From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:53:56 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:53:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book:Muslims in America
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:Mbaye Lo <Mbaye at urban.csuohio.edu>
Subject:New Book:Muslims in America

Subject: New Book on Arab and Muslims in America

Publisher: Amana Publications, Beltsville, Md. 1st Ed.
http://www.mbayelo.com/
Book Title: Muslims in America: Race, Politics and Community Building

ISBN: 1590080238
Issued Date: February, 2004

Contents

Illustrations, Figures and Tables
          Acknowledgments
Preface

Chapter  1                  Islam and the Muslim Community ..

Islam: A Conceptual Definition
The Muslim Community ...

Chapter 2                       Why Most American Converts / Reverts
               to Islam Are African-Americans
First Explanation
Second Explanation
The Truth Between

Chapter 3                      Genesis of Islam in Cleveland

The Ahmadiyyah Movement
The First Cleveland Mosque and the MTYP

Chapter 4                       The Muslim Experience of Black Americans

Black Muslim Activism Among Black Americans
Black Nationalism and Islam in Cleveland
 From the N.O.I. to Sunni Muslims

Chapter 5                        Muslim Immigrants
Reconciling Faith and Space
Muslim Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa
Muslim Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent
Muslim Immigrants from the Arab World

Chapter 6                   Surveying the Muslim Community
Gathering the Data
Ethnic Identity, Gender and Educational Background
Religious Background
Religious Affiliation
                                  Conclusion: Challenges and Prospective

Selected Bibliography

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:53:59 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:53:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP:JEP/TALN-Arabic NLP
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com
Subject:CFP:JEP/TALN-Arabic NLP

****************************************************
              CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

      J E P  2 0 0 4   -   T A L N  2 0 0 4
                 - Special Sessions -
                       
            ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING
                    TEXT & SPEECH
                       --------

               Palais des Congrès
                   Fez (Morocco)
                  19-22 April 2004
  ****************************************************

Due to the high number of submissions on the topic of
  "Arabic Language Processing, Text and Speech",
  several sessions will be organized:

* Invited plenary talk, JEP/TALN (Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA).
  * Plenary Speech Session, JEP/TALN.
  * Parallel Speech Session, JEP/TALN.
  * Two poster sessions, JEP/TALN.

Detailed program is available here :
  http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/JEP-TALN-ARABIC-Programme.pdf
  http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04//JEP-TALN-ARABIC-Programme.pdf

Information about registration and accomodations are
  available here :
  http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/
  http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04/

****************************************************

Organizers :
  Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, France.
  Noureddine Chenfour, Université S.M.Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc.

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  Malek Boualem
  France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI
  2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France
  Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83
  Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86
  Email: malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Jobs for Arabic Computational Linguists and
 Lexicographers
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:M Siftar - MTM LinguaSoft <mtmlinguasoft at verizon.net>
Subject:Jobs for Arabic Computational Linguists and Lexicographers

If you
- have a very high level of fluency in Arabic and a high level of  
fluency in English,
and
- are a student or have a degree in linguistics,  
computational linguistics, semantics, lexicography, or translation  
studies,
and
- have a keen interest in working on new tools development,
then
MTM LinguaSoft would like to hear from you.

  We are building a team of linguists to work on innovative research  
areas. Our aim is to provide robust linguistic tools for information  
processing of Arabic documents.  We are collecting resumes to answer a  
specific RFP.

If you are interested, please contact us before April, 15th, 2004.  
Resumes received after this deadline will not be considered. Please  
apply by send your resume and level of interest to  
info at mtmlinguasoft.com (include reference MTM007).

Only individual submissions will be considered. Agencies,  
consulting and search firms, please do not reply.

A short profile of MTM LinguaSoft is included below. More info  
available at www.mtmlinguasoft.com

MTM LinguaSoft, a Philadelphia-based corporation, is a services and  
solutions provider for all corporate multilingual needs.

  MTM LinguaSoft offers fast, efficient and accurate Translation &  
Localization Services for companies doing business with international  
markets or in multilingual environments, and provides project  
management to deliver our customers' high-quality content in all  
the foreign languages.

MTM LinguaSoft also develops Customized Multilingual Solutions for  
companies and governmental agencies seeking to automate language  
intensive processes such as translation, gisting, text mining and  
summarization. As a value-added reseller of the Arabic/English  
knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT) software developed by CIMOS  
of France, MTM LinguaSoft specializes in custom solutions involving  
Arabic, English and French languages. Building upon its partners' NLP  
and NLU engines, MTM LinguaSoft helps its North-American customers  
unlock the meaning of multilingual content.
 
*********************************************
Myriam Siftar
President
MTM LinguaSoft
www.mtmlinguasoft.com
siftar at mtmlinguasoft.com
   
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:05 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: Afroasiatic Grammar
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:moderator (from LINGUIST)
Subject:New Book: Afroasiatic Grammar

EDITOR: Lecarme, Jacqueline
TITLE: Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II
SUBTITLE: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic
Languages, Paris, 2000
SERIES: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 241
PUBLISHER: John Benjamins
YEAR: 2003
ISBN: 1588113868
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-2958.html

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:20 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:What version(s) to teach?
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:abeer heider <rahman3000eg at hotmail.com>
Subject:What version(s) to teach?

Dear all

iam asked to write paper on which is better for students wh learn
Arabic, learning Modern Satndard Arabic only  or Egyptian Dialect
combined with standard.
please if any one know sources or papers or books deal with that
subject, may send me these resources.
thanks for help
Abeer Heider

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:27 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic-English Dictionary for Medicine/Herbs
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:relrella at hotmail.com
Subject:Needs Arabic-English Dictionary for Medicine/Herbs

Assalaam Aleykum,

I shall be moving soon to Cairo and whilst I am there I hope to study
the practice of natural (tibb yunani or nabawwi) medicine. My question
is, is there any dictionary (English-Arabic, Arabic-English) that can
includes terms for various herbs, medicines and other words in the same
topic.  Also, I am aware of a few books that cover the medicine of the
Prophet and Indian Sufi medicine, but is there any books, in English or
Arabic, that cover Arab Islamic medicine?  Also, I would love to know
if anyone happens to know practicioners of traditional medicine (either
herbal or cupping) in Cairo.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated,
shukran jazeelan,
Rose Aslan

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:32 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lexical Relationships (cont)
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:SadokM at aol.com
Subject:Lexical Relationships (cont)

I think that the word ibn/bin should be listed in the dictionary under  
B, N, Y.This stem exists in Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew. In Genesis  
16:2 Sarah, the childless wife of Abram (Abraham) said to him ..."go in  
unto my maid; I may obtain children by her....". The Hebrew verb used  
for "obtain children" is the passive of B N Y, i.e. the Nif'al form,  
which is the Arabic Infa'la. It is known that in old Semitic families,  
the position of the wife in the  family becomes stronger when she gives  
birth to male children. Furthermore, Form V of the stem  B N Y in  
Arabic means 'to adopt a child'.

  Prof. Sadok Masliyah

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:29 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Turkish borrowings
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1) Subject:Turkish borrowings

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:d.newman at planetinternet.be
Subject:Turkish borrowings

Hello,

The following are some basic reference sources on the subject:
Littman, Enno (1954): 'Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptischen-Arabischen',
Westöstliche Ahandlungen, Festschrift für Rudolf Tschudi, Wiesbaden, pp.
107-27.
Abd al-Rahim, F. (1969-70): 'al-Kalimaat al-turkiyya fi 'l-lahjaat
al-Arabiyya al-haditha', Majallat al-Majma' al-Ilmi al-Arabi, 44, pp.
875-882, 45, pp. 143-50, 371-375.
Prokosch, E. (1983): Osmanisches Wortgut im Ägyptischen-Arabischen,  
Berlin.
Vollers, Karl (1887-1896/7): 'Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden  
arabischen
Sprache in Ägypten', Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländische  
Gesellschaft,
44, pp. 365-402; 50, pp. 607-657; 51, pp. 291-326, 343-364. (contains a  
very
useful list of foreign borrowings - including Turkish - into Egyptian
Arabic)

At the same time, some useful information can also be gleaned from the
borrowing of Turkish words in other dialects:
Baccouche, Taïeb (1994): L'emprunt en arabe moderne, Tunis (Beït  
Al-Hikma).
(pp. 75ff.  et passim) (especially useful for the Tunis dialect)
Ben Cheneb, Mohamed (1922): Mots turcs et persans conservés dans le  
parler
algérien', Algiers/Paris.
Belguedj, Mohamed Salah (1971): 'Les mots turcs dans le parler  
algérien',
Turcica, 3, pp. 133-142.
Mahfuz, Husayn (1964): al-Alfaz al-Turkiyya fi 'l-lugha al-Iraqiyya,
Baghdad.
Butros, Albert (1973): 'Turkish, Italian and French loanwords in the
colloquial Arabic of Palestine and Jordan', Studies in Linguistics, 23,  
pp.
87-104.
Masliyah, Sadok (1996): 'Four Turkish suffixes in Iraqi
Arabic: -li, -lik, -siz and -çi', Journal of Semitic Studies, XLI/2, pp.
291-300.

Also see:
Kahane, Henry & Renée é Andreas Tietze (1958): The lingua franca in the
Levant. Turkish nautical terms of Italian and Greek origin', Urbana
(University of Illinois Press). (a vertible treasure trove of  
etymologies,
with numerous references to Arabic)
Stachowski, Stanislaw (1975-86): Studien über die arabischen Lehnwörter  
im
Osmanisch-Türkischen, Wroclaw, 4 vols.V

I hope this will be of use to you.

Kind regards,
Daniel Newman


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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Turkish borrowings

Greetings. 
Re your query about Turkish loanwords and borrowed conventions in  
collquial Egyptian Arabic
 
One prominent feature commonly used in colloquial "al-3amiya" or  
"baladii" I is the suffix of "jii" or "chii" added to a noun to  
indicate a person who performs that referred function:
 
Examples include:
 
qawhajii/ qahwachi = one who brings and serves coffee
 
burmaji = one who can do anything (or, variously, can do many thaings  
at the same time = the equivalent term in "American English" is akin to  
"a wheeler dealer")
 
Some Turkish honorific terms are still in use, although usually  
intended for humor or sarcasm, such as "pasha, beh, effendim."
   
A term used by Egyptian military for Soviet military advisors in Egypt  
was "Ivan Pasha," as a reference to senior officers and their  
families who lived in villas of former British officials in the Zamalek  
quarter of Cairo durfn 1967-1972.
 
HTH.
Regards,
Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California


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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs info on Mohammad Shahrur
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:Gergana Atanassova <iana_j at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs info on Mohammad Shahrur

Greetings all!

I am looking for biographic data on Mohammad Shahrur, a contemporary
Syrian egexete, authour of "Al-Kitaab wa-l-Qur'aan". I do not seem to
find anything written about him. Any information about him or
references to sources will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Gergana Atanassova

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:24 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Borrowing Verbs
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:Borrowing Verbs

It has been suggested that "English "shoot, shot" (a ball toward a
goal) has become thoroughly  naturalized in Egyptian Arabic ..." To
that, I would like to add that shawwaT (Form II) is also used in Iraqi
Arabic. It seems that it has penetrated Fusha as well. A soccer game
has two half-times of 45 minutes each. In Standard Arabic, they are
called ashwaaT (and the singular is shawT) e.g. fii ash-shawT al-awwal
min al-mubaarat ... "In the first half time of the game/match ..."
shawT is a loan with no productive derivation that I know of in Arabic.

On the same subject of borrowed verbs in Arabic outside computerese,
Iraqi Arabic also uses chayyak/yichayyik "to check or look into" and
parrak/yiparrik "to park" ( both From II). By the way, Iraqi Arabic
does not substitute /b/ for /p/ because it does have the latter phoneme
as in paacha (loan from Turkish) which is a dish known as kawaari9 in
Egyptian Arabic or parda "curtain," which is also a loan word from
Turkish.

I also remember how Detroit Arabs used to say: iSTakket fi-thalij "I
was stuck in the snow."

In Gulf Arabic, to shift the transmission of the car and put it "in
reverse," the verb is rewis (this NOT Form II). The second vowel in the
word is pronounced more like a schwa. I heard this word for the first
time in Oman a couple of years ago. To my chagrin, a Pakistani car
mechanic with no knowledge of English struggled to explain to me what
it meant in his broken Arabic.

Finally, Arabic Sifr and English cipher (spelled cypher in British
English) both mean zero. Which language borrowed from the other?


Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:srpkole at EUnet.yu
Subject:Borrowing Verbs

Dear colleagues,

Although Sattar asked for a "direct borrowing of a verb in standard
Arabic"
only and though I am a little late, yet I think I simply have to report
on
this candy of a quadriliteral colloquial verb (I & II): baznas-ybaznis,
and
tbaznas-yitbaznas. As it is obvious, both are derived from English
"business". The first one means to make business deals in a way that
usually
has not much to do with the sincerity and being honest. The second one
means
(as is pretty obvious, too) to start to behave in that "businesslike"
manner, or to pretend to make business (with the intention of cheating).

I've picked it up from Libya first, in mideighties, and used to throw it
here and there in Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Gulf, and it worked smoothly
every
time.

Cheers,
Srpko Lestaric

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Computational Linguist
 Job/Lexicographer/Translator Job
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1) Subject:Arabic Lexicographer/Translator Job

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:farghaly at systransoft.com (reposted from LINGUIST)
Subject:Arabic Computational Linguist Job

University or Organization: SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
Department: Arabic Development
Rank of Job: Arabic Computational Linguist
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (Code = ABV)

Description:

An Arabic Computational Linguist is needed to assist in the
development of automatic language translation software at SYSTRAN, the
leader in the field of Machine Translation. The position is the
interface between core engine developer and linguistic team. It will
involve maintenance and development of linguistic "rules" declarative
or procedural, dealing with linguistic formalism, and also providing
implementation solutions and technical support to the Arabic
lexicographer and linguist team, etc. Qualifications: Good command of
the Arabic language, experience in team work, good programming skills
(especially in C/C++ and PERL), familiarity with linguistic concepts,
understanding of natural language processing techniques, fluency in
English, and interest in Machine Translation. Please send resume and
cover letter highlighting relevant experience to
farghaly at systransoft.com. Position open until filled.

Address for Applications:

	Attn: Ali Farghaly
	9333 Genesee Ave. Suite PL1
	San Diego, CA 92121
	United States of America

	Position is open until filled.

Contact Information:
	Ali Farghaly
	Email: farghaly at systransoft.com
	Tel: 858-457-1900
	Website: http://www.systransoft.com/

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:farghaly at systransoft.com (reposted from LINGUIST)
Subject:Arabic Lexicographer/Translator Job


University or Organization: SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
Department: Arabic Development
Rank of Job: Lexicographer/Translator
Specialty Areas: Lexicography
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (Code = ABV)


Description:

An Arabic Lexicographer/Translator, must be a native speaker with
excellent command of Modern Standard Arabic usage and grammar.
Experience in translation from and to Arabic is helpful. Experience
with Windows, the Internet, and WORD is required. Job responsibilities
include adding lexical entries to SYSTRAN's Arabic English dictionary,
evaluating translations, identifying errors and suggesting
improvement. May also be required to assist in the writing of
disambiguation and analysis rules. Please send resume and cover letter
highlighting educational background and relevant experience to
farghaly at systransoft.com. Position open until filled.



Address for Applications:

	Attn: Ali Farghaly
	9333 Genesee Ave. Suite PL1
	San Diego, CA 92121
	United States of America

	Position is open until filled.


Contact Information:
	Ali Farghaly
	Email: farghaly at systransoft.com
	Tel: 858-457-1900
	Website: http://www.systransoft.com/

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:13 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:13 -0600
Subject: arabic-L:GEN:(very) Old Arabic recordings Query
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1) Subject:(very) Old Arabic recordings Query

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:Roab at aol.com
Subject:(very) Old Arabic recordings Query

[moderator's note: I received this message as a personal enquiry, but  
had no particular reply.  If you are interested in helping Mr. Abdo,  
contact him directly at the above e-mail address.]

Dear Mr. Parkinson,
 
I wonder if you could help me.  I'm an Arab American of Lebanese  
ancestry. I have several very old Arabic records, some of which were  
recorded about 100 years ago.  One, in fact, was recorded in 1903 !!
 
Would you have any idea of the value of these records or perhaps would  
you know of someone who might be able to help me?
 
Thank you for your assistance.
 
Sincerely,
 
Ron Abdo

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:17 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AFL State Certification in Michigan
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:AyoubyK at Dearborn.k12.mi.us
Subject:AFL State Certification in Michigan


ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear List Members (particularly, Michigan AFL professionals)

On behalf of myself and State of Michigan Board of Education member, Ms.
Marianne McGuire, as co-chairs of the "Arabic as a Foreign Language
Teacher Certification Exploratory Committee", I would like to announce
the intention of the Exploratory Committee to expand its preliminary
work by transforming itself into the "Arabic as a Foreign Language
Teacher Certification Ad Hoc Taskforce" of the Michigan State Board of
Education to look into the process of making Arabic a fully
"certificate-able" language for teaching in Michigan schools.

Having made a case for the need to look into establishing Arabic as
subject matter for professional certification, the "exploratory
committee", would like to invite interested parties, especially
professionals in higher education and in private school and charter
school quarters to join the Taskforce. The purpose of the Taskforce is
to develop recommendations to the State Board of Education in order for
said body to institute Arabic as a state recognized subject matter of
study, thereby also, allowing for state licensure of teachers of Arabic
in the K-12 level arena. In other words, Arabic and AFL teachers would
have the same legal/professional standing as teachers of French, German
or Spanish who are "certificated" to teach in the public schools.
Please, contact me at the email address stated above.

Current members of the Exploratory Committee are:

Ms. Marianne Y. McGuire, Co-Chair
Mr. Kenneth K. Ayouby, Co-Chair
Dr. Albert Harp, Principal, McDonald Elementary School
Ms. Nabila Barada-Hammami, AFL Teacher, Fordson High School
Ms. Nauf Abu-Dib, AFL Teacher, Dearborn High School
Mr. Abdul Hamid Mackie, Educator and Community Activist

The Taskforce is intended to have a membership of thirty AFL interested
stakeholders.

Regards,

Kenneth K. Ayouby, Ed.S.


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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:34 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Pennsylvania Job
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1) Subject:U. of Pennsylvania Job

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From: Roger Allen <rallen at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject:U. of Pennsylvania Job

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

LECTURER IN ARABIC

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in the School of
Arts & Sciences and the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and
International Studies jointly propose to make an appointment of
Lecturer in Arabic, beginning in Fall 2004.

Responsibilities within the Lauder Institute Program will include
planning and teaching the Arabic segment of the language program,
involving 1-2 class sections per semester, as well as designing
curriculum, organizing periodic seminars and mini-immersion experiences
during the course of the academic year and assisting in the overall
administration of the Arabic Track program.  Within the Department of
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies the person appointed person will
become part of the cadre of Arabic teaching faculty, with particular
responsibility for the offering of courses within the program of the
College of General Studies (the evening and continuing education
program).  All these activities will be under the joint supervision of
the senior professor in the Arabic program in the Department of Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies and the Director of Language Programs at the
Lauder Institute.

The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Mgmt and  International Studies
offers a 24-month joint-degree program through which students earn an
MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the
School of Arts and Sciences.   For further information, please visit
The Lauder Institute website:  http://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu.

