does not refer to a single fried fish, but is the 'title' of a
dish named after its principal ingredient. After all, a single /samak
ma'li/ may include more than one small fish, as well as some lettuce
leaves or even a slice of cucumber. The SG form results from
reluctance to pluralise the title /samak ma'li/.

I am not a specilist in either counting or Egyptian Arabic, so this
is just a wild guess.

Louis Boumans

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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

In partial answer to your question:  some colloquial dictionaries
give the plurals  /tiyyaam/, /tushhur/, /taalaaf/ [??]--for
days, months, thousands, etc.  These are formed by "metanalysis"
[="wrong cuttting"]  of the long form of the numerals with
plurals beginning with hamzah. leaving us with, e.g.
/t(a)lat  tushur/  = "3 months" with the appearance of having the
"normal" short form with the counted noun.

      Best wishes,
                                          Mike Schub

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:54:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:al-Tograi query
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:Mustafa Turgutalp <mustafaturgutalp at hotmail.com>
Subject:al-Tograi query

I'm studying Arabic Language & Literature in University of Ankara, 
Turkey.
 
I have to get information about an Abbasid Poet al-Tograi (al-Tugrai). 
If you know a little about him & his works. You'll be a part of my 
thesis & my future Arabic Literature book.
 
Best Regards,
Mustafa Turgutalp

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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:mros1 at cs.um.edu.mt
Subject:Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

ACL-2002
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday 11 July, 2002

This workshop is a sequel to the workshop on Computational Approaches
to Semitic Languages that was held at COLING98 in Montreal. Since that
time, there have been various other workshops, but these have mostly
turned out to be either rather applications-oriented, or rather
language specific, or both. Whilst not neglecting applications, the
present workshop aims to attract submissions that contribute
significantly to theoretical insights concerning computational
frameworks underlying the processing of Semitic languages in
general. Morphology and/or phonology would seem to be promising areas
of investigation in this sense. An effort will also be made to
highlight submissions that concern a representative set of
languages.

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

-  Orthographic Representation
-  Morphological/Phonological Models
-  Speech Applications
-  Syntax, Parsing and Generation
-  Semantics
-  Acquisition of Language Resources
-  Corpora
-  Use of Machine Learning Techniques
-  Multilingual / Mixed Language Applications
-  Information Retrieval and Extraction

Program Committee

   Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (co-chair),
mike.rosner at um.edu.mt
   Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel (co-chair),
shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il
   Ken Beesley, XRCE, France, ken.beesley at xrce.xerox.com
   Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR Software, Cairo, Egypt, ac at sakhr.com
   Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel, yco636sc at netvision.net.il
   Anne De Roeck, Open University, UK, A.DeRoeck at open.ac.uk
   Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, US, evens at iit.edu
   Ray Fabri, University of Malta, Malta, rfab1 at um.edu.mt
   Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia, ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn
   Alon Itai, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, itai at cs.technion.ac.il
   Steven Krauwer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands,
steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl
   Mounira Loughraieb, University of Nancy 2, France,
   mounira.loughraieb at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr
   Chadia Moghrabi, University of Moncton, mograc at umoncton.ca
   Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo
   Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University, US, rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu
   Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, adn at gnet.tn

Important dates

   February 24, 2002: Deadline for submissions
   April 7, 2002: Notification of acceptance
   May 1, 2002: Final version due
   July 11, 2002: Workshop date

Home Page and Further Details

   http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:57:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SDSU job
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:Matthew Howe <howema at prodigy.net>
Subject:SDSU job

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

ARABIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

The Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages at San Diego State
University (http://www- rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/linguist
 /lol.html) announces a position in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at
the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 2002.
Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies
and/or linguistics, a record of teaching excellence in the Arabic
language at the college/university level, publications in the field, and
research interests to complement these fields.  We seek candidates who
have experience in Arabic curriculum development, the use of technology
in the classroom and an interest in participating actively in the
undergraduate and graduate programs of the department and in working
with the linguistically and culturally diverse student population of
SDSU. The position requires native speaker knowledge of Arabic and
native or near native speaker knowledge of English.

Send applications to include cover letter, CV, at least three letters of
recommendation, transcripts, and sample publications to the Arabic and
Middle Eastern Search Committee, Department of Linguistics and Oriental
Languages, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA  92182-7727.  The
Department will begin reviewing applications March 4, 2002, and continue
until the position is filled. Department telephone (619) 594-5268; fax
(619) 594-4877; email cwebb at mail.sdsu.edu.

SDSU is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against
persons on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender, marital status, age, or disability. Women,
underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities are
encouraged to apply.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:58:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs help with Mac OS9 Arabic
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:"sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk"
<Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject:Needs help with Mac OS9 Arabic

Dear list members

I wonder whether anyone has a fully arabicized Mac 9.0. I need
some help with getting a textual material in Arabic from this
particular system.

Best regards

Sattar Izwaini
PhD Candidate
Department of Language and Linguistics
UMIST
PO Box 88
Manchester M60 1QD
England

Tel.+44 161 200 3074
Fax +44 161 200 3099

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 19 17:01:21 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:01:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Review of Arabic on Mozilla
Message-ID: <TUE.19.FEB.2002.100121.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht_Hofheinz at web.de>
Subject:Review of Arabic on Mozilla
Further to YemenLC at aol.com 's msg of 13 Feb:

I did a test run of Mozilla 0.9.8 on both MacOS 9 and OS X. Arabic ran
fine on both versions, even though there is no OS X Arabic language pack
yet (I have just installed the Arabic fonts there). Display is better
than under iCab: frames and lines are rendered correctly, all right to
left, without suffering from the well-known problem of parts of a line
getting inverted when an "English" character, or a number, is in the
middle. Two problems I've noticed so far: auto-detect character coding
does not always work (but can of course be adjusted manually), and
display of fully justified text is uneven under OS X and may also be
improved under OS 9.

Try it out yourselves:

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

Regards,
Albrecht

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:00:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:new article
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:new article

[The following article of interest to Arabic-L subscribers has been
announced:]

Journal: Language and Communication
ISSN   : 0271-5309
Volume : 22
Issue  : 2
Date   : Apr-2002

Language mixing in rai music: localisation or globalisation?
A. Bentahila, E.E. Davies
pp 187-207

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 19 17:03:17 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:03:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hebrew U. Summer Arabic Courses
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:Yohanan Friedmann <msyfried at mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject:Hebrew U. Summer Arabic Courses

The Rothberg School for Overseas Students of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem offers three summer courses in Arabic, between June 25, 2002
and August 1, 2002.

1. Literary Arabic - Elementary.
An introduction to literary Arabic. Grammar, reading of graded texts,
drills in pronunciation and translation. The course is designed for
students with no previous knowledge of the language.
Classes meet five days a week, 5 hours daily.

2. Literary Arabic - Intermediate.
Readings of easy classical and modern prose. Exercises in translation.
Review of basic grammar and continued study of morphology and syntax. The
course is designed mainly to improve students' reading comprehension.
Prerequisite: One year of academic study of Arabic or equivalent.
Classes meet five days a week, 5 hours daily.

3. Spoken Arabic - Elementary.
The course is designed to enable students to hold conversation in Arabic,
in the dialect spoken in Jerusalem.
Classes meet for 5 days a week, 4 hours daily.

The courses are coordinated by Prof. Yohanan Friedmann

For information on registration, please write to Mr. Yoel Nesson:
ynesson at roth.mscc.huji.ac.il
For academic matters, please write to Prof. Yohanan Friedmann:
msyfried at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il

You can also visit our website at:
http://www2.huji.ac.il/www_sfos/top.html

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:07:57 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:07:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACTFL OPI Workshop for Arabic
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:Adam Stryker <astryker at actfl.org>
Subject:ACTFL OPI Workshop for Arabic

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

ACTFL is please to announce that it will be offering Arabic, as well as
some other non-cognate languages like Korean, Japanese and Hindi at the
upcoming 4 day Oral Proficiency Interview Tester Training Workshop at the
University of California at Berkeley, July 18-21, 2002.  Please visit our
website at www.actfl.org  Please register early as space is limited!
Thank
you!

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:09:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:09:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Al-Tograi response
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:khorshid <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Al-Tograi response

You may want to look at his biography in "al-aghani" or "mo9jam
al-udabaa'"
-an indexed edition.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:13:10 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:13:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Can help with Arabic on Mac
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Can help with Arabic on Mac

I work on such a Mac, using Arabic.
What seems to be the problem?
Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:14:50 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:14:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy (Ads)
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1) Subject:Arab Academy Cards (Ad)

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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:sanaa at arabacademy.com
Subject:Arab Academy (Ad)

The Arab Academy offers online Arabic language courses for the whole
family (children and adults).  Our fees are slashed down for family
members and groups.

Information on courses and fees is available from:
University students (adults):
http://arabacademy.com/main/online/registrar_e.shtml

School students (children and youngsters):
http://arabacademy.com/main/online/registration_home_schooling_e.htm


The Arab Academy's courses make wondeful Eid gifts for family and
friends.

Our online Arabic courses allow you to:
- Study Arabic from wherever you are
- Move at your own pace
- Interact with learners of Arabic from all over the world
- Be supervised by professional teachers
- Get a certificate upon completion of courses

Best regards,
Sanaa Ghanem

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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:sanaa at arabacademy.com
Subject:Arab Academy Cards (Ad)

The Arab Academy's card center has cards for all occasions.  Use it to
send Eid-ul-AD7aa cards.
http://www.arabacademy.com/card_center_e.htm

All our cards have links to:
Flash animation of the Arabic alphabet
Interactive verses with sound waves & translation
Learn How to Pray
Special Offers

Best regards,
Sanaa Ghanem

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:15:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Five (Six?) Nouns query
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:asif khanan <asifkhanan at www.com>
Subject:Five (Six?) Nouns query

Salam,

I was wondering if anyone could clarify the following.
I have always been taught that there are the 'Five Nouns' or al-Asma
al-Khamsa.
In 'al-Qawa'id al-Asasiyah lil-Lugha al-Arabiya by al-Sayyid Ahmad
al-Hashimi, he mentions
the al-Asma al-Sitta, namely:
"al-Asma al-Sitta hiya: Abuka, wa Akhuka, wa Hamuka, wa Fuka, wa Dhu
Malin, wa Hanuka.
Could some one clarify this.
Are there traditionally five or six nouns?
Eagerly awaiting you replies.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:17:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:17:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs corpus and software
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:halimi3 at etu.unige.ch
Subject:Needs corpus and software

I  would be grateful if you could provide me with an arabic corpus for
my research.
Do you know of a programme which extracts word combinations from arabic
texts?
I thank you very much for your cooperation.

Best regards

Sonia HALIMI
Student in DEA at the University of Geneva

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:18:41 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:18:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dliemis in Iraq
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Dliemis in Iraq

Not that this can be considered real ethnic slur, yet it worth while.
When
Iraqies say for someone Dliemi (< dliem, the area around the upper part
of
Eufrates in Iraq [< dulaymii]) it means oaf, dumb, a simpltone, etc.
There
are lots of jokes to the expense of the Dliemies. Cf: "Why a Dliemi
always
orders three cofies? For he drinkes the medium one." These are mostly the
"international" jokes, which travel through the space and time according
to
Carel Chapek's definition in his Marsia.

As each country has its "Dliemies" in a certain area (Irish in UK,
Bosnians
in Yugoslavia, etc. -- no offense intended) it should be admited that all
over the world "the Dliemies" are, as a rule, the main and best
promoters of
such jokes.

