From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  4 23:50:41 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:50:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Women in Grammar replies
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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Women in Grammar reply (before clarification)

Greetings.

One might add to that list one of Karin Ryding's colleagues at Georgetown:

o   Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Haroon Shirwani <haroon.shirwani at st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Women in Grammar reply (before clarification)

>  of the female persuasion.

I don't know what that means, but Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, known
as "Freddie" to colleagues and a bachelor all his life, was not a
woman. For more on the colourful life of this great scholar, see his
obitury on http://www.al-bab.com/bys/obits/beeston.htm.

Regards,

Haroon Shirwani

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Women in Grammar reply (before clarification)

Just shows you how much I know!         --ms

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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:48:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Women in Grammar Question Clarified
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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: "Elizabeth M. Bergman" <embergman at earthlink.net>
Subject Women in Grammar Question Clarified

To re-state my question, can any colleague help me locate references on
the contributions of women scholars who lived and worked in the
pre-modern age, specifically from ca. 700 - 1300 CE, to classical Arabic
grammar?

With thanks,

Elizabeth M. Bergman

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  4 23:57:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:57:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING: Osama's dialect & SA dialect response
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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Osama's dialect & SA dialect response

Greetings,

Based on what is audible, Mr. bin Laden and his Saudi Arabian guest
are conversing in a local "Jeddawi/Mekkawi" colloquial of the Hijazi
dialect. Some Saudi Arabian friends here (graduate students from
Jeddah & Mekkah) placed and followed the dialect, although a few
added that traces of Hadramauti (Yemeni coastal region) show in
several pronunciations and inflections.


There is no _one best_ or comprehensive text on the several Saudi
dialects, as the dialects in the country are regionally distinctive.

Some references in English on regional Saudi dialects are the works by:

o   Bruce Ingham - Najdi/Central Arabia => Nefud (recent publication)

o   the late Theodor Prochazka -  all SA dialects

o   Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell - urban Hijazi (includes audiotapes)

o   the late Thomas Johnstone - one of the pioneering works on
Eastern Arabic dialects

o   Mahmoud Esmael Sieny - urban Hijazi

o   Peter Abboud - Najdi (Ph.D. dissertation at UT Austin and later
published, IIRC)

While there are several other references around (some new items
published in the Arabic seem especially detailed and descriptive
about the Hijazi dialects spoken around al-Ta'if and Mekkah), these
authors cited above produced the 'bedrock' works.

o  Most of their titles (via author search) should be available via
web searches.

o  Some out-of-print items are perhaps obtainable via interlibrary
loan, in sha' Allah.

HTH. Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke
(Arabian Peninsula and
  Gulf Arabic dialectologist)

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat Jan  5 00:04:43 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:04:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Cotton Products
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From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Cotton Products

Dil,
After the first specification, samples of cotton underwear came the
other day (with a new specification, slightly different from the
first one) showing that all the "b.b. objects"  (minshafa b.b.,
Saddaara b.b., Haraam b.b.) are embroidered babies things (a baby's
towel, a a baby's bib and a a baby's bathrobe, all made of
terry-cloth). Among these kaab b.b. (which might easily be a cap)
remaines a mystery for the time being, as well as some other items
and/or attributes, for the manufacturer failed to send certain items.

Following are the available answers:

1. saaq = men's drawers, ankle-deep men's undergarment, die lange
Unterhose (for it came always with "wilaadii" or "rijaalii");
2. binTaal = women's drawers, (either "banaatii" or "nisaa'ii"), also
underwear (not outdoor leggings)
3. Hafr = "sleeveless", with the sleeves cut off in a straight line
with the body of an undershirt (not "athletic shirt")
4. muTabba3 = printed (cloth)
5. bruutiil = women's undershirt with silk(y) straps (< Fr.
"bretelle"= shoulder strap, as Patricia pointed out); when the
straps/suspenders are from the material and somewhat wider, like in
an athletic shirt, then it is called shayyaal, meaning either men's
or women's undershirt)
6. kulfa = clothe adornment sewn on a garment; mukallaf =
decorated with a piece of cloth sewed on; die Applikation

Still unsolved are:

al-buursha (not al-wursha as it came in the first specification --
that was obviously a typo, but I don't understand the buursha either)
shar3ii
3arD qamiiS
muTayyaf
muuns

Besides, the palette of colors included the following:

'axDar
'azraq baHrii
'aSfar
tirkwaaz
tuffaaHii
xamrii
zahrii faatiH / wasaT / ghaamiq
zayti
sukkarii
samaawii faatiH / ghaamiq
3asalii
fistuqii
mawzii
niilii
kuHlii

Thanks to all who tried to help. It is weird that no guesses proved
right. I don't believe the coleagues will profit a lot from these
data, but this is what can be done.

Srpko

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat Jan  5 00:03:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:03:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:el-Zanaty Khalifa replies
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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Taoufik Ben Amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject: el-Zanaty Khalifa replies

Zanati Khalifa is a main figure in the Epic (Sira) of Bani Hilal in in its
last phase (in Tunisia). He is the nemesis of Dhiab al-Hilali, the hero of
this phase who marries the legendary Al-Jazia. He is called Zanati because he
is from one of the major Amazigh (Berber) tribes which populated North
Africa.

taoufiq ben amor
Columbia University

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject: el-Zanaty Khalifa replies

  I think Zanati is the nisba adjective of the name Zanata that is a
tribe in North Africa.

I wish you all a Merry Chrismas and a Happy new Year.

Nagwa Hedayet

Hedayet Institute for Arabic Studies

Cairo,Egypt


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat Jan  5 00:01:06 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:01:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:School in Kuwait replies
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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Davidson MacLaren <davidson_maclaren at hotmail.com>
Subject: School in Kuwait reply

A lot of information about studying Arabic in Kuwait-

The Kuwait University Language
Centre(http://www.kuniv.edu.kw/langcentre/), located at the Shuweikh
Campus of Kuwait University, used to offer intensive Modern Standard
Arabic classes.  I imagine it still does.  Classes met for four hours
daily, five days weekly.  If I recall correctly, there were four
levels of instruction - elementary, lower intermediate, upper
intermediate, and advanced - and each level was designed to be
completed in a semester's study.  These courses were part of the
Arabic as a Foreign Language Program and required for all Kuwait
University students who were non-native speakers of Arabic.  However,
when I attended the Centre in 1996-1997 few of my classmates were
degree seeking students at the University; the majority were European
and Asian students who were recepients of an Arabic language
scholarship that provided for tuition, room, board, and living
expenses for one or two years; some were expatriates living in Kuwait
who had ample leisure time and savings to attend the lessons.  For
information on the scholarship I recommend you contact the Kuwaiti
Embassy in Italy.  During the 1996-1997 academic year an Italian
student enrolled at Kuwait University on just such a scholarship, but
left only weeks after his arrival, distressed, I think, by culture
shock.  This would suggest, though, that the Embassy in Italy is
familiar with the scholarship and can assist you.

If you already have plans to live or work in Kuwait and cannot commit
yourself to an intensive language learning program, Kuwait University
also used to offer a variety of evening-scheduled, non-intensive
Arabic courses for non-native speakers through the Office of
Continuing and Adult Education.  In 1996-1997, the Office was located
at the University's Khaldiya Campus, but may have moved if the
University's grand construction plans have been completed.

Perhaps I should mention one last thing: an admonition.  Based on my
experience studying Arabic in Kuwait - and the experiences of others
I know whom studied there - Kuwait was a poor environment in which to
learn the language well.  Kuwait University is an English speaking
environment: many but not all classes are taught in English.
Moreover, living at the University one discovered that the
dormitories were lived in not by Kuwaitis, but by University students
from a variety of African and Asian countries, almost all of whom did
not speak Arabic as their first or even second language, making
English the lingua franca of the dormitory.  Those Arabs that did
live in the dormitories, mostly Omanis and Bahrainis, spoke English
so fluently that they preferred to converse intelligently with
foreigners in English rather than listen to someone struggling to
express themselves, simply, in Arabic.  Outside of the University,
one also found that interaction with Kuwaitis and other Arabs was
limited.  Most of the people one would meet in the street, people
working at stores and restaurants for example, are Indian, Pakistani,
Bangladeshi, European, or Filipino, not Arab.  In Kuwait, one is not
immersed in the same rich Arabic speaking environment found in Yemen
or Morocco.

All the best,
Davidson MacLaren

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: School in Kuwait reply

Greetings.

Recommendations can vary according to the time and energy you can
invest in an in-country program and what are your interests and
intended uses of newly-acquired skills in Arabic and a regional
dialect.

o   Kuwait University has some sort of program, but that may be along
the order of social/courtesy/familiarization for expatriates who are
resident in the country.

o   A commercial/private school (might be based in UK) reportedly
offers customized instruction in Arabic at a location in Kuwait,
maybe in Safat, Al-Jahra, or near Kuwait City.


May one suggest that, due to the congestion in Kuwait occasioned by
the incoming U.S. military presence and expanding build-up as those
units arrive there, you might better consider another suitable source
of Arabic instruction down in the "lower Gulf region, such as in UAE,
where several post-secondary and commercial institutions offer
various courses in Arabic for foreign students.

Hope this helps.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:58:05 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Comoros query
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: Jamal Qureshi <ArabLDS at hotmail.com>
Subject: Comoros query

A friend recently queried me about the origins of the country name "Comoros"
and its capital "Moroni".  My understanding is that the country name derives
directly from the Arabic "Juzur al-Qamar", but does anyone know where the
city name "Moroni" derives from?  Thanks for any help.

Jamal Qureshi

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 18:00:42 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:00:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:EA Coordination discussion
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: aliaa taha <aliaa_anis at hotmail.com>
Subject: EA Coordination discussion

"shaafu we heyya" is not a correct Arabic sentence, we rather say
"shaafu we shafha"

i.e.he saw him and saw her. I hope this helps. Aliaa from Egypt

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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: Francesco Leggio <jawhar_siqilli at usa.net>
Subject: EA Coordination discussion

I would rather say:
shaf-hu (or shaf-u) wiyaha (wa-'iyyaa-ha)
which is a both classical and colloquial contruction.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 18:01:22 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:01:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Adjective pairs query
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: mohamed oud <m-oud at lycos.com>
Subject: Adjective pairs query

  Hi Arabists
I am doing research on language attitudes . I need help in gathering
a large number of adjectives with their opposites either in Arabic or
English. I know that there will be some difficulty in finding the
"clear-cut " opposite for some adjectives.But any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
yours
M. A. Oud

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 18:02:25 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:02:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Early Women scholars in Arabic Grammar response
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From:  Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Early Women scholars in Arabic Grammar response

Dear Elizabeth,

The best reference for such information is Rida Kahhaleh's A'alam Al Nisaa.

Best wishes
Nimat

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 18:36:21 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:36:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AATA NEWS:New President Named
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From: moderator
Subject: New AATA President Named

Zeinab Ibrahim has asked me to announce that Dr. Salah Hammoud has
been elected president of AATA  for the year 2002.  Congratulations,
Salah!

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 23:34:09 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:34:09 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Translation Certification/Courses Query
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Query

A Palestinian graduate student in English Literature here very much
wants to get a certificate, or even just take a course, in
Arabic/English English/Arabic translation.  Can any of the
translators out there tell me if there is such a program in the
states?  I know there are good programs in several Arab World
countries (at least Jordan and Morocco), so if you want to send in
info on those programs I'll post them too in a big summary.  Probably
many would appreciate seeing the info all in one place.
Thanks.
Dil


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 23:34:57 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:34:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Comoros another query
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: esg at felix.unife.it
Subject: Comoros another query

Jamal Qureshi wrote:

>  that the country name derives
>  directly from the Arabic "Juzur al-Qamar"

Wehr gives g[u]z[u]r al-q[u]m[u]r separated from the first instance
of the root qmr; does this mean that etymologically it does not derive
from q[a]m[a]r?

je

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan  9 23:34:22 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:34:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Translation Certification/Courses Responses
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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: "Timothy A. Gregory" <tgregory at tarjema.com>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

I found one on line: http://www.inter-col.net

--tag

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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: asif khanan <asifkhanan at www.com>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

Hi,
I know of one Excellent Arabic/English/Arabic translation course at
the School of Oriental and African Studies (the University of London.

It is supposed to be quite tough but deemed a very high quality
course. The web site for the university is:

www.soas.ac.uk

I hope that helps.
Ma'assalama
Asif.

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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Query

That Palestinian graduate might well look at the programs offered by:

o  Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, CA
(Arabic is now one of the "concentration languages" offered at MIIS,
IIRC).

o  The University of Texas at Austin
    (I think UTA now has an interdepartmental program, but I'm unsure
whether that is a certificate or degree program and which is the
"lead" school or department there... Dept of linguistics or Dept of
NE & Oriental Languages.)

o  Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan

o  King Saud University in Riyadh, KSA (College of Languages and Translation)

o  King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, KSA
    (KAAU reportedly has a strong and growing department, which might
be a full-fledged College or Faculty by now)

o  UAE Uiversity in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi
    UAEU was considering some sort of post-BA certification program
for Emiratis (although the ESL skills of most graduates seem to need
some polishing, so that initiative may have been deferred).

HTH.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: Jackie Murgida <jmurg at star.net>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

Dil,
As far as I know, there is no degree or certificate program for A-E/E-A
translation in N. America. In fact, the number of programs in translation
for languages such as French, Spanish, and German, is dwindling.

The best one can do in this country is to find a university that has both an
Arabic department (or some professor who knows enough Arabic) and a
translation program, and to convice them to organize a customaized program
where you can take the non-language-specific translation courses and do a
directed study with the Arabic professor.

And, one can keep an eye out for special, one-time workshops and summer
courses that are given from time to time.

The only other glimmer of hope is the distance learning programs some
universities have. One of them may start an Arabic-English translation
program in the future. I think it's NYU, but I have to go through my backlog
of disorganized emails to find the info.

As always, if someone knows of a standing program that has A-E and that I'm
unaware of, I'd love to know about it.

Best regards,
Jackie Murgida

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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

Hi Dil,

With all the mouthing off I have done on Arabic L, I am surprised that people
on the list did not know that there is a well-developed translation program at
AUC.

Here is a general outline:


The Arabic and Translation Studies Division (ASD) at the Center for Adult and
Continuing Education (CACE) of the The American University in Cairo (AUC)
offers certificates in Arabic/English translation and simultaneous
interpreting as follows:

The Professional Certificate in Written Translation


Provides the theoretical background and linguistic skills requisite to the
discipline of translation, with training in the language of newspaper
reporting,  economic financial and commercial translations, and various other
topics, as well as intensive training in the language of legal documents, UN
terminology, and documentary translation and editing.


The Professional Certificate in Simultaneous Interpreting

Emphasis is on oral performance and inter-lingual transfer skills; mastery of
various techniques for  achieving immediate response to oral input and
accurate communication of message, message recasting, and problem-solving
strategies.     Provides practice in interpreting in simulated real-life
situations, in various fields, and with different accents.  Emphasis is on
acquiring the skills of professional interpreters.



Earning a full certificate requires the successful completion of twenty-one
classes or sixty-three instructional units (IUs), which may be accomplished
over the course of three terms of seven classes each. Each level, comprising
seven subjects, carries a mini-certificate related to the sub-discipline of
translation emphasized in that level.  Many students enroll for fewer than the
full seven classes per term.

There are three twelve-week terms per year, which open on a regular basis in
mid September, early January, and early May (with some variation depending
more-or-less on where Ramadan falls in a given year). Entrance to the program
may be gained at the beginning of any one of these terms.

There is also a small certificate program in French/Arabic translation
consisting in six classes, three apiece in written translation and
simultaneous interpreting.

Current fees are LE420/3 IUs (the dollar is currently about 4.75 Egyptian
pounds), subject to change at the beginning of the school year.

As this program is a part of the adult education program at the American
University in Cairo, CACE instructional units do not usually translate into
college credit, and CACE certificates are not college degrees as such.
Nevertheless instruction at CACE is rigorous and CACE certificates in
translation are recognized by employers as testifying to the high translation
ability of the bearer.  Some universities have accepted CACE IUs as transfer
credit.

Admission is as simple as sitting for a placement examination and completing
the necessary registration form.  There are no other application procedures as
such.  Admission and placement examinations are conducted once every two weeks
in the eight weeks before a term begins.

Customized training is available.

Inquiries are best addressed to me.

David Wilmsen
Director, Arabic and Translation Studies
The American University in Cairo
28 Falaki Street
Bab El-Louk
Cairo, Egypt
tel:  2 02 7976872
fax:  2 02 7957565

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:38:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Adjective pairs response
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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Arabic Adjective pairs response

Greetings / tahaiya tayyiha wa b3ad....

For starters (depending on the scope and nature of your research),
you might do a web search for Dr Lorand Szalay.

He was principal investigator at a consulting firm in Suitland,
Maryland that did research during the 1980-1990s on a cross-cultural
communication model termed Associative Group Analysis (AGA).

One of their products involved English <-> Arabic adjective pairs and
their respective semantic differentials. That was a very useful
reference in some of my research as an Arabic dialectologist in the
Gulf region.

I think I can retrieve my copies of his reports on Arabic and Persian
Farsi pairs (I recently moved, so much is still in cartons). So,
please e-mail your fax number to me, and I'll copy and send the pages
with publisher data.

Hope this helps. Ahalan wa sahalan...

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

e-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:42:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Coordination discussion
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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: "A. E." <aghamrawy13 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Coordination discussion

I haven't got the thread of emails regarding "EA Coordination
Discussion" from the beginning, but here is my two-penny response for
the last couple of emails.
First, "shaafu we heyya" is not a possible EA structure because the
conjuntion here is between an object pronoun and a subject pronoun
([u] in shaaf-u is the undergoer whereas "heyya is the pronoun
associated with the agent of the sentence).

I would agree with Aliaa on " shaaf-u wi shaaf-ha,"  where there are
two conjoined VP's, or "shaaf-hum, huwwa-w heyya" where the
conjunction is between two subject pronouns in an IP (inflectional
phrase) modifying  the object pronoun "hum."

As for Francisco's suggestions, they are very interesting. I'm
wondering whether  the classical structure "Shaaf-u wa iyyaaha" is
equivilant syntagmatically to the Egyptian slang "shaaf-u wayyaaha."
"wayyaaha" in Egyptian means "with her"- a PP modifying  the object
pronoun [u] (he saw [him with her]. But 'iyyaahaa in classical Arabic
is basically only the 3rd singular object pronoun [ha] without the
verb since the verb is shared between the two verb phrases. In other
words, "shaaf-u wa 'eyyaahaa" or better say "ra'aa-hu wa 'eyyaahaa"
is equivalent to "ra'aa-hu wa ra'aa-ha" in classical or "shaaf-u w
shaaf-ha" in EA, which doesn't necessarily have the same meaning as
"shaaf-u ma3aa-ha which means "shaaf-hum ma3a ba3d" (he saw them
together).

I hope I could make myself clear, and I would appreciate any feedback
if someone agrees/disagrees with me.

Ahmad Elghamrawy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan  9 23:43:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:43:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic ethnic slurs query
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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at unm.edu>
Subject Arabic ethnic slurs query

Does anyone know of a collection of racial/ethnic slurs in any
dialect of Arabic? The closest I can come is "9ajamii" for "Persian."

The other instances seem to revolve around using ethnic terms a
little more broadly, e.g. 'haadha turkii' to refer to refer to a
nonsensical comment, or "nawar" to mean something akin to "white
trash."

Any input from closet (or out) maledictorians?

TIA,

Dan.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:13:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Ethnic Slurs responses
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4) Subject: Ethnic Slurs response
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

[moderator's note: sorry about the weird characters.  I think the
message can still be read.  It has something to do with my program
not being able to decipher things.  Dil]

Dear Dan
In Egyptian Arabic, which I am most familiar with, there are not that many
ethnic slurs probably because the society is more stratified economically than
ethnically. There are of course some ethnic slurs, many of which are historic
and I would argue that some of them lost their use as ethnic derogatory terms
and maintained their use as insults. For example, “nawar” (the singular is
‘nawary’) is, as you mentioned, close in meaning to “white trash”, and it
might be related to the Nuweyr tribes in the Sudan (this is a wild guess).
Whatever its origin is people do not know it except maybe for a couple of
linguists. Other slurs such as ‘a9jami’ lost their use as slurs. I think that
word means ‘mute’ and it was used to refer to foreigners in generals (not just
Persians) because of their limited competence in Arabic, and later it was used
only to mean ‘foreigner’.

As far as I know in Jordanian Arabic the word ‘maSri’ (Egyptian) is used to
mean (of low or unknown descent i.e., bastrad)

I do not know of any publication on Arabic ethnic slurs, but if you are
interested here are some modern Egyptian ones, and I hope I am not offending
any of the list members.

