From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:03 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:03 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Book -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:New Book [moderators's note: this book includes a case study of the language situation in Lebanon.] Title: Language and Identity Subtitle: National, Ethnic, Religious Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0333997522 Author: John E. Joseph, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh Paperback: ISBN: 0333997530, Pages: 280, Price: U.K. £ 18.99 Abstract: '...admirable both in its scope and in its depth - the book goes far beyond prior books touching on language and identity...It is well-written and should make for trouble free (and even enjoyable) reading by undergraduates, graduate students and the educated lay reader interested in language and languages or in the related social sciences, psychology and, perhaps, even literary studies.' - Joshua A. Fishman, Distinguished University Professor, Yeshiva University, USA This book examines the complex link between the national or ethnic identity of a people and the language they speak. It considers how identity functions for both groups and individuals, with particular attention to how we interpret the identities of others based on the way they speak. It looks too at how our ideas concerning particular languages such as English, including notions of what is 'good' and 'bad' English, are bound up with views of who the language 'belongs' to. Language and identity is a current focus of research in a broad range of academic disciplines. This book tries to lay out the central issues, offering an original approach to the subject that treats identity as fundamentally a linguistic concept, and re-focuses attention from its production to its interpretation. It includes case studies on situations across the world, including Hong Kong, Lebanon, Scotland and Singapore. It considers too how identity interacts with language change and language shift, including the impact that the worldwide spread of English is having on other languages and their speakers. CONTENTS: Preface - Introduction - Linguistic Identity and the Function and Evolution of Language - Approaching Identity in Traditional Linguistic Analysis - Integrating Perspectives from Adjacent Disciplines - Language in National Identities - Case Study 1 - The New Quasi-Nation of Hong Kong - Language in Ethnic/Racial and Religious/Sectarian Identities - Case Study 2 - Christian and Muslim Identities in Lebanon - Afterword: Identity and the Study of Language - Bibliography - Index Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3434 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:09 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:09 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic K-12 Newsletter Now Online Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic K-12 Newsletter Now Online -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:shawng251 at yahoo.com Subject:Arabic K-12 Newsletter Now Online Greetings Arabic-L! The National Capital Language Resource Center has recently published its first bi-lingual Arabic/English newsletter for Arabic K-12 teachers. You may have already received it in the mail! If you did not receive one, you can read it online on our website here: http://www.nclrc.org/arabic/ We hope that it begins to meet the needs of Arabic K-12 teachers for resources for teaching Arabic. We hope to have the second newsletter published in the fall. Let me know what you think! Sincerely, Shawn Greenstreet Research Associate The National Capital Language Resource Center, The George Washington University 2011 Eye Street NW Suite 200 Washington DC 20006 Phone: 202-973-1086 Fax: 202-973-1075 shawng at gwu.edu http://www.nclrc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:07 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:07 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Algerian professor desires MLF model collaboration Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Algerian professor desires MLF model collaboration -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:hmostari at yahoo.com Subject:Algerian professor desires MLF model collaboration It is such a great honour to contact you , I am an Algerian researcher in sociolinguistics, I am actually preparing my PHD in language contact phenomenon using the MLF ( the Matrix language Frame model ) that you know very well on Algerian Arabic/french code swtching , I found difficulties in undertstanding this theory based on cases of study on other languages namely spanish, and english , or swahili , so , please , can you help me , if you have further articles dealing with grammatical constraints , basically the MLF model and others ( if you want ) ; as well as the social functions underlying code switching , if you are also intersted in collaboration of research between us , I welcome your proposals best regards MOSTARI assitant professor et the university iof sidi bel Abbes ALGERIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:28 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:28 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy Testimonial Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arab Academy Testimonial -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:dlmsmith Subject:Arab Academy Testimonial In response to this: > Does anyone know: ... Where I can find good Arabic children's software, preferably > utilizing Egyptian dialect or a blend of dialect and Fusha? ... Jamal Qureshi -- I study Modern Standard and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in the university program at Arab Academy (www.arabacademy.com) and find this online school excellent in every respect. They offer a children's program that provides interactive Arabic lessons and activities for kids of all ages. I haven't taken these children's courses, but I've been taking courses on the stories of the Prophets in the separate children's Islamic school in addition to my university courses, so I can tell you that the lessons for children as well as those for adults are well developed, consistently structured, and presented with clear, crisp sound files and illustrations or graphics well suited to the context. Besides learning through the engaging stories and games/activities, we correspond or chat in Arabic with other students and with the teachers in Cairo, so the program's interactivity is deep and open-ended. It's a great place - I highly recommend it. Debra Morris Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:18 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:18 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Abbas Al-Tonsi info Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Abbas Al-Tonsi info -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:wasamy at umich.edu Subject:Abbas Al-Tonsi info The address is tons at aucegypt.edu Waheed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Thu Aug 5 19:46:50 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:46:50 -0600 Subject: Test message Message-ID: Test of new moderator. From nja9 at email.byu.edu Fri Aug 6 20:13:39 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:13:39 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Loan Words in Swahili Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 06 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Loan Words in Swahili Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Aug 2004 From:Haruko SAKAEDANI Subject:Loan Words in Swahili Query Dear All, One of my friends asked me about the following three Swahili words. The Swahili dictionary which she feeds a computer tells that those words are from Arabic, but it does not show the Arabic words. afu = wild jasmine (Jasminum mauritianum) adana = musical instrument like a piano ajemi = round flat bread Does anyone knows the original Arabic words which corresponds to these Swahili words? Thanks in advance, Best, Haruko ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 06 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Fri Aug 6 20:13:45 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:13:45 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Samar Attar info Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 06 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Samar Attar info -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Aug 2004 From:attar at fas.harvard.edu Subject:Samar Attar info Dear Dilworth, Greetings from Istanbul. I understand that you are looking for my e-mail address. I am at Harvard for 3 years (till 2006). I have 2 addresses: 1. samar_attar at hotmail.com OR 2. attar at fas.harvard.edu Samar Attar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 06 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Fri Aug 6 22:07:16 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:07:16 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Moderator for Arabic-L Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 06 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Moderator for Arabic-L -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Aug 2004 From:Dil Parkinson Subject:New Moderator for Arabic-L As you may have noticed, you will be getting your Arabic-L messages from a new moderator for awhile. I (Dil Parkinson) am directing a study abroad group to Egypt for Fall Semester 2004, and Nathan Arp, an assistant here in the Asian and Near Eastern Languages Department at BYU has agreed to moderate the list while I am gone. You may continue to send messages directly to Arabic-L, or if you want to contact Nathan directly, his address is: nja9 at email.byu.edu Enjoy! Dil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 06 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Mon Aug 9 20:25:45 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:25:45 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 06 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Aug 2004 From:lise Subject:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference Call for Participation Arabic Language Resources and Tools conference September 22-23 2004 Hotel Helnan Shepheard, Cairo, Egypt Language Resources (LRs) are recognised as a central component of the linguistic infrastructure, necessary for the development of language technology applications and products, and therefore for research and 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. Substantial mutual benefits will be achieved by addressing these issues through international collaboration. For this reason, the conference is organised at the international level.  Under the auspices of The Egyptian Ministry of Information & Telecommunications.   Programme Committee, Co –chairs Khalid Choukri, ELDA – Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency, France Bente Maegaard, CST – Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark   Local Organising Committee, Co –chairs Muhsin Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt Muhammad Atiyya, The Engineering Company for Computer Systems Development, RDI, Egypt  Main sponsors Sakhr, Egypt ELRA -  European Language Resources Association  Supported by The INCO-MED programme, the European Commission  Registration and more information Please see conference web site: http://www.nemlar.org -- Lise Damsgaard Jørgensen Center for Sprogteknologi Njalsgade 80 2300 København S tlf: + 45 35 32 90 79 fax: + 45 35 32 90 89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 06 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Wed Aug 11 19:41:12 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:41:12 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants Arabic Tutor Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 11 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Wants Arabic Tutor -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Aug 2004 From:kwahba1 at jhu.edu Subject:Wants Arabic Tutor [moderator's note:Please respond directly to Ms. Fitzgerald] I have got the enclosed message from a student of mine who is looking for an Arabic tutor/speakers. I hope one of my colleagues in the Arabic-L would help her. Thanks for your help Regards kassem Wahba From: Elisabeth Fitzgerald Date: August 9, 2004 2:18:06 PM MST To: kwahba1 at jhu.edu Subject: arabic speakers in Tennessee Dear Dr. Wahba-   Before the end of the Basic Arabic course at DuPont Circle, you asked me to e-mail you and remind you to check in the state of Tennessee for any Arabic speaking contacts you might have there that would be willing to help me keep my speaking skills sharp.  I will be in the town of Bristol, just over the Virginia border, if that helps.  I'm sorry it has taken so long.  I thoroughly enjoyed the class and hope things are going well for you.   sincerely-   Elisabeth Fitzgerald ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 11 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Wed Aug 11 19:41:03 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:41:03 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALL survey Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 11 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:CALL survey -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Aug 2004 From:"Ahmed.I.S" Subject:CALL survey Dear Computer Assisted Language Learning Scholars It gives me a great pleasure to send you this message. I know that you are very busy with your teaching and your research, therefore I apologize for disturbing you, but I really feel that your comments and idea will help a lot I plan to write a book about “Computer Assisted Language Learning Scholars”. I need to introduce these scholars to Arabic language readers. I feel that there are not many books about “Computer Assisted Language Learning” in Arabic Language.  I do hope you may share with me; I have some questions to the scholars of “CALL”. Hopefully you may agree to answer my questions in brief and you may add any suggestions that might help me in introducing the “CALL” scholars” to the Arabic readers. No The issue Your comments 1 Do you think it’s important to write such book 2 The Future of the CALL 3 CALL states at present 4 CALL states in the past 5 Some issues need to be addressed (e.g. methodology of teaching/ learning and CALL ) 5 CALL and the research 6 The theoretical framework of CALL 7 The development of CALL  material 8 The opportunities for training CALL teacher 9 CALL in the third world 10 Any suggestion Thank you and Regards Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed Faculty of Medicine International Islamic University-Malaysia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 11 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Wed Aug 11 19:40:57 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:40:57 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:DLI jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 11 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:DLI jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Aug 2004 From:Kalyn.Shubnell at monterey.army.mil Subject:DLI jobs We are accepting applications for teachers in the following languages: Amharic, Arabic (MSA, Iraqi, Egyptian, and Levantine), Azeri, Baluchi, Dari, Kazakh, Kurdish (Kurmanji, Sorani), Kyrgyz, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Tajik, Turkish, Turkoman, Urdu, Uzbek. The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) is recruiting for full-time language teachers. DLIFLC is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It is a year-round school specializing in foreign languages. Offering 23 languages to approximately 3,000 students from the four military services, courses at DLIFLC are intensive. Faculty members work in teams. Students attend classes six hours a day five days a week. Located in Monterey, CA. Responsibilities: Teaching students: listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills, as well as geopolitical, economic and social issues, in an immersion-proficiency based environment. Class preparation, checking homework and grading tests. Teaching four to six hours a day in a 40-hour work week. Faculty members are expected to stay abreast of current foreign language teaching theories and methods. Qualifications: An academic rank will be determined on the basis of information contained in Announcement FPS-04-001 "Academic Rank Information" section (pages 4 and 5). In addition to the Academic Rank qualifications, applicants must have native language proficiency in all skills and  strong English skills. Language testing will be required for recommended candidates. Four year accredited university degree is the minimum requirement. Education related to foreign language education, linguistics or MATFL/TESOL etc. is preferred. (MA or higher preferred.) Other degrees such as literature, language, education or educational psychology are also acceptable. Other information: Variable start dates throughout the year. No deadlines for applications. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States. Salary based on Faculty Pay System Schedule for DLIFLC and is dependent on education and experience (see salary ranges in the FPS-04-001). DLIFLC is an EEO employer. Please tell us in a cover letter, where you heard about our ad. How to apply: More information can be found at www.dliflc.edu (Announcement FPS-04-001 to apply) or contact us via email at Rodrigo.Fidel at monterey.army.mil or 831-242-4403. Please see the How to Apply section for details on submitting a completed application.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 11 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Wed Aug 11 19:41:18 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:41:18 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 11 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Book -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Aug 2004 From:Uri Horesh {reposted from LINGUIST} Subject:New Book Title: Words and Stones Subtitle: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel Series Title: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us http://www.oup.co.uk Book URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/?view=usa&ci=0195121902 Author: Daniel Lefkowitz, University of Virginia Hardback: ISBN: 0195121902, Pages: 336, Price: U.S. $ 49.95 Abstract: Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. "Words and Stones" explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices produce, Daniel Lefkowitz reveals how Israeli identities are negotiated through language. Lefkowitz studies three major languages and their role in the social lives of Israelis: Hebrew, the dominant language, Arabic, and English. He reveals their complex interrelationship by showing how the language a speaker chooses to use is as important as the language they choose not to use - in the same way that a claim to an Israeli identity is simultaneously a claim against other, opposing identities. The result is a compelling analysis of how the identity of "Israeliness" is linguistically negotiated in the three-way struggle among Ashkenazi (Jewish), Mizrahi (Jewish), and Palestinian (Arab) Israelis. Lefkowitz's ethnography of language-use is both thoroughly anthropological and thoroughly linguistic, and provides a comprehensive view of the role language plays in Israeli society. His work will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, as well as students and scholars of Israel and the Middle East. Lingfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (Language code: ABV) English (Language code: ENG) Hebrew (Language code: HBR) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=11075. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 11 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Fri Aug 13 18:27:10 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:27:10 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:Gen:Abbas Al-Tonsi contact info Message-ID: Arabic-L: Fri 13 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Abbas Al-Tonsi contact info -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 13 Aug 2004 From:Hala Ahmed Subject:Abbas Al-Tonsi contact info   I am Hala Ahmed, a faculty member in American University in Cairo, Arabic Language Institute. and a Graduate studnet in the TAFL program ( Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language). I am providing you with Abbas el Tonsi e mail address. It is tons at aucegypt.edu. Sorry for being late in replying this e mail.   Thank you.   Hala Ahmed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 13 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Tue Aug 17 19:01:57 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:01:57 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Al-Adab Summer Issue Message-ID: Arabic-L: Tue 17 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Al-Adab Summer Issue -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Aug 2004 From: kidriss at cyberia.net.lb Kirsten Scheid Subject: Al-Adab Summer Issue  Al-Adab’s Summer issue is out Arab Censorship (4); Rebuilding Arab Marxism; Honderich on Palestinian “Terrorism”; Memoirs of a Palestinian Prisoner; Bardot and Islam; Modernity and its Discontents; Resistance in Iraq; “Reviving Civil Society” in Syria; Who Killed Farajallah al-Helou? Articles Munir Shafiq (Palestine/Jordan) discusses problems that face Iraq under occupation and after, and dwells on the differences between civil resistance, collaboration, armed resistance, and criminal acts. Riad Zahreddine (Syria) criticizes the “new liberal Syrians” operating under the rubric “Reviving Syrian Civil Society.” 45 years after the murder of the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Communist Party Farajallah al-Helou, a communist intellectual dissident, George Haddad (Lebanon/Bulgaria), revisits the crime and points to suspects both in the Arab world and abroad. Abd al-ilah Bilqazziz (Morocco) discusses how modernity infringed on “pre-modern” societies, despite its previous calls for humanism. Salameh Kileh (Palestine/Syria) attempts a general outline towards rebuilding an Arab Marxist movement. Interview In an exclusive interview with al-Adab, Professor Ted Honderich, a British moral philosopher, talks about Palestinian “liberation-terrorism” in 1967 Palestine, universal ethics, and “neo-zionism.” Book Review Jean Tannous (Lebanon) writes about Brigitte Bardot’s new book, Un Cri dans le Silence, following the French Court’s verdict accusing this French actress of racial hatred. Memoirs Suha al-Barghouthi (Palestine), a long-time activist, writes about her long days in Al-Maskoubiyyah prison in Jerusalem. File Arab Censorship (4) Faysal Darraj (Palestine/Syria) writes about censorship and “extended censorship,”  whereby society censors itself.  Izz al-Din al-Manasrah (Paletine/Jordan) talks about the different ways to kill a book. Adaniyya Shibli (Palestine) concentrates on auto-censorship in Palestinian Media. Rana Idriss (Lebanon) and Andre Gaspar (Lebanon/London) write about the censorship confronting publishing houses. Jum’a al-Hilfi (Iraq) remembers how “party censorship” changed his course of his life. Stories Elias A. Muhammad (Iraq), Nasser Rabbat (Syria/USA), and Naji Zaher (Palestine). Poems Hussein A. Ahmad (Egypt), Bahija M. Idilbi (Syria), Rita Odeh (Palestine), Abd al-salam b. Idriss (Morocco), Abdelrahim al-Khassar (Morocco), Abd al-salam al-Zaytouni (Morocco). Editorial Samah Idriss (editor-in-chief, Lebanon) laments the erosion of reading in Arab culture.    