Srpko Lestaric

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:27:48 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:27:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Computational Approaches Conf deadline extended
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:mros1 at cs.um.edu.mt
Subject:Computational Approaches Conf deadline extended

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 28th February**

Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

ACL-2002
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday 11 July, 2002

This workshop is a sequel to the workshop on Computational Approaches
to Semitic Languages that was held at COLING98 in Montreal. Since that
time, there have been various other workshops, but these have mostly
turned out to be either rather applications-oriented, or rather
language specific, or both. Whilst not neglecting applications, the
present workshop aims to attract submissions that contribute
significantly to theoretical insights concerning computational
frameworks underlying the processing of Semitic languages in
general. Morphology and/or phonology would seem to be promising areas
of investigation in this sense. An effort will also be made to
highlight submissions that concern a representative set of
languages.

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

-  Orthographic Representation
-  Morphological/Phonological Models
-  Speech Applications
-  Syntax, Parsing and Generation
-  Semantics
-  Acquisition of Language Resources
-  Corpora
-  Use of Machine Learning Techniques
-  Multilingual / Mixed Language Applications
-  Information Retrieval and Extraction

Program Committee

   Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (co-chair),
mike.rosner at um.edu.mt
   Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel (co-chair),
shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il
   Ken Beesley, XRCE, France, ken.beesley at xrce.xerox.com
   Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR Software, Cairo, Egypt, ac at sakhr.com
   Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel, yco636sc at netvision.net.il
   Anne De Roeck, Open University, UK, A.DeRoeck at open.ac.uk
   Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, US, evens at iit.edu
   Ray Fabri, University of Malta, Malta, rfab1 at um.edu.mt
   Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia, ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn
   Alon Itai, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, itai at cs.technion.ac.il
   Steven Krauwer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands,
steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl
   Mounira Loughraieb, University of Nancy 2, France,
   mounira.loughraieb at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr
   Chadia Moghrabi, University of Moncton, mograc at umoncton.ca
   Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo
   Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University, US, rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu
   Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, adn at gnet.tn

Important dates

   February 28, 2002: Deadline for submissions
   April 7, 2002: Notification of acceptance
   May 1, 2002: Final version due
   July 11, 2002: Workshop date

Home Page and Further Details

   http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:42:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus
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2) Subject:Arabic Corpus

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From:Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic Corpus

Hello Sonia Halimi,
   Watt's concordance tool works better than any other I am aware of for
looking at corpora in Arabic script.  It  supports Arabic, or more
precisely it doesn't do anything to prevent you from taking advatage of
your system's Arabic capabilities if there is Arabic enabled on your
computer, so if you know how how to take advantage of the Arabic system
on your windows machine, you can get it to work for Arabic.  You can
visually examine a big context around words, although the left right
versus front back can be confusing, since left is assumed to "before."
It
will also generate statistics on frequencies and stuff.
   A big problem that it won't solve for you is lemmatization.  ie albyt
and byt get counted as separate items unless you list all items in that
category.  There is probably a fiendishly clever way around that in
Watt's concordancer but I have opted for 'c' code to solve that problem.

  My advice is to avoid Athelstan's MonoConc Pro.

   You can get Rob Watt's concordance at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/

   As for corpora, there is all kinds of stuff on the web, including the
Bible, the Quraan and newspapers.

have fun,
cheers,
andy

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: Tim Buckwalter <TimBuckwalter at bainbridge.net>
Subject:Arabic Corpus

Sonia:
You can find a lot of text data here: http://www.muhaddith.org
This website also has software for searching texts but I haven't used it.
For extracting word combination I suggest you learn Perl. I can help you
get
started with some very simple search scripts, if you like.
Regards,
Tim

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:42:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Five or Six Nouns responses
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3) Subject:Five or Six Nouns response
4) Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From:"Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

The answer is "both:"  /hanuu-/ means "vulva," but is usually
(if modesty doesn't exclude it) translated as simply "thing."
      See *ZDMG* , Band 125, Heft 2. 1975 (270--272):  "The
Six Nouns."
      Best wishes,
                                   Mike Schub

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: Munir <zilanaw at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

The "five nouns" in common usage are ab, akh, fam, ham, and dhu.
However, there is an archaic biliteral noun, "han," meaning "a trifling
thing,"  that is inflected the same way the five nouns are.  The Alfiyya
of Ibn Malik mentions it.  Supposedly, this "sixth noun" has not been
used
since first century CE, although I am not sure of the exact date it fell
into disusage.

-Munir

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

School kids - in Egypt - are only taught the 5: abun, akhun, Hamun,
famun, and dhu.
The 6th, vagina, is not normally taught in schools (only in institutes
of higher learning).
Waheed

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: SAKAEDANI Haruko <dr_harukos at hotmail.com>
Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

Generally, they are taught as "Five Nouns" in schools because:
1) "Hanuu(-ka)" has so a shameful meaning that the teachers   hesitate
to pronounce this word in front of their pupils,
and 2) Some grammarians do not regard it as a member of this group,
   but say that it inflects like other ordinary nouns and does not
change even if it occurs in "construction state."

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:42:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Romanization systems query
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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: Antonio Caridad Salvador <acaridad at wanadoo.es>
Subject: Romanization systems query

Anyone can tell me the name of the most common systems to romanise the
arabic names? when were they created? who was their author?

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:01:31 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Romanization Responses
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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Benjamin Drury Huyck <bdh29 at email.byu.edu>
Subject:Romanization Responses

Antonio,

What do you mean by 'systems'? Do you mean methods used by people to
transliterate Arabic names? Or do you mean computer software designed to
automate the romanization of say, a database of Arabic names?

As for the first possibility, here are the names of some standards for
romanizing Arabic into Latin characters:
-UN 1972 (II/8) (United Nations)
-BGN/PCGN 1956 ("U.S. Board on Geographic Names" and "Permanent
Committee on
Geographic Names")
-I.G.N. System 1973
-ISO
233:1984
	http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=4117
-ISO
233-2:1993
	http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=4118

I know very little about these schemes, but I included the urls to the
ISO web
site for the last two. What I do know is that Arabic names can be
romanized into
a number of languages, each resulting in a different spelling. This,
compounded
with the dialectic and pronunciation differences across the Arab world,
makes an
organized, systematic approach to romanization a difficult task, to say
the
least.

As for the second possibility, I don't know of any existing software that
automates the romanization of Arabic names, although my company is
considering
developing such a product. You can contact me off the list for more
information.

Best Regards,

Benjamin Huyck

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2)
Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Jackie Murgida <jmurg at star.net>
Subject:Romanization Responses

This topic is very complicated. A Ph.D. dissertation on Arabic names by
Paul
Roochnik at Georgetown University should be helpful. The date is the
1993.
He includes a discussion of romanization issues.

Best regards,
Jackie Murgida

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 26 17:02:34 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:02:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus (plug for Perl)
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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at unm.edu>
Subject:Arabic Corpus (plug for Perl)

For extracting word combination I suggest you learn Perl.

I agree with Tim. Concordancing programs (including MonoConc, with all
due respect to the good doctor Barlow), like any software, can only do
what the developers predicted you might want to do. Stray from script,
and you're left with an inadequate solution. The answer: write your own
script.

I'll be teaching a "computing for linguists" class this in the Fall
which will include a substantial Perl component, and I haven't found a
good linguist-oriented text (although Tibor Kiss told me he had one in
the works, perhaps to be published by CSLI). While the bioinformatics
Perl texts have a lot of string-manipulation stuff, they're too
specialized. You might want to look at Cross's _Data Munging with Perl_,
which has some very useful chapters, including material you might care
about for yanking web pages and stripping off HTML/XML tagging.

Cheers,

Dan.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:03:47 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition
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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Elizabeth Schultz <Eschultz at nafsa.org>
Subject:Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition


NAFSA's Cooperative Grants Program (COOP) is accepting proposals from
U.S.-based institutions of higher education and non-profit organizations
for
its Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition.  Proposals must be
received by March 8, 2002.

Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grants are awards in the range of
$2,001-$10,000. Projects must meet all regular COOP eligibility criteria
and
accomplish one or more of the following objectives:

**Create opportunities for students from predominantly Muslim countries
to
engage in substantive exchange with their U.S. peers and their host
communities;
**Increase resources and understanding on U.S. campuses about the Muslim
world; and/or
**Address issues related to women in Muslim cultures.

Application materials, eligibility criteria, grant writing resources and
the
COOP Model Program List are available on the NAFSA web site at
www.nafsa.org
(go to the Professional and Educational Resources heading and then click
on
Grants and Scholarships) or contact COOP staff at coop at nafsa.org.

COOP Grants are made available through funding from the Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of
State,
under the authority of the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961, as amended.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 26 17:05:56 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:05:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SOAS Job
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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Wen-chin Ouyang <wo at soas.ac.uk>
Subject:SOAS Job

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES

University of London

Lectureship in Arabic
Department of the Near and Middle East
(3 Year Fixed Term)
£21,503 p.a. plus London Allowance of £2,134 p.a.
Vacancy 02-23

Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Arabic.

The essential responsibilities of this post are to advance knowledge of 
Arabic language and literature by research and publication and to teach 
Arabic language and literature in the Department of the Languages and 
Cultures of the Near and Middle East.

Essential qualifications are a good track-record of academic research, 
Arabic-teaching experience in a higher-education environment and fluency 
in Arabic. Applicants are expected to have, or nearing completion, a PhD 
on a topic related to Arabic language or literature.

The appointment will take effect from 1 October 2002.

Annual leave is 30 days per year plus statutory and bank holidays.  USS 
pension scheme will be available.

An application form and job description may be obtained from the Human 
Resources Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh 
Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, England (Tel: 020 7898 4132; 
Fax: 020 7898 4129; E-mail address: humanresources at soas.ac.uk).
No CVs or agencies.

Closing date:	Friday 12 April 2002

SOAS is an equal opportunities employer

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:55:12 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:55:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:long form of numbers with nouns
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: long form of numbers with nouns

>Finally an addition to the vocabulary of ethnic disparagement used
>against Christians:
>the term arba'a riisha ("four feathers," in reference to the cross,
>which Copts often have tattooed on their wrists), as in da arba'a
>riisha "he's a Christian."
>  The use of the numeral with -a and singular noun in this context is
>interesting.

The use of the numeral with -a and singular noun sometimes occurs
with units and measures.
For example:

   xamsa gineeh (5 (Egyptian) pounds), instead of xamas ginihaat
   talata litr  (3 liters), instead of talat litraat
   sitta slindar (6 cylinders), instead of sitt -i- slindaraat

Now interestingly, talking about car fans, you have:

   marwaHa arba'a riisha (4 blade fan), which if your car
   overheats in the summer you might consider replacing
   with a marwaHa sitta riisha.

So, it is possible, that the arba'a riisha reference to the cross
is in fact "four blades" and not "four feathers".