-	‘hindi’ (Indian) and the plural is ‘hunuud’ or ‘hanadwa’.
This word is used
to mean ‘dumb’, ‘melodramatic’ or ‘oaf’. That is because of the Indian movies
that were extremely popular in Egypt in the seventies and eighties.

-	‘taiwaani’ (Taiwanese) which is used to mean ‘fake’ or ‘of
low quality’ as
in the most frequent use “esh-sheikh da da`noh taiwaani’ (This sheikh’s beard
is Taiwanese or made in Taiwan.) meaning he is not well-informed about
religion or he does not follow what he preaches. That is because of the
perception that the abundant made-in-Taiwan electronic products are of low
quality.

-	‘barabra’ which is used to refer to Nubians and not speakers
of Berber even
if the latter is the accurate etymology. It is used only to refer to bad
manner of speaking, namely for interlocutors to speak too fast and at the same
time.

-	‘toska’ which is an Italian woman’s name. It is used to mean
‘prostitute’ or
‘loose woman’ and it was common when many Europeans lived in Alexandria.

I would not list any of the fallaHeen (Delta peasants) or Sa3ayda (Upper
Egyptians) slurs because these are well known.

Some ethnic remarks are used only in frozen expressions or proverb-like
utterances such as
(a)	daakh dookhet el-baljeeki (he got as dizzy as someone from Belgium.)
(b)	el-menoofi el-aSeel zay el-gazma eT-TafSeel ‘a real menoofi (from
Menoofeyya, a district in the Delta) is like a custom made shoe. That
indicates their low status.
(c)	el-menoofi la yaloofi w-law akala laHma el-kitoofi. ‘a
menoofi will never
change even if he ate the shoulder meat of a lamb’ meaning they will always be
of low status. It is interesting that there are case marking vowels even on
the verb for the sake of the rhyme!!!
(d)	naTTa faranasaawi (a French jump) indicating a sexual intercourse. This
phrase lost its insulting use and is used only as a very rude remark about the
beauty of an Egyptian blonde particularly from el-manSoora where the French
soldiers of Napoleon stayed.

I hope these help your work, and I hope nobody is offended.

Mustafa A. Mughazy
Graduate student
Depatment of Linguistics
University of Illinois
Urbana Champaign

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2)
Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

This subject promises to enrich our knowledge of Arabic with a good deal of
sometimes humorous and sometimes dirty words. Anyhow, if "9ajamii" for
"Persian" may be considered an ethnic slur -- and it is found in every
dialect of Arabic, not only spoken, but also in the classical written
language and MSA -- than "barbarii", on the other end of what we call the
Arab world, should be put in the same basket. Yet there is no need to hurry
with such conclusions: many peoples found no better names to give to their
first neighbors than "The Mutes", for the latter were unable to speak in an
intelligible way to them.

On the other hand, "ghajarii" is nowadays counted for an insult between the
Arabs ("nawar" is of the same branch, i.e. Gypsies) and different names of
this ethnic, in any of so-called great languages of the world, are
considered slurs in the respective societies. In Enno Littmann's Modern
Arabic Tales, Leiden, 1905 (translated to German by Littmann himself under
the title Arabische Maerchen aus muendlicher Ueberlieferung, Leipzig 1935,
and to Serbian by myself -- Antologija arapske narodne price, Vreme knjige,
Beograd, 1994) there is a folktale from Jerusalem (kayd al-nisaa' ghalab
kayd al-rijaal) in which a young man, entrapped in marriage with the
horribly handicapped judge's daughter, rescues himself by mere declaring
before his not destined father-in-low that he is remotely related with the
Gypsies.

It is possible, too, that zinjii/zanjii is being used as a slur, "pure"
racial, of course. In Syria and Lebanon "9abd" is still used for a Negro.

More than probable is that the Levantine Arabic today comprises quite a
number of "active" ethnic slurs on the account of the Jews (vice versa also
applies, to be sure). In an old Iraqi folktale (v. al-turaath al-sha9bii,
10/1975, p.117) I came across the noun/adjective "al-yahaadii", which seams
to me a clear pejorative (through the form of an augmentative).

In Iraq, the genuine Arab name of Abu Naajii still means either English(man)
or UK of Great Britain, sharply connotating political shrewdness of
(neo)colonialism. Therefore, this name, bearing the idea of salvation, is
sometimes paradoxically used to mark a corrupt man whose ways are dangerous
for others.

Srpko Lestaric

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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Patricia Kelly Spurles <pkellyspurles at yahoo.com>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

In urban women's language of Marrakesh, "yahudi" (Jew)
is used pejoratively to refer to non-Jews.

"Gawri" (foreigner, fr "kafir" via Turkish, I suppose)
also has pejorative connotations for some, and is
avoided by some speakers. It reminds me of the
confusion in the US over politically correct terms of
reference for African Americans.

=====
Patricia Kelly Spurles

PhD candidate
Dept. d'anthropologie, Univ. de Montreal

300 East Shelbourne Dr., apt. 73
Normal, Illinois 61761

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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

  One Arab author of Kurdish origin (Ahmad Amin[??]) was abashed when he
was referred to as having a  /ra's  kurdi/ ("Kurdish head").

                                                   Mike Schub

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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Neal Kaloupek <NKaloupek at compuserve.com>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

I hesitate somewhat to talk about these things for fear of offending
someone - however, I lived at the border between the UAE and Oman for
seven years, and was told that Egyptians were sometimes referred to
as "Himaar" (donkey) - (possibly because in the past they did the
manual labor?) Also, I heard those from the Levant called "zelemy"
(as in "He first spoke like a 'zelemy', but now he's learned to speak
better") - probably because Levantines use the term more frequently
than "Gulfies" use it.

Neal

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:58:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING: non-concatenative morphology query
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: "L.Boumans" <l.boumans at let.kun.nl>
Subject: non-concatenative morphology query

Dear collegues,

Semitic languages and Arabic in particular are often cited as
textbook examples of non-concatenative morphology, i.e. the
root-and-template system, as opposed to common affixation. I have two
questions regarding this issue:

1. - Are there any other, non-Semitic examples of this type of morphology?
(The closest examples I have been able to find so far are tonal
patterns in certain Bantu lges.)

2. - Are there any theories on the origin and development of the
non-concatenative morphological patterns in Semitic?

I would greatly appreciate any help with finding the right literature.

Regards, Louis Boumans

Louis Boumans
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, ATD
Postbus 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen
Tel. +31-24-361 13 79, fax +31-24-361 21 77
L.Boumans at let.kun.nl

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 18:59:32 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:59:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Mike Rosner <mros1 at cs.um.edu.mt>
Subject: Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

Please circulate the announcement below
Thanks in advance

Mike Rosner
CSAI Dept
University of Malta
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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
First Call for Papers

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 B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:01:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Hayat Corpus
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux at elda.fr>
Subject: Hayat Corpus

************************************************************
ELRA - European Language Resources Association
************************************************************

We are pleased to announce the new resources
available in our catalogue of language resources:

ELRA W0030 Arabic Data Set
ELRA W0031 GeFRePaC - German French Reciprocal
Parallel Corpus

A short description of these two new resources is given
below.
Please visit the online catalogue to get further details:
http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html

ELRA W0030 Arabic Data Set:
The corpus contains Al-Hayat newspaper articles with
value added for Language Engineering and Information
Retrieval applications development purposes. Data has
been organised in 7 subject specific databases according
to the Al-Hayat subject tags. Mark-up, numbers, special
characters and punctuation have been removed. The size
of the total file is 268 MB. The dataset contains 18,639,264
distinct tokens in 42,591 articles, organised in 7 domains.

ELRA W0031 GeFRePaC - German French Reciprocal
Parallel Corpus:
GeFRePac was produced in the framework of the LRsP&P
project. It contains 30 million words : 15 million for the
German language, 15 million for the French language.
It covers natural general language as used in
public socio-political discourse and it has a focus on
multilingual administration and commercial and legal
documentation. It was created for the purpose of
developing, enhancing and improving translation aids.

=====================================
For further information, please contact:

ELRA/ELDA
55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin
F-75013 Paris, France

Tel:	+33 01 43 13 33 33
Fax:	+33 01 43 13 33 30

E-mail mapelli at elda.fr

or visit our Web site:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
or http://www.elda.fr
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Fatima Ezzouhra Faiq <bachatours at yahoo.fr>
Subject: Teaching material for translation classes query

Hello,
I am looking for teaching material for translation classes both from
English into Arabic and vice versa. Does anyone know of useful online
websites for that purpose. Thank you in advance.

Mohamed Faiq.


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 19:02:55 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:02:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translation Certification Response
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From:  Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Translation Certification Response

For accreditation as a translator, the American Translators Association
(ATA) offers a highly respected (in the translation industry) certification.
At present, they only accredit for translation from Arabic into English but
ATA intends to offer the other language direction within about two years.

The test is given 15 to 20 times a year at sites around the US.  There is a
fee of $130 for taking the test.  For more information, see
http://www.atanet.org/bin/view.pl/285.html

Mark Meinke
Digitek International

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 19:04:41 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:04:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL Final Call
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Robin Thelwall and Rebecca Bradley <eubule at telusplanet.net>
Subject: NACAL Final Call

Final Call for N. American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
NACAL 30 will be held in Houston March 22-24, 2002
Accommodation will be at the Drury Inn
Please contact Robin Thelwall <eubule at telusplanet.net> for further
details.
Abstracts to be submitted by 31st January.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 19:06:36 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:06:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:IJSL articles
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: IJSL articles

The following articles of interest to subscribers have appeared:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman
ISSN: 0165-2516

2001, Issue 152
LANGUAGE CONTACT ISSUES
Issue Editor: Florian Coulmas

ALAN S. KAYE
Diglossia: the state of the art

HANNAH SLAVIK
Language maintenance and language shift among Maltese migrants in
Ontario and British Columbia

MAHMOUD A. AL-KHATIB
Language shift among the Armenians of Jordan

For subscription information please contact the publisher:
Mouton de Gruyter
Genthiner Str. 13
10785 Berlin, Germany
Fax: +49 30 26005 222
e-mail: orders at degruyter.de

Journals and titles published by Mouton de Gruyter can be ordered via
the World Wide Web at: http://www.degruyter.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 19:08:13 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:08:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Language Resources Conference
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux at elda.fr> reposted from CORPORA
Subject: Arabic Language Resources Conference

***First announcement and Call for Papers***

*********************************************************
Arabic Language Resources (LR) and Evaluation:
	Status and Prospects

A Post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2002

	Las Palmas - Canary Islands (Spain)
		1st June 2002

**********************************************************
More details at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html

Taking place on 1st June, after the main conference (29-30-31 MAY 2002),
this post-conference workshop should add value to the issues addressed
during the conference.
It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic written
language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context,
and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as
well as on the availability of LR, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products
and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common
view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing.

We expect to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms
to move towards solutions, such as sharing of resources, tools, standards,
sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of
current best
practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc.

By bringing together players in the Arabic NLP field, we target the
definition of a
first broadly supported Roadmap for Arabic LR, i.e. a broadly supported view on
the longer, medium and shorter term needs and priorities. This would help the
community to identify new opportunities and possible synergies.

The submissions should address some of the LREC issues that are specific and
of paramount importance to the Arabic resources and evaluation; some of these
issues are:

- Issues in the design, construction and use of Arabic Language Resources (LR);
- Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access,
distribution, use of Arabic LR;
- Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (information
extraction,
information retrieval, vocal and multisensorial interfaces,
translation, summarisation,
www services, etc.);
- Industrial LR requirements and community's response;
- Industrial production and/or use of LR;
- Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR;
- Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking
and evaluation
for written and spoken language processing ;
- Evaluation of products and applications, benchmarking;
- Local, regional, and international activities and projects;
- Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and
international cooperation.

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

It will be a full-day workshop. The workshop is not intended to be a mini-
conference, but as a real workshop aiming at concrete results that
should clarify the
situation of Arabic with respect to Language Resources and Evaluation.
Sessions will include introductory speeches, invited talks, a small
number of refereed presentations, a panel session, etc.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions must be in English, Abstracts for workshop contributions should not
exceed two A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page
should state:
the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail
address, as well as postal
address, telephone and fax numbers.

Submissions are to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF format, to
choukri at elda.fr, by 11th February 2002.
Abstracts will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee.

Formatting instructions for the final full version of papers will be
sent to authors after
notification of acceptance.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission deadline (receipt of abstracts): 11th February 2002
- Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2002
- Camera-ready final version for workshop proceedings due: 12th April 2002
- Workshop date: 1st June 2002

TIME AND LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will take place on 1st June, following the main LREC
2002 Conference,
in the Palacio de Congreso de Canarias, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

The registration fee for the workshop is:

If you are also attending LREC: 90 EURO
If you are not attending LREC: 140 EURO

All attendees will receive a copy of the workshop proceedings.

INVITATION LETTER

If you need a visa to travel to Spain for the workshop and/or for the
conference, please
send an email to choukri at elda.fr

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE URLs
http://www.lrec-conf.org

CONTACT POINT

Khalid CHOUKRI
choukri at elda.fr
ELRA CEO
Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
Postal Mail: 55 Rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 Paris France

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, Paris, France
Joseph Dichy, Lyon 2 university, Lyon, France
Steven Krauwer, ELSNET and Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mustafa Yassen, Amman University; Jordan; myaseen at cbj.gov.jo

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (tentative)

Abdelhadi Soudi; ENIM, Morocco; asoudi at enim.ac.ma
Abdelhak Mouradi; ENSIAS, Morocco; mouradi at ensias.ac.ma, abmouradi at hotmail.com
Abdelkader Fassi-Fehri; IRA, morocco; fassi at atlasnet.net.ma
Achraf Chalabi ; Sakhr; Egypt; ac at sakhr.com
André Jaccarini; Université d'Aix, France; jaccarini at mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Bassam Haddad; Amman University; Jordan; bh at go.com.jo
Chafic Mokbel; University of Balamand, Lebanon; chafic.mokbel at balamand.edu.lb
Everhard Ditters; University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; e.ditters at let.kun.nl
Fathi Debili;CELLMA ENS LSH Lyon, France; Fathi.Debili at ehess.fr
Jean Senellart ;SYSTRAN, France; senellart at systran.fr
John Makhoul ; BBN Technologies, GTE Corp., USA; makhoul at bbn.com
Ken Beesley; Ken.Beesley at xrce.xerox.com
Malek Boualem; FTRD/DMI/LAN, France; malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr
Mohamed Hassoun; ENSIB, Lyon, France; hassoun at enssib.fr
Mohamed Maamouri; LDC, Pen University, USA.
Mohsen Rashwan; RDI, Egypt; mrashwan at rdi-eg.com
Ossama Emam; IBM, Egypt; emam at eg.ibm.com
Paul Roochnick; paul at apptek.com
Salem Ghazali; IRSIT, Tunisia; Salem.ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn
Salim Roukos; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA; roukos at us.ibm.com
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza; San Francisco State University, USA; vcs at sfsu.edu

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:08:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Collocational Dictionary query
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: tmkkondo <tmkkondo at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Collocational Dictionary query

January 15, 2002

    I'm a graduate student of The American University in Cairo.
I'm thinking of making a pocket Arabic dictionary of collocation for my master
thesis. Does anyone know if there is any Arabic corpus for free or at a
reasonable price I can use as database?
    And I'd appreciate it if I could have advice for compiling a dictionary.
I've just begun to read a book on lexicography, but this field is quite
new to me. Would anyone tell me the titles of books and articles I should
read?
I'm grateful for any advice. Thanking in advance.

Best regards.

Yours sincerely,
Tomoko Kondo

graduate student of Dep.of Teachin Arabic as a Foreign Language
at The American University in Cairo
P.O.Box.2511,
113, Kasr El-Aini,Cairo 11511
EGYPT

tmkkondo at aucegypt.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan 16 23:54:45 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:54:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA III Deadline Extended
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Mahmoud Al-Batal <albatal at emory.edu>
Subject: CASA III Deadline Extended

Dear Collegaues,
     Salamaat to all of you!
     Below is an announcement for CASA III (Arabic Refresher Course for
Professors) indicating that the deadline for applications has been extended
until February 11th 2002.  Please post this announcement and share it with
your colleagues. Alf shukr!
     Mahmoud Al-Batal

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                                             ANNOUNCEMENT
                               CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD

                                               CASA III

                                  Arabic Refresher Course for Professors
                                     in the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) offers a seven-week (June 8-July
refresher course for professors of the humanities and social sciences whose
specialties focus on any aspect of the Arab World/Middle East and who are
interested in further advancing their proficiency in Arabic.
The CASA III program, conducted at the American University in Cairo,
emphasizes all language skills and features tutorials and special classes to
accommodate the special interests of the fellows.

Applicants must have a level of competence in Arabic of Intermediate-High or
above according to the ACTFL Proficiency Scale (equivalent to at least three
years of study at the college level) and must be U.S. citizens.  Non-U.S.
citizens and Permanent Residents may apply to participate in this program on
a Pay-Your-Own Way basis.

The CASA III fellowship award covers round-trip airfare, tuition, and a
maintenance allowance of $600 per month. A program fee is required of each
CASA III fellow once an award has been accepted.

For a detailed description of CASA programs, or to download application
forms, please visit the CASA web site at:


http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/CASA


*Application deadline for Summer 2002 is February 11, 2002

You may also contact CASA at:

Center for Arabic Study Abroad
Institute for Comparative & International Studies
1385 Oxford Road
Emory University
Atlanta GA 30322

E-mail: casa at emory.edu
Telephone: (404) 727-2575; Fax: (404) 727-6187

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 17 00:08:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:08:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching material for translation classes response
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Dale Frakes <dfrakes at egr.up.edu>
Subject: Teaching material for translation classes response

The SCOLA Arabic Insta-Class is very helpful for this.  They provide about
5 minutes of news in audio form, extracted from broadcasts out of Dubai.
They then provide PDF's with the Arabic AND the English, along with vocab
lists and some drills.  These are released on an almost weekly basis.
They can be found at:

http://www.scola.org/insta-class/arabic/

I hope that helps!

Dale Frakes

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 17 00:00:35 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:00:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:mores ethnic slurs responses
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2) Subject: ethnic slurs response

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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: hindi

>  - 'hindi' (Indian) and the plural is 'hunuud' or 'hanadwa'. This word is used
>to mean 'dumb', 'melodramatic' or 'oaf'. That is because of the Indian movies
>that were extremely popular in Egypt in the seventies and eighties.

My feeling is that hindi refers to North American (Red Indians), not
Asian Indians.  I think this sense came from old American Westerns,
which used to depict cowboys as smart, and Indians as dumb.

Waheed

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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Neal Kaloupek <NKaloupek at compuserve.com>
Subject: ethnic slurs response

Now that I think a little more about it, I think that in the part of the
Gulf where I lived donkeys were called "miSri", rather than Egyptians in
general being called "Himaar" (although of course any individual, of any
nationality, could be called "Himaar" by someone who didn't like him!) Sorry
for the mixup!

Negroid people also are sometimes called "9abd" in the Gulf as well (at
least at the Oman / UAE border where I was), as mentioned by Srpko Lestaric
about Syria and Lebanon.

Neal Kaloupek

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan 16 23:57:43 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:57:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Non-concatenative morphology responses
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2) Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response
3) Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Robert R. Ratcliffe" <ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

You have to be careful about what you mean, because
"non-concatenative morphology" includes ablaut (apophony),
reduplication, etc.; which are widely found, but not necessarily
typical of Semitic. The noteworthy feature of the Semitic system, as
I would describe it, is the use of invariant syllabic-vocalic
patterns associated with specific derivational categories. This type
of morphology is rare, but found sporadically in a lot of places, and
fairly prominently in some (nearly? extinct?) idigenous languages of
California. A lot of work was done on this in the aftermath of
McCarthy's work. I tried to gather up as much as I could and put
together a unified theory in a paper soon to appear. Here are some
references:

Akinlabi, Akinbiyi & Eno Urua: 1993,  “Prosodic Target and Vocalic
Specification in the Ibibio Verb”, in Jonathan Mead, ed., The
Proceedings of the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, Stanford Lingusitsic Association, Stanford Ca., pp. 1-14.

Archangeli, Diana: 1988, Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology
and Morphology, Garland Publishing: New York [Doctoral dissertation,
MIT 1984].
_____: 1991, “Syllabification and Prosodic Templates in Yawelmani”,
NLLT 9:231-283.

Dell, François & Mohamed Elmedlaoui: 1992, “Quantitative Transfer in
the Nonconcatenative Morphology of Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber”, Journal
of Afroasiatic Languages 3/2:89-125.

Goldsmith, John: 1990, Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology, Basil
Blackwell: Oxford, UK/ Cambridge, Ma.

Lombardi, Linda & John McCarthy: 1991, “Prosodic Circumscription in
Choctaw Phonology”, Phonology 8: 37-71.

