From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:09:02 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:09:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Transliteration of e-chat responses
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2) Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response
3) Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response

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Date:  01 May 2002
From:Joost Kremers <j.kremers at let.kun.nl>
Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response

I am not sure if the term "standard" would really apply here. I have
seen Egyptians use the Roman alphabet a few times to communicate in
Arabic over the web or via e-mail. Being Egyptians, they wrote
Egyptian Arabic rather than Standard Arabic, and the transliteration
was defective. For example, long vowels were generally not
distinguished from short ones, both ha' and Ha' were transcribed with
the letter `h' (similarly for siin and SaaD and other
non-emphatic/emphatic pairs), `ayn was not normally indicated, etc.

The system is typically developed by and for native speakers, and
obviously serves a purpose to them. The defective nature is not really
a problem for them, because they can easily reconstruct the
distinctions that are missing. But because of this defective nature,
it is unlikely it would be really useful to non-native speakers, and
it would certainly not be suitable for use in a scientific context.

 From a (socio)linguistic point of view, it is a very interesting
phenomenon, of course.

--
Joost Kremers
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Department of Arabic and Islam

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Date:  01 May 2002
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response

 From my experience, I have not seen one standard; I have seen several.
It is not possible that "young Arabs all over the world" who chat on the 
web have one standard at this point in time.
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response

I think that the wide spread of chat rooms, where you cannot use the 
Arabic
script necessitated a transliteration system that everyone can use. The 
system
that I know is pretty simple; you use the English letters for the sounds 
that
are shared by the two languages, and numerals for those that are not in
English. For example, 7 for the voiceless fricative pharyngeal, as in 
wa7id
(one), 7* for the voiceless uvular fricative,2 for the glottal stop 2wwel
(first), 3 for the voiced pharyngeal as in 3arabi (Arabic), and 3* for 
the
voiced uvular fricative 3*arbi (western). Of course there are other 
systems
that use capital letters.

What is even more interesting is why these particular numerals were 
chosen.
There is some symbolic resemblance between these numerals and the Arabic
letters for these sounds. What needs to be investigated is how these
associations were conventionalized and who are the sociolinguistic 
leaders of
change that promoted and standardized their use. Also, you might notice 
that
vowels are not always transcribed accurately because usually there is no
distinction between long and short vowels. The same is observed with
gemination and emphatic consonants. It seems to me that the top-down
strategies of processing that are used in disambiguating Arabic 
homographs is
transferred to these transcription systems.

Here are some examples for a Lebanese chat room. You will see variation 
with a
longer samples.
rod 3alay (answer me)
7amdellah (welcome)
7abebi enta ra'esak awal moseba elna (my dear, your dancing is the first
disater for us)
jeet be wa2tak  (you came at the right time)
Alla la yestor 3aleh

These are from an Egyptian room. Again there are some variations. Also, 
the
final /h/ is encoded even though it is not prominent in natural speech.
yel3ab 	(he plays)
inta 7atta met2a7’ar (you are even late)
shab m3'shoosh (a deceived guy)
allah ya7’dak
enta lessah mat7'ana2tesh

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

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:09:47 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:09:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:generative phonology and classical poetry query
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
Subject:generative phonology and classical poetry query

dear friends,

is there anyone on the list, or anyone who knows another, who combines
the
latest in generative phonology and prosody--generative metrics--to
classical arabic verse? i'd love to chat... ;-)

Vincent DeCaen, Ph.D. <decaen at chass.utoronto.ca>
University of Toronto

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:09:56 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:09:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Standard Transliteration Systems
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:"sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk"
<Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject:Standard Transliteration Systems

Hi
There are roughly two standard systems of transliterating Arabic.
One is adopted by the Journal of Islamic Studies and the
Ecyclopaedia of Islam which is based on the traditional scholarly
method, where some Arabic-specific letters such as saad and
ghayn are transliterated by adding dots and lines under the close
Latin characters or by a combination of two characters such as gh
for gayn.

The other method is to transliterate Arabic-specific letters by
capitalizing them (as Arabic has no capitals), due to the
unavailability of dotted and underlined characters in some word
processing programs. So saad is S, ghayn is G, haa' is H. Even if
such dotted and underlined characters are available, this method is
much easier to grasp and words are easily read.
This is the academic kind of transliteration. A simple search on the
web can give a lot of links. Check for example:
http://visl.hum.sdu.dk/itwebsite/ar/artranslit.html

Last, is the one mentioned to be used on the web when writing
emails where Arabic words are to be included when writing in other
language (I cannot imagine a whole message transliterated that
way, let alone whole texts). This is a rather 'casual' kind of
rendering Arabic words where some letters are written as numbers
such as 3 for 'ayn, 6 for Taa' etc.

I hope this would help.

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

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:11:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Boston College Job
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject:Boston College Job

Arabic Language Instructor Position

     The program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Boston College
seeks a part-time instructor to teach a two semester sequence course of
elementary Modern Standard Arabic and one course in Middle Eastern
literature in translation in 2002-2003. There is a possibility of
renewal. We seek ABD candidates with native or near native fluency in
Arabic. Applicants should be dynamic teachers with experience in
teaching undergraduate students. Applicants should be interested in
contributing to the expansion of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
program. Please send an application, curriculum vitae, transcript and
three letters of recommendation to: Dwyane Carpenter and Qamar-ul Huda,
Arabic Language Search Committee, Boston College, Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures, 304 Lyons Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. The
deadline for receipt of applications is June 10, 2002.  Boston College
is an equal opportunity employer.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:12:26 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:12:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Journal of Arabic Literature TOC
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject:Journal of Arabic Literature TOC

From: Suzanne Stetkevych <stetkevy at indiana.edu>
Date: Tue Apr 30, 2002  03:55:00 PM US/Mountain
To: Arabic-Info at Dartmouth.EDU
Subject: JAL: Current Issue, Call for Papers

THE JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE ANNOUNCES ITS CURRENT ISSUE (33:1)

Articles:

NATHALIE KHANKAN (University of Copenhagen), "Reperceiving the
Pre-Islamic
Nasib"

ELLEN McLARNEY (Columbia University), "Unlocking the Female in Ahlam
Mustaghanami"

WAIL S. HASSAN (Illinois State University), "Postcolonial Theory and
Modern Arabic Literature: Horizons of Application"

Reviews:

J. A. ABU-HAIDAR, <<Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal
Lyrics>> (reviewed by Ignacio Ferrando, University of Cadiz)

MENAHEM MILSON, <<Najib Mahfuz: The Novelist-Philosopher of Cairo>>
(reviewed by Raymond Stock, University of Pennsylvania)

MIRIAM COOKE, <<Hayati, My Life: A Novel>> and <<Women Claim Islam:
Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature>> (reviewed by Muhsin Jassim
Al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah)

For more information, please contact the editor at:
<jal at indiana.edu>

Or see the JAL website:
http://php.indiana.edu/~jal

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:14:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New article
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Anthropological Linguistics Article

The following article of interest to subscribers was recently posted on
LINGUIST:

**ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS, Volume 43, Number 3 (Fall 2001)**

Creole Arabic: The Orphan of All Orphans, JONATHAN OWENS


The same issue contains the following book review:

Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian Border Villages
(Muhammad Hasan Amara), DILWORTH B. PARKINSON

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:17:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:17:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:List of Arabic-L subscriber suffixes
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:moderator
Subject:List of Arabic-L subscriber suffixes

Here is the promised list.  It is likely that there are subscribers from
other countries as well, but I have no way of knowing that at the moment.

ar   Argentina
at   Austria
au   Australia
be   Belgium
bh   Bahrain
bn   Brunei Darussalam
br   Brazil
ca   Canada
ch   Switzerland
cz   Czech Republic
de   Germany
dk   Denmark
eg   Egypt
es   Spain
fi   Finland
fr   France
il   Israel
ir   Iran
it   Italy
jo   Jordan
jp   Japan
kr   Korea (South)
kw   Kuwait
lb   Lebanon
ma   Morocco
mt   Malta
mx   Mexico
my   Malaysia
nl   Netherlands
no   Norway
nz   New Zealand (Aotearoa)
om   Oman
sa   Saudi Arabia
se   Sweden
sg   Singapore
su   USSR (former)
tn   Tunisia
uk   United Kingdom
yu   Yugoslavia

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:27 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Bruno Meissner query
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Date:  07 May 2002
From:Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Bruno Meissner query

Hi all,
 
In order to make a suitable forword to my translation of that colorful 
bundle of the so-called obscene tales in Bruno Meissner's (1868 - 1947) 
Neuarabische Geschichten aus dem Iraq -- gesammelt, uebersetzt, 
herausgegeben und mit einem erweitertern Glossar versehen. Leipzig, 
1903, I am trying to gather some data on author.
 
Britannica says nothing. Nothing on Web either, acc. to my search, save 
for a few book titles.
 
So, could anyone tell me (directly, if it'd be too heavy burdon to the 
List):
1-Where and what Meissner studied? (He was asyrologist, well, but his 
knowledge of the local contemporary Arabic dialect was obviously 
profound.)
2-For how long Meissner stayed on digging in Babilon and in what year(s) 
exactly (the time he has been compiling these anecdotes).
3-Has the compilation been translated to any other languages (having in 
view that he himself supplied a pedant German translation, I'd bet on 
French and Russian, but I'd need positive answers).
4-Meissner's whereabouts from the thirties on.
5-Author's photo (BMP or TIFF preferred) would do no harm.
 