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:56:23 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:56:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:cohesion in Arabic reference
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject: cohesion in Arabic reference

The best study of cohesion in Arabic that I know of is Al-Batal's
work, both his dissertation (University of Michigan) and his 1990
article: "Connectives as cohesive elements in a modern expository
Arabic text" in Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics II, eds. Mushira
Eid and John McCarthy (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins).  KC
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:57:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:request for poem suggestions
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at email.arizona.edu>
Subject: request for poem suggestions

Dear Fellow Arabic teachers et al,
I am looking for Arabic poems that would be suitable for second semester,
first year students to memorize for recitation at a language fair held here
at the University of Arizona every year. The poems need to be a minimum of
50 words. If they are longer the student could memorize only some verses.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that you may be able to offer
either of specific poems or poets whose poetry might fit the bill. I
am wondering
if there are any particular poems that are used in schools in the Middle
East that would be relatively "easy".
Peace,
Martha S-Nafeh

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:53:19 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:53:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:spelling of G/god
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: spelling of G/god

  Re:  spelling G/god:

The classic commentaries have  /'inna  L-laahu  huwa  l-'ilaahu/  =

"Verily  God is  THE god."            --Mike Schub

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:54:03 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:54:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NCOLCTL 2002
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: NCOLCTL 2002

Date:  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:28:02 -0500
From:  "Scott McGinnis" <smcginnis at nflc.org>
Subject:  NCOLCTL 2002: Schedule and registration form now available
at CouncilNet website

A complete copy of the schedule for the 2002 conference of the National
Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), as
well as a downloadable registration form, is now available at


http://www.councilnet.org/pages/CNet_Announcements.html#fifthannual

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:57:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:57:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:journals query
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: hind sorour <hind_emi at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: journals query

  Dear friends,

Can you please provide me with a list of the most
relevant journals and bulletins that deal with Arabic
Language and its teaching both as a mother tongue and
a foreign language? Of course apart from al-'arabiyya
journal.
thank you
Hind

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 20:01:26 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:01:26 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Iraqi dialects query
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Antonio Caridad Salvador <acaridad at wanadoo.es>
Subject: Iraqi dialects query

I`m very interested in history of two arabic dialects: those of
Baghdad and Northern Mesopotamia (Mosul). Can anybody answer these
questions? do you know anybody that can help me?

My questions are:

- When did appear the first grammars and dictionaries of these
dialects? who wrote them?
- Which influences have received these dialects throughout its history?
- Does exist any literature in these dialects? when was written the first text?
- In which situations are used these dialects today? do they appear
in radio and TV? are they used by politicians in public meetings?
- Does exist any institution that promotes the use of these dialects?
- How did they develope? when did these dialects become the most
spoken variety in Mesopotamia?

If you can help me, I`d very glad. It`s very difficult to find
information about this subject.

Best wishes

Antonio Caridad

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 20:00:49 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:00:49 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ALI at AUC Heritage summer program
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Iman Saad <imansaad at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: ALI at AUC Heritage summer program

From: Mona Kamel Abdel Salam,
Director of the Summer Program

Arab Heritage Students
Intensive Summer Program
in Arabic Language and Culture
at the American University in Cairo
June  4  to  July  25, 2002
-----------------

The Arabic Language Institute at the American University in Cairo
announces its Intensive Summer Program, welcoming learners of Arab
origin.  This program caters to those interested in enhancing their Arabic
language proficiency while reconnecting with their heritage and culture.
Oral and written placement tests allow for homogeneous groups, and
small classes permit individual attention.  Located in Cairo, Egypt, center
of the Arab world, the institute's professional faculty, up-to-date
facilities, and extra curricular activities make the  different cultures and
heritage of the entire area more accessible.

This 6 week program runs from Tuesday, June 4  until Thursday, July 25,
2002.  Participants in this summer program are full-time students,
required to take 20 hours of class per week, for which they earn 8
program credits.  The curriculum allows students to study both Modern
Standard Arabic (MSA) and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA)
simultaneously or to concentrate on one or the other.  Many electives are
also offered, including Media, Qur'an, Colloquial conversation,
Literature, Translation, Writing and Grammar, each earning 1 program
credit.

While becoming more proficient in Arabic, meeting and interacting with
Egyptians, students will also be exposed to fascinating art, architecture,
folklore, history and Arab culture.

Facilities: Computer lab, language lab, university library, study center for
learners who need extra help, individualized tutoring.
Activities: Tours and trips, lectures and films on a variety of
contemporary topics,  folkdance, singing, music, and calligraphy.

Visit our website at:  http://bdingana.aucegypt.edu/summer.htm
For further information please contact:
The American University in Cairo, Cairo Office
       E-mail: alu at aucegypt.edu
The American University in Cairo, New York Office
       E-mail: aucegypt at aucnyo.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb  4 20:03:55 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:03:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Info on setting up IE 5 for Arabic
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Info on setting up IE 5 for Arabic

[I assumed that some of you who are not subscribers to Arabic-Info
would be interested in this query and response about Arabic on IE 5]

From: Moufid Jibreen <moufid.jibreen at wcom.com>
Subject: Re: Query: Configuring Internet Explorer for reading Arabic

<Richard.Taylor at marquette.edu> wrote:

>Would someone be so kind as to point me to directions for configuring
>a Mac or Win version of Internet Explorer to be able to read Arabic
>websites on screen? I use a Mac but also have Virtual PC and so have
>Internet Explorer for both Mac and Win.

The following instructions are taken from Al-Jazeera web site

        http://www.aljazeera.net/help/arabic-instr-e.htm

I use the english version of Windows 95, and when I followed
these instructions, I was able to view most Arabic sites.
Occasionally, I run into a quirky site that I cannot read.


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How to Read Arabic Text
Arabic pages in this site are presented as text , not images, In order
to view Arabic text you need to use the right combination of operating
system and internet browser.

Please read the following options and choose the one that suites you.

If you are using MS  Windows 95, 98 or 2000 [Arabic and non-Arabic
versions]:

Microsoft [Arabic] Internet Explorer 5.0 is the preferred choice for you
if you are looking for a smooth Arabic browsing on different versions of
Arabic and non-Arabic MS Windows. Currently our pages are designed to be
best viewed using this browser. We recommend that you keep watching
Microsoft Internet Explorer homepage to make sure that you have the
latest version of this browser.

IMPORTANT: Please read the following note to make sure that you install
the Arabic support correctly:

Steps to Add Arabic Text Display Support for Internet Explorer 5

If you are installing IE5 for the first time:

Please Choose Custom Setup, then follow steps from 7 to 9 below.

If you have IE5 already installed, please follow these steps:

1. From the Start menu chose Settings.
2. Select Control Panel
3. Select Add/Remove Programs
4. Select Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and Internet Tools
5. Click Add/Remove Programs.
6. Check the "Add Component" radio button, then press OK.
7. Scroll until you find the "multi language support" option.
8. Check "Arabic text display support" , then press next
9. Press finish, then your computer will restart.

To smooth your screen fonts if you are running Explorer 4.0 or Later on
Windows 98 or later

1. Make sure that your display card is configured to use 64K colors
2. double click on my computer
3. choose view from the toolbar menu.
4. choose "folder Options..."
5. click on "view" tab.
6. Scroll down on the dialog box that will appear until you see a check
box with the label: smooth edges of screen fonts.
7. check this box.
8. Click OK.

If you are using MAC OS

Microsoft Internet Explorer can be used on Arabic Mac systems to view
our pages. visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie and download the
latest Mac version of the browser. Please note that this option was not
tested on most of the Mac versions.

If you are using UNIX

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 is on option for this platform. Please
visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie and download the latest
browser available. This option has not been tested.

Why Arabic Text ?
Now you may ask: why do not you just display the Arabic pages in your
site as an images?.

The reasons are compelling:

Loading time for the Arabic text is much faster than images

Using text will help you copy and paste Arabic web content into your
documents.

You can search Arabic web pages for items you are looking for.

Printing text gives much better quality than images.

Finally, this is the natural way of doing things!.

  If you still need our help to read Arabic, please do not hesitate to
send to support at aljazeera.net
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  5 21:25:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:25:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:New issue of Al-Adab
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Date:  05 Feb 2002
From: kirsten scheid idriss <kidriss at cyberia.net.lb>
Subject: New issue of Al-Adab

Please be so kind as to post our announcement about a timely
intellectual debate on this critical matter in this Arabic cultural
review now in its 50th year:

*PALESTINIAN ARMED RESISTANCE: THE MORAL, LEGAL, AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS*

Al-Adab commences its Jubilee year with a major file, prepared by
Omar Barghouthi and Samah Idriss, comprising original contributions
from internationally esteemed thinkers and activists on this most
crucial subject for Palestinians, Arabs, activists and seekers of
human rights everywhere:

Contributors - Noam Chomsky, Sayyid Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah,
George Habash (PFLP), Richard Falk, Moustapha Barghouthi, Sheikh
Na'im Qassem (Hizbullah), Norman Finkelstein, Issam Makhoul (CP -
Knesset), Usaama Hamdan (Hamas) , Suheil Natour (DFLP), and Ibrahim
Alloush. The file ends with "Al-Adab Numbers and Figures" focusing on
the impact of al-Intifada on Israelis and Palestinians.

In Issue Jan - Feb, 2002 (Vol. 50, #1-2), Arabic Literary and Cultural Review,
Published by Dar al-Adab, Beirut,
                                                                     Price:
$10 (includes airmail postage)
                                                                     Contact:
Kirsten Scheid Idriss
                                                                                     kidriss at cyberia.net.lb
                                                                    Acquisition
Information:  See bottom of message
____________________________________________________________________________
Al-Adab's jubilee file on Palestinian armed resistance is
unprecedented in both the scope of the issues addressed and the
participants addressing them.  This truly stimulating discussion will
be an important resource for anyone concerned with the fate of
Palestine.  Samples of the questions debated follow:

*) In the Palestinian-Israeli context, Jewish "settlers" violate
international law (especially the 4th Geneva Convention) by their
very residence in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza.
Do you consider those settlers civilians, or members of paramilitary
groups, or both? Why?

*) Consider the following case: A bus full of Jewish settlers is
driving in a street on the West Bank in the evening. The bus is
clearly marked as a settlers' bus. Due to a long track record of
abuse and bloody attacks by settlers, the majority of Palestinians
consider anything related to settlers as not just a manifestation of
military occupation of their land, but also a menacing threat to
their very security. A) Would a Palestinian be justified in attacking
such a bus, as a "pre-emptive strike" to protect himself/herself
against those perceived as armed colonial zealots? Why? B) If some of
the passengers were children, would attacking such a bus be
considered a legitimate act of resistance then? Who would be
responsible for any injury to a child on that bus: his/her parents
who willingly subjected him/her to or the attackers, or both?

*) Besides being created through terror, ethnic cleansing and
dispossession of the indigenous population, Israel is also an
exclusivist state, which unabashedly discriminates against its
"non-Jewish" citizens. How does international law view ethnically
exclusivist states?  Can the UN recognition of Israel, viewed by most
Arabs as blatantly unjust, be interpreted by the Palestinian citizens
of Israel in particular as an invitation for them to give up on
international law, and to pursue their quest for justice through
different means?  Why?

*) Should the Palestinian national liberation movement be more
concerned about the political or the moral dimensions of an act of
resistance? Why?  If an act of resistance raises serious ethical
concerns, but otherwise has the prospects of being politically
effective, can the movement be justified in committing it?

*) In view of the Palestinian Authority's recent declaration banning
armed attacks against Israel (even within the 1967 borders) and its
insistence on the oneness of the source of authority among
Palestinians, wouldn't military operations inside 67 or 48 endanger
Palestinian national unity, a unity without which liberation may not
be possible altogether?

Also included in this issue is a translation of an interview
conducted by David Barsamian with June Jordan, award-winning
African-American poet and activist.