Noske, Roland: 1985, “Syllabification and Syllable Changing Processes
in Yawelmani” in Harry van der Hulst & Noval Smith, eds., Advances in
Non-linear Phonology, Foris, Dordrecht, pp. 335-362.

Ratcliffe, Robert. in press. Toward a universal theory of
shape-invariant (templatic) morphology:  Classical Arabic
re-considered. in Singh, Rajendra and Stanley Starosta, eds.
Explorations In Seamless Morphology. New Delhi, London, and Thousand
Oaks: Sage Publications.
_____: 1997 “Templatic Morphology in English: -ought/aught Verbs and
-ould Verbs” Proceedings of the Thirteenth Japan English Linguistic
Society Conference.

Smith, Norval: 1985, “Spreading, Reduplication and the Default Option
in Miwok Nonconcatenative Morphology”in in Harry van der Hulst &
Noval Smith, eds., Advances in Non-linear Phonology, Foris,
Dordrecht, pp. 363-380.

Ulrich, Charles H.:  1994, “A unified account of Choctaw intensives”,
Phonology 11: 325-339.


With regard to your second question, I'll try to send a separate post later.

  ____________________________________
*NEW E-mail address: ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp*

Robert R. Ratcliffe
Associate Professor, Arabic and Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Asahi-machi 3-11-1, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534 Japan

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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

Hi L,


      See Hodge *Afro-Asiatic* on the "bi-literal theory:"  Semitic roots

like flq  brk  prq frd   <== original root P/FRX, where X is a MODIFIER;

Arabic  jmm=jm`=jmhr=jml [jmd?];  qSr=qSS=qDD=qDb; farra~nafara;

      Let me know if you find anything outside the Afro-Asiatic group.

      Thanks and best wishes,

                                      Mike Schub


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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

Also:  lSq  lSj lSx  ; baththa==>ba`atha==>ba`thara==>ibtha`arra  etc.

Best wishes,                Mike Schub


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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:10:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Puerto Rico Conference
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Puerto Rico Conference

"Journeys, Exile, Loss, and Memory"
San Juan, Puerto Rico	April 11-14, 2002
CONTACT: Hussein.Kadhim at Dartmouth.Edu


FRIDAY APRIL 12, 2002 (All Streams)

Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
"The Essential Journey: The Rahil in the Classical Arabic Ode

Jocelyn Sharlet, Brown University
"The Rhetoric of Memory: Early Islamic Representations of Pre-Islamic Arab
Culture in Literary Criticism and Grammar"

Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Indiana University Bloomington
"The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Etiology, Etymology
and Onomatopoeia in Two Elegies by al-Ma`arri"

Muhsin al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah
"Memory Lost, and Memory Regained: The Formation of the Exilic in Modern
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George N. El-Hage, Columbia Univeristy
"The Journey in the Poetic World of Khalil Hawi"

Saadi A. Simawe, Grinnell College
"Exile, Language, and Biology in the Poetry of Aziz Simawe"

Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College
"The Bard of Tigris: Mu'ruf al-Rusafi and the Poetics of Exile"

Issa J. Boullata, McGill University
"Poetry as Homeland: Mahmoud Darwish and the Loss of Palestine."


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Roxanne Euben, Wellesley College
"Travel Theory and Political Wisdon: Western and Islamic Journeys to 'the
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Salwa Ghaly, University of Sharjah
"Between Two Worlds: Gibran's and al-Rihani's Vision of America"

Anna Ayse Akasoy, Muenster University, Germany
"Concepts of Home in the Poetical Works of Fawzi al-Ma'luf"

Clarissa Burt, American University of Cairo
"Remembering al-Mutanabbi: Adonis's Mask of Memory"

Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina
"The Tale of Those Who Did Not Travel: Reading Yahya al-Tahir Abdullah's
'The Neckband and the Bracelet' as Sirah"

Mustapha Hamil, State University of West Georgia
"From Manchester to Fez: Adbelmajid Ben Jelloun's Journey of Loss and
Betrayal in 'Fi At-Tufulah'"

Stephen Sheehi, Duke University
"Beirut and the Space of Memory"

Nader Uthman, Columbia University
"Home and Exile in Adbul Rahman Munif's Novel 'East of the Mediterranean'"


SUNDAY APRIL 14, 2002

William Granara, Harvard University
"The Andalusian Past and the Quest for Modernity in the Modern Arabic
Novel"

Nezar Andary, UCLA
"The Consuming Fever of History in Contemporary Arabic Literature"

Elliott Colla, Brown University
"Exile on 26th of July Street: Downtown Cairo in the Fiction of 'Abdullah
and Aslan"

Mohammed AlQuwaizani, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Can the Individual Remember? Collective Memory in Mahfouz's Trilogy"


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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:58:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:khawaja query
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Haroon Shirwani <haroon.shirwani at st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: khawaja query

I suppose no European who has been to Sudan will have been able to
avoid being called 'khawaja'. Sudanese friends insisted that it is a
neutral term simply used to designate someone with light skin, which
reminded me of attitudes to the word 'negro'. What I would like to
know is the origin of the word and how it found its way to Sudan. I'm
guessing it came with the Turks and was used with the British,
originally as a term of respect.

Regards,

Haroon Shirwani

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 17 00:07:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:07:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Collocational Dictionary resonse
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Collocational Dictionary resonse

- Emery, Peter: Collocation in Modern STandard Arabic. ZAL 23.56-65
- Shakir & Farghal, 1992, in FIT-Newsletter 11/3.227
- Heliel, Moahmed Hilmi, 1990, Collocations and Translation. FIT-newsletter
9/3.30
- Hoogland, Jan: Collocation in Arabic (MSA) and the treatment of
collocations in Arabic Dictionaries, in: Proceedings of the Colloquium on
Arabic Lexicology and Lexicography, special Issue of 'the Arabist'. If you
need more details let me know.

There has to be something interesting, but it's difficult to find:
Dr. Abu Ssaydeh seems to have compiled an English-Arabic collocational
dictonary, but I haven't been able to find it.
Maybe you can look around or ask around in Cairo?
If anyone out there knows something about it, please share it with us.
(although I have raised this very question before on this list).

Jan

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:09:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:JAL
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Suzanne Stetkevych <jal at indiana.edu> reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: JAL

THE JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE


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REWRITING HISTORY, UNWRITING LITERATURE: SHAWQI'S MIRROR-IMAGE RESPONSE TO
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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:29:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ethnic slurs
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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: zouhair maalej <zmaalej at gnet.tn>
Subject: ethnic slurs

Dear colleagues:

There exist a few ethnic slurs in Tunisian Arabic used to refer to Tunisians
(no offense is meant to anybody):

(i) bulRari (Bulgarian): there was a time when Tunisia used to receive
Bulgarians in the national sector (especially as doctors, engineers,
teachers, etc.) as part of international co-operation. They used to be
categorised as second best to the French. Now, some people from poor regions
in Tunisia moving to other regions seeking for jobs are referred to as
bulRariyyiin (Bulgarians), because skill-wise they are deemed less
proficient and skilful than the natives of the region. This is a regionalist
expression to denigrate another region.

(ii) If someone is referred to as "yhudi" (jewish), they are evil, having no
mercy in the heart.

(iii) If someone is referred to as "liibi" (Libyan), they are tasteless and
dumb. For more on this, see:
Muhawi, Ibrahim (1996). “Language Ethnicity and National Identity in the
Tunisian Ethnic Joke.” In: Yasir Suleiman (ed.), _Language and Identity in
the Middle East and North Africa_. Surrey: Curzon Press, 39-59.

(iv) If someone is referred to as "suri" (French and not Syrian), they are
deemed snobbish or stylish.

(v) If something is referred to as "shinwa" (Chinese), it is not
understandable (equivalent to "someone is Greek" in English).

There are two surviving referring expressions (but rare now), which I don't
consider ethnic slurs, to refer to foreigners, because they are hardly ever
in use and have lost most of their derogation: "rumi" (from Rome or Roman)
and "gawri" (perhaps having to do with foreigners that had brought war with
them). "Gawriyya" often denotes a non-Muslim foreigner, especially in
talking about marriage).


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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Humphrey Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: ethnic slurs

Dear List Members,

     The singular of Egyptian Arabic nawar "gypsies" is recorded in
Hinds/Badawi's A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic as nuuri rather than
nawari, and the definitions given are "gypsy" and "swindler".  The
pronunciation is confirmed by the proverb quoted under the same
entry:alf nuuri wala damanhuuri, which the dictionary translates as
"a thousand con men are preferable to a single Damanhouri (a comment
on the alleged Damanhour propensity for cunnng and swindling)" - so
voila, another ethnic slur.

Slurs on hunuud "Indians" go back at least to the late 17th century,
when Yusuf Al-Shirbini, in Hazz al-Quhuuf fi-Sharh Qasid Abi Shaduuf,
describes the children of country people as mithl awlaad al-hunuud aw
awlaad al-quruud; he also compares the sounds made by women during
intercourse as resembling barbarat al-hunuud "the (incomprehensible,
barbarian) gabbling of Indians", which perhaps counts as two ethnic
slurs in one (or three, if one includes the unconscionably
speciesist reference to apes); and one could go on.

The manawfa (people of Minufiyya) are usually castigated specifically
for their miserliness and venality.

As also are Copts, of whom the particulary offensive comment is
sometimes made by Muslim Egyptians that they are 'aDma zarqa
(literally "blue bone": Hinds-Badawi "a pejorative epithet for
Copts"), the term sometimes being accompanied by a dumbshow of biting
on one's forefinger (implying I think that Copts "bite" (financially)
to the bone).  The term kuftus (pl. kafatsa) is also used of Copts
and is I think purely pejorative, though etymologically-speaking
identical with the neutral qibTi, qubTi.

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

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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: ethnic slurs

My understanding of ethnic slurs is that they are derogatory expressions that
fulfill certain sociolinguistic functions, and they emerge as the result of
extensive cultural contact between two communities. If the power differential
between two communities is great, such words emerge to refer to the weaker
one, usually a minority, so as to assert their inferiority. That could be seen
clearly in many Arabic speaking countries where lower and middle class
Egyptians and others migrated in search for a better economy. For example, in
some Gulf areas the term “maSri” ‘Egyptian’ is used as a derogatory term
particularly when calling people ‘ya maSri’ instead of using their names, or
to refer to a teacher as ‘el-maSri’ rather than ‘the teacher’. That is similar
to the use of the word ‘filibeeneyya’ ‘Philippines’ instead of the word ‘maid’
especially in Kuwait.

At other times, one community might have cultural characteristics that are
seen as lowly in another community. For example, Egyptians are known for their
ethnic diversity and inter-ethnic marriages. That is why Lawrence Durrelle
called Alexandria a ‘real melting pot’ in his quartet. Since not knowing one’s
genealogy and hence the limited use of family names is seen as lowly in a
tribal community like Jordan, the word ‘Egyptian’ has the literal meaning of
‘bastard’ for them. Another type of cultural differences is eating habits.
Since people in Libya find it lowly for humans to eat fava beans, they call
Egyptians ‘el-fawwaala/el-fawaleen’ (the fava beans eaters).

These expressions need to be studied in their historical context because they
change a lot. For example, in the famous Egyptian wedding song: ‘Salli Salli,
3anaabi Salli w-elli ma-ye-Salli abo-h armanli’ (praise the Prophet, and
whoever does not, his father is Armenian), the slur for Armenians changed
(because of the end of cultural contact with Armenians) to ‘aramalli’ which
has no meaning at all, and finally it became ‘daramalli’ which is a man’s name
associated with the elitist socio-economic classes. Also, the word ‘agha’
(pimp) was actually an honorable Turkish title, and the word ‘khawal’ (fagot)
was also a Turkish title for the head of the treasury. These were slurs that
lost their ethnic attribute and maintained their use as an insult. I apologize
for using such terms, and hope nobody is offended.

As for Waheed’s comment about the use of ‘hinid’ (Indian), I have to disagree
because as far as I know it is used to refer to Asian Indians as depicted in
Indian movies. The motivation for that claim is that there are other
expressions such as ‘da film hindi’ to mean (that is ridiculous). The
confusion could be due to expressions such as ‘inta shayefni HaTeT reesha?’
(do you see me wearing a feather?), where the feather thing refers to the way
Maharajas and rich Indians wear a feather in their turbans in these movies.
Let me mention one last thing, Egyptians do not use these terms to insult
Asian Indians but to denote the attribute perceived in these melodramatic
movies.

Mustafa A. Mughazy
Graduate student
Depatment of Linguistics
University of Illinois
Urbana Champaign

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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht_Hofheinz at web.de>
Subject: ethnic slurs

>-	‘hindi’ (Indian) and the plural is ‘hunuud’ or ‘hanadwa’.
>This word is used to mean ‘dumb’, ‘melodramatic’ or ‘oaf’. That is
>because of the Indian movies that were extremely popular in Egypt in
>the seventies and eighties.

Cf. the Sudanese expression, "ana hindii wallaa 3indii gambuur
[qanbuur]?", to mean, 'do you think I'm dumb?' (gambuur is a certain
hairstyle used for young children in the Eastern and Western Sudan,
whereby the head is bald shaven except for the crane). And no,
Sudanese clearly think of Hindi movies, not American ones, when using
this expression.

>It is possible, too, that zinjii/zanjii is being used as a slur, "pure"
>racial, of course. In Syria and Lebanon "9abd" is still used for a Negro.

Dto in the Northern Sudan - but only if no foreigner's around ;->

Albrecht Hofheinz

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:37:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:khawaja
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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: mnaggar at sympatico.ca
Subject: khawaja

Merriam Webster gives a comprehensive definition:

***
Main Entry:kho£ja
Variant:or kho£jah  \*k*j*\
Function:noun
Inflected Form:-s
Etymology:Turkish & Persian; Turkish hoca, from Persian khw*ja

1 also    ho£dja \*h*-\   a : a member of any of various classes (as wealthy
merchants) in Muslim lands —  used as a title of respect  b : a Muhammadan
teacher
2 capitalized   [Hindi [*oja, from Persian khw*ja] India   : a member of an
Ismaili sect surviving as a subsect of the ancient Assassins

***

Now, It has since been used in Egypt and the Sudan to denote a (Western)
foreigner (presumed Christian), even using the feminine khawajaya for
ladies. Some natives of fairer complexion were also mistaken for Khawajas,
much to their embarrasment.  As to how it found its way to Egypt and the
Sudan to mean a different thing, I wonder.

Michel Naggar
mnaggar at sympatico.ca
Montreal, Canada

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2)
Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: khawaja

xawja (khawja, xuuja), n. masc. pl. --aat = religious teacher (< Tur. hoca,
hace < Pers. xaaje). Later on it became a general title of respect, meaning
"a man of a higher rank" (cf. also: xawja al-safiina = a purser).

The Sudanese xawaaja (khawaaja) should be of the same origin. One of Its
meanings becomes celar in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North:
"hal 'ansatak 'iqaamatuk al-Tawiila fi 'injiltara al-3arabi, 'am taHsib
'annana xawaajaat?" (in Denys Johnson-Davies' splendid translation: "Has
your long stay in England made you forget Arabic or do you reckon we've
become anglicized?")

The entry is found in Badawi's Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic (= teacher,
p.268), but not in Woodhead & Beene's dictionary of Iraqi Arabic.

In mu3jam al-lugha al-3aammiyya al-baghdaadiyya -- ta'liif al-shayx jalaal
al-Hanafi al-baghdaadi, vol.2, daar al-rashiid li-l-nashr, baghdaad 1982,
p.539: xawja = mu3allim al-qur'aan; wa al-xawja 'ayDan laqab kull yahuudi;
wa fi 'amthaalihim "xawja 3ali mulla 3ali" li-l-shay' huwa huwa.

The word is still in use in many Arab lands, but sounds old fashioned, more
or less, depending on the social environment.

Srpko Lestaric

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3)
Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Vehbi Baysan <vbaysan at yahoo.com>
Subject: khawaja

In the Ottoman Empire, religious school (Medrese) teachers and in the
19th century, public school teachers were called "Hoca". The word is
written in Arabic script as 'Khawaja'. It is originally Persian. The
Hoca was well respected in the Turkish society and it may well
arrived Sudan through Turks.

Salamat,

Vehbi Baysan


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 21 21:34:19 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:34:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Technical Dictionaries query
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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Technical Dictionaries query

Could anybody tell me precisely the missing title parts of the following
dictionaries:

1-mu3jam muSTalaHaat al-Sinaa3a al-nasjiyya. Technical Dictionary: [The
English title missing]. al-ma3aajim al-tiknuuluujiyya al-taxaSSuSiyya.
Arabic-English-French-German. Al Ahram Cairo & Edition Leipzig, 1975.

2-mu3jam tashkiil al-ma3aadin. Technical Dictionary: [The English title
missing]. al-ma3aajim al-tiknuuluujiyya al-taxaSSuSiyya.
Arabic-English-French-German. Al Ahram Cairo & Edition Leipzig, 1978.

3-[The Arabic title missing]. Technical Dictionary: Radio & Television
Dictionary: al-ma3aajim al-tiknuuluujiyya al-taxaSSuSiyya.
Arabic-English-French-German. Al Ahram Cairo & Edition Leipzig, 1980.

TIA,
Srpko

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:34:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:cohesion in Arabic query
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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Meriem Sahli <sahli at dorit.ihi.ku.dk>
Subject: cohesion in Arabic query

Dear friends,

I intend to write a thesis on cohesion and coherence in Arabic and English
written composition by adult educated native speakers from these two
languages.
Has anybody come across literature that deals with such a topic? Are there any
good books which describe the written discourse in Arabic and English or any
sound research that deals with contrastive rhetoric?
thank you
Meriem Sahli

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 21 21:36:12 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:36:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Judeo-Arabic and parsing guide query
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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
Subject: Judeo-Arabic and parsing guide query

dear friends,

(1)
is there anyone on this list currently working on judeo-arabic? i'm
working on kara'ite mss (cairo genizah), and would be delighted to find
extra e-pen-pals.

(2)
for students of greek, aramaic and hebrew scriptures, there are parsing
guides aka analytical dictionaries: for any form as it appears, there's a
full parsing and dictionary entry.  is there such a guide for the qur'an
that can be recommended? if so, could you provide me with publication and
ISBN details? thanx in advance.

salaam,
V --

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 21 21:33:27 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:33:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Collocational Dictionary replies
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2) Subject: Collocational Dictionary reply

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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: "sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk" <Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject: Collocational Dictionary reply

This  is a huge project for a master thesis. Its scope should be
defined to make it feasible. Questions like the following should be
asked:
- What kind of Arabic, classic or modern standard Arabic?
- If it it classic, should the Quran be included?
- Should poetry be included?
- If it is modern standard Arabic, which time is to be considered as
the beginning of its period?
- Is it general MSA, or specialized? I mean scientific, technical,
journalistic, etc.
- What is the scope of collocation? Is it bound, restricted, general
co-occurrences and word associations, or all of these?

The following bibliography can be useful:

Allerton, D., 1984, Three (or Four) Levels of Word Coocurrance
Restriction, in Lingua, 63, 17-40.

Benson, M., 1989, The Structure of the Collocational Dictionary, in
International Journal of Lexicography 2:1, 1-14.

Benson, M, Benson, E. and Ilson, R., 1986a, Lexicographic description
of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benson, M, Benson, E. and Ilson, R., 1986b, The BBI Combinatory
Dictionary of English, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Cowie, A. P., 1978, The Place of Illustrative material and
collocations in the design of learner’s dictionary, in Strevens P
(ed.), In Honour of A.S. Hornby, Oxford: Oxford University
Press.127-139.

Cowie, A. P.,, 1981, The Treatment of Collocations and Idioms in
Learner’s Dictionaries, in Applied Linguistics, 2 (3): 223-235.

Cruse, D. A., 1986, Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Al-Hamathani, A., 1980, al-Alfaz al-Kitabiyah, (no place), al- Dar
al-Arabiyah lil Kitab.

Hartmann, R. R. K. (ed.), 1983, Lexicography: Principles and
Practice, London: Academic Press, Inc.

Ibn Siydah, al-Mukhssass, 1970, Beirut: al-Maktab al-Tijary.

Mackin, R., 1978, On collocation: ‘Words shall be known by the
company they keep’, in Strevens P (ed.), In Honour of A.S. Hornby,
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 149-165.

Sinclair, J., 1991, Corpus, concordance, collocation, Oxford: Oxford
University Press.

Al-Tha’alibi, A., undated, Fiqh al-Lugha wa sirr al-Arabiyah, Cairo:
al-Maktabah al-Tijariyah,.

Al-Yaziji, A., 1904/1985, Kitab Naj’at al-Ra’id wa Shar’at al- Warid
fi al-Mutreadif wa al-Mutwarid, Bierut: Librairie Di Liban.


