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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:37 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Sound symbolism in Arabic query
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Vrsan Lestaric <fursan at eunet.yu>
Subject:Sound symbolism in Arabic query

Hi all,

I am interested in onomatopoeic words in Arabic (tasmiya\kalima
muHAkiya), in both MSA and the colloquial language.Wright and Haywood
mention it only when speaking of quadriliteral verbs and the extensive
grammar by Teufik Muftic (Sarajevo,1998) refers to it briefly, again
only in the interjections section. Can anyone tell me something more
about it or give me reference concerning sound symbolism in Arabic (all
of it: corporal, imitative, synesthetic, conventional) as well as its
forms (e.g. reduplication, phonaestheme).

Thanks,
Vrsan Lestaric
Belgrade

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:31 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:31 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:'business continuity' and 'disaster recovery'
 response
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:timbuckwalter at earthlink.net
Subject:'business continuity' and 'disaster recovery' response

The phrase "istimraariyyat al-`amal" (for "business continuity) is well
attested on the Web. It has a high Google score (sorry if the following
long URL gets manged by my e-mailer):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22%D8%A7%D8%B3%D
8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%
22

As for the phrase "disaster recovery," there is evidence of "al-in`aash
ba`da l-kawaarith" at two United Nations websites indexed by Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22%D8%A7%D9%
84%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B4+%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D
9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%22

Note: if you click on the "Cached" link in the Google search results
page you'll be able to find the phrases faster on the page because
they'll be highlighted with a yellow background.

Happy Googles to you all!
Tim

____________________

I forgot to mention that "disaster recovery" applied to computer systems
has a different translation depending on whether you are recovering data
or functionality: "isti`aadat al-bayaanaat al-taalifa" if it's
recovering or reconstructing lost or corrupted data, and "istirjaa`
`amaliyyaat al-Haasibaat" if it relates to bringing a system back on
line after a crash.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:07:54 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:07:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Arabic Teaching Conference at Damascus U. Call for Papers
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Mahdi Alosh <alosh.1 at osu.edu>
Subject:Arabic Teaching Conference at Damascus U. Call for Papers

The Foreign Language Institute at Damascus University is organzing a
conference on the teaching and learning of Arabic as a foreign language
on May 27-29, 2004. The papers and discussions will be in Arabic. There
are five main themes:

1. Preparation of TAFL teachers
2, Instructional methodology and curriculum design
3. Problems facing learners
4. Ancillary materials and computer technology
5. The cultural component in the language content

The deadline for submitting papers is March 20, 2004. A selected number
of presenters will be hosted by Damascus University (excluding the
airline ticket). I assume that Wael Barakat will announce the list
right after the deadline.

Contact: <esp-damasuniv at mail.sy>

Mahdi

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:35 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Arabic Language Teacher Education refs
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Liz England <lengland at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic Language Teacher Education refs

I am interested to know if there is someone on the Arabic-L list who
might be able to assist me in finding some references on Arabic language
teacher education.  I would like to know about lay or scholarly research
on this topic.  I am looking for historical overviews, statistical
information and content of teacher education programs (anywhere,
worldwide).  I am familiar somewhat with the program at the American
University in Cairo.  But there may be others and I would like to know
about them - any information welcome!

Thank you very much.

Liz England

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:53 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Acquisition of Arabic as a first language
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Alaa Elgibali <elgibali at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:New Book:Acquisition of Arabic as a first language

This brief note is to announce the publication of a new book on the  
acquisition of Arabic as a first language.  The reference is:
 
Elgibali, Alaa.  2003.Lughat al-Tifl al-Arabi: dira:sa fi ?iktisa:b  
al-lughat wa taTawuriha.  ISBN 977-353-027-2. Cairo: Al-Khanjy  
Press.khanjy at link.net
 
The book is a sycholinguistic study of the acquisition of Arabic as a  
first language from 0 - 9.  It incorporates the findings of theoretical  
research, group and case studies to date in an attempt to arrive at an  
understanding of the acquisition processess and the order of  
acquisition of morphological and syntactic structures.
 
Alaa Elgibali
elgibali at aucegypt.edu
 
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:43 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:NYU Translation Conference
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Milena Savovo <ms93 at nyu.edu>
Subject:NYU Translation Conference


Please forward to your networks of colleagues.

CALL FOR PAPERS

 2nd International Translation Conference
20th Anniversary of the NYU Translation Studies Program

“Global Security: Implications for Translation and Interpretation”

June 3-5, 2004

Kimmel Center, New York University

Global developments of the last decade have transformed the nature of  
the translation profession. Modern telecommunications technology, for  
example, has transformed this profession from one which once served  
primarily local markets to one which is truly global, permitting  
translators to work anywhere at any time. Today’s new global realities  
have broadened the scope of the translation and interpreting  
professions.

These realities are increasingly shaped by ethnicity, religion, human  
rights, the environment, public health, including AIDS, and other  
issues. Growing pride in ethnicity, religion and language are at the  
heart of many of the conflicts, or abet conflicts, around the world  
today. There is an ever-increasing demand for competent translators and  
interpreters in the languages spoken in the Middle East, Africa, and  
elsewhere in Asia.   

For two decades the NYU translation studies program has based its  
education and training on three concepts:  academic responsibility,  
high-level pragmatism, and real world situations.  Our first  
international conference, in March, 2000, embodied these concepts. This  
conference, therefore, will gather academics, practicing translators  
and a wide range of translation and interpreting consumers from around  
the world to explore, from different perspectives, the issues  
confronting these two professions today. 

Presentations are invited on all aspects of global security,  
translation and interpretation, including but not limited to:

·       War, peace and security
·       Foreign policy and counter-terrorism
·       Ethnicity
·       Religion
·       Human rights
·       Internet
·       Business, finance, global trade, and money-laundering
·       Communications/news
·       Environment
·       Public health

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent in electronic format  
to milena.savova at nyu.edu by January 25, 2004.   Selection will be  
completed by February 15. 

The conference website is  www.scps.nyu.edu/translationconf and will be  
up shortly after New Year's. 

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:update on Arabizing Windows article
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:ahmadhany at hds.harvard.edu
Subject:update on Arabizing Windows article

Hello and happy holidays! I have written a very useful article on how
to enable Arabic reading and writing capabilities on most Windows
operating systems, internet-browsers, and word processing applications.
I would suggest you try and send the email over a web-based email
system like maktoob.com.

The PDF and HTML versions of my article, respectively, are listed
below. I hope they help.

http://www.uga.edu/islam/arabic_windows.html
http://www.nclrc.org/inst-arabic3.pdf

al-Husein N. Madhany
PhD Program, NELC Dept
University of Chicago

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:39 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Intensive Elementary Arabic at UIC Summer 2004
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:David Reisman <david.reisman at yale.edu>
Subject:Intensive Elementary Arabic at UIC Summer 2004

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ARABIC AT UIC
SUMMER SESSION 2004

The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of
Illinois at Chicago, is now offering an Intensive Introduction to
Modern Standard Arabic, beginning Summer Session 2004 (June 1-July 23).
This course is an intensive 8-week introduction to Modern Standard
Arabic for students with no prior experience in the language. It covers
the equivalent of two semesters of Elementary Modern Standard Arabic.
The class meets 15 hours per week and includes language lab sessions
and cultural activities .

Application deadline for Summer Sessionat UIC is May 21, 2004. For
application and registration instructions, tuition information, etc.,
go to: http://www.uic.edu/depts/summer/ or call the Summer Session
Office at (312) 996-9099, or toll free (800) 625-2013. Any additional
questions about the course may be directed to Mustapha Kamal
(mustaphk at uic.edu).

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:45 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SAIS Summer Program 2004
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Kassem Wahba <kwahba1 at jhu.edu>
Subject:SAIS Summer Program 2004

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the
professional school of international affairs within The Johns Hopkins
University, will offer intensive Arabic courses as part of its Summer
Programs 2004.  Located in the heart of the intellectual and cultural
resources of Washington, D.C., SAIS offers summer courses in
international studies, emerging markets and foreign languages.  SAIS
Summer Language Institute courses meet Monday through Thursday evenings
from June 7 - July 29 and are worth eight graduate-level credits each.


The following Arabic courses will be offered:

Basic Arabic
Basic Arabic II
Intermediate Arabic I
Intermediate Arabic II (News and Media)

In addition to a wide variety of other international studies and
emerging markets courses, the following three non-language graduate
courses will be offered as part of the Summer International Studies
Program.  These courses meet two evenings a week from June 7 - July 28
and are worth four graduate-level credits each.

Comparative Law: The Islamic Legal System
Islam and American Foreign Policy
Terror as Political Opposition: The Secular and Religious Foundations
of Militant Islamism

For additional information about the SAIS Summer Language Institute or
International Studies Program, please visit the SAIS Summer Programs Web
site at www.sais-jhu.edu/nondegree/summer.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:50 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Inaugurating WATA Portal
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:info at arabicwata.org
Subject:Inaugurating WATA Portal

To all Translators and Intellectuals throughout the world,

The World Arabic (Speaking) Association is happy to announce the soft  
launch of its website today at 09.00 GMT, as it has promised three  
months ago.

The Founding Board tries hard to design this site as the meeting forum  
of the linguists and translators community; therefore you’re kindly  
invited to bring a stone to this building through your posts and your  
feedbacks.

It’s important to remind you that the Arabic version of the website is  
just the first path and that it will be followed, as soon as possible,  
by the English, the French, the Spanish, the Russian, the Chinese and  
the Scandinavian interface.

We have thought that the first of January may be considered in the  
coming years as the Arabic Translators Day and a good occasion to  
celebrate the realizations of all those working in the “from/to Arabic  
language pairs” field.

Please accept our warmest wishes of a happy Arabic Translators day! And  
see you at:  

www.Arabicwata.org
The Founding Board.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:41 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Arabic Learning Software: TeLL me More
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1) Subject:New Arabic Learning Software: TeLL me More

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Julien Picard <Julien.Picard at us.auralog.com>
Subject:New Arabic Learning Software: TeLL me More

Auralog, the specialist in foreign language learning methods, is
releasing
TeLL me More Arabic in January 2004.
This collection is not only geared towards learning Modern Standard
Arabic,
but also introduces 8 different Arabic dialects, including Moroccan,
Algerian and Egyptian. TeLL me More was the first language method based
on
the use of speech recognition technology, allowing learners to speak in
an
interactive manner with their computer. The voice recognition technology
enables students to evaluate their pronunciation, correct their
mistakes and
practice the pronunciation of the 29 Arabic phonemes, such as "Hamza"
and
"Baa'."

The nuances of both the spoken language (comprehension and
pronunciation)
and the written language (written expression and grammar) are easily
mastered using this software. TeLL me More Arabic also offers a writing
workbook designed to help students grasp the basics of the Arabic
script.

TeLL me More Arabic is divided into 8 levels, and includes 1600 hours of
learning and several thousands  exercises broken down into 21 different
types of activities. The method is available for levels: Complete
Beginner,
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Advanced +, Business, Business + and
Business ++. This software is available for networked environment, as
well
as single work-station.

For more information, evaluation CD, please contact
Julien.Picard at us.auralog.com <mailto:Julien.Picard at us.auralog.com>

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:48 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Contacts responses
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1) Subject:Cairo Contacts response
2) Subject:Cairo Contacts response

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject:Cairo Contacts response

To Colleague Cho, Lee Sun :
For such a research you may need to contact a variety of those working  
in this area such as Dr. Omayma Abu Bakr working with Multaqaa al  
mar'ati wa l dhaakira ( Women & Memory Forum) and others working with  
her such as Dr. Huda as Sa'di and Dr. Mervat Hatim. The address is: 4.  
'Omar b. Abdul Aziz st., al- Mohandeseen, Cairo.
You may also contact the Syndicate for Egyptian Lawyers where you may  
ask about Dr. Fawziyya Abdul Sattar, who was the chair of the  
legislative committee at the National Assembly, and Nihad Abu al  
Qomsaan, a well know lawyer and  director of the Egyptian Center of  
Women's Rights ( A basically Christian organization) and priest Ibrahim  
Abdul Sayyed Mikhail  at the same center at the following address: 56  
Misr Hilwaan Rd. apt. # 2, Maadi, Cairo.
You can also contact the Egyptian Council of Women in Egypt to arrange  
for other meetings and contacts at the following e mail address from  
their web site: ncwegypt.com 
Best of Luck.
Nagwa Hedayet, Ph.D.
Arabic & Islamic Studeis Department
Zayed University
Dubai
P.O.Box 19282
United Arab Emirates
www.arabicstudieshedayet.co

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject:Cairo Contacts response

Dear Professor Cho,
 
I hope the following information would be of assistance, regarding  
contacts with the National Council for Women in Egypt:
 
	 1.  	National Council for Women, chaired by Dr. Farkhonda Hassan,   
Office no: 574 56 02 Fax 574 55 96
	 2.  	Also, Dr. Hoda Zagloul is Administrative Manager to WBDC - Women  
Business Development Center of the National Council for Women. Her  
email is  hoda_z at ncwegypt.com and phone no 5748194 ext(189)
Sincerley yours,
 
Sherifa M. El Tabei
Associate Director
Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action
The American University in Cairo

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:11 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Info on wallaahi particle
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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Mette Vedsgaard Christensen <normvc at hum.au.dk>
Subject:Needs Info on wallaahi particle

I am a Ph. D. student from University of Aarhus, Denmar, and I am
looking
for litterature on the Arabic discourse particle "wallah".

I am currently trying to work out how adolescents with Arabic, Turkish,
Farsi or Somali as their mother tongue make use of "wallah" in their
second language - Danish. I work with tape recorded everyday
conversations, and I have found that the use of "Wallah" is very
frequent
when the young bilinguals speak Danish.