TIA,
Srpko Lestaric

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:31 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Needs online translation site
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Date:  07 May 2002
From:sue tharwat <s_tharwat at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs online translation site

i am searching an online translation site&nbsp;from arabic to english or
french other than ajeeb.
would you have any information
thanks
sue mohamed
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:29 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs Digital Version of Ibn Khallikan's Wafayat
 Al-A'yan
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Date:  07 May 2002
From:GnhBos at aol.com
Subject:Needs Digital Version of Ibn Khallikan's Wafayat Al-A'yan

Dear List Members,
  'Does anyone know of a digitalised edition of Ibn Khallikan's Wafayat
  al-a'yan - on CD-ROM or on Internet server. At best this text should be
  available in a plain text format like Unicode or Microsoft Windows
  characterset 1252 and based on the standard edition of Ihsan Abbas.'
Thanks,
Best Regards,
George N. Hallak

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:35 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Transliteration of e-mail messages
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Date:  07 May 2002
From: jgreenman at t-online.de (Joe Greenman)
Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages

My sincere thanks to those who replied to my question. If anyone has any
more to
add, ....
Thanks,
Joe

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Date:  07 May 2002
From: Tim Buckwalter <TimBuckwalter at bainbridge.net>
Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages

You can see the numbers-based transliteration system described by Mustafa
Mughazy at this website that features lots of Arabic music in Real Audio
format: http://www.6arab.com/
Today's playlist includes:
M7ammad 3abdelwahab: 7asadooni
Ragheb 3alama: 7abeeb albi Hala
La6efa: Ya ghaddar Dubai
Sameerah Sa3eed: Wa6any al-ghona
Yousef El-Mo6ref: 7ayranah
Fayez El-Shireedah: Wala tez3al
3abdelhadi 7usain: Ser el-hawa
Joana Malla7: 6amenooni
3abdallah Rwaished: Rawa3awho Jalsa
3awath Doo5y: El-bere7a
Maryam Jamal: Al-gawaza al-sheek
7ayat: Ajmal 7ob

Tim Buckwalter

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Date:  07 May 2002
From:Bassem Medawar <medawar at panix.com>
Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages

What is even more interesting is why these particular numerals were
chosen.
[..]

Hi all,

If anyone is interested in tracking the evolution of transliteration
conventions on the Internet here are a couple pointers.  On
soc.culture.lebanon there were several attempts in early 1990's to
create transliteration conventions:

Qalam,
LAiLA
Alphaleb (or Alephleb)
CAT (a subset of Alphaleb)

Qalam dates back to 1985.

Thanks to google newsgroups archive, you can research transliteration
efforts on the Internet in an age predating the web and web gizmos.

For Alphaleb check:
From: Naji Mouawad (nmouawad at waterloo.edu)
Subject: AlpaLeb V 1.0
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Date: 1992-09-29 10:11:16 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl3384393089d&dq=&hl=en&selm=NMOUAWAD.
92Sep28153719%40math.waterloo.edu

For LAiLA check:
From: Naji Mouawad (nmouawad at watmath.waterloo.edu)
Subject: LAiLA. First Draft (English and Arabic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Date: 1990-12-14 17:11:09 PST

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=LAiLA+group:soc.culture.lebanon+author:Naji+
author:Mouawad&hl=en&selm=1990Dec14.012229.21361%40watmath.waterloo.edu&rnum=
1

For Qalam check:
From: Abdelsalam Heddaya (heddaya at bucs9.bu.edu)
Subject: Re: Transliteration (was LailA and Re: Lebanese Arabic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Date: 1990-12-22 03:52:33 PST

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=transliteration+Qalam&hl=en&selm=HEDDAYA.
90Dec21133612%40bucs9.bu.edu&rnum=2

For CAT check:
From: Bassem Medawar (medawar at prism.poly.edu)
Subject: CAT (Classical Arabic Transliteration) v.1.02
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Date: 1993-03-29 12:51:14 PST

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=CAT+alephleb+group:soc.culture.lebanon&hl=
en&selm=1993Mar29.184254.26419%40prism.poly.edu&rnum=1


In another message, Abdelsalam Heddaya wrote a message which pretty much
sums up the directions of internet inspired transliteration at the time:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=HEDDAYA.90Dec21124004%40bucs9.bu.
edu

Quote:

I support the effort to write in Arabic on soc.culture.lebanon. None of
the Arab mailing lists and newsgroups to which I've subscribed
(egypt-net at harvard.edu, tunisnet at psuvm.bitnet, iraqnet at psuvm.bitnet,
algeria-net at nubes.gatech.edu, soc.culture.arabic) saw an equally serious
attempt at writing in Arabic.

In 1985, I designed the first version of QALAM, an Arabic-Latin-Arabic
transliteration system that is intended for *written* Arabic, in
contrast with Naji Mouawad's goal to support the *spoken* Lebanese
dialect with his LaiLA transliteration system.

QALAM's goals include supporting automatic transliteration by computers,
as well as manual transliteration for typing in Arabic using Latin
script available on ASCII terminals. This permits computers that support
the Arabic script directly to hide the transliterated text from the
user. Thus, a Macintosh user, for example, should be able to type in
Arabic a message, and have the machine transliterate it for submission
to soc.culture.lebanon. Conversely, when this user receives an Arabic
message from soc.culture.lebanon, the computer would literate it back
into Arabic for display in Arabic script. In fact, the above scenario
should hold true for bi-lingual messages as well.

:Unquote

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:21 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Chicago Job
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Date:  07 May 2002
From:Farouk Mustafa <fawm at midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject:U of Chicago Job

The University of Chicago
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Arabic lecturer

The University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations, invites applications for a lecturer position in Arabic
language to begin in September 2002. Initial appointment will be for
two years. Candidates are expected to have native or near native command
of Modern Standard Arabic and one major dialect. They are also expected
to have experience in teaching Arabic as a foreign language using the
proficiency approach and some familiarity with the use of technology in
the classroom and in material development. Duties will include teaching
Arabic language courses at all levels. Please send a cover letter, an
updated CV, and three letters of recommendation to: Arabic Language
Lecturer Search Committee, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations,  University of Chicago, 1155 E. 58th Street,
Chicago,IL 60637.

Review of applications will begin May 10, 2002 and will continue until
the position is filled.

The University of Chicago is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action
Employer.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Linux/Unix Arabization
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2002.104324.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  07 May 2002
From:John Eisele <jceise at wm.edu>
Subject:Linux/Unix Arabization

[message received by AATA and forwarded to list]

As a member of the www.Arabeyes.org project (a grass-roots, open
source, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the Arabization
of linux/unix in both translation as well as software development),
I'm curious to know if the American Association of Teachers
of Arabic (AATA) has any information or might itself posses
a word-list or dictionary (in raw format) that it would would
be willing to share with the open source community to further
along Arabic and propel its usage within computers.

We've created a web program named QaMoose, but lack a database
to offer our users - populating it by hand has proven to be
too difficult and too time consuming.  We are also working on
producing an open-source Arabic spell-checker named Duali and
there too we'd like to have a list of valid words (format and
content unknown at this point due to the early nature of the
project).

As we'd be unable to pay for your assistance, we nonetheless
would like to engage and discuss all possible options and what
would make sense under the open source umbrella.  We'd like to
know how best to proceed to ensure a mutually beneficial
cooperative relationship.

Best Regards and we look forward to hearing back from you.

 - Nadim

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:46:22 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:46:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:International Conference on Arabic Language and
 Linguistics Program
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2002.104622.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  07 May 2002
From:Alaa Elgibali <elgibali at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:International Conference on Arabic Language and Linguistics 
Program

[moderator's note: Prof. Alaa Elgibali has sent the program for the 
ICALL as an attachment, which I can't forward.  You could request it 
from him directly, or if someone from AUC sends the program as part of a 
text message, I will post it here.  Here is his original message:]

Dear Colleagues,
 
Attached, please find the program of the International Conference on 
Arabic Language and Linguistics, to be held at the American University 
in Cairo on May 17 and 18, 2002.
 
Alaa Elgibali
elgibali at aucegypt.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  8 14:49:05 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:49:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:e-chat transliteration
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2002.084905.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  08 May 2002
From:Sanaa Ghanem <sanaa at arabacademy.com>
Subject:e-chat transliteration

This transliteration is gaining in popularity to the extent that street 
signs are starting to appear in Mohandisin, Cairo using it!  I would 
like to stress that this is not an Egyptian transliteration but an Arab 
one and is used by a number of Arab web sites.  The system is not fool 
proof.  There is no distinction between short and long vowels.  No 
distinction between siin and saad.  However, it is there to stay and it 
has served to meet the needs of the youth who used the chatrooms to chat 
in Arabic using Latin script.  We, at the Arab Academy, have chosen to 
base our transcription on this new exciting one but adapt it to meet the 
needs of our students.  We chose this system for 3 reasons:
1. It is already used, acclaimed and recognized by users who form the 
majority of Internet Arab users, namely the youth.
2. It does not rely on special characters for all its characters are 
found on the Arabic keyboard.
3. The resemblance between the choice of letters and the digit chosen to 
represent it is quite interesting as well as that of the dot. 3 for 3ayn 
and 3' for ghayn (the ' represents the dot).
 