Candidates will be expected to have 3-5 years of experience in teaching
upper-level language courses in Arabic, ideally with a focus in the
world of public affairs and business.  Native or near-native competence
in standard Arabic and at least one colloquial dialect is required.  A
broad knowledge of the culture, society and business environment of one
or more region of the Arab world is also required.  A wide range of
experience in business and business culture, and/or experience in
teaching courses involving business or language for professional use is
highly desirable.  The successful candidate will also need to show a
strong interest and experience in curriculum design and the development
of course materials for upper-level language courses for professional
use.

The Lecturer position is a renewable 9-month appointment.  The salary
is competitive and commensurate with experience.  Letters and a short
curriculum vitae should be sent to:

Dr. Roger M. Allen
Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
University of Pennsylvania
3701 Market Street, Suite 215
Philadelphia, PA 19104-5502

Mr. Anthony Palmer
Director, Language Programs
The Lauder Institute
208 Lauder-Fisher Hall
256 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
e-mail: palmer2 at wharton.upenn.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:38 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Collocation in the Quran query
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:nahed wasfi <nwasfi at yahoo.com>
Subject:Collocation in the Quran query

i am working on collocation in the quran and i would appreciate if  
anyone can tell me about any reference and research work  dealing  
with collocations and /or idiomatic expressions (in english, in arabic,  
in french)
dr. Wasfi

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:43 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:duclaux at elda.fr
Subject:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference

*************************************************************
Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference
	22-23 September 2004, Cairo, Egypt
*************************************************************

An international conference on Arabic Language Resources
and Tools will take place in Cairo, Egypt.

The main organiser of the conference is the NEMLAR
consortium. The local organiser is RDI Egypt.

Venue: Hotel Helnan Shepheard, Cairo, Egypt
Project and conference web site: http://www.nemlar.org

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Conference aims
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Language Resources (LRs) are recognised as a central component
of the linguistic infrastructure, necessary for the development of HLT
applications and products, and therefore for industrial development.

In this conference, we will focus on Arabic language technology and
on the necessary language resources and tools for both research and
commercial development of language technology for Arabic. Multilingual
language technology is also in the focus, as well as general
methodologies.
Evaluation of modules and systems is another field which is closely
related
to language resources, because language resources are used to perform
the evaluation. Consequently we also invite papers in this area.

Substantial mutual benefits are achieved by addressing these issues
through international collaboration. For this reason, the conference is
organised at the international level.

The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the
state-of-the-art
for Arabic resources and tools, discuss problems and opportunities,
exchange information regarding LRs, their applications, ongoing and
planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from
the new e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to
technological
and organisational ones.

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Conference topics
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- Issues in the design, construction and use of Arabic Language
Resources (LRs)
- Issues in Human Language Technologies (HLT) evaluation
- Policy issues, international cooperation, strategies for the support
of LR
- Exploitation of Arabic data for the development of language
technologies

Please check the web site www.nemlar.org for the full Call text.

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Programme
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The Scientific Programme will include invited talks and oral
presentations,
referenced demonstrations and panels.

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Abstract submission
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On-line submission forms will soon be available.
Please check the project and conference web pages, www.nemlar.org.

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Important dates
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- Submission of proposals for papers, referenced demos: 15 May 2004
- Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2004
- Final versions for the proceedings: 20 August 2004

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Programme chairs
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- Khalid Choukri, ELDA, Paris, France (co-chair)
- Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-chair)

The programme committee, the scientific committee and the organising
committee are found on the project and conference web site.

-------------------------
NEMLAR
-------------------------
For more information about NEMLAR (Network for Euro-Mediterranean
LAnguage Resource and human language technology development and
support), please contact:

Bente Maegaard (co-ordinator)
Tel: + 45 35 32 90 90
Fax: + 45 35 32 90 89
Email: nemlar at cst.dk
Web: www.nemlar.org

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:36 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:JAIS, vol. 5,2 (Second-century Ghulat)
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1) Subject:JAIS, vol. 5,2 (Second-century Ghulat)

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:"Joseph N. Bell" <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject:JAIS, vol. 5,2 (Second-century Ghulat)

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
<http://www.uib.no/jais>
<http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm>

 From Joseph Bell

The prepublication version of the following new article has been posted
today:

<http://www.uib.no/jais/v005/bayhomdaou1prp.pdf>Tamima Bayhom-Daou. The
Second-Century Gulat<http://www.uib.no/jais/v005/bayhomdaou1prp.pdf>:
Were They Really Gnostic? (Adobe Acrobat 6.0 PDF file, 356 kB, pp.
13-61).

Abstract: This paper questions the suggestion of our sources that
gnostic currents had already appeared among Shi'ites by the early
second/eighth century. It contends that gnosticism did not surface in
Shi'ism until the third/ninth century and that our information on its
existence among second-century Shi'ites is the result of retrospective
ascription to groups and individuals who, on account of their (real or
alleged) messianic beliefs, had already been identified by moderate
Imamis as ghulat. That information would have served to distance
Imamism and its imams from gnostic teachings by associating those
teachings with repudiated figures from the past. The paper examines
evidence showing that in his work on firaq Hisham b. al-Hakam (d.
179/795) was not aware of the existence of gnostic ideas in Shi'ism.
Other examined evidence also shows that references to gnostic ghuluww
are conspicuous by their absence from sources on Shi'ism that are
datable to before the third/ninth century.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:32 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs Seyyed Nasr Hossein books in Arabic
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:"R.S. A" <relrella at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs Seyyed Nasr Hossein books in Arabic

Hello,

I am currently looking for any of Nasr's books, especially 'Sufi
Essays' translated into Arabic.  In his biography, it states that many
of his books have been translated into Islamic languages, I assume
Arabic is included.  Does anyone have any idea where I can find them,
online or in north america or in the middle east? Thanks very much
-Rose Aslan

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:28 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Borrowed verbs in Kuwaiti
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1) Subject:Borrowed verbs in Kuwaiti

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From: Bill Young <byoung at casl.umd.edu>
Subject:Borrowed verbs in Kuwaiti

There are many examples of borrowed verbs in colloquial Arabic.  In  
Kuwait the English verb “to finish” has been adopted in the form  
/fannaš, yifanniš/, with the meaning “to fire someone from a job.”  See  
Hamdi Qafisheh’s Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary, p. 486.

William C. Young
Researcher
Center for the Advanced Study of Language
University of Maryland
 
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:25 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Arabic instruction in the Phillipines
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Angela Acosta <aacosta at hampshire.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic instruction in the Phillipines

  Hello!

  I'm looking for someone to teach me intermediate-level Arabic for 6
months
  (from June to December 2004). I will be located in Metro Manila,
Philippines
  during this time. Payment and time schedule is negotiable.

  If you are interested (or know someone who might be), please email me
at
aacosta at hampshire.edu.

  Thank you!

  Sincerely,
  Angela Acosta

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:01 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Medicine/Herbs references responses
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1) Subject:Sources on Medicines/Herbs
2) Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

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1)
Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk
Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

There is a substantial literature in English on Islamic pharmacopaeia
and herbal medicine (and much more besides in other Western
languages), e.g.

Handbook of Arabian medicinal plants, by Shahin Ghazanfar (Boca
Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1994), and the series of books by
Wataru Miki and others published by the Institute for the Study of
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa in Tokyo (Herb drugs and
herbalists in the Maghrib, Herb drugs and herbalists in the Middle
East, Index of the Arab herbalist's materials, etc.)

In addition various important mediaeval Islamic material medica have
been translated into English, for example, Al-Biruni's Book of
pharmacy and materia medica (translated by S.K.Hamarneh, Karachi,
1973, in 2 vols) and The medical formulary or Aqrabadhin of Al-Kindi
(translated by Martin Levey, Madison, 1966) to name but two.

All of the above provide bilingual lists of plants and medicines.

Paul Auchterlonie
Librarian for Middle East Studies
University of Exeter

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Christian Sinclair <www.sit.edu/studyabroad>
Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

There is "A Dictionary of Medicinal Plants" by Dr Yussof Abu Najm.
Publisher: Librairie du Liban.  The edition I have was published in
1992.
Book no. 01D110905.

The book is almost all in Arabic, explaining the uses of different herbs
and plants.  Then it also has the name of the plant in English, Latin
and French.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:04 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Mohammad Shahrur info
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk
Subject:Mohammad Shahrur info

There is a good review of al-Kitaab wa-l-Qur'aan  by Dale Eickelman
in MESA Bulletin 27, 1993, p. 163-68, which contains some brief
biographical details about Shahrur.

Paul Auchterlonie
Librarian for Middle East Studies
University of Exeter

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:53 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dissertation on Masdar and Participle Morphosyntax
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Dissertation on Masdar and Participle Morphosyntax

Institution: Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University
Program: Standard Arabic morphosyntax
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2004

Author: Rachid El Ouardi

Dissertation Title: Some Aspects of Standar Arabic Nominal Sentence,
the Morphosyntax of Masdar and Participles

Linguistic Field: Morphology, Syntax

Dissertation Director 1: Fatima Sadiqi
Dissertation Director 2: Moha Ennaji
Dissertation Director 3: Ur Shlonsky
Dissertation Director 4: El Abbas Benmamoune

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis is a study of some of the grammatical properties of
Standard Arabic nominal sentence, particularly those structures where
a masdar or a participle shows up. Three major points are taken up:
the analysis of the salient features of non-verbal constructions, the
discussion of the issue of the relation between the lexical and
morphosyntactic representations, and the categorial and functional
feature specification of masdars and participles.

As to the first point, the investigation focuses on how Standard
Arabic nominal sentences are internally structured, taking three
particular areas, namely DPs (noun phrases), APs (adjectival phrases)
and CSs (construct states). The description and discussion center
around the issue of agreement inside all these types of structure,
especially number and gender agreement.  The proper investigation,
concerning the second point, aims at contributing to the generative
morphosyntactic debate as to the component where words are formed. On
the assumption that words are projected onto the phrase marker fully
formed, fully inflected, the problem is addressed within a theory
positing that word formation component consists in two (lexical)
levels constituting, in fact, the lexical morphology. These two levels
are: L1 which is the area where roots, affixes and combination rules
are listed and activated; L2 which is the output of L1 and where
formed words, with all their categorical and inflectional features,
are stored and, thus, projected as such onto syntactic structures.

Finally, with regard to the third point, three points are focused on:
(i) The way the mismatch between nominal and verbal aspects of the
categories masdar and participles might theoretically be conditioned;
it is argued that the functional elements [+D] and [+T] have a
decisive part in this respect; (ii) Other functional elements that may
be associated with such substantives, namely D, AGR and T. D and AGR
are shown to be very influential in determining word order within m-
and participle structures, respectively. As to T, it is argued that,
in m-constructions, tense reading is largely related to the tense of
the matrix verb, or to certain extra grammatical elements; in the case
of participle structures, the action denoted by the participle seems
to be ambiguous between tense and aspect interpretation; this follows
from two main reasons: the controlling verb effect on the temporal
reading of the whole structure, and the crucial role which the article
might have in this connection. (iii) The issue of inheritance of
argument structure which is treated as being relevant for all types of
the deverbal nominals being analysed; the assumption made reveals that
both masdars and participles fail to behave morphologically as verbs,
yet they show some verbal properties which are to be specified and
activated lexically; thus, on the conceptual side, they are considered
to be initially verbal roots, which implies that their argument
assigning features are inherited from related verbal roots/stems.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs resources for etymological research
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1) Subject:Needs resources for etymological research

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Richard Durkan <rdurkan at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs resources for etymological research

I am extremely interested in the etymology of Arabic (both formal
Arabic and
the dialects) but I am finding it extemely difficult to get hold of
suitable
materials. I was wondering if you could suggest anything in any language
(ideally, bilingual etymological dictioinaries for the different
varieties
of Arabic).

I would be grateful for any guidance to further reading or other
sources of
information.


Richard Durkan

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:41 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Content,
 Tasks and Projects in the Language Classroom
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1) Subject:Content, Tasks and Projects in the Language Classroom

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Sarah.Springer at miis.edu
Subject:Content, Tasks and Projects in the Language Classroom

Please forward this message to other colleagues with an interest in
foreign language education.

===================================================
CONTENT, TASKS and PROJECTS in the LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
    * Special focus on less commonly taught languages *
              May 16 - 18, 2004
       Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California
===================================================

NEW
      Search session abstracts by title and by author
      http://ciin.miis.edu/AB_home.html

REGISTRATION
      The deadline for pre-registration rates is Friday, April 23, 2004

Presenters
Brandeis, Brown, Columbia, Defense Language Institute, Georgetown,
Indiana University, Ohio State, Syracuse, Yale, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
UCLA, Universities of Kanda and Hyogo and more

Languages
Arabic, Chinese, EFL / ESL, Farsi, Japanese, Pashto, Russian,
Serbo/Croatian, Thai, Urdu and more

View expanded conference information and download registration forms at
      http://ciin.miis.edu/events.html

For questions, or to join our mailing list, contact us at CBI at miis.edu.


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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:48 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:University of Illinois Summer '04 Arabic Courses
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1) Subject:University of Illinois Summer '04 Arabic Courses

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:benmamou at uiuc.edu
Subject:University of Illinois Summer '04 Arabic Courses

Intensive Arabic courses at the University of Illinois at  
Urbana-Champaign.

  ARAB 201. Elementary Standard Arabic I
  June 14-July 9  MTWTHF 10-12, 1-3

  ARAB 202. Elementary Standard Arabic II
  July 12-August 6. MTWTHF 10-12, 1-3

  ARAB 210. Spoken Syrian Arabic
  June 14-August 6. MTWTH 3-5 PM

Abbas Benmamoun
(217) 333-3563

 
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs info on Abdul-Raof's Quranic Stylistics
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1) Subject:Needs info on Abdul-Raof's Quranic Stylistics

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:nwasfi at yahoo.com
Subject:Needs info on Abdul-Raof's Quranic Stylistics

I'd like to receive the abstract of the book entitled 'Quranic  
Stylistic" by Hussein Abdul-Raof, publication year 2003,publisher  
Lincom GmbH.
 
Best regards,
Dr. Nahed Wasfi
nwasfi at yahoo.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:55 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Contacting Ibrahim Al-Koni
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1) Subject:Contacting Ibrahim Al-Koni

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:d.newman at planetinternet.be
Subject:Contacting Ibrahim Al-Koni

Hello,

In order to contact the Libyan author al-Kuni the best pllace to start
is
his Swiss publisher and agent LENOS Verlag (based in Basel), who can
put you
in touch with him.
Kind regards,

D. Newman

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Announcing new editions of Al Kitaab textbooks
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1) Subject:Announcing new editions of Al Kitaab textbooks

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From: Gail Grella <grellag1 at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Announcing new editions of Al Kitaab textbooks

Georgetown University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of
of "Alif Baa: An Introduction to Letters and Sounds" and "Al-Kitaab fii  
Ta callum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One," by  
Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Each will be  
accompanied by bound-in DVDs with audio and visual material. The new  
volumes will be available in August for fall courses. Below youll find  
some FAQs to tell you more about the revised editions and the Al-Kitaab  
program in general.

These books wont appear on our website for a couple more weeks but now  
can be ordered for fall classes directly from our distributors. Here  
are the ISBNs for placing orders.

·Alif Baa with DVDs: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Second
Edition (ISBN 1-58901-036-1, $39.95 for the book plus 2 DVDs)
· Al-Kitaab fii Ta callum al-cArabiyya with DVDs: A Textbook for  
Beginning Arabic: Part One, Second Edition (ISBN 1-58901-104-X, $54.95  
for the book plus 3 DVDs)
Answer Key to Alif Baa, Second Edition (ISBN 1-58901-036-1, $4.95)
Answer Key to Part One Second Edition (ISBN 1-58901-037-X, $4.95)

You and/or your bookstore can order from:

Georgetown University Press
c/o Hopkins Fulfillment Service
P.O. Box 50370
Baltimore, MD 21211-4370
Phone: 1-800-537-5487 (U.S.) or 410-516-6956
FAX: 410-516-6998

Canada:
Please contact our exclusive distributor for Canadian prices and  
ordering information:
Scholarly Book Services
473 Adelaide Street W., 4th floor
Toronto, Ontario M5V 1T1
Canada
Phone: 1-800-847-9736
FAX: 1-800-220-9895
www.sbookscan.com

UK and Europe:
Georgetown University Press
c/o NBN Plymbridge Distributors Ltd.
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Phone: +44 (0) 1752 202301
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Order Fulfillment: orders at nbnplymbridge.com
Customer Services: cservs at nbnplymbridge.com

Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program FAQs
In the fall of 2004, Georgetown University Press will release new  
editions of Alif Baa: An Introduction to Letters and Sounds and  
Al-Kitaab fii Ta callum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic,  
Part One. This FAQ was designed in part to help answer any questions  
you may have about these new editions as well as the rest of the  
program.

What is the sequence of the Al-Kitaab Arabic language program? Where do  
students start and how long will it take them to complete each level?
The program is designed to for college-level use over four years. The  
program begins with Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and  
Sounds, which introduces the basic skills of reading, writing,  
listening, speaking, and cultural understanding and provides the first  
20 to 25 contact hours of instruction.

Students then proceed onto Al-Kitaab fii TacAllum AlcArabiyya: A  
Textbook for Beginning Arabic: Part One. This volume covers  
approximately 130-150 contact hours of instruction in which students  
should achieve an intermediate-mid to intermediate-high level of  
proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking; The book  
provides vocabulary activities, introduces students to grammar using  
spiraling and inference, and exposes students to Egyptian Colloquial  
Arabic through a number of short video clips.

Al-Kitaab fii TacAllum AlcArabiyya: A Textbook for Arabic: Part Two is  
the next volume in the series. Covering 120-130 contact hours of  
instruction, Part Two brings students to the advanced level of  
proficiency. Part Two stresses the various skills and introduces  
learners to various facets of Arab culture and Arab societies.

The final volume in the program, Al-Kitaab fii TacAllum AlcArabiyya: A  
Textbook for Arabic: Part Three continues the same approach used in  
Part Two and aims to take students to the advanced-high level of  
proficiency. Part Three covers 125-150 contact hours of instruction.

How are the 2nd editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part One  
different from the 1st editions?
Changes to Alif Baa:
The textbook has been revised and includes some new vocabulary, with  
the vocabulary distributed more evenly throughout the book. The DVD  
contains most of the same basic dialogues in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic  
as in the first edition, refilmed with a new cast. Other new video  
footage includes Arabic calligraphy and a large collection of street  
signs from Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon. Minor changes have been made  
throughout the audio portions of the second edition.

Changes to Al Kitaab Part One:
The textbook has been revised and updated, with a number of  
contemporary new readings replacing some of the materials in the first  
edition. The basic video scenes depicting the Maha and Khaled story  
have been refilmed with a new cast. New to the DVD is the ability to  
hear the Maha and Khaled story in both Modern Standard Arabic and  
Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. The book also includes some new interviews  
(in Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles) about such aspects of Arab  
culture as gender issues, fasting in the Muslim and Christian  
traditions, social clubs, and more. In addition to the audio recordings  
from the first edition, new audio tracks for vocabulary sections allow  
students to hear each new word in isolation first, then in context  
along with previously acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures.  
The new edition also features more in-class group activities for  
vocabulary and grammatical structures.