"Wallah" is used in many ways and situations. In order to classify and
describe the phenomenon properly, I will need to know more about the use
of this particle in it's original language. I am therefore looking for
litterature that deals with the use of " Wallah" (in it's varying forms)
in colloquial Arabic. However I would of course also be interested in
descriptions of "Wallah" in Turkish or other languages to which the
particle has been exported.

The "Wallah"s on my tape almost exclusively appear in the "Wallah"-
form,
and it is always pronounced in Arabic - even by the kids with Turkish as
their mother tongue.

  I am already familiar with the following article: Mustafa A. Mughazy:
Discourse Particles Revisited: The Case of Wallahi in Egyptian Arabic

The adolescents of Arabic origin on my tapes are all from Jordan, Syria,
Lebanon or Palestine.

Thank you!

Mette Vedsgaard Christensen
Ph.D. Student

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Neologisms query
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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:lqbeauty at hotmail.com
Subject:Arabic Neologisms query

[please respond directly to the requester]

i would like to thank u for you concern for the study of the arabic
language asi it is very rich with subjects of study. personally i am
a&nbsp;post graduate student of the english department of the faculty
of arts / helwan university in egypt&nbsp;but i am studying the arabic
neologisms. i will be grateful if u support me with whatever material u
think it may help me in my thesis

thank you any way and keep up that good work

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:16 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Phonosymbolism response
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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Phonosymbolism response

For work on Arabic phonosymbolism, see 2 articles of mine: "The Alchemy
of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism" (in "Humanism, Culture, and
Language in the Near East," edited by Asma Afsaruddin and A.H. Mathias
Zahniser - Eisenbrauns, 1997) and also "Alchemical Phonology: Science,
Sound and Mysticism in the Arab Middle Ages" in "History of Linguistics,
1993" edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky (John Benjamins, 1995).  See also the
excellent PhD dissertation by Elizabeth Johnson Wright, at Georgetown
University: "Sound and Meaning in Medieval Arabic Linguistic Theory"
(2000).
Karin Ryding, Georgetown University

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:20 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs to Contact DLI people
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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Lisa Buckmaster <saxxgod at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs to Contact DLI people

Salaam colleagues,

Are any of the Arabic-l users onstaff at the Defense Language Institute
in Monterey? Does anyone have any contacts there?

Salaam,
Lisa

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:29 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs
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1) Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs
2) Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs
3) Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs

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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs

Dear Liz,
The ILI-al Sahafeyeen in Cairo offesr a well reputed teacher training  
course for teachers of Arabic as a Foreign language. You can contact  
them directly for more information about course content at :  
ili at arabicegypt.com
The British Council in Cairo also provided these courses when they  
needed Arabic teachers, but Iam not sure they still do. You can always  
contact them though for course details.
Two very important people to contact on the topic are Doctors Rushdi  
Toeimah ( 0105678534/ 050 2247054/ 2247055Fax: 048 573 339/048 579 333)  
and Dr Al naqah(2901705) They will be able to guide you to any studies  
that have been carried out in Egypt or in the Arab world. Just keep  
trying with the phones. They are hard to find but are very helpful once  
u get them. The Faxes are not very reliable as it is a departmental  
Fax, sometimes if you are lucky they receive them others they are lost.
All the best with your research
 
Iman A. Soliman

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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:ahmadhany at hds.harvard.edu
Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs

A good place to start are the AATA mongraphs listed below. See

http://www.wm.edu/aata/New-publications.htm#_American_Association_of_1

An Annotated Bibliography of American Doctoral Dissertations on Arabic  
Language, Literature and Culture, 1967-1987
by Dr. Dona S. Straley

The Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language: Issues and Directions
Edited by Mahmoud Al-Batal

Best,
al-Husein Madhany

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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Raji Rammuny <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs

I just completed a draft of An Annotated Bibliography on Foreign  
Language
Teaching with particular Emphasis on Arabic language Teaching. The
Bibliography will be published soon.

Raji Rammuny

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 16:00:17 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:00:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:moderator
Subject:DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS

I have just received an e-mail with an attachment that clearly seems to
contain a virus.  The return address was arabic-l at byu.edu, which is the
address from which Arabic-L messages are sent.  This is just a reminder
that ANYONE can fake a return e-mail address; just because you get a
message with arabic-l at byu.edu as the return address, that does not mean
that it is from Arabic-L, or that it is safe to open the attachment.
Arabic-L has a policy not to send attachments, so if you get something
with one you can be sure it is not safe to open.
A word to the wise.
Dil Parkinson
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:02 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Etymology of the term "Cuscuta"
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:David Mehall <mehalld at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Needs Etymology of the term "Cuscuta"

A Canadian doctor (mcostea at uoguelph.ca) is trying to establish the  
etymology of the name “Cuscuta”, which is a genus with about 150  
species of parasitic plants that look like an entangled mass of  
yellow-orange threads that spread and cover other plants.

Some say that the name has Arabic roots. Do you recognize any of these  
words (or something close to them): kushkut; kuskut? Do they mean  
anything? Any comment would be helpful.

David Mehall

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:04 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Kansas U Arabic 2004 Summer Program in Morocco
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1) Subject:Kansas U Arabic 2004 Summer Program in Morocco

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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:mohd at mail.ku.edu
Subject:Kansas U Arabic 2004 Summer Program in Morocco

Dear all,
I'm sending this to announce the Kansas University Arabic 2004 Summer
Program
in Morocco, please check the program website. I appreciate your help in
spreading the word to your students or those who are interested.
Thanks.
Mohammad Al-Masri
The University of Kansas

http://www.ku.edu/~osa/program_pages/morocco_ifrane.shtml

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:21 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UofMichigan Intensive Summer Arabic Program 2004
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:thuynh at umich.edu
Subject:UofMichigan Intensive Summer Arabic Program 2004

   UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
The Department of Near Eastern Studies
2004 SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (SLI)


Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (AAPTIS-101/102):  10 credits   	June  
7 – Aug 13, 2004
Students must register for both courses in this sequence, which  
provides an accelerated introduction to the phonology and script of  
Modern standard Arabic and its basic vocabulary and fundamental  
structures. Emphasis is placed on developing speaking, reading and  
writing skills through simple short texts, situational dialogues, and  
interactive communicative activities. This sequence is equivalent to  
one year of Arabic study. Textbooks: Rammuny, “Arabic Sounds and  
Letters and Manual”, Brustad et Al, “Al-Kitab, Part One”. This class  
meets M-F  9-1pm.  (staff)

Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (AAPTIS-415/416):  6 credits 		       June  
30 – Aug 20, 2004
This sequence is offered for students and other members of the  
community who have completed one year of standard Arabic.  It provides  
extensive oral and communicative practice based on situational  
dialogues as used by native Egyptian speakers.  The basic principles of  
pronunciation, grammar, and functional vocabulary are emphasized  
through oral and pattern practice drills.  The goal is to develop the  
ability to communicate with native speakers of Egyptian Arabic with  
some ease.  Aspects of Egyptian culture will be made familiar to the  
students in the course of language practice.  Materials: Course pack.  
This class meets M-F  9-12pm.  (staff)

Tuition and fees:
Summer tuition and fees will be assessed at the following rates and are  
subject to change:
  					Michigan Residents        	    			Non-Residents
			3 Credits	4 Credits	6-10 Credits		3 Credits	4 Credits	6-10 Credits
U-M Undergraduates	 		 		 		
     Lower Division		$1,102		$1,401		$1,994			$3,201		$4,200		$6,194
     Upper Division 	$1,228		$1,569		$2,247			$3,418		$4,489		$6,629
      (guest or non U-M students)
U-M Graduate Students	$2,227		$2,901		$3,575	 		$4,402		$5,801		$7,200

Not-For-Credit/Program Fee Option:
Students who do not require a transcript from the University of  
Michigan may apply to study Arabic   on a not-for-credit basis. Credits  
will not be generated and will not be transferable with this enrollment  
option.  Not-for-Credit students will pay a program fee of $2,000 for  
courses listed as 6 credit hours; $2,800 for courses listed as 10  
credit hours regardless of academic level or residency status, and will  
receive a Certificate of Attendance upon completion.

Every attempt will be made to award eligible students fellowships or  
program fee (depending on enrollment status) based upon individual  
need; To be considered for financial aid, applicants must fill out the  
SLI application and financial aid transcript.  Each application will be  
reviewed individually to determine partial or full tuition awards.  The  
application deadline is April 1, 2004.

For an application or additional information, please contact:
Todd Huynh thuynh at umich.edu			Roberta N. Low, SLI Coordinator   
um.sli at umich.edu
		Dept. of Near Eastern Studies			International Institute
University of Michigan				University of Michigan
2068 Frieze Building				Room 4668 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285			Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
734-764-314 or fax 734-936-2679		734-764-8571 or fax – 734-763-4765
            			www.umich.edu/~iinet/sli/

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:07 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Last CFP-Arabic NLP Text & Speech-deadline Jan 20
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com
Subject:Last CFP-Arabic NLP Text & Speech-deadline Jan 20


!!!! Deadline extended to January 20, 2004 !!!!

****************************************************
       J E P  2 0 0 4   -   T A L N  2 0 0 4
                - Special Session -

             ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING
                   TEXT & SPEECH
                      --------

               Last call for Papers

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

       http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/
        http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04/

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

Due to its morphological, syntactic, phonetic and phonologic
properties, the Arabic language is considered to be one of the
most difficult languages for written and spoken language processing.

Research on written Arabic language processing started in the 1970s,
even before the problems of Arabic text editing were completely solved.
The first studies focused primarily on lexicons and morphology.
In the past ten years, the internationalisation of the WWW and the
proliferation of communication tools in Arabic have led to the
need for a large number of Arabic NLP applications. As a result,
research activity has extended to address more general areas of
Arabic language processing, including syntactic analysis, machine
translation, document indexing, information retrieval, etc.

Research on Arabic speech processing has made significant progress
due to more improved signal processing technologies, and to
recent advances in the knowledge of the prosodic and the
segmental characteristics of Arabic and the acoustic modelling
of Arab schemes. These results should make it possible to
further progress in more innovative areas, such as Arabic
speech recognition and synthesis, speech translation and
automatic identification of a speaker and his/her geographic
origin discrimination, etc.

The aim of the joint session is to gather and reinforce collaboration
between researchers from both the written and spoken Arabic
language processing communities. It will also offer the opportunity
to discuss recent advances on both the scientific and application
sides of the problem, in monolingual and multilingual contexts.

TOPICS

This special session on written and spoken Arabic processing
includes (but is not limited to) the following topics :
- Speech recognition and comprehension,
- Text to speech synthesis,
- Automatic prosody generation,
- Automatic speaker and language identification,
- Geographic origin discrimination of Arabic speakers,
- Arabic corpora & resources,
- Speech acquisition for ASR and TTS systems,
- Morphology,
- Syntax,
- Semantics,
- Text parsing and generation,
- Discourse analysis,
- Text summarization,
- Dialogue,
- Machine translation.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline : extended to January 20, 2004
Notification to authors : 20 February 2004
Camera-ready : 8 March 2004
Conference : 19-22 April 2004

SELECTION CRITERIA
Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research  
work.
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts.
Decisions will be based on the following criteria :
- importance and originality of the paper,
- soundness of the scientific and technical content,
- comparison of the results obtained with other relevant works,
- clarity of the exposition,
- relevance to the topics of the conference.

LANGUAGES
All papers should be written in English or French.

PAPER FORMAT
Submitted papers should be about 6 to 10 pages in Times 12pt,
single spaced, including figures, examples and references.
Papers MUST be sent in PDF format. In particular cases, we might
accept submissions in RTF (Word) format.

All the PostScript versions must be in A4 format, and not US Letter.
- Download the LaTeX stylesheet
<http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/templates/arab-latex.tgz>
- Download the Word template (English version)
<http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/templates/arabEN.dot>

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Electronic submissions with the message object "JEP-TALN-2004-Arabic"
should be sent to the following email address :
< jep-taln04-arabic at fsdmfes.ac.ma >

In case electronic submission is not possible, printed versions
might be accepted. In this case, three hard-copies of the paper
together with a floppy disk, should be sent to :

Malek Boualem
France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI
2, avenue Pierre Marzin
22307 Lannion - France

or to

Noureddine Chenfour
Département de Math. et Informatique
Faculté des Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Fès
BP : 1796 Atlas, Fez - Morocco


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

- Abderrahim Benabbou, FST, Fez, Morocco.
- Mohammed Benkhalifa, Faculté des Sciences, Rabat, Morocco.
- Thami Benkirane, Sidi Mohammed University, Morocco.
- Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, France.
- Achraf Chalabi, Sakhr, Egypt.
- Noureddine Chenfour, Sidi Mohammed University, Fez, Morocco.
- Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France.
- Fethi Debili, CNRS, Paris, France.
- Emilie De Neef, France Telecom R&D, France.
- Joseph Dichy, Lumière-Lyon 2 University, France.
- Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- Mohamed Embarki, Laboratoire de Phonétique, Montpellier, France.
- Mohammed Hassoun, ENSSIB, Lyon, France.
- Med Tayeb Laskri, Badji Mokhtar University, Algeria.
- Fabrice Lefevre, LIMSI, Paris-Sud Orsay University, France.
- Chafic Mokbel, Balimand University, Lebanon.
- Abdelhak Mouradi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco.
- Omar Nouali, CERIST, Algeria.
- Abdenbi Rajouani, ENS, Fez, Morocco.
- Mustafa Yaseen, ATS Online, Jordan.
- Mohamed Yeou, Chouaib Doukkali El-Jadida University, Morocco.
- Chakir Zeroual, Sidi Mohamed University, Fez, Morocco.
- Adnane Zribi, ISG, Tunis University, Tunisia.