To visit our system visit:
http://arabacademy.com/transcript_e.htm
 
Sanaa Ghanem
Arab Academy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  8 14:51:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:51:38 -0600
Subject: Araibc-L:TRANS:Online site for translation response
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2002.085138.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1)
Date:  08 May 2002
From:Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq1994 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Online site for translation response

Try http://www.almisbar.com/salam_trans.html

ma'salaam,
moHammed SadiQ

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  8 15:06:29 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:06:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Brown U. Job
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2002.090629.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1)
Date:  01 May 2002
From:John Eisele <jceise at wm.edu>
Subject:Brown U. Job

Position Description for a Lecturer in Arabic

BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence RI.  The Center for Language Studies at 
Brown University seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Arabic language to a 
two-year renewable contract, to begin teaching in September 2002. 
Applicant must have demonstrated college or university teaching 
experience in proficiency-based teaching of Modern Standard Arabic at 
all levels. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic and graduate work in 
language pedagogy or linguistics are required. Applications will begin 
being evaluated on receipt and will continue to be accepted until the 
position is filled or closed. Competitive salary and benefits. Brown 
University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and we 
encourage applications from women and minorities.  Send letter of 
application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation to: 
Arabic Search Committee, c/o William C. Crossgrove, Associate Dean of 
the Faculty, Box 1854, Providence, RI 02912. If possible, please submit 
these materials electronically to William_Crossgrove at brown.edu.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 10 21:58:28 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Review of Kiraz (2001) query
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2002.155828.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1)
Date:  10 May 2002
From:decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
Subject:Review of Kiraz (2001) query

has anyone seen any review, etc, of Kiraz (2001), Computational Nonlinear
Morphology: With Emphasis on Semitic Languages ?  is anyone on this list
interested in giving a review in this forum?

salaam,
V --

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 10 21:58:26 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:JAIS publication and info
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2002.155826.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1)
Date:  10 May 2002
From:"Joseph N. Bell" <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject:JAIS publication and info

It pleases me to announce that a contract between Edinburgh University
Press and the University of Bergen for the publication of the paper
version of JAIS plus one monograph per year has been signed. Publication
will start with volumes 1-3 (1996-97, 1998-99, and 2000) and the two
monographs already accepted. Volume 4 (2001-2002) and the next monograph
will be published as soon as they are ready. (Monographs require a
subsidy of GBP 1750 for works up to 256 pages.)

Minimally formatted versions of both the journal and the monographs
(current and future) will be allowed to remain on the Internet,
providing research results to a wide audience and to many scholars who
otherwise could not afford access to the information.

We still have some room in volume 4 (2001-2002) and volume 5 (2003) and
invite contributions. Our readers may also wish to consider submitting
longer works to the monograph series.

If an e-mail to me is rejected by our prudish server at Bergen (this
happens if your Internet provider sends out a lot of "spam" and
unsolicited pornography), mail me at

norme-b at online.no
Joseph Bell


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 10 21:58:25 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs Arabian Nights Info
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2002.155825.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  10 May 2002
From:moderator
Subject:Needs Arabian Nights Info

[We have received the following request and wonder if anyone out there
has encyclopedic knowledge of the Arabian Nights tales and could help
this person out.]

I am currently preparing for a production of "Arabian Nights" at the Rose
Wagner Theatre in SLC and have been searching--without luck--The Tales
from
the Thousand and One Nights for a story that I heard some time ago,
which (as
I recall) deals with a person who is concealed inside a bag.  This
person is
thought to be a monster or deformed, but it turns out to be
otherwise-perhaps
it is a beautiful woman, but my memory of the story is vague.  Are you
able
to shed any light on my search, or might you be able to refer me to
another
faculty member well versed in these tales?
I appreciate any information you might be able to provide,
Best wishes,
Roger Benington
BeningtonR at aol.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 10 21:58:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book on the Haram of Jerusalem
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2002.155824.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  10 May 2002
From:Andreas Kaplony <kaplony at oriental.unizh.ch>
Subject:New Book on the Haram of Jerusalem

Dear colleagues

It is my pleasure to inform you that my recent book on Jerusalem has been
published. Enjoy reading.

Best wishes, Andreas Kaplony

***********************
The Haram of Jerusalem 324-1099: Temple, Friday Mosque, Area of Spiritual
Power. - Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002 (Freiburger Islamstudien
22). - XVII, 789 pages. - ISBN 3-515-07901-0. - E 100.-/sfrs.168.20

 From the Muslims' to the Crusaders' conquest Jerusalem is among the
world's best know cities. Its most outstanding and constant feature is
its
holiness shared by three religions (Muslim, Jewish and
Christian). Covering the Byzantine, the Marwanid, the Abbasid and the
Fatimid phase, this study describes not only the emergence of conceptions
with which the three religions share the city, but also their interaction
as well as the political circumstances and religious axioms which give
each conception its specific shape. Looking for these conceptions, the
holy area of the city, the Haram, has been chosen. This area of the
former
Temple was higly significant to all three religions. The analysis is
based
on a careful description of the Haram (focusing on topics like names and
traditions, architecture, rituals and customs, visions and dreams), and
on
the establishment of as many parallels as possible.
**********************
PD Dr. Andreas Kaplony. Universitaet Zuerich, Orientalisches Seminar:
Wiesenstrasse 9, CH-8008 Zuerich, 0041-1-634 07 36/1, 0041-1-634 36 92
(Fax). Privat: Scheuchzerstrasse 135, CH-8006 Zuerich, 0041-1-361 29 41.
kaplony at oriental.unizh.ch

Arabic Papyrology School: www.unizh.ch/ori/aps

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May 20 21:44:03 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 15:44:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs 2-3 week Arabic refresher courses for Army
 Linguists
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Date:  20 May 2002
From:"Wells, Jeffrey" <wellsj at HUAIC-62702.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:Needs 2-3 week Arabic refresher courses for Army Linguists

[this note was forwarded to me, and I thought maybe some of you might be
interested.]

Dear Sir,

I am the Command Language Program Manager for E Co, 309th MI BN, Ft
Huachuca, AZ.  I am looking at placing some of our linguists in language
maintenance programs for proficiency purposes.  Specifically, I am
looking
at two to three week temporary duty assignments at colleges and
universities
for that purpose.  Currently, I have Arabic, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and
Korean linguists that want to attend intense maintenance courses.  If you
offer such a program, or if you could recommend a contact, I would
greatly
appreciate your assistance.  Thanks in advance.

JEFFERY R. WELLS
SSG, USA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May 20 21:45:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 15:45:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Muslim Country/Culture Workshops
Message-ID: <MON.20.MAY.2002.154501.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  20 May 2002
From:Tamara Rohrer <TamaraR at nafsa.org>
Subject:Muslim Country/Culture Workshops

**Muslim Country/Culture Workshops in July--Register Now**

NAFSA: Association of International Educators is offering two national,
parallel Country/Culture Workshops, "Understanding Islam and Muslim
Students," scheduled July 18-20 and July 25-27, 2002.

The workshops will be hosted by the Middle East Studies Center at
Portland
State University and Georgia Southern University in cooperation with
Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar, respectively,
with funding provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
of
the U.S. Department of State. These workshops will examine the Muslim
world
in historic and geographic context, basic beliefs or tenets of Islam,
intercultural communication and customs in predominantly Muslim
countries,
and how to work effectively with Muslim students on your campus.

For more information on workshop registration and travel grants and to
view
the workshop agenda for either workshop, access the Web at:
http://www.nafsa.org/countryculture/ or call 202.737.3699, ext. 227.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 22 19:20:51 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:20:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2-3 week refresher course responses
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2) Subject:2-3 week refresher course response
3) Subject:2-3 week refresher course response
4) Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

[moderator's note: I have forwarded these messages to the person who
sent in the request.]

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1)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

I understand that Professor Hillman is in charge of a three-week course
in Arabic (and one in Persian, too) in Austin, Texas this June.  Contact
him at Middle East Center, University of Texas, Austin.

Ernest McCarus

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2)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

You might contact the people at Exotic Languages Agency (ELA) in Orange,
California. Background and contact data about ELA are below.

While colleges and universities are attractive options, their POI and
scheduling may be hard to adjust to your soldier-linguists' METL, tasks
and
needs for MOSQ relevance, plus complicate their balancing their scheduled
summer-session classes with available faculty. Some academic
institutions in
CONUS and OCONUS present issues and considerations of public visibility /
OPSEC / force protection.

You might contact the people at Exotic Languages Agency (ELA) in Orange,
California. The ELA has provided / is providing some mission-focussed
total
immersion  language, cultural (and language-dependent operational)
training
for DOD military linguists, including some from several CONUS units.
Details
are in my separate e-mail to your < army.mil > address as back-up e-mail.

All graduates score well on post-course DLPTs or OPIs after they return
to
their home stations.

Soldier-linguists in all MOS and CMFs can benefit by sharpening their
global
proficiencies;  the emphasis of POI content is usually heavy on the side
of
general linguists, foreign liaison, attaches and field operators.

The ELA offers courses that can run 2 wks, 4 wks or longer. Your
linguists
can go there TDY to southern California (maximizes the immersion in
replicated authentic cultures if desired), or ELA can dispatch
instructors
for on-post/controlled-access on-site training.