And Al-Adab's Creative Core:
Original Poems: Nazih Abu 'Afash, Mahmood Saleh, Muhammad Dibo, Imad
Jabbar, Hassan Fath Al-Bab
  Short Stories: Hisham Ghraybeh, Lana Abd al-Rahman, Ala' al-Lami,
Yaseen Lmaqdam, Khalid Zaghreet
Testimony from Iraq:  Abd as-Sattar Naser
Book Reviews: Suheil Idris's "Dhikrayat" reviewed by Jean Tannous and
Elias Khuri's "Yalo" by Abido Basha
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TO ACQUIRE COPIES OF THIS ISSUE: write to <kidriss at cyberia.net.lb> or
to <d_aladab at cyberia.net.lb>.  Each copy costs $10.  Copies arrive by
airmail.  See payment methods below.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:15:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition
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Date:  05 Feb 2002
From: Elizabeth Schultz <Eschultz at nafsa.org>
Subject: Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition

The Cooperative Grants Program (COOP), implemented by NAFSA: Association of
International Educators and funded by the U.S. Department of State, is
accepting proposals for a Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant competition.
These grants are awards in the range of $2,001-$10,000.  The deadline for
the competition is March 8, 2002.  Projects must accomplish one or more of
the following objectives:

*	Create opportunities for students from predominantly Muslim
countries to engage in substantive exchange with their U.S. peers and their
host communities;
*	Increase resources and understanding on U.S. campuses about the
Muslim world; and/or
*	Address issues related to women in Muslim cultures.

For additional eligibility criteria, application materials, and grant
writing resources, visit the NAFSA website at www.nafsa.org.  Go to the
Professional and Educational Resources heading and then click on Grants and
Scholarships.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  5 21:17:44 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:17:44 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Numbers with nouns
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1)
Date:  05 Feb 2002
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

	In Yemen they use Habbat in construct and Habbaat with the three
through 10 preceding the the Habbaat which of course precedes the
non-count noun for almost all market place items.

	However, for money it is always the amount,and compound numerals
involving alf and milyoon, wth the alf and milyoon in the singualr form
and the name for the money in its singular form.
i.e.
xams alf ryal
cheers,
andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 20:11:04 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:11:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Numbers with nouns
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1) Subject: Numbers with nouns: printed references
2) Subject: Numbers with nouns
3) Subject: Numbers with nouns
4) Subject: Numbers with nouns
5) Subject: Numbers with nouns

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1)
Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Manfred Woidich <mwoidich at hotmail.com>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

Dear all,

for those interested in "numbers with nouns" in Arabic, I should like
point out the following items: Karl M?rth, Die Kardinalzahlw?rter von
eins bis zehn in den neurarabischen Dialekten. Dissertationen der
Universit?t Wien XVI. Vienna: WUV-Universit?tsverlag 1997. XVI + 370
p. - Catherine Taine-Cheickh, Les num?raux cardinaux de 3 a 10 das
les dialectes arabes. In: Actes des premieres journ?es
internationales de dialectolgoie arabe de Paris. (27 au 30 janvier).
Edit?es par Dominique Caubet er Martine Vanhove. INALCO 1994,
Publications Langues'O - 1994, p.251 - 266. - Manfred Woidich,
Langform versus Kurzform: die Kardinalzahlw?rter von 3 bis 10 im
Kairenischen. In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 12 (1989)
p.199-232.

maCa aTyab ittaHiyyaat
Manfred Woidich

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2)
Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

In Egyptian the /xams kutub/ and /xams banaat/
would be /xamas kutub/ and /xamas banaat/.

In answer to the question, one does indeed reply /xamsa/.

As you say, the foreign origin might have something
to do with the following:

  xamsa gineeh
  talata litr
  sitta slindar

On the other hand consider:

'arbaca baab = 4 door
xamsa Hsaan = 5 horsepower
sabca raakib = 7 seater, (7 passengers allowed, typically to show
max. allowable capacity for taxis).

Waheed

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3)
Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

So why "4 door" and not "4 doors"??  "Four score and seven years ago,..."
Wouldn't "three doors" be  /tlat  'abwaab/ (short form) in Cairene Ar.??
My point is that your examples are types of "fixed/frozen expressions," i.e.
not generally productive in the dialect.

      Best wishes,              Mike Schub

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4)
Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

[moderator's note: this message is a response to message #3; in
general, I encourage this kind of personal exchanging of messages and
then posting the conversation all at once, since it adds a certain
coherence to the dialogue.]

Yes, in Cairene Arabic "three doors" would be in
the (short form), which would be talat 'abwaab.
In contrast with, say, the Lebanese tlat, the Egyptian
equivalent is talat, because of the different phonological
characteristics of Lebanese and Egyptian.
The following is the Egyptian (short) from 3-10:
talat 'abwaab
'arbac 'abwaab    [or 'arbactibwaab] (from fusHa: 'arbacat 'abwaab)
xamas 'abwaab    [or xamastibwaab]
sitt (-i-) 'abwaab [or sittibwaab]
sabac 'abwaab    [or sabactibwaab]
taman 'abwaab    [or tamantibwaab]
tisac 'abwaab      [or tisactibwaab]
cashar 'abwaab  [or cashartibwaab]

Concerning the (long form), for example talaata, 'arbaca, ...,
At a restaurant, or sandwich place, you might ask the
waiter for:

talaata samak ma'li  [3 (orders of) fried fish]
w itneen mashwi     [and 2 (orders of) grilled (fish)]
w 'arbaca fraax         [and 4 (orders of) chicken]
wi xamsa THiina     [and 5 (orders of) tahiina]
w tamanya salata baladi [and 8 (orders of) salad]
w sitta Hilw            [and 6 deserts]

Taking the fried fish above,
talaata samak means 3 (of the) fish (kind, order, class...)
whereas
talat samakaat would mean "3 fishes".

The above is slightly different from the original
examples of
'arbaca riisha
sitta slindar
in so far as the noun (singular VS plural, or non-count):

xamsa gneeh  (singular: gineeh)
'arbaca baab  (plural: baab)
talata sukkar  (non-count: sukkar)  = [(give me) 3 bags of sugar].

So the issues involved include whether the number
is (short form) or (long form), as well as the form
of the counted noun (singular, plural, non-count).
In addition, one has to be aware of the context of when
to use the (long) form:  Restaurants, spare parts, ...,
which might be in the contexts of units, measures,
types, groups, non-count,....

I'm not sure that these would be "fixed/frozen".  Perhaps
for learners of dialects it would be more helpful to
come up with situation based rules explaining
when to employ:
(long form) number + noun (singular, or plural, or non-count)
(short form) number + noun (singular, or plural, or non-count)

Waheed

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5)
Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Humphrey Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

Wahid's suggestion that "arba'a riisha" in reference to a Copt is a
borrowing from auto terminology (4-blade fan) sounds very plausible; indeed
the use of the long form of the numeral seems to require an explanation of
this sort.  Can anyone date the appearance of this slur, or more
interestingly of the use of long numeral forms with sums of money/units of
measurement, etc.?

Humphrey Davies
c/o School of Humanities (223)
American University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 19:59:34 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:59:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Traditional Grammar Book Order Query
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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: asif khanan <asifkhanan at www.com>
Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order Query

I was wondering if you could help me. I need to know in what order
are the following books studied in traditionally, with the easiest
first and the most difficult last:

Awdah al-Masalik ila Alfiyah ibn Malik

Shudhur al-Dhahab

Mughni al-Labib

Sharh ibn Aqueel

al-Kafiah al-Shafiah

I appreciate your help.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 20:00:23 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:00:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Columbia Job
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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: George Saliba <g.saliba at columbia.edu>
Subject: Columbia Job

Senior Position in Arabic Literature

The department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures has been
authorized to seek an additional appointment in Arabic literature at the
senior level.

The successful candidate must exhibit an extensive teaching and
publication record, and must be prepared to teach courses covering
classical as well as modern Arabic Literature at both the graduate and
the undergraduate levels.  The person should also be prepared to
supervise graduate dissertations in a variety of fields relating to
Arabic and Comparative Literature.

The successful person should also be willing to participate in the
general undergraduate curriculum, and should naturally possess the
leadership qualities that are necessary for this senior post.

Interested persons who would like to nominate candidates or wish to be
considered for the position themselves should address their
correspondence by March 15, 2002, to:

Professor George Saliba, Chair
Senior Arabic Search Committee
Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University
1140 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 3942
New York, NY 10027

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages
applications from people with a minority status.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 20:01:03 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:01:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:poem suggestion responses
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Date:  07 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: poem suggestion responses

Iliya Abou Maady's al-Talaasim is a good one.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb  7 20:23:30 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:23:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA: BYU Summer Intensive Arabic
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Date:  04 Feb 2002
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: BYU Summer Intensive Arabic

The Center for Language Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU)
will offer first-, second- and third-year intensive Arabic during its
Summer Term (June 24 - August 15, 2002).  At BYU, we take an
innovative approach to learning Arabic.  The emphasis is on exposing
students to Arabic as it is actually used in the Arab world.  From
the first day of class (101), students begin learning to speak
Egyptian Arabic (the most widely understood Arabic dialect and one
closely related to neighboring dialects such as urban Palestinian).
Students pursue learning Arabic outside of class using
state-of-the-art software in the language lab.  Scheduled one-on-one
conversations with an Arab tutor, film evenings, soccer games,
cooking lessons... are also an integral part of the experience.
Students are encouraged to room with Arab BYU students.  The focus of
the second- and third-year courses will be Modern Standard Arabic;
however, students will be exposed to Egyptian and Levantine Arabic in
and outside of the classroom.

There is no financial aid available for non-BYU students, however,
the low cost of BYU tuition makes this a particularly good buy.  For
information on the program (including registration and costs) see:

http://humanities.byu.edu/CLS/home.html

Students enrolling in the second-year course should have completed
lesson 16 in Al-Kitaab, vol. 1 (or the equivalent).  The third-year
course will begin with lesson 10 of Al-Kitaab, vol. 2.

If you are interested in our summer Arabic program but are not
familiar with Brigham Young University, you should take time to
familiarize yourself with this unique institution, which is sponsored
by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  One need not be
a member to attend BYU, but all students are expected to live
according to the BYU Honor Code.  The Honor Code and other
information about BYU can be found at:

http://www.byu.edu

Please address Arabic-specific questions to:

Kirk Belnap
4072 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
801/378-6531
rkb at byu.edu

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:37:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Traditional Grammar Book Order
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2) Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order

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1)
Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: "Muhammad S. Eissa" <eissa at umich.edu>
Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order

Salaam All:

	Here is an attempt to respond to the following query:

>are the following books studied in traditionally, with the easiest
>first and the most difficult last:
>
>Awdah al-Masalik ila Alfiyah ibn Malik
>
>Shudhur al-Dhahab
>
>Mughni al-Labib
>
>Sharh ibn Aqueel
>
>al-Kafiah al-Shafiah
>
>I appreciate your help.



	The order from the easier to the less easier would be Ibn Aqiil,
Shuthur al-Dhahab, AwaDah al-masaalik then al-Kafia of Ibn Maalik. Mughni
al-Labiib is more of reference than a textbook due to its arrangement of
material and precondition. Below I will try to elaborate a bit.

  	Citing my grammar curriculum in the years of my study in Al-Azhar,
we started with Al-TuHfah al-Saniyya BisharH al-Muqaddima al-Ajrumiyya of
Muhammad muHiy al-Din AbdelHamid. This was the textbook for the first year
of the elementary level of al-ma`had al-dini (12-14 year old students).