PURCHASE INFORMATION This issue is available for $10 and can be ordered from . Subscribe to Al-Adab, at reasonably low rates ($30+ postage), and keep the magazine going! For more information, see: www.adabmag.com Keep up with Al-Adab, keep up with Arab creativity and global critical engagement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Tue Aug 17 19:04:19 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:04:19 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NFLI Grant Opportunity Message-ID: Arabic-L: Tue 17 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Grant Opportunity -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Aug 2004 From: "Lampe, Gerald" Subject: Grant Opportunity The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland (NFLC), acting as the administrative agent of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) for the National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI), seeks proposals from U.S. institutions of higher education to develop and implement innovative on-campus programs of advanced instruction in Arabic (including dialects) to increase dramatically the number of U.S. students advancing to professional levels of language competency. These on-campus programs will prepare students for entry into already established and more advanced NFLI overseas Arabic instructional programs. The National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI), under the auspices of the National Security Education Program (NSEP), is establishing national flagship language programs across the U.S. These programs, coupled with NSEP-funded scholarships and fellowships carrying a national service obligation, are designed to produce significant numbers of graduates, across disciplines, with advanced levels of proficiency in languages critical to national security, many of whom will be candidates for employment with agencies and offices of the federal government. The NFLI represents a major and vital strategic partnership between the federal government and higher education to implement innovative and well-articulated programs designed to embrace language competency as its central mission. Copies of the solicitation are available only from the website of the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland beginning Monday, August 16: www.nflc.org. Please contact the NFLC at jedwards at nflc.org with any questions or problems concerning the solicitation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Mon Aug 23 19:08:31 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:08:31 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:Trans:Need Iraqi Arabic expertise Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Mon 23 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Need Iraqi Arabic expertise -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date:23 Aug 2004 From:John Makhoul Subject:Need Iraqi Arabic expertise We have a research project for limited speech-to-speech translation from English to various languages and back, including Arabic. We already have a version of the system working for colloquial Levantine Arabic and would like to do the same for Iraqi Arabic. We have plenty of expertise in Levantine Arabic but not Iraqi Arabic. So, we are looking for the following: 1. Books or comprehensive articles that discuss Iraqi Arabic (phonetics, phonology, morphology, etc.). 2. A person with linguistic background and knowledge of Iraqi Arabic for possible consulting on the project. 3. A few individuals in the Boston area who are interested in doing some annotation of Iraqi Arabic data using a computer tool. Thank you. John Makhoul Cambridge, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 23 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Mon Aug 23 19:08:42 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:08:42 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:INFO:JAIS in Unicode HTML Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Mon 23 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:JAIS in Unicode HTML -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Aug 2004 From:Joseph N. Bell Subject:JAIS in Unicode HTML Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm We have now uploaded most of our files in HTML Unicode. The files were converted in Word from various mixtures of JAIS1 TTW and other fonts to Arial Unicode MS and a few other Unicode fonts as necessary by Alex Metcalfe and from Word to HTML by me. Inevitably there will be some new errors, and we hope readers, and especially authors, will inform us of these. HTML Unicode files will in the future replace the pre-publication PDF files when they are published on paper. The printed articles may differ slightly from the pre-publication files, but changes in pagination will normally not be allowed. HTML files are provided since all diacritics can be searched in them. Because of the continuing development of standards these are always in tentative form. The page numbers of the PDF file are given in black brackets in the HTML text. Underlined words before a page number are divided between pages in the PDF/printed version. In case of discrepancies, the printed version should be cited. Our reference browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x and Netscape 7.1.x for the PC and Safari and Opera for Macintosh OS X. We are still uncertain about results on the Macintosh, although Opera seems to work better than Safari. On the PC, Netscape is somewhat better than Internet Explorer, since our files are justified, and in this case Internet Explorer does not hold footnote references together with the item they are attached to (thus a line can begin with a footnote reference that should be at the end of the preceding line). This does not happen in Netscape. The uploaded Unicode articles are: vol. 1: all vol. 2: all vol. 3: all vol. 4: all except Schmitt vol. 5: only Bayhom-Daou Please give us your reactions to help us proceed. Joseph N. Bell Professor of Arabic Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures University of Bergen Sydnesplassen 12/13 N-5007 Bergen NORWAY tel. +47 5558 2860 (reception) +47 5558 4771 (direct) +47 5614 3726 (home office) fax +47 5558 9410 or 5558 9191 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 23 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Mon Aug 23 19:08:23 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:08:23 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NFLI Grant Opportunity Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Mon 23 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:NFLI Grant Opportunity -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Aug 2004 From:Lampe, Gerald Subject:Grant Opportunity The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland (NFLC), acting as the administrative agent of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) for the National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI), seeks proposals from U.S. institutions of higher education to develop and implement innovative on-campus programs of advanced instruction in Arabic (including dialects) to increase dramatically the number of U.S. students advancing to professional levels of language competency. These on-campus programs will prepare students for entry into already established and more advanced NFLI overseas Arabic instructional programs. The National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI), under the auspices of the National Security Education Program (NSEP), is establishing national flagship language programs across the U.S. These programs, coupled with NSEP-funded scholarships and fellowships carrying a national service obligation, are designed to produce significant numbers of graduates, across disciplines, with advanced levels of proficiency in languages critical to national security, many of whom will be candidates for employment with agencies and offices of the federal government. The NFLI represents a major and vital strategic partnership between the federal government and higher education to implement innovative and well-articulated programs designed to embrace language competency as its central mission. Copies of the solicitation are available only from the website of the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland beginning Monday, August 16: www.nflc.org. Please contact the NFLC at jedwards at nflc.org with any questions or problems concerning the solicitation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 23 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:03 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:03 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Book -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:New Book [moderators's note: this book includes a case study of the language situation in Lebanon.] Title: Language and Identity Subtitle: National, Ethnic, Religious Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0333997522 Author: John E. Joseph, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh Paperback: ISBN: 0333997530, Pages: 280, Price: U.K. ? 