ELA provides graduates with transcripts and breakouts of hours of
completed
formal instruction so that the linguists can apply for academic credit
via
on-post education services center.

BTW, which dialect of AD is of interest? ELA usually can cover any of
them.
ELA covers 200+ languages, dialects and cultures.

FYI, ELA recently increased the number of supported languages incidental
to
Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, including SWA / Eurasia, the Middle East,
Africa
and Pacific. ELA enjoys some unique and extensive ties to qualified
instructors in many ethnic communities in Caliiornia and elsewhere in
CONUS.

ELA accepts payment by USG credit charge cards, since course costs are
usually within that range.

Contact data for ELA:

Tel: 1.800.303.7200 or 714.704.1874

Fax: 1.714.704.1870

e-mail: ela at ela1.com

Ask them to e-mail the special pages on ELA's "Languages and Area Studies
Immersion" (LASI) training program.

website:  http://www.ela1.com >

HTH. Good luck. I am advisor to ELA on USG and DoD matters and am very
familiar with the benefits and suitability of ELA's LASI to military
linguists. If your unit schedules LASI sessions at ELA, I would be in
direct
support / backstop / "bounding overwatch" / QA.

All best regards,
Stephen H. Franke

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3)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

Salam to you all,
Hope you are all fine. Please be informed that Hedayet
Institute for Arabic Studies(HIAS) in Cairo has a web
site now that you may have a look at.We also tailor
short courses if we are contacted enough time before
hand. It is : www.arabicstudieshedayet.com  I wish you
all a wonderful summer.
Nagwa Hedayet
HIAS Director

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Date:  22 May 2002
From:Sanaa Ghanem <sanaa at arabacademy.com>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

The Arab Academy offers online Arabic language courses for all language
levels, that would make excellent 'refresher and language maintenance
courses' for your linguists.  The courses are self paced and could be
adjusted to the time frame of students.
For more information on the courses available visit:
http://www.arabacademy.com/main/online/registrar_e.shtml

Sanaa Ghanem
Arab Academy
http://www.arabacademy.com

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:26:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:4th Cush-Om Conference in Leiden
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Date:  22 May 2002
From:Robin Thelwall/Rebecca Bradley <eubule at telusplanet.net>
Subject:4th Cush-Om Conference in Leiden

[this message was passed on from NACAL]

Dear Colleague,

We have the pleasure to announce the

4th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic Languages

to be held in Leiden from Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th April 2003.

The theme of the conference will be linguistic aspects of Cushitic and
Omotic languages. Papers and contributions on the phonology, morphology,
syntax and pragmatics of these languages are welcome, preferably from a
descriptive point of view. Students in BA, MA and PhD programs are
particularly encouraged to present their research.
	
At this point we would like to know if you wish to be included in the
mailing list of the conference. We kindly ask you to inform us before
20.06.2002 writing to the e-mail address: Cush-Om at let.leidenuniv.nl

You can also write to the mail address:

4th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic Languages
Dept. of African Languages and Cultures, Leiden University,
P.O.Box 9515, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Only those who register receive subsequent mail with more information.

   Please pass this announcement on to whoever might be interested. This
announcement and other information as it becomes available can also be 
found
at the web page:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/tca/atk/Cush-Om_WebPage.htm

Looking forward to hearing from you,

The organising committee:
Azeb Amha, Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold, Cabdelqaadir Ruumi,
Graziano Savà

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:27:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation:Reference Grammar of Kunuz Nubian
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Date:  22 May 2002
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Dissertation:Reference Grammar of Kunuz Nubian

New Dissertation Abstract

Institution: State University of New York at Buffalo
Program: Ph.D.
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 1988

Author: Ahmed Sokarno Abdel-Hafiz

Dissertation Title:
A Reference Grammar of Kunuz Nubian

Linguistic Field: Language Description

Dissertation Director 1: Donna B. Gerdts
Dissertation Director 2: Joan L. Bybee
Dissertation Director 3: Madeline Mathiot


Dissertation Abstract:

This is a grammar of Kunuz Nubian (KN), an Eastern Sudanic language
spoken in Southern Egypt. It is the first grammar ever written on this
language. The areas covered in the study are phonology, morphology and
syntax. The chapter on phonology introduces KN phonemic inventory
which is followed by the description of the syllable structure,
stress, phonetactics and phonological rules. The chapter on morphology
shows that the morphemes that participate in the composition of KN
word classes are classified into conceptual categories. These
categories are further divided into two types: derivational and
inflectional. The chapter on KN syntax starts with basic facts such as
word order, verb agreement and reflexives. The types of constructions
discussed include morphosyntactic rules, complementations and
subordinates. The grammar also includes two texts and a word list of
KN.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 30 23:04:13 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:04:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliterating Arabic on a PC query
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1) Subject:Transliterating Arabic on a PC response

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Date:  30 May 2002
From:Paul Roochnik <paul at TranslationGuy.com>
Subject:Transliterating Arabic on a PC query

Dear Colleagues,
My friend, Ahmad Al-Ubaydli, would like information on the
transliteration of Arabic on the PC.  If you would be so kind as to
reply directly to him, I am sure he would be most grateful.
Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy.

From: Ahmad Al-Ubaydli [mailto:ahmad at alubaydli.com]

Can you please advise me on the best transliteration system available on
PC. As you know the "symbol" facility does not cover all diacritics used
for transliterating Arabic.
Your help would appreciated
Regards
ahmad al-ubaydli           ahmad at alubaydli.com

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Date:  30 May 2002
From:Paul Nelson <paulnel at winse.microsoft.com>
Subject:Transliterating Arabic on a PC response

[moderator's note: the original query was posted on both ITISALAT and
Arabic-L; what follows is a response to the above message that was sent
to both lists.]

You can use any of the various Arabic Transliteration systems available
if you are using a Unicode base operating system (Windows 2000, Windows
Xp, Mac OS X, etc.) and are using Unicode based applications (Office Xp,
etc.).

After you have these in place, only issue is getting a font that has the
characters you desire and a keyboard driver (like Keyman) that allows
you to make a keyboard layout to enter the letters.

I would think that using a convention that is familiar to the people
reading the documents would be the best choice.

Microsoft will be releasing a font called Arabic Typesetting with the
next version of Office (.NET). That font has all characters needed for
transliteration of semetic languages (that I have been able to identify)
as well as support for the complete Arabic Unicode block.

Regards,

Paul

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:04:16 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic tokeniser
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Date:  30 May 2002
From:"Mona T. Diab" <mdiab at umiacs.umd.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic tokeniser

Hello
I am looking for an Arabic tokeniser? Does anyone know of the existence
of
one
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Mona

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 30 23:04:15 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:04:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Scholarships for Arabic Study query
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Date:  30 May 2002
From:"Timothy A. Gregory" <tgregory at tarjema.com>
Subject:Scholarships for Arabic Study query

Greetings all,

I recently read an article in the Washington Post (online 
version:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/articles/A18134-2002May27.html) and it brings to light a lot of 
interesting facts about the study of Arabic within the United States. 
The one fact that really sticks with me after reading through it was 
from one of the bar charts, there are nearly five times as many students 
studying Latin (26,145) as study Arabic (5,505)…

After talking with some of my colleagues I really got to wondering about 
scholarships for studying Arabic within the US. Are there any such 
things? I remember very vaguely someone going off to the University of 
Washington on some sort of scholarship, but that was in 1990.

As always, thanks for your help!

--tag

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 30 23:04:16 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:04:16 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:New Book:World of Obituaries
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Date:  30 May 2002
From:Renee Tambeau <Renee.Tambeau at wayne.edu>
Subject:New Book:World of Obituaries

The World
of Obituaries
Gender across Cultures and over Time
Mushira A. Eid

This unusual book, The World of Obituaries, looks at obituaries as a rich
source of information on cultural representations of gender. It examines
obituaries published from 1938 to 1998 in three cultures-Egypt, Iran, and
the United States-to analyze how women and men are represented in their
death notices and how these representations have changed over time. It
also
shows how obituaries, viewed as texts, at times converge with but often
diverge from expected norms.
Mushira Eid has applied quantitative and qualitative analytical
techniques
to 4,400 obituaries, using names, titles, and occupations as linguistic
symbols of identity. Data were collected for a month at ten-year
intervals
to measure change. From them, she demonstrates differences within the
world
of obituaries, relates this world to the world at large, and constructs a
model based on this comparison. Resulting facts are placed within the
context of women's movements in the three cultures and are related to
other
sociocultural and political events that may have influenced perceptions
of
gender roles.
The World of Obituaries offers a unique synthesis of information on
women,
men, and public space in three cultures. It opens a new window on
gender-related differences in language, both cross-culturally and
historically, and invites readers to view obituaries in a new light.

Mushira A. Eid has had a life-long fascination with obituaries. She is a
professor of Arabic and linguistics at the University of Utah.

Publication Date:
May 30, 2002

336 pages,
ISBN 0-8143-2775-9,
cloth: $39.95

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:09:02 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:09:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Transliteration of e-chat responses
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3) Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response

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Date:  01 May 2002
From:Joost Kremers <j.kremers at let.kun.nl>
Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response

I am not sure if the term "standard" would really apply here. I have
seen Egyptians use the Roman alphabet a few times to communicate in
Arabic over the web or via e-mail. Being Egyptians, they wrote
Egyptian Arabic rather than Standard Arabic, and the transliteration
was defective. For example, long vowels were generally not
distinguished from short ones, both ha' and Ha' were transcribed with
the letter `h' (similarly for siin and SaaD and other
non-emphatic/emphatic pairs), `ayn was not normally indicated, etc.