	Three years later we studied first Shudhur al-Dhahab followed by
SharH ibn Aqiil then AwaDaH al-Masaalik. In the interim years we studied
TanqiiH al-Azhariyya and QaTr al-Nada wa ball al-Sada of Ibn Hishaam. We
completed AwaDaH al-Masaalik in the fifth and last year of the secondary
level.

	In the Faculty of Arabic Language, students in the linguistic
department used al-Kafiyah and Mughni al-Labiib but I can not elaborate
since I was transferred to the history department in the same college. I am
under the impression that al-Mughni is used more as a reference book than a
textbook due to the nature of its arrangement and presentation of material.

	In my currently taught course of Classical Arabic Grammar I use
AL-TuHfa al-Saniyya as the basic text supported by Ibn Aqiil, AwaDah
Al-Masaalik and al-Shaafiya al-Kafiya in addition to Mughni al-Labiib as
references for those who like to do further research on a particular
Grammatical point.

	Hope you find this helpful.

	Salaam

Muhammad S. Eissa, Ph. D.
Department of Near Eastern Studies,
University of Michigan,
2097 Frieze Building,
Ann Arbor,  MI 48109

Ph. (734) 647-0099

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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order

Of the following three,

   'awDaH al-masaalik ila 'alfiyat ibn-maalik
   shuDhuur al-Dhahab
   sharh ibn-aquiil

I think  shuDhuur al-Dhahab, might be the easiest.

I am not familiar with al-Kafiah al-Shafiahi.

mughni al-Labiib is different from the others, and
would probably be used after.

However, I don't know whether this is the 'traditional' order.

Waheed

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:39:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:UCSB Conference Marhc 22-23
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: UCSB Conference Marhc 22-23

Dear Colleagues,

Below you will find the preliminary program for UCSB's fourth annual
Middle East Studies conference to be held on March 23, 2002.  Both the
number and quality of the proposals were exceptional this year and the
program looks to be a particularly exciting one, not least beacuse our
plenary session will feature Dr. Rema Hamami (Birzeit University, Center
for Women's Studies/Department of Anthropology) who will be speaking on
the Palestianian situation since 9/11.

Several of the working groups, panels, and individual papers address the
two main themes of conference -- "Middle East Studies in the Wake of 9/11"
and "The Middle East & South Asia: Connections and Comparisons," but there
a wide variety of other topics are included, as well.

We will soon be sending out a more detailed message with logistical
information regarding local hotels, travel to and from the airport as well
as driving instructions, shuttle van times from hotels to the
conference, and so forth.

If you have not visited Santa Barbara before, you may wish to allot some
time on Sunday to walk around town, go to the beach, go wine-tasting in
the Santa Ynez Valley, or even go hiking in the Santa Ynez mountains.

Please also note that on Friday, March 22 (the day previous to our
conference) there will be a day-long workshop at UCSB entitled <New
Approaches to Women, Culture, and Development> featuring Rema Hamami, Raka
Ray, Shahnaz Rouse, Sondra Hale, Mary Hancock, Nancy Gallagher and others.
The two events have been scheduled on consecutive days so that those who
wish to can attend both.

Again, you will receive additional logistical information from us soon,
but until then, I look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara in March!

Best,
Dwight

*************************************************************************
Dwight F. Reynolds, Director
Center for Middle East Studies
Chair, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Office: (805) 893-7143         Department office: (805) 893-7136
FAX: (805) 893-2059            Email: dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu
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                          SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2002
               4TH ANNUAL MIDDLE EAST STUDIES REGIONAL CONFERENCE
                       Center for Middle East Studies
                    University of California, Santa Barbara

            McCune Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
                 6th floor, Humanities & Social Sciences Building

9:30-9:45  Welcome
            (Dwight Reynolds, Director, Center for Middle East Studies)


9:45-11:45 SESSION I

  1) Working Group: TEACHING ARABIC LANGUAGE IN THE WAKE OF 9/11

     Conveners: Aziz Abbassi (Defense Language Institute, Monterey)
                Kirk Belknap (Brigham Young University)
                John Eisele (College of Willam and Mary)


  2) Paper panel: POLITICS OF MYTHOLOGY

      Nancy Stockdale (U of Central Florida):
         "Citizens of Heaven" versus "The Islamic Peril": The Anti-Islamic
         Rhetoric of Orlando's Holy Land Experience since 9/11

      Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College, LA):
         The Resurrection of "Holy War" in Israel

      Abdul Karim Khan (University of Hawaii--Leeward Community College):
         The Jewish Connection of Afghan Pukhtuns

      Esra Ozyurek (University of Michigan/UCSB):
         Nostalgia as Political Battleground: Kemalist and Islamist
         Versions of the Early Turkish Republic


  3) Paper Panel: MIDDLE EAST/SOUTH ASIA--HYBRIDITIES AND BOUNDARIES

      Anna Bigelow (UCSB):
       Tales of Two Saints: Traditions without a Tradition in Maler Kotla,
       Punjab

      Peter Cowe (UCLA):
       Reconfiguring Armenian Political Identity in India: The Radical
       Madras Constitution of the late 1870's

      Jackie Armijo (Stanford):
       International Islamic Education and its Impact on Muslims in China

      Caroline Sawyer (SUNY College at Old Westbury):
       Ahmad-ed Sirhindi and the Central Asian Context of the Naqshbandi
       Sufi Order


  4) Paper Panel: HISTORY AND MEMORY

      Firoozeh Papan-Matin (UCLA):
       Kashf al-Asrar: A Medieval Autobiography in Perspective

      Mark Pettigrew (UC Berkeley):
       History and Fantasy: Perspectives on the Legacy of Pre-Islamic Egypt

      Keiko Ohta (Japan):
       Christian Communities in `Abbasid Egypt in the Ninth Century AD

      Toru Miura (Japan):
       Salihiyya (Damascus) in the Nineteenth-Century according to the
       Ottoman Archives


11:45--1:00 LUNCH

      [All presenters and conveners will be provided lunch.
       Other attendees wil be able to purchase lunch at the
       conference or at the many nearby restaurants]


1:00--3:00  SESSION II

   1) Working Group: TEACHING MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN THE WAKE OF 9/11

      Conveners: Elizabeth Dahab (CSU Long Beach), Salaam Yousif
      (CSU San Bernardino), Wendy Smith (CSU San Bernardino), Masashi
      Haneda (Japan)


   2) Paper Panel: POPULAR AND FOLK CULTURE

       Maryann Walter (MIT):
        Arabic Card Jargon: A Sociolinguistic Study in the Transmission of
        Popular Culture

       Richard Wainthropp (UCLA):
        Exposing Ebced for what it is--and isn't

       Nadine Sinno & William Taggart (U of Arkansas):
        Osama's New Look: Tragedy, Humor, and 9/11

       Amita Sarin (U of Maryland):
        The Hand in South Asian and Ancient Near Eastern Art


   3) Paper Panel: MIDDLE EAST/SOUTH ASIA -- WOMEN AND GENDER

       Shahnaz Rouse (Sarah Lawrence):
        Mean Streets: Male Domination of Public Space in Pakistan

       Huda Jadallah (UCSB):
        The Study of Honor Crimes among Arab-Americans

       Huma Bashir Dar (UC Berkeley):
        Islamizing the Tawa'if or Tawa'ifing the Muslims: the Lucknow
        Tawa'if Partitioned

       Sondra Hale (UCLA);
        Title TBA


   4) Paper Panel: ARABIC LITERATURE

       Shaden Tageldin (UC Berkeley):
        Translating the Sovereign Self into Subalternity: al-Tahtawi's
        <Takhlis al-ibriz fi talkhis Bariz> (1834)

       Noha Radwan (UC Berkeley):
        Fuad Haddad: A Modern Poet in Traditional Garb

       Rochelle Davis (De Anza College):
        Writing Down Memories: Accounts of Life in Palestine before 1948

       Douglas Young (Stanford):
        Epic Conflict in al-Andalus: Otherness in Orality and Writing


3:00--3:30 COFFEE BREAK


3:30--5:00 PLENARY SESSION AND DISCUSSION

                   Dr. Rema Hammami
     (Birzeit University/Center for Women's Studies &
              Department of Anthropology)

       <<THE PALESTINIAN SITUATION SINCE 9/11>>


5:00--6:00 WALK ON THE BEACH // WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION


6:00-8:00 DINNER


8:00-9:30 CONCERT -- UCSB MIDDLE EAST ENSEMBLE

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:38:44 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mozilla Browser supports Arabic on MAC
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1)
Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: YemenLC at aol.com
Subject: Mozilla Browser supports Arabic on MAC

For those of you who are MacAddicts!
The latest release of Mozilla browser supports Arabic beautifully. I only had
difficulty with Java Applet!
Try it and report any bugs to the folks at Mozilla project.

  <A HREF="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.8/">
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.8/</A>

Cheers,
Mohammed Rahawi
PS. I only tried the OS 9.X version. For OS 10.1 version, go to mozilla.org
and download that version. Make sure you download the latest version. The
earlier versions do not support Arabic.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 13 18:40:22 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:40:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UPENN Summer Intensive Arabic
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Maher Awad <awadm at sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: UPENN Summer Intensive Arabic

The Arabic Language Program at the University of
Pennsylvania is pleased to announce its Summer Intensive
Program for the year 2002. This 6-week program runs from May
20 to June 28. Two proficiency-oriented courses in Modern
Standard Arabic are offered: Intensive Elementary (1st year)
Arabic and Intensive Intermediate (2nd year) Arabic. The 2
overlapping classes meet Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. for 6 weeks. Students earn 2 University of
Pennsylvania course units for either course. (1 course unit
is equivalent to 4 semester hours at many American
universities.) *Al-Kitaab* is the syllabus used in the
classes. Enrolled students will have access to the full
range of the University of Pennsylvania facilities.

For further information, please contact:

MAHER AWAD, Coordinator
Arabic Language Program
Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA  19104-6305
E-mail: awadm at sas.upenn.edu
Phone: 215-898-6653

For information about the University of Pennsylvania or its
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, please visit
this web site and links there:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ames/

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 13 18:41:04 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:41:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic Linux query
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1)
Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Arabic Linux query

Howdy good arabic linguists,
alsalaamu 9alaykum wa ra7matu llaah wa barakaatuh,
ma9 'aTyaB at-ta7aayaa wa kull maa ba9duh

	Does anybody on the list have any experience with getting Arabic
text to display on a linux OS running on an intel processor???
many thanks in advance,
Andrew Freeman

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:43:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Films on Iraqi and Iranian women
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1)
Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Educate <educate at wmm.com>
Subject: Films on Iraqi and Iranian women

********* TILTING THE AXIS: FILMS ON IRANIAN & IRAQI WOMEN  ***********

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Iraq stand today as highly complex nations still widely unknown and
misunderstood by many Westerners.  To shed new light on these regions of the
Middle East, Women Make Movies is pleased to present four highly acclaimed
films profiling Iranian and Iraqi women and girls in their modern-day
environments.  Featuring two films by Kim Longtinotto and Ziba Mir Hosseini,
RUNAWAY and DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, A PLACE CALLED HOME by Persheng
Sadegh-Vaziri and IRAQI WOMEN: VOICES FROM EXILE by Maysoon Pachachi, this
timely group of films offer an intimate entry into the daily lives of women
from two of the most widely discussed countries now in the media, while
forcefully demonstrating the universal experiences of surviving the
emotional strains of divorce, coming of age under difficult circumstances,
overcoming cultural displacement, and embracing one's faith.