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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:10 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Issue of Languages and Linguistics
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1) Subject:New Issue of Languages and Linguistics

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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:estry at menara.ma
Subject:New Issue of Languages and Linguistics

Journal Title: Languages and Linguistics
Volume Number: 11
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: DEC 2003

Subtitle: The Morpho-syntax of Chamito-semitic Languages (Part II)

Main text:

Edited by: Fatima Sadiqi and Moha Ennaji

CONTENTS

Fatima Sadiqi & Moha Ennaji
Introduction

Mohamed Badawi
A Propos des Constructions Analytiques à Valeur de Passif en Arabe
Moderne

Abdeljalil El-Idrissi
Prépositions Supports et Nominalisation

Alain Kihm
Parentheticals in Arabic Construct State Nominals

Ahmed Chergui Saber
The Complementizer Domain and Resumption in Standard Arabic

Moha Ennaji
The Structure of Clitic Constructions in Berber

Sabrina Bendjaballah
Le Rôle Morphologique du Squelette: Une Analyse du Déterminant en
Bédja

Abdellatif Chouta
Patterns of Aspect Interpretation in Arabic (in Arabic)

Hassan Es-saiydi
Agreement in Standard Arabic (in Arabic)


For further information please contact: mennaji2002 at yahoo.fr
						OR: estry at iam.net.ma


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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:12 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 28(2003)
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1) Subject:Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 28(2003)

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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:Yohanan Friedmann <msyfried at mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject:Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 28(2003)


		The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
	      The Institute of Asian and African Studies
	       The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation

		is pleased to announce the publication of

		Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
                  	   vol. 28(2003) (440 pp.)

Table of Contents:

S. Adhami, On the Zurvanism of `ulama-ye Islam I: an encounter with
Plato
S. Shoemaker, Christmas in the Qur'an: the Qur'anic account of
	Jesus' nativity and Palestinian local tradition
U. Rubin, The life of Muhammad and the Qur'an: the case of Muhammad's
	hijra
A. Elad, The beginning of historical writing by the Arabs
W. Madelung, Rabi`a in the Jahiliyya and in early Islam
H. Motzki, The author and his work in the Islamic literature of the
first
	centuries: the case of `Abd al-Razzaq's Musannaf
M. Levy-Rubin, Praise or defamation? On the polemic usage of the term
	hanif among Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages
R. Tottoli, The story of Jesus and the skull in Arabic literature: the
	emergence and growth of a religious tradition
E. Francesca, The formation and development of the Ibadi madhhab
A. Levin, Sibawayhi's attitude to the language of poetry
O. Kapeliuk, Some notes on the lingustic informants in Sibawayhi's Kitab
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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Teacher Education Survey
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:Liz England <lengland at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Arabic Teacher Education Survey

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Survey on Arabic Language Teacher Education
As a part of a project on Arabic language teacher preparation, we are
requesting your participation in a brief survey.  The survey is designed
to learn specific ways in which Arabic language teaching professionals
have been educated to teach Arabic and what we do to keep up to date
professionally. Please complete the attached survey and return it by no
later than February 15 to

Dr. Liz England <lengland at aucegypt.edu> by return e-mail.

If you would like to receive the results of the survey, please let us
know and we will add your name to the list of recipients. Many thanks.

Survey Questions:
1. I teach Arabic at (location)____________

  2. Brief description of students:
Age ____
Proficiency level _______________
Learning goals _____________

3. I have taught Arabic for ________ years.

Professional preparation for Arabic language teachers usually includes a
combination of experiences. Please briefly describe these and any other
sources of learning how to teach Arabic. Please be as specific as
possible.

4. Education_________________________________

5. Teaching experience____________________________________

6. Living, visiting, studying, and/or working in an Arabic speaking
environment
Please indicate all that apply and provide details that are relevant to
your teacher training on the following line:
_________________________________________

7. Other sources of learning to teach Arabic Many teachers participate
in professional development activities in order to keep up to date.
Briefly describe yours. Please be as specific as possible,
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:27 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Neologisms response
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:j.hoogland at let.kun.nl
Subject:Neologisms response

On the website about our dictionary project I have written a section on
neologisms in Arabic dictionaries:
http://www.let.kun.nl/~J.hoogland/WBA/Content2/1.6.7_Neologisms.htm

Jan Hoogland

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:32 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:wallaahi
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:AyoubyK at Dearborn.k12.mi.us
Subject:wallaahi

Greetings,

The use of "wa-Allah" is also quite common among Arab American bilingual
youth in the Dearborn/Detroit community. It is part of their
ethnic/religious (self-presentation). Interestingly, the word has
migrated (albeit in some limited circles, namely, among non-Arab
American youth because of proximity) to become an element of their
English speech, (a sort of American English borrowing).

Pardon my ignorance, but I am curious to know why "wa-Allah" is being
considered a particle, and not a phrase. Also, what is the context of
the phrase's use in Danish?

Kenneth K. Ayouby
Student Services and Special Programs
Dearborn Public Schools
18700 Audette St.
Dearborn, MI 48124

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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:rberjak at shaw.ca
Subject:wallaahi

Hi,
for your amusement I live and teach in Alberta Canada. And I hear  
Wallah from non Arab nonMuslim  young people who are in contact with  
Arab kids.

Rafik Berjak

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:35 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:DLI contact info
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3) Subject:DLI contact info
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:SadokM at aol.com
Subject:DLI contact info

Hi Lisa!
What can Ido for you? Sadok

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2)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:BernhardtJE at state.gov
Subject:DLI contact info

The Defense Language Institute is a large institution, so giving a  
contact
would be easier if we knew what information you needed. The general  
website
for DLI is http://pom-www.army.mil/.

Jim Bernhardt
Chair, Arabic and Asian Language
Foreign Service Institute (a sister school to DLI)

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3)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:DLI contact info

Greetings.
 
Please provide some details of which aspects of the Arabic language and  
its teaching at DLIFLC (Presidio of Monterey, CA, or POM) are of  
interest.
 
With that detail, probably can refer you to what should be the right  
place in the various Middle East Schools (at last count, two MES aare  
established; might be up to three this year) and task force offices  
that have sprouted at POM. I am an occasional advisor and SME to DLIFLC  
on Arabic dialectology / diglossia, Arabization, specialized lexicons  
and vocabularies, and intercultural effectiveness.
 
Glad to help once I have a clearer idea of what you seek... ahalan wa  
sahalan wa tafadaliii.
 
Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pero, CA

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4)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:GnhBos at aol.com
Subject:DLI contact info

E-mail: William.Alwahab at monterey.army.mil
Work: 831-242-5111

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak
AramediA Group  
761 Adams Street    
Boston, MA 02122, USA  

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:39 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants Arabic Study advice
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Jeffery.Thorson at usdoj.gov
Subject:Wants Arabic Study advice

I am open to any suggests any member of this list server has with
regards to the first year of intensive Arabic education for the novice:

*	The director of the National Foreign Language Center said Middlebury
College and the Univ. of Pennsylvania both have good 9-week summer
programs.

*	I just learned that Middlebury's summer program is extremely
competitive (numerous FBI, CIA applicants) -- and may not be taking
more students for summer '04. The coordinator in PA said the university
may not even offer Arabic again this summer.

Do you know of anything else worth looking into? I'm planning on
leaving government to study full time on my own dime. Feel free to
email me at thorsoni at yahoo.com or call work hours at 202-305-1895.

Thanks,
Jeff

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:53 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:wallaahi
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2) Subject:wallaahi
3) Subject:wallaahi

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:wallaahi

Concerning Kenneth Ayouby's question:
"Pardon my ignorance, but I am curious to know why "wa-Allah" is being
considered a particle, and not a phrase"

Wallaahi consists of "wa", and "allah".

Wa is called waaw al qasam, and has the effect of making the case of the
following noun genetive.

Wallaahi is equivalent to "by God", and it means really/honest/I swear.

Waheed

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2)
Date: 09 Jan 2004
From: June Dahy <june at hum.ku.dk>
Subject:wallaahi

Dear Kenneth

I've heard the phrase used by bi-lingual children youths of arabic  
origin in
Denmark. It's used exactly as one of its usages in arabic, that is, to
confirm the veracity of an utterance or an allegation:
'It was him I saw yesterday...wallaahi'.
'wallah, they were talking about you'

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Vrsan Lestaric <fursan at eunet.yu>
Subject:wallaahi

Hi Mette,
 
wallaahi is quite often used in colloquial Serbian, especially when the  
rural version is concerned. The form is almost always 'vala' (second a  
longer, strong l but not emphatic like in Arabic allaah). The  
dictionary of Serbian language edited by the Academy offers several  
more forms beside 'vala': 'valaj' (j is y), 'valan' (nazal n),  
'valah(i)', and my personal favorite 'vala bila' (i.e. wa-l-laah  
bi-l-laah; stronger version). I must admit I myself have never come  
upon any other form but 'vala'.
 
It means almost exclusively 'by god' as in: 'By god, I shall go to  
Damascus if it is the last thing I do!' but I found that it can even  
have the meaning like 'to hell' or 'goddamn (it)'.
 
Macedonian, Bosnian and Croatian (in some eastern parts) use it as well  
and in the same form.
 
Best wishes,
Vrsan Lestaric
Belgrade

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:43 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:FSI Job
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:James E Bernhardt <BernhardtJE at state.gov>
Subject:FSI Job

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

George P. Shultz
National Foreign Affairs Training Center
Foreign Service Institute
U.S. Department of State

An Equal Opportunity Employer

ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER:  FSI-04-01
POSITION TITLE: Supervisory Instructional Systems Specialist
OFFICE & LOCATION: FSI/SLS, SA-42, Arlington, Virginia
SERIES AND GRADE: GG-1750-12/13
PROMOTION POTENTIAL:  GG-13
OPENING DATE:  01/16/2004
CLOSING DATE:  02/06/2004
SUPERVISORY:    Yes
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED: Secret
NUMBER OF POSITIONS TO BE FILLED: 3 total- (1) Turkic, (1) Arabic, (1)
Slavic
AREA OF CONSIDERATION: All Qualified Candidates

COMMENTS:  This is an Excepted Service position.  This is a renewable
appointment.  However, the initial appointment will not exceed two
years.
Selected candidate does not acquire Civil Service "competitive status".

Duties and Responsibilities:
This position is located in the School of Language Studies, Foreign
Service
Institute (FSI/SLS).  The School of Language Studies consists of
approximately 400 Language and Culture Instructors and supervisory-level
personnel and provides training and testing services amounting to more
than
1,000,000 student hours annually in over 60 languages for the
Department of
State and for more than 30 other government entities. Courses vary in
length
depending on language proficiency requirements for employees and family
members of the Department of State who are assigned to embassies and
consulates abroad.

In this position you would manage and direct a foreign language training
program or programs which vary widely by numbers of Language and Culture
Instructors (LCI's) and students supervised, frequency of course
presentations and lengths of courses.   You would also:
* Recruit, train and develop Language and Culture Instructors to teach
language and culture of assigned language(s).
* Exercise professional linguistic skills to develop language training
program(s) to bring students to high levels of language proficiency.
* Manage groups of instructors and students whose political, cultural
and
religious differences make coordination and counseling efforts
difficult and
challenging.
* Design new courses and/or make extensive revisions in existing
training
courses.
* Become certified to administer and score official proficiency tests.

If you would like a complete announcement with instructions on how to
apply,
please contact me by return email bernhardtje at state.gov

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:47 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:47 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Michigan Lecturer Position
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Raji Rammuny <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:UofMichigan Lecturer Position

The University of Michigan
  Department of Near Eastern Studies
   Lectureship 111 in Arabic Language


Pending approval from the College of Literature, Science and the Arts,
the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan
invites applications for a Lecturer III position in Arabic Language to
begin September 2004. Criteria for renewal are classroom teaching,
curricular service, and pedagogical research, with classroom teaching
receiving the greatest weight. The initial appointment is for three
years with the possibility of renewal. This is a non tenure-track
position. Applicants must hold a relevant Ph.D. degree and have native
or near native proficiency in both Arabic and English. They are
expected to have familiarity with the proficiency-communicative
approach to language teaching, experience in Arabic curriculum
development, and a commitment to promoting Arabic studies on  campus.
The successful candidate will be mainly responsible for teaching Arabic
language courses at all levels and may offer occasional courses in
communication media and Arabic linguistics. Salary will be commensurate
with qualifications and experience. Please send a cover letter with a
brief description of teaching philosophy and supporting documents
including teaching evaluations, sample syllabi, curriculum vitae, and
three letters of recommendation to: Chair, Department of Near Eastern
Studies, 2068 Frieze Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
48109. The University of Michigan is an affirmative action, equal
opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Review of applications will begin March 9, 2004 and continue until the
position is filled. Any queries about this position should be directed
to Professor Raji Rammuny at  raram at umich.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:50 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translator jobs at Tyson's Corner
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:tfrancis at infdim.com
Subject:Translator jobs at Tyson's Corner

My name is Todd Francis.  I work for a Muslim-American owned technology
company in Tyson's Corner.  One of our projects involves doing
translation
(reading/writing) work.  I am looking to hire translators experienced in
Arabic and/or Farsi.  Would you please pass my requirement around?  The
translators can be US or Non-US citizens, full or part time, students,
housewives, professionals, or retirees.