Sattar Izwaini PhD Student 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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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Paul Stevens <pstevens at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Collocational Dictionary reply

Tomoko Kondo asked for references to information about making a
pocket dictionary of collocation.  To get an idea of what is involved
in making a dictionary, Tomoko might consult Virginia Stevens' paper
on "Compiling and English-to-Egyptian Arabic Dictionary: Difficulties
Encountered", published in Alaa Elgibali, ed.  1996.  Understanding
Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic Linguistics in Honor of El-Said
Badawi.  Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.  Pp. 145-156.

The paper deals with problems regarding transcription, vocabulary,
etc. that she and Maurice Salib ran into when compiling their Pocket
Dictionary of the Spoken Arabic of Cairo (Cairo: AUC Press)  (2/e
1998).

Regards,
Paul Stevens
American University in Cairo
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:09:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:needs article on word 'inspiration' in Arabic
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: Edwin Rutsch <edwin at humanityquest.com>
Subject: needs article on word 'inspiration' in Arabic

I am looking for native speaking language experts to contribute a
short 300 word article, on the meaning of the word for "Inspiration"
in their language of expertise. This is for inclusion in an art book
I am writing entitled "The Spirit of Inspiration". I would like to
have at least 50 different languages represented in the book (I have
40 so far).

I am still looking for contributors for Arabic, Hebrew and Persian.
For Arabic I would like to have 2 articles. I have a contributor
for the word ILHAM and still need one for the word WAHI. (For gender
balance, a female contributor would be preferred).

The article would include aspects of the following about the the
nature of inspiration; the definition, etymology, how it is expressed
in the arts and the authors personal insights.

I have created a detailed submission guideline with a sample article
which you can view at this URL;
<http://humanityquest.com/Themes/Inspiration/ArticleGuidelines/index.asp>http://Humanityquest.com/Themes/Inspiration/ArticleGuidelines/index.asp

You can see the list of languages and contributors at this url.
<http://humanityquest.com/Themes/Inspiration/ArticleGuidelines/ContributorsList.htm>http://humanityquest.com/Themes/Inspiration/ArticleGuidelines/ContributorsList.htm

If you are interested in contributing an article, I can be contacted
directly at:
<mailto:edwin at humanityquest.com>edwin at humanityquest.com

Thank You

Sincerely.
Edwin

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:03:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Judeao-Arabic response
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: Frantz <erkidego at yahoo.com>
Subject: Judeao-Arabic response

>  is there anyone on this list currently working on judeo-arabic? i'm
>  working on kara'ite mss (cairo genizah), and would be delighted to find
>  extra e-pen-pals.
I am working on the Hebrew Bible (OT) in Judaeo-Arabic.  I am also looking
for a Christian writings in Judaeo-Arabic, especially the NT.

Salam!

Frantz

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 24 23:04:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:04:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:hindi
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: hindi

In Egypt, in school, the expression I am familiar with went something like:

   huwwa nta fakir-ni hindi ?
   huww ana 9ala raas-i riisha ?

   do you think I'm a hindi?
   (or) is there a feather on my head?

It's the riisha part which suggests to me that the hindi in question
is the 'aHmar
one.

During that time, India was perceived as being an ally of Egypt, along
with Yugoslavia, during the days of Positive Neutrality (al-Hiyaad
al-'iygaaby).

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 24 23:04:52 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:04:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Technical Dictionaries Response
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Technical Dictionaries Response

1)  Textile Industry
Industrie Textile
Textilindustrie

2)  I don't have this one in my office, but I seem to recall that it is
"Metallurgy" (although other dictionaries disagree as to the term).  There is
no titles list in the volumes themselves.  I'll check on this for you.

3)  al-raadiyuu wa al-tiliifiviziiyuun wa al-viidiyuu
the /v/ is transliterated as /f/ with three dots

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 24 23:06:12 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:06:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AUC Summer Program
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: Iman Saad <imansaad at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: AUC Summer Program

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

The American University in Cairo
Arabic Language Institute
Announces its
Intensive Summer Program
June 4 to July 25, 2002

The Arabic Language Institute at the American University in Cairo
announces its Intensive Summer Program for the year 2002. This
program is an excellent opportunity for students to learn and enhance
their skills and proficiency in  Arabic in a native speaker atmosphere.
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 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 learning and becoming more proficient in Arabic, meeting and
interacting with Egyptians, students will be also 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:  <mailto:alu at aucegypt.edu>alu at aucegypt.edu
The American University in Cairo, New York Office
E-mail:  <mailto:aucegypt at aucnyo.edu>aucegypt at aucnyo.edu

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:06:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:cohesion response
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: "sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk" <Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject: cohesion response

See
Halliday and Hassn, Cohesion in English
Al-Jirjany, dalaa'l al-ijaaz,
Al-Jirjany, asraar al-balaaghah
Sattar Izwaini
PhD Student
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  Thu Jan 24 23:08:08 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:08:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ethnic slurs in Yemen
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: MaryAnn Walter <walterma at MIT.EDU>
Subject: ethnic slurs in Yemen

In north Yemen, most "ethnic" jokes are about either Dhamaris or Sanaanis,
depending on which city you happen to be in.  Turkish people are known for
being good-looking, as evidenced by a well-known song titled "Jamaal
al-Turki."

In the south, at least in Hadramaut, foreigners who speak Arabic with a
strong accent or in a garbled way are called Indonuusis.  This is due to
the large number of Malaysians and Indonesians who come to the area for
religious education.  Typically they have only studied classical Arabic
and thus sound very stilted and over-careful, as well as being unable to
pronounce Arabic consonants properly.  Finally, the southerners refer to
the northerners as Ahbaash (Ethiopians) in a definitely denigratory way,
and say they are descended from slaves brought over since pre-Islamic
times.

Maryann Walter

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan 30 21:04:15 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:04:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L: 2003-04 FULBRIGHT DISTINGUISHED CHAIRS IN LINGUISTICS
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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: "Williams, Holly" <hwilliams at iie.org>
Subject: 2003-04 FULBRIGHT DISTINGUISHED CHAIRS IN LINGUISTICS

>  The following Fulbright awards are viewed as among the most prestigious
>  appointments in the Fulbright Program.  Lecturing is usually in English.
>  Candidates must be U.S. citizens and have a prominent record of scholarly
>  accomplishment. Consult CIES Web site
>  <http://www.cies.org/cies/us_scholars/DisChairs/> for information about
>  application procedure and current updates. To apply, send a letter of
>  interest (up to 3 pages), c.v. (up to 8 pages) and a sample syllabus (up
>  to 4 pages) to Daria Teutonico, Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program;
>  Council for International Exchange of Scholars; 3007 Tilden Street, NW;
>  Ste. 5-L; Washington, DC 20008-3009 (phone 202/686-6245, e-mail:
>  dteutonico at cies.iie.org). Materials must arrive on or before the May 1
>  deadline.
>
>  AUSTRIA: FULBRIGHT-UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN
>  LINGUISTICS: Grantee will offer two lecture courses and one seminar to
>  undergraduate and graduate students.  The University of Innsbruck Faculty
>  of Humanities cultivates an interdisciplinary approach to linguistics and
>  is particularly interested in soliciting applications from scholars of
>  applied linguistics, whose fields of specialization are related to
>  language acquisition and/or the teaching of  languages.  Lecturing in
>  English. Some knowledge of German is advantageous but not required.
>  Faculty of Humanities.  One semester, beginning October 2003 or March
>  2004.  www.uibk.ac.at
>
>  AUSTRIA: FULBRIGHT-UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN THE
>  HUMANITIES OR SOCIAL SCIENCES: Grantee will offer three courses at
>  advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.  Course level and content are
>  to be arranged in consultation with the host institution.  This chair
>  rotates between faculties and will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities
>  and Cultural Studies in 2003-04, which has departments in classical and
>  modern languages and literatures, comparative literature, linguistics and
>  translating, American studies, all fields of history from ancient to
>  contemporary, archaeology, art history, ethnology, musicology, and area
>  studies.  Open to any specialization in humanities or area studies at the
>  Faculty.  Lecturing in English. Some knowledge of German is desirable.
>  Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies in 2003-04 and Faculty of Human
>  and Social Sciences in 2004-05.  Four months, starting October 2003 or
>  March 2004.  www.univie.ac.at
>
>  CANADA:  FULBRIGHT-YORK UNIVERSITY CHAIR:  Fulbright-York University
>  Chair: Lecture at graduate and undergraduate levels in any field that fits
>  the programs at York University.  Academic and scholarly prominence
>  required.  York University, Toronto.  Scholars are encouraged to include a
>  letter of invitation from a host department at York University. Four and a
>  half months, starting September 2003 or January 2004.  www.yorku.ca
>
>  ITALY: TRIESTE CHAIR IN LINGUISTICS: Full professor to offer one lecturing
>  course and tutorials at graduate level.  Subject expertise desired is
>  syntax, semantics or formal history of linguistics.  Three months,
>  March-June 2004.  University of Trieste.   www.univ.trieste.it
>
>  ITALY: VENICE CHAIR IN PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS: Grantee will
>  teach one course to masters/doctoral students, and will provide some
>  tutorial assistance.  Subject expertise desired is theoretical
>  linguistics, with specializations in syntax and semantics.  Academic rank
>  open.  Three months, beginning March or April 2004.  www.unive.it

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan 30 21:01:51 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:01:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS Program
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Subject: ALS Program

THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

announce the

SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ARABIC LINGUISTICS

March 1-2, 2002


FRIDAY, MARCH 1
Morning Session

8:30 - 8:45	Registration
8:45 - 9:00	Opening Remarks

9:00 - 9:30	THE TEXTUAL COMPONENT IN CLASSICAL ARABIC:
INVESTIGATING INFORMATION STRUCTURE
	Salwa Abdel-Aziz Kamel, University of Cairo

9:30 -10:00	BORROWED WORDS IN AL-AHRAM NEWSPAPER: CHANGES OVER TWENTY YEARS
Zeinab Ibrahim, The American
University in Cairo

10:00-10:30	AUDIENCE'S EXPECTATIONS AND CODE SWITCHING IN
EGYPTIAN MONOLOGUES
Reem Bassiouney, Oxford

10:30-10:45	BREAK

10:45-11:45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
	Georges Bohas
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE LEXICON IN ARABIC AND OTHER SEMITIC LANGUAGES




Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:30	COMPOUNDING AND NEW WORD COINAGE IN ARABIC: A
CORPUS-BASED STUDY
Amin Almuhanna, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

2:30 - 3:00	WORD PATTERN AND ROOT ALLOMORPHY IN ARABIC LEXICAL PROCESSING
Sami Boudelaa and William Marslen-Wilson, Cambridge

3:00 - 3:30	THE PLURAL OF PAUCITY AND ITS ACTUAL SCOPE
Ignacio Ferrando, University of Cadiz

3:30 - 3:45	BREAK

3:45 - 4:15	PLURALS AND PRODUCTIVITY: INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN
HIJAZI ARABIC
Asma Siddiki, Kim Plunkett and Paul Harris, Oxford

4:15 - 4:45	REGULAR EXPRESSIONS AND ARABIC LEXICAL FORMS
Stephen Taylor, College of the Holy Cross

4:45 - 5:15	THE SIGNALLING POTENTIAL OF ARABIC CONJUNCTIVE wa
Adil Al-Kufaishi, Copenhagen University

5:15-5:45	RHETORICAL VARIATION ACROSS ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: THE
CASE OF INTRODUCTIONS IN ARABIC RESEARCH ARTICLES
	Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University


SATURDAY, MARCH 2
Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00	WHY THERE IS NO KOINE IN SANA'A YEMEN
		Andrew T. Freeman, University of Michigan

9:00 - 9:30	A PARSER FOR THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
Lama Hamandi, Beirut Arab University, Rached Zantout, University of
Balamand, Ahmed Guessoum, University of Sharjah

9:30 -10:00 THE VOCALIC BEHAVIOR IN MAKKAN ARABIC
Muhammad Hasan Bakalla, King Saud University

10:00-10:30	THE VOWELS OF KUWAITI ARABIC
	Wafaa Ali Ammar and Khaled Rifaat, University of Alexandria

10:30-10:45	BREAK

10:45-11:15	REPRESENTING COARTICULATION PROCESSES IN ARABIC SPEECH
Michael Ingleby, University of Huddersfield, and Fatmah A. Baothman,
King Abdulaziz University

11:15-11:45	PHARYNGEALIZATION EFFECTS IN MALTESE ARABIC
MaryAnn Walter, MIT

11:45-12:15	THE ROLE OF VOT IN THE /t/-/T/ OPPOSITION IN MALE AND
FEMALE SPEECH
Ghada Khattab, Barry Heselwood and Fida Al-Hami, University of Leeds



Afternoon Session

2:00-2:30	TOWARDS THE AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ARABIC DIALECTS
Melissa Barkat, University of Lyon

2:30 - 3:00	AGREEMENT VARIATION OF HEAD NOUN MODIFIERS IN THE
ARABIC DIALECT OF PALESTINE
Nuha Suleiman Daoud Al-Shurafa, King Abdul Aziz University

3:00 - 3:30	IS ARABIC A SUBJECT PROMINENT OR A TOPIC PROMINENT LANGUAGE?
Maryam Salim Bayshak, United Arab Emirates University

3:30 - 3:45	BREAK

3:45 - 4:15	JAPANESE SPEAKERS' ACQUISITION OF ARABIC SYNTAX
Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas

4:15 - 4:45	TOPIC, SUBJECT AND SYNTACTIC PREDICATION IN ARABIC
NOMINAL CLAUSES
Frederick M. Hoyt, University of Texas at Austin

4:45 -5:15	PHONOLOGICAL SUKUUN: ITS DURATIONAL AND COARTICULATION EFFECTS
Michael Ingleby, University of Huddersfield, and Fatmah A. Baothman,
King Abdulaziz University


Registration Form

Name

Address

City/State		Zip	Country

Affiliation	 email address

Amount enclosed:

Preregistration (deadline: Feb. 16, 2002)	$50
At the Door	$70
Faculty & Students, Cambridge University,	Free

ALS 2002 Membership Dues:
  Students		$15
Faculty		$20

Checks, drawn on US banks, or international money orders should be
made payable to the Arabic Linguistics Society and sent with
registration forms to: Tessa Hauglid, 1346 South 2950 East, Spanish
Fork, UT 84660, USA (email: tmh1 at mstar2.net).

The symposium will be held in the 1st South Daily Room at Cambridge
University Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RU, United
Kingdom. For more information about accommodations and recreation in
Cambridge go to http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/leisure/acc00.htm and for
information on how to get to Cambridge from different points in the
UK go to http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/html/Fromabroad.html.

Keynote Speaker
Professor Georges Bohas is head of the Department of Semitic
Languages at the Ecole National Supérieur Lettres et Sciences
Humaines, Lyon, France. His most recent books, Matrice, étymon,
Racine (1997), and Matrice et étymon (2000), lay the foundation of a
new theory of the Arabic lexicon.


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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:06:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Al-Arabiyya Back Issues Special
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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: American Association of Teachers of Arabic <aata at wm.edu>
Subject: Al-Arabiyya Back Issues Special

Special Offer for Al-ëArabiyya Back Issues Set
The complete set of available issues of Al-'Arabiyya, the journal of
the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, can now be purchased
for a special discounted price of $200.00 (US). This offer includes
available bound volumes only. Some volumes may be unavailable for
sale. For more information, check the AATA website at
http://www.wm.edu/aata or contact the AATA business office at
aata at wm.edu

Thanks,

Jason Fabbricante
AATA

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:09:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book:Arabic Names for the Stars
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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: laffitte <laffitte at noos.fr>
Subject: New Book:Arabic Names for the Stars

Chère Madame, Cher Monsieur,


J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution de mon ouvrage qui peut
intéresser ceux qui sont passionnés par les étoiles, la signification
et l'histoire de leurs noms :

Des noms arabes
pour les étoiles

272 pages, 24 euro.

éditeurs :

LES CAHIERS DE L'ORIENT
60, rue des Cévennes, 75015 Paris
téléphone : 01 40 60 73 11
télécopie : 01 40 60 92 02
sfeir.aj.cahiers at wanadoo.fr

LIBRAIRIE ORIENTALISTE PAUL GEUTHNER
12, rue Vavin, 75006 Paris
téléphone : 01 46 34 71 30
télécopie : 01 43 29 75 64
www.geuthner.com


Paris, 05 janvier novembre 2002
Disponible en librairie

Sincères salutations
Roland Laffitte

Pourquoi des noms arabes pour les étoiles ? Pendant toute la période
que nous appelons le Moyen Âge, la science était arabe, les esprits
curieux étaient tournés vers la terre d'Islam, laquelle était non
seulement l'héritière des connaissances offertes par les
civilisations précédentes ou voisines, notamment la mésopotamienne,
la grecque, la perse et l'indienne, mais encore, ce qui est moins
connu, l'artisan diligent de leur développement. Nous savons
aujourd'hui que, dans le creuset de la civilisation islamique, les
sciences furent exaltées et manifestèrent des progrès remarquables,
labourant en profondeur le terrain de l'éclosion de la science
occidentale. Comme nous le faisons aujourd'hui, nous qui sommes
impressionnés par la civilisation technique nord-américaine au point
de lui emprunter les termes en même temps que les objets et les
concepts, ceux qui préparèrent de longue main la Révolution
scientifique européenne furent fascinés par la science arabe, et
empruntèrent la nomenclature stellaire avec les catalogues
astronomiques. C'est ainsi que les deux tiers des étoiles usuellement
nommées portent aujourd'hui un nom arabe.

Roland Laffitte collabore à diverses publications dont les Cahiers de
l'Orient, s'intéressant tout particulièrement à l'intériorité
réciproque des cultures que portent les sociétés des deux rives de la
Méditerranée ainsi qu'à leur dialogue. Il mène actuellement des
travaux dans deux directions, d'un côté sur les mots empruntés à la
langue arabe, de l'autre sur la nomenclature céleste babylonienne et
arabe.

Les Cahiers de l'Orient / Paul Geuthner

Roland Laffitte
142, avenue Jean-Jaurès
75019 Paris
tél. : 01 42 00 61 67
fax : id.( avec préavis)
courriel : laffitte at noos.fr


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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:11:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Egyptian and Yemeni slurs
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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: Humphrey Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Egyptian slurs revised

In my last posting I wrongly stated (following Hinds-Badawi) that the
singular of nawar  (a gypsy group) was nuuri; in fact it is niwari,
and nuuri occurs only in the proverb I quoted, where that form is
used for the rhyme.

I also got the plural of minuufi wrong: it should be manayfa; and
what's more their reputation is for faithlessness rather than
stinginess; it's the people of Damietta (damayTa) who are stingy.

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.

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

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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: Davidson MacLaren <davidson_maclaren at hotmail.com>
Subject: Yemeni slurs

One of the common "ethic slurs" I oft-overheard while living in
San:aa', Yemen was "khobani," that is to say someone from Khoban, a
region located in the Ibb governate, roughly situated east of the
cities of Ibb and Yarim, southwest of the city of Rada', and north of
the town Qa'taba, a former border post between North and South Yemen.
The town of Hammam Damt, famous for its volcanic hot springs, is in
Khoban.  Used pejoratively, khobani is similar in meaning to
hillbilly, country-bumpkin, and, perhaps, redneck.  To the extent
that I am aware, the pejorative usage is limited to the territory
that formerly comprised North Yemen.

Davidson MacLaren

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:50:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Women in Grammar replies
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3) Subject: Women in Grammar reply (before clarification)

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Women in Grammar reply (before clarification)

Greetings.

One might add to that list one of Karin Ryding's colleagues at Georgetown:

o   Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Haroon Shirwani <haroon.shirwani at st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Women in Grammar reply (before clarification)

>  of the female persuasion.

I don't know what that means, but Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, known
as "Freddie" to colleagues and a bachelor all his life, was not a
woman. For more on the colourful life of this great scholar, see his
obitury on http://www.al-bab.com/bys/obits/beeston.htm.

Regards,

Haroon Shirwani

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Women in Grammar reply (before clarification)

Just shows you how much I know!         --ms

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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:48:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Women in Grammar Question Clarified
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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: "Elizabeth M. Bergman" <embergman at earthlink.net>
Subject Women in Grammar Question Clarified

To re-state my question, can any colleague help me locate references on
the contributions of women scholars who lived and worked in the
pre-modern age, specifically from ca. 700 - 1300 CE, to classical Arabic
grammar?

With thanks,

Elizabeth M. Bergman

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  4 23:57:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:57:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING: Osama's dialect & SA dialect response
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From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Osama's dialect & SA dialect response

Greetings,

Based on what is audible, Mr. bin Laden and his Saudi Arabian guest
are conversing in a local "Jeddawi/Mekkawi" colloquial of the Hijazi
dialect. Some Saudi Arabian friends here (graduate students from
Jeddah & Mekkah) placed and followed the dialect, although a few
added that traces of Hadramauti (Yemeni coastal region) show in
several pronunciations and inflections.