A major difference for both books is that the audio and video that were  
previously only available as separate items, are now combined,  
expanded, and bound into each textbook. This provides students with the  
multimedia necessary to use the program most effectively.

When will the second editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part  
One be available?
The second editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part One will be  
available in August of 2004. Institutions and teachers placing their  
book orders now should indicate the new edition with DVDs:
·Alif Baa with DVDs: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Second
Edition (ISBN 1-58901-036-1)
· Al-Kitaab fii Ta callum al-cArabiyya with DVDs: A Textbook for  
Beginning Arabic: Part One, Second Edition (ISBN 1-58901-104-X)

How long will the first editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Part One  
remain available?
Georgetown University Press plans to phase out all first editions of  
the textbooks, answer keys, and audio and video components for Alif Baa  
and Al-Kitaab Part One by June 2005.

Are there plans to revise Al-Kitaab Part Two and Al-Kitaab Part Three?
There are tentative plans to revise Al-Kitaab Part Two by 2006.
At this time, there are no plans to revise Part Three of the Al-Kitaab  
program.

Are the audio and video components of the program sold separately or  
are they packaged with the textbook at each level?
Starting with the 2nd editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part  
One, audio and video materials have been combined into DVDs that are  
bound into each book and sold as single volumes.
Separate CDs and DVDs accompanying the 1st editions of Alif Baa and  
Al-Kitaab Textbook Part One are still available for separate purchase.  
They cannot be used with the first editions.
Audio components for Al-Kitaab Textbook Part Two and Al-Kitaab Textbook  
Part Three are only available as separate items and must be purchased  
separately from the corresponding texts.
The video material for Part Two is not available through Georgetown  
University Press. Videocassettes are available only from Professor  
Al-Batal, by contacting him by phone: 404-727-6438; by fax:  
404-727-2133; or by email: albatal at emory.edu.
Part Three has no accompanying video material.

What equipment do I need to play the DVDs?
The DVDs can be played worldwide on any consumer DVD player and on  
computers equipped with a DVD player.

Do the First Edition DVDs for Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part One  
have the same material as the originaland now  
unavailablevideocassettes?
Yes. For the 1st editions, the material on each of these DVDs is  
identical to the original, and now unavailable, videocassettes. With  
the new 2nd editions, video materials have been refilmed, updated,  
changed, and new materials added.

What is included in the DVD and is it keyed to the text? Or does it  
stand alone as supplemental material?
The DVDs form an integral part of the textbooks and cannot be used  
separately. The DVDs cannot be used as supplemental materials.  
Likewise, the books cannot be used without the DVDs. The books and the  
DVDs form a unified whole that cannot be separated without affecting  
the quality of the overall program. All parts of the audio and video  
are keyed to the text.

Is the DVD and CD material different for the 2nd editions?
For the 2nd edition of Alif Baa, all audio and video have been combined  
onto 2 DVDs that are bound into the textbook. The basic dialogues have  
been refilmed with a new cast. The 2nd edition DVD also contains new  
exercises and new dialogues that take place in an Egyptian context; and  
cultural materials like video footage of Arabic calligraphy and a large  
collection of street signs from Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon.

For the 2nd edition of Al-Kitaab Part One, all audio and video  
previously sold separately have been revised and expanded and are now  
combined in 3 DVDs and are bound into the textbook. The basic dialogues  
have been refilmed with a new cast. The basic video scenes depicting  
the Maha and Khaled story have been refilmed with a new cast. New to  
the DVD is the ability to hear the Maha and Khaled story in both Modern  
Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. It also includes some  
new interviews (in Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles) about such  
aspects of Arab culture as gender issues, fasting in the Muslim and  
Christian traditions, social clubs, and more. In addition to the audio  
recordings from the first edition, new audio tracks for vocabulary  
sections allow students to hear each new word in isolation first, then  
in context along with previously acquired vocabulary and grammatical  
structures. The new edition also features more in-class group  
activities for vocabulary and grammatical structures.

Is there a DVD for the video material of Al-Kitaab Part Two?
No. The video material for Part Two is not available through Georgetown  
University Press. Videocassettes are available only from Professor Al  
Batal, by contacting him by phone: 404-727-6438; by fax: 404-727-2133;  
or by email: albatal at emory.edu

What is included in the audio CDs for the first editions?
The audio components for each of the volumes are not just audio  
versions of the written text. The CDs contain dialogue that is keyed to  
parts of the text but also offer additional drills.

Is the answer key free with audio, video, and/or text?
No. We do not provide free answer keys with any program components.

Is the answer key free with the new edition?
No. We do not provide free answer keys with either first or second  
editions.

Where I can purchase the answer key?
Most bookstores do not carry answer keys. Answer keys can be ordered  
online from Georgetown University Press at  
www.press.georgetown.edu/arabic.html in a few weeks or by contacting  
one of our distributors now.

One of the DVDs/CDs in my book is defective. How can I get a  
replacement copy of the individual disc?
To inquire about replacements for defective CDs or DVDs, please email  
us at gupress at georgetown.edu

-- 
Gail Grella
Associate Director, Georgetown University Press
Acquisitions Editor 3240 Prospect Street NW
Washington, DC  20007
Phone:  202-687-6263
Fax:  202-687-6340

Visit our website at
http://www.press.georgetown.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lateral Fricatives in Modern Arabic
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1) Subject:Lateral Fricatives in Modern Arabic

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Rnorm25 at aol.com
Subject:Lateral Fricatives in Modern Arabic

Marhabah wa Salaam,

  I had posted a question on Arabic-L and the Linguist list about the  
possibility of a lateral fricative reflex of Dhaad existing in any of  
the modern Arabic dialects.  My question can be found at this site:

http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-492.html

  I recently found this article:

http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-925759-0.pdf

  This article states that Rabin and others maintained that the lateral  
articulation continued in certain dialects in Yemen and also that  
certain reciters of the Quran maintained this articulation.

  I also found this recording of the last two words of al-fatihah on a  
tajweed website:

http://www.abouttajweed.com/tafkheem_and_tarqeeq2.htm

  The more I listen to the recording (tafkheem of dhaad) the more it  
sounds like a lateral fricative to me.  

  Please listen to the recording and give me your opinion on all of the  
above.

  Alf Shukr Lakum

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:11 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:11 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Sifr/Cipher
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1) Subject:Sifr/Cipher

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Herb Martin <HerbM at LearnQuick.Com>
Subject:Sifr/Cipher

> From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
> Subject:Borrowing Verbs
[I am studying Iraqi so I found your reference
to Iraqi dialect especially interesting.]

> Finally, Arabic Sifr and English cipher (spelled cypher in British
> English) both mean zero. Which language borrowed from the other?

Latin borrowed 'cipher' from Arabic whence
it was inherited eventually by English.

cipher:
Middle English cifre, from Old French, from
Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic ifr, from
afira, to be empty (translation of Sanskrit
nyam, cipher, dot).
The American HeritageR Dictionary of the
English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000

Best online English dictionary:
	http://www.bartleby.com/61

Interesting since you comment about computer
terms, is if Arabic re-borrows the word
'cypher' : 4a. A cryptographic system in which
units of plain text of regular length, usually
letters, are arbitrarily transposed or
substituted according to a predetermined code.
The verbs being: encypher and decypher.

Roughly, encode & decome (by transposing and
substituting letters.)

I also find it odd that sometimes Iraqi uses
"paaS" for bus, rather than baaS.  I believe
some of this is an itermediate consonant
between English p and b. (without the plosive?)

Herb Martin
Austin, TX

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:06 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK: Acquiring the Arabic Lexicon
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1) Subject:NEW BOOK: Acquiring the Arabic Lexicon

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Fatima Badry <badry at ausharjah.edu>
Subject:NEW BOOK: Acquiring the Arabic Lexicon

Title: Acquiring The Arabic Lexicon
Subtitle: Evidence of Productive Strategies and Pedagogical Implications


Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:      Academica Press
www.academicapress.com

Author: Fatima Badry
Hardback: ISBN: 1-930901-38-0  Pages: 228, Price:  U.S. $: 54.95


The nature of the Arabic lexicon with its system of roots and
derivational patterns to form a large number of its words has the
potential of shedding light on the relation between semantic and formal
properties in word formation. Its acquisition offers a distinct
opportunity to investigate the productivity of derivational processes as
children build their lexicons and promises to enrich the debate about
directionality of derivation and the psychological reality of the root
in Semitic lexicons.  This book examines the acquisition of the Arabic
lexicon by Moroccan Arabic speaking children between the ages of three
and nine years. The author analyzes the strategies used by children in
acquiring productive use of verbal and nominal patterns at various
stages of development and proposes using the insights gained from
acquisition of the dialect as a first language in improving the teaching
of Modern Standard Arabic.


Lingfield(s):   Psycholinguistics, Arabic Language Acquisition.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:59:39 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:59:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Dialectology Research Job
Message-ID: <THU.22.APR.2004.115939.0600.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject:Arabic Dialectology Research Job, CASL-University of  
Maryland, College Park

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Date: 22 Apr 2004
From:byoung at casl.umd.edu
Subject:Arabic Dialectology Research Job, CASL-University of Maryland,  
College Park

TITLE:  Research Scientist, Arabic Dialectology  

  CLOSING DATE:  Open until filled
DEPARTMENT:  Center for Advanced Study of Language-University of  
Maryland, College Park
STARTING SALARY:  Commensurate with Experience
ADDITIONAL SALARY INFO:   This appointment will be at the Assistant or  
Associate Research Scientist level       

DUTIES:  Working in an interdisciplinary research and development  
environment, the CASL Research Scientist for Arabic Dialectology will  
work on the Technical Task Order dealing with the classification of  
Arabic variants.  The successful candidate will help manage the project  
and perform basic and applied research in pedagogy, dialectology and  
descriptive linguistics in Arabic variants. S/he will be responsible  
for monitoring the technical performance of personnel, consultants, and  
subcontractors; maintain effective communication with project  
stakeholders; perform basic and applied research in Arabic Dialectology  
as appropriate; and represent CASL and the Arabic dialectology project  
in appropriate venues such as conferences and technical meetings.


  QUALIFICATIONS:  The successful applicant will hold an earned PhD in  
Arabic or Linguistics, will have excellent Arabic skills (fusha and at  
least one dialect), and experience in project management.  Applicants  
must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the  
following:

1.                  Demonstrated record of excellence in scholarship  
and publications in Arabic studies 

  2.                  Experience in recording and analyzing speech in  
colloquial dialects

  3.                  Experience in project management in a US  
government contract environment

  4.                  Experience in public presentations to a broad  
variety of audiences (educational, professional, and government)

 

*****Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and be willing to obtain a  
security clearance*****


TO APPLY:  Send resume, letter of interest, and writing sample to  
“Research Scientist (Arabic Dialectology) Search,” CASL – University of  
Maryland, Box 25, College Park, MD 20742-0025, or email documents to  
jobs at casl.umd.edu.  Please mention “Arabic Dialectology Search” in the  
subject line.  The  University of Maryland is an affirmative action,  
equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to  
apply.
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Ishaq ibn Hunayn translations query
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Ishaq ibn Hunayn translations query

Hi all,

Could anybody tell me the good news that the book of Myriam Salama-Carr
entitled La traduction à l’époque abbasside – l’Ecole de Hunayn Ibn  
Ishaq et
son importance pour la traduction  (Paris, Didier Erudition, 1990) has  
been
translated to English?

I would expect that there also should be quite a number of contemporary
works on Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his son Ishaq ibn Hunayn or, at least,  
not few
articles which deal, in a way or another, with their role in developing  
the
concepts of translation (I myself know only one, in Arabic: dr Taariq
3abdalla jawaad: al-lisaan ath-thaalith, al-bayaan (al-kuwayt), al-3adad
219, Huzayraan 1984, pg's 130-163.)

Regards,
Srpko Lestaric

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Subject: Arabic-L:Malone Study Visit to Egypt in May
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Date: 22 Apr 2004
From:Neal at NCUSAR.org
Subject:Malone Study Visit to Egypt in May


April 21, 2004

MEMORANDUM

To:	Members of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic

From:	John Duke Anthony [john at ncusar.org]

Re.:	Remaining Spaces Available for May 20-June 2 Egypt Study Visit


More than half a dozen seats remain available for the National  
Council’s May 20-June 2 Study Visit to Egypt. The full tentative  
program itinerary, inclusive of information on in-country  
accommodation, escorts, and opportunities to pursue one’s interests in  
becoming a Fulbright Fellow to Egypt and exploring student Arabic and  
semester abroad study programs, are all detailed below.  Program costs  
are $2,600 plus the cost of international air transportation. Air  
transportation is currently estimated at as low as $980.00 roundtrip,  
but will almost certainly be higher by May 12, and seats are limited,  
so please apply early!




Malone Fellows’ Study Visit to Egypt
May 20-June 2, 2004
Contemporary Egypt:

Dynamics of Political, Social, and
Economic Development


Malone Fellows’ Visit to Egypt Website:   
http://web.bentley.edu/students/o/olson_eric/malonefellowship

Egyptian Embassy Website: http:www.egyptembassy.us
[Visa information and forms are accessed under Consular Services]



I went to Egypt for the first time in 1963. I had never been abroad  
before. Barely one year out of college, I had the opportunity, thanks  
to the Experiment in International Living/Center for World Learning, to  
live in a village outside Cairo as the “adopted” American son of a  
native family. At the time the late Egyptian President Gamal Abd  
al-Nasser was at the height of his influence as a pan-Arab leader.  It  
was four years before Israel’s invasion and occupation of Egypt’s Sinai  
Peninsula (until 1979) and the closing of the Suez Canal (until 1975).

Upon arrival in Cairo, I experienced massive culture shock.  
Incrementally, I began to absorb Egypt’s extraordinarily rich history  
and culture.  Before I knew it, I was deeply smitten.  I have remained  
so ever since.    Now, four decades later, it is time to return.

  – John Duke Anthony


T
he National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations [www.ncusar.org] is pleased  
to announce that a Joseph J. Malone Fellowship Program study visit to  
Egypt is being held from 20 May – 2 June 2004. Participants will meet  
at the offices of the National Council on the morning of 20 May for an  
orientation and depart for Egypt on 21 May.  I will be accompanying the  
group and remaining afterwards for a few days to work with American  
University in Cairo [website: www.aucegypt.edu] representatives with a  
view to rejuvenating our former summer student programs.  The deadline  
for completed applications is May 12.  The full program itinerary,  
inclusive of information on in-country accommodation, escorts, and  
opportunities to pursue one’s interests in becoming a Fulbright Fellow  
to Egypt and exploring student Arabic and semester abroad study  
programs, are all detailed below.  Program costs are $2,600 plus  
international air transportation, currently at ca. $975.00 roundtrip  
but likely to be higher May 12.

Contact Dr. Paul Beran to become a Malone Fellow to Egypt

Malone Fellow Alumni and first-time applicants who are interested in  
participating in the May 2004 Visit to Egypt should contact Dr. Paul  
Beran, Director of Short-Term Programs, Bentley College, at  
781-891-3474, fax 781-891-2819, or PBeran at bentley.edu

For information on the National Council on US - Arab Relations please  
contact Dr. John Duke Anthony, President and CEO, at john at ncusar.org,  
or Mr. Neal Lendenmann, Director of Communications, at neal at ncusar.org   
or fax: 202-293-0903, Suite 1210, 1140 Connecticut Avenue, NW,  
Washington, D.C. 200036.

Completed applications are to be sent to Mr. Lendenmann.

This visit to Egypt is unlike other programs of faculty development and  
study.  By being a part of the National Council’s program to Egypt,  
participants become a Malone Fellow, a recognized and respected mark of  
distinction in Middle East studies.  In addition, this program allows  
one to do more than study Egypt as a professional.  While it succeeds  
superbly in that regard, it surpasses by a substantial measure what one  
could gain from any combination of classroom study or lectures, videos,  
and films in the United States.   The Malone Fellows’ Visit to Egypt  
enables participants to pursue their own topics of study, research and  
interaction in Egypt alongside Fellows with similar and complementary  
academic interests.  The program is thus an applied academic adventure  
that we hope you will be a part of in May.

Why Be A Part Of This Visit To Egypt

Meet: Egyptian academics from the American University in Cairo, Cairo  
University, and 	Alexandria University

Visit: The League of Arab States and learn first hand its role in  
representing, reforming, and developing the Arab world, together with  
numerous Egyptian sites and institutions of cultural, historical, and  
developmental interest, and the campus of America’s largest university  
outside the United States and its renowned Center for Arabic Studies  
Abroad

Engage: In dialogue with Egyptian academics, government officials, and  
civil society leaders as well as League of Arab States, World Bank, and  
Fulbright Commission representatives, together with American scholars  
and diplomats

Expand: Knowledge of U.S.-Egypt, U.S.-Arab World, and U.S.-Islamic  
World relations in interactive briefings with U.S. Embassy and Egyptian  
officials, representatives of the League of Arab States  
[www.arableagueonline.org], and scholars at Al-Azhar University  
[www.alazhar.org/], the oldest in the Islamic world

Explore: Fulbright Fellowship possibilities in Egypt  
[http://www.fulbright-egypt.org/], semester-abroad study opportunities  
for undergraduate and graduate students, volunteer work in humanitarian  
activities, student internships with American international  
corporations

Journey: Through Egypt's Pharoanic, Jewish, Coptic Christian, and  
Islamic periods, through the largest and most diverse city in the Arab  
world, through the Nile Delta region to Alexandria and its  
Mediterranean environs and back

Network: With international and regional institutions, humanitarian aid  
groups, civil society associations, research foundations, and study  
abroad faculty and advisers at American University in Cairo  
[www.aucegypt.edu]


W
anted: A dozen good Fellows. Participants in the study visit will be  
selected by a committee of scholars of Egypt and other Arab countries,  
the Middle East, and the Islamic world. The criteria for selection of  
applicants that have previously visited the Arab region as Malone  
Fellows is two-fold, based partly on:

(1) the nature and extent of a Fellow’s previous visits to other Arab  
countries, and partly on

(2) an evaluation of the nature and extent of a Fellow’s proven record  
of sharing those experiences with multiple and diverse audiences upon  
returning to the United States.

First-time applicants to the Malone Fellowship Program, beyond  
providing detailed credentials, are required to submit a two to  
three-page double-spaced essay on “Egypt-U.S. Relations: Challenges for  
America’s Leaders.”  In addition, a half page essay should explain  
one’s interest in Egypt and the Malone Fellowship Program, how one  
intends to enable community civic, religious, and professional  
associations to benefit from the visit, and the kinds of related  
follow-up educational and outreach activities envisioned.


Guides and Escorts

Denis J. Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Director of the  
Cronin International Center and Chair of the International Studies  
Department at Bentley College.  Dr. Sullivan served previously as Chair  
of Political Science at Northeastern University, where he was annually  
a faculty adviser for Northeastern student delegations participating in  
the Model Arab League.  He is also an Affiliate in Research at Harvard  
University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.  In 2002 and 2003, Dr.  
Sullivan was Director of the Institute in Governance, Public Policy,  
and Civil Society in Toledo, Spain.  He is the author of numerous  
articles and books, most recently “The Struggle for Egypt's Future,”  
Current History, January 2003 and Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil  
Society vs. the State, with Sana Abed-Kotob (L. Rienner, 1999).