The requirements are quite flexible at this stage.  The work will be
done in
Northern Virginia.  Please have anyone interested in earning some good
money, increasing their skills and networking with a high tech company
e-mail their resume/CV to me at:  tfrancis at infdim.com

Thank you,
Todd Francis
(703) 608-8800
tfrancis at infdim.com
www.infdim.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:55 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Etymology of Cuscuta
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:jrader at Merriam-Webster.com
Subject:Etymology of Cuscuta

According to Corominas' etymological dictionary of Spanish, Medieval
Latin <cuscuta> first appears in a translation (ca. 1200) from Arabic of
a pseudo-Aristotelean botanical work (the Greek original is lost).  The
corresponding Arabic word is <kushu:tha:>; the <-sc-> may have been
a miscopying of <-ss->.  Corominas refers to an article by one A.
Thomas in the 1909 volume of _Bulletin hispanique_.  Greek also has
for the same or a similar plant ("dodder" in English) <kadutas>
(Theophrastus) and <kasutas> (Hesychius), presumably borrowed
independently from a cognate Semitic word or words.  Maybe the
Semiticists on the list can fill in the other forms and the presumed
Semitic original.

Jim Rader

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Safa Jubran <safa.alferd at terra.com.br>
Subject:Etymology of Cuscuta

The term cuscuta appears in:  
 P. Guigues, “Les noms...”, p. 520 [181];
 al-Kindi (cf. Levey, op. cit.,) p. 233 [18];
 al-Biruni, (cf. Hamarneh, Book on Pharmacy...), pp. 73-4;
Tuhfat, 32
it also appears in the arabic manuscript "Kitan thakirat Al-Iskandar",  
translated into portugues.
if you need mor details about this book, let me know
Safa

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:45 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Washington Job
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Roxanne <roxannerebecca at yahoo.com>
Subject:U of Washington Job

Assistant Professor of Arabic

The University of Washington, the Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Civilization, has been
authorized to make a full-time, tenure-track
appointment in Arabic, at the rank of Assistant
Professor, and invites applications for the position.
Employment will commence Autumn quarter 2004. Duties
will include teaching and overseeing courses in the
Arabic program, providing pedagogical and intellectual
leadership in the department, and conducting research
into aspects of Arabic linguistics and/or second
language acquisition as it applies to Arabic.
Prospective applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant
field and at least two years of experience teaching
Arabic in a proficiency-oriented program. Native or
near-native competency in both Arabic and English is
required. Salary will be commensurate with
qualifications and experience. To apply, please send
an up-to-date curriculum vitae along with a letter of
application describing research interests, teaching
experience and language ability, one or two sample
publications, and three letters of recommendation to:
Chair, Arabic Search Committee, NELC, Box 353120,
University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-3120. The
University of Washington is an affirmative action,
equal opportunity employer. The University is building
a culturally diverse faculty and staff and strongly
encourages applications from women, minorities,
individuals with disabilities and covered veterans.
Review of applications will begin March 2, 2004 and
continue until the position is filled.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 17:11:16 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:11:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:CD of Arabic Poetry
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1) Subject:CD of Arabic Poetry

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:G.Borg at let.kun.nl
Subject:CD of Arabic Poetry

Dear Colleagues,

To some of you it may not be new, but I found a beautiful new tool in
the
market in Egypt. It is a CD called al-Mawsuu`a al-Shi`riyya containing
4,200,000 verses of Arabic poetry from Jahiliyya to 1952. It also has
astonishing reference possibilities to a number of dictionaries and
even cross
references (like finding the word kawaasiyaa in art. HTK in the
Lisaan). It
fails to mention sources though.

For more information: www.cultural.org.ae.

This CD is offered at the present International Book Fair in Cairo for
10
Egyptian pounds, which equals approximately 1.2 Euro. Run!

Gert Borg,
director of the Netherlands Flemish Institute in Cairo

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Michigan needs teacher for Summer Program
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1) Subject:U of Michigan needs teacher for Summer Program

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Raji Rammuny <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:U of Michigan needs teacher for Summer Program

The Universty of Michigan, Department of Near Eastern Studies seeks a
qualified Arabic teacher to teach intensive Elementary Modern Standard
Arabic (Arabic 101/102) starting June 7 and ending August 13, 2004.
Classes meet daily 9-1pm. UM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For
additional information, please contact:

Todd Huynh   thuynh at umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 763-4539  Fax: (734) 936-2679

OR Raji Rammuny  raram at umich.edu

Raji Rammuny

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Study Advice responses
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1) Subject:Arabic Study Advice response
) Subject:Arabic Study Advice response

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:SadokM at aol.com
Subject:Arabic Study Advice response

Hi Jeff,
MIIS (Monterey Institute for International Studies) offers 8 weeks
intensive summer course too.
Sadok

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:ahmadhany at hds.harvard.edu
Subject:Arabic Study Advice response

You should visit
http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Onlinenews/summer04.htm for an
up-to-date list of summer 2004 programs in Arabic and related
languages. Georgetown's program is known to offer partial tuition
scholarships to students of all ages. Good luck.

al-Husein N. Madhany
University of Chicago

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:30:11 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:wallaahi request clarification
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1) Subject:wallaahi request clarification

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:AyoubyK at Dearborn.k12.mi.us
Subject:wallaahi request clarification

Greetings all,

1) To Waheed:

Original Question by Kenneth: "Pardon my ignorance, but I am curious to
know why "wa-Allah" is being considered a particle, and not a phrase"

Waheed said: Wallaahi consists of "wa", and "allah". Wa is called waaw
al qasam, and has the effect of making the case of the following noun
genetive. Wallaahi is equivalent to "by God", and it means
really/honest/I swear.

Kenneth answers: Hello Waheed. Exactly my point. Doesn't that make it a
prepositional phrase? Why is a prepositional phrase being considered a
particle?

2) To June:

June's remarks: I've heard the phrase used by bi-lingual children youths
of arabic origin in Denmark. It's used exactly as one of its usages in
arabic, that is, to confirm the veracity of an utterance or an
allegation:
'It was him I saw yesterday...wallaahi'. 'wallah, they were talking
about you'

Kenneth: Hi June. Yes, exact same usage among Arab American youths in
the Detroit/Dearborn area.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:29:58 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:29:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Call for Papers:Internet Mediated Arabic Education
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1) Subject:Call for Papers:Internet Mediated Arabic Education

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Mahmoud Al-Batal <albatal at emory.edu>
Subject:Call for Papers:Internet Mediated Arabic Education

Dear Arabic-L members
 
We are contacting you in the hope that you may direct us to
colleagues who are researching Internet-mediated intercultural
foreign language education in which at least one of the partner
languages is Arabic.  Specifically, we are talking about email / chat
/ videoconferencing projects between classes in different countries
where one group is comprised of speakers of Arabic and the other
group is comprised of learners of Arabic.  This configuration is also
known as telecollaboration.

We would like to invite persons working in this area to submit a
manuscript to a volume that we are co-editing  entitled:

Computer-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education.

The volume is forthcoming from Heinle & Heinle in 2005 in the
American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators
(AAUSC) series that is under the editorship of Sally Magnan, the
current editor of the Modern Language Journal.

The full call for papers is located here:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/a/jab63/2005aausccall.html

Abstracts of 400 words or less are due by June 1, 2004.  Full
manuscripts are due Sept 1, 2004.  They would then go out for blind
peer review. Submission of a manuscript does not guarantee inclusion
in the volume. Publication of the volume is scheduled for early 2005.

If you could direct this query to any colleagues you know who might
be interested, we would greatly appreciate it.

with best regards wa salam, Julie Belz and Steve Thorne
-- 
Julie A. Belz
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/a/jab63/homepage.html
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and German
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Program in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Center for Language Acquisition, Affiliate
Penn State University
311 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16803
814.865.5481

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:29:46 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:29:46 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRAN:U of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
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1) Subject:U of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:sesmith at uark.edu
Subject:U of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

The University of Arkansas, The King Fahd Center for Middle East and
Islamic Studies, and The University of Arkansas Press announce the 2004
  Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

The award carries a $5000 prize for the translator or translators and a
$5000 award for the original author.  The University of Arkansas Press
will publish the award-winning translation.  Runners-up may also be
considered for publication.

The competition for 2004 will focus on the modern era (19th Century to
the present).  Suitable entries may include works of fiction (either
prose or poetry) or non-fiction works either in the literary tradition
(such as memoirs, theoretical writings, essays, or travel literature)
or works of academic significance.  Since publication comes with the
award, submitted texts must be book-length (approximately 100+ pages
typed, double-spaced) in order to be considered.  All submissions will
be judged blindly by a three-person jury of distinguished
scholar-translators chosen from outside the University of Arkansas
system.  Current students, faculty or staff of the University of
Arkansas, their spouses, or immediate family members are not eligible
to submit translations.  Any submission of a translation by the
original author will be eligible for only a $5000 award.

Entries for the 2004 award must be received by May 1, 2004.  The winner
will be announced in November 2004, in conjunction with the annual
Middle East Studies meeting.

Entrants should submit four copies of both the original and translation
and a cover letter that contains contact information for both author
and translator.  A brief introduction to the significance of author and
translated text and a brief profile or vitae of the translator is
desirable.  A formal release from a living author and/or any other
relevant copyright holder, including the original publisher, should
also be included.  Submissions may not be under contract with another
press.

Please direct all submissions and any inquiries to:

Arkansas Translation Award
King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
University of Arkansas
202 Old Main
Fayetteville, AR 72701
phone: (479) 575-4157
e-mail: mest at uark.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:29:48 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:29:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:COLING 2004 Call for Papers and Arabic Workshop
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Ali Farghaly <farghaly at systransoft.com>
Subject:COLING 2004 Call for Papers and Arabic Workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS

COLING 2004 Workshop
Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages

Saturday, August 28, 2004
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

Conference Website
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/

Workshop description

   Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the study of the
languages of the Middle East, especially Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Pashto
and Urdu. This sudden and urgent interest is manifested by the
availability of funding for rapid development of practical systems for
processing large volumes of data in these languages. Computational
applications for proper name identification, entity recognition,
categorization, information retrieval, summarization, machine
translation and other implementations are currently in high demand. This
comes at a time when advances in formal and computational linguistics
over the last fifty years are being consolidated, while work on machine
learning and statistical methods has been showing great promise.

   Although there exists a considerable body of work in computational
linguistics specifically targeted to these middle eastern languages,
much of the research and development has been the result of initiatives
by individual research establishments or industry firms. Furthermore,
the usage of the Arabic script gives rise to certain issues that are
common to all these languages despite their being of distinct language
families. Hence, these languages share properties such as the absence of
capitalization, right to left direction, lack of clear word boundaries,
complex word structure, a high degree of ambiguity due to
non-representation of short vowels in the writing system, and related
encoding issues.

   The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for those involved in
the development of NLP systems in Arabic script languages to exchange
ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems; to
discuss the common challenges faced by all practitioners; and to assess
the state of the art in the field. In addition, one of the aims of the
workshop is to identify promising areas for future collaborative
research in the development of NLP systems for Arabic script languages.
Solutions that are designed to solve the specific problems of these
languages could very well have wider applications and relevance to the
rest of the NLP community.

Workshop Topics

Authors of papers in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages
are encouraged to apply. We encourage submissions dealing with
language-specific issues, as well as discussions of challenges imposed
by the usage of the Arabic script. Papers could be on – but not limited
to – any of the following topics:

§	Morphological analysis
§	Syntactic ambiguity resolution
§	Relevance of shallow parsing
§	Machine translation from and to Arabic script languages
§	Sense disambiguation
§	Homograph resolution
§	Semantic analysis
§	Entity recognition
§	Information retrieval
§	Classification of documents
§	Text mining
§	Summarization
§	Statistical approaches
§	Speech recognition and generation
§	Lexical databases
§	Knowledge and domain representation
§	Spelling and grammar checking tools

Submission Requirements

Papers should be original, previously unpublished work and should not
identify the author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than
intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must
reflect this fact on the title page.

Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (including figures and
references). Email submissions (ps or pdf) are preferred and should be
sent to both AliFarghaly at aol.com and karinem at inxight.com by midnight of
the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers should be
attached to an email indicating contact information for the author(s)
and paper’s title. Formatting requirements for the final version of
accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available.

Hardcopy submissions should be sent to:
Ali Farghaly
SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
9333 Genesee Ave, Pl 1
San Diego, CA 92121
USA

Important dates

Submissions due:	March 25th, 2004
Notification date:	April 25th, 2004
Deadline for camera ready copy:	May 25th, 2004

Organizing committee

This workshop is organized by
Ali Farghaly (SYSTRAN Software, Inc.)
Karine Megerdoomian (Inxight Software and University of California, San
Diego)

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be
found at http://members.cox.net/karinem/COLING2004

Program Committee

Jan W. Amtrup		Bowne Global Solutions
Tim Buckwalter		Linguistic Data  Consortium
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza	Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph Dichy		Lyon University
Andrew Freeman		University of Washington
Nizar Habash		University of Maryland, College Park
Masayo Iida		Inxight Software, Inc.
Simin Karimi		University of Arizona
Martin Kay    		Stanford University
Kevin Knight		USC/Information Sciences Institute
Farhad Oroumchian	University of Wollongong in Dubai
Ahmed Rafea 		The American University in Cairo
Jean Sennellart		SYSTRAN Software
Rémi Zajac		SYSTRAN Software

Regards,
Ali Farghaly

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LREC 2004 Arabic Treebank Workshop
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Petr Zemanek <petr.zemanek at ff.cuni.cz>
Subject:LREC 2004 Arabic Treebank Workshop

*** WORKSHOP REMINDER & NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE *** FEBRUARY 04, 2004
***

LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop
May 24, 2004, 14:30-20:00
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal

The LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop intends to bring together
people
from different areas of the Natural Language Processing community, who
are
either interested in the problem of multi-level linguistic description
of
Arabic, or concerned with the resources, tools and methods used
recently in
the study of this language.

Research Context

There has been a noticeable increase in the amount of Arabic-oriented
research in NLP in recent years. The conferences, workshops and symposia
include enterprises such as:

-       ACL 2001 Arabic Language Processing Workshop,
-       International Symposium on Processing of Arabic in Tunisia in
2002,
-       LREC 2002 Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation Workshop,
-       ACL 2002 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic
Languages,
-       MT Summit IX Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic
Languages
         in 2003.