The system is typically developed by and for native speakers, and
obviously serves a purpose to them. The defective nature is not really
a problem for them, because they can easily reconstruct the
distinctions that are missing. But because of this defective nature,
it is unlikely it would be really useful to non-native speakers, and
it would certainly not be suitable for use in a scientific context.

 From a (socio)linguistic point of view, it is a very interesting
phenomenon, of course.

--
Joost Kremers
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Department of Arabic and Islam

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Date:  01 May 2002
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response

 From my experience, I have not seen one standard; I have seen several.
It is not possible that "young Arabs all over the world" who chat on the 
web have one standard at this point in time.
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject:Transliteration of e-chat response

I think that the wide spread of chat rooms, where you cannot use the 
Arabic
script necessitated a transliteration system that everyone can use. The 
system
that I know is pretty simple; you use the English letters for the sounds 
that
are shared by the two languages, and numerals for those that are not in
English. For example, 7 for the voiceless fricative pharyngeal, as in 
wa7id
(one), 7* for the voiceless uvular fricative,2 for the glottal stop 2wwel
(first), 3 for the voiced pharyngeal as in 3arabi (Arabic), and 3* for 
the
voiced uvular fricative 3*arbi (western). Of course there are other 
systems
that use capital letters.

What is even more interesting is why these particular numerals were 
chosen.
There is some symbolic resemblance between these numerals and the Arabic
letters for these sounds. What needs to be investigated is how these
associations were conventionalized and who are the sociolinguistic 
leaders of
change that promoted and standardized their use. Also, you might notice 
that
vowels are not always transcribed accurately because usually there is no
distinction between long and short vowels. The same is observed with
gemination and emphatic consonants. It seems to me that the top-down
strategies of processing that are used in disambiguating Arabic 
homographs is
transferred to these transcription systems.

Here are some examples for a Lebanese chat room. You will see variation 
with a
longer samples.
rod 3alay (answer me)
7amdellah (welcome)
7abebi enta ra'esak awal moseba elna (my dear, your dancing is the first
disater for us)
jeet be wa2tak  (you came at the right time)
Alla la yestor 3aleh

These are from an Egyptian room. Again there are some variations. Also, 
the
final /h/ is encoded even though it is not prominent in natural speech.
yel3ab 	(he plays)
inta 7atta met2a7?ar (you are even late)
shab m3'shoosh (a deceived guy)
allah ya7?dak
enta lessah mat7'ana2tesh

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

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:09:47 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:09:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:generative phonology and classical poetry query
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
Subject:generative phonology and classical poetry query

dear friends,

is there anyone on the list, or anyone who knows another, who combines
the
latest in generative phonology and prosody--generative metrics--to
classical arabic verse? i'd love to chat... ;-)

Vincent DeCaen, Ph.D. <decaen at chass.utoronto.ca>
University of Toronto

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:09:56 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:09:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Standard Transliteration Systems
Message-ID: <WED.1.MAY.2002.140956.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  01 May 2002
From:"sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk"
<Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject:Standard Transliteration Systems

Hi
There are roughly two standard systems of transliterating Arabic.
One is adopted by the Journal of Islamic Studies and the
Ecyclopaedia of Islam which is based on the traditional scholarly
method, where some Arabic-specific letters such as saad and
ghayn are transliterated by adding dots and lines under the close
Latin characters or by a combination of two characters such as gh
for gayn.

The other method is to transliterate Arabic-specific letters by
capitalizing them (as Arabic has no capitals), due to the
unavailability of dotted and underlined characters in some word
processing programs. So saad is S, ghayn is G, haa' is H. Even if
such dotted and underlined characters are available, this method is
much easier to grasp and words are easily read.
This is the academic kind of transliteration. A simple search on the
web can give a lot of links. Check for example:
http://visl.hum.sdu.dk/itwebsite/ar/artranslit.html

Last, is the one mentioned to be used on the web when writing
emails where Arabic words are to be included when writing in other
language (I cannot imagine a whole message transliterated that
way, let alone whole texts). This is a rather 'casual' kind of
rendering Arabic words where some letters are written as numbers
such as 3 for 'ayn, 6 for Taa' etc.

I hope this would help.

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

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:11:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Boston College Job
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1)
Date:  01 May 2002
From:reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject:Boston College Job

Arabic Language Instructor Position

     The program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Boston College
seeks a part-time instructor to teach a two semester sequence course of
elementary Modern Standard Arabic and one course in Middle Eastern
literature in translation in 2002-2003. There is a possibility of
renewal. We seek ABD candidates with native or near native fluency in
Arabic. Applicants should be dynamic teachers with experience in
teaching undergraduate students. Applicants should be interested in
contributing to the expansion of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
program. Please send an application, curriculum vitae, transcript and
three letters of recommendation to: Dwyane Carpenter and Qamar-ul Huda,
Arabic Language Search Committee, Boston College, Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures, 304 Lyons Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. The
deadline for receipt of applications is June 10, 2002.  Boston College
is an equal opportunity employer.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:12:26 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:12:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Journal of Arabic Literature TOC
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject:Journal of Arabic Literature TOC

From: Suzanne Stetkevych <stetkevy at indiana.edu>
Date: Tue Apr 30, 2002  03:55:00 PM US/Mountain
To: Arabic-Info at Dartmouth.EDU
Subject: JAL: Current Issue, Call for Papers

THE JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE ANNOUNCES ITS CURRENT ISSUE (33:1)

Articles:

NATHALIE KHANKAN (University of Copenhagen), "Reperceiving the
Pre-Islamic
Nasib"

ELLEN McLARNEY (Columbia University), "Unlocking the Female in Ahlam
Mustaghanami"

WAIL S. HASSAN (Illinois State University), "Postcolonial Theory and
Modern Arabic Literature: Horizons of Application"

Reviews:

J. A. ABU-HAIDAR, <<Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal
Lyrics>> (reviewed by Ignacio Ferrando, University of Cadiz)

MENAHEM MILSON, <<Najib Mahfuz: The Novelist-Philosopher of Cairo>>
(reviewed by Raymond Stock, University of Pennsylvania)

MIRIAM COOKE, <<Hayati, My Life: A Novel>> and <<Women Claim Islam:
Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature>> (reviewed by Muhsin Jassim
Al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah)

For more information, please contact the editor at:
<jal at indiana.edu>

Or see the JAL website:
http://php.indiana.edu/~jal

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:14:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New article
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Anthropological Linguistics Article

The following article of interest to subscribers was recently posted on
LINGUIST:

**ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS, Volume 43, Number 3 (Fall 2001)**

Creole Arabic: The Orphan of All Orphans, JONATHAN OWENS


The same issue contains the following book review:

Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian Border Villages
(Muhammad Hasan Amara), DILWORTH B. PARKINSON

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  1 20:17:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:17:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:List of Arabic-L subscriber suffixes
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Date:  01 May 2002
From:moderator
Subject:List of Arabic-L subscriber suffixes

Here is the promised list.  It is likely that there are subscribers from
other countries as well, but I have no way of knowing that at the moment.

ar   Argentina
at   Austria
au   Australia
be   Belgium
bh   Bahrain
bn   Brunei Darussalam
br   Brazil
ca   Canada
ch   Switzerland
cz   Czech Republic
de   Germany
dk   Denmark
eg   Egypt
es   Spain
fi   Finland
fr   France
il   Israel
ir   Iran
it   Italy
jo   Jordan
jp   Japan
kr   Korea (South)
kw   Kuwait
lb   Lebanon
ma   Morocco
mt   Malta
mx   Mexico
my   Malaysia
nl   Netherlands
no   Norway
nz   New Zealand (Aotearoa)
om   Oman
sa   Saudi Arabia
se   Sweden
sg   Singapore
su   USSR (former)
tn   Tunisia
uk   United Kingdom
yu   Yugoslavia

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:27 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Bruno Meissner query
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2002.104327.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  07 May 2002
From:Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Bruno Meissner query

Hi all,
?
In order to make a suitable forword to my translation of that colorful 
bundle of the so-called obscene tales in Bruno Meissner's?(1868 - 1947) 
Neuarabische Geschichten aus dem Iraq -- gesammelt, uebersetzt, 
herausgegeben und mit einem erweitertern Glossar versehen. Leipzig, 
1903, I am trying to gather some data on author.
?
Britannica says nothing. Nothing on Web either, acc. to my search, save 
for a few book titles.
?
So, could anyone tell me (directly, if it'd be too heavy burdon to the 
List):
1-Where and what Meissner studied? (He was asyrologist, well, but his 
knowledge of the local contemporary Arabic dialect was obviously 
profound.)
2-For how long Meissner stayed on digging in Babilon and in what year(s) 
exactly (the time he has been compiling these anecdotes).
3-Has the compilation been translated to any other languages (having in 
view that he himself supplied a pedant German translation, I'd bet on 
French and Russian, but I'd need positive answers).
4-Meissner's whereabouts from the thirties on.
5-Author's photo (BMP or TIFF preferred)?would do no harm.
?
TIA,
Srpko Lestaric