There is no _one best_ or comprehensive text on the several Saudi
dialects, as the dialects in the country are regionally distinctive.

Some references in English on regional Saudi dialects are the works by:

o   Bruce Ingham - Najdi/Central Arabia => Nefud (recent publication)

o   the late Theodor Prochazka -  all SA dialects

o   Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell - urban Hijazi (includes audiotapes)

o   the late Thomas Johnstone - one of the pioneering works on
Eastern Arabic dialects

o   Mahmoud Esmael Sieny - urban Hijazi

o   Peter Abboud - Najdi (Ph.D. dissertation at UT Austin and later
published, IIRC)

While there are several other references around (some new items
published in the Arabic seem especially detailed and descriptive
about the Hijazi dialects spoken around al-Ta'if and Mekkah), these
authors cited above produced the 'bedrock' works.

o  Most of their titles (via author search) should be available via
web searches.

o  Some out-of-print items are perhaps obtainable via interlibrary
loan, in sha' Allah.

HTH. Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke
(Arabian Peninsula and
  Gulf Arabic dialectologist)

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:04:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Cotton Products
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From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Cotton Products

Dil,
After the first specification, samples of cotton underwear came the
other day (with a new specification, slightly different from the
first one) showing that all the "b.b. objects"  (minshafa b.b.,
Saddaara b.b., Haraam b.b.) are embroidered babies things (a baby's
towel, a a baby's bib and a a baby's bathrobe, all made of
terry-cloth). Among these kaab b.b. (which might easily be a cap)
remaines a mystery for the time being, as well as some other items
and/or attributes, for the manufacturer failed to send certain items.

Following are the available answers:

1. saaq = men's drawers, ankle-deep men's undergarment, die lange
Unterhose (for it came always with "wilaadii" or "rijaalii");
2. binTaal = women's drawers, (either "banaatii" or "nisaa'ii"), also
underwear (not outdoor leggings)
3. Hafr = "sleeveless", with the sleeves cut off in a straight line
with the body of an undershirt (not "athletic shirt")
4. muTabba3 = printed (cloth)
5. bruutiil = women's undershirt with silk(y) straps (< Fr.
"bretelle"= shoulder strap, as Patricia pointed out); when the
straps/suspenders are from the material and somewhat wider, like in
an athletic shirt, then it is called shayyaal, meaning either men's
or women's undershirt)
6. kulfa = clothe adornment sewn on a garment; mukallaf =
decorated with a piece of cloth sewed on; die Applikation

Still unsolved are:

al-buursha (not al-wursha as it came in the first specification --
that was obviously a typo, but I don't understand the buursha either)
shar3ii
3arD qamiiS
muTayyaf
muuns

Besides, the palette of colors included the following:

'axDar
'azraq baHrii
'aSfar
tirkwaaz
tuffaaHii
xamrii
zahrii faatiH / wasaT / ghaamiq
zayti
sukkarii
samaawii faatiH / ghaamiq
3asalii
fistuqii
mawzii
niilii
kuHlii

Thanks to all who tried to help. It is weird that no guesses proved
right. I don't believe the coleagues will profit a lot from these
data, but this is what can be done.

Srpko

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat Jan  5 00:03:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:03:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:el-Zanaty Khalifa replies
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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Taoufik Ben Amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject: el-Zanaty Khalifa replies

Zanati Khalifa is a main figure in the Epic (Sira) of Bani Hilal in in its
last phase (in Tunisia). He is the nemesis of Dhiab al-Hilali, the hero of
this phase who marries the legendary Al-Jazia. He is called Zanati because he
is from one of the major Amazigh (Berber) tribes which populated North
Africa.

taoufiq ben amor
Columbia University

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject: el-Zanaty Khalifa replies

  I think Zanati is the nisba adjective of the name Zanata that is a
tribe in North Africa.

I wish you all a Merry Chrismas and a Happy new Year.

Nagwa Hedayet

Hedayet Institute for Arabic Studies

Cairo,Egypt


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat Jan  5 00:01:06 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:01:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:School in Kuwait replies
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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Davidson MacLaren <davidson_maclaren at hotmail.com>
Subject: School in Kuwait reply

A lot of information about studying Arabic in Kuwait-

The Kuwait University Language
Centre(http://www.kuniv.edu.kw/langcentre/), located at the Shuweikh
Campus of Kuwait University, used to offer intensive Modern Standard
Arabic classes.  I imagine it still does.  Classes met for four hours
daily, five days weekly.  If I recall correctly, there were four
levels of instruction - elementary, lower intermediate, upper
intermediate, and advanced - and each level was designed to be
completed in a semester's study.  These courses were part of the
Arabic as a Foreign Language Program and required for all Kuwait
University students who were non-native speakers of Arabic.  However,
when I attended the Centre in 1996-1997 few of my classmates were
degree seeking students at the University; the majority were European
and Asian students who were recepients of an Arabic language
scholarship that provided for tuition, room, board, and living
expenses for one or two years; some were expatriates living in Kuwait
who had ample leisure time and savings to attend the lessons.  For
information on the scholarship I recommend you contact the Kuwaiti
Embassy in Italy.  During the 1996-1997 academic year an Italian
student enrolled at Kuwait University on just such a scholarship, but
left only weeks after his arrival, distressed, I think, by culture
shock.  This would suggest, though, that the Embassy in Italy is
familiar with the scholarship and can assist you.

If you already have plans to live or work in Kuwait and cannot commit
yourself to an intensive language learning program, Kuwait University
also used to offer a variety of evening-scheduled, non-intensive
Arabic courses for non-native speakers through the Office of
Continuing and Adult Education.  In 1996-1997, the Office was located
at the University's Khaldiya Campus, but may have moved if the
University's grand construction plans have been completed.

Perhaps I should mention one last thing: an admonition.  Based on my
experience studying Arabic in Kuwait - and the experiences of others
I know whom studied there - Kuwait was a poor environment in which to
learn the language well.  Kuwait University is an English speaking
environment: many but not all classes are taught in English.
Moreover, living at the University one discovered that the
dormitories were lived in not by Kuwaitis, but by University students
from a variety of African and Asian countries, almost all of whom did
not speak Arabic as their first or even second language, making
English the lingua franca of the dormitory.  Those Arabs that did
live in the dormitories, mostly Omanis and Bahrainis, spoke English
so fluently that they preferred to converse intelligently with
foreigners in English rather than listen to someone struggling to
express themselves, simply, in Arabic.  Outside of the University,
one also found that interaction with Kuwaitis and other Arabs was
limited.  Most of the people one would meet in the street, people
working at stores and restaurants for example, are Indian, Pakistani,
Bangladeshi, European, or Filipino, not Arab.  In Kuwait, one is not
immersed in the same rich Arabic speaking environment found in Yemen
or Morocco.

All the best,
Davidson MacLaren

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2)
Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: School in Kuwait reply

Greetings.

Recommendations can vary according to the time and energy you can
invest in an in-country program and what are your interests and
intended uses of newly-acquired skills in Arabic and a regional
dialect.

o   Kuwait University has some sort of program, but that may be along
the order of social/courtesy/familiarization for expatriates who are
resident in the country.

o   A commercial/private school (might be based in UK) reportedly
offers customized instruction in Arabic at a location in Kuwait,
maybe in Safat, Al-Jahra, or near Kuwait City.


May one suggest that, due to the congestion in Kuwait occasioned by
the incoming U.S. military presence and expanding build-up as those
units arrive there, you might better consider another suitable source
of Arabic instruction down in the "lower Gulf region, such as in UAE,
where several post-secondary and commercial institutions offer
various courses in Arabic for foreign students.

Hope this helps.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:58:05 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Comoros query
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From: Jamal Qureshi <ArabLDS at hotmail.com>
Subject: Comoros query

A friend recently queried me about the origins of the country name "Comoros"
and its capital "Moroni".  My understanding is that the country name derives
directly from the Arabic "Juzur al-Qamar", but does anyone know where the
city name "Moroni" derives from?  Thanks for any help.

Jamal Qureshi

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 18:00:42 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:00:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:EA Coordination discussion
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: aliaa taha <aliaa_anis at hotmail.com>
Subject: EA Coordination discussion

"shaafu we heyya" is not a correct Arabic sentence, we rather say
"shaafu we shafha"

i.e.he saw him and saw her. I hope this helps. Aliaa from Egypt

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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: Francesco Leggio <jawhar_siqilli at usa.net>
Subject: EA Coordination discussion

I would rather say:
shaf-hu (or shaf-u) wiyaha (wa-'iyyaa-ha)
which is a both classical and colloquial contruction.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 18:01:22 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:01:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Adjective pairs query
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: mohamed oud <m-oud at lycos.com>
Subject: Adjective pairs query

  Hi Arabists
I am doing research on language attitudes . I need help in gathering
a large number of adjectives with their opposites either in Arabic or
English. I know that there will be some difficulty in finding the
"clear-cut " opposite for some adjectives.But any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
yours
M. A. Oud

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 18:02:25 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:02:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Early Women scholars in Arabic Grammar response
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From:  Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Early Women scholars in Arabic Grammar response

Dear Elizabeth,

The best reference for such information is Rida Kahhaleh's A'alam Al Nisaa.

Best wishes
Nimat

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:36:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AATA NEWS:New President Named
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From: moderator
Subject: New AATA President Named

Zeinab Ibrahim has asked me to announce that Dr. Salah Hammoud has
been elected president of AATA  for the year 2002.  Congratulations,
Salah!

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 23:34:09 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:34:09 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Translation Certification/Courses Query
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Query

A Palestinian graduate student in English Literature here very much
wants to get a certificate, or even just take a course, in
Arabic/English English/Arabic translation.  Can any of the
translators out there tell me if there is such a program in the
states?  I know there are good programs in several Arab World
countries (at least Jordan and Morocco), so if you want to send in
info on those programs I'll post them too in a big summary.  Probably
many would appreciate seeing the info all in one place.
Thanks.
Dil


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan  7 23:34:57 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:34:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Comoros another query
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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: esg at felix.unife.it
Subject: Comoros another query

Jamal Qureshi wrote:

>  that the country name derives
>  directly from the Arabic "Juzur al-Qamar"

Wehr gives g[u]z[u]r al-q[u]m[u]r separated from the first instance
of the root qmr; does this mean that etymologically it does not derive
from q[a]m[a]r?

je

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan  9 23:34:22 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:34:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Translation Certification/Courses Responses
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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: "Timothy A. Gregory" <tgregory at tarjema.com>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

I found one on line: http://www.inter-col.net

--tag

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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: asif khanan <asifkhanan at www.com>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

Hi,
I know of one Excellent Arabic/English/Arabic translation course at
the School of Oriental and African Studies (the University of London.

It is supposed to be quite tough but deemed a very high quality
course. The web site for the university is:

www.soas.ac.uk

I hope that helps.
Ma'assalama
Asif.

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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Query

That Palestinian graduate might well look at the programs offered by:

o  Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, CA
(Arabic is now one of the "concentration languages" offered at MIIS,
IIRC).

o  The University of Texas at Austin
    (I think UTA now has an interdepartmental program, but I'm unsure
whether that is a certificate or degree program and which is the
"lead" school or department there... Dept of linguistics or Dept of
NE & Oriental Languages.)

o  Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan

o  King Saud University in Riyadh, KSA (College of Languages and Translation)

o  King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, KSA
    (KAAU reportedly has a strong and growing department, which might
be a full-fledged College or Faculty by now)

o  UAE Uiversity in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi
    UAEU was considering some sort of post-BA certification program
for Emiratis (although the ESL skills of most graduates seem to need
some polishing, so that initiative may have been deferred).

HTH.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: Jackie Murgida <jmurg at star.net>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

Dil,
As far as I know, there is no degree or certificate program for A-E/E-A
translation in N. America. In fact, the number of programs in translation
for languages such as French, Spanish, and German, is dwindling.

The best one can do in this country is to find a university that has both an
Arabic department (or some professor who knows enough Arabic) and a
translation program, and to convice them to organize a customaized program
where you can take the non-language-specific translation courses and do a
directed study with the Arabic professor.

And, one can keep an eye out for special, one-time workshops and summer
courses that are given from time to time.

The only other glimmer of hope is the distance learning programs some
universities have. One of them may start an Arabic-English translation
program in the future. I think it's NYU, but I have to go through my backlog
of disorganized emails to find the info.

As always, if someone knows of a standing program that has A-E and that I'm
unaware of, I'd love to know about it.

Best regards,
Jackie Murgida

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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Translation Certification/Courses Response

Hi Dil,

With all the mouthing off I have done on Arabic L, I am surprised that people
on the list did not know that there is a well-developed translation program at
AUC.

Here is a general outline:


The Arabic and Translation Studies Division (ASD) at the Center for Adult and
Continuing Education (CACE) of the The American University in Cairo (AUC)
offers certificates in Arabic/English translation and simultaneous
interpreting as follows:

The Professional Certificate in Written Translation


Provides the theoretical background and linguistic skills requisite to the
discipline of translation, with training in the language of newspaper
reporting,  economic financial and commercial translations, and various other
topics, as well as intensive training in the language of legal documents, UN
terminology, and documentary translation and editing.


The Professional Certificate in Simultaneous Interpreting

Emphasis is on oral performance and inter-lingual transfer skills; mastery of
various techniques for  achieving immediate response to oral input and
accurate communication of message, message recasting, and problem-solving
strategies.     Provides practice in interpreting in simulated real-life
situations, in various fields, and with different accents.  Emphasis is on
acquiring the skills of professional interpreters.



Earning a full certificate requires the successful completion of twenty-one
classes or sixty-three instructional units (IUs), which may be accomplished
over the course of three terms of seven classes each. Each level, comprising
seven subjects, carries a mini-certificate related to the sub-discipline of
translation emphasized in that level.  Many students enroll for fewer than the
full seven classes per term.

There are three twelve-week terms per year, which open on a regular basis in
mid September, early January, and early May (with some variation depending
more-or-less on where Ramadan falls in a given year). Entrance to the program
may be gained at the beginning of any one of these terms.

There is also a small certificate program in French/Arabic translation
consisting in six classes, three apiece in written translation and
simultaneous interpreting.

Current fees are LE420/3 IUs (the dollar is currently about 4.75 Egyptian
pounds), subject to change at the beginning of the school year.

As this program is a part of the adult education program at the American
University in Cairo, CACE instructional units do not usually translate into
college credit, and CACE certificates are not college degrees as such.
Nevertheless instruction at CACE is rigorous and CACE certificates in
translation are recognized by employers as testifying to the high translation
ability of the bearer.  Some universities have accepted CACE IUs as transfer
credit.

Admission is as simple as sitting for a placement examination and completing
the necessary registration form.  There are no other application procedures as
such.  Admission and placement examinations are conducted once every two weeks
in the eight weeks before a term begins.

Customized training is available.

Inquiries are best addressed to me.

David Wilmsen
Director, Arabic and Translation Studies
The American University in Cairo
28 Falaki Street
Bab El-Louk
Cairo, Egypt
tel:  2 02 7976872
fax:  2 02 7957565

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan  9 23:38:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:38:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Adjective pairs response
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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Arabic Adjective pairs response

Greetings / tahaiya tayyiha wa b3ad....

For starters (depending on the scope and nature of your research),
you might do a web search for Dr Lorand Szalay.

He was principal investigator at a consulting firm in Suitland,
Maryland that did research during the 1980-1990s on a cross-cultural
communication model termed Associative Group Analysis (AGA).

One of their products involved English <-> Arabic adjective pairs and
their respective semantic differentials. That was a very useful
reference in some of my research as an Arabic dialectologist in the
Gulf region.

I think I can retrieve my copies of his reports on Arabic and Persian
Farsi pairs (I recently moved, so much is still in cartons). So,
please e-mail your fax number to me, and I'll copy and send the pages
with publisher data.

Hope this helps. Ahalan wa sahalan...

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

e-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan  9 23:42:11 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:42:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Coordination discussion
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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: "A. E." <aghamrawy13 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Coordination discussion

I haven't got the thread of emails regarding "EA Coordination
Discussion" from the beginning, but here is my two-penny response for
the last couple of emails.
First, "shaafu we heyya" is not a possible EA structure because the
conjuntion here is between an object pronoun and a subject pronoun
([u] in shaaf-u is the undergoer whereas "heyya is the pronoun
associated with the agent of the sentence).

I would agree with Aliaa on " shaaf-u wi shaaf-ha,"  where there are
two conjoined VP's, or "shaaf-hum, huwwa-w heyya" where the
conjunction is between two subject pronouns in an IP (inflectional
phrase) modifying  the object pronoun "hum."

As for Francisco's suggestions, they are very interesting. I'm
wondering whether  the classical structure "Shaaf-u wa iyyaaha" is
equivilant syntagmatically to the Egyptian slang "shaaf-u wayyaaha."
"wayyaaha" in Egyptian means "with her"- a PP modifying  the object
pronoun [u] (he saw [him with her]. But 'iyyaahaa in classical Arabic
is basically only the 3rd singular object pronoun [ha] without the
verb since the verb is shared between the two verb phrases. In other
words, "shaaf-u wa 'eyyaahaa" or better say "ra'aa-hu wa 'eyyaahaa"
is equivalent to "ra'aa-hu wa ra'aa-ha" in classical or "shaaf-u w
shaaf-ha" in EA, which doesn't necessarily have the same meaning as
"shaaf-u ma3aa-ha which means "shaaf-hum ma3a ba3d" (he saw them
together).

I hope I could make myself clear, and I would appreciate any feedback
if someone agrees/disagrees with me.

Ahmad Elghamrawy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan  9 23:43:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:43:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic ethnic slurs query
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Date:  09 Jan 2002
From: Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at unm.edu>
Subject Arabic ethnic slurs query

Does anyone know of a collection of racial/ethnic slurs in any
dialect of Arabic? The closest I can come is "9ajamii" for "Persian."

The other instances seem to revolve around using ethnic terms a
little more broadly, e.g. 'haadha turkii' to refer to refer to a
nonsensical comment, or "nawar" to mean something akin to "white
trash."

Any input from closet (or out) maledictorians?

TIA,

Dan.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:13:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Ethnic Slurs responses
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

[moderator's note: sorry about the weird characters.  I think the
message can still be read.  It has something to do with my program
not being able to decipher things.  Dil]

Dear Dan
In Egyptian Arabic, which I am most familiar with, there are not that many
ethnic slurs probably because the society is more stratified economically than
ethnically. There are of course some ethnic slurs, many of which are historic
and I would argue that some of them lost their use as ethnic derogatory terms
and maintained their use as insults. For example, ?nawar? (the singular is
?nawary?) is, as you mentioned, close in meaning to ?white trash?, and it
might be related to the Nuweyr tribes in the Sudan (this is a wild guess).
Whatever its origin is people do not know it except maybe for a couple of
linguists. Other slurs such as ?a9jami? lost their use as slurs. I think that
word means ?mute? and it was used to refer to foreigners in generals (not just
Persians) because of their limited competence in Arabic, and later it was used
only to mean ?foreigner?.

As far as I know in Jordanian Arabic the word ?maSri? (Egyptian) is used to
mean (of low or unknown descent i.e., bastrad)

I do not know of any publication on Arabic ethnic slurs, but if you are
interested here are some modern Egyptian ones, and I hope I am not offending
any of the list members.

-	?hindi? (Indian) and the plural is ?hunuud? or ?hanadwa?.
This word is used
to mean ?dumb?, ?melodramatic? or ?oaf?. That is because of the Indian movies
that were extremely popular in Egypt in the seventies and eighties.

-	?taiwaani? (Taiwanese) which is used to mean ?fake? or ?of
low quality? as
in the most frequent use ?esh-sheikh da da`noh taiwaani? (This sheikh?s beard
is Taiwanese or made in Taiwan.) meaning he is not well-informed about
religion or he does not follow what he preaches. That is because of the
perception that the abundant made-in-Taiwan electronic products are of low
quality.

-	?barabra? which is used to refer to Nubians and not speakers
of Berber even
if the latter is the accurate etymology. It is used only to refer to bad
manner of speaking, namely for interlocutors to speak too fast and at the same
time.

-	?toska? which is an Italian woman?s name. It is used to mean
?prostitute? or
?loose woman? and it was common when many Europeans lived in Alexandria.

I would not list any of the fallaHeen (Delta peasants) or Sa3ayda (Upper
Egyptians) slurs because these are well known.