The areas covered in the papers of these forums seem to describe
research
projects which, although diversified and scientifically important,
frequently do not present systematic and extensible descriptions of the
language that are also supported by resources and tools for their
management.
The LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop would offer the opportunity to
present the on-going work and efforts in this respect, enhance
co-operation
with and receive feedback from colleagues in the community.

Tentative Schedule

There will be two major sessions in the course of the Workshop. One of
them
will be reserved for invited talks on the leading treebanking projects
in
Arabic, namely, the LDC Arabic Treebank and the Prague Arabic Dependency
Treebank, while the other session will be devoted to the regular
contributions, discussions and perspectives in the scope of the research
interest.

The invited talks will deliver overall and comprehensive reports on the
two
Arabic treebanking projects, giving details on their theoretical grounds
and general architecture, on the annotation process of the language data
and the utilization of the resources, as well as on software tools
involved
in the work and on related research, such as development of systems
based
on machine-learning techniques, etc. The talks will be accompanied by
presentations and demos of the following systems during the Workshop:

-       AraMorph, the morphological analyzer of Arabic
-       SelectPOS, the annotation tool for morphological disambiguation
-       Tree Editor, the LDC tool for phrase-structure tree annotation
-       TrEd, the Prague system for annotations of trees/graphs in
general
-       Netgraph, the search tool for linguistic research of treebanks
-       Conversion tool for transforming constituency trees to
dependency
         ones
-       Statistical parsers used in annotation by either of the teams
-       Arabic morphological tagger

Submission Requirements

We invite papers describing original approaches to the various aspects
of
Arabic language treebanking, and/or addressing research issues that the
treebanking projects might help improve. In particular, we strongly
invite
papers on constituency and dependency syntax, propositional theory,
tectogrammatical theory, valency, application to machine translation,
computational tools, algorithm implementations etc., as well as lexicons
and databases reusable in the description of the language.
Papers will be accepted as PDF or PostScript files conforming to the
style
guidelines of the main Conference, which will appear at the LREC 2004
web
site http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/ at the end of January 2004.
Submissions and questions should be sent to Otakar Smrz
<smrz at ckl.mff.cuni.cz>, the secretary of the Program Committee.

Important Dates

The Workshop will be held on May 24, 2004, from 14:30 to 20:00 in Centro
Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. The time reserved for one regular
paper presentation will be up to 30 minutes.

First call for Workshop papers          December 09, 2003
Workshop paper submission deadline      February 04, 2004 *** NEW ***
Notification of acceptance              February 16, 2004
Final versions for the proceedings      March 01, 2004

Registration Information

The LREC 2004 half-day Workshop registration fee is 50 EURO for
Conference
participants and 85 EURO for the others. These fees will include a
coffee
break and the Proceedings of the Workshop.

Program Committee

Tim Buckwalter
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Jan Hajic
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

Mohamed Maamouri, co-chair of the committee
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania

Otakar Smrz, co-chair of the committee
Center for Computational Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

Petr Zemanek
Institute of Comparative Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

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Petr Zemanek
Institute of Comparative Linguistics
Charles University, Prague

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:57:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Needs Arabic of a Hadith in English
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic of a Hadith in English

For a new Humanities building at our University, they are putting up
glass panels with quotations dealing with knowledge and light from
various cultural traditions.  Our department includes Arabic, Japanese,
Chinese, Korean and Hebrew, so our panel will be full of strange and
wonderful scripts.  Anyway, we gave them a bunch of quotes from the
Quran and Hadith, and they choose some.  The Quran ones I was able to
find, but the Hadith (which came out of a book of nice Hadith in
English) I was not able to find.  In other words, I have the English,
but even when searching for likely phrases in the online Hadith indexes
I couldn't find the Arabic version.  Does anyone know, off the top of
his/her head, what the Arabic for the following Hadith is:

"Whoever goes forth in search of knowledge is in the path of God until
he returns."

Thanks!
Dil

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:30:04 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Pennsylvania Summer Program
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1) Subject:U of Pennsylvania Summer Program

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Maher Awad <awadm at sas.upenn.edu>
Subject:U of Pennsylvania Summer Program

The Arabic Language Program at the University of
Pennsylvania announces its summer intensive program for the
year 2004.  The program runs from May 18 to June 25.  Two
proficiency-oriented courses in Modern Standard Arabic are
offered:  Intensive Elementary Arabic and Intensive
Intermediate Arabic.  Both classes meet Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  Students earn two (2)
University of Pennsylvania Course Units for either course.
(Note:  1 Course Unit is equivalent to 4 semester credit
hours.)

Information about the Arabic program can be found here:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arabic/

Information about summer tuition, registration, and housing
can be found here:  http://www.upenn.edu/summer/

For information about the courses, contact:

Maher Awad, Coordinator
Arabic Language Program
Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA  19104-5502
E-mail: awadm at sas.upenn.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:37 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:37 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Sound symbolism in Arabic query
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1) Subject:Sound symbolism in Arabic query

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Vrsan Lestaric <fursan at eunet.yu>
Subject:Sound symbolism in Arabic query

Hi all,

I am interested in onomatopoeic words in Arabic (tasmiya\kalima
muHAkiya), in both MSA and the colloquial language.Wright and Haywood
mention it only when speaking of quadriliteral verbs and the extensive
grammar by Teufik Muftic (Sarajevo,1998) refers to it briefly, again
only in the interjections section. Can anyone tell me something more
about it or give me reference concerning sound symbolism in Arabic (all
of it: corporal, imitative, synesthetic, conventional) as well as its
forms (e.g. reduplication, phonaestheme).

Thanks,
Vrsan Lestaric
Belgrade

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:31 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:'business continuity' and 'disaster recovery'
 response
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:timbuckwalter at earthlink.net
Subject:'business continuity' and 'disaster recovery' response

The phrase "istimraariyyat al-`amal" (for "business continuity) is well
attested on the Web. It has a high Google score (sorry if the following
long URL gets manged by my e-mailer):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22%D8%A7%D8%B3%D
8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%
22

As for the phrase "disaster recovery," there is evidence of "al-in`aash
ba`da l-kawaarith" at two United Nations websites indexed by Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22%D8%A7%D9%
84%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B4+%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D
9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%22

Note: if you click on the "Cached" link in the Google search results
page you'll be able to find the phrases faster on the page because
they'll be highlighted with a yellow background.

Happy Googles to you all!
Tim

____________________

I forgot to mention that "disaster recovery" applied to computer systems
has a different translation depending on whether you are recovering data
or functionality: "isti`aadat al-bayaanaat al-taalifa" if it's
recovering or reconstructing lost or corrupted data, and "istirjaa`
`amaliyyaat al-Haasibaat" if it relates to bringing a system back on
line after a crash.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:07:54 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:07:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Arabic Teaching Conference at Damascus U. Call for Papers
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Mahdi Alosh <alosh.1 at osu.edu>
Subject:Arabic Teaching Conference at Damascus U. Call for Papers

The Foreign Language Institute at Damascus University is organzing a
conference on the teaching and learning of Arabic as a foreign language
on May 27-29, 2004. The papers and discussions will be in Arabic. There
are five main themes:

1. Preparation of TAFL teachers
2, Instructional methodology and curriculum design
3. Problems facing learners
4. Ancillary materials and computer technology
5. The cultural component in the language content

The deadline for submitting papers is March 20, 2004. A selected number
of presenters will be hosted by Damascus University (excluding the
airline ticket). I assume that Wael Barakat will announce the list
right after the deadline.

Contact: <esp-damasuniv at mail.sy>

Mahdi

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:35 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Arabic Language Teacher Education refs
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Liz England <lengland at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic Language Teacher Education refs

I am interested to know if there is someone on the Arabic-L list who
might be able to assist me in finding some references on Arabic language
teacher education.  I would like to know about lay or scholarly research
on this topic.  I am looking for historical overviews, statistical
information and content of teacher education programs (anywhere,
worldwide).  I am familiar somewhat with the program at the American
University in Cairo.  But there may be others and I would like to know
about them - any information welcome!

Thank you very much.

Liz England

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:53 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Acquisition of Arabic as a first language
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Alaa Elgibali <elgibali at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:New Book:Acquisition of Arabic as a first language

This brief note is to announce the publication of a new book on the  
acquisition of Arabic as a first language.? The reference is:
?
Elgibali, Alaa.? 2003.Lughat al-Tifl al-Arabi: dira:sa fi ?iktisa:b  
al-lughat wa taTawuriha.? ISBN 977-353-027-2.?Cairo: Al-Khanjy  
Press.khanjy at link.net
?
The book is a sycholinguistic study of the acquisition of Arabic as a  
first language from 0 - 9.? It incorporates the findings of theoretical  
research, group and case studies to date?in an attempt to arrive at an  
understanding of the acquisition processess and the order of  
acquisition?of morphological and syntactic structures.
?
Alaa Elgibali
elgibali at aucegypt.edu
?
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:43 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:NYU Translation Conference
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Milena Savovo <ms93 at nyu.edu>
Subject:NYU Translation Conference


Please forward to your networks of colleagues.

CALL FOR PAPERS

?2nd International Translation Conference
20th Anniversary of the NYU Translation Studies Program

?Global Security: Implications for Translation and Interpretation?

June 3-5, 2004

Kimmel Center, New York University

Global developments of the last decade have transformed the nature of  
the translation profession. Modern telecommunications technology, for  
example, has transformed this profession from one which once served  
primarily local markets to one which is truly global, permitting  
translators to work anywhere at any time. Today?s new global realities  
have broadened the scope of the translation and interpreting  
professions.

These realities are increasingly shaped by ethnicity, religion, human  
rights, the environment, public health, including AIDS, and other  
issues. Growing pride in ethnicity, religion and language are at the  
heart of many of the conflicts, or abet conflicts, around the world  
today. There is an ever-increasing demand for competent translators and  
interpreters in the languages spoken in the Middle East, Africa, and  
elsewhere in Asia.???

For two decades the NYU translation studies program has based its  
education and training on three concepts:? academic responsibility,  
high-level pragmatism, and real world situations.? Our first  
international conference, in March, 2000, embodied these concepts. This  
conference, therefore, will gather academics, practicing translators  
and a wide range of translation and interpreting consumers from around  
the world to explore, from different perspectives, the issues  
confronting these two professions today.?

Presentations are invited on all aspects of global security,  
translation and interpretation, including but not limited to:

????????War, peace and security
????????Foreign policy and counter-terrorism
????????Ethnicity
????????Religion
????????Human rights
????????Internet
????????Business, finance, global trade, and money-laundering
????????Communications/news
????????Environment
????????Public health

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent in electronic format  
to milena.savova at nyu.edu by January 25, 2004.?? Selection will be  
completed by February 15.?

The conference website is? www.scps.nyu.edu/translationconf and will be  
up shortly after New Year's.?

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:update on Arabizing Windows article
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:ahmadhany at hds.harvard.edu
Subject:update on Arabizing Windows article

Hello and happy holidays! I have written a very useful article on how
to enable Arabic reading and writing capabilities on most Windows
operating systems, internet-browsers, and word processing applications.
I would suggest you try and send the email over a web-based email
system like maktoob.com.

The PDF and HTML versions of my article, respectively, are listed
below. I hope they help.

http://www.uga.edu/islam/arabic_windows.html
http://www.nclrc.org/inst-arabic3.pdf

al-Husein N. Madhany
PhD Program, NELC Dept
University of Chicago

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:39 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Intensive Elementary Arabic at UIC Summer 2004
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:David Reisman <david.reisman at yale.edu>
Subject:Intensive Elementary Arabic at UIC Summer 2004

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ARABIC AT UIC
SUMMER SESSION 2004

The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of
Illinois at Chicago, is now offering an Intensive Introduction to
Modern Standard Arabic, beginning Summer Session 2004 (June 1-July 23).
This course is an intensive 8-week introduction to Modern Standard
Arabic for students with no prior experience in the language. It covers
the equivalent of two semesters of Elementary Modern Standard Arabic.
The class meets 15 hours per week and includes language lab sessions
and cultural activities .

Application deadline for Summer Sessionat UIC is May 21, 2004. For
application and registration instructions, tuition information, etc.,
go to: http://www.uic.edu/depts/summer/ or call the Summer Session
Office at (312) 996-9099, or toll free (800) 625-2013. Any additional
questions about the course may be directed to Mustapha Kamal
(mustaphk at uic.edu).

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:45 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SAIS Summer Program 2004
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Kassem Wahba <kwahba1 at jhu.edu>
Subject:SAIS Summer Program 2004

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the
professional school of international affairs within The Johns Hopkins
University, will offer intensive Arabic courses as part of its Summer
Programs 2004.  Located in the heart of the intellectual and cultural
resources of Washington, D.C., SAIS offers summer courses in
international studies, emerging markets and foreign languages.  SAIS
Summer Language Institute courses meet Monday through Thursday evenings
from June 7 - July 29 and are worth eight graduate-level credits each.


The following Arabic courses will be offered:

Basic Arabic
Basic Arabic II
Intermediate Arabic I
Intermediate Arabic II (News and Media)

In addition to a wide variety of other international studies and
emerging markets courses, the following three non-language graduate
courses will be offered as part of the Summer International Studies
Program.  These courses meet two evenings a week from June 7 - July 28
and are worth four graduate-level credits each.

Comparative Law: The Islamic Legal System
Islam and American Foreign Policy
Terror as Political Opposition: The Secular and Religious Foundations
of Militant Islamism

For additional information about the SAIS Summer Language Institute or
International Studies Program, please visit the SAIS Summer Programs Web
site at www.sais-jhu.edu/nondegree/summer.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:50 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Inaugurating WATA Portal
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:info at arabicwata.org
Subject:Inaugurating WATA Portal

To all Translators and Intellectuals throughout the world,

The World Arabic (Speaking) Association is happy to announce the soft  
launch of its website today at 09.00 GMT, as it has promised three  
months ago.