**************** RUNAWAY & DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE  *********************

RUNAWAY
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c550.htm
2001, 87 minutes
Rental video $90.00 film $250.00/VHS Sale $295.00
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"'Runaway' is a powerful and heart-breaking documentary about a group of
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film focuses on the sufferings of young girls who struggle to free
themselves from the tyrannical and abusive power of their families, mainly
their fathers, brothers, and stepfathers -- a subject rarely touched upon by
Iranian filmmakers. The sisterly feelings of the girls towards each other,
their spiritual strength, their courage to rebel, and their wit are shown
with a great degree of compassion and empathy in the film...Although the
film focuses on the poor uneducated families, one can imagine that the issue
of confinement and abuse goes beyond the issue of class when it comes to the
problem of domestic violence and the desire to control women through anger,
aggression, and madness." Mehrnaz Saeed, Colombia College

"...a compelling mingling of feminist anthropology and documentary
filmmaking...its powerful images remain with you long after the credits have
run." Shiva Balaghi, Associate Director, Kevorkian Center, NYU

DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c454.htm
1998, 80 minutes
Rental video $90.00 film $200.00/VHS Sale $295.00
Order # E619

Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in
an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate
circumstances of Iranian women's lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband
beats her; Ziba, a 16 year old trying to divorce her 38 year old husband;
and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to gain custody of her daughters,
this deadpan chronicle showcases the strength, ingenuity, and guile with
which they confront biased laws, a Kafakaesque administrative system, and
their husbands' and families' rage to gain divorces.  Dispelling images of
Iran as a country of war, hostages, and "fatwas", and Iranian women as
passive victims of a terrible system, this film is a subtle, fascinating
look at women's lives in a country which is little known to most Americans.

"...fascinating...counters with compassion, humor, and a keen nose for
spotting empathetic characters, strong-willed women, and dramatic
moments..." Hamid Naficy, Author, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian
Television in Los Angeles

********************* A PLACE CALLED HOME  **************************

A PLACE CALLED HOME, A film by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c476.htm
1998, 30 minutes
Rental video $60.00/VHS Sale $225.00
Order # E638

Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri grew up in pre-Revolution Tehran daydreaming about an
ideal life in the West. Nineteen years later, after living and working in
the U.S., Persheng explores her controversial decision to move back to Iran,
to return to the place she never stopped calling home. In this fascinating
and very personal documentary, Persheng's interviews with her family--with
her mother and sister in the U.S. and with her father, who chose to remain
in Iran--reveal some of the complex layers of expatriate, national and
cultural identities. The film features a rare glimpse at women's lives in
contemporary Tehran.

"Can you go home again? Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri documents here the searing
angst of exile and the equally devastating experience of return to Iran."
Ellen Fairbanks Bodman, University of North Carolina

*************** IRAQI WOMEN: VOICES FROM EXILE ****************

IRAQI WOMEN: VOICES FROM EXILE, A videotape by Maysoon Pachachi
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c32.htm
1994, 54 minutes
Rental video $75.00/VHS Sale $250.00
Order # E203

Iraqi Women-Voices from Exile provides a fascinating and rare look at the
recent history of Iraq through the eyes and experiences of Iraqi women
living in exile in Britain. The Arab world usually speaks to the outside
with a male voice and Arab women's voices are rarely heard. This documentary
features moving interviews with women about life in Iraq before Saddam
Hussein came to power, in the years of repression under his regime and
through the Gulf War in 1991. As well as providing a forum for Iraqis to
tell their own stories to a western audience, Iraqi Women-Voices from Exile
also contributes to a process of Iraqi self-criticism.

"Quietly powerful...The restraint of both the women and the film intensfies
the emotional impact of their experiences and testimonials." Hamid Naficy,
Rice University

These titles are part of WMM's growing collection of work by and about women
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*********************** ABOUT WMM ***************************

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Celebrating our 30th year as the world's largest distributor of films and
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:44:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Adonis' e-mail
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Safa Jubran <jubran at osite.com.br>
Subject: Adonis' e-mail

I need Adonis e-mail, can you help me!
Thanks
Safa

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:44:03 -0700
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Elizabeth Schultz <Eschultz at nafsa.org>
Subject: Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grants

The Cooperative Grants Program (COOP), implemented by NAFSA: Association of
International Educators and funded by the U.S. Department of State, is
accepting proposals from U.S. based institutions of higher education and
non-profit organizations for the Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant
competition.  Proposals must be received by March 8, 2002.

Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grants are awards in the range of
$2,001-$10,000. Projects must meet all regular COOP eligibility criteria and
accomplish one or more of the following objectives:

----- Create opportunities for students from predominantly Muslim countries
to engage in substantive exchange with their U.S. peers and their host
communities;
----- Increase resources and understanding on U.S. campuses about the Muslim
world; and/or
----- Address issues related to women in Muslim cultures.

For eligibility criteria, application materials, and grant writing
resources, visit the NAFSA website at www.nafsa.org.  Go to the Professional
and Educational Resources heading and then click on Grants and Scholarships

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 13 18:42:02 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:42:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dutch/Arabic Arabic/Dutch Dictionary
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Hans Paulussen <paulussen at altern.org>
Subject: Dutch/Arabic Arabic/Dutch Dictionary

		Dictionary Arabic-Dutch / Dutch-Arabic

		 Leerwoordenboek Arabisch-Nederlands
		 Leerwoordenboek Nederlands-Arabisch

		     Mark Van Mol & Koen Berghman

			  Bulaaq - Amsterdam

		A new learners' dictionary for Arabic:
	     An innovative instrument for Arabic learners


The international Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie) and the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have recently published two volumes of
new learners' dictionaries Arabic-Dutch and Dutch-Arabic. Both
dictionaries, which can be considered as a new milestone in Arabic
lexicography, have a number of features unknown in Arabic dictionaries
until now.

1. Corpus linguistic approach:
The dictionaries are based on an extensive representative sample of
texts of Modern Standard Arabic of approximately 3,000,000 words.

2. Spoken and written language:
The compilation of the dictionaries is based on written and spoken
Arabic. The spoken corpus consists of transcribed spoken Standard
Arabic from radio and TV programs from all over the Arab world,
encompassing more than 1,000,000 words.

3. Translation methodology:
The translation of all dictionary entries is based on words in
context.

4. Context-oriented:
To help learners to produce foreign language, the entries are
presented in context. More than 10,000 sample sentences and
expressions were included.

5. Modern corpus analysis techniques:
An encoding system developed at the University of Leuven has helped to
detect any word in any context.

6. Database management:
All data are stored in a database, making further electronic
explorations possible.

7. Learners' dictionary:
This is probably the first learners' dictionary of Arabic on the
market, containing a treasure of information going from usage notes to
cultural information.

8. Vocalization:
All word, expressions and sample sentences of the two dictionaries are
completely vocalized.

9. Discriminating pointers:
In order to help het learner in search of the different shades of
meaning, discriminating meaning pointers have been included in both
dictionaries.

10. Lay-out:
Much attention was given to the lay-out, including the different fonts
and font sizes, to make dictionary look-up an easy task.


Further information can be found at:
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/ilt/arabisch/engels.htm

or contact Prof. Dr. Mark Van Mol:
Mark.VanMol at ilt.kuleuven.ac.be

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 13 18:45:36 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:45:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:poem suggestion repsonse
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Eltoukhi at aol.com
Subject: poem suggestion repsonse

Hello,

I suggest  Hafez Ibrahim ( shaer Ennil )  "Allogha  Alarabia Tanii Hathaha
bayna
Ahliha".


Zahra Eltoukhi

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:36:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL 30
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Robin Thelwall and Rebecca Bradley <eubule at telusplanet.net>
Subject: NACAL 30

NACAL 30 Houston, Texas March 22-23 2002
From Robin Thelwall & Lionel Bender

It?s not too late to register for NACAL 30 and there are a few paper
slots still available

Venue: Drury Inn & Suites
Houston/Near the Galleria
1615 West Loop South
Houston, Texas 77827
Rooms $82/$94 including taxes (let us know if you are interested in
sharing a room)
(NB about ten blocks from American Oriental Society Venue)

Phone/Fax: 713 963 0700
email: Mr Keith Kirk email: <dis.hg.80.gm at druryinn.com>
If you book please confirm to Lionel Bender <eswg at siu.edu>

Registration Fee
Please send a cheque for $50/$25 (Faculty/postgraduate rate)
made out to: Robin Thelwall
and mail to him at
2121 1st Avenue NW
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 0B6, Canada

Friday AM NACAL at Drury Inn

Registration
Papers: 9:30 - 12.00

Friday Joint Session at  J. W. Marriott by the Galleria, 5150
Westheimer Road, Houston, TX 77056.
A. Ancient Near East I: AOS/NACAL: Linguistics.
Leo Depuydt, Brown University, Chair (1:30 p.m.?3:30 p.m.)
1. Alan Kaye, California State University, Fullerton
The Career of Carleton T. Hodge as Orientalist and Linguist
2. Peter T. Daniels, Independent Scholar, New York, New York
An Old New Approach to the History of Langiage Families: Kienast?s
Semitische Sprachwissenschaft
(Break)
3. Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit?at Frankfurt
am Main
Piel / parras in Central African Hamitosemitic / Afroasiatic?
4. David Testen, Macalester College
The Role of Kassite in the Development of Middle Babylonian

Saturday NACAL Papers
AM
&
PM

7.00 (to be confirmed) Dinner

NACAL Papers confirmed (not yet assigned a time-slot)
Lionel Bender, Southern Illinois: Mao (Omotic?) Lexicon
David L. Elias, Harvard: Three Tigre Dialects: A Preliminary Grammatical Sketch
Julie Glachant, Paris: La morphologie des pronoms en Inor (Gurage)
Olga Kapeliuk, Israel: Sentence-nouns: the case of Amharic
G.Kapchits, Moscow: Focus in Somali Proverbs
Ron Kim, U of Pennsylvania: Cliticization and the evolution of the
copula in Modern Aramaic
Adrian Macelaru, Romanian Embassy, Riyadh: Some Notes on
Ethio-Semitic Particle  s/s and the
Egyptian js
Mustafa A. Mughazy, Ohio: 1. Adjectival passives in Egyptian Arabic
2. Events in Disguise: The semantics and  Pragmatics of Participles
in Egyptian Arabic
Andrew Ira Nevins, MIT: Hebrew Verbal Morphology
Ahmad Khalaf Sakarna, Jordan: Morphological Characteristics of
Classical Arabic Numerical System
Jamal Al-Shareef, Leeds: Language change and Variation in Palestinian Arabic
Nehad Shawky, Cairo: The Effect of Learners? Beliefs and Attitudes on
the Aquisition of Arabic
Olga Stolbova, Moscow: Present-day problems of Chadic Comparative Studies
Mikael A Thompson, Indiana U: Definiteness and Specificity in Tigrinya
Pete Unseth, Austin: Amharic Laryngeals and Reduplication
MaryAnn Walter, MIT: The Arabic Dialect of Hadramaut, Yemen



Future Meetings (AOS dates and hotels)  For your forward diary!
We are looking for volunteers to run NACAL at these venues.