Some ethnic remarks are used only in frozen expressions or proverb-like
utterances such as
(a)	daakh dookhet el-baljeeki (he got as dizzy as someone from Belgium.)
(b)	el-menoofi el-aSeel zay el-gazma eT-TafSeel ?a real menoofi (from
Menoofeyya, a district in the Delta) is like a custom made shoe. That
indicates their low status.
(c)	el-menoofi la yaloofi w-law akala laHma el-kitoofi. ?a
menoofi will never
change even if he ate the shoulder meat of a lamb? meaning they will always be
of low status. It is interesting that there are case marking vowels even on
the verb for the sake of the rhyme!!!
(d)	naTTa faranasaawi (a French jump) indicating a sexual intercourse. This
phrase lost its insulting use and is used only as a very rude remark about the
beauty of an Egyptian blonde particularly from el-manSoora where the French
soldiers of Napoleon stayed.

I hope these help your work, and I hope nobody is offended.

Mustafa A. Mughazy
Graduate student
Depatment of Linguistics
University of Illinois
Urbana Champaign

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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

This subject promises to enrich our knowledge of Arabic with a good deal of
sometimes humorous and sometimes dirty words. Anyhow, if "9ajamii" for
"Persian" may be considered an ethnic slur -- and it is found in every
dialect of Arabic, not only spoken, but also in the classical written
language and MSA -- than "barbarii", on the other end of what we call the
Arab world, should be put in the same basket. Yet there is no need to hurry
with such conclusions: many peoples found no better names to give to their
first neighbors than "The Mutes", for the latter were unable to speak in an
intelligible way to them.

On the other hand, "ghajarii" is nowadays counted for an insult between the
Arabs ("nawar" is of the same branch, i.e. Gypsies) and different names of
this ethnic, in any of so-called great languages of the world, are
considered slurs in the respective societies. In Enno Littmann's Modern
Arabic Tales, Leiden, 1905 (translated to German by Littmann himself under
the title Arabische Maerchen aus muendlicher Ueberlieferung, Leipzig 1935,
and to Serbian by myself -- Antologija arapske narodne price, Vreme knjige,
Beograd, 1994) there is a folktale from Jerusalem (kayd al-nisaa' ghalab
kayd al-rijaal) in which a young man, entrapped in marriage with the
horribly handicapped judge's daughter, rescues himself by mere declaring
before his not destined father-in-low that he is remotely related with the
Gypsies.

It is possible, too, that zinjii/zanjii is being used as a slur, "pure"
racial, of course. In Syria and Lebanon "9abd" is still used for a Negro.

More than probable is that the Levantine Arabic today comprises quite a
number of "active" ethnic slurs on the account of the Jews (vice versa also
applies, to be sure). In an old Iraqi folktale (v. al-turaath al-sha9bii,
10/1975, p.117) I came across the noun/adjective "al-yahaadii", which seams
to me a clear pejorative (through the form of an augmentative).

In Iraq, the genuine Arab name of Abu Naajii still means either English(man)
or UK of Great Britain, sharply connotating political shrewdness of
(neo)colonialism. Therefore, this name, bearing the idea of salvation, is
sometimes paradoxically used to mark a corrupt man whose ways are dangerous
for others.

Srpko Lestaric

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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Patricia Kelly Spurles <pkellyspurles at yahoo.com>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

In urban women's language of Marrakesh, "yahudi" (Jew)
is used pejoratively to refer to non-Jews.

"Gawri" (foreigner, fr "kafir" via Turkish, I suppose)
also has pejorative connotations for some, and is
avoided by some speakers. It reminds me of the
confusion in the US over politically correct terms of
reference for African Americans.

=====
Patricia Kelly Spurles

PhD candidate
Dept. d'anthropologie, Univ. de Montreal

300 East Shelbourne Dr., apt. 73
Normal, Illinois 61761

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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

  One Arab author of Kurdish origin (Ahmad Amin[??]) was abashed when he
was referred to as having a  /ra's  kurdi/ ("Kurdish head").

                                                   Mike Schub

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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Neal Kaloupek <NKaloupek at compuserve.com>
Subject: Ethnic Slurs response

I hesitate somewhat to talk about these things for fear of offending
someone - however, I lived at the border between the UAE and Oman for
seven years, and was told that Egyptians were sometimes referred to
as "Himaar" (donkey) - (possibly because in the past they did the
manual labor?) Also, I heard those from the Levant called "zelemy"
(as in "He first spoke like a 'zelemy', but now he's learned to speak
better") - probably because Levantines use the term more frequently
than "Gulfies" use it.

Neal

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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:58:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING: non-concatenative morphology query
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: "L.Boumans" <l.boumans at let.kun.nl>
Subject: non-concatenative morphology query

Dear collegues,

Semitic languages and Arabic in particular are often cited as
textbook examples of non-concatenative morphology, i.e. the
root-and-template system, as opposed to common affixation. I have two
questions regarding this issue:

1. - Are there any other, non-Semitic examples of this type of morphology?
(The closest examples I have been able to find so far are tonal
patterns in certain Bantu lges.)

2. - Are there any theories on the origin and development of the
non-concatenative morphological patterns in Semitic?

I would greatly appreciate any help with finding the right literature.

Regards, Louis Boumans

Louis Boumans
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, ATD
Postbus 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen
Tel. +31-24-361 13 79, fax +31-24-361 21 77
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:59:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Mike Rosner <mros1 at cs.um.edu.mt>
Subject: Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

Please circulate the announcement below
Thanks in advance

Mike Rosner
CSAI Dept
University of Malta
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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
First Call for Papers

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 B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:01:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Hayat Corpus
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux at elda.fr>
Subject: Hayat Corpus

************************************************************
ELRA - European Language Resources Association
************************************************************

We are pleased to announce the new resources
available in our catalogue of language resources:

ELRA W0030 Arabic Data Set
ELRA W0031 GeFRePaC - German French Reciprocal
Parallel Corpus

A short description of these two new resources is given
below.
Please visit the online catalogue to get further details:
http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html

ELRA W0030 Arabic Data Set:
The corpus contains Al-Hayat newspaper articles with
value added for Language Engineering and Information
Retrieval applications development purposes. Data has
been organised in 7 subject specific databases according
to the Al-Hayat subject tags. Mark-up, numbers, special
characters and punctuation have been removed. The size
of the total file is 268 MB. The dataset contains 18,639,264
distinct tokens in 42,591 articles, organised in 7 domains.

ELRA W0031 GeFRePaC - German French Reciprocal
Parallel Corpus:
GeFRePac was produced in the framework of the LRsP&P
project. It contains 30 million words : 15 million for the
German language, 15 million for the French language.
It covers natural general language as used in
public socio-political discourse and it has a focus on
multilingual administration and commercial and legal
documentation. It was created for the purpose of
developing, enhancing and improving translation aids.

=====================================
For further information, please contact:

ELRA/ELDA
55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin
F-75013 Paris, France

Tel:	+33 01 43 13 33 33
Fax:	+33 01 43 13 33 30

E-mail mapelli at elda.fr

or visit our Web site:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
or http://www.elda.fr
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:02:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching material for translation classes query
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Fatima Ezzouhra Faiq <bachatours at yahoo.fr>
Subject: Teaching material for translation classes query

Hello,
I am looking for teaching material for translation classes both from
English into Arabic and vice versa. Does anyone know of useful online
websites for that purpose. Thank you in advance.

Mohamed Faiq.


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 19:02:55 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:02:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translation Certification Response
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From:  Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Translation Certification Response

For accreditation as a translator, the American Translators Association
(ATA) offers a highly respected (in the translation industry) certification.
At present, they only accredit for translation from Arabic into English but
ATA intends to offer the other language direction within about two years.

The test is given 15 to 20 times a year at sites around the US.  There is a
fee of $130 for taking the test.  For more information, see
http://www.atanet.org/bin/view.pl/285.html

Mark Meinke
Digitek International

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 19:04:41 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:04:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL Final Call
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Robin Thelwall and Rebecca Bradley <eubule at telusplanet.net>
Subject: NACAL Final Call

Final Call for N. American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
NACAL 30 will be held in Houston March 22-24, 2002
Accommodation will be at the Drury Inn
Please contact Robin Thelwall <eubule at telusplanet.net> for further
details.
Abstracts to be submitted by 31st January.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 19:06:36 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:06:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:IJSL articles
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: IJSL articles

The following articles of interest to subscribers have appeared:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman
ISSN: 0165-2516

2001, Issue 152
LANGUAGE CONTACT ISSUES
Issue Editor: Florian Coulmas

ALAN S. KAYE
Diglossia: the state of the art

HANNAH SLAVIK
Language maintenance and language shift among Maltese migrants in
Ontario and British Columbia

MAHMOUD A. AL-KHATIB
Language shift among the Armenians of Jordan

For subscription information please contact the publisher:
Mouton de Gruyter
Genthiner Str. 13
10785 Berlin, Germany
Fax: +49 30 26005 222
e-mail: orders at degruyter.de

Journals and titles published by Mouton de Gruyter can be ordered via
the World Wide Web at: http://www.degruyter.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 15 19:08:13 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:08:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Language Resources Conference
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From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux at elda.fr> reposted from CORPORA
Subject: Arabic Language Resources Conference

***First announcement and Call for Papers***

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Arabic Language Resources (LR) and Evaluation:
	Status and Prospects

A Post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2002

	Las Palmas - Canary Islands (Spain)
		1st June 2002

**********************************************************
More details at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html

Taking place on 1st June, after the main conference (29-30-31 MAY 2002),
this post-conference workshop should add value to the issues addressed
during the conference.
It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic written
language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context,
and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as
well as on the availability of LR, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products
and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common
view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing.

We expect to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms
to move towards solutions, such as sharing of resources, tools, standards,
sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of
current best
practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc.

By bringing together players in the Arabic NLP field, we target the
definition of a
first broadly supported Roadmap for Arabic LR, i.e. a broadly supported view on
the longer, medium and shorter term needs and priorities. This would help the
community to identify new opportunities and possible synergies.

The submissions should address some of the LREC issues that are specific and
of paramount importance to the Arabic resources and evaluation; some of these
issues are:

- Issues in the design, construction and use of Arabic Language Resources (LR);
- Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access,
distribution, use of Arabic LR;
- Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (information
extraction,
information retrieval, vocal and multisensorial interfaces,
translation, summarisation,
www services, etc.);
- Industrial LR requirements and community's response;
- Industrial production and/or use of LR;
- Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR;
- Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking
and evaluation
for written and spoken language processing ;
- Evaluation of products and applications, benchmarking;
- Local, regional, and international activities and projects;
- Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and
international cooperation.

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

It will be a full-day workshop. The workshop is not intended to be a mini-
conference, but as a real workshop aiming at concrete results that
should clarify the
situation of Arabic with respect to Language Resources and Evaluation.
Sessions will include introductory speeches, invited talks, a small
number of refereed presentations, a panel session, etc.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions must be in English, Abstracts for workshop contributions should not
exceed two A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page
should state:
the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail
address, as well as postal
address, telephone and fax numbers.

Submissions are to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF format, to
choukri at elda.fr, by 11th February 2002.
Abstracts will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee.

Formatting instructions for the final full version of papers will be
sent to authors after
notification of acceptance.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission deadline (receipt of abstracts): 11th February 2002
- Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2002
- Camera-ready final version for workshop proceedings due: 12th April 2002
- Workshop date: 1st June 2002

TIME AND LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will take place on 1st June, following the main LREC
2002 Conference,
in the Palacio de Congreso de Canarias, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

The registration fee for the workshop is:

If you are also attending LREC: 90 EURO
If you are not attending LREC: 140 EURO

All attendees will receive a copy of the workshop proceedings.

INVITATION LETTER

If you need a visa to travel to Spain for the workshop and/or for the
conference, please
send an email to choukri at elda.fr

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE URLs
http://www.lrec-conf.org

CONTACT POINT

Khalid CHOUKRI
choukri at elda.fr
ELRA CEO
Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
Postal Mail: 55 Rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 Paris France

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, Paris, France
Joseph Dichy, Lyon 2 university, Lyon, France
Steven Krauwer, ELSNET and Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mustafa Yassen, Amman University; Jordan; myaseen at cbj.gov.jo

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (tentative)

Abdelhadi Soudi; ENIM, Morocco; asoudi at enim.ac.ma
Abdelhak Mouradi; ENSIAS, Morocco; mouradi at ensias.ac.ma, abmouradi at hotmail.com
Abdelkader Fassi-Fehri; IRA, morocco; fassi at atlasnet.net.ma
Achraf Chalabi ; Sakhr; Egypt; ac at sakhr.com
Andr? Jaccarini; Universit? d'Aix, France; jaccarini at mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Bassam Haddad; Amman University; Jordan; bh at go.com.jo
Chafic Mokbel; University of Balamand, Lebanon; chafic.mokbel at balamand.edu.lb
Everhard Ditters; University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; e.ditters at let.kun.nl
Fathi Debili;CELLMA ENS LSH Lyon, France; Fathi.Debili at ehess.fr
Jean Senellart ;SYSTRAN, France; senellart at systran.fr
John Makhoul ; BBN Technologies, GTE Corp., USA; makhoul at bbn.com
Ken Beesley; Ken.Beesley at xrce.xerox.com
Malek Boualem; FTRD/DMI/LAN, France; malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr
Mohamed Hassoun; ENSIB, Lyon, France; hassoun at enssib.fr
Mohamed Maamouri; LDC, Pen University, USA.
Mohsen Rashwan; RDI, Egypt; mrashwan at rdi-eg.com
Ossama Emam; IBM, Egypt; emam at eg.ibm.com
Paul Roochnick; paul at apptek.com
Salem Ghazali; IRSIT, Tunisia; Salem.ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn
Salim Roukos; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA; roukos at us.ibm.com
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza; San Francisco State University, USA; vcs at sfsu.edu

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:08:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Collocational Dictionary query
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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: tmkkondo <tmkkondo at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Collocational Dictionary query

January 15, 2002

    I'm a graduate student of The American University in Cairo.
I'm thinking of making a pocket Arabic dictionary of collocation for my master
thesis. Does anyone know if there is any Arabic corpus for free or at a
reasonable price I can use as database?
    And I'd appreciate it if I could have advice for compiling a dictionary.
I've just begun to read a book on lexicography, but this field is quite
new to me. Would anyone tell me the titles of books and articles I should
read?
I'm grateful for any advice. Thanking in advance.

Best regards.

Yours sincerely,
Tomoko Kondo

graduate student of Dep.of Teachin Arabic as a Foreign Language
at The American University in Cairo
P.O.Box.2511,
113, Kasr El-Aini,Cairo 11511
EGYPT

tmkkondo at aucegypt.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan 16 23:54:45 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:54:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA III Deadline Extended
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Mahmoud Al-Batal <albatal at emory.edu>
Subject: CASA III Deadline Extended

Dear Collegaues,
     Salamaat to all of you!
     Below is an announcement for CASA III (Arabic Refresher Course for
Professors) indicating that the deadline for applications has been extended
until February 11th 2002.  Please post this announcement and share it with
your colleagues. Alf shukr!
     Mahmoud Al-Batal

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                                             ANNOUNCEMENT
                               CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD

                                               CASA III

                                  Arabic Refresher Course for Professors
                                     in the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) offers a seven-week (June 8-July
refresher course for professors of the humanities and social sciences whose
specialties focus on any aspect of the Arab World/Middle East and who are
interested in further advancing their proficiency in Arabic.
The CASA III program, conducted at the American University in Cairo,
emphasizes all language skills and features tutorials and special classes to
accommodate the special interests of the fellows.

Applicants must have a level of competence in Arabic of Intermediate-High or
above according to the ACTFL Proficiency Scale (equivalent to at least three
years of study at the college level) and must be U.S. citizens.  Non-U.S.
citizens and Permanent Residents may apply to participate in this program on
a Pay-Your-Own Way basis.

The CASA III fellowship award covers round-trip airfare, tuition, and a
maintenance allowance of $600 per month. A program fee is required of each
CASA III fellow once an award has been accepted.

For a detailed description of CASA programs, or to download application
forms, please visit the CASA web site at:


http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/CASA


*Application deadline for Summer 2002 is February 11, 2002

You may also contact CASA at:

Center for Arabic Study Abroad
Institute for Comparative & International Studies
1385 Oxford Road
Emory University
Atlanta GA 30322

E-mail: casa at emory.edu
Telephone: (404) 727-2575; Fax: (404) 727-6187

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:08:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching material for translation classes response
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Dale Frakes <dfrakes at egr.up.edu>
Subject: Teaching material for translation classes response

The SCOLA Arabic Insta-Class is very helpful for this.  They provide about
5 minutes of news in audio form, extracted from broadcasts out of Dubai.
They then provide PDF's with the Arabic AND the English, along with vocab
lists and some drills.  These are released on an almost weekly basis.
They can be found at:

http://www.scola.org/insta-class/arabic/

I hope that helps!

Dale Frakes

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 17 00:00:35 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:00:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:mores ethnic slurs responses
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2) Subject: ethnic slurs response

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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: hindi

>  - 'hindi' (Indian) and the plural is 'hunuud' or 'hanadwa'. This word is used
>to mean 'dumb', 'melodramatic' or 'oaf'. That is because of the Indian movies
>that were extremely popular in Egypt in the seventies and eighties.

My feeling is that hindi refers to North American (Red Indians), not
Asian Indians.  I think this sense came from old American Westerns,
which used to depict cowboys as smart, and Indians as dumb.

Waheed

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2)
Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Neal Kaloupek <NKaloupek at compuserve.com>
Subject: ethnic slurs response

Now that I think a little more about it, I think that in the part of the
Gulf where I lived donkeys were called "miSri", rather than Egyptians in
general being called "Himaar" (although of course any individual, of any
nationality, could be called "Himaar" by someone who didn't like him!) Sorry
for the mixup!

Negroid people also are sometimes called "9abd" in the Gulf as well (at
least at the Oman / UAE border where I was), as mentioned by Srpko Lestaric
about Syria and Lebanon.

Neal Kaloupek

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan 16 23:57:43 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:57:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Non-concatenative morphology responses
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1) Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response
2) Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response
3) Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

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1)
Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Robert R. Ratcliffe" <ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

You have to be careful about what you mean, because
"non-concatenative morphology" includes ablaut (apophony),
reduplication, etc.; which are widely found, but not necessarily
typical of Semitic. The noteworthy feature of the Semitic system, as
I would describe it, is the use of invariant syllabic-vocalic
patterns associated with specific derivational categories. This type
of morphology is rare, but found sporadically in a lot of places, and
fairly prominently in some (nearly? extinct?) idigenous languages of
California. A lot of work was done on this in the aftermath of
McCarthy's work. I tried to gather up as much as I could and put
together a unified theory in a paper soon to appear. Here are some
references:

Akinlabi, Akinbiyi & Eno Urua: 1993,  ?Prosodic Target and Vocalic
Specification in the Ibibio Verb?, in Jonathan Mead, ed., The
Proceedings of the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, Stanford Lingusitsic Association, Stanford Ca., pp. 1-14.

Archangeli, Diana: 1988, Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology
and Morphology, Garland Publishing: New York [Doctoral dissertation,
MIT 1984].
_____: 1991, ?Syllabification and Prosodic Templates in Yawelmani?,
NLLT 9:231-283.

Dell, Fran?ois & Mohamed Elmedlaoui: 1992, ?Quantitative Transfer in
the Nonconcatenative Morphology of Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber?, Journal
of Afroasiatic Languages 3/2:89-125.

Goldsmith, John: 1990, Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology, Basil
Blackwell: Oxford, UK/ Cambridge, Ma.

Lombardi, Linda & John McCarthy: 1991, ?Prosodic Circumscription in
Choctaw Phonology?, Phonology 8: 37-71.

Noske, Roland: 1985, ?Syllabification and Syllable Changing Processes
in Yawelmani? in Harry van der Hulst & Noval Smith, eds., Advances in
Non-linear Phonology, Foris, Dordrecht, pp. 335-362.

Ratcliffe, Robert. in press. Toward a universal theory of
shape-invariant (templatic) morphology:  Classical Arabic
re-considered. in Singh, Rajendra and Stanley Starosta, eds.
Explorations In Seamless Morphology. New Delhi, London, and Thousand
Oaks: Sage Publications.
_____: 1997 ?Templatic Morphology in English: -ought/aught Verbs and
-ould Verbs? Proceedings of the Thirteenth Japan English Linguistic
Society Conference.

Smith, Norval: 1985, ?Spreading, Reduplication and the Default Option
in Miwok Nonconcatenative Morphology?in in Harry van der Hulst &
Noval Smith, eds., Advances in Non-linear Phonology, Foris,
Dordrecht, pp. 363-380.

Ulrich, Charles H.:  1994, ?A unified account of Choctaw intensives?,
Phonology 11: 325-339.


With regard to your second question, I'll try to send a separate post later.