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Needs online translation site
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Date:  07 May 2002
From:sue tharwat <s_tharwat at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs online translation site

i am searching an online translation site&nbsp;from arabic to english or
french other than ajeeb.
would you have any information
thanks
sue mohamed
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:29 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs Digital Version of Ibn Khallikan's Wafayat
 Al-A'yan
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2002.104329.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  07 May 2002
From:GnhBos at aol.com
Subject:Needs Digital Version of Ibn Khallikan's Wafayat Al-A'yan

Dear List Members,
  'Does anyone know of a digitalised edition of Ibn Khallikan's Wafayat
  al-a'yan - on CD-ROM or on Internet server. At best this text should be
  available in a plain text format like Unicode or Microsoft Windows
  characterset 1252 and based on the standard edition of Ihsan Abbas.'
Thanks,
Best Regards,
George N. Hallak

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:35 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Transliteration of e-mail messages
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2002.104335.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages
2) Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages
3) Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages

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Date:  07 May 2002
From: jgreenman at t-online.de (Joe Greenman)
Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages

My sincere thanks to those who replied to my question. If anyone has any
more to
add, ....
Thanks,
Joe

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Date:  07 May 2002
From: Tim Buckwalter <TimBuckwalter at bainbridge.net>
Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages

You can see the numbers-based transliteration system described by Mustafa
Mughazy at this website that features lots of Arabic music in Real Audio
format: http://www.6arab.com/
Today's playlist includes:
M7ammad 3abdelwahab: 7asadooni
Ragheb 3alama: 7abeeb albi Hala
La6efa: Ya ghaddar Dubai
Sameerah Sa3eed: Wa6any al-ghona
Yousef El-Mo6ref: 7ayranah
Fayez El-Shireedah: Wala tez3al
3abdelhadi 7usain: Ser el-hawa
Joana Malla7: 6amenooni
3abdallah Rwaished: Rawa3awho Jalsa
3awath Doo5y: El-bere7a
Maryam Jamal: Al-gawaza al-sheek
7ayat: Ajmal 7ob

Tim Buckwalter

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Date:  07 May 2002
From:Bassem Medawar <medawar at panix.com>
Subject:Transliteration of e-mail messages

What is even more interesting is why these particular numerals were
chosen.
[..]

Hi all,

If anyone is interested in tracking the evolution of transliteration
conventions on the Internet here are a couple pointers.  On
soc.culture.lebanon there were several attempts in early 1990's to
create transliteration conventions:

Qalam,
LAiLA
Alphaleb (or Alephleb)
CAT (a subset of Alphaleb)

Qalam dates back to 1985.

Thanks to google newsgroups archive, you can research transliteration
efforts on the Internet in an age predating the web and web gizmos.

For Alphaleb check:
From: Naji Mouawad (nmouawad at waterloo.edu)
Subject: AlpaLeb V 1.0
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Date: 1992-09-29 10:11:16 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl3384393089d&dq=&hl=en&selm=NMOUAWAD.
92Sep28153719%40math.waterloo.edu

For LAiLA check:
From: Naji Mouawad (nmouawad at watmath.waterloo.edu)
Subject: LAiLA. First Draft (English and Arabic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Date: 1990-12-14 17:11:09 PST

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=LAiLA+group:soc.culture.lebanon+author:Naji+
author:Mouawad&hl=en&selm=1990Dec14.012229.21361%40watmath.waterloo.edu&rnum=
1

For Qalam check:
From: Abdelsalam Heddaya (heddaya at bucs9.bu.edu)
Subject: Re: Transliteration (was LailA and Re: Lebanese Arabic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Date: 1990-12-22 03:52:33 PST

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=transliteration+Qalam&hl=en&selm=HEDDAYA.
90Dec21133612%40bucs9.bu.edu&rnum=2

For CAT check:
From: Bassem Medawar (medawar at prism.poly.edu)
Subject: CAT (Classical Arabic Transliteration) v.1.02
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Date: 1993-03-29 12:51:14 PST

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=CAT+alephleb+group:soc.culture.lebanon&hl=
en&selm=1993Mar29.184254.26419%40prism.poly.edu&rnum=1


In another message, Abdelsalam Heddaya wrote a message which pretty much
sums up the directions of internet inspired transliteration at the time:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=HEDDAYA.90Dec21124004%40bucs9.bu.
edu

Quote:

I support the effort to write in Arabic on soc.culture.lebanon. None of
the Arab mailing lists and newsgroups to which I've subscribed
(egypt-net at harvard.edu, tunisnet at psuvm.bitnet, iraqnet at psuvm.bitnet,
algeria-net at nubes.gatech.edu, soc.culture.arabic) saw an equally serious
attempt at writing in Arabic.

In 1985, I designed the first version of QALAM, an Arabic-Latin-Arabic
transliteration system that is intended for *written* Arabic, in
contrast with Naji Mouawad's goal to support the *spoken* Lebanese
dialect with his LaiLA transliteration system.

QALAM's goals include supporting automatic transliteration by computers,
as well as manual transliteration for typing in Arabic using Latin
script available on ASCII terminals. This permits computers that support
the Arabic script directly to hide the transliterated text from the
user. Thus, a Macintosh user, for example, should be able to type in
Arabic a message, and have the machine transliterate it for submission
to soc.culture.lebanon. Conversely, when this user receives an Arabic
message from soc.culture.lebanon, the computer would literate it back
into Arabic for display in Arabic script. In fact, the above scenario
should hold true for bi-lingual messages as well.

:Unquote

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:21 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Chicago Job
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Date:  07 May 2002
From:Farouk Mustafa <fawm at midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject:U of Chicago Job

The University of Chicago
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Arabic lecturer

The University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations, invites applications for a lecturer position in Arabic
language to begin in September 2002. Initial appointment will be for
two years. Candidates are expected to have native or near native command
of Modern Standard Arabic and one major dialect. They are also expected
to have experience in teaching Arabic as a foreign language using the
proficiency approach and some familiarity with the use of technology in
the classroom and in material development. Duties will include teaching
Arabic language courses at all levels. Please send a cover letter, an
updated CV, and three letters of recommendation to: Arabic Language
Lecturer Search Committee, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations,  University of Chicago, 1155 E. 58th Street,
Chicago,IL 60637.

Review of applications will begin May 10, 2002 and will continue until
the position is filled.

The University of Chicago is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action
Employer.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:43:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:43:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Linux/Unix Arabization
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2002.104324.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  07 May 2002
From:John Eisele <jceise at wm.edu>
Subject:Linux/Unix Arabization

[message received by AATA and forwarded to list]

As a member of the www.Arabeyes.org project (a grass-roots, open
source, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the Arabization
of linux/unix in both translation as well as software development),
I'm curious to know if the American Association of Teachers
of Arabic (AATA) has any information or might itself posses
a word-list or dictionary (in raw format) that it would would
be willing to share with the open source community to further
along Arabic and propel its usage within computers.

We've created a web program named QaMoose, but lack a database
to offer our users - populating it by hand has proven to be
too difficult and too time consuming.? We are also working on
producing an open-source Arabic spell-checker named Duali and
there too we'd like to have a list of valid words (format and
content unknown at this point due to the early nature of the
project).

As we'd be unable to pay for your assistance, we nonetheless
would like to engage and discuss all possible options and what
would make sense under the open source umbrella.? We'd like to
know how best to proceed to ensure a mutually beneficial
cooperative relationship.

Best Regards and we look forward to hearing back from you.

?- Nadim

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue May  7 16:46:22 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:46:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:International Conference on Arabic Language and
 Linguistics Program
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1) Subject:International Conference on Arabic Language and Linguistics 
Program

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Date:  07 May 2002
From:Alaa Elgibali <elgibali at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:International Conference on Arabic Language and Linguistics 
Program

[moderator's note: Prof. Alaa Elgibali has sent the program for the 
ICALL as an attachment, which I can't forward.  You could request it 
from him directly, or if someone from AUC sends the program as part of a 
text message, I will post it here.  Here is his original message:]

Dear Colleagues,
?
Attached, please find the program of the International Conference on 
Arabic Language and Linguistics, to be held at the American University 
in Cairo on May 17 and 18, 2002.
?
Alaa Elgibali
elgibali at aucegypt.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  8 14:49:05 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:49:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:e-chat transliteration
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Date:  08 May 2002
From:Sanaa Ghanem <sanaa at arabacademy.com>
Subject:e-chat transliteration

This transliteration is gaining in popularity to the extent that street 
signs are starting to appear in Mohandisin, Cairo using it!? I would 
like to stress that this is not an Egyptian transliteration but an Arab 
one and is used by a number of Arab web sites.? The system is not fool 
proof.? There is no distinction between short and long vowels.? No 
distinction between siin and saad.? However, it is there to stay and it 
has served to meet the needs of the youth who used the chatrooms?to chat 
in Arabic using Latin script.? We, at the Arab Academy, have chosen to 
base our transcription on this new exciting one but adapt it to meet the 
needs of our students.? We chose this system for?3 reasons:
1. It is already used, acclaimed and recognized by users who form the 
majority of Internet Arab users, namely the youth.
2. It does not rely on special characters for all its characters are 
found on the Arabic keyboard.
3. The resemblance between the choice of letters and the digit chosen to 
represent it is quite interesting as well as that of the dot. 3 for 3ayn 
and 3' for ghayn (the ' represents the dot).
?
To visit our system visit:
http://arabacademy.com/transcript_e.htm
?
Sanaa Ghanem
Arab Academy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  8 14:51:38 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:51:38 -0600
Subject: Araibc-L:TRANS:Online site for translation response
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2002.085138.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  08 May 2002
From:Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq1994 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Online site for translation response