Paul Beran (Ph.D., Northeastern University - May 2004) is Director of  
Short-Term Programs at Bentley College's Cronin International Center.  
In 2003, Dr. Beran was Principle Investigator on a Population Council  
grant for capacity-building among Egyptian Ph.D. students in Cairo. He  
was also Faculty Coordinator for the Institute in Governance, Public  
Policy, and Civil Society in Toledo, Spain. Dr. Beran has worked with  
local and international NGOs and educational institutions in Egypt and  
Palestine/Israel.  He is the author of articles and opinion pieces on  
civil society and the Middle East, most recently for The Daily Star,  
Beirut, Lebanon, and Studies in Democratization, e-journal.

Depending on the level of interest, it is possible that additional  
study visits to Egypt may be scheduled in 2004. Applicants eager to  
visit Egypt in 2004, but who cannot participate in the May visit, are  
encouraged to indicate what months they would be available.



Pricing

(US$) * $2,600 + international airfare. Current fares are as low as  
$975.00 but they are likely to increase soon.

Cost Includes:

•	Escort leadership by longtime and empirically experienced Egypt  
specialists
•	Accommodations at the superbly-located Cairo Marriott in Egypt
•	All ground transportation in Egypt (not including train fare to  
Alexandria)
•	All meeting and facilitation costs
•	All breakfasts
•	One banquet dinner by the Pyramids of Giza

What Fellows Need to Provide:
•	Add $750 if single room occupancy is required
•	Plan on bringing $300 to cover costs not included in the trip price
•	Transportation to and from Washington, D.C.
•	One night’s accommodations in D.C.
•	Valid passport
•	In order to process successful applicants’ visas in time, their  
completed visa application and passport must arrive to the National  
Council, c/o Mr. Neal Lendenmann by May 12.


Please Note:  The final pricing for the package will depend on the  
number of participants, hotel availability, and operational and  
logistical factors.  Please use the following figure as a tentative  
guideline.

Estimated Cost of Visit to Egypt, excluding international airfare,  
travel to and from Washington, D.C., and one night’s accommodations in  
Washington:	$2,600
•	Current roundtrip economy airfares to Egypt from Washington, DC, are  
approximately $1,000, but they are likely to increase by May 12, so  
apply early!

Malone Fellowship’s Visit to Egypt
Theme:  Contemporary Egypt:  Dynamics of Political, Social, and  
Economic Development


TENTATIVE ITINERARY


Pre-Departure Orientation and Meetings: at the offices of the National  
Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, Washington D.C.

⎫	May 20-21

Depart	from D.C. on the evening of Friday May 21 		


In-Country Program Schedule

Day One:  Arrive in Cairo						Saturday May 22

P.M.				Check-in to the Marriott; REST

EVENING			Dinner at the hotel


Day Two:  Multi-Faith Cairo					Sunday May 23

A.M.  	Coptic Christian and Jewish Cairo: Al-Mal’aqa and St. Barbara  
Churches, and the Ben Eliezer Synagogue

P.M.   	Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As, Citadel of Salah Ed-Din, Mosque of  
Mohammed Ali, and the Mosque of Sultan Hassan


Day Three:  Pharoanic Cairo					Monday May 24

A.M.  				Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza

NOON & P.M.  		Lunch on the Sakkara Road

EVENING  			Felucca [traditional Egyptian sailing boat] on the Nile


Day Four:  Trade and Commerce					Tuesday May 25

10: 00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.	Focus: “Business, Economic, and Development  
Environment in Egypt”
Lecture and Discussion: Dr. Sherine El Shawarby, Associate Professor,  
Faculty of Economics & Political Science - Cairo University, &  
Economist - World Bank
Location: Fulbright Commission [www.fulbright-egypt.org]

2:00 P.M.			Visit the famous Ibn Tulun Mosque or Egyptian Museum
				Khan al-Khalili Bazaar


Day Five:  Alexandria						Wednesday May 26

9:00 A.M.  			Board train for Alexandria

P.M. 	Alexandria library, Alexandria University [www.alex.edu.eg/],  
Fort of Qait Bay, Roman and Greek ruins, and the Trianon and Pastroudis  
cafes

EVENING			Return to Cairo via the Delta train through Tanta


Day Six: International Organizations and Civil Society		Thursday May 27

10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON	Focus: “The World Bank’s Developmental Efforts  
in Egypt”	
Lecture and Discussion: Mr. Jamal Kibbi, Senior Economist & Deputy  
Country Director, World Bank
			Location: World Bank Premises

1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.	Focus: “Egypt’s NGOs: Process, Progress,  
Prospects”
Lecture and Discussion: Mr. Magdi Sidhom, Director, Office of Program  
Operations & Customer Service, NGO Service Center
Location: NGO Service Center Premises


Day Seven: Free Day							Friday May 28

SUGGESTIONS		Egyptian Museum, Sakkara Pyramids or shopping


Day Eight: The Arab League/The Arab World			Saturday May 29	

10:00 A.M.	Focus:  “Reformist Dynamics and Arab Regionalism: The League  
of Arab States in Perspective”
				Lecture and Discussion:  TBA
				Location:  League of Arab States Headquarters
[www.arableagueonline.org]

P.M.				Focus:  “The Arab World in Regional and Global Affairs”  
					Lecture and Discussion:  TBA
				Location:  Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies
[extra.ahram.org.eg]

EVENING	Event:  	Reception
	Location:  League of Arab States Headquarters
	[www.arableagueonline.org]


Day Nine: Egyptian Politics and Egyptian Islam			Sunday May 30

10:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon	Focus: “Islam in Contemporary Egypt: A  
Perspective of Gender”
	Lecture and Discussion:  Ms. Riham Bahi, Assistant Senior Lecturer,  
Faculty of Economics & Political Science - Cairo University	
	Location:  Fulbright Commission [www.fulbright-egypt,org]	

1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.	Focus: “Egyptian Politics: Internal & Foreign  
Affairs”
Lecture and Discussion: Amb. Dr. El Sayed Amin Shalaby, Executive  
Director, Egyptian Council of Foreign Affairs
Location: Egyptian Council of Foreign Affairs


Day Ten:  US-Egyptian Relations 					Monday May 31

9:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.	Focus: “Egypt-US Trade Relationship” and  
“Egyptian-American Relations Since 9-11”
	Lecture and Discussion: Mr. Hisham Fahmy, Executive Director, American  
Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in Egypt
			Location: AMCHAM headquarters
[http://www.amcham.org.eg/]

12:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.	Focus: “U.S. – Egyptian Diplomatic Relations &  
Egyptian Internal Politics”
Lecture and Discussion: Christopher Hegadorn, Political Officer,  
Economic/Political Section, U.S. Embassy, Egypt
Location: Fulbright Commission [www.fulbright-egypt.org]


Day Eleven:	American Education in Egypt			Tuesday 1 June

10:00 A.M.			Focus: “America’s Largest University Abroad: Opportunities
for Arab and Egyptian Studies as well as Arabic Language
Training”
	Host:  	American University in Cairo
				Location:  American University in Cairo [www.aucegypt.edu]

P.M.  				Depart for the United States


Recommended Readings:

⎫	Neguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley
⎫	Denis J. Sullivan and Sana Abed-Kotob, Islam in Contemporary Egypt
⎫	Max Rodenbeck, Cairo: The City Victorious
⎫	Lonely Planet Guide Books, Egypt:  A Country Guide


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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Audio CD for Cowell's Syrian Arabic Grammar
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:gla2 at georgetown.edu [through LINGUIST'
Subject:Audio CD for Cowell's Syrian Arabic Grammar

Title: Audio CD for A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic
Series Title: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2004			
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu
			
Book URL: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=1589010035

Author: Mark W. Cowell

CD: ISBN: 1589010035, Price:  U.S. $: 19.95
     Comment: Audio CD


Abstract:
			
A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic is considered the "gold standard"
of reference grammars. This single CD, keyed to the text, was formerly
available only on multiple audiocassettes, and contains all the same
audio material with the added advantages of being not only less
expensive but more user-friendly as well.


Lingfield(s):	Applied Linguistics
		Language Description 	
			
Subject Language(s):	Arabic, Standard (Language Code: ABV)

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Apr 30 23:08:29 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Erwin's Iraqi Refernce Grammar and Course and CD
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:  gla2 at georgetown.edu [through LINGUIST]
Subject:Erwin's Iraqi Refernce Grammar

Title: A Short Reference Grammar of Iraqi Arabic
Series Title: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2004			
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu
			
Book URL: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=1589010108

Author: Wallace M. Erwin

Paperback: ISBN: 1589010108, Pages: 416, Price:  U.S. $: 29.95

Abstract:
			
A Short Reference Grammar of Iraqi Arabic is the only volume of its
kind, reflecting Iraqi Arabic as spoken by educated Muslims in
Baghdad. With all the Arabic transcribed, it is written for beginners
as well as Arabic speakers wanting to learn the dialect. It covers the
phonology, morphology (word formation of nouns, verbs, pronouns,
adjectives, and numerals, achieved by adding prefixes and suffixes to
roots), and syntax, teaching the reader how to make the sounds, form
words, and construct sentences.


Lingfield(s):	Applied Linguistics
		Language Description 	
			
Subject Language(s):	Arabic, Standard (Language Code: ABV)

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:  gla2 at georgetown.edu [through LINGUIST]
Subject:Erwin's Iraqi Course and CD

Title: A Basic Course in Iraqi Arabic with MP3 Audio Files
Series Title: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu
			
Book URL: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=1589010116

Author: Wallace M. Erwin

Paperback: ISBN: 1589010116, Pages: 424, Price:  U.S. $: 39.95
	   Comment: includes 1 audio CD with MP3 files

Abstract:
			
A comprehensive introduction to Iraqi Arabic for beginners (with
Iraqi-English and English-Iraqi glossaries) this is the language
spoken by educated Muslim Baghdad residents, transcribed and not in
Arabic script. It does not assume prior knowledge of Arabic. A Basic
Course in Iraqi Arabic with MP3 Audio Files contains ten chapters of
phonology to explain the sounds, and thirty more covering grammar and
vocabulary.  The phonology chapters all contain extensive drills. The
grammar chapters start with a dialogue or brief narrative, then
explain new vocabulary and points of grammar, and conclude with
drills. The book is usefully enhanced with a bound-in CD with audio
MP3 files to accompany the text and drills.


Lingfield(s):	Applied Linguistics
			
Subject Language(s):	Arabic, Standard (Language Code: ABV)

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Apr 30 23:08:39 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Egyptian Colloquial Book
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs Egyptian Colloquial Book

I would be very much obliged if you could refer me to any off-shelf
Egyptian Colloquial books you know of. The ones I came across are
:"yalla nedardish bel 3arabi by Mona Kamel and The Egyptian Colloquial
Intensive Course parts 1&2 by Abbas El Tonsi.
Thanks for your help
Best
Iman

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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translating Otherness Conference
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:badry at ausharjah.edu
Subject:Translating Otherness Conference

The American University of Sharjah (UAE)
&
Edinburgh Institute for the Study of the Arab World and Islam
(University of Edinburgh, UK)

announce the International Conference on ‘Translating’ Otherness"

4-6 October 2004
Sharjah
United Arab Emirates

Hosted by
The College of Arts & Sciences
Department of English & Translation Studies
American University of Sharjah

Many thought the fin de siècle would further consolidate the global  
trend, which
characterized the late 1980s and 1990s.  The first major events of this  
century have,
however, clearly shown that there is still much to be translated before  
a global world can be
achieved.  The events have also demonstrated the resort to translation  
when cultural
conflicts happen.  Otherness, inclusion, exclusion, identity,  
manipulation, promotion of
particular agendas, and primary topoi and pasts come to haunt and  
influence the discourse of
translating between competing cultures.  The situation can be difficult  
for languages and
cultures from opposite positions of power and/or knowledge.

The conference seeks to explore the role of translation as a primary  
strategy in cultural
representation in today’s assumed global world.  Issues to be explored  
include how texts for
translation are chosen and imported and how those involved in the  
translation enterprise
operate both on the macro and micro levels for the production and  
circulation of
translations.

Call for Papers.

With a focus intercultural transmission through translation, the  
conference subthemes will,
not exclusively, include:

1 Visions and images of the other through translation.
2 Cultural hegemony and globalisation
3 Reconstructing modernity.
4 Translation and the loss and/or emergence of literary canons
5 Cultural diversity and cultural minorities.
6 The rise of stereotypes.
7 Media and the representation of otherness.
8 Language, languages and language polic(ies).

Abstracts (300-500 words) in either Arabic or English (the languages of  
the conference)
together with full name, full postal address, telephone, fax and an  
e-mail address, and
affiliation should be sent electronically by 10 July 2004 to Basil Hatim
(bhatim at ausharjah.edu)

Notification of acceptance and the second circular will be sent out by  
30 July 2004.
Selected papers from the conference will be submitted for publication  
with an academic
publisher.

Conference Organizers: Basil Hatim, Fatima Badry and Said Faiq.

Fax: +(971– 6) 515 2570
www.ausharjah.edu\cas\otherness2004

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Apr 30 23:08:36 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Intensive Summer Arabic at Cornell
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1) Subject:Intensive Summer Arabic at Cornell

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:Munther Younes <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:Intensive Summer Arabic at Cornell

INTENSIVE ARABIC SUMMER PROGRAM AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

NES 111-Elementary Arabic I (June 7-July 2, 2004)
  NES 112- Elementary Arabic II (July 7-August 3, 2004)

NES 113-Intermediate Arabic I (June 7-July 2, 2004)
  NES 210-Intermediate Arabic II July 7-August 3, 2004

THE CORNELL PROGRAM
The Cornell Arabic program integrates spoken Arabic with Modern  
Standard Arabic (MSA) in a way that reflects the use of the language by  
native speakers. Arabs use a spoken dialect for ordinary conversation  
and MSA for reading, writing, and formal speech. The Cornell program  
introduces spoken Arabic and MSA simultaneously, using each variety as  
it is used in real life. The four language skills of listening,  
speaking, reading, and writing are developed with a focus on  
communication rather than on the study of grammar. An important  
objective of the program is familiarizing students with basic facts  
about the geography, history, and culture of the Arab world.

  Classes will meet for 3 1/2  hours in the morning (8:30-12) before  
breaking for lunch. A Middle East-style lunch, which students and  
teachers eat together, will be followed by an hour of informal  
conversation with one or more teachers.   

NES 111-112 (ELEMENTARY ARABIC I AND II)
This two-course sequence provides a thorough grounding in the four  
language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Short  
stories, anecdotes, and dialogues reflecting real life experiences with  
an element of authenticity and humor are used to develop the listening  
and speaking skills. Reading and writing are developed through a  
"mini-course" in Arabic on Arab history, geography, and culture. The  
readings start with short phrases describing Arab countries, cities,  
and people, and end with page-long biographies of important Arab  
historical figures. Songs, Jeopardy-type games, crossword puzzles and  
other vocabulary-building activities that recycle the words of the  
listening, speaking, and reading materials are used to enhance the  
learning and retention of vocabulary and grammatical structures.

  No pre-requisite for NES 111.
  Pre-requisite for NES 112:  NES 111 or one semester of Arabic.


NES 113-210  (INTERMEDIATE ARABIC I AND II)
This two-course sequence continues the development of the four language  
skills through the extensive use of carefully selected graded materials  
on a variety of topics. The materials have been selected with the goal  
of generating lively classroom discussions and mastering vocabulary and  
structures that are useful in real-life situations in an  
Arabic-speaking environment outside of the classroom.  While more  
attention is given to developing native-like pronunciation and to  
grammatical accuracy than in NES 111-112, the main focus of the course  
is on encouraging fluency and facility in understanding the language  
and communicating ideas in it.  In addition to building on the  
linguistic foundation started in NES 111-112, the course continues the  
practice of introducing students to Arab society, history, and culture  
through the use of folktales, songs, poems, newspaper articles, and  
short stories depicting different aspects of Arab life and culture.

  Pre-requisite for NES 113: NES 112 or one year of Arabic.
  Pre-requisite for NES 210: NES 113 or equivalent.


CREDITS
Each of the four courses carries four credits and is equivalent to a  
semester of language study at Cornell. Students will have the option of  
signing up for one or both courses in each sequence.

TUITION AND FEES
The program charge is $3040 for each four-credit course.

  For more information contact Munther Younes at may2 at cornell.edu or  
(607) 255-2769, or visit: http://www.sce.cornell.edu/sp/arabic.php

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Apr 30 23:08:41 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: Grammar of Moroccan Arabic
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1) Subject:New Book: Grammar of Moroccan Arabic

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:estry at iam.net.ma
Subject:New Book: Grammar of Moroccan Arabic

  A GRAMMAR OF MOROCCAN ARABIC
  By M. Ennaji, A. Makhoukh, H. Es-saiydy, M. Moubtassime, S.Slaoui
Publications of the Faculty of Letters 1, Fès, Morocco (2004)


This book is a descriptive grammar of Moroccan Arabic from a broad  
perspective of generative linguistics. We have avoided as much as  
possible the technicalities associated with theory, and attempted to  
simplify the terminology and the description because we target  
primarily undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, and the  
general reader who is particularly interested in the structure of  
Moroccan Arabic.
                In this book, we study important phonological,  
morphological, and syntactic phenomena of the variety of Moroccan  
Arabic spoken in the areas of Fès and Meknès. To satisfy this aim, the  
book covers a wide range of empirical data. It does not attempt to  
offer an exhaustive survey of the structures of Moroccan Arabic,  
however, as it would be the case in the excellent tradition of  
Classical Arabic grammarians such as Sibawayhi or Ibnu Jinni, to name  
but two. Our aim is to provide the reader with a coherent and  
systematic approach to the structures of Moroccan Arabic.

For more information please contact: mennaji2002 at yahoo.fr	


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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Mary Washington College Job
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1) Subject:Mary Washington College Job

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:lkoos at mwc.edu
Subject:Mary Washington College Job

Arabic Adjunct

Mary Washington College invites applications for adjunct instructor of
Arabic to teach 2 beginning-level language courses in Modern Standard
Arabic commencing August 23, 2004.  These courses meet on a
Tuesday/Thursday schedule and the semester ends on December 10, 2004.
Candidates should possess the M.A., plus at least 18 hours of
graduate-level classes in Arabic as well as native or near-native
fluency.   Salary will be determined in conjunction with evaluation of
credentials.  Preference will be given to candidates with previous
teaching experience at the college level.

Position remains open until filled.  Interested candidates should
immediately send a vita and three letters of reference to Dr. Leonard
R. Koos, Arabic Search, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Mary
Washington College, 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA  22401;
fax (540) 654-1088;  email:  lkoos at mwc.edu.  For more information, call
(540) 654-1993.

In an effort to enrich its academic environment and provide equal
educational and employment opportunities, Mary Washington College
encourages women and minorities to apply.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Apr 30 23:08:49 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Sifr/Cipher
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1) Subject:Sifr/Cipher

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:wasamy at umich.edu
Subject:Sifr/Cipher

> I also find it odd that sometimes Iraqi uses
> "paaS" for bus, rather than baaS.  I believe
> some of this is an itermediate consonant
> between English p and b. (without the plosive?)

> Herb Martin
> Austin, TX

Might it be over correction?

In Egypt, overcorrection happens with F to V, and B to P.