  ____________________________________
*NEW E-mail address: ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp*

Robert R. Ratcliffe
Associate Professor, Arabic and Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Asahi-machi 3-11-1, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534 Japan

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2)
Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

Hi L,


      See Hodge *Afro-Asiatic* on the "bi-literal theory:"  Semitic roots

like flq  brk  prq frd   <== original root P/FRX, where X is a MODIFIER;

Arabic  jmm=jm`=jmhr=jml [jmd?];  qSr=qSS=qDD=qDb; farra~nafara;

      Let me know if you find anything outside the Afro-Asiatic group.

      Thanks and best wishes,

                                      Mike Schub


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3)
Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

Also:  lSq  lSj lSx  ; baththa==>ba`atha==>ba`thara==>ibtha`arra  etc.

Best wishes,                Mike Schub


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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:10:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Puerto Rico Conference
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Puerto Rico Conference

"Journeys, Exile, Loss, and Memory"
San Juan, Puerto Rico	April 11-14, 2002
CONTACT: Hussein.Kadhim at Dartmouth.Edu


FRIDAY APRIL 12, 2002 (All Streams)

Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
"The Essential Journey: The Rahil in the Classical Arabic Ode

Jocelyn Sharlet, Brown University
"The Rhetoric of Memory: Early Islamic Representations of Pre-Islamic Arab
Culture in Literary Criticism and Grammar"

Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Indiana University Bloomington
"The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Etiology, Etymology
and Onomatopoeia in Two Elegies by al-Ma`arri"

Muhsin al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah
"Memory Lost, and Memory Regained: The Formation of the Exilic in Modern
Arabic Poetry"

George N. El-Hage, Columbia Univeristy
"The Journey in the Poetic World of Khalil Hawi"

Saadi A. Simawe, Grinnell College
"Exile, Language, and Biology in the Poetry of Aziz Simawe"

Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College
"The Bard of Tigris: Mu'ruf al-Rusafi and the Poetics of Exile"

Issa J. Boullata, McGill University
"Poetry as Homeland: Mahmoud Darwish and the Loss of Palestine."


SATURDAY APRIL 13, 2002 (All Streams)

Roxanne Euben, Wellesley College
"Travel Theory and Political Wisdon: Western and Islamic Journeys to 'the
Other Shore'"

Salwa Ghaly, University of Sharjah
"Between Two Worlds: Gibran's and al-Rihani's Vision of America"

Anna Ayse Akasoy, Muenster University, Germany
"Concepts of Home in the Poetical Works of Fawzi al-Ma'luf"

Clarissa Burt, American University of Cairo
"Remembering al-Mutanabbi: Adonis's Mask of Memory"

Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina
"The Tale of Those Who Did Not Travel: Reading Yahya al-Tahir Abdullah's
'The Neckband and the Bracelet' as Sirah"

Mustapha Hamil, State University of West Georgia
"From Manchester to Fez: Adbelmajid Ben Jelloun's Journey of Loss and
Betrayal in 'Fi At-Tufulah'"

Stephen Sheehi, Duke University
"Beirut and the Space of Memory"

Nader Uthman, Columbia University
"Home and Exile in Adbul Rahman Munif's Novel 'East of the Mediterranean'"


SUNDAY APRIL 14, 2002

William Granara, Harvard University
"The Andalusian Past and the Quest for Modernity in the Modern Arabic
Novel"

Nezar Andary, UCLA
"The Consuming Fever of History in Contemporary Arabic Literature"

Elliott Colla, Brown University
"Exile on 26th of July Street: Downtown Cairo in the Fiction of 'Abdullah
and Aslan"

Mohammed AlQuwaizani, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Can the Individual Remember? Collective Memory in Mahfouz's Trilogy"


CONFERENCE REGISTRATION, HOTEL, AND AIRLINE INFORMATION
http://www.acla.org/index2_frames.html

The last session of the Seminar ends at 1 pm Sun. April 14. Please
arrange your travel schedule so as to be able to attend all sessions.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Jan 16 23:58:48 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:58:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:khawaja query
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Haroon Shirwani <haroon.shirwani at st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: khawaja query

I suppose no European who has been to Sudan will have been able to
avoid being called 'khawaja'. Sudanese friends insisted that it is a
neutral term simply used to designate someone with light skin, which
reminded me of attitudes to the word 'negro'. What I would like to
know is the origin of the word and how it found its way to Sudan. I'm
guessing it came with the Turks and was used with the British,
originally as a term of respect.

Regards,

Haroon Shirwani

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 17 00:07:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:07:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Collocational Dictionary resonse
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1)
Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Collocational Dictionary resonse

- Emery, Peter: Collocation in Modern STandard Arabic. ZAL 23.56-65
- Shakir & Farghal, 1992, in FIT-Newsletter 11/3.227
- Heliel, Moahmed Hilmi, 1990, Collocations and Translation. FIT-newsletter
9/3.30
- Hoogland, Jan: Collocation in Arabic (MSA) and the treatment of
collocations in Arabic Dictionaries, in: Proceedings of the Colloquium on
Arabic Lexicology and Lexicography, special Issue of 'the Arabist'. If you
need more details let me know.

There has to be something interesting, but it's difficult to find:
Dr. Abu Ssaydeh seems to have compiled an English-Arabic collocational
dictonary, but I haven't been able to find it.
Maybe you can look around or ask around in Cairo?
If anyone out there knows something about it, please share it with us.
(although I have raised this very question before on this list).

Jan

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:09:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:JAL
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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Suzanne Stetkevych <jal at indiana.edu> reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: JAL

THE JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE


Executive Editor, Suzanne Stetkevych	Publisher, E. J. Brill
Indiana University			P.O. Box 9000
                                         2300 PA Leiden
Editorial Board:			The Netherlands

Federico Corriente
University of Saragossa

Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi
American University in Sharjah

Editorial Assistant, Paul B. Nelson
Indiana University

"jal at indiana.edu"


CURRENT ISSUE

************************************
JAL Volume 32, Number 3
************************************

VISUAL MODERNISM IN THE POETRY OF 'ABD AL-WAHHAB AL BAYATI
YASEEN NOORANI, University of Edinburgh

REWRITING HISTORY, UNWRITING LITERATURE: SHAWQI'S MIRROR-IMAGE RESPONSE TO
SHAKESPEARE
WADDAH AL-KHATIB, University of Virginia

TAYSIR AL-SUBUL'S <<YOU AS OF TODAY>> IN A POSTMODERNIST CONTEXT
AHMAD Y. MAJDOUBEH, University of Jordan


*****************
FORTHCOMING ISSUE
*****************

JAL Volume 33, Number 1

Articles:

REPERCEIVING THE PRE-ISLAMIC NASIB
NATHALIE KHANKAN, University of Copenhagen

UNLOCKING THE FEMALE IN AHLAM MUSTAGHANAMI
ELLEN MCLARNEY, Columbia University

POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE: HORIZONS OF APPLICATION
WAIL S. HASSAN, Illinois State University


Reviews:

MENAHEM MILSON. <<NAJIB MAHFUZ: THE NOVELIST-PHILOSOPHER OF CAIRO>>
RAYMOND STOCK, University of Pennsylvania

J. A. ABU-HAIDAR. <<HISPANO-ARABIC LITERATURE AND THE EARLY PROVENCAL
LYRICS>>
IGNACIO FERRANDO, University of Cadiz

MIRIAM COOKE.  <<HAYATI, MY LIFE: A NOVEL>> AND <<WOMEN CLAIM ISLAM:
CREATING ISLAMIC FEMINISM THROUGH LITERATURE>>
MUHSIN JASSIM AL-MUSAWI, American University of Sharjah


                         CALL FOR PAPERS

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an international scholarly forum for the discussion of Arabic literature.
The Journal publishes literary critical, comparative and historical
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:29:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ethnic slurs
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2) Subject: ethnic slurs
3) Subject: ethnic slurs
4) Subject: ethnic slurs

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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: zouhair maalej <zmaalej at gnet.tn>
Subject: ethnic slurs

Dear colleagues:

There exist a few ethnic slurs in Tunisian Arabic used to refer to Tunisians
(no offense is meant to anybody):

(i) bulRari (Bulgarian): there was a time when Tunisia used to receive
Bulgarians in the national sector (especially as doctors, engineers,
teachers, etc.) as part of international co-operation. They used to be
categorised as second best to the French. Now, some people from poor regions
in Tunisia moving to other regions seeking for jobs are referred to as
bulRariyyiin (Bulgarians), because skill-wise they are deemed less
proficient and skilful than the natives of the region. This is a regionalist
expression to denigrate another region.

(ii) If someone is referred to as "yhudi" (jewish), they are evil, having no
mercy in the heart.

(iii) If someone is referred to as "liibi" (Libyan), they are tasteless and
dumb. For more on this, see:
Muhawi, Ibrahim (1996). ?Language Ethnicity and National Identity in the
Tunisian Ethnic Joke.? In: Yasir Suleiman (ed.), _Language and Identity in
the Middle East and North Africa_. Surrey: Curzon Press, 39-59.

(iv) If someone is referred to as "suri" (French and not Syrian), they are
deemed snobbish or stylish.

(v) If something is referred to as "shinwa" (Chinese), it is not
understandable (equivalent to "someone is Greek" in English).

There are two surviving referring expressions (but rare now), which I don't
consider ethnic slurs, to refer to foreigners, because they are hardly ever
in use and have lost most of their derogation: "rumi" (from Rome or Roman)
and "gawri" (perhaps having to do with foreigners that had brought war with
them). "Gawriyya" often denotes a non-Muslim foreigner, especially in
talking about marriage).


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2)
Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Humphrey Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: ethnic slurs

Dear List Members,

     The singular of Egyptian Arabic nawar "gypsies" is recorded in
Hinds/Badawi's A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic as nuuri rather than
nawari, and the definitions given are "gypsy" and "swindler".  The
pronunciation is confirmed by the proverb quoted under the same
entry:alf nuuri wala damanhuuri, which the dictionary translates as
"a thousand con men are preferable to a single Damanhouri (a comment
on the alleged Damanhour propensity for cunnng and swindling)" - so
voila, another ethnic slur.

Slurs on hunuud "Indians" go back at least to the late 17th century,
when Yusuf Al-Shirbini, in Hazz al-Quhuuf fi-Sharh Qasid Abi Shaduuf,
describes the children of country people as mithl awlaad al-hunuud aw
awlaad al-quruud; he also compares the sounds made by women during
intercourse as resembling barbarat al-hunuud "the (incomprehensible,
barbarian) gabbling of Indians", which perhaps counts as two ethnic
slurs in one (or three, if one includes the unconscionably
speciesist reference to apes); and one could go on.

The manawfa (people of Minufiyya) are usually castigated specifically
for their miserliness and venality.

As also are Copts, of whom the particulary offensive comment is
sometimes made by Muslim Egyptians that they are 'aDma zarqa
(literally "blue bone": Hinds-Badawi "a pejorative epithet for
Copts"), the term sometimes being accompanied by a dumbshow of biting
on one's forefinger (implying I think that Copts "bite" (financially)
to the bone).  The term kuftus (pl. kafatsa) is also used of Copts
and is I think purely pejorative, though etymologically-speaking
identical with the neutral qibTi, qubTi.

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

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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: ethnic slurs

My understanding of ethnic slurs is that they are derogatory expressions that
fulfill certain sociolinguistic functions, and they emerge as the result of
extensive cultural contact between two communities. If the power differential
between two communities is great, such words emerge to refer to the weaker
one, usually a minority, so as to assert their inferiority. That could be seen
clearly in many Arabic speaking countries where lower and middle class
Egyptians and others migrated in search for a better economy. For example, in
some Gulf areas the term ?maSri? ?Egyptian? is used as a derogatory term
particularly when calling people ?ya maSri? instead of using their names, or
to refer to a teacher as ?el-maSri? rather than ?the teacher?. That is similar
to the use of the word ?filibeeneyya? ?Philippines? instead of the word ?maid?
especially in Kuwait.

At other times, one community might have cultural characteristics that are
seen as lowly in another community. For example, Egyptians are known for their
ethnic diversity and inter-ethnic marriages. That is why Lawrence Durrelle
called Alexandria a ?real melting pot? in his quartet. Since not knowing one?s
genealogy and hence the limited use of family names is seen as lowly in a
tribal community like Jordan, the word ?Egyptian? has the literal meaning of
?bastard? for them. Another type of cultural differences is eating habits.
Since people in Libya find it lowly for humans to eat fava beans, they call
Egyptians ?el-fawwaala/el-fawaleen? (the fava beans eaters).

These expressions need to be studied in their historical context because they
change a lot. For example, in the famous Egyptian wedding song: ?Salli Salli,
3anaabi Salli w-elli ma-ye-Salli abo-h armanli? (praise the Prophet, and
whoever does not, his father is Armenian), the slur for Armenians changed
(because of the end of cultural contact with Armenians) to ?aramalli? which
has no meaning at all, and finally it became ?daramalli? which is a man?s name
associated with the elitist socio-economic classes. Also, the word ?agha?
(pimp) was actually an honorable Turkish title, and the word ?khawal? (fagot)
was also a Turkish title for the head of the treasury. These were slurs that
lost their ethnic attribute and maintained their use as an insult. I apologize
for using such terms, and hope nobody is offended.

As for Waheed?s comment about the use of ?hinid? (Indian), I have to disagree
because as far as I know it is used to refer to Asian Indians as depicted in
Indian movies. The motivation for that claim is that there are other
expressions such as ?da film hindi? to mean (that is ridiculous). The
confusion could be due to expressions such as ?inta shayefni HaTeT reesha??
(do you see me wearing a feather?), where the feather thing refers to the way
Maharajas and rich Indians wear a feather in their turbans in these movies.
Let me mention one last thing, Egyptians do not use these terms to insult
Asian Indians but to denote the attribute perceived in these melodramatic
movies.

Mustafa A. Mughazy
Graduate student
Depatment of Linguistics
University of Illinois
Urbana Champaign

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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht_Hofheinz at web.de>
Subject: ethnic slurs

>-	?hindi? (Indian) and the plural is ?hunuud? or ?hanadwa?.
>This word is used to mean ?dumb?, ?melodramatic? or ?oaf?. That is
>because of the Indian movies that were extremely popular in Egypt in
>the seventies and eighties.

Cf. the Sudanese expression, "ana hindii wallaa 3indii gambuur
[qanbuur]?", to mean, 'do you think I'm dumb?' (gambuur is a certain
hairstyle used for young children in the Eastern and Western Sudan,
whereby the head is bald shaven except for the crane). And no,
Sudanese clearly think of Hindi movies, not American ones, when using
this expression.

>It is possible, too, that zinjii/zanjii is being used as a slur, "pure"
>racial, of course. In Syria and Lebanon "9abd" is still used for a Negro.

Dto in the Northern Sudan - but only if no foreigner's around ;->

Albrecht Hofheinz

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:37:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:khawaja
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2) Subject: khawaja
3) Subject: khawaja

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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: mnaggar at sympatico.ca
Subject: khawaja

Merriam Webster gives a comprehensive definition:

***
Main Entry:kho?ja
Variant:or kho?jah  \*k*j*\
Function:noun
Inflected Form:-s
Etymology:Turkish & Persian; Turkish hoca, from Persian khw*ja

1 also    ho?dja \*h*-\   a : a member of any of various classes (as wealthy
merchants) in Muslim lands ?  used as a title of respect  b : a Muhammadan
teacher
2 capitalized   [Hindi [*oja, from Persian khw*ja] India   : a member of an
Ismaili sect surviving as a subsect of the ancient Assassins

***

Now, It has since been used in Egypt and the Sudan to denote a (Western)
foreigner (presumed Christian), even using the feminine khawajaya for
ladies. Some natives of fairer complexion were also mistaken for Khawajas,
much to their embarrasment.  As to how it found its way to Egypt and the
Sudan to mean a different thing, I wonder.

Michel Naggar
mnaggar at sympatico.ca
Montreal, Canada

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2)
Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: khawaja

xawja (khawja, xuuja), n. masc. pl. --aat = religious teacher (< Tur. hoca,
hace < Pers. xaaje). Later on it became a general title of respect, meaning
"a man of a higher rank" (cf. also: xawja al-safiina = a purser).

The Sudanese xawaaja (khawaaja) should be of the same origin. One of Its
meanings becomes celar in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North:
"hal 'ansatak 'iqaamatuk al-Tawiila fi 'injiltara al-3arabi, 'am taHsib
'annana xawaajaat?" (in Denys Johnson-Davies' splendid translation: "Has
your long stay in England made you forget Arabic or do you reckon we've
become anglicized?")

The entry is found in Badawi's Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic (= teacher,
p.268), but not in Woodhead & Beene's dictionary of Iraqi Arabic.

In mu3jam al-lugha al-3aammiyya al-baghdaadiyya -- ta'liif al-shayx jalaal
al-Hanafi al-baghdaadi, vol.2, daar al-rashiid li-l-nashr, baghdaad 1982,
p.539: xawja = mu3allim al-qur'aan; wa al-xawja 'ayDan laqab kull yahuudi;
wa fi 'amthaalihim "xawja 3ali mulla 3ali" li-l-shay' huwa huwa.

The word is still in use in many Arab lands, but sounds old fashioned, more
or less, depending on the social environment.

Srpko Lestaric

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3)
Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Vehbi Baysan <vbaysan at yahoo.com>
Subject: khawaja

In the Ottoman Empire, religious school (Medrese) teachers and in the
19th century, public school teachers were called "Hoca". The word is
written in Arabic script as 'Khawaja'. It is originally Persian. The
Hoca was well respected in the Turkish society and it may well
arrived Sudan through Turks.

Salamat,

Vehbi Baysan


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 21 21:34:19 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:34:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Technical Dictionaries query
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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Technical Dictionaries query

Could anybody tell me precisely the missing title parts of the following
dictionaries:

1-mu3jam muSTalaHaat al-Sinaa3a al-nasjiyya. Technical Dictionary: [The
English title missing]. al-ma3aajim al-tiknuuluujiyya al-taxaSSuSiyya.
Arabic-English-French-German. Al Ahram Cairo & Edition Leipzig, 1975.

2-mu3jam tashkiil al-ma3aadin. Technical Dictionary: [The English title
missing]. al-ma3aajim al-tiknuuluujiyya al-taxaSSuSiyya.
Arabic-English-French-German. Al Ahram Cairo & Edition Leipzig, 1978.

3-[The Arabic title missing]. Technical Dictionary: Radio & Television
Dictionary: al-ma3aajim al-tiknuuluujiyya al-taxaSSuSiyya.
Arabic-English-French-German. Al Ahram Cairo & Edition Leipzig, 1980.

TIA,
Srpko

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:34:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:cohesion in Arabic query
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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Meriem Sahli <sahli at dorit.ihi.ku.dk>
Subject: cohesion in Arabic query

Dear friends,

I intend to write a thesis on cohesion and coherence in Arabic and English
written composition by adult educated native speakers from these two
languages.
Has anybody come across literature that deals with such a topic? Are there any
good books which describe the written discourse in Arabic and English or any
sound research that deals with contrastive rhetoric?
thank you
Meriem Sahli

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 21 21:36:12 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:36:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Judeo-Arabic and parsing guide query
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Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
Subject: Judeo-Arabic and parsing guide query

dear friends,

(1)
is there anyone on this list currently working on judeo-arabic? i'm
working on kara'ite mss (cairo genizah), and would be delighted to find
extra e-pen-pals.

(2)
for students of greek, aramaic and hebrew scriptures, there are parsing
guides aka analytical dictionaries: for any form as it appears, there's a
full parsing and dictionary entry.  is there such a guide for the qur'an
that can be recommended? if so, could you provide me with publication and
ISBN details? thanx in advance.

salaam,
V --

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 21 21:33:27 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:33:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Collocational Dictionary replies
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2) Subject: Collocational Dictionary reply

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1)
Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: "sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk" <Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject: Collocational Dictionary reply

This  is a huge project for a master thesis. Its scope should be
defined to make it feasible. Questions like the following should be
asked:
- What kind of Arabic, classic or modern standard Arabic?
- If it it classic, should the Quran be included?
- Should poetry be included?
- If it is modern standard Arabic, which time is to be considered as
the beginning of its period?
- Is it general MSA, or specialized? I mean scientific, technical,
journalistic, etc.
- What is the scope of collocation? Is it bound, restricted, general
co-occurrences and word associations, or all of these?

The following bibliography can be useful:

Allerton, D., 1984, Three (or Four) Levels of Word Coocurrance
Restriction, in Lingua, 63, 17-40.

Benson, M., 1989, The Structure of the Collocational Dictionary, in
International Journal of Lexicography 2:1, 1-14.

Benson, M, Benson, E. and Ilson, R., 1986a, Lexicographic description
of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benson, M, Benson, E. and Ilson, R., 1986b, The BBI Combinatory
Dictionary of English, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Cowie, A. P., 1978, The Place of Illustrative material and
collocations in the design of learner?s dictionary, in Strevens P
(ed.), In Honour of A.S. Hornby, Oxford: Oxford University
Press.127-139.