Nashville, TN (28-31 March: 2003: The DoubleTree);
  San Diego (26-29 March 2004: Mission Valley DoubleTree);
  Toronto (2005)

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:49:47 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Numbers with nouns
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2) Subject: Numbers with nouns
3) Subject: Numbers with nouns

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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Ignacio Ferrando Frutos <ignacio.ferrando at uca.es>
Subject: Numbers with nouns (more refs)

Dear members,
concerning the issue of "numbers with nouns", I would suggest, in
addition to the works indicated by M. Woidich, a reading of L.
Drozd?k (2001), Modern Written Arabic, where you will find a chapter
entitled "The 3-10 cardinal nimbers in Arabic" (pp. 69-86), including
very interesting remarks on the distribution of short vs. long forms,
in both Written and Native Arabic.
Best wishes to all,
ignacio ferrando

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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: "L.Boumans" <l.boumans at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

Dear all,

Joining in the discussion on long form vs short form numerals, I
would suggest the following hypotheses on the basis of Waheed Samy's
examples:

1) the long form + SG is used in modifying compounds, like in the examples

'arbaca baab = 4 door
xamsa Hsaan = 5 horsepower
sabca raakib = 7 seater, (7 passengers allowed, typically to show
max. allowable capacity for taxis).

which design types of cars, or the four-blade fan. Cf. Eng.
four-wheel drive etc.

This raises the question of how these compounds are used, are they
dependents of possessive phrases, i.e. nouns ( carabiyyat 'arbaca
baab ), or adjectives ( carabiyya 'arbaca baab ) ?



2) the "four fish" type: in the case of dishes in restauraunt /samak
ma'li/ does not refer to a single fried fish, but is the 'title' of a
dish named after its principal ingredient. After all, a single /samak
ma'li/ may include more than one small fish, as well as some lettuce
leaves or even a slice of cucumber. The SG form results from
reluctance to pluralise the title /samak ma'li/.

I am not a specilist in either counting or Egyptian Arabic, so this
is just a wild guess.

Louis Boumans

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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Numbers with nouns

In partial answer to your question:  some colloquial dictionaries
give the plurals  /tiyyaam/, /tushhur/, /taalaaf/ [??]--for
days, months, thousands, etc.  These are formed by "metanalysis"
[="wrong cuttting"]  of the long form of the numerals with
plurals beginning with hamzah. leaving us with, e.g.
/t(a)lat  tushur/  = "3 months" with the appearance of having the
"normal" short form with the counted noun.

      Best wishes,
                                          Mike Schub

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 19 16:54:20 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:54:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:al-Tograi query
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:Mustafa Turgutalp <mustafaturgutalp at hotmail.com>
Subject:al-Tograi query

I'm studying Arabic Language & Literature in University of Ankara, 
Turkey.
?
I have to get information about an Abbasid Poet al-Tograi (al-Tugrai). 
If you know a little about him & his works. You'll be a part of my 
thesis & my future Arabic Literature book.
?
Best Regards,
Mustafa Turgutalp

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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:55:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:mros1 at cs.um.edu.mt
Subject:Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

ACL-2002
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday 11 July, 2002

This workshop is a sequel to the workshop on Computational Approaches
to Semitic Languages that was held at COLING98 in Montreal. Since that
time, there have been various other workshops, but these have mostly
turned out to be either rather applications-oriented, or rather
language specific, or both. Whilst not neglecting applications, the
present workshop aims to attract submissions that contribute
significantly to theoretical insights concerning computational
frameworks underlying the processing of Semitic languages in
general. Morphology and/or phonology would seem to be promising areas
of investigation in this sense. An effort will also be made to
highlight submissions that concern a representative set of
languages.

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

-  Orthographic Representation
-  Morphological/Phonological Models
-  Speech Applications
-  Syntax, Parsing and Generation
-  Semantics
-  Acquisition of Language Resources
-  Corpora
-  Use of Machine Learning Techniques
-  Multilingual / Mixed Language Applications
-  Information Retrieval and Extraction

Program Committee

   Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (co-chair),
mike.rosner at um.edu.mt
   Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel (co-chair),
shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il
   Ken Beesley, XRCE, France, ken.beesley at xrce.xerox.com
   Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR Software, Cairo, Egypt, ac at sakhr.com
   Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel, yco636sc at netvision.net.il
   Anne De Roeck, Open University, UK, A.DeRoeck at open.ac.uk
   Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, US, evens at iit.edu
   Ray Fabri, University of Malta, Malta, rfab1 at um.edu.mt
   Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia, ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn
   Alon Itai, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, itai at cs.technion.ac.il
   Steven Krauwer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands,
steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl
   Mounira Loughraieb, University of Nancy 2, France,
   mounira.loughraieb at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr
   Chadia Moghrabi, University of Moncton, mograc at umoncton.ca
   Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo
   Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University, US, rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu
   Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, adn at gnet.tn

Important dates

   February 24, 2002: Deadline for submissions
   April 7, 2002: Notification of acceptance
   May 1, 2002: Final version due
   July 11, 2002: Workshop date

Home Page and Further Details

   http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:57:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SDSU job
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:Matthew Howe <howema at prodigy.net>
Subject:SDSU job

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

ARABIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

The Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages at San Diego State
University (http://www- rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/linguist
?/lol.html) announces a position in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at
the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 2002.
Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies
and/or linguistics, a record of teaching excellence in the Arabic
language at the college/university level, publications in the field, and
research interests to complement these fields.? We seek candidates who
have experience in Arabic curriculum development, the use of technology
in the classroom and an interest in participating actively in the
undergraduate and graduate programs of the department and in working
with the linguistically and culturally diverse student population of
SDSU. The position requires native speaker knowledge of Arabic and
native or near native speaker knowledge of English.

Send applications to include cover letter, CV, at least three letters of
recommendation, transcripts, and sample publications to the Arabic and
Middle Eastern Search Committee, Department of Linguistics and Oriental
Languages, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA? 92182-7727.? The
Department will begin reviewing applications March 4, 2002, and continue
until the position is filled. Department telephone (619) 594-5268; fax
(619) 594-4877; email cwebb at mail.sdsu.edu.

SDSU is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against
persons on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender, marital status, age, or disability. Women,
underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities are
encouraged to apply.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:58:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs help with Mac OS9 Arabic
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:"sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk"
<Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject:Needs help with Mac OS9 Arabic

Dear list members

I wonder whether anyone has a fully arabicized Mac 9.0. I need
some help with getting a textual material in Arabic from this
particular system.

Best regards

Sattar Izwaini
PhD Candidate
Department of Language and Linguistics
UMIST
PO Box 88
Manchester M60 1QD
England

Tel.+44 161 200 3074
Fax +44 161 200 3099

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 19 17:01:21 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:01:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Review of Arabic on Mozilla
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht_Hofheinz at web.de>
Subject:Review of Arabic on Mozilla
Further to YemenLC at aol.com 's msg of 13 Feb:

I did a test run of Mozilla 0.9.8 on both MacOS 9 and OS X. Arabic ran
fine on both versions, even though there is no OS X Arabic language pack
yet (I have just installed the Arabic fonts there). Display is better
than under iCab: frames and lines are rendered correctly, all right to
left, without suffering from the well-known problem of parts of a line
getting inverted when an "English" character, or a number, is in the
middle. Two problems I've noticed so far: auto-detect character coding
does not always work (but can of course be adjusted manually), and
display of fully justified text is uneven under OS X and may also be
improved under OS 9.

Try it out yourselves:

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

Regards,
Albrecht

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:00:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:new article
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:new article

[The following article of interest to Arabic-L subscribers has been
announced:]

Journal: Language and Communication
ISSN   : 0271-5309
Volume : 22
Issue  : 2
Date   : Apr-2002

Language mixing in rai music: localisation or globalisation?
A. Bentahila, E.E. Davies
pp 187-207

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:03:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hebrew U. Summer Arabic Courses
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Date:  19 Feb 2002
From:Yohanan Friedmann <msyfried at mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject:Hebrew U. Summer Arabic Courses

The Rothberg School for Overseas Students of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem offers three summer courses in Arabic, between June 25, 2002
and August 1, 2002.

1. Literary Arabic - Elementary.
An introduction to literary Arabic. Grammar, reading of graded texts,
drills in pronunciation and translation. The course is designed for
students with no previous knowledge of the language.
Classes meet five days a week, 5 hours daily.

2. Literary Arabic - Intermediate.
Readings of easy classical and modern prose. Exercises in translation.
Review of basic grammar and continued study of morphology and syntax. The
course is designed mainly to improve students' reading comprehension.
Prerequisite: One year of academic study of Arabic or equivalent.
Classes meet five days a week, 5 hours daily.

3. Spoken Arabic - Elementary.
The course is designed to enable students to hold conversation in Arabic,
in the dialect spoken in Jerusalem.
Classes meet for 5 days a week, 4 hours daily.

The courses are coordinated by Prof. Yohanan Friedmann

For information on registration, please write to Mr. Yoel Nesson:
ynesson at roth.mscc.huji.ac.il
For academic matters, please write to Prof. Yohanan Friedmann:
msyfried at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il

You can also visit our website at:
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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:07:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACTFL OPI Workshop for Arabic
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:Adam Stryker <astryker at actfl.org>
Subject:ACTFL OPI Workshop for Arabic

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

ACTFL is please to announce that it will be offering Arabic, as well as
some other non-cognate languages like Korean, Japanese and Hindi at the
upcoming 4 day Oral Proficiency Interview Tester Training Workshop at the
University of California at Berkeley, July 18-21, 2002.  Please visit our
website at www.actfl.org  Please register early as space is limited!
Thank
you!

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:09:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Al-Tograi response
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:khorshid <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Al-Tograi response

You may want to look at his biography in "al-aghani" or "mo9jam
al-udabaa'"
-an indexed edition.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:13:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Can help with Arabic on Mac
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Can help with Arabic on Mac

I work on such a Mac, using Arabic.
What seems to be the problem?
Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:14:50 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:14:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy (Ads)
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1) Subject:Arab Academy Cards (Ad)

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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:sanaa at arabacademy.com
Subject:Arab Academy (Ad)

The Arab Academy offers online Arabic language courses for the whole
family (children and adults).  Our fees are slashed down for family
members and groups.

Information on courses and fees is available from:
University students (adults):
http://arabacademy.com/main/online/registrar_e.shtml

School students (children and youngsters):
http://arabacademy.com/main/online/registration_home_schooling_e.htm


The Arab Academy's courses make wondeful Eid gifts for family and
friends.

Our online Arabic courses allow you to:
- Study Arabic from wherever you are
- Move at your own pace
- Interact with learners of Arabic from all over the world
- Be supervised by professional teachers
- Get a certificate upon completion of courses

Best regards,
Sanaa Ghanem

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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:sanaa at arabacademy.com
Subject:Arab Academy Cards (Ad)

The Arab Academy's card center has cards for all occasions.  Use it to
send Eid-ul-AD7aa cards.
http://www.arabacademy.com/card_center_e.htm

All our cards have links to:
Flash animation of the Arabic alphabet
Interactive verses with sound waves & translation
Learn How to Pray
Special Offers

Best regards,
Sanaa Ghanem

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:15:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Five (Six?) Nouns query
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:asif khanan <asifkhanan at www.com>
Subject:Five (Six?) Nouns query

Salam,

I was wondering if anyone could clarify the following.
I have always been taught that there are the 'Five Nouns' or al-Asma
al-Khamsa.
In 'al-Qawa'id al-Asasiyah lil-Lugha al-Arabiya by al-Sayyid Ahmad
al-Hashimi, he mentions
the al-Asma al-Sitta, namely:
"al-Asma al-Sitta hiya: Abuka, wa Akhuka, wa Hamuka, wa Fuka, wa Dhu
Malin, wa Hanuka.
Could some one clarify this.
Are there traditionally five or six nouns?
Eagerly awaiting you replies.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:17:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs corpus and software
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:halimi3 at etu.unige.ch
Subject:Needs corpus and software

I  would be grateful if you could provide me with an arabic corpus for
my research.
Do you know of a programme which extracts word combinations from arabic
texts?
I thank you very much for your cooperation.