Try http://www.almisbar.com/salam_trans.html

ma'salaam,
moHammed SadiQ

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May  8 15:06:29 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:06:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Brown U. Job
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1)
Date:  01 May 2002
From:John Eisele <jceise at wm.edu>
Subject:Brown U. Job

Position Description for a Lecturer in Arabic

BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence RI.? The Center for Language Studies at 
Brown University seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Arabic language to a 
two-year renewable contract, to begin teaching in September 2002. 
Applicant must have demonstrated college or university teaching 
experience in proficiency-based teaching of Modern Standard Arabic at 
all levels. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic and graduate work in 
language pedagogy or linguistics are required. Applications will begin 
being evaluated on receipt and will continue to be accepted until the 
position is filled or closed. Competitive salary and benefits. Brown 
University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and we 
encourage applications from women and minorities.? Send letter of 
application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation to: 
Arabic Search Committee, c/o William C. Crossgrove, Associate Dean of 
the Faculty, Box 1854, Providence, RI 02912. If possible, please submit 
these materials electronically to William_Crossgrove at brown.edu.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 10 21:58:28 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Review of Kiraz (2001) query
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2002.155828.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  10 May 2002
From:decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
Subject:Review of Kiraz (2001) query

has anyone seen any review, etc, of Kiraz (2001), Computational Nonlinear
Morphology: With Emphasis on Semitic Languages ?  is anyone on this list
interested in giving a review in this forum?

salaam,
V --

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 10 21:58:26 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:JAIS publication and info
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2002.155826.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject:JAIS publication and info

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Date:  10 May 2002
From:"Joseph N. Bell" <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject:JAIS publication and info

It pleases me to announce that a contract between Edinburgh University
Press and the University of Bergen for the publication of the paper
version of JAIS plus one monograph per year has been signed. Publication
will start with volumes 1-3 (1996-97, 1998-99, and 2000) and the two
monographs already accepted. Volume 4 (2001-2002) and the next monograph
will be published as soon as they are ready. (Monographs require a
subsidy of GBP 1750 for works up to 256 pages.)

Minimally formatted versions of both the journal and the monographs
(current and future) will be allowed to remain on the Internet,
providing research results to a wide audience and to many scholars who
otherwise could not afford access to the information.

We still have some room in volume 4 (2001-2002) and volume 5 (2003) and
invite contributions. Our readers may also wish to consider submitting
longer works to the monograph series.

If an e-mail to me is rejected by our prudish server at Bergen (this
happens if your Internet provider sends out a lot of "spam" and
unsolicited pornography), mail me at

norme-b at online.no
Joseph Bell


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 10 21:58:25 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs Arabian Nights Info
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2002.155825.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  10 May 2002
From:moderator
Subject:Needs Arabian Nights Info

[We have received the following request and wonder if anyone out there
has encyclopedic knowledge of the Arabian Nights tales and could help
this person out.]

I am currently preparing for a production of "Arabian Nights" at the Rose
Wagner Theatre in SLC and have been searching--without luck--The Tales
from
the Thousand and One Nights for a story that I heard some time ago,
which (as
I recall) deals with a person who is concealed inside a bag.  This
person is
thought to be a monster or deformed, but it turns out to be
otherwise-perhaps
it is a beautiful woman, but my memory of the story is vague.  Are you
able
to shed any light on my search, or might you be able to refer me to
another
faculty member well versed in these tales?
I appreciate any information you might be able to provide,
Best wishes,
Roger Benington
BeningtonR at aol.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 10 21:58:24 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book on the Haram of Jerusalem
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2002.155824.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  10 May 2002
From:Andreas Kaplony <kaplony at oriental.unizh.ch>
Subject:New Book on the Haram of Jerusalem

Dear colleagues

It is my pleasure to inform you that my recent book on Jerusalem has been
published. Enjoy reading.

Best wishes, Andreas Kaplony

***********************
The Haram of Jerusalem 324-1099: Temple, Friday Mosque, Area of Spiritual
Power. - Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002 (Freiburger Islamstudien
22). - XVII, 789 pages. - ISBN 3-515-07901-0. - E 100.-/sfrs.168.20

 From the Muslims' to the Crusaders' conquest Jerusalem is among the
world's best know cities. Its most outstanding and constant feature is
its
holiness shared by three religions (Muslim, Jewish and
Christian). Covering the Byzantine, the Marwanid, the Abbasid and the
Fatimid phase, this study describes not only the emergence of conceptions
with which the three religions share the city, but also their interaction
as well as the political circumstances and religious axioms which give
each conception its specific shape. Looking for these conceptions, the
holy area of the city, the Haram, has been chosen. This area of the
former
Temple was higly significant to all three religions. The analysis is
based
on a careful description of the Haram (focusing on topics like names and
traditions, architecture, rituals and customs, visions and dreams), and
on
the establishment of as many parallels as possible.
**********************
PD Dr. Andreas Kaplony. Universitaet Zuerich, Orientalisches Seminar:
Wiesenstrasse 9, CH-8008 Zuerich, 0041-1-634 07 36/1, 0041-1-634 36 92
(Fax). Privat: Scheuchzerstrasse 135, CH-8006 Zuerich, 0041-1-361 29 41.
kaplony at oriental.unizh.ch

Arabic Papyrology School: www.unizh.ch/ori/aps

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May 20 21:44:03 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 15:44:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs 2-3 week Arabic refresher courses for Army
 Linguists
Message-ID: <MON.20.MAY.2002.154403.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  20 May 2002
From:"Wells, Jeffrey" <wellsj at HUAIC-62702.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:Needs 2-3 week Arabic refresher courses for Army Linguists

[this note was forwarded to me, and I thought maybe some of you might be
interested.]

Dear Sir,

I am the Command Language Program Manager for E Co, 309th MI BN, Ft
Huachuca, AZ.  I am looking at placing some of our linguists in language
maintenance programs for proficiency purposes.  Specifically, I am
looking
at two to three week temporary duty assignments at colleges and
universities
for that purpose.  Currently, I have Arabic, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and
Korean linguists that want to attend intense maintenance courses.  If you
offer such a program, or if you could recommend a contact, I would
greatly
appreciate your assistance.  Thanks in advance.

JEFFERY R. WELLS
SSG, USA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May 20 21:45:01 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 15:45:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Muslim Country/Culture Workshops
Message-ID: <MON.20.MAY.2002.154501.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject:Muslim Country/Culture Workshops

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Date:  20 May 2002
From:Tamara Rohrer <TamaraR at nafsa.org>
Subject:Muslim Country/Culture Workshops

**Muslim Country/Culture Workshops in July--Register Now**

NAFSA: Association of International Educators is offering two national,
parallel Country/Culture Workshops, "Understanding Islam and Muslim
Students," scheduled July 18-20 and July 25-27, 2002.

The workshops will be hosted by the Middle East Studies Center at
Portland
State University and Georgia Southern University in cooperation with
Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar, respectively,
with funding provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
of
the U.S. Department of State. These workshops will examine the Muslim
world
in historic and geographic context, basic beliefs or tenets of Islam,
intercultural communication and customs in predominantly Muslim
countries,
and how to work effectively with Muslim students on your campus.

For more information on workshop registration and travel grants and to
view
the workshop agenda for either workshop, access the Web at:
http://www.nafsa.org/countryculture/ or call 202.737.3699, ext. 227.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 22 19:20:51 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:20:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2-3 week refresher course responses
Message-ID: <WED.22.MAY.2002.132051.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject:2-3 week refresher course response
2) Subject:2-3 week refresher course response
3) Subject:2-3 week refresher course response
4) Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

[moderator's note: I have forwarded these messages to the person who
sent in the request.]

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1)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

I understand that Professor Hillman is in charge of a three-week course
in Arabic (and one in Persian, too) in Austin, Texas this June.  Contact
him at Middle East Center, University of Texas, Austin.

Ernest McCarus

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2)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

You might contact the people at Exotic Languages Agency (ELA) in Orange,
California. Background and contact data about ELA are below.

While colleges and universities are attractive options, their POI and
scheduling may be hard to adjust to your soldier-linguists' METL, tasks
and
needs for MOSQ relevance, plus complicate their balancing their scheduled
summer-session classes with available faculty. Some academic
institutions in
CONUS and OCONUS present issues and considerations of public visibility /
OPSEC / force protection.

You might contact the people at Exotic Languages Agency (ELA) in Orange,
California. The ELA has provided / is providing some mission-focussed
total
immersion  language, cultural (and language-dependent operational)
training
for DOD military linguists, including some from several CONUS units.
Details
are in my separate e-mail to your < army.mil > address as back-up e-mail.

All graduates score well on post-course DLPTs or OPIs after they return
to
their home stations.

Soldier-linguists in all MOS and CMFs can benefit by sharpening their
global
proficiencies;  the emphasis of POI content is usually heavy on the side
of
general linguists, foreign liaison, attaches and field operators.

The ELA offers courses that can run 2 wks, 4 wks or longer. Your
linguists
can go there TDY to southern California (maximizes the immersion in
replicated authentic cultures if desired), or ELA can dispatch
instructors
for on-post/controlled-access on-site training.