Cowie, A. P.,, 1981, The Treatment of Collocations and Idioms in
Learner?s Dictionaries, in Applied Linguistics, 2 (3): 223-235.

Cruse, D. A., 1986, Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Al-Hamathani, A., 1980, al-Alfaz al-Kitabiyah, (no place), al- Dar
al-Arabiyah lil Kitab.

Hartmann, R. R. K. (ed.), 1983, Lexicography: Principles and
Practice, London: Academic Press, Inc.

Ibn Siydah, al-Mukhssass, 1970, Beirut: al-Maktab al-Tijary.

Mackin, R., 1978, On collocation: ?Words shall be known by the
company they keep?, in Strevens P (ed.), In Honour of A.S. Hornby,
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 149-165.

Sinclair, J., 1991, Corpus, concordance, collocation, Oxford: Oxford
University Press.

Al-Tha?alibi, A., undated, Fiqh al-Lugha wa sirr al-Arabiyah, Cairo:
al-Maktabah al-Tijariyah,.

Al-Yaziji, A., 1904/1985, Kitab Naj?at al-Ra?id wa Shar?at al- Warid
fi al-Mutreadif wa al-Mutwarid, Bierut: Librairie Di Liban.


Sattar Izwaini PhD Student 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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2)
Date:  21 Jan 2002
From: Paul Stevens <pstevens at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Collocational Dictionary reply

Tomoko Kondo asked for references to information about making a
pocket dictionary of collocation.  To get an idea of what is involved
in making a dictionary, Tomoko might consult Virginia Stevens' paper
on "Compiling and English-to-Egyptian Arabic Dictionary: Difficulties
Encountered", published in Alaa Elgibali, ed.  1996.  Understanding
Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic Linguistics in Honor of El-Said
Badawi.  Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.  Pp. 145-156.

The paper deals with problems regarding transcription, vocabulary,
etc. that she and Maurice Salib ran into when compiling their Pocket
Dictionary of the Spoken Arabic of Cairo (Cairo: AUC Press)  (2/e
1998).

Regards,
Paul Stevens
American University in Cairo
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:09:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:needs article on word 'inspiration' in Arabic
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: Edwin Rutsch <edwin at humanityquest.com>
Subject: needs article on word 'inspiration' in Arabic

I am looking for native speaking language experts to contribute a
short 300 word article, on the meaning of the word for "Inspiration"
in their language of expertise. This is for inclusion in an art book
I am writing entitled "The Spirit of Inspiration". I would like to
have at least 50 different languages represented in the book (I have
40 so far).

I am still looking for contributors for Arabic, Hebrew and Persian.
For Arabic I would like to have 2 articles. I have a contributor
for the word ILHAM and still need one for the word WAHI. (For gender
balance, a female contributor would be preferred).

The article would include aspects of the following about the the
nature of inspiration; the definition, etymology, how it is expressed
in the arts and the authors personal insights.

I have created a detailed submission guideline with a sample article
which you can view at this URL;
<http://humanityquest.com/Themes/Inspiration/ArticleGuidelines/index.asp>http://Humanityquest.com/Themes/Inspiration/ArticleGuidelines/index.asp

You can see the list of languages and contributors at this url.
<http://humanityquest.com/Themes/Inspiration/ArticleGuidelines/ContributorsList.htm>http://humanityquest.com/Themes/Inspiration/ArticleGuidelines/ContributorsList.htm

If you are interested in contributing an article, I can be contacted
directly at:
<mailto:edwin at humanityquest.com>edwin at humanityquest.com

Thank You

Sincerely.
Edwin

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:03:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Judeao-Arabic response
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: Frantz <erkidego at yahoo.com>
Subject: Judeao-Arabic response

>  is there anyone on this list currently working on judeo-arabic? i'm
>  working on kara'ite mss (cairo genizah), and would be delighted to find
>  extra e-pen-pals.
I am working on the Hebrew Bible (OT) in Judaeo-Arabic.  I am also looking
for a Christian writings in Judaeo-Arabic, especially the NT.

Salam!

Frantz

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:04:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:hindi
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: hindi

In Egypt, in school, the expression I am familiar with went something like:

   huwwa nta fakir-ni hindi ?
   huww ana 9ala raas-i riisha ?

   do you think I'm a hindi?
   (or) is there a feather on my head?

It's the riisha part which suggests to me that the hindi in question
is the 'aHmar
one.

During that time, India was perceived as being an ally of Egypt, along
with Yugoslavia, during the days of Positive Neutrality (al-Hiyaad
al-'iygaaby).

Waheed

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:04:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Technical Dictionaries Response
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Technical Dictionaries Response

1)  Textile Industry
Industrie Textile
Textilindustrie

2)  I don't have this one in my office, but I seem to recall that it is
"Metallurgy" (although other dictionaries disagree as to the term).  There is
no titles list in the volumes themselves.  I'll check on this for you.

3)  al-raadiyuu wa al-tiliifiviziiyuun wa al-viidiyuu
the /v/ is transliterated as /f/ with three dots

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:06:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AUC Summer Program
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: Iman Saad <imansaad at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: AUC Summer Program

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

The American University in Cairo
Arabic Language Institute
Announces its
Intensive Summer Program
June 4 to July 25, 2002

The Arabic Language Institute at the American University in Cairo
announces its Intensive Summer Program for the year 2002. This
program is an excellent opportunity for students to learn and enhance
their skills and proficiency in  Arabic in a native speaker atmosphere.
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 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 learning and becoming more proficient in Arabic, meeting and
interacting with Egyptians, students will be also 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:  <mailto:alu at aucegypt.edu>alu at aucegypt.edu
The American University in Cairo, New York Office
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:06:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:cohesion response
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From: "sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk" <Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject: cohesion response

See
Halliday and Hassn, Cohesion in English
Al-Jirjany, dalaa'l al-ijaaz,
Al-Jirjany, asraar al-balaaghah
Sattar Izwaini
PhD Student
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 (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:08:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ethnic slurs in Yemen
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Date:  24 Jan 2002
From: MaryAnn Walter <walterma at MIT.EDU>
Subject: ethnic slurs in Yemen

In north Yemen, most "ethnic" jokes are about either Dhamaris or Sanaanis,
depending on which city you happen to be in.  Turkish people are known for
being good-looking, as evidenced by a well-known song titled "Jamaal
al-Turki."

In the south, at least in Hadramaut, foreigners who speak Arabic with a
strong accent or in a garbled way are called Indonuusis.  This is due to
the large number of Malaysians and Indonesians who come to the area for
religious education.  Typically they have only studied classical Arabic
and thus sound very stilted and over-careful, as well as being unable to
pronounce Arabic consonants properly.  Finally, the southerners refer to
the northerners as Ahbaash (Ethiopians) in a definitely denigratory way,
and say they are descended from slaves brought over since pre-Islamic
times.

Maryann Walter

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:04:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L: 2003-04 FULBRIGHT DISTINGUISHED CHAIRS IN LINGUISTICS
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From: "Williams, Holly" <hwilliams at iie.org>
Subject: 2003-04 FULBRIGHT DISTINGUISHED CHAIRS IN LINGUISTICS

>  The following Fulbright awards are viewed as among the most prestigious
>  appointments in the Fulbright Program.  Lecturing is usually in English.
>  Candidates must be U.S. citizens and have a prominent record of scholarly
>  accomplishment. Consult CIES Web site
>  <http://www.cies.org/cies/us_scholars/DisChairs/> for information about
>  application procedure and current updates. To apply, send a letter of
>  interest (up to 3 pages), c.v. (up to 8 pages) and a sample syllabus (up
>  to 4 pages) to Daria Teutonico, Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program;
>  Council for International Exchange of Scholars; 3007 Tilden Street, NW;
>  Ste. 5-L; Washington, DC 20008-3009 (phone 202/686-6245, e-mail:
>  dteutonico at cies.iie.org). Materials must arrive on or before the May 1
>  deadline.
>
>  AUSTRIA: FULBRIGHT-UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN
>  LINGUISTICS: Grantee will offer two lecture courses and one seminar to
>  undergraduate and graduate students.  The University of Innsbruck Faculty
>  of Humanities cultivates an interdisciplinary approach to linguistics and
>  is particularly interested in soliciting applications from scholars of
>  applied linguistics, whose fields of specialization are related to
>  language acquisition and/or the teaching of  languages.  Lecturing in
>  English. Some knowledge of German is advantageous but not required.
>  Faculty of Humanities.  One semester, beginning October 2003 or March
>  2004.  www.uibk.ac.at
>
>  AUSTRIA: FULBRIGHT-UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN THE
>  HUMANITIES OR SOCIAL SCIENCES: Grantee will offer three courses at
>  advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.  Course level and content are
>  to be arranged in consultation with the host institution.  This chair
>  rotates between faculties and will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities
>  and Cultural Studies in 2003-04, which has departments in classical and
>  modern languages and literatures, comparative literature, linguistics and
>  translating, American studies, all fields of history from ancient to
>  contemporary, archaeology, art history, ethnology, musicology, and area
>  studies.  Open to any specialization in humanities or area studies at the
>  Faculty.  Lecturing in English. Some knowledge of German is desirable.
>  Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies in 2003-04 and Faculty of Human
>  and Social Sciences in 2004-05.  Four months, starting October 2003 or
>  March 2004.  www.univie.ac.at
>
>  CANADA:  FULBRIGHT-YORK UNIVERSITY CHAIR:  Fulbright-York University
>  Chair: Lecture at graduate and undergraduate levels in any field that fits
>  the programs at York University.  Academic and scholarly prominence
>  required.  York University, Toronto.  Scholars are encouraged to include a
>  letter of invitation from a host department at York University. Four and a
>  half months, starting September 2003 or January 2004.  www.yorku.ca
>
>  ITALY: TRIESTE CHAIR IN LINGUISTICS: Full professor to offer one lecturing
>  course and tutorials at graduate level.  Subject expertise desired is
>  syntax, semantics or formal history of linguistics.  Three months,
>  March-June 2004.  University of Trieste.   www.univ.trieste.it
>
>  ITALY: VENICE CHAIR IN PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS: Grantee will
>  teach one course to masters/doctoral students, and will provide some
>  tutorial assistance.  Subject expertise desired is theoretical
>  linguistics, with specializations in syntax and semantics.  Academic rank
>  open.  Three months, beginning March or April 2004.  www.unive.it

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:01:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS Program
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Subject: ALS Program

THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

announce the

SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ARABIC LINGUISTICS

March 1-2, 2002


FRIDAY, MARCH 1
Morning Session

8:30 - 8:45	Registration
8:45 - 9:00	Opening Remarks

9:00 - 9:30	THE TEXTUAL COMPONENT IN CLASSICAL ARABIC:
INVESTIGATING INFORMATION STRUCTURE
	Salwa Abdel-Aziz Kamel, University of Cairo

9:30 -10:00	BORROWED WORDS IN AL-AHRAM NEWSPAPER: CHANGES OVER TWENTY YEARS
Zeinab Ibrahim, The American
University in Cairo

10:00-10:30	AUDIENCE'S EXPECTATIONS AND CODE SWITCHING IN
EGYPTIAN MONOLOGUES
Reem Bassiouney, Oxford

10:30-10:45	BREAK

10:45-11:45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
	Georges Bohas
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE LEXICON IN ARABIC AND OTHER SEMITIC LANGUAGES




Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:30	COMPOUNDING AND NEW WORD COINAGE IN ARABIC: A
CORPUS-BASED STUDY
Amin Almuhanna, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

2:30 - 3:00	WORD PATTERN AND ROOT ALLOMORPHY IN ARABIC LEXICAL PROCESSING
Sami Boudelaa and William Marslen-Wilson, Cambridge

3:00 - 3:30	THE PLURAL OF PAUCITY AND ITS ACTUAL SCOPE
Ignacio Ferrando, University of Cadiz

3:30 - 3:45	BREAK

3:45 - 4:15	PLURALS AND PRODUCTIVITY: INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN
HIJAZI ARABIC
Asma Siddiki, Kim Plunkett and Paul Harris, Oxford

4:15 - 4:45	REGULAR EXPRESSIONS AND ARABIC LEXICAL FORMS
Stephen Taylor, College of the Holy Cross

4:45 - 5:15	THE SIGNALLING POTENTIAL OF ARABIC CONJUNCTIVE wa
Adil Al-Kufaishi, Copenhagen University

5:15-5:45	RHETORICAL VARIATION ACROSS ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: THE
CASE OF INTRODUCTIONS IN ARABIC RESEARCH ARTICLES
	Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University


SATURDAY, MARCH 2
Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00	WHY THERE IS NO KOINE IN SANA'A YEMEN
		Andrew T. Freeman, University of Michigan

9:00 - 9:30	A PARSER FOR THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
Lama Hamandi, Beirut Arab University, Rached Zantout, University of
Balamand, Ahmed Guessoum, University of Sharjah

9:30 -10:00 THE VOCALIC BEHAVIOR IN MAKKAN ARABIC
Muhammad Hasan Bakalla, King Saud University

10:00-10:30	THE VOWELS OF KUWAITI ARABIC
	Wafaa Ali Ammar and Khaled Rifaat, University of Alexandria

10:30-10:45	BREAK

10:45-11:15	REPRESENTING COARTICULATION PROCESSES IN ARABIC SPEECH
Michael Ingleby, University of Huddersfield, and Fatmah A. Baothman,
King Abdulaziz University

11:15-11:45	PHARYNGEALIZATION EFFECTS IN MALTESE ARABIC
MaryAnn Walter, MIT

11:45-12:15	THE ROLE OF VOT IN THE /t/-/T/ OPPOSITION IN MALE AND
FEMALE SPEECH
Ghada Khattab, Barry Heselwood and Fida Al-Hami, University of Leeds



Afternoon Session

2:00-2:30	TOWARDS THE AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ARABIC DIALECTS
Melissa Barkat, University of Lyon

2:30 - 3:00	AGREEMENT VARIATION OF HEAD NOUN MODIFIERS IN THE
ARABIC DIALECT OF PALESTINE
Nuha Suleiman Daoud Al-Shurafa, King Abdul Aziz University

3:00 - 3:30	IS ARABIC A SUBJECT PROMINENT OR A TOPIC PROMINENT LANGUAGE?
Maryam Salim Bayshak, United Arab Emirates University

3:30 - 3:45	BREAK

3:45 - 4:15	JAPANESE SPEAKERS' ACQUISITION OF ARABIC SYNTAX
Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas

4:15 - 4:45	TOPIC, SUBJECT AND SYNTACTIC PREDICATION IN ARABIC
NOMINAL CLAUSES
Frederick M. Hoyt, University of Texas at Austin

4:45 -5:15	PHONOLOGICAL SUKUUN: ITS DURATIONAL AND COARTICULATION EFFECTS
Michael Ingleby, University of Huddersfield, and Fatmah A. Baothman,
King Abdulaziz University


Registration Form

Name

Address

City/State		Zip	Country

Affiliation	 email address

Amount enclosed:

Preregistration (deadline: Feb. 16, 2002)	$50
At the Door	$70
Faculty & Students, Cambridge University,	Free

ALS 2002 Membership Dues:
  Students		$15
Faculty		$20

Checks, drawn on US banks, or international money orders should be
made payable to the Arabic Linguistics Society and sent with
registration forms to: Tessa Hauglid, 1346 South 2950 East, Spanish
Fork, UT 84660, USA (email: tmh1 at mstar2.net).

The symposium will be held in the 1st South Daily Room at Cambridge
University Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RU, United
Kingdom. For more information about accommodations and recreation in
Cambridge go to http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/leisure/acc00.htm and for
information on how to get to Cambridge from different points in the
UK go to http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/html/Fromabroad.html.

Keynote Speaker
Professor Georges Bohas is head of the Department of Semitic
Languages at the Ecole National Sup?rieur Lettres et Sciences
Humaines, Lyon, France. His most recent books, Matrice, ?tymon,
Racine (1997), and Matrice et ?tymon (2000), lay the foundation of a
new theory of the Arabic lexicon.


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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:06:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Al-Arabiyya Back Issues Special
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From: American Association of Teachers of Arabic <aata at wm.edu>
Subject: Al-Arabiyya Back Issues Special

Special Offer for Al-?Arabiyya Back Issues Set
The complete set of available issues of Al-'Arabiyya, the journal of
the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, can now be purchased
for a special discounted price of $200.00 (US). This offer includes
available bound volumes only. Some volumes may be unavailable for
sale. For more information, check the AATA website at
http://www.wm.edu/aata or contact the AATA business office at
aata at wm.edu

Thanks,

Jason Fabbricante
AATA

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:09:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book:Arabic Names for the Stars
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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: laffitte <laffitte at noos.fr>
Subject: New Book:Arabic Names for the Stars

Ch?re Madame, Cher Monsieur,


J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution de mon ouvrage qui peut
int?resser ceux qui sont passionn?s par les ?toiles, la signification
et l'histoire de leurs noms :

Des noms arabes
pour les ?toiles

272 pages, 24 euro.

?diteurs :

LES CAHIERS DE L'ORIENT
60, rue des C?vennes, 75015 Paris
t?l?phone : 01 40 60 73 11
t?l?copie : 01 40 60 92 02
sfeir.aj.cahiers at wanadoo.fr

LIBRAIRIE ORIENTALISTE PAUL GEUTHNER
12, rue Vavin, 75006 Paris
t?l?phone : 01 46 34 71 30
t?l?copie : 01 43 29 75 64
www.geuthner.com


Paris, 05 janvier novembre 2002
Disponible en librairie

Sinc?res salutations
Roland Laffitte

Pourquoi des noms arabes pour les ?toiles ? Pendant toute la p?riode
que nous appelons le Moyen ?ge, la science ?tait arabe, les esprits
curieux ?taient tourn?s vers la terre d'Islam, laquelle ?tait non
seulement l'h?riti?re des connaissances offertes par les
civilisations pr?c?dentes ou voisines, notamment la m?sopotamienne,
la grecque, la perse et l'indienne, mais encore, ce qui est moins
connu, l'artisan diligent de leur d?veloppement. Nous savons
aujourd'hui que, dans le creuset de la civilisation islamique, les
sciences furent exalt?es et manifest?rent des progr?s remarquables,
labourant en profondeur le terrain de l'?closion de la science
occidentale. Comme nous le faisons aujourd'hui, nous qui sommes
impressionn?s par la civilisation technique nord-am?ricaine au point
de lui emprunter les termes en m?me temps que les objets et les
concepts, ceux qui pr?par?rent de longue main la R?volution
scientifique europ?enne furent fascin?s par la science arabe, et
emprunt?rent la nomenclature stellaire avec les catalogues
astronomiques. C'est ainsi que les deux tiers des ?toiles usuellement
nomm?es portent aujourd'hui un nom arabe.

Roland Laffitte collabore ? diverses publications dont les Cahiers de
l'Orient, s'int?ressant tout particuli?rement ? l'int?riorit?
r?ciproque des cultures que portent les soci?t?s des deux rives de la
M?diterran?e ainsi qu'? leur dialogue. Il m?ne actuellement des
travaux dans deux directions, d'un c?t? sur les mots emprunt?s ? la
langue arabe, de l'autre sur la nomenclature c?leste babylonienne et
arabe.

Les Cahiers de l'Orient / Paul Geuthner

Roland Laffitte
142, avenue Jean-Jaur?s
75019 Paris
t?l. : 01 42 00 61 67
fax : id.( avec pr?avis)
courriel : laffitte at noos.fr


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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:11:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Egyptian and Yemeni slurs
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2) Subject: Yemeni slurs

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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: Humphrey Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Egyptian slurs revised

In my last posting I wrongly stated (following Hinds-Badawi) that the
singular of nawar  (a gypsy group) was nuuri; in fact it is niwari,
and nuuri occurs only in the proverb I quoted, where that form is
used for the rhyme.

I also got the plural of minuufi wrong: it should be manayfa; and
what's more their reputation is for faithlessness rather than
stinginess; it's the people of Damietta (damayTa) who are stingy.

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.

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

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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: Davidson MacLaren <davidson_maclaren at hotmail.com>
Subject: Yemeni slurs

One of the common "ethic slurs" I oft-overheard while living in
San:aa', Yemen was "khobani," that is to say someone from Khoban, a
region located in the Ibb governate, roughly situated east of the
cities of Ibb and Yarim, southwest of the city of Rada', and north of
the town Qa'taba, a former border post between North and South Yemen.
The town of Hammam Damt, famous for its volcanic hot springs, is in
Khoban.  Used pejoratively, khobani is similar in meaning to
hillbilly, country-bumpkin, and, perhaps, redneck.  To the extent
that I am aware, the pejorative usage is limited to the territory
that formerly comprised North Yemen.

Davidson MacLaren

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