The Founding Board tries hard to design this site as the meeting forum  
of the linguists and translators community; therefore you?re kindly  
invited to bring a stone to this building through your posts and your  
feedbacks.

It?s important to remind you that the Arabic version of the website is  
just the first path and that it will be followed, as soon as possible,  
by the English, the French, the Spanish, the Russian, the Chinese and  
the Scandinavian interface.

We have thought that the first of January may be considered in the  
coming years as the Arabic Translators Day and a good occasion to  
celebrate the realizations of all those working in the ?from/to Arabic  
language pairs? field.

Please accept our warmest wishes of a happy Arabic Translators day! And  
see you at: ?

www.Arabicwata.org
The Founding Board.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:41 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Arabic Learning Software: TeLL me More
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Julien Picard <Julien.Picard at us.auralog.com>
Subject:New Arabic Learning Software: TeLL me More

Auralog, the specialist in foreign language learning methods, is
releasing
TeLL me More Arabic in January 2004.
This collection is not only geared towards learning Modern Standard
Arabic,
but also introduces 8 different Arabic dialects, including Moroccan,
Algerian and Egyptian. TeLL me More was the first language method based
on
the use of speech recognition technology, allowing learners to speak in
an
interactive manner with their computer. The voice recognition technology
enables students to evaluate their pronunciation, correct their
mistakes and
practice the pronunciation of the 29 Arabic phonemes, such as "Hamza"
and
"Baa'."

The nuances of both the spoken language (comprehension and
pronunciation)
and the written language (written expression and grammar) are easily
mastered using this software. TeLL me More Arabic also offers a writing
workbook designed to help students grasp the basics of the Arabic
script.

TeLL me More Arabic is divided into 8 levels, and includes 1600 hours of
learning and several thousands  exercises broken down into 21 different
types of activities. The method is available for levels: Complete
Beginner,
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Advanced +, Business, Business + and
Business ++. This software is available for networked environment, as
well
as single work-station.

For more information, evaluation CD, please contact
Julien.Picard at us.auralog.com <mailto:Julien.Picard at us.auralog.com>

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Jan  9 20:08:48 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:08:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Contacts responses
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2) Subject:Cairo Contacts response

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject:Cairo Contacts response

To Colleague Cho, Lee Sun :
For such a research you may need to contact a variety of those working  
in this area such as Dr. Omayma Abu Bakr working with Multaqaa al  
mar'ati wa l dhaakira ( Women & Memory Forum) and others working with  
her such as Dr. Huda as Sa'di and Dr. Mervat Hatim. The address is: 4.  
'Omar b. Abdul Aziz st., al- Mohandeseen, Cairo.
You may also contact the Syndicate for Egyptian Lawyers where you may  
ask about?Dr. Fawziyya Abdul Sattar,?who was the?chair of the  
legislative committee at the National Assembly, and Nihad Abu al  
Qomsaan, a well know lawyer and? director of the Egyptian Center of  
Women's Rights ( A basically Christian organization) and priest Ibrahim  
Abdul Sayyed Mikhail? at the same center at the following address: 56  
Misr Hilwaan Rd. apt. # 2, Maadi, Cairo.
You can also contact the Egyptian Council of Women in Egypt to arrange  
for other meetings and contacts?at the following e mail address from  
their web site:?ncwegypt.com?
Best of Luck.
Nagwa Hedayet, Ph.D.
Arabic & Islamic Studeis Department
Zayed University
Dubai
P.O.Box 19282
United Arab Emirates
www.arabicstudieshedayet.co

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject:Cairo Contacts response

Dear Professor Cho,
?
I hope the following information would be of assistance, regarding  
contacts with the National Council for Women in Egypt:
?
	 1.  	National Council for Women, chaired by Dr. Farkhonda Hassan,?  
Office no: 574 56 02 Fax 574 55 96
	 2.  	Also, Dr. Hoda Zagloul is Administrative Manager to WBDC - Women  
Business Development Center of the National Council for Women. Her  
email is??hoda_z at ncwegypt.com?and phone no 5748194 ext(189)
Sincerley yours,
?
Sherifa M. El Tabei
Associate Director
Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action
The American University in Cairo

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:11 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Info on wallaahi particle
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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Mette Vedsgaard Christensen <normvc at hum.au.dk>
Subject:Needs Info on wallaahi particle

I am a Ph. D. student from University of Aarhus, Denmar, and I am
looking
for litterature on the Arabic discourse particle "wallah".

I am currently trying to work out how adolescents with Arabic, Turkish,
Farsi or Somali as their mother tongue make use of "wallah" in their
second language - Danish. I work with tape recorded everyday
conversations, and I have found that the use of "Wallah" is very
frequent
when the young bilinguals speak Danish.

"Wallah" is used in many ways and situations. In order to classify and
describe the phenomenon properly, I will need to know more about the use
of this particle in it's original language. I am therefore looking for
litterature that deals with the use of " Wallah" (in it's varying forms)
in colloquial Arabic. However I would of course also be interested in
descriptions of "Wallah" in Turkish or other languages to which the
particle has been exported.

The "Wallah"s on my tape almost exclusively appear in the "Wallah"-
form,
and it is always pronounced in Arabic - even by the kids with Turkish as
their mother tongue.

  I am already familiar with the following article: Mustafa A. Mughazy:
Discourse Particles Revisited: The Case of Wallahi in Egyptian Arabic

The adolescents of Arabic origin on my tapes are all from Jordan, Syria,
Lebanon or Palestine.

Thank you!

Mette Vedsgaard Christensen
Ph.D. Student

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:24 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Neologisms query
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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:lqbeauty at hotmail.com
Subject:Arabic Neologisms query

[please respond directly to the requester]

i would like to thank u for you concern for the study of the arabic
language asi it is very rich with subjects of study. personally i am
a&nbsp;post graduate student of the english department of the faculty
of arts / helwan university in egypt&nbsp;but i am studying the arabic
neologisms. i will be grateful if u support me with whatever material u
think it may help me in my thesis

thank you any way and keep up that good work

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:16 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Phonosymbolism response
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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Phonosymbolism response

For work on Arabic phonosymbolism, see 2 articles of mine: "The Alchemy
of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism" (in "Humanism, Culture, and
Language in the Near East," edited by Asma Afsaruddin and A.H. Mathias
Zahniser - Eisenbrauns, 1997) and also "Alchemical Phonology: Science,
Sound and Mysticism in the Arab Middle Ages" in "History of Linguistics,
1993" edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky (John Benjamins, 1995).  See also the
excellent PhD dissertation by Elizabeth Johnson Wright, at Georgetown
University: "Sound and Meaning in Medieval Arabic Linguistic Theory"
(2000).
Karin Ryding, Georgetown University

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:20 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs to Contact DLI people
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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Lisa Buckmaster <saxxgod at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs to Contact DLI people

Salaam colleagues,

Are any of the Arabic-l users onstaff at the Defense Language Institute
in Monterey? Does anyone have any contacts there?

Salaam,
Lisa

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Jan 13 18:39:29 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:39:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs
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1) Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs
2) Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs
3) Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs

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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs

Dear Liz,
The ILI-al Sahafeyeen in Cairo offesr a well reputed teacher training  
course for teachers of Arabic as a Foreign language. You can contact  
them directly for more information about course content at :  
ili at arabicegypt.com
The British Council in Cairo also provided these courses when they  
needed Arabic teachers,?but Iam not sure they still do. You can always  
contact them though for course details.
Two very important people to contact on the topic are Doctors Rushdi  
Toeimah (?0105678534/ 050 2247054/ 2247055Fax: 048 573 339/048 579 333)  
and Dr Al naqah(2901705) They will be able to guide you to any studies  
that have been carried out in Egypt or in the Arab world. Just keep  
trying with the phones. They are hard to find but are very?helpful once  
u get them. The Faxes are not very reliable as it is a departmental  
Fax, sometimes if you are lucky they receive them others they are lost.
All the best with your research
?
Iman A. Soliman

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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:ahmadhany at hds.harvard.edu
Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs

A good place to start are the AATA mongraphs listed below. See

http://www.wm.edu/aata/New-publications.htm#_American_Association_of_1

An Annotated Bibliography of American Doctoral Dissertations on Arabic  
Language, Literature and Culture, 1967-1987
by Dr. Dona S. Straley

The Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language: Issues and Directions
Edited by Mahmoud Al-Batal

Best,
al-Husein Madhany

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Date: 13 Jan 2004
From:Raji Rammuny <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic Language Teacher Education Refs

I just completed a draft of An Annotated Bibliography on Foreign  
Language
Teaching with particular Emphasis on Arabic language Teaching. The
Bibliography will be published soon.

Raji Rammuny

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 16:00:17 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:00:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:moderator
Subject:DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS

I have just received an e-mail with an attachment that clearly seems to
contain a virus.  The return address was arabic-l at byu.edu, which is the
address from which Arabic-L messages are sent.  This is just a reminder
that ANYONE can fake a return e-mail address; just because you get a
message with arabic-l at byu.edu as the return address, that does not mean
that it is from Arabic-L, or that it is safe to open the attachment.
Arabic-L has a policy not to send attachments, so if you get something
with one you can be sure it is not safe to open.
A word to the wise.
Dil Parkinson
Moderator, Arabic-L

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:02 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Etymology of the term "Cuscuta"
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1) Subject:Needs Etymology of the term "Cuscuta"

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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:David Mehall <mehalld at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Needs Etymology of the term "Cuscuta"

A Canadian doctor (mcostea at uoguelph.ca) is trying to establish the  
etymology of the name ?Cuscuta?, which is a genus with about 150  
species of parasitic plants that look like an entangled mass of  
yellow-orange threads that spread and cover other plants.

Some say that the name has Arabic roots. Do you recognize any of these  
words (or something close to them): kushkut; kuskut? Do they mean  
anything? Any comment would be helpful.

David Mehall

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:04 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Kansas U Arabic 2004 Summer Program in Morocco
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1) Subject:Kansas U Arabic 2004 Summer Program in Morocco

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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:mohd at mail.ku.edu
Subject:Kansas U Arabic 2004 Summer Program in Morocco

Dear all,
I'm sending this to announce the Kansas University Arabic 2004 Summer
Program
in Morocco, please check the program website. I appreciate your help in
spreading the word to your students or those who are interested.
Thanks.
Mohammad Al-Masri
The University of Kansas

http://www.ku.edu/~osa/program_pages/morocco_ifrane.shtml

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:21 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UofMichigan Intensive Summer Arabic Program 2004
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1) Subject:UofMichigan Intensive Summer Arabic Program 2004

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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:thuynh at umich.edu
Subject:UofMichigan Intensive Summer Arabic Program 2004

   UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
The Department of Near Eastern Studies
2004 SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (SLI)


Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (AAPTIS-101/102):  10 credits   	June  
7 ? Aug 13, 2004
Students must register for both courses in this sequence, which  
provides an accelerated introduction to the phonology and script of  
Modern standard Arabic and its basic vocabulary and fundamental  
structures. Emphasis is placed on developing speaking, reading and  
writing skills through simple short texts, situational dialogues, and  
interactive communicative activities. This sequence is equivalent to  
one year of Arabic study. Textbooks: Rammuny, ?Arabic Sounds and  
Letters and Manual?, Brustad et Al, ?Al-Kitab, Part One?. This class  
meets M-F  9-1pm.  (staff)

Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (AAPTIS-415/416):  6 credits 		       June  
30 ? Aug 20, 2004
This sequence is offered for students and other members of the  
community who have completed one year of standard Arabic.  It provides  
extensive oral and communicative practice based on situational  
dialogues as used by native Egyptian speakers.  The basic principles of  
pronunciation, grammar, and functional vocabulary are emphasized  
through oral and pattern practice drills.  The goal is to develop the  
ability to communicate with native speakers of Egyptian Arabic with  
some ease.  Aspects of Egyptian culture will be made familiar to the  
students in the course of language practice.  Materials: Course pack.  
This class meets M-F  9-12pm.  (staff)

Tuition and fees:
Summer tuition and fees will be assessed at the following rates and are  
subject to change:
  					Michigan Residents        	    			Non-Residents
			3 Credits	4 Credits	6-10 Credits		3 Credits	4 Credits	6-10 Credits
U-M Undergraduates	 		 		 		
     Lower Division		$1,102		$1,401		$1,994			$3,201		$4,200		$6,194
     Upper Division 	$1,228		$1,569		$2,247			$3,418		$4,489		$6,629
      (guest or non U-M students)
U-M Graduate Students	$2,227		$2,901		$3,575	 		$4,402		$5,801		$7,200

Not-For-Credit/Program Fee Option:
Students who do not require a transcript from the University of  
Michigan may apply to study Arabic   on a not-for-credit basis. Credits  
will not be generated and will not be transferable with this enrollment  
option.  Not-for-Credit students will pay a program fee of $2,000 for  
courses listed as 6 credit hours; $2,800 for courses listed as 10  
credit hours regardless of academic level or residency status, and will  
receive a Certificate of Attendance upon completion.

Every attempt will be made to award eligible students fellowships or  
program fee (depending on enrollment status) based upon individual  
need; To be considered for financial aid, applicants must fill out the  
SLI application and financial aid transcript.  Each application will be  
reviewed individually to determine partial or full tuition awards.  The  
application deadline is April 1, 2004.