Waheed

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Apr 30 23:08:51 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article on Arabic Superlative
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1) Subject:New Article on Arabic Superlative

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Article on Arabic Superlative

Publisher: Elsevier Ltd. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics
	
Journal: Lingua
ISSN   : 0024-3841
Volume : 114
Issue  : 7
Date   : Jul-2004

Definiteness and number ambiguity in the superlative construction in
Arabic
K. Elghamry
pp 897-910
Full text via ScienceDirect :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?
_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S00243841
03000810&_version=1&md5=70a822eb69d300054c93e2700ba2fe76

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:53:56 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:53:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book:Muslims in America
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1) Subject:New Book:Muslims in America

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:Mbaye Lo <Mbaye at urban.csuohio.edu>
Subject:New Book:Muslims in America

Subject: New Book on Arab and Muslims in America

Publisher: Amana Publications, Beltsville, Md. 1st Ed.
http://www.mbayelo.com/
Book Title: Muslims in America: Race, Politics and Community Building

ISBN: 1590080238
Issued Date: February, 2004

Contents

Illustrations, Figures and Tables
          Acknowledgments
Preface

Chapter  1                  Islam and the Muslim Community ..

Islam: A Conceptual Definition
The Muslim Community ...

Chapter 2                       Why Most American Converts / Reverts
               to Islam Are African-Americans
First Explanation
Second Explanation
The Truth Between

Chapter 3                      Genesis of Islam in Cleveland

The Ahmadiyyah Movement
The First Cleveland Mosque and the MTYP

Chapter 4                       The Muslim Experience of Black Americans

Black Muslim Activism Among Black Americans
Black Nationalism and Islam in Cleveland
 From the N.O.I. to Sunni Muslims

Chapter 5                        Muslim Immigrants
Reconciling Faith and Space
Muslim Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa
Muslim Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent
Muslim Immigrants from the Arab World

Chapter 6                   Surveying the Muslim Community
Gathering the Data
Ethnic Identity, Gender and Educational Background
Religious Background
Religious Affiliation
                                  Conclusion: Challenges and Prospective

Selected Bibliography

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:53:59 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:53:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP:JEP/TALN-Arabic NLP
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1) Subject:CFP:JEP/TALN-Arabic NLP

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com
Subject:CFP:JEP/TALN-Arabic NLP

****************************************************
  ??????????? CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

????? J E P? 2 0 0 4?? -?? T A L N? 2 0 0 4
  ?????????????? - Special Sessions -
  ?????????????????????
??????????? ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING
  ????????????????? TEXT & SPEECH
  ???????????????????? --------

?????????????? Palais des Congr?s
  ???????????????? Fez (Morocco)
  ??????????????? 19-22 April 2004
  ****************************************************

Due to the high number of submissions on the topic of
  "Arabic Language Processing, Text and Speech",
  several sessions will be organized:

* Invited plenary talk, JEP/TALN (Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA).
  * Plenary Speech Session, JEP/TALN.
  * Parallel Speech Session, JEP/TALN.
  * Two poster sessions, JEP/TALN.

Detailed program is available here :
  http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/JEP-TALN-ARABIC-Programme.pdf
  http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04//JEP-TALN-ARABIC-Programme.pdf

Information about registration and accomodations are
  available here :
  http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/
  http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04/

****************************************************

Organizers :
  Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, France.
  Noureddine Chenfour, Universit? S.M.Ben Abdellah, F?s, Maroc.

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  Malek Boualem
  France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI
  2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France
  Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:03 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Jobs for Arabic Computational Linguists and
 Lexicographers
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1) Subject:Jobs for Arabic Computational Linguists and Lexicographers

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:M Siftar - MTM LinguaSoft <mtmlinguasoft at verizon.net>
Subject:Jobs for Arabic Computational Linguists and Lexicographers

If you
- have a very high level of fluency in Arabic and a high level of  
fluency in English,
and
- are a student or have a degree in linguistics,  
computational?linguistics, semantics, lexicography, or translation  
studies,
and
- have a keen interest in working on new tools?development,
then
MTM LinguaSoft would like to hear from you.

  We are building a team of linguists to work on innovative research  
areas.?Our aim is to provide robust?linguistic tools for information  
processing of Arabic documents.  We are collecting resumes to answer a  
specific RFP.

If you are interested, please contact us before April, 15th, 2004.  
Resumes received after this deadline will not be considered. Please  
apply?by send your resume and level of interest to  
info at mtmlinguasoft.com (include reference MTM007).

Only individual submissions will be considered. Agencies,  
consulting?and search firms, please do not reply.

A short profile of MTM LinguaSoft is included below. More info  
available at www.mtmlinguasoft.com

MTM LinguaSoft, a Philadelphia-based corporation, is a services and  
solutions provider for all corporate multilingual needs.

  MTM LinguaSoft offers fast, efficient and accurate Translation &  
Localization Services for companies doing business with international  
markets or in multilingual environments, and provides project  
management?to deliver our customers' high-quality content in?all  
the?foreign languages.

MTM?LinguaSoft?also develops?Customized Multilingual Solutions for  
companies and governmental agencies seeking to automate language  
intensive processes such as translation, gisting, text mining and  
summarization. As a?value-added reseller of the Arabic/English  
knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT)?software developed by CIMOS  
of France, MTM LinguaSoft?specializes in custom solutions involving  
Arabic, English and French?languages. Building upon its partners' NLP  
and NLU engines, MTM LinguaSoft helps its North-American customers  
unlock the?meaning of multilingual content.
?
*********************************************
Myriam Siftar
President
MTM LinguaSoft
www.mtmlinguasoft.com
siftar at mtmlinguasoft.com
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:05 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: Afroasiatic Grammar
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:moderator (from LINGUIST)
Subject:New Book: Afroasiatic Grammar

EDITOR: Lecarme, Jacqueline
TITLE: Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II
SUBTITLE: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic
Languages, Paris, 2000
SERIES: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 241
PUBLISHER: John Benjamins
YEAR: 2003
ISBN: 1588113868
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-2958.html

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:20 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:What version(s) to teach?
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1) Subject:What version(s) to teach?

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:abeer heider <rahman3000eg at hotmail.com>
Subject:What version(s) to teach?

Dear all

iam asked to write paper on which is better for students wh learn
Arabic, learning Modern Satndard Arabic only  or Egyptian Dialect
combined with standard.
please if any one know sources or papers or books deal with that
subject, may send me these resources.
thanks for help
Abeer Heider

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:27 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic-English Dictionary for Medicine/Herbs
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1) Subject:Needs Arabic-English Dictionary for Medicine/Herbs

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:relrella at hotmail.com
Subject:Needs Arabic-English Dictionary for Medicine/Herbs

Assalaam Aleykum,

I shall be moving soon to Cairo and whilst I am there I hope to study
the practice of natural (tibb yunani or nabawwi) medicine. My question
is, is there any dictionary (English-Arabic, Arabic-English) that can
includes terms for various herbs, medicines and other words in the same
topic.  Also, I am aware of a few books that cover the medicine of the
Prophet and Indian Sufi medicine, but is there any books, in English or
Arabic, that cover Arab Islamic medicine?  Also, I would love to know
if anyone happens to know practicioners of traditional medicine (either
herbal or cupping) in Cairo.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated,
shukran jazeelan,
Rose Aslan

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:32 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lexical Relationships (cont)
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:SadokM at aol.com
Subject:Lexical Relationships (cont)

I think that the word ibn/bin should be listed in the dictionary under  
B, N, Y.This stem exists in Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew. In Genesis  
16:2 Sarah, the childless wife of Abram (Abraham) said to him ..."go in  
unto my maid; I may obtain children by her....". The Hebrew verb used  
for "obtain children" is the passive of B N Y, i.e. the Nif'al form,  
which is the Arabic Infa'la. It is known that in old Semitic families,  
the position of the wife in the? family becomes stronger when she gives  
birth to male children. Furthermore, Form V of the stem? B N Y in  
Arabic means 'to adopt a child'.

  Prof. Sadok Masliyah

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:29 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Turkish borrowings
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:d.newman at planetinternet.be
Subject:Turkish borrowings

Hello,

The following are some basic reference sources on the subject:
Littman, Enno (1954): 'T?rkisches Sprachgut im ?gyptischen-Arabischen',
West?stliche Ahandlungen, Festschrift f?r Rudolf Tschudi, Wiesbaden, pp.
107-27.
Abd al-Rahim, F. (1969-70): 'al-Kalimaat al-turkiyya fi 'l-lahjaat
al-Arabiyya al-haditha', Majallat al-Majma' al-Ilmi al-Arabi, 44, pp.
875-882, 45, pp. 143-50, 371-375.
Prokosch, E. (1983): Osmanisches Wortgut im ?gyptischen-Arabischen,  
Berlin.
Vollers, Karl (1887-1896/7): 'Beitr?ge zur Kenntniss der lebenden  
arabischen
Sprache in ?gypten', Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl?ndische  
Gesellschaft,
44, pp. 365-402; 50, pp. 607-657; 51, pp. 291-326, 343-364. (contains a  
very
useful list of foreign borrowings - including Turkish - into Egyptian
Arabic)

At the same time, some useful information can also be gleaned from the
borrowing of Turkish words in other dialects:
Baccouche, Ta?eb (1994): L'emprunt en arabe moderne, Tunis (Be?t  
Al-Hikma).
(pp. 75ff.  et passim) (especially useful for the Tunis dialect)
Ben Cheneb, Mohamed (1922): Mots turcs et persans conserv?s dans le  
parler
alg?rien', Algiers/Paris.
Belguedj, Mohamed Salah (1971): 'Les mots turcs dans le parler  
alg?rien',
Turcica, 3, pp. 133-142.
Mahfuz, Husayn (1964): al-Alfaz al-Turkiyya fi 'l-lugha al-Iraqiyya,
Baghdad.
Butros, Albert (1973): 'Turkish, Italian and French loanwords in the
colloquial Arabic of Palestine and Jordan', Studies in Linguistics, 23,  
pp.
87-104.
Masliyah, Sadok (1996): 'Four Turkish suffixes in Iraqi
Arabic: -li, -lik, -siz and -?i', Journal of Semitic Studies, XLI/2, pp.
291-300.

Also see:
Kahane, Henry & Ren?e ? Andreas Tietze (1958): The lingua franca in the
Levant. Turkish nautical terms of Italian and Greek origin', Urbana
(University of Illinois Press). (a vertible treasure trove of  
etymologies,
with numerous references to Arabic)
Stachowski, Stanislaw (1975-86): Studien ?ber die arabischen Lehnw?rter  
im
Osmanisch-T?rkischen, Wroclaw, 4 vols.V

I hope this will be of use to you.

Kind regards,
Daniel Newman


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2)
Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Turkish borrowings

Greetings.?
Re your query about?Turkish loanwords and borrowed conventions in  
collquial Egyptian Arabic
?
One prominent feature commonly used?in colloquial "al-3amiya" or  
"baladii"?I is the suffix of "jii" or "chii" added to a noun to  
indicate a person?who performs that referred function:
?
Examples include:
?
qawhajii/ qahwachi?= one who brings and serves coffee
?
burmaji = one who can do anything (or, variously, can do many thaings  
at the same time = the equivalent term in "American English" is akin to  
"a wheeler dealer")
?
Some Turkish honorific terms are still in use, although usually  
intended for?humor or sarcasm, such as "pasha, beh, effendim."
  ?
A term used by Egyptian military for Soviet military advisors in Egypt  
was "Ivan Pasha," as a reference to senior?officers and their  
families?who lived in?villas of former British officials in the Zamalek  
quarter of Cairo durfn 1967-1972.
?
HTH.
Regards,
Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California


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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs info on Mohammad Shahrur
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:Gergana Atanassova <iana_j at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs info on Mohammad Shahrur

Greetings all!

I am looking for biographic data on Mohammad Shahrur, a contemporary
Syrian egexete, authour of "Al-Kitaab wa-l-Qur'aan". I do not seem to
find anything written about him. Any information about him or
references to sources will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Gergana Atanassova

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:24 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Borrowing Verbs
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1) Subject:Borrowing Verbs

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:Borrowing Verbs

It has been suggested that "English "shoot, shot" (a ball toward a
goal) has become thoroughly  naturalized in Egyptian Arabic ..." To
that, I would like to add that shawwaT (Form II) is also used in Iraqi
Arabic. It seems that it has penetrated Fusha as well. A soccer game
has two half-times of 45 minutes each. In Standard Arabic, they are
called ashwaaT (and the singular is shawT) e.g. fii ash-shawT al-awwal
min al-mubaarat ... "In the first half time of the game/match ..."
shawT is a loan with no productive derivation that I know of in Arabic.

On the same subject of borrowed verbs in Arabic outside computerese,
Iraqi Arabic also uses chayyak/yichayyik "to check or look into" and
parrak/yiparrik "to park" ( both From II). By the way, Iraqi Arabic
does not substitute /b/ for /p/ because it does have the latter phoneme
as in paacha (loan from Turkish) which is a dish known as kawaari9 in
Egyptian Arabic or parda "curtain," which is also a loan word from
Turkish.

I also remember how Detroit Arabs used to say: iSTakket fi-thalij "I
was stuck in the snow."

In Gulf Arabic, to shift the transmission of the car and put it "in
reverse," the verb is rewis (this NOT Form II). The second vowel in the
word is pronounced more like a schwa. I heard this word for the first
time in Oman a couple of years ago. To my chagrin, a Pakistani car
mechanic with no knowledge of English struggled to explain to me what
it meant in his broken Arabic.

Finally, Arabic Sifr and English cipher (spelled cypher in British
English) both mean zero. Which language borrowed from the other?


Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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2)
Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:srpkole at EUnet.yu
Subject:Borrowing Verbs

Dear colleagues,

Although Sattar asked for a "direct borrowing of a verb in standard
Arabic"
only and though I am a little late, yet I think I simply have to report
on
this candy of a quadriliteral colloquial verb (I & II): baznas-ybaznis,
and
tbaznas-yitbaznas. As it is obvious, both are derived from English
"business". The first one means to make business deals in a way that
usually
has not much to do with the sincerity and being honest. The second one
means
(as is pretty obvious, too) to start to behave in that "businesslike"
manner, or to pretend to make business (with the intention of cheating).

I've picked it up from Libya first, in mideighties, and used to throw it
here and there in Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Gulf, and it worked smoothly
every
time.

Cheers,
Srpko Lestaric

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:08 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Computational Linguist
 Job/Lexicographer/Translator Job
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1) Subject:Arabic Lexicographer/Translator Job

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:farghaly at systransoft.com (reposted from LINGUIST)
Subject:Arabic Computational Linguist Job

University or Organization: SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
Department: Arabic Development
Rank of Job: Arabic Computational Linguist
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (Code = ABV)

Description:

An Arabic Computational Linguist is needed to assist in the
development of automatic language translation software at SYSTRAN, the
leader in the field of Machine Translation. The position is the
interface between core engine developer and linguistic team. It will
involve maintenance and development of linguistic "rules" declarative
or procedural, dealing with linguistic formalism, and also providing
implementation solutions and technical support to the Arabic
lexicographer and linguist team, etc. Qualifications: Good command of
the Arabic language, experience in team work, good programming skills
(especially in C/C++ and PERL), familiarity with linguistic concepts,
understanding of natural language processing techniques, fluency in
English, and interest in Machine Translation. Please send resume and
cover letter highlighting relevant experience to
farghaly at systransoft.com. Position open until filled.

Address for Applications:

	Attn: Ali Farghaly
	9333 Genesee Ave. Suite PL1
	San Diego, CA 92121
	United States of America

	Position is open until filled.

Contact Information:
	Ali Farghaly
	Email: farghaly at systransoft.com
	Tel: 858-457-1900
	Website: http://www.systransoft.com/

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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:farghaly at systransoft.com (reposted from LINGUIST)
Subject:Arabic Lexicographer/Translator Job


University or Organization: SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
Department: Arabic Development
Rank of Job: Lexicographer/Translator
Specialty Areas: Lexicography
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (Code = ABV)


Description:

An Arabic Lexicographer/Translator, must be a native speaker with
excellent command of Modern Standard Arabic usage and grammar.
Experience in translation from and to Arabic is helpful. Experience
with Windows, the Internet, and WORD is required. Job responsibilities
include adding lexical entries to SYSTRAN's Arabic English dictionary,
evaluating translations, identifying errors and suggesting
improvement. May also be required to assist in the writing of
disambiguation and analysis rules. Please send resume and cover letter
highlighting educational background and relevant experience to
farghaly at systransoft.com. Position open until filled.



Address for Applications:

	Attn: Ali Farghaly
	9333 Genesee Ave. Suite PL1
	San Diego, CA 92121
	United States of America

	Position is open until filled.


Contact Information:
	Ali Farghaly
	Email: farghaly at systransoft.com
	Tel: 858-457-1900
	Website: http://www.systransoft.com/

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:13 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:13 -0600
Subject: arabic-L:GEN:(very) Old Arabic recordings Query
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:Roab at aol.com
Subject:(very) Old Arabic recordings Query

[moderator's note: I received this message as a personal enquiry, but  
had no particular reply.  If you are interested in helping Mr. Abdo,  
contact him directly at the above e-mail address.]

Dear Mr. Parkinson,
?
I wonder if you could help me.? I'm an Arab American of Lebanese  
ancestry. I have several very old Arabic records, some of which were  
recorded about 100 years ago.? One, in fact, was recorded in 1903 !!
?
Would you have any idea of the value of these records or perhaps would  
you know of someone who might be able to help me?
?
Thank you for your assistance.
?
Sincerely,
?
Ron Abdo

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr  8 19:54:17 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:54:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AFL State Certification in Michigan
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Date: 08 Apr 2004
From:AyoubyK at Dearborn.k12.mi.us
Subject:AFL State Certification in Michigan


ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear List Members (particularly, Michigan AFL professionals)

On behalf of myself and State of Michigan Board of Education member, Ms.
Marianne McGuire, as co-chairs of the "Arabic as a Foreign Language
Teacher Certification Exploratory Committee", I would like to announce
the intention of the Exploratory Committee to expand its preliminary
work by transforming itself into the "Arabic as a Foreign Language
Teacher Certification Ad Hoc Taskforce" of the Michigan State Board of
Education to look into the process of making Arabic a fully
"certificate-able" language for teaching in Michigan schools.

Having made a case for the need to look into establishing Arabic as
subject matter for professional certification, the "exploratory
committee", would like to invite interested parties, especially
professionals in higher education and in private school and charter
school quarters to join the Taskforce. The purpose of the Taskforce is
to develop recommendations to the State Board of Education in order for
said body to institute Arabic as a state recognized subject matter of
study, thereby also, allowing for state licensure of teachers of Arabic
in the K-12 level arena. In other words, Arabic and AFL teachers would
have the same legal/professional standing as teachers of French, German
or Spanish who are "certificated" to teach in the public schools.
Please, contact me at the email address stated above.

Current members of the Exploratory Committee are:

Ms. Marianne Y. McGuire, Co-Chair
Mr. Kenneth K. Ayouby, Co-Chair
Dr. Albert Harp, Principal, McDonald Elementary School
Ms. Nabila Barada-Hammami, AFL Teacher, Fordson High School
Ms. Nauf Abu-Dib, AFL Teacher, Dearborn High School
Mr. Abdul Hamid Mackie, Educator and Community Activist

The Taskforce is intended to have a membership of thirty AFL interested
stakeholders.

Regards,

Kenneth K. Ayouby, Ed.S.