18.99 Abstract: '...admirable both in its scope and in its depth - the book goes far beyond prior books touching on language and identity...It is well-written and should make for trouble free (and even enjoyable) reading by undergraduates, graduate students and the educated lay reader interested in language and languages or in the related social sciences, psychology and, perhaps, even literary studies.' - Joshua A. Fishman, Distinguished University Professor, Yeshiva University, USA This book examines the complex link between the national or ethnic identity of a people and the language they speak. It considers how identity functions for both groups and individuals, with particular attention to how we interpret the identities of others based on the way they speak. It looks too at how our ideas concerning particular languages such as English, including notions of what is 'good' and 'bad' English, are bound up with views of who the language 'belongs' to. Language and identity is a current focus of research in a broad range of academic disciplines. This book tries to lay out the central issues, offering an original approach to the subject that treats identity as fundamentally a linguistic concept, and re-focuses attention from its production to its interpretation. It includes case studies on situations across the world, including Hong Kong, Lebanon, Scotland and Singapore. It considers too how identity interacts with language change and language shift, including the impact that the worldwide spread of English is having on other languages and their speakers. CONTENTS: Preface - Introduction - Linguistic Identity and the Function and Evolution of Language - Approaching Identity in Traditional Linguistic Analysis - Integrating Perspectives from Adjacent Disciplines - Language in National Identities - Case Study 1 - The New Quasi-Nation of Hong Kong - Language in Ethnic/Racial and Religious/Sectarian Identities - Case Study 2 - Christian and Muslim Identities in Lebanon - Afterword: Identity and the Study of Language - Bibliography - Index Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3434 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:09 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:09 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic K-12 Newsletter Now Online Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic K-12 Newsletter Now Online -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:shawng251 at yahoo.com Subject:Arabic K-12 Newsletter Now Online Greetings Arabic-L! The National Capital Language Resource Center has recently published its first bi-lingual Arabic/English newsletter for Arabic K-12 teachers. You may have already received it in the mail! If you did not receive one, you can read it online on our website here: http://www.nclrc.org/arabic/ We hope that it begins to meet the needs of Arabic K-12 teachers for resources for teaching Arabic. We hope to have the second newsletter published in the fall. Let me know what you think! Sincerely, Shawn Greenstreet Research Associate The National Capital Language Resource Center, The George Washington University 2011 Eye Street NW Suite 200 Washington DC 20006 Phone: 202-973-1086 Fax: 202-973-1075 shawng at gwu.edu http://www.nclrc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:07 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:07 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Algerian professor desires MLF model collaboration Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Algerian professor desires MLF model collaboration -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:hmostari at yahoo.com Subject:Algerian professor desires MLF model collaboration It is such a great honour to contact you , I am an Algerian researcher in sociolinguistics, I am actually preparing my PHD in language contact phenomenon using the MLF ( the Matrix language Frame model ) that you know very well on Algerian Arabic/french code swtching , I found difficulties in undertstanding this theory based on cases of study on other languages namely spanish, and english , or swahili , so , please , can you help me , if you have further articles dealing with grammatical constraints , basically the MLF model and others ( if you want ) ; as well as the social functions underlying code switching , if you are also intersted in collaboration of research between us , I welcome your proposals best regards MOSTARI assitant professor et the university iof sidi bel Abbes ALGERIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:28 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:28 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy Testimonial Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arab Academy Testimonial -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:dlmsmith Subject:Arab Academy Testimonial In response to this: > Does anyone know: ... Where I can find good Arabic children's software, preferably > utilizing Egyptian dialect or a blend of dialect and Fusha? ... Jamal Qureshi -- I study Modern Standard and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in the university program at Arab Academy (www.arabacademy.com) and find this online school excellent in every respect. They offer a children's program that provides interactive Arabic lessons and activities for kids of all ages. I haven't taken these children's courses, but I've been taking courses on the stories of the Prophets in the separate children's Islamic school in addition to my university courses, so I can tell you that the lessons for children as well as those for adults are well developed, consistently structured, and presented with clear, crisp sound files and illustrations or graphics well suited to the context. Besides learning through the engaging stories and games/activities, we correspond or chat in Arabic with other students and with the teachers in Cairo, so the program's interactivity is deep and open-ended. It's a great place - I highly recommend it. Debra Morris Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Tue Aug 3 15:52:18 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:52:18 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Abbas Al-Tonsi info Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 03 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Abbas Al-Tonsi info -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Aug 2004 From:wasamy at umich.edu Subject:Abbas Al-Tonsi info The address is tons at aucegypt.edu Waheed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Thu Aug 5 19:46:50 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:46:50 -0600 Subject: Test message Message-ID: Test of new moderator. From nja9 at email.byu.edu Fri Aug 6 20:13:39 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:13:39 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Loan Words in Swahili Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 06 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Loan Words in Swahili Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Aug 2004 From:Haruko SAKAEDANI Subject:Loan Words in Swahili Query Dear All, One of my friends asked me about the following three Swahili words. The Swahili dictionary which she feeds a computer tells that those words are from Arabic, but it does not show the Arabic words. afu = wild jasmine (Jasminum mauritianum) adana = musical instrument like a piano ajemi = round flat bread Does anyone knows the original Arabic words which corresponds to these Swahili words? Thanks in advance, Best, Haruko ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 06 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Fri Aug 6 20:13:45 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:13:45 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Samar Attar info Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 06 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Samar Attar info -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Aug 2004 From:attar at fas.harvard.edu Subject:Samar Attar info Dear Dilworth, Greetings from Istanbul. I understand that you are looking for my e-mail address. I am at Harvard for 3 years (till 2006). I have 2 addresses: 1. samar_attar at hotmail.com OR 2. attar at fas.harvard.edu Samar Attar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 06 Aug 2004 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Fri Aug 6 22:07:16 2004 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:07:16 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Moderator for Arabic-L Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 06 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Moderator for Arabic-L -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Aug 2004 From:Dil Parkinson Subject:New Moderator for Arabic-L As you may have noticed, you will be getting your Arabic-L messages from a new moderator for awhile. I (Dil Parkinson) am directing a study abroad group to Egypt for Fall Semester 2004, and Nathan Arp, an assistant here in the Asian and Near Eastern Languages Department at BYU has agreed to moderate the list while I am gone. You may continue to send messages directly to Arabic-L, or if you want to contact Nathan directly, his address is: nja9 at email.byu.edu Enjoy! Dil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 06 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Mon Aug 9 20:25:45 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:25:45 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 06 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Aug 2004 From:lise Subject:Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference Call for Participation Arabic Language Resources and Tools conference September 22-23 2004 Hotel Helnan Shepheard, Cairo, Egypt Language Resources (LRs) are recognised as a central component of the linguistic infrastructure, necessary for the development of language technology applications and products, and therefore for research and 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. Substantial mutual benefits will be achieved by addressing these issues through international collaboration. For this reason, the conference is organised at the international level.? Under the auspices of The Egyptian Ministry of Information & Telecommunications. ? Programme Committee, Co ?chairs Khalid Choukri, ELDA ? Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency, France Bente Maegaard, CST ? Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ? Local Organising Committee, Co ?chairs Muhsin Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt Muhammad Atiyya, The Engineering Company for Computer Systems Development, RDI, Egypt ?Main sponsors Sakhr, Egypt ELRA - ?European Language Resources Association ?Supported by The INCO-MED programme, the European Commission ?Registration and more information Please see conference web site: http://www.nemlar.org -- Lise Damsgaard J?rgensen Center for Sprogteknologi Njalsgade 80 2300 K?benhavn S tlf: + 45 35 32 90 79 fax: + 45 35 32 90 89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 06 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Wed Aug 11 19:41:12 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:41:12 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants Arabic Tutor Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 11 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Wants Arabic Tutor -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Aug 2004 From:kwahba1 at jhu.edu Subject:Wants Arabic Tutor [moderator's note:Please respond directly to Ms. Fitzgerald] I have got the enclosed message from a student of mine who is looking for an Arabic tutor/speakers. I hope one of my colleagues in the Arabic-L would help her. Thanks for your help Regards kassem Wahba From: Elisabeth Fitzgerald Date: August 9, 2004 2:18:06 PM MST To: kwahba1 at jhu.edu Subject: arabic speakers in Tennessee Dear Dr. Wahba- ? Before the end of the Basic Arabic course at DuPont Circle, you asked me to e-mail you and remind you to check in the state of Tennessee for any Arabic speaking contacts you might have there that would be willing to help me keep my speaking skills sharp.? I will be in the town of Bristol, just over the Virginia border, if that helps.? I'm sorry it has taken so long.? I thoroughly enjoyed the class and hope things are going well for you. ? sincerely- ? Elisabeth Fitzgerald ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 11 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Wed Aug 11 19:41:03 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:41:03 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALL survey Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 11 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:CALL survey -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Aug 2004 From:"Ahmed.I.S" Subject:CALL survey Dear Computer Assisted Language Learning Scholars It gives me a great pleasure to send you this message. I know that you are very busy with your teaching and your research, therefore I apologize for disturbing you, but I really feel that your comments and idea will help a lot I plan to write a book about ?Computer Assisted Language Learning Scholars?. I need to introduce these scholars to Arabic language readers. I feel that there are not many books about ?Computer Assisted Language Learning? in Arabic Language.? I do hope you may share with me; I have some questions to the scholars of ?CALL?. Hopefully you may agree to answer my questions in brief and you may add any suggestions that might help me in introducing the ?CALL? scholars? to the Arabic readers. No The issue Your comments 1 Do you think it?s important to write such book 2 The Future of the CALL 3 CALL states at present 4 CALL states in the past 5 Some issues need to be addressed (e.g. methodology of teaching/ learning and CALL ) 5 CALL and the research 6 The theoretical framework of CALL 7 The development of CALL? material 8 The opportunities for training CALL teacher 9 CALL in the third world 10 Any suggestion Thank you and Regards Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed Faculty of Medicine International Islamic University-Malaysia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 11 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Wed Aug 11 19:40:57 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:40:57 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:DLI jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 11 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:DLI jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Aug 2004 From:Kalyn.Shubnell at monterey.army.mil Subject:DLI jobs We are accepting applications for teachers in the following languages: Amharic, Arabic (MSA,?Iraqi, Egyptian,?and Levantine), Azeri, Baluchi, Dari, Kazakh, Kurdish (Kurmanji, Sorani), Kyrgyz, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Tajik, Turkish, Turkoman, Urdu, Uzbek. The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) is recruiting for full-time language teachers. DLIFLC is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It is a year-round school specializing in foreign languages. Offering 23 languages to approximately 3,000 students from the four military services, courses at DLIFLC are intensive. Faculty members work in teams. Students attend classes six hours a day five days a week. Located in Monterey, CA. Responsibilities: Teaching students: listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills, as well as geopolitical, economic and social issues, in an immersion-proficiency based environment. Class preparation, checking homework and grading tests. Teaching four to six hours a day in a 40-hour work week. Faculty members are expected to stay abreast of current foreign language teaching theories and methods. Qualifications: An academic rank will be determined on the basis of information contained in Announcement FPS-04-001 "Academic Rank Information" section (pages 4 and 5). In addition to the Academic Rank qualifications, applicants must have native language proficiency in all skills and? strong English skills. Language testing will be required for recommended candidates. Four year accredited university degree is the minimum requirement. Education related to foreign language education, linguistics or MATFL/TESOL etc. is preferred. (MA or higher preferred.) Other degrees such as literature, language, education or educational psychology are also acceptable. Other information: Variable start dates throughout the year. No deadlines for applications. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States. Salary based on Faculty Pay System Schedule for DLIFLC and is dependent on education and experience (see salary ranges in the FPS-04-001). DLIFLC is an EEO employer. Please tell us in a cover letter, where you heard about our ad. How to apply: More information can be found at www.dliflc.edu (Announcement FPS-04-001 to apply) or contact us via email at Rodrigo.Fidel at monterey.army.mil or 831-242-4403. Please see the How to Apply section for details on submitting a completed application. ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 11 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Wed Aug 11 19:41:18 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:41:18 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 11 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Book -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Aug 2004 From:Uri Horesh {reposted from LINGUIST} Subject:New Book Title: Words and Stones Subtitle: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel Series Title: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us http://www.oup.co.uk Book URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/?view=usa&ci=0195121902 Author: Daniel Lefkowitz, University of Virginia Hardback: ISBN: 0195121902, Pages: 336, Price: U.S. $ 49.95 Abstract: Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. "Words and Stones" explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices produce, Daniel Lefkowitz reveals how Israeli identities are negotiated through language. Lefkowitz studies three major languages and their role in the social lives of Israelis: Hebrew, the dominant language, Arabic, and English. He reveals their complex interrelationship by showing how the language a speaker chooses to use is as important as the language they choose not to use - in the same way that a claim to an Israeli identity is simultaneously a claim against other, opposing identities. The result is a compelling analysis of how the identity of "Israeliness" is linguistically negotiated in the three-way struggle among Ashkenazi (Jewish), Mizrahi (Jewish), and Palestinian (Arab) Israelis. Lefkowitz's ethnography of language-use is both thoroughly anthropological and thoroughly linguistic, and provides a comprehensive view of the role language plays in Israeli society. His work will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, as well as students and scholars of Israel and the Middle East. Lingfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (Language code: ABV) English (Language code: ENG) Hebrew (Language code: HBR) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=11075. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 11 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Fri Aug 13 18:27:10 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:27:10 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:Gen:Abbas Al-Tonsi contact info Message-ID: Arabic-L: Fri 13 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Abbas Al-Tonsi contact info -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 13 Aug 2004 From:Hala Ahmed Subject:Abbas Al-Tonsi contact info ? I am Hala Ahmed, a faculty member in American University in Cairo, Arabic Language Institute. and a Graduate studnet in the TAFL program ( Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language). I am providing you with Abbas el Tonsi e mail address. It is tons at aucegypt.edu. Sorry for being late in replying this e mail. ? Thank you. ? Hala Ahmed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 13 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Tue Aug 17 19:01:57 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:01:57 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Al-Adab Summer Issue Message-ID: Arabic-L: Tue 17 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Al-Adab Summer Issue -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Aug 2004 From: kidriss at cyberia.net.lb Kirsten Scheid Subject: Al-Adab Summer Issue ?Al-Adab?s Summer issue is out Arab Censorship (4); Rebuilding Arab Marxism; Honderich on Palestinian ?Terrorism?; Memoirs of a Palestinian Prisoner; Bardot and Islam; Modernity and its Discontents; Resistance in Iraq; ?Reviving Civil Society? in Syria; Who Killed Farajallah al-Helou? Articles Munir Shafiq (Palestine/Jordan) discusses problems that face Iraq under occupation and after, and dwells on the differences between civil resistance, collaboration, armed resistance, and criminal acts. Riad Zahreddine (Syria) criticizes the ?new liberal Syrians? operating under the rubric ?Reviving Syrian Civil Society.? 45 years after the murder of the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Communist Party Farajallah al-Helou, a communist intellectual dissident, George Haddad (Lebanon/Bulgaria), revisits the crime and points to suspects both in the Arab world and abroad. Abd al-ilah Bilqazziz (Morocco) discusses how modernity infringed on ?pre-modern? societies, despite its previous calls for humanism. Salameh Kileh (Palestine/Syria) attempts a general outline towards rebuilding an Arab Marxist movement. Interview In an exclusive interview with al-Adab, Professor Ted Honderich, a British moral philosopher, talks about Palestinian ?liberation-terrorism? in 1967 Palestine, universal ethics, and ?neo-zionism.? Book Review Jean Tannous (Lebanon) writes about Brigitte Bardot?s new book, Un Cri dans le Silence, following the French Court?s verdict accusing this French actress of racial hatred. Memoirs Suha al-Barghouthi (Palestine), a long-time activist, writes about her long days in Al-Maskoubiyyah prison in Jerusalem. File Arab Censorship (4) Faysal Darraj (Palestine/Syria) writes about censorship and ?extended censorship,? ?whereby society censors itself. ?Izz al-Din al-Manasrah (Paletine/Jordan) talks about the different ways to kill a book. Adaniyya Shibli (Palestine) concentrates on auto-censorship in Palestinian Media. Rana Idriss (Lebanon) and Andre Gaspar (Lebanon/London) write about the censorship confronting publishing houses. Jum?a al-Hilfi (Iraq) remembers how ?party censorship? changed his course of his life. Stories Elias A. Muhammad (Iraq), Nasser Rabbat (Syria/USA), and Naji Zaher (Palestine). Poems Hussein A. Ahmad (Egypt), Bahija M. Idilbi (Syria), Rita Odeh (Palestine), Abd al-salam b. Idriss (Morocco), Abdelrahim al-Khassar (Morocco), Abd al-salam al-Zaytouni (Morocco). Editorial Samah Idriss (editor-in-chief, Lebanon) laments the erosion of reading in Arab culture. ?? PURCHASE INFORMATION This issue is available for $10 and can be ordered from . Subscribe to Al-Adab, at reasonably low rates ($30+ postage), and keep the magazine going! For more information, see: www.adabmag.com Keep up with Al-Adab, keep up with Arab creativity and global critical engagement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Tue Aug 17 19:04:19 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:04:19 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NFLI Grant Opportunity Message-ID: Arabic-L: Tue 17 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Grant Opportunity -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Aug 2004 From: "Lampe, Gerald" Subject: Grant Opportunity The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland (NFLC), acting as the administrative agent of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) for the National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI), seeks proposals from U.S. institutions of higher education to develop and implement innovative on-campus programs of advanced instruction in Arabic (including dialects) to increase dramatically the number of U.S. students advancing to professional levels of language competency. These on-campus programs will prepare students for entry into already established and more advanced NFLI overseas Arabic instructional programs. The National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI), under the auspices of the National Security Education Program (NSEP), is establishing national flagship language programs across the U.S. These programs, coupled with NSEP-funded scholarships and fellowships carrying a national service obligation, are designed to produce significant numbers of graduates, across disciplines, with advanced levels of proficiency in languages critical to national security, many of whom will be candidates for employment with agencies and offices of the federal government. The NFLI represents a major and vital strategic partnership between the federal government and higher education to implement innovative and well-articulated programs designed to embrace language competency as its central mission. Copies of the solicitation are available only from the website of the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland beginning Monday, August 16: www.nflc.org. Please contact the NFLC at jedwards at nflc.org with any questions or problems concerning the solicitation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Mon Aug 23 19:08:31 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:08:31 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:Trans:Need Iraqi Arabic expertise Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Mon 23 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Need Iraqi Arabic expertise -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date:23 Aug 2004 From:John Makhoul Subject:Need Iraqi Arabic expertise We have a research project for limited speech-to-speech translation from English to various languages and back, including Arabic. We already have a version of the system working for colloquial Levantine Arabic and would like to do the same for Iraqi Arabic. We have plenty of expertise in Levantine Arabic but not Iraqi Arabic. So, we are looking for the following: 1. Books or comprehensive articles that discuss Iraqi Arabic (phonetics, phonology, morphology, etc.). 2. A person with linguistic background and knowledge of Iraqi Arabic for possible consulting on the project. 3. A few individuals in the Boston area who are interested in doing some annotation of Iraqi Arabic data using a computer tool. Thank you. John Makhoul Cambridge, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 23 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Mon Aug 23 19:08:42 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:08:42 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:INFO:JAIS in Unicode HTML Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Mon 23 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:JAIS in Unicode HTML -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Aug 2004 From:Joseph N. Bell Subject:JAIS in Unicode HTML Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm We have now uploaded most of our files in HTML Unicode. The files were converted in Word from various mixtures of JAIS1 TTW and other fonts to Arial Unicode MS and a few other Unicode fonts as necessary by Alex Metcalfe and from Word to HTML by me. Inevitably there will be some new errors, and we hope readers, and especially authors, will inform us of these. HTML Unicode files will in the future replace the pre-publication PDF files when they are published on paper. The printed articles may differ slightly from the pre-publication files, but changes in pagination will normally not be allowed. HTML files are provided since all diacritics can be searched in them. Because of the continuing development of standards these are always in tentative form. The page numbers of the PDF file are given in black brackets in the HTML text. Underlined words before a page number are divided between pages in the PDF/printed version. In case of discrepancies, the printed version should be cited. Our reference browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x and Netscape 7.1.x for the PC and Safari and Opera for Macintosh OS X. We are still uncertain about results on the Macintosh, although Opera seems to work better than Safari. On the PC, Netscape is somewhat better than Internet Explorer, since our files are justified, and in this case Internet Explorer does not hold footnote references together with the item they are attached to (thus a line can begin with a footnote reference that should be at the end of the preceding line). This does not happen in Netscape. The uploaded Unicode articles are: vol. 1: all vol. 2: all vol. 3: all vol. 4: all except Schmitt vol. 5: only Bayhom-Daou Please give us your reactions to help us proceed. Joseph N. Bell Professor of Arabic Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures University of Bergen Sydnesplassen 12/13 N-5007 Bergen NORWAY tel. +47 5558 2860 (reception) +47 5558 4771 (direct) +47 5614 3726 (home office) fax +47 5558 9410 or 5558 9191 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 23 Aug 2004 From nja9 at email.byu.edu Mon Aug 23 19:08:23 2004 From: nja9 at email.byu.edu (Nathan Arp) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:08:23 -0700 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NFLI Grant Opportunity Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Mon 23 Aug 2004 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:NFLI Grant Opportunity -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Aug 2004 From:Lampe, Gerald Subject:Grant Opportunity The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland (NFLC), acting as the administrative agent of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) for the National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI), seeks proposals from U.S. institutions of higher education to develop and implement innovative on-campus programs of advanced instruction in Arabic (including dialects) to increase dramatically the number of U.S. students advancing to professional levels of language competency. These on-campus programs will prepare students for entry into already established and more advanced NFLI overseas Arabic instructional programs. The National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI), under the auspices of the National Security Education Program (NSEP), is establishing national flagship language programs across the U.S. These programs, coupled with NSEP-funded scholarships and fellowships carrying a national service obligation, are designed to produce significant numbers of graduates, across disciplines, with advanced levels of proficiency in languages critical to national security, many of whom will be candidates for employment with agencies and offices of the federal government. The NFLI represents a major and vital strategic partnership between the federal government and higher education to implement innovative and well-articulated programs designed to embrace language competency as its central mission. Copies of the solicitation are available only from the website of the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland beginning Monday, August 16: www.nflc.org. Please contact the NFLC at jedwards at nflc.org with any questions or problems concerning the solicitation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 23 Aug 2004