For an application or additional information, please contact:
Todd Huynh thuynh at umich.edu			Roberta N. Low, SLI Coordinator   
um.sli at umich.edu
		Dept. of Near Eastern Studies			International Institute
University of Michigan				University of Michigan
2068 Frieze Building				Room 4668 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285			Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
734-764-314 or fax 734-936-2679		734-764-8571 or fax ? 734-763-4765
            			www.umich.edu/~iinet/sli/

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:07 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Last CFP-Arabic NLP Text & Speech-deadline Jan 20
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com
Subject:Last CFP-Arabic NLP Text & Speech-deadline Jan 20


!!!! Deadline extended to January 20, 2004 !!!!

****************************************************
       J E P  2 0 0 4   -   T A L N  2 0 0 4
                - Special Session -

             ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING
                   TEXT & SPEECH
                      --------

               Last call for Papers

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

       http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/
        http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04/

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

Due to its morphological, syntactic, phonetic and phonologic
properties, the Arabic language is considered to be one of the
most difficult languages for written and spoken language processing.

Research on written Arabic language processing started in the 1970s,
even before the problems of Arabic text editing were completely solved.
The first studies focused primarily on lexicons and morphology.
In the past ten years, the internationalisation of the WWW and the
proliferation of communication tools in Arabic have led to the
need for a large number of Arabic NLP applications. As a result,
research activity has extended to address more general areas of
Arabic language processing, including syntactic analysis, machine
translation, document indexing, information retrieval, etc.

Research on Arabic speech processing has made significant progress
due to more improved signal processing technologies, and to
recent advances in the knowledge of the prosodic and the
segmental characteristics of Arabic and the acoustic modelling
of Arab schemes. These results should make it possible to
further progress in more innovative areas, such as Arabic
speech recognition and synthesis, speech translation and
automatic identification of a speaker and his/her geographic
origin discrimination, etc.

The aim of the joint session is to gather and reinforce collaboration
between researchers from both the written and spoken Arabic
language processing communities. It will also offer the opportunity
to discuss recent advances on both the scientific and application
sides of the problem, in monolingual and multilingual contexts.

TOPICS

This special session on written and spoken Arabic processing
includes (but is not limited to) the following topics :
- Speech recognition and comprehension,
- Text to speech synthesis,
- Automatic prosody generation,
- Automatic speaker and language identification,
- Geographic origin discrimination of Arabic speakers,
- Arabic corpora & resources,
- Speech acquisition for ASR and TTS systems,
- Morphology,
- Syntax,
- Semantics,
- Text parsing and generation,
- Discourse analysis,
- Text summarization,
- Dialogue,
- Machine translation.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline : extended to January 20, 2004
Notification to authors : 20 February 2004
Camera-ready : 8 March 2004
Conference : 19-22 April 2004

SELECTION CRITERIA
Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research  
work.
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts.
Decisions will be based on the following criteria :
- importance and originality of the paper,
- soundness of the scientific and technical content,
- comparison of the results obtained with other relevant works,
- clarity of the exposition,
- relevance to the topics of the conference.

LANGUAGES
All papers should be written in English or French.

PAPER FORMAT
Submitted papers should be about 6 to 10 pages in Times 12pt,
single spaced, including figures, examples and references.
Papers MUST be sent in PDF format. In particular cases, we might
accept submissions in RTF (Word) format.

All the PostScript versions must be in A4 format, and not US Letter.
- Download the LaTeX stylesheet
<http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/templates/arab-latex.tgz>
- Download the Word template (English version)
<http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/templates/arabEN.dot>

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Electronic submissions with the message object "JEP-TALN-2004-Arabic"
should be sent to the following email address :
< jep-taln04-arabic at fsdmfes.ac.ma >

In case electronic submission is not possible, printed versions
might be accepted. In this case, three hard-copies of the paper
together with a floppy disk, should be sent to :

Malek Boualem
France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI
2, avenue Pierre Marzin
22307 Lannion - France

or to

Noureddine Chenfour
D?partement de Math. et Informatique
Facult? des Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, F?s
BP : 1796 Atlas, Fez - Morocco


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

- Abderrahim Benabbou, FST, Fez, Morocco.
- Mohammed Benkhalifa, Facult? des Sciences, Rabat, Morocco.
- Thami Benkirane, Sidi Mohammed University, Morocco.
- Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, France.
- Achraf Chalabi, Sakhr, Egypt.
- Noureddine Chenfour, Sidi Mohammed University, Fez, Morocco.
- Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France.
- Fethi Debili, CNRS, Paris, France.
- Emilie De Neef, France Telecom R&D, France.
- Joseph Dichy, Lumi?re-Lyon 2 University, France.
- Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- Mohamed Embarki, Laboratoire de Phon?tique, Montpellier, France.
- Mohammed Hassoun, ENSSIB, Lyon, France.
- Med Tayeb Laskri, Badji Mokhtar University, Algeria.
- Fabrice Lefevre, LIMSI, Paris-Sud Orsay University, France.
- Chafic Mokbel, Balimand University, Lebanon.
- Abdelhak Mouradi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco.
- Omar Nouali, CERIST, Algeria.
- Abdenbi Rajouani, ENS, Fez, Morocco.
- Mustafa Yaseen, ATS Online, Jordan.
- Mohamed Yeou, Chouaib Doukkali El-Jadida University, Morocco.
- Chakir Zeroual, Sidi Mohamed University, Fez, Morocco.
- Adnane Zribi, ISG, Tunis University, Tunisia.


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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:10 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Issue of Languages and Linguistics
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1) Subject:New Issue of Languages and Linguistics

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1)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:estry at menara.ma
Subject:New Issue of Languages and Linguistics

Journal Title: Languages and Linguistics
Volume Number: 11
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: DEC 2003

Subtitle: The Morpho-syntax of Chamito-semitic Languages (Part II)

Main text:

Edited by: Fatima Sadiqi and Moha Ennaji

CONTENTS

Fatima Sadiqi & Moha Ennaji
Introduction

Mohamed Badawi
A Propos des Constructions Analytiques ? Valeur de Passif en Arabe
Moderne

Abdeljalil El-Idrissi
Pr?positions Supports et Nominalisation

Alain Kihm
Parentheticals in Arabic Construct State Nominals

Ahmed Chergui Saber
The Complementizer Domain and Resumption in Standard Arabic

Moha Ennaji
The Structure of Clitic Constructions in Berber

Sabrina Bendjaballah
Le R?le Morphologique du Squelette: Une Analyse du D?terminant en
B?dja

Abdellatif Chouta
Patterns of Aspect Interpretation in Arabic (in Arabic)

Hassan Es-saiydi
Agreement in Standard Arabic (in Arabic)


For further information please contact: mennaji2002 at yahoo.fr
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:12 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 28(2003)
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1) Subject:Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 28(2003)

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1)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:Yohanan Friedmann <msyfried at mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject:Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 28(2003)


		The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
	      The Institute of Asian and African Studies
	       The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation

		is pleased to announce the publication of

		Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
                  	   vol. 28(2003) (440 pp.)

Table of Contents:

S. Adhami, On the Zurvanism of `ulama-ye Islam I: an encounter with
Plato
S. Shoemaker, Christmas in the Qur'an: the Qur'anic account of
	Jesus' nativity and Palestinian local tradition
U. Rubin, The life of Muhammad and the Qur'an: the case of Muhammad's
	hijra
A. Elad, The beginning of historical writing by the Arabs
W. Madelung, Rabi`a in the Jahiliyya and in early Islam
H. Motzki, The author and his work in the Islamic literature of the
first
	centuries: the case of `Abd al-Razzaq's Musannaf
M. Levy-Rubin, Praise or defamation? On the polemic usage of the term
	hanif among Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages
R. Tottoli, The story of Jesus and the skull in Arabic literature: the
	emergence and growth of a religious tradition
E. Francesca, The formation and development of the Ibadi madhhab
A. Levin, Sibawayhi's attitude to the language of poetry
O. Kapeliuk, Some notes on the lingustic informants in Sibawayhi's Kitab
J. Blau, The emergence of the neo-Arabic lingual type
M. Sharon, W. Diem's review of Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum
	Palaestinae, vol. 1: a rejoinder
W. Diem, Moshe Sharon, Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae
(CIAP),
	Volume Two: B-C

Reviews by S. Hopkins, U. Rubin, H. Ben Shammai, B. Paoli, R. Amitai, S.
Stroumsa, J. Dammen McAuliffe, C. Holes, Y. Lev, Y. Rappoport

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Teacher Education Survey
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:Liz England <lengland at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Arabic Teacher Education Survey

[Reminder from Arabic-L moderator: Please remember to return this
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Survey on Arabic Language Teacher Education
As a part of a project on Arabic language teacher preparation, we are
requesting your participation in a brief survey.  The survey is designed
to learn specific ways in which Arabic language teaching professionals
have been educated to teach Arabic and what we do to keep up to date
professionally. Please complete the attached survey and return it by no
later than February 15 to

Dr. Liz England <lengland at aucegypt.edu> by return e-mail.

If you would like to receive the results of the survey, please let us
know and we will add your name to the list of recipients. Many thanks.

Survey Questions:
1. I teach Arabic at (location)____________

  2. Brief description of students:
Age ____
Proficiency level _______________
Learning goals _____________

3. I have taught Arabic for ________ years.

Professional preparation for Arabic language teachers usually includes a
combination of experiences. Please briefly describe these and any other
sources of learning how to teach Arabic. Please be as specific as
possible.

4. Education_________________________________

5. Teaching experience____________________________________

6. Living, visiting, studying, and/or working in an Arabic speaking
environment
Please indicate all that apply and provide details that are relevant to
your teacher training on the following line:
_________________________________________

7. Other sources of learning to teach Arabic Many teachers participate
in professional development activities in order to keep up to date.
Briefly describe yours. Please be as specific as possible,
_______________________________

8. Comments welcome here:

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:27 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Neologisms response
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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:j.hoogland at let.kun.nl
Subject:Neologisms response

On the website about our dictionary project I have written a section on
neologisms in Arabic dictionaries:
http://www.let.kun.nl/~J.hoogland/WBA/Content2/1.6.7_Neologisms.htm

Jan Hoogland

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:32 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:wallaahi
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2) Subject:wallaahi

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Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:AyoubyK at Dearborn.k12.mi.us
Subject:wallaahi

Greetings,

The use of "wa-Allah" is also quite common among Arab American bilingual
youth in the Dearborn/Detroit community. It is part of their
ethnic/religious (self-presentation). Interestingly, the word has
migrated (albeit in some limited circles, namely, among non-Arab
American youth because of proximity) to become an element of their
English speech, (a sort of American English borrowing).

Pardon my ignorance, but I am curious to know why "wa-Allah" is being
considered a particle, and not a phrase. Also, what is the context of
the phrase's use in Danish?

Kenneth K. Ayouby
Student Services and Special Programs
Dearborn Public Schools
18700 Audette St.
Dearborn, MI 48124

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2)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:rberjak at shaw.ca
Subject:wallaahi

Hi,
for your amusement I live and teach in Alberta Canada. And I hear  
Wallah from non Arab nonMuslim? young people who are in contact with  
Arab kids.

Rafik Berjak

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 19 19:43:35 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:DLI contact info
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2) Subject:DLI contact info
3) Subject:DLI contact info
4) Subject:DLI contact info

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1)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:SadokM at aol.com
Subject:DLI contact info

Hi Lisa!
What can Ido for you? Sadok

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2)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:BernhardtJE at state.gov
Subject:DLI contact info

The Defense Language Institute is a large institution, so giving a  
contact
would be easier if we knew what information you needed. The general  
website
for DLI is http://pom-www.army.mil/.

Jim Bernhardt
Chair, Arabic and Asian Language
Foreign Service Institute (a sister school to DLI)

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3)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:DLI contact info

Greetings.
?
Please provide some details of which aspects of the Arabic language and  
its teaching at DLIFLC (Presidio of Monterey, CA, or POM) are of  
interest.
?
With that detail, probably can?refer you to what should be?the right  
place in?the various Middle East Schools (at last count, two MES aare  
established; might be up to three this year) and task force offices  
that have sprouted?at POM. I am an occasional?advisor and SME to DLIFLC  
on Arabic dialectology / diglossia, Arabization, specialized lexicons  
and vocabularies, and intercultural effectiveness.
?
Glad to help once I have a clearer idea of what you seek... ahalan wa  
sahalan wa tafadaliii.
?
Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pero, CA

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4)
Date: 19 Jan 2004
From:GnhBos at aol.com
Subject:DLI contact info

E-mail: William.Alwahab at monterey.army.mil
Work: 831-242-5111

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak
AramediA Group??
761 Adams Street????
Boston, MA 02122, USA??

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:39 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants Arabic Study advice
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1)
Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Jeffery.Thorson at usdoj.gov
Subject:Wants Arabic Study advice

I am open to any suggests any member of this list server has with
regards to the first year of intensive Arabic education for the novice:

*	The director of the National Foreign Language Center said Middlebury
College and the Univ. of Pennsylvania both have good 9-week summer
programs.

*	I just learned that Middlebury's summer program is extremely
competitive (numerous FBI, CIA applicants) -- and may not be taking
more students for summer '04. The coordinator in PA said the university
may not even offer Arabic again this summer.

Do you know of anything else worth looking into? I'm planning on
leaving government to study full time on my own dime. Feel free to
email me at thorsoni at yahoo.com or call work hours at 202-305-1895.

Thanks,
Jeff

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:53 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:wallaahi
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2) Subject:wallaahi
3) Subject:wallaahi

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1)
Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:wallaahi

Concerning Kenneth Ayouby's question:
"Pardon my ignorance, but I am curious to know why "wa-Allah" is being
considered a particle, and not a phrase"

Wallaahi consists of "wa", and "allah".

Wa is called waaw al qasam, and has the effect of making the case of the
following noun genetive.

Wallaahi is equivalent to "by God", and it means really/honest/I swear.