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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:34 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Pennsylvania Job
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From: Roger Allen <rallen at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject:U. of Pennsylvania Job

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

LECTURER IN ARABIC

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in the School of
Arts & Sciences and the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and
International Studies jointly propose to make an appointment of
Lecturer in Arabic, beginning in Fall 2004.

Responsibilities within the Lauder Institute Program will include
planning and teaching the Arabic segment of the language program,
involving 1-2 class sections per semester, as well as designing
curriculum, organizing periodic seminars and mini-immersion experiences
during the course of the academic year and assisting in the overall
administration of the Arabic Track program.  Within the Department of
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies the person appointed person will
become part of the cadre of Arabic teaching faculty, with particular
responsibility for the offering of courses within the program of the
College of General Studies (the evening and continuing education
program).  All these activities will be under the joint supervision of
the senior professor in the Arabic program in the Department of Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies and the Director of Language Programs at the
Lauder Institute.

The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Mgmt and  International Studies
offers a 24-month joint-degree program through which students earn an
MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the
School of Arts and Sciences.   For further information, please visit
The Lauder Institute website:  http://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu.

Candidates will be expected to have 3-5 years of experience in teaching
upper-level language courses in Arabic, ideally with a focus in the
world of public affairs and business.  Native or near-native competence
in standard Arabic and at least one colloquial dialect is required.  A
broad knowledge of the culture, society and business environment of one
or more region of the Arab world is also required.  A wide range of
experience in business and business culture, and/or experience in
teaching courses involving business or language for professional use is
highly desirable.  The successful candidate will also need to show a
strong interest and experience in curriculum design and the development
of course materials for upper-level language courses for professional
use.

The Lecturer position is a renewable 9-month appointment.  The salary
is competitive and commensurate with experience.  Letters and a short
curriculum vitae should be sent to:

Dr. Roger M. Allen
Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
University of Pennsylvania
3701 Market Street, Suite 215
Philadelphia, PA 19104-5502

Mr. Anthony Palmer
Director, Language Programs
The Lauder Institute
208 Lauder-Fisher Hall
256 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
e-mail: palmer2 at wharton.upenn.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:38 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Collocation in the Quran query
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:nahed wasfi <nwasfi at yahoo.com>
Subject:Collocation in the Quran query

i am working on collocation in the quran and i would appreciate if  
anyone can tell me about any reference and research work??dealing  
with?collocations and /or idiomatic expressions (in english, in arabic,  
in french)
dr. Wasfi

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:43 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:duclaux at elda.fr
Subject:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference

*************************************************************
Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference
	22-23 September 2004, Cairo, Egypt
*************************************************************

An international conference on Arabic Language Resources
and Tools will take place in Cairo, Egypt.

The main organiser of the conference is the NEMLAR
consortium. The local organiser is RDI Egypt.

Venue: Hotel Helnan Shepheard, Cairo, Egypt
Project and conference web site: http://www.nemlar.org

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Conference aims
-------------------------
Language Resources (LRs) are recognised as a central component
of the linguistic infrastructure, necessary for the development of HLT
applications and products, and therefore for industrial development.

In this conference, we will focus on Arabic language technology and
on the necessary language resources and tools for both research and
commercial development of language technology for Arabic. Multilingual
language technology is also in the focus, as well as general
methodologies.
Evaluation of modules and systems is another field which is closely
related
to language resources, because language resources are used to perform
the evaluation. Consequently we also invite papers in this area.

Substantial mutual benefits are achieved by addressing these issues
through international collaboration. For this reason, the conference is
organised at the international level.

The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the
state-of-the-art
for Arabic resources and tools, discuss problems and opportunities,
exchange information regarding LRs, their applications, ongoing and
planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from
the new e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to
technological
and organisational ones.

-------------------------
Conference topics
-------------------------
- Issues in the design, construction and use of Arabic Language
Resources (LRs)
- Issues in Human Language Technologies (HLT) evaluation
- Policy issues, international cooperation, strategies for the support
of LR
- Exploitation of Arabic data for the development of language
technologies

Please check the web site www.nemlar.org for the full Call text.

-------------------------
Programme
-------------------------
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks and oral
presentations,
referenced demonstrations and panels.

-------------------------
Abstract submission
-------------------------
On-line submission forms will soon be available.
Please check the project and conference web pages, www.nemlar.org.

-------------------------
Important dates
-------------------------
- Submission of proposals for papers, referenced demos: 15 May 2004
- Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2004
- Final versions for the proceedings: 20 August 2004

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Programme chairs
-------------------------
- Khalid Choukri, ELDA, Paris, France (co-chair)
- Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-chair)

The programme committee, the scientific committee and the organising
committee are found on the project and conference web site.

-------------------------
NEMLAR
-------------------------
For more information about NEMLAR (Network for Euro-Mediterranean
LAnguage Resource and human language technology development and
support), please contact:

Bente Maegaard (co-ordinator)
Tel: + 45 35 32 90 90
Fax: + 45 35 32 90 89
Email: nemlar at cst.dk
Web: www.nemlar.org

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:36 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:JAIS, vol. 5,2 (Second-century Ghulat)
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1) Subject:JAIS, vol. 5,2 (Second-century Ghulat)

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:"Joseph N. Bell" <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject:JAIS, vol. 5,2 (Second-century Ghulat)

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
<http://www.uib.no/jais>
<http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm>

 From Joseph Bell

The prepublication version of the following new article has been posted
today:

<http://www.uib.no/jais/v005/bayhomdaou1prp.pdf>Tamima Bayhom-Daou. The
Second-Century Gulat<http://www.uib.no/jais/v005/bayhomdaou1prp.pdf>:
Were They Really Gnostic? (Adobe Acrobat 6.0 PDF file, 356 kB, pp.
13-61).

Abstract: This paper questions the suggestion of our sources that
gnostic currents had already appeared among Shi'ites by the early
second/eighth century. It contends that gnosticism did not surface in
Shi'ism until the third/ninth century and that our information on its
existence among second-century Shi'ites is the result of retrospective
ascription to groups and individuals who, on account of their (real or
alleged) messianic beliefs, had already been identified by moderate
Imamis as ghulat. That information would have served to distance
Imamism and its imams from gnostic teachings by associating those
teachings with repudiated figures from the past. The paper examines
evidence showing that in his work on firaq Hisham b. al-Hakam (d.
179/795) was not aware of the existence of gnostic ideas in Shi'ism.
Other examined evidence also shows that references to gnostic ghuluww
are conspicuous by their absence from sources on Shi'ism that are
datable to before the third/ninth century.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs Seyyed Nasr Hossein books in Arabic
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:"R.S. A" <relrella at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs Seyyed Nasr Hossein books in Arabic

Hello,

I am currently looking for any of Nasr's books, especially 'Sufi
Essays' translated into Arabic.  In his biography, it states that many
of his books have been translated into Islamic languages, I assume
Arabic is included.  Does anyone have any idea where I can find them,
online or in north america or in the middle east? Thanks very much
-Rose Aslan

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:28 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Borrowed verbs in Kuwaiti
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From: Bill Young <byoung at casl.umd.edu>
Subject:Borrowed verbs in Kuwaiti

There are many examples of borrowed verbs in colloquial Arabic.? In  
Kuwait the English verb ?to finish? has been adopted in the form  
/fanna?, yifanni?/, with the meaning ?to fire someone from a job.?? See  
Hamdi Qafisheh?s Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary, p. 486.

William C. Young
Researcher
Center for the Advanced Study of Language
University of Maryland
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Arabic instruction in the Phillipines
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Angela Acosta <aacosta at hampshire.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic instruction in the Phillipines

  Hello!

  I'm looking for someone to teach me intermediate-level Arabic for 6
months
  (from June to December 2004). I will be located in Metro Manila,
Philippines
  during this time. Payment and time schedule is negotiable.

  If you are interested (or know someone who might be), please email me
at
aacosta at hampshire.edu.

  Thank you!

  Sincerely,
  Angela Acosta

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:01 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Medicine/Herbs references responses
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1) Subject:Sources on Medicines/Herbs
2) Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk
Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

There is a substantial literature in English on Islamic pharmacopaeia
and herbal medicine (and much more besides in other Western
languages), e.g.

Handbook of Arabian medicinal plants, by Shahin Ghazanfar (Boca
Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1994), and the series of books by
Wataru Miki and others published by the Institute for the Study of
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa in Tokyo (Herb drugs and
herbalists in the Maghrib, Herb drugs and herbalists in the Middle
East, Index of the Arab herbalist's materials, etc.)

In addition various important mediaeval Islamic material medica have
been translated into English, for example, Al-Biruni's Book of
pharmacy and materia medica (translated by S.K.Hamarneh, Karachi,
1973, in 2 vols) and The medical formulary or Aqrabadhin of Al-Kindi
(translated by Martin Levey, Madison, 1966) to name but two.

All of the above provide bilingual lists of plants and medicines.

Paul Auchterlonie
Librarian for Middle East Studies
University of Exeter

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Christian Sinclair <www.sit.edu/studyabroad>
Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

There is "A Dictionary of Medicinal Plants" by Dr Yussof Abu Najm.
Publisher: Librairie du Liban.  The edition I have was published in
1992.
Book no. 01D110905.

The book is almost all in Arabic, explaining the uses of different herbs
and plants.  Then it also has the name of the plant in English, Latin
and French.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:04 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Mohammad Shahrur info
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk
Subject:Mohammad Shahrur info

There is a good review of al-Kitaab wa-l-Qur'aan  by Dale Eickelman
in MESA Bulletin 27, 1993, p. 163-68, which contains some brief
biographical details about Shahrur.

Paul Auchterlonie
Librarian for Middle East Studies
University of Exeter

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:53 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dissertation on Masdar and Participle Morphosyntax
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Dissertation on Masdar and Participle Morphosyntax

Institution: Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University
Program: Standard Arabic morphosyntax
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2004

Author: Rachid El Ouardi

Dissertation Title: Some Aspects of Standar Arabic Nominal Sentence,
the Morphosyntax of Masdar and Participles

Linguistic Field: Morphology, Syntax

Dissertation Director 1: Fatima Sadiqi
Dissertation Director 2: Moha Ennaji
Dissertation Director 3: Ur Shlonsky
Dissertation Director 4: El Abbas Benmamoune

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis is a study of some of the grammatical properties of
Standard Arabic nominal sentence, particularly those structures where
a masdar or a participle shows up. Three major points are taken up:
the analysis of the salient features of non-verbal constructions, the
discussion of the issue of the relation between the lexical and
morphosyntactic representations, and the categorial and functional
feature specification of masdars and participles.

As to the first point, the investigation focuses on how Standard
Arabic nominal sentences are internally structured, taking three
particular areas, namely DPs (noun phrases), APs (adjectival phrases)
and CSs (construct states). The description and discussion center
around the issue of agreement inside all these types of structure,
especially number and gender agreement.  The proper investigation,
concerning the second point, aims at contributing to the generative
morphosyntactic debate as to the component where words are formed. On
the assumption that words are projected onto the phrase marker fully
formed, fully inflected, the problem is addressed within a theory
positing that word formation component consists in two (lexical)
levels constituting, in fact, the lexical morphology. These two levels
are: L1 which is the area where roots, affixes and combination rules
are listed and activated; L2 which is the output of L1 and where
formed words, with all their categorical and inflectional features,
are stored and, thus, projected as such onto syntactic structures.

Finally, with regard to the third point, three points are focused on:
(i) The way the mismatch between nominal and verbal aspects of the
categories masdar and participles might theoretically be conditioned;
it is argued that the functional elements [+D] and [+T] have a
decisive part in this respect; (ii) Other functional elements that may
be associated with such substantives, namely D, AGR and T. D and AGR
are shown to be very influential in determining word order within m-
and participle structures, respectively. As to T, it is argued that,
in m-constructions, tense reading is largely related to the tense of
the matrix verb, or to certain extra grammatical elements; in the case
of participle structures, the action denoted by the participle seems
to be ambiguous between tense and aspect interpretation; this follows
from two main reasons: the controlling verb effect on the temporal
reading of the whole structure, and the crucial role which the article
might have in this connection. (iii) The issue of inheritance of
argument structure which is treated as being relevant for all types of
the deverbal nominals being analysed; the assumption made reveals that
both masdars and participles fail to behave morphologically as verbs,
yet they show some verbal properties which are to be specified and
activated lexically; thus, on the conceptual side, they are considered
to be initially verbal roots, which implies that their argument
assigning features are inherited from related verbal roots/stems.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs resources for etymological research
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Richard Durkan <rdurkan at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs resources for etymological research

I am extremely interested in the etymology of Arabic (both formal
Arabic and
the dialects) but I am finding it extemely difficult to get hold of
suitable
materials. I was wondering if you could suggest anything in any language
(ideally, bilingual etymological dictioinaries for the different
varieties
of Arabic).

I would be grateful for any guidance to further reading or other
sources of
information.


Richard Durkan

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:41 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Content,
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Sarah.Springer at miis.edu
Subject:Content, Tasks and Projects in the Language Classroom

Please forward this message to other colleagues with an interest in
foreign language education.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:48 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:University of Illinois Summer '04 Arabic Courses
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:benmamou at uiuc.edu
Subject:University of Illinois Summer '04 Arabic Courses

Intensive Arabic courses at the University of Illinois at  
Urbana-Champaign.

  ARAB 201. Elementary Standard Arabic I
  June 14-July 9? MTWTHF 10-12, 1-3

  ARAB 202. Elementary Standard Arabic II
  July 12-August 6. MTWTHF 10-12, 1-3

  ARAB 210. Spoken Syrian Arabic
  June 14-August 6. MTWTH 3-5 PM

Abbas Benmamoun
(217) 333-3563

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:59 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs info on Abdul-Raof's Quranic Stylistics
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:nwasfi at yahoo.com
Subject:Needs info on Abdul-Raof's Quranic Stylistics

I'd like to receive?the abstract of the book entitled 'Quranic  
Stylistic" by Hussein Abdul-Raof, publication year 2003,publisher  
Lincom GmbH.
?
Best regards,
Dr. Nahed Wasfi
nwasfi at yahoo.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:55 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Contacting Ibrahim Al-Koni
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:d.newman at planetinternet.be
Subject:Contacting Ibrahim Al-Koni

Hello,

In order to contact the Libyan author al-Kuni the best pllace to start
is
his Swiss publisher and agent LENOS Verlag (based in Basel), who can
put you
in touch with him.
Kind regards,

D. Newman

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:55:22 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Announcing new editions of Al Kitaab textbooks
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From: Gail Grella <grellag1 at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Announcing new editions of Al Kitaab textbooks

Georgetown University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of
of "Alif Baa: An Introduction to Letters and Sounds" and "Al-Kitaab fii  
Ta callum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One," by  
Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Each will be  
accompanied by bound-in DVDs with audio and visual material. The new  
volumes will be available in August for fall courses. Below youll find  
some FAQs to tell you more about the revised editions and the Al-Kitaab  
program in general.

These books wont appear on our website for a couple more weeks but now  
can be ordered for fall classes directly from our distributors. Here  
are the ISBNs for placing orders.

?Alif Baa with DVDs: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Second
Edition (ISBN 1-58901-036-1, $39.95 for the book plus 2 DVDs)
? Al-Kitaab fii Ta callum al-cArabiyya with DVDs: A Textbook for  
Beginning Arabic: Part One, Second Edition (ISBN 1-58901-104-X, $54.95  
for the book plus 3 DVDs)
Answer Key to Alif Baa, Second Edition (ISBN 1-58901-036-1, $4.95)
Answer Key to Part One Second Edition (ISBN 1-58901-037-X, $4.95)

You and/or your bookstore can order from:

Georgetown University Press
c/o Hopkins Fulfillment Service
P.O. Box 50370
Baltimore, MD 21211-4370
Phone: 1-800-537-5487 (U.S.) or 410-516-6956
FAX: 410-516-6998

Canada:
Please contact our exclusive distributor for Canadian prices and  
ordering information:
Scholarly Book Services
473 Adelaide Street W., 4th floor
Toronto, Ontario M5V 1T1
Canada
Phone: 1-800-847-9736
FAX: 1-800-220-9895
www.sbookscan.com

UK and Europe:
Georgetown University Press
c/o NBN Plymbridge Distributors Ltd.
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United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 1752 202301
FAX: +44 (0) 1752 202333
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Order Fulfillment: orders at nbnplymbridge.com
Customer Services: cservs at nbnplymbridge.com

Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program FAQs
In the fall of 2004, Georgetown University Press will release new  
editions of Alif Baa: An Introduction to Letters and Sounds and  
Al-Kitaab fii Ta callum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic,  
Part One. This FAQ was designed in part to help answer any questions  
you may have about these new editions as well as the rest of the  
program.

What is the sequence of the Al-Kitaab Arabic language program? Where do  
students start and how long will it take them to complete each level?
The program is designed to for college-level use over four years. The  
program begins with Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and  
Sounds, which introduces the basic skills of reading, writing,  
listening, speaking, and cultural understanding and provides the first  
20 to 25 contact hours of instruction.

Students then proceed onto Al-Kitaab fii TacAllum AlcArabiyya: A  
Textbook for Beginning Arabic: Part One. This volume covers  
approximately 130-150 contact hours of instruction in which students  
should achieve an intermediate-mid to intermediate-high level of  
proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking; The book  
provides vocabulary activities, introduces students to grammar using  
spiraling and inference, and exposes students to Egyptian Colloquial  
Arabic through a number of short video clips.

Al-Kitaab fii TacAllum AlcArabiyya: A Textbook for Arabic: Part Two is  
the next volume in the series. Covering 120-130 contact hours of  
instruction, Part Two brings students to the advanced level of  
proficiency. Part Two stresses the various skills and introduces  
learners to various facets of Arab culture and Arab societies.

The final volume in the program, Al-Kitaab fii TacAllum AlcArabiyya: A  
Textbook for Arabic: Part Three continues the same approach used in  
Part Two and aims to take students to the advanced-high level of  
proficiency. Part Three covers 125-150 contact hours of instruction.

How are the 2nd editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part One  
different from the 1st editions?
Changes to Alif Baa:
The textbook has been revised and includes some new vocabulary, with  
the vocabulary distributed more evenly throughout the book. The DVD  
contains most of the same basic dialogues in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic  
as in the first edition, refilmed with a new cast. Other new video  
footage includes Arabic calligraphy and a large collection of street  
signs from Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon. Minor changes have been made  
throughout the audio portions of the second edition.

Changes to Al Kitaab Part One:
The textbook has been revised and updated, with a number of  
contemporary new readings replacing some of the materials in the first  
edition. The basic video scenes depicting the Maha and Khaled story  
have been refilmed with a new cast. New to the DVD is the ability to  
hear the Maha and Khaled story in both Modern Standard Arabic and  
Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. The book also includes some new interviews  
(in Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles) about such aspects of Arab  
culture as gender issues, fasting in the Muslim and Christian  
traditions, social clubs, and more. In addition to the audio recordings  
from the first edition, new audio tracks for vocabulary sections allow  
students to hear each new word in isolation first, then in context  
along with previously acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures.  
The new edition also features more in-class group activities for  
vocabulary and grammatical structures.

A major difference for both books is that the audio and video that were  
previously only available as separate items, are now combined,  
expanded, and bound into each textbook. This provides students with the  
multimedia necessary to use the program most effectively.