Best regards

Sonia HALIMI
Student in DEA at the University of Geneva

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:18:41 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:18:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dliemis in Iraq
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Dliemis in Iraq

Not that this can be considered real ethnic slur, yet it worth while.
When
Iraqies say for someone Dliemi (< dliem, the area around the upper part
of
Eufrates in Iraq [< dulaymii]) it means oaf, dumb, a simpltone, etc.
There
are lots of jokes to the expense of the Dliemies. Cf: "Why a Dliemi
always
orders three cofies? For he drinkes the medium one." These are mostly the
"international" jokes, which travel through the space and time according
to
Carel Chapek's definition in his Marsia.

As each country has its "Dliemies" in a certain area (Irish in UK,
Bosnians
in Yugoslavia, etc. -- no offense intended) it should be admited that all
over the world "the Dliemies" are, as a rule, the main and best
promoters of
such jokes.

Srpko Lestaric

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Feb 21 22:27:48 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:27:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Computational Approaches Conf deadline extended
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Date:  21 Feb 2002
From:mros1 at cs.um.edu.mt
Subject:Computational Approaches Conf deadline extended

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 28th February**

Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

ACL-2002
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday 11 July, 2002

This workshop is a sequel to the workshop on Computational Approaches
to Semitic Languages that was held at COLING98 in Montreal. Since that
time, there have been various other workshops, but these have mostly
turned out to be either rather applications-oriented, or rather
language specific, or both. Whilst not neglecting applications, the
present workshop aims to attract submissions that contribute
significantly to theoretical insights concerning computational
frameworks underlying the processing of Semitic languages in
general. Morphology and/or phonology would seem to be promising areas
of investigation in this sense. An effort will also be made to
highlight submissions that concern a representative set of
languages.

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

-  Orthographic Representation
-  Morphological/Phonological Models
-  Speech Applications
-  Syntax, Parsing and Generation
-  Semantics
-  Acquisition of Language Resources
-  Corpora
-  Use of Machine Learning Techniques
-  Multilingual / Mixed Language Applications
-  Information Retrieval and Extraction

Program Committee

   Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (co-chair),
mike.rosner at um.edu.mt
   Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel (co-chair),
shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il
   Ken Beesley, XRCE, France, ken.beesley at xrce.xerox.com
   Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR Software, Cairo, Egypt, ac at sakhr.com
   Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel, yco636sc at netvision.net.il
   Anne De Roeck, Open University, UK, A.DeRoeck at open.ac.uk
   Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, US, evens at iit.edu
   Ray Fabri, University of Malta, Malta, rfab1 at um.edu.mt
   Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia, ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn
   Alon Itai, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, itai at cs.technion.ac.il
   Steven Krauwer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands,
steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl
   Mounira Loughraieb, University of Nancy 2, France,
   mounira.loughraieb at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr
   Chadia Moghrabi, University of Moncton, mograc at umoncton.ca
   Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo
   Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University, US, rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu
   Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, adn at gnet.tn

Important dates

   February 28, 2002: Deadline for submissions
   April 7, 2002: Notification of acceptance
   May 1, 2002: Final version due
   July 11, 2002: Workshop date

Home Page and Further Details

   http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:42:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus
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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From:Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic Corpus

Hello Sonia Halimi,
   Watt's concordance tool works better than any other I am aware of for
looking at corpora in Arabic script.  It  supports Arabic, or more
precisely it doesn't do anything to prevent you from taking advatage of
your system's Arabic capabilities if there is Arabic enabled on your
computer, so if you know how how to take advantage of the Arabic system
on your windows machine, you can get it to work for Arabic.  You can
visually examine a big context around words, although the left right
versus front back can be confusing, since left is assumed to "before."
It
will also generate statistics on frequencies and stuff.
   A big problem that it won't solve for you is lemmatization.  ie albyt
and byt get counted as separate items unless you list all items in that
category.  There is probably a fiendishly clever way around that in
Watt's concordancer but I have opted for 'c' code to solve that problem.

  My advice is to avoid Athelstan's MonoConc Pro.

   You can get Rob Watt's concordance at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/

   As for corpora, there is all kinds of stuff on the web, including the
Bible, the Quraan and newspapers.

have fun,
cheers,
andy

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: Tim Buckwalter <TimBuckwalter at bainbridge.net>
Subject:Arabic Corpus

Sonia:
You can find a lot of text data here: http://www.muhaddith.org
This website also has software for searching texts but I haven't used it.
For extracting word combination I suggest you learn Perl. I can help you
get
started with some very simple search scripts, if you like.
Regards,
Tim

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:42:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Five or Six Nouns responses
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3) Subject:Five or Six Nouns response
4) Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From:"Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

The answer is "both:"  /hanuu-/ means "vulva," but is usually
(if modesty doesn't exclude it) translated as simply "thing."
      See *ZDMG* , Band 125, Heft 2. 1975 (270--272):  "The
Six Nouns."
      Best wishes,
                                   Mike Schub

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: Munir <zilanaw at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

The "five nouns" in common usage are ab, akh, fam, ham, and dhu.
However, there is an archaic biliteral noun, "han," meaning "a trifling
thing,"  that is inflected the same way the five nouns are.  The Alfiyya
of Ibn Malik mentions it.  Supposedly, this "sixth noun" has not been
used
since first century CE, although I am not sure of the exact date it fell
into disusage.

-Munir

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

School kids - in Egypt - are only taught the 5: abun, akhun, Hamun,
famun, and dhu.
The 6th, vagina, is not normally taught in schools (only in institutes
of higher learning).
Waheed

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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: SAKAEDANI Haruko <dr_harukos at hotmail.com>
Subject:Five or Six Nouns response

Generally, they are taught as "Five Nouns" in schools because:
1) "Hanuu(-ka)" has so a shameful meaning that the teachers   hesitate
to pronounce this word in front of their pupils,
and 2) Some grammarians do not regard it as a member of this group,
   but say that it inflects like other ordinary nouns and does not
change even if it occurs in "construction state."

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb 25 17:42:33 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:42:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Romanization systems query
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Date:  25 Feb 2002
From: Antonio Caridad Salvador <acaridad at wanadoo.es>
Subject: Romanization systems query

Anyone can tell me the name of the most common systems to romanise the
arabic names? when were they created? who was their author?

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:01:31 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Romanization Responses
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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Benjamin Drury Huyck <bdh29 at email.byu.edu>
Subject:Romanization Responses

Antonio,

What do you mean by 'systems'? Do you mean methods used by people to
transliterate Arabic names? Or do you mean computer software designed to
automate the romanization of say, a database of Arabic names?

As for the first possibility, here are the names of some standards for
romanizing Arabic into Latin characters:
-UN 1972 (II/8) (United Nations)
-BGN/PCGN 1956 ("U.S. Board on Geographic Names" and "Permanent
Committee on
Geographic Names")
-I.G.N. System 1973
-ISO
233:1984
	http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=4117
-ISO
233-2:1993
	http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=4118

I know very little about these schemes, but I included the urls to the
ISO web
site for the last two. What I do know is that Arabic names can be
romanized into
a number of languages, each resulting in a different spelling. This,
compounded
with the dialectic and pronunciation differences across the Arab world,
makes an
organized, systematic approach to romanization a difficult task, to say
the
least.

As for the second possibility, I don't know of any existing software that
automates the romanization of Arabic names, although my company is
considering
developing such a product. You can contact me off the list for more
information.

Best Regards,

Benjamin Huyck

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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Jackie Murgida <jmurg at star.net>
Subject:Romanization Responses

This topic is very complicated. A Ph.D. dissertation on Arabic names by
Paul
Roochnik at Georgetown University should be helpful. The date is the
1993.
He includes a discussion of romanization issues.

Best regards,
Jackie Murgida

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 26 17:02:34 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:02:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus (plug for Perl)
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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at unm.edu>
Subject:Arabic Corpus (plug for Perl)

For extracting word combination I suggest you learn Perl.

I agree with Tim. Concordancing programs (including MonoConc, with all
due respect to the good doctor Barlow), like any software, can only do
what the developers predicted you might want to do. Stray from script,
and you're left with an inadequate solution. The answer: write your own
script.

I'll be teaching a "computing for linguists" class this in the Fall
which will include a substantial Perl component, and I haven't found a
good linguist-oriented text (although Tibor Kiss told me he had one in
the works, perhaps to be published by CSLI). While the bioinformatics
Perl texts have a lot of string-manipulation stuff, they're too
specialized. You might want to look at Cross's _Data Munging with Perl_,
which has some very useful chapters, including material you might care
about for yanking web pages and stripping off HTML/XML tagging.

Cheers,

Dan.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 26 17:03:47 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:03:47 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition
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1) Subject:Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition

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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Elizabeth Schultz <Eschultz at nafsa.org>
Subject:Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition


NAFSA's Cooperative Grants Program (COOP) is accepting proposals from
U.S.-based institutions of higher education and non-profit organizations
for
its Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grant Competition.  Proposals must be
received by March 8, 2002.

Muslim Intercultural Exchange Grants are awards in the range of
$2,001-$10,000. Projects must meet all regular COOP eligibility criteria
and
accomplish one or more of the following objectives:

**Create opportunities for students from predominantly Muslim countries
to
engage in substantive exchange with their U.S. peers and their host
communities;
**Increase resources and understanding on U.S. campuses about the Muslim
world; and/or
**Address issues related to women in Muslim cultures.

Application materials, eligibility criteria, grant writing resources and
the
COOP Model Program List are available on the NAFSA web site at
www.nafsa.org
(go to the Professional and Educational Resources heading and then click
on
Grants and Scholarships) or contact COOP staff at coop at nafsa.org.

COOP Grants are made available through funding from the Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of
State,
under the authority of the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961, as amended.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 26 17:05:56 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:05:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SOAS Job
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Date:  26 Feb 2002
From:Wen-chin Ouyang <wo at soas.ac.uk>
Subject:SOAS Job

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES

University of London

Lectureship in Arabic
Department of the Near and Middle East
(3 Year Fixed Term)
?21,503 p.a. plus London Allowance of ?2,134 p.a.
Vacancy 02-23

Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Arabic.

The essential responsibilities of this post are to advance knowledge of 
Arabic language and literature by research and publication and to teach 
Arabic language and literature in the Department of the Languages and 
Cultures of the Near and Middle East.

Essential qualifications are a good track-record of academic research, 
Arabic-teaching experience in a higher-education environment and fluency 
in Arabic. Applicants are expected to have, or nearing completion, a PhD 
on a topic related to Arabic language or literature.

The appointment will take effect from 1 October 2002.

Annual leave is 30 days per year plus statutory and bank holidays.  USS 
pension scheme will be available.

An application form and job description may be obtained from the Human 
Resources Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh 
Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, England (Tel: 020 7898 4132; 
Fax: 020 7898 4129; E-mail address: humanresources at soas.ac.uk).
No CVs or agencies.

Closing date:	Friday 12 April 2002

SOAS is an equal opportunities employer

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