ELA provides graduates with transcripts and breakouts of hours of
completed
formal instruction so that the linguists can apply for academic credit
via
on-post education services center.

BTW, which dialect of AD is of interest? ELA usually can cover any of
them.
ELA covers 200+ languages, dialects and cultures.

FYI, ELA recently increased the number of supported languages incidental
to
Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, including SWA / Eurasia, the Middle East,
Africa
and Pacific. ELA enjoys some unique and extensive ties to qualified
instructors in many ethnic communities in Caliiornia and elsewhere in
CONUS.

ELA accepts payment by USG credit charge cards, since course costs are
usually within that range.

Contact data for ELA:

Tel: 1.800.303.7200 or 714.704.1874

Fax: 1.714.704.1870

e-mail: ela at ela1.com

Ask them to e-mail the special pages on ELA's "Languages and Area Studies
Immersion" (LASI) training program.

website:  http://www.ela1.com >

HTH. Good luck. I am advisor to ELA on USG and DoD matters and am very
familiar with the benefits and suitability of ELA's LASI to military
linguists. If your unit schedules LASI sessions at ELA, I would be in
direct
support / backstop / "bounding overwatch" / QA.

All best regards,
Stephen H. Franke

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3)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

Salam to you all,
Hope you are all fine. Please be informed that Hedayet
Institute for Arabic Studies(HIAS) in Cairo has a web
site now that you may have a look at.We also tailor
short courses if we are contacted enough time before
hand. It is : www.arabicstudieshedayet.com  I wish you
all a wonderful summer.
Nagwa Hedayet
HIAS Director

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4)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:Sanaa Ghanem <sanaa at arabacademy.com>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

The Arab Academy offers online Arabic language courses for all language
levels, that would make excellent 'refresher and language maintenance
courses' for your linguists.  The courses are self paced and could be
adjusted to the time frame of students.
For more information on the courses available visit:
http://www.arabacademy.com/main/online/registrar_e.shtml

Sanaa Ghanem
Arab Academy
http://www.arabacademy.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 22 19:26:02 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:26:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:4th Cush-Om Conference in Leiden
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Date:  22 May 2002
From:Robin Thelwall/Rebecca Bradley <eubule at telusplanet.net>
Subject:4th Cush-Om Conference in Leiden

[this message was passed on from NACAL]

Dear Colleague,

We have the pleasure to announce the

4th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic Languages

to be held in Leiden from Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th April 2003.

The theme of the conference will be linguistic aspects of Cushitic and
Omotic languages. Papers and contributions on the phonology, morphology,
syntax and pragmatics of these languages are welcome, preferably from a
descriptive point of view. Students in BA, MA and PhD programs are
particularly encouraged to present their research.
	
At this point we would like to know if you wish to be included in the
mailing list of the conference. We kindly ask you to inform us before
20.06.2002 writing to the e-mail address: Cush-Om at let.leidenuniv.nl

You can also write to the mail address:

4th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic Languages
Dept. of African Languages and Cultures, Leiden University,
P.O.Box 9515, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Only those who register receive subsequent mail with more information.

   Please pass this announcement on to whoever might be interested. This
announcement and other information as it becomes available can also be 
found
at the web page:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/tca/atk/Cush-Om_WebPage.htm

Looking forward to hearing from you,

The organising committee:
Azeb Amha, Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold, Cabdelqaadir Ruumi,
Graziano Sav?

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 22 19:27:33 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:27:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation:Reference Grammar of Kunuz Nubian
Message-ID: <WED.22.MAY.2002.132733.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  22 May 2002
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Dissertation:Reference Grammar of Kunuz Nubian

New Dissertation Abstract

Institution: State University of New York at Buffalo
Program: Ph.D.
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 1988

Author: Ahmed Sokarno Abdel-Hafiz

Dissertation Title:
A Reference Grammar of Kunuz Nubian

Linguistic Field: Language Description

Dissertation Director 1: Donna B. Gerdts
Dissertation Director 2: Joan L. Bybee
Dissertation Director 3: Madeline Mathiot


Dissertation Abstract:

This is a grammar of Kunuz Nubian (KN), an Eastern Sudanic language
spoken in Southern Egypt. It is the first grammar ever written on this
language. The areas covered in the study are phonology, morphology and
syntax. The chapter on phonology introduces KN phonemic inventory
which is followed by the description of the syllable structure,
stress, phonetactics and phonological rules. The chapter on morphology
shows that the morphemes that participate in the composition of KN
word classes are classified into conceptual categories. These
categories are further divided into two types: derivational and
inflectional. The chapter on KN syntax starts with basic facts such as
word order, verb agreement and reflexives. The types of constructions
discussed include morphosyntactic rules, complementations and
subordinates. The grammar also includes two texts and a word list of
KN.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 30 23:04:13 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:04:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliterating Arabic on a PC query
Message-ID: <THU.30.MAY.2002.170413.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject:Transliterating Arabic on a PC response

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1)
Date:  30 May 2002
From:Paul Roochnik <paul at TranslationGuy.com>
Subject:Transliterating Arabic on a PC query

Dear Colleagues,
My friend, Ahmad Al-Ubaydli, would like information on the
transliteration of Arabic on the PC.  If you would be so kind as to
reply directly to him, I am sure he would be most grateful.
Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy.

From: Ahmad Al-Ubaydli [mailto:ahmad at alubaydli.com]

Can you please advise me on the best transliteration system available on
PC. As you know the "symbol" facility does not cover all diacritics used
for transliterating Arabic.
Your help would appreciated
Regards
ahmad al-ubaydli           ahmad at alubaydli.com

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1)
Date:  30 May 2002
From:Paul Nelson <paulnel at winse.microsoft.com>
Subject:Transliterating Arabic on a PC response

[moderator's note: the original query was posted on both ITISALAT and
Arabic-L; what follows is a response to the above message that was sent
to both lists.]

You can use any of the various Arabic Transliteration systems available
if you are using a Unicode base operating system (Windows 2000, Windows
Xp, Mac OS X, etc.) and are using Unicode based applications (Office Xp,
etc.).

After you have these in place, only issue is getting a font that has the
characters you desire and a keyboard driver (like Keyman) that allows
you to make a keyboard layout to enter the letters.

I would think that using a convention that is familiar to the people
reading the documents would be the best choice.

Microsoft will be releasing a font called Arabic Typesetting with the
next version of Office (.NET). That font has all characters needed for
transliteration of semetic languages (that I have been able to identify)
as well as support for the complete Arabic Unicode block.

Regards,

Paul

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 30 23:04:16 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:04:16 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic tokeniser
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1)
Date:  30 May 2002
From:"Mona T. Diab" <mdiab at umiacs.umd.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic tokeniser

Hello
I am looking for an Arabic tokeniser? Does anyone know of the existence
of
one
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Mona

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 30 23:04:15 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:04:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Scholarships for Arabic Study query
Message-ID: <THU.30.MAY.2002.170415.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  30 May 2002
From:"Timothy A. Gregory" <tgregory at tarjema.com>
Subject:Scholarships for Arabic Study query

Greetings all,

I recently read an article in the Washington Post (online 
version:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/articles/A18134-2002May27.html) and it brings to light a lot of 
interesting facts about the study of Arabic within the United States. 
The one fact that really sticks with me after reading through it was 
from one of the bar charts, there are nearly five times as many students 
studying Latin (26,145) as study Arabic (5,505)?

After talking with some of my colleagues I really got to wondering about 
scholarships for studying Arabic within the US. Are there any such 
things? I remember very vaguely someone going off to the University of 
Washington on some sort of scholarship, but that was in 1990.

As always, thanks for your help!

--tag

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 30 23:04:16 2002
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:04:16 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:New Book:World of Obituaries
Message-ID: <THU.30.MAY.2002.170416.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:  30 May 2002
From:Renee Tambeau <Renee.Tambeau at wayne.edu>
Subject:New Book:World of Obituaries

The World
of Obituaries
Gender across Cultures and over Time
Mushira A. Eid

This unusual book, The World of Obituaries, looks at obituaries as a rich
source of information on cultural representations of gender. It examines
obituaries published from 1938 to 1998 in three cultures-Egypt, Iran, and
the United States-to analyze how women and men are represented in their
death notices and how these representations have changed over time. It
also
shows how obituaries, viewed as texts, at times converge with but often
diverge from expected norms.
Mushira Eid has applied quantitative and qualitative analytical
techniques
to 4,400 obituaries, using names, titles, and occupations as linguistic
symbols of identity. Data were collected for a month at ten-year
intervals
to measure change. From them, she demonstrates differences within the
world
of obituaries, relates this world to the world at large, and constructs a
model based on this comparison. Resulting facts are placed within the
context of women's movements in the three cultures and are related to
other
sociocultural and political events that may have influenced perceptions
of
gender roles.
The World of Obituaries offers a unique synthesis of information on
women,
men, and public space in three cultures. It opens a new window on
gender-related differences in language, both cross-culturally and
historically, and invites readers to view obituaries in a new light.

Mushira A. Eid has had a life-long fascination with obituaries. She is a
professor of Arabic and linguistics at the University of Utah.

Publication Date:
May 30, 2002

336 pages,
ISBN 0-8143-2775-9,
cloth: $39.95

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