When will the second editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part  
One be available?
The second editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part One will be  
available in August of 2004. Institutions and teachers placing their  
book orders now should indicate the new edition with DVDs:
?Alif Baa with DVDs: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Second
Edition (ISBN 1-58901-036-1)
? Al-Kitaab fii Ta callum al-cArabiyya with DVDs: A Textbook for  
Beginning Arabic: Part One, Second Edition (ISBN 1-58901-104-X)

How long will the first editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Part One  
remain available?
Georgetown University Press plans to phase out all first editions of  
the textbooks, answer keys, and audio and video components for Alif Baa  
and Al-Kitaab Part One by June 2005.

Are there plans to revise Al-Kitaab Part Two and Al-Kitaab Part Three?
There are tentative plans to revise Al-Kitaab Part Two by 2006.
At this time, there are no plans to revise Part Three of the Al-Kitaab  
program.

Are the audio and video components of the program sold separately or  
are they packaged with the textbook at each level?
Starting with the 2nd editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part  
One, audio and video materials have been combined into DVDs that are  
bound into each book and sold as single volumes.
Separate CDs and DVDs accompanying the 1st editions of Alif Baa and  
Al-Kitaab Textbook Part One are still available for separate purchase.  
They cannot be used with the first editions.
Audio components for Al-Kitaab Textbook Part Two and Al-Kitaab Textbook  
Part Three are only available as separate items and must be purchased  
separately from the corresponding texts.
The video material for Part Two is not available through Georgetown  
University Press. Videocassettes are available only from Professor  
Al-Batal, by contacting him by phone: 404-727-6438; by fax:  
404-727-2133; or by email: albatal at emory.edu.
Part Three has no accompanying video material.

What equipment do I need to play the DVDs?
The DVDs can be played worldwide on any consumer DVD player and on  
computers equipped with a DVD player.

Do the First Edition DVDs for Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Textbook Part One  
have the same material as the originaland now  
unavailablevideocassettes?
Yes. For the 1st editions, the material on each of these DVDs is  
identical to the original, and now unavailable, videocassettes. With  
the new 2nd editions, video materials have been refilmed, updated,  
changed, and new materials added.

What is included in the DVD and is it keyed to the text? Or does it  
stand alone as supplemental material?
The DVDs form an integral part of the textbooks and cannot be used  
separately. The DVDs cannot be used as supplemental materials.  
Likewise, the books cannot be used without the DVDs. The books and the  
DVDs form a unified whole that cannot be separated without affecting  
the quality of the overall program. All parts of the audio and video  
are keyed to the text.

Is the DVD and CD material different for the 2nd editions?
For the 2nd edition of Alif Baa, all audio and video have been combined  
onto 2 DVDs that are bound into the textbook. The basic dialogues have  
been refilmed with a new cast. The 2nd edition DVD also contains new  
exercises and new dialogues that take place in an Egyptian context; and  
cultural materials like video footage of Arabic calligraphy and a large  
collection of street signs from Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon.

For the 2nd edition of Al-Kitaab Part One, all audio and video  
previously sold separately have been revised and expanded and are now  
combined in 3 DVDs and are bound into the textbook. The basic dialogues  
have been refilmed with a new cast. The basic video scenes depicting  
the Maha and Khaled story have been refilmed with a new cast. New to  
the DVD is the ability to hear the Maha and Khaled story in both Modern  
Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. It also includes some  
new interviews (in Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles) about such  
aspects of Arab culture as gender issues, fasting in the Muslim and  
Christian traditions, social clubs, and more. In addition to the audio  
recordings from the first edition, new audio tracks for vocabulary  
sections allow students to hear each new word in isolation first, then  
in context along with previously acquired vocabulary and grammatical  
structures. The new edition also features more in-class group  
activities for vocabulary and grammatical structures.

Is there a DVD for the video material of Al-Kitaab Part Two?
No. The video material for Part Two is not available through Georgetown  
University Press. Videocassettes are available only from Professor Al  
Batal, by contacting him by phone: 404-727-6438; by fax: 404-727-2133;  
or by email: albatal at emory.edu

What is included in the audio CDs for the first editions?
The audio components for each of the volumes are not just audio  
versions of the written text. The CDs contain dialogue that is keyed to  
parts of the text but also offer additional drills.

Is the answer key free with audio, video, and/or text?
No. We do not provide free answer keys with any program components.

Is the answer key free with the new edition?
No. We do not provide free answer keys with either first or second  
editions.

Where I can purchase the answer key?
Most bookstores do not carry answer keys. Answer keys can be ordered  
online from Georgetown University Press at  
www.press.georgetown.edu/arabic.html in a few weeks or by contacting  
one of our distributors now.

One of the DVDs/CDs in my book is defective. How can I get a  
replacement copy of the individual disc?
To inquire about replacements for defective CDs or DVDs, please email  
us at gupress at georgetown.edu

-- 
Gail Grella
Associate Director, Georgetown University Press
Acquisitions Editor 3240 Prospect Street NW
Washington, DC  20007
Phone:  202-687-6263
Fax:  202-687-6340

Visit our website at
http://www.press.georgetown.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:55:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lateral Fricatives in Modern Arabic
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Rnorm25 at aol.com
Subject:Lateral Fricatives in Modern Arabic

Marhabah wa Salaam,

  I had posted a question on Arabic-L and the Linguist list about the  
possibility of a lateral fricative reflex of Dhaad existing in any of  
the modern Arabic dialects.? My question can be found at this site:

http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-492.html

  I recently found this article:

http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-925759-0.pdf

  This article states that Rabin and others maintained that the lateral  
articulation continued in certain dialects in Yemen and also that  
certain reciters of the Quran maintained this articulation.

  I also found this recording of the last two words of al-fatihah on a  
tajweed website:

http://www.abouttajweed.com/tafkheem_and_tarqeeq2.htm

  The more I listen to the recording (tafkheem of dhaad) the more it  
sounds like a lateral fricative to me. ?

  Please listen to the recording and give me your opinion on all of the  
above.

  Alf Shukr Lakum

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:11 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:11 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Sifr/Cipher
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Herb Martin <HerbM at LearnQuick.Com>
Subject:Sifr/Cipher

> From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
> Subject:Borrowing Verbs
[I am studying Iraqi so I found your reference
to Iraqi dialect especially interesting.]

> Finally, Arabic Sifr and English cipher (spelled cypher in British
> English) both mean zero. Which language borrowed from the other?

Latin borrowed 'cipher' from Arabic whence
it was inherited eventually by English.

cipher:
Middle English cifre, from Old French, from
Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic ifr, from
afira, to be empty (translation of Sanskrit
nyam, cipher, dot).
The American HeritageR Dictionary of the
English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000

Best online English dictionary:
	http://www.bartleby.com/61

Interesting since you comment about computer
terms, is if Arabic re-borrows the word
'cypher' : 4a. A cryptographic system in which
units of plain text of regular length, usually
letters, are arbitrarily transposed or
substituted according to a predetermined code.
The verbs being: encypher and decypher.

Roughly, encode & decome (by transposing and
substituting letters.)

I also find it odd that sometimes Iraqi uses
"paaS" for bus, rather than baaS.  I believe
some of this is an itermediate consonant
between English p and b. (without the plosive?)

Herb Martin
Austin, TX

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:06 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK: Acquiring the Arabic Lexicon
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Fatima Badry <badry at ausharjah.edu>
Subject:NEW BOOK: Acquiring the Arabic Lexicon

Title: Acquiring The Arabic Lexicon
Subtitle: Evidence of Productive Strategies and Pedagogical Implications


Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:      Academica Press
www.academicapress.com

Author: Fatima Badry
Hardback: ISBN: 1-930901-38-0  Pages: 228, Price:  U.S. $: 54.95


The nature of the Arabic lexicon with its system of roots and
derivational patterns to form a large number of its words has the
potential of shedding light on the relation between semantic and formal
properties in word formation. Its acquisition offers a distinct
opportunity to investigate the productivity of derivational processes as
children build their lexicons and promises to enrich the debate about
directionality of derivation and the psychological reality of the root
in Semitic lexicons.  This book examines the acquisition of the Arabic
lexicon by Moroccan Arabic speaking children between the ages of three
and nine years. The author analyzes the strategies used by children in
acquiring productive use of verbal and nominal patterns at various
stages of development and proposes using the insights gained from
acquisition of the dialect as a first language in improving the teaching
of Modern Standard Arabic.


Lingfield(s):   Psycholinguistics, Arabic Language Acquisition.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:59:39 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:59:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Dialectology Research Job
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1) Subject:Arabic Dialectology Research Job, CASL-University of  
Maryland, College Park

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Date: 22 Apr 2004
From:byoung at casl.umd.edu
Subject:Arabic Dialectology Research Job, CASL-University of Maryland,  
College Park

TITLE:? Research Scientist, Arabic Dialectology??

  CLOSING DATE:? Open until filled
DEPARTMENT:? Center for Advanced Study of Language-University of  
Maryland, College Park
STARTING SALARY: ?Commensurate with Experience
ADDITIONAL SALARY INFO: ??This appointment will be at the Assistant or  
Associate Research Scientist level???????

DUTIES: ?Working in an interdisciplinary research and development  
environment, the CASL Research Scientist for Arabic Dialectology will  
work on the Technical Task Order dealing with the classification of  
Arabic variants.? The successful candidate will help manage the project  
and perform basic and applied research in pedagogy, dialectology and  
descriptive linguistics in Arabic variants. S/he will be responsible  
for monitoring the technical performance of personnel, consultants, and  
subcontractors; maintain effective communication with project  
stakeholders; perform basic and applied research in Arabic Dialectology  
as appropriate; and represent CASL and the Arabic dialectology project  
in appropriate venues such as conferences and technical meetings.


  QUALIFICATIONS: ?The successful applicant will hold an earned PhD in  
Arabic or Linguistics, will have excellent Arabic skills (fusha and at  
least one dialect), and experience in project management.? Applicants  
must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the  
following:

1.????????????????? Demonstrated record of excellence in scholarship  
and publications in Arabic studies?

  2.????????????????? Experience in recording and analyzing speech in  
colloquial dialects

  3.????????????????? Experience in project management in a US  
government contract environment

  4.????????????????? Experience in public presentations to a broad  
variety of audiences (educational, professional, and government)

?

*****Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and be willing to obtain a  
security clearance*****


TO APPLY: ?Send resume, letter of interest, and writing sample to  
?Research Scientist (Arabic Dialectology) Search,? CASL ? University of  
Maryland, Box 25, College Park, MD 20742-0025, or email documents to  
jobs at casl.umd.edu.? Please mention ?Arabic Dialectology Search? in the  
subject line.? The  University of Maryland is an affirmative action,  
equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to  
apply.
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 17:56:08 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:56:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Ishaq ibn Hunayn translations query
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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Ishaq ibn Hunayn translations query

Hi all,

Could anybody tell me the good news that the book of Myriam Salama-Carr
entitled La traduction ? l??poque abbasside ? l?Ecole de Hunayn Ibn  
Ishaq et
son importance pour la traduction  (Paris, Didier Erudition, 1990) has  
been
translated to English?

I would expect that there also should be quite a number of contemporary
works on Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his son Ishaq ibn Hunayn or, at least,  
not few
articles which deal, in a way or another, with their role in developing  
the
concepts of translation (I myself know only one, in Arabic: dr Taariq
3abdalla jawaad: al-lisaan ath-thaalith, al-bayaan (al-kuwayt), al-3adad
219, Huzayraan 1984, pg's 130-163.)

Regards,
Srpko Lestaric

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Apr 22 19:41:12 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:41:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:Malone Study Visit to Egypt in May
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Date: 22 Apr 2004
From:Neal at NCUSAR.org
Subject:Malone Study Visit to Egypt in May


April 21, 2004

MEMORANDUM

To:	Members of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic

From:	John Duke Anthony [john at ncusar.org]

Re.:	Remaining Spaces Available for May 20-June 2 Egypt Study Visit


More than half a dozen seats remain available for the National  
Council?s May 20-June 2 Study Visit to Egypt. The full tentative  
program itinerary, inclusive of information on in-country  
accommodation, escorts, and opportunities to pursue one?s interests in  
becoming a Fulbright Fellow to Egypt and exploring student Arabic and  
semester abroad study programs, are all detailed below.  Program costs  
are $2,600 plus the cost of international air transportation. Air  
transportation is currently estimated at as low as $980.00 roundtrip,  
but will almost certainly be higher by May 12, and seats are limited,  
so please apply early!





Malone Fellows? Study Visit to Egypt
May 20-June 2, 2004
Contemporary Egypt:

Dynamics of Political, Social, and
Economic Development


Malone Fellows? Visit to Egypt Website:   
http://web.bentley.edu/students/o/olson_eric/malonefellowship

Egyptian Embassy Website: http:www.egyptembassy.us
[Visa information and forms are accessed under Consular Services]



I went to Egypt for the first time in 1963. I had never been abroad  
before. Barely one year out of college, I had the opportunity, thanks  
to the Experiment in International Living/Center for World Learning, to  
live in a village outside Cairo as the ?adopted? American son of a  
native family. At the time the late Egyptian President Gamal Abd  
al-Nasser was at the height of his influence as a pan-Arab leader.  It  
was four years before Israel?s invasion and occupation of Egypt?s Sinai  
Peninsula (until 1979) and the closing of the Suez Canal (until 1975).

Upon arrival in Cairo, I experienced massive culture shock.  
Incrementally, I began to absorb Egypt?s extraordinarily rich history  
and culture.  Before I knew it, I was deeply smitten.  I have remained  
so ever since.    Now, four decades later, it is time to return.

  ? John Duke Anthony


T
he National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations [www.ncusar.org] is pleased  
to announce that a Joseph J. Malone Fellowship Program study visit to  
Egypt is being held from 20 May ? 2 June 2004. Participants will meet  
at the offices of the National Council on the morning of 20 May for an  
orientation and depart for Egypt on 21 May.  I will be accompanying the  
group and remaining afterwards for a few days to work with American  
University in Cairo [website: www.aucegypt.edu] representatives with a  
view to rejuvenating our former summer student programs.  The deadline  
for completed applications is May 12.  The full program itinerary,  
inclusive of information on in-country accommodation, escorts, and  
opportunities to pursue one?s interests in becoming a Fulbright Fellow  
to Egypt and exploring student Arabic and semester abroad study  
programs, are all detailed below.  Program costs are $2,600 plus  
international air transportation, currently at ca. $975.00 roundtrip  
but likely to be higher May 12.

Contact Dr. Paul Beran to become a Malone Fellow to Egypt

Malone Fellow Alumni and first-time applicants who are interested in  
participating in the May 2004 Visit to Egypt should contact Dr. Paul  
Beran, Director of Short-Term Programs, Bentley College, at  
781-891-3474, fax 781-891-2819, or PBeran at bentley.edu

For information on the National Council on US - Arab Relations please  
contact Dr. John Duke Anthony, President and CEO, at john at ncusar.org,  
or Mr. Neal Lendenmann, Director of Communications, at neal at ncusar.org   
or fax: 202-293-0903, Suite 1210, 1140 Connecticut Avenue, NW,  
Washington, D.C. 200036.

Completed applications are to be sent to Mr. Lendenmann.

This visit to Egypt is unlike other programs of faculty development and  
study.  By being a part of the National Council?s program to Egypt,  
participants become a Malone Fellow, a recognized and respected mark of  
distinction in Middle East studies.  In addition, this program allows  
one to do more than study Egypt as a professional.  While it succeeds  
superbly in that regard, it surpasses by a substantial measure what one  
could gain from any combination of classroom study or lectures, videos,  
and films in the United States.   The Malone Fellows? Visit to Egypt  
enables participants to pursue their own topics of study, research and  
interaction in Egypt alongside Fellows with similar and complementary  
academic interests.  The program is thus an applied academic adventure  
that we hope you will be a part of in May.

Why Be A Part Of This Visit To Egypt

Meet: Egyptian academics from the American University in Cairo, Cairo  
University, and 	Alexandria University

Visit: The League of Arab States and learn first hand its role in  
representing, reforming, and developing the Arab world, together with  
numerous Egyptian sites and institutions of cultural, historical, and  
developmental interest, and the campus of America?s largest university  
outside the United States and its renowned Center for Arabic Studies  
Abroad

Engage: In dialogue with Egyptian academics, government officials, and  
civil society leaders as well as League of Arab States, World Bank, and  
Fulbright Commission representatives, together with American scholars  
and diplomats

Expand: Knowledge of U.S.-Egypt, U.S.-Arab World, and U.S.-Islamic  
World relations in interactive briefings with U.S. Embassy and Egyptian  
officials, representatives of the League of Arab States  
[www.arableagueonline.org], and scholars at Al-Azhar University  
[www.alazhar.org/], the oldest in the Islamic world

Explore: Fulbright Fellowship possibilities in Egypt  
[http://www.fulbright-egypt.org/], semester-abroad study opportunities  
for undergraduate and graduate students, volunteer work in humanitarian  
activities, student internships with American international  
corporations

Journey: Through Egypt's Pharoanic, Jewish, Coptic Christian, and  
Islamic periods, through the largest and most diverse city in the Arab  
world, through the Nile Delta region to Alexandria and its  
Mediterranean environs and back

Network: With international and regional institutions, humanitarian aid  
groups, civil society associations, research foundations, and study  
abroad faculty and advisers at American University in Cairo  
[www.aucegypt.edu]


W
anted: A dozen good Fellows. Participants in the study visit will be  
selected by a committee of scholars of Egypt and other Arab countries,  
the Middle East, and the Islamic world. The criteria for selection of  
applicants that have previously visited the Arab region as Malone  
Fellows is two-fold, based partly on:

(1) the nature and extent of a Fellow?s previous visits to other Arab  
countries, and partly on

(2) an evaluation of the nature and extent of a Fellow?s proven record  
of sharing those experiences with multiple and diverse audiences upon  
returning to the United States.

First-time applicants to the Malone Fellowship Program, beyond  
providing detailed credentials, are required to submit a two to  
three-page double-spaced essay on ?Egypt-U.S. Relations: Challenges for  
America?s Leaders.?  In addition, a half page essay should explain  
one?s interest in Egypt and the Malone Fellowship Program, how one  
intends to enable community civic, religious, and professional  
associations to benefit from the visit, and the kinds of related  
follow-up educational and outreach activities envisioned.


Guides and Escorts

Denis J. Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Director of the  
Cronin International Center and Chair of the International Studies  
Department at Bentley College.  Dr. Sullivan served previously as Chair  
of Political Science at Northeastern University, where he was annually  
a faculty adviser for Northeastern student delegations participating in  
the Model Arab League.  He is also an Affiliate in Research at Harvard  
University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.  In 2002 and 2003, Dr.  
Sullivan was Director of the Institute in Governance, Public Policy,  
and Civil Society in Toledo, Spain.  He is the author of numerous  
articles and books, most recently ?The Struggle for Egypt's Future,?  
Current History, January 2003 and Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil  
Society vs. the State, with Sana Abed-Kotob (L. Rienner, 1999).

Paul Beran (Ph.D., Northeastern University - May 2004) is Director of  
Short-Term Programs at Bentley College's Cronin International Center.  
In 2003, Dr. Beran was Principle Investigator on a Population Council  
grant for capacity-building among Egyptian Ph.D. students in Cairo. He  
was also Faculty Coordinator for the Institute in Governance, Public  
Policy, and Civil Society in Toledo, Spain. Dr. Beran has worked with  
local and international NGOs and educational institutions in Egypt and  
Palestine/Israel.  He is the author of articles and opinion pieces on  
civil society and the Middle East, most recently for The Daily Star,  
Beirut, Lebanon, and Studies in Democratization, e-journal.

Depending on the level of interest, it is possible that additional  
study visits to Egypt may be scheduled in 2004. Applicants eager to  
visit Egypt in 2004, but who cannot participate in the May visit, are  
encouraged to indicate what months they would be available.



Pricing

(US$) * $2,600 + international airfare. Current fares are as low as  
$975.00 but they are likely to increase soon.

Cost Includes:

?	Escort leadership by longtime and empirically experienced Egypt  
specialists
?	Accommodations at the superbly-located Cairo Marriott in Egypt
?	All ground transportation in Egypt (not including train fare to  
Alexandria)
?	All meeting and facilitation costs
?	All breakfasts
?	One banquet dinner by the Pyramids of Giza

What Fellows Need to Provide:
?	Add $750 if single room occupancy is required
?	Plan on bringing $300 to cover costs not included in the trip price
?	Transportation to and from Washington, D.C.
?	One night?s accommodations in D.C.
?	Valid passport
?	In order to process successful applicants? visas in time, their  
completed visa application and passport must arrive to the National  
Council, c/o Mr. Neal Lendenmann by May 12.


Please Note:  The final pricing for the package will depend on the  
number of participants, hotel availability, and operational and  
logistical factors.  Please use the following figure as a tentative  
guideline.

Estimated Cost of Visit to Egypt, excluding international airfare,  
travel to and from Washington, D.C., and one night?s accommodations in  
Washington:	$2,600
?	Current roundtrip economy airfares to Egypt from Washington, DC, are  
approximately $1,000, but they are likely to increase by May 12, so  
apply early!

Malone Fellowship?s Visit to Egypt
Theme:  Contemporary Egypt:  Dynamics of Political, Social, and  
Economic Development



TENTATIVE ITINERARY


Pre-Departure Orientation and Meetings: at the offices of the National  
Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, Washington D.C.

?	May 20-21

Depart	from D.C. on the evening of Friday May 21 		


In-Country Program Schedule

Day One:  Arrive in Cairo						Saturday May 22

P.M.				Check-in to the Marriott; REST

EVENING			Dinner at the hotel


Day Two:  Multi-Faith Cairo					Sunday May 23

A.M.  	Coptic Christian and Jewish Cairo: Al-Mal?aqa and St. Barbara  
Churches, and the Ben Eliezer Synagogue

P.M.   	Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As, Citadel of Salah Ed-Din, Mosque of  
Mohammed Ali, and the Mosque of Sultan Hassan


Day Three:  Pharoanic Cairo					Monday May 24

A.M.  				Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza

NOON & P.M.  		Lunch on the Sakkara Road

EVENING  			Felucca [traditional Egyptian sailing boat] on the Nile


Day Four:  Trade and Commerce					Tuesday May 25

10: 00 A.M. ? 1:00 P.M.	Focus: ?Business, Economic, and Development  
Environment in Egypt?
Lecture and Discussion: Dr. Sherine El Shawarby, Associate Professor,  
Faculty of Economics & Political Science - Cairo University, &  
Economist - World Bank
Location: Fulbright Commission [www.fulbright-egypt.org]

2:00 P.M.			Visit the famous Ibn Tulun Mosque or Egyptian Museum
				Khan al-Khalili Bazaar


Day Five:  Alexandria						Wednesday May 26

9:00 A.M.  			Board train for Alexandria

P.M. 	Alexandria library, Alexandria University [www.alex.edu.eg/],  
Fort of Qait Bay, Roman and Greek ruins, and the Trianon and Pastroudis  
cafes

EVENING			Return to Cairo via the Delta train through Tanta


Day Six: International Organizations and Civil Society		Thursday May 27

10:00 A.M. ? 12:00 NOON	Focus: ?The World Bank?s Developmental Efforts  
in Egypt?	
Lecture and Discussion: Mr. Jamal Kibbi, Senior Economist & Deputy  
Country Director, World Bank
			Location: World Bank Premises

1:00 P.M. ? 3:00 P.M.	Focus: ?Egypt?s NGOs: Process, Progress,  
Prospects?
Lecture and Discussion: Mr. Magdi Sidhom, Director, Office of Program  
Operations & Customer Service, NGO Service Center
Location: NGO Service Center Premises


Day Seven: Free Day							Friday May 28

SUGGESTIONS		Egyptian Museum, Sakkara Pyramids or shopping


Day Eight: The Arab League/The Arab World			Saturday May 29	

10:00 A.M.	Focus:  ?Reformist Dynamics and Arab Regionalism: The League  
of Arab States in Perspective?
				Lecture and Discussion:  TBA
				Location:  League of Arab States Headquarters
[www.arableagueonline.org]

P.M.				Focus:  ?The Arab World in Regional and Global Affairs?  
					Lecture and Discussion:  TBA
				Location:  Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies
[extra.ahram.org.eg]

EVENING	Event:  	Reception
	Location:  League of Arab States Headquarters
	[www.arableagueonline.org]


Day Nine: Egyptian Politics and Egyptian Islam			Sunday May 30

10:00 A.M. ? 12:00 Noon	Focus: ?Islam in Contemporary Egypt: A  
Perspective of Gender?
	Lecture and Discussion:  Ms. Riham Bahi, Assistant Senior Lecturer,  
Faculty of Economics & Political Science - Cairo University	
	Location:  Fulbright Commission [www.fulbright-egypt,org]	

1:00 P.M. ? 3:00 P.M.	Focus: ?Egyptian Politics: Internal & Foreign  
Affairs?
Lecture and Discussion: Amb. Dr. El Sayed Amin Shalaby, Executive  
Director, Egyptian Council of Foreign Affairs
Location: Egyptian Council of Foreign Affairs


Day Ten:  US-Egyptian Relations 					Monday May 31

9:00 A.M. ? 10:30 A.M.	Focus: ?Egypt-US Trade Relationship? and  
?Egyptian-American Relations Since 9-11?
	Lecture and Discussion: Mr. Hisham Fahmy, Executive Director, American  
Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in Egypt
			Location: AMCHAM headquarters
[http://www.amcham.org.eg/]

12:00 A.M. ? 2:00 P.M.	Focus: ?U.S. ? Egyptian Diplomatic Relations &  
Egyptian Internal Politics?
Lecture and Discussion: Christopher Hegadorn, Political Officer,  
Economic/Political Section, U.S. Embassy, Egypt
Location: Fulbright Commission [www.fulbright-egypt.org]


Day Eleven:	American Education in Egypt			Tuesday 1 June

10:00 A.M.			Focus: ?America?s Largest University Abroad: Opportunities
for Arab and Egyptian Studies as well as Arabic Language
Training?
	Host:  	American University in Cairo
				Location:  American University in Cairo [www.aucegypt.edu]

P.M.  				Depart for the United States


Recommended Readings:

?	Neguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley
?	Denis J. Sullivan and Sana Abed-Kotob, Islam in Contemporary Egypt
?	Max Rodenbeck, Cairo: The City Victorious
?	Lonely Planet Guide Books, Egypt:  A Country Guide


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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Audio CD for Cowell's Syrian Arabic Grammar
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:gla2 at georgetown.edu [through LINGUIST'
Subject:Audio CD for Cowell's Syrian Arabic Grammar

Title: Audio CD for A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic
Series Title: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2004			
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu
			
Book URL: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=1589010035

Author: Mark W. Cowell

CD: ISBN: 1589010035, Price:  U.S. $: 19.95
     Comment: Audio CD


Abstract:
			
A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic is considered the "gold standard"
of reference grammars. This single CD, keyed to the text, was formerly
available only on multiple audiocassettes, and contains all the same
audio material with the added advantages of being not only less
expensive but more user-friendly as well.


Lingfield(s):	Applied Linguistics
		Language Description 	
			
Subject Language(s):	Arabic, Standard (Language Code: ABV)

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Erwin's Iraqi Refernce Grammar and Course and CD
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2) Subject:Erwin's Iraqi Course and CD

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:  gla2 at georgetown.edu [through LINGUIST]
Subject:Erwin's Iraqi Refernce Grammar

Title: A Short Reference Grammar of Iraqi Arabic
Series Title: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2004			
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu
			
Book URL: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=1589010108

Author: Wallace M. Erwin

Paperback: ISBN: 1589010108, Pages: 416, Price:  U.S. $: 29.95

Abstract:
			
A Short Reference Grammar of Iraqi Arabic is the only volume of its
kind, reflecting Iraqi Arabic as spoken by educated Muslims in
Baghdad. With all the Arabic transcribed, it is written for beginners
as well as Arabic speakers wanting to learn the dialect. It covers the
phonology, morphology (word formation of nouns, verbs, pronouns,
adjectives, and numerals, achieved by adding prefixes and suffixes to
roots), and syntax, teaching the reader how to make the sounds, form
words, and construct sentences.


Lingfield(s):	Applied Linguistics
		Language Description 	
			
Subject Language(s):	Arabic, Standard (Language Code: ABV)

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:  gla2 at georgetown.edu [through LINGUIST]
Subject:Erwin's Iraqi Course and CD

Title: A Basic Course in Iraqi Arabic with MP3 Audio Files
Series Title: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu
			
Book URL: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=1589010116

Author: Wallace M. Erwin

Paperback: ISBN: 1589010116, Pages: 424, Price:  U.S. $: 39.95
	   Comment: includes 1 audio CD with MP3 files

Abstract:
			
A comprehensive introduction to Iraqi Arabic for beginners (with
Iraqi-English and English-Iraqi glossaries) this is the language
spoken by educated Muslim Baghdad residents, transcribed and not in
Arabic script. It does not assume prior knowledge of Arabic. A Basic
Course in Iraqi Arabic with MP3 Audio Files contains ten chapters of
phonology to explain the sounds, and thirty more covering grammar and
vocabulary.  The phonology chapters all contain extensive drills. The
grammar chapters start with a dialogue or brief narrative, then
explain new vocabulary and points of grammar, and conclude with
drills. The book is usefully enhanced with a bound-in CD with audio
MP3 files to accompany the text and drills.


Lingfield(s):	Applied Linguistics
			
Subject Language(s):	Arabic, Standard (Language Code: ABV)

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Egyptian Colloquial Book
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs Egyptian Colloquial Book

I would be very much obliged if you could refer me to any off-shelf
Egyptian Colloquial books you know of. The ones I came across are
:"yalla nedardish bel 3arabi by Mona Kamel and The Egyptian Colloquial
Intensive Course parts 1&2 by Abbas El Tonsi.
Thanks for your help
Best
Iman

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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translating Otherness Conference
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:badry at ausharjah.edu
Subject:Translating Otherness Conference

The American University of Sharjah (UAE)
&
Edinburgh Institute for the Study of the Arab World and Islam
(University of Edinburgh, UK)

announce the International Conference on ?Translating? Otherness"

4-6 October 2004
Sharjah
United Arab Emirates

Hosted by
The College of Arts & Sciences
Department of English & Translation Studies
American University of Sharjah

Many thought the fin de si?cle would further consolidate the global  
trend, which
characterized the late 1980s and 1990s.  The first major events of this  
century have,
however, clearly shown that there is still much to be translated before  
a global world can be
achieved.  The events have also demonstrated the resort to translation  
when cultural
conflicts happen.  Otherness, inclusion, exclusion, identity,  
manipulation, promotion of
particular agendas, and primary topoi and pasts come to haunt and  
influence the discourse of
translating between competing cultures.  The situation can be difficult  
for languages and
cultures from opposite positions of power and/or knowledge.

The conference seeks to explore the role of translation as a primary  
strategy in cultural
representation in today?s assumed global world.  Issues to be explored  
include how texts for
translation are chosen and imported and how those involved in the  
translation enterprise
operate both on the macro and micro levels for the production and  
circulation of
translations.

Call for Papers.

With a focus intercultural transmission through translation, the  
conference subthemes will,
not exclusively, include:

1 Visions and images of the other through translation.
2 Cultural hegemony and globalisation
3 Reconstructing modernity.
4 Translation and the loss and/or emergence of literary canons
5 Cultural diversity and cultural minorities.
6 The rise of stereotypes.
7 Media and the representation of otherness.
8 Language, languages and language polic(ies).

Abstracts (300-500 words) in either Arabic or English (the languages of  
the conference)
together with full name, full postal address, telephone, fax and an  
e-mail address, and
affiliation should be sent electronically by 10 July 2004 to Basil Hatim
(bhatim at ausharjah.edu)

Notification of acceptance and the second circular will be sent out by  
30 July 2004.
Selected papers from the conference will be submitted for publication  
with an academic
publisher.

Conference Organizers: Basil Hatim, Fatima Badry and Said Faiq.

Fax: +(971? 6) 515 2570
www.ausharjah.edu\cas\otherness2004

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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Intensive Summer Arabic at Cornell
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From:Munther Younes <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:Intensive Summer Arabic at Cornell

INTENSIVE ARABIC SUMMER PROGRAM AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

NES 111-Elementary Arabic I (June 7-July 2, 2004)
  NES 112- Elementary Arabic II (July 7-August 3, 2004)

NES 113-Intermediate Arabic I (June 7-July 2, 2004)
  NES 210-Intermediate Arabic II July 7-August 3, 2004

THE CORNELL PROGRAM
The Cornell Arabic program integrates spoken Arabic with Modern  
Standard Arabic (MSA) in a way that reflects the use of the language by  
native speakers. Arabs use a spoken dialect for ordinary conversation  
and MSA for reading, writing, and formal speech. The Cornell program  
introduces spoken Arabic and MSA simultaneously, using each variety as  
it is used in real life. The four language skills of listening,  
speaking, reading, and writing are developed with a focus on  
communication rather than on the study of grammar. An important  
objective of the program is familiarizing students with basic facts  
about the geography, history, and culture of the Arab world.

  Classes will meet for 3 1/2? hours in the morning (8:30-12) before  
breaking for lunch. A Middle East-style lunch, which students and  
teachers eat together, will be followed by an hour of informal  
conversation with one or more teachers.???

NES 111-112 (ELEMENTARY ARABIC I AND II)
This two-course sequence provides a thorough grounding in the four  
language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Short  
stories, anecdotes, and dialogues reflecting real life experiences with  
an element of authenticity and humor are used to develop the listening  
and speaking skills. Reading and writing are developed through a  
"mini-course" in Arabic on Arab history, geography, and culture. The  
readings start with short phrases describing Arab countries, cities,  
and people, and end with page-long biographies of important Arab  
historical figures. Songs, Jeopardy-type games, crossword puzzles and  
other vocabulary-building activities that recycle the words of the  
listening, speaking, and reading materials are used to enhance the  
learning and retention of vocabulary and grammatical structures.

  No pre-requisite for NES 111.
  Pre-requisite for NES 112:? NES 111 or one semester of Arabic.


NES 113-210? (INTERMEDIATE ARABIC I AND II)
This two-course sequence continues the development of the four language  
skills through the extensive use of carefully selected graded materials  
on a variety of topics. The materials have been selected with the goal  
of generating lively classroom discussions and mastering vocabulary and  
structures that are useful in real-life situations in an  
Arabic-speaking environment outside of the classroom.? While more  
attention is given to developing native-like pronunciation and to  
grammatical accuracy than in NES 111-112, the main focus of the course  
is on encouraging fluency and facility in understanding the language  
and communicating ideas in it.? In addition to building on the  
linguistic foundation started in NES 111-112, the course continues the  
practice of introducing students to Arab society, history, and culture  
through the use of folktales, songs, poems, newspaper articles, and  
short stories depicting different aspects of Arab life and culture.

  Pre-requisite for NES 113: NES 112 or one year of Arabic.
  Pre-requisite for NES 210: NES 113 or equivalent.


CREDITS
Each of the four courses carries four credits and is equivalent to a  
semester of language study at Cornell. Students will have the option of  
signing up for one or both courses in each sequence.

TUITION AND FEES
The program charge is $3040 for each four-credit course.

  For more information contact Munther Younes at may2 at cornell.edu or  
(607) 255-2769, or visit: http://www.sce.cornell.edu/sp/arabic.php

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: Grammar of Moroccan Arabic
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:estry at iam.net.ma
Subject:New Book: Grammar of Moroccan Arabic

  A GRAMMAR OF MOROCCAN ARABIC
  By M. Ennaji, A. Makhoukh, H. Es-saiydy, M. Moubtassime, S.Slaoui
Publications of the Faculty of Letters 1, F?s, Morocco (2004)


This book is a descriptive grammar of Moroccan Arabic from a broad  
perspective of generative linguistics. We have avoided as much as  
possible the technicalities associated with theory, and attempted to  
simplify the terminology and the description because we target  
primarily undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, and the  
general reader who is particularly interested in the structure of  
Moroccan Arabic.
                In this book, we study important phonological,  
morphological, and syntactic phenomena of the variety of Moroccan  
Arabic spoken in the areas of F?s and Mekn?s. To satisfy this aim, the  
book covers a wide range of empirical data. It does not attempt to  
offer an exhaustive survey of the structures of Moroccan Arabic,  
however, as it would be the case in the excellent tradition of  
Classical Arabic grammarians such as Sibawayhi or Ibnu Jinni, to name  
but two. Our aim is to provide the reader with a coherent and  
systematic approach to the structures of Moroccan Arabic.

For more information please contact: mennaji2002 at yahoo.fr	


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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Mary Washington College Job
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:lkoos at mwc.edu
Subject:Mary Washington College Job

Arabic Adjunct

Mary Washington College invites applications for adjunct instructor of
Arabic to teach 2 beginning-level language courses in Modern Standard
Arabic commencing August 23, 2004.  These courses meet on a
Tuesday/Thursday schedule and the semester ends on December 10, 2004.
Candidates should possess the M.A., plus at least 18 hours of
graduate-level classes in Arabic as well as native or near-native
fluency.   Salary will be determined in conjunction with evaluation of
credentials.  Preference will be given to candidates with previous
teaching experience at the college level.

Position remains open until filled.  Interested candidates should
immediately send a vita and three letters of reference to Dr. Leonard
R. Koos, Arabic Search, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Mary
Washington College, 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA  22401;
fax (540) 654-1088;  email:  lkoos at mwc.edu.  For more information, call
(540) 654-1993.

In an effort to enrich its academic environment and provide equal
educational and employment opportunities, Mary Washington College
encourages women and minorities to apply.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Sifr/Cipher
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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:wasamy at umich.edu
Subject:Sifr/Cipher

> I also find it odd that sometimes Iraqi uses
> "paaS" for bus, rather than baaS.  I believe
> some of this is an itermediate consonant
> between English p and b. (without the plosive?)

> Herb Martin
> Austin, TX

Might it be over correction?

In Egypt, overcorrection happens with F to V, and B to P.

Waheed

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Apr 30 23:08:51 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:08:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article on Arabic Superlative
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1) Subject:New Article on Arabic Superlative

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Date: 30 Apr  2004
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Article on Arabic Superlative

Publisher: Elsevier Ltd. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics
	
Journal: Lingua
ISSN   : 0024-3841
Volume : 114
Issue  : 7
Date   : Jul-2004

Definiteness and number ambiguity in the superlative construction in
Arabic
K. Elghamry
pp 897-910
Full text via ScienceDirect :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?
_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S00243841
03000810&_version=1&md5=70a822eb69d300054c93e2700ba2fe76

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