Waheed

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2)
Date: 09 Jan 2004
From: June Dahy <june at hum.ku.dk>
Subject:wallaahi

Dear Kenneth

I've heard the phrase used by bi-lingual children youths of arabic  
origin in
Denmark. It's used exactly as one of its usages in arabic, that is, to
confirm the veracity of an utterance or an allegation:
'It was him I saw yesterday...wallaahi'.
'wallah, they were talking about you'

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3)
Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Vrsan Lestaric <fursan at eunet.yu>
Subject:wallaahi

Hi Mette,
?
wallaahi is quite often used in colloquial Serbian, especially when the  
rural version is concerned. The form is almost always 'vala' (second a  
longer, strong l but not emphatic like in Arabic allaah). The  
dictionary of Serbian language edited by the Academy offers several  
more forms beside 'vala': 'valaj' (j is y), 'valan' (nazal n),  
'valah(i)', and my personal favorite 'vala bila' (i.e. wa-l-laah  
bi-l-laah; stronger version). I must admit I myself have?never come  
upon any other form but 'vala'.
?
It means almost exclusively 'by god' as in: 'By god, I shall go to  
Damascus if it is the last thing I do!' but I found that it can even  
have the meaning like 'to hell' or 'goddamn (it)'.
?
Macedonian, Bosnian and Croatian (in some eastern parts) use it as well  
and in the same form.
?
Best wishes,
Vrsan Lestaric
Belgrade

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:43 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:FSI Job
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:James E Bernhardt <BernhardtJE at state.gov>
Subject:FSI Job

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

George P. Shultz
National Foreign Affairs Training Center
Foreign Service Institute
U.S. Department of State

An Equal Opportunity Employer

ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER:  FSI-04-01
POSITION TITLE: Supervisory Instructional Systems Specialist
OFFICE & LOCATION: FSI/SLS, SA-42, Arlington, Virginia
SERIES AND GRADE: GG-1750-12/13
PROMOTION POTENTIAL:  GG-13
OPENING DATE:  01/16/2004
CLOSING DATE:  02/06/2004
SUPERVISORY:    Yes
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED: Secret
NUMBER OF POSITIONS TO BE FILLED: 3 total- (1) Turkic, (1) Arabic, (1)
Slavic
AREA OF CONSIDERATION: All Qualified Candidates

COMMENTS:  This is an Excepted Service position.  This is a renewable
appointment.  However, the initial appointment will not exceed two
years.
Selected candidate does not acquire Civil Service "competitive status".

Duties and Responsibilities:
This position is located in the School of Language Studies, Foreign
Service
Institute (FSI/SLS).  The School of Language Studies consists of
approximately 400 Language and Culture Instructors and supervisory-level
personnel and provides training and testing services amounting to more
than
1,000,000 student hours annually in over 60 languages for the
Department of
State and for more than 30 other government entities. Courses vary in
length
depending on language proficiency requirements for employees and family
members of the Department of State who are assigned to embassies and
consulates abroad.

In this position you would manage and direct a foreign language training
program or programs which vary widely by numbers of Language and Culture
Instructors (LCI's) and students supervised, frequency of course
presentations and lengths of courses.   You would also:
* Recruit, train and develop Language and Culture Instructors to teach
language and culture of assigned language(s).
* Exercise professional linguistic skills to develop language training
program(s) to bring students to high levels of language proficiency.
* Manage groups of instructors and students whose political, cultural
and
religious differences make coordination and counseling efforts
difficult and
challenging.
* Design new courses and/or make extensive revisions in existing
training
courses.
* Become certified to administer and score official proficiency tests.

If you would like a complete announcement with instructions on how to
apply,
please contact me by return email bernhardtje at state.gov

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:47 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:47 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Michigan Lecturer Position
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Raji Rammuny <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:UofMichigan Lecturer Position

The University of Michigan
  Department of Near Eastern Studies
   Lectureship 111 in Arabic Language


Pending approval from the College of Literature, Science and the Arts,
the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan
invites applications for a Lecturer III position in Arabic Language to
begin September 2004. Criteria for renewal are classroom teaching,
curricular service, and pedagogical research, with classroom teaching
receiving the greatest weight. The initial appointment is for three
years with the possibility of renewal. This is a non tenure-track
position. Applicants must hold a relevant Ph.D. degree and have native
or near native proficiency in both Arabic and English. They are
expected to have familiarity with the proficiency-communicative
approach to language teaching, experience in Arabic curriculum
development, and a commitment to promoting Arabic studies on  campus.
The successful candidate will be mainly responsible for teaching Arabic
language courses at all levels and may offer occasional courses in
communication media and Arabic linguistics. Salary will be commensurate
with qualifications and experience. Please send a cover letter with a
brief description of teaching philosophy and supporting documents
including teaching evaluations, sample syllabi, curriculum vitae, and
three letters of recommendation to: Chair, Department of Near Eastern
Studies, 2068 Frieze Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
48109. The University of Michigan is an affirmative action, equal
opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Review of applications will begin March 9, 2004 and continue until the
position is filled. Any queries about this position should be directed
to Professor Raji Rammuny at  raram at umich.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:50 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translator jobs at Tyson's Corner
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:tfrancis at infdim.com
Subject:Translator jobs at Tyson's Corner

My name is Todd Francis.  I work for a Muslim-American owned technology
company in Tyson's Corner.  One of our projects involves doing
translation
(reading/writing) work.  I am looking to hire translators experienced in
Arabic and/or Farsi.  Would you please pass my requirement around?  The
translators can be US or Non-US citizens, full or part time, students,
housewives, professionals, or retirees.

The requirements are quite flexible at this stage.  The work will be
done in
Northern Virginia.  Please have anyone interested in earning some good
money, increasing their skills and networking with a high tech company
e-mail their resume/CV to me at:  tfrancis at infdim.com

Thank you,
Todd Francis
(703) 608-8800
tfrancis at infdim.com
www.infdim.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:55 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Etymology of Cuscuta
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2) Subject:Etymology of Cuscuta

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1)
Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:jrader at Merriam-Webster.com
Subject:Etymology of Cuscuta

According to Corominas' etymological dictionary of Spanish, Medieval
Latin <cuscuta> first appears in a translation (ca. 1200) from Arabic of
a pseudo-Aristotelean botanical work (the Greek original is lost).  The
corresponding Arabic word is <kushu:tha:>; the <-sc-> may have been
a miscopying of <-ss->.  Corominas refers to an article by one A.
Thomas in the 1909 volume of _Bulletin hispanique_.  Greek also has
for the same or a similar plant ("dodder" in English) <kadutas>
(Theophrastus) and <kasutas> (Hesychius), presumably borrowed
independently from a cognate Semitic word or words.  Maybe the
Semiticists on the list can fill in the other forms and the presumed
Semitic original.

Jim Rader

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Safa Jubran <safa.alferd at terra.com.br>
Subject:Etymology of Cuscuta

The term cuscuta appears in:??
?P. Guigues, ?Les noms...?, p. 520 [181];
?al-Kindi (cf. Levey, op. cit.,) p. 233 [18];
?al-Biruni, (cf. Hamarneh, Book on Pharmacy...), pp. 73-4;
Tuhfat, 32
it also appears in the arabic manuscript "Kitan thakirat Al-Iskandar",  
translated into portugues.
if you need mor details about this book, let me know
Safa

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 16:04:45 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:04:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Washington Job
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Roxanne <roxannerebecca at yahoo.com>
Subject:U of Washington Job

Assistant Professor of Arabic

The University of Washington, the Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Civilization, has been
authorized to make a full-time, tenure-track
appointment in Arabic, at the rank of Assistant
Professor, and invites applications for the position.
Employment will commence Autumn quarter 2004. Duties
will include teaching and overseeing courses in the
Arabic program, providing pedagogical and intellectual
leadership in the department, and conducting research
into aspects of Arabic linguistics and/or second
language acquisition as it applies to Arabic.
Prospective applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant
field and at least two years of experience teaching
Arabic in a proficiency-oriented program. Native or
near-native competency in both Arabic and English is
required. Salary will be commensurate with
qualifications and experience. To apply, please send
an up-to-date curriculum vitae along with a letter of
application describing research interests, teaching
experience and language ability, one or two sample
publications, and three letters of recommendation to:
Chair, Arabic Search Committee, NELC, Box 353120,
University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-3120. The
University of Washington is an affirmative action,
equal opportunity employer. The University is building
a culturally diverse faculty and staff and strongly
encourages applications from women, minorities,
individuals with disabilities and covered veterans.
Review of applications will begin March 2, 2004 and
continue until the position is filled.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Jan 26 17:11:16 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:11:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:CD of Arabic Poetry
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1)
Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:G.Borg at let.kun.nl
Subject:CD of Arabic Poetry

Dear Colleagues,

To some of you it may not be new, but I found a beautiful new tool in
the
market in Egypt. It is a CD called al-Mawsuu`a al-Shi`riyya containing
4,200,000 verses of Arabic poetry from Jahiliyya to 1952. It also has
astonishing reference possibilities to a number of dictionaries and
even cross
references (like finding the word kawaasiyaa in art. HTK in the
Lisaan). It
fails to mention sources though.

For more information: www.cultural.org.ae.

This CD is offered at the present International Book Fair in Cairo for
10
Egyptian pounds, which equals approximately 1.2 Euro. Run!

Gert Borg,
director of the Netherlands Flemish Institute in Cairo

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:30:08 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Michigan needs teacher for Summer Program
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Raji Rammuny <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:U of Michigan needs teacher for Summer Program

The Universty of Michigan, Department of Near Eastern Studies seeks a
qualified Arabic teacher to teach intensive Elementary Modern Standard
Arabic (Arabic 101/102) starting June 7 and ending August 13, 2004.
Classes meet daily 9-1pm. UM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For
additional information, please contact:

Todd Huynh   thuynh at umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 763-4539  Fax: (734) 936-2679

OR Raji Rammuny  raram at umich.edu

Raji Rammuny

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:30:23 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Study Advice responses
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:SadokM at aol.com
Subject:Arabic Study Advice response

Hi Jeff,
MIIS (Monterey Institute for International Studies) offers 8 weeks
intensive summer course too.
Sadok

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:ahmadhany at hds.harvard.edu
Subject:Arabic Study Advice response

You should visit
http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Onlinenews/summer04.htm for an
up-to-date list of summer 2004 programs in Arabic and related
languages. Georgetown's program is known to offer partial tuition
scholarships to students of all ages. Good luck.

al-Husein N. Madhany
University of Chicago

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:30:11 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:wallaahi request clarification
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:AyoubyK at Dearborn.k12.mi.us
Subject:wallaahi request clarification

Greetings all,

1) To Waheed:

Original Question by Kenneth: "Pardon my ignorance, but I am curious to
know why "wa-Allah" is being considered a particle, and not a phrase"

Waheed said: Wallaahi consists of "wa", and "allah". Wa is called waaw
al qasam, and has the effect of making the case of the following noun
genetive. Wallaahi is equivalent to "by God", and it means
really/honest/I swear.

Kenneth answers: Hello Waheed. Exactly my point. Doesn't that make it a
prepositional phrase? Why is a prepositional phrase being considered a
particle?

2) To June:

June's remarks: I've heard the phrase used by bi-lingual children youths
of arabic origin in Denmark. It's used exactly as one of its usages in
arabic, that is, to confirm the veracity of an utterance or an
allegation:
'It was him I saw yesterday...wallaahi'. 'wallah, they were talking
about you'

Kenneth: Hi June. Yes, exact same usage among Arab American youths in
the Detroit/Dearborn area.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:29:58 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:29:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Call for Papers:Internet Mediated Arabic Education
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Mahmoud Al-Batal <albatal at emory.edu>
Subject:Call for Papers:Internet Mediated Arabic Education

Dear Arabic-L members
?
We are contacting you in the hope that you may direct us to
colleagues who are researching Internet-mediated intercultural
foreign language education in which at least one of the partner
languages is Arabic.? Specifically, we are talking about email / chat
/ videoconferencing projects between classes in different countries
where one group is comprised of speakers of Arabic and the other
group is comprised of learners of Arabic.? This configuration is also
known as telecollaboration.

We would like to invite persons working in this area to submit a
manuscript to a volume that we are co-editing? entitled:

Computer-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education.

The volume is forthcoming from Heinle & Heinle in 2005 in the
American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators
(AAUSC) series that is under the editorship of Sally Magnan, the
current editor of the Modern Language Journal.

The full call for papers is located here:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/a/jab63/2005aausccall.html

Abstracts of 400 words or less are due by June 1, 2004.? Full
manuscripts are due Sept 1, 2004.? They would then go out for blind
peer review. Submission of a manuscript does not guarantee inclusion
in the volume. Publication of the volume is scheduled for early 2005.

If you could direct this query to any colleagues you know who might
be interested, we would greatly appreciate it.

with best regards wa salam, Julie Belz and Steve Thorne
-- 
Julie A. Belz
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/a/jab63/homepage.html
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and German
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Program in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Center for Language Acquisition, Affiliate
Penn State University
311 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16803
814.865.5481

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:29:46 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:29:46 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRAN:U of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:sesmith at uark.edu
Subject:U of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

The University of Arkansas, The King Fahd Center for Middle East and
Islamic Studies, and The University of Arkansas Press announce the 2004
  Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

The award carries a $5000 prize for the translator or translators and a
$5000 award for the original author.  The University of Arkansas Press
will publish the award-winning translation.  Runners-up may also be
considered for publication.

The competition for 2004 will focus on the modern era (19th Century to
the present).  Suitable entries may include works of fiction (either
prose or poetry) or non-fiction works either in the literary tradition
(such as memoirs, theoretical writings, essays, or travel literature)
or works of academic significance.  Since publication comes with the
award, submitted texts must be book-length (approximately 100+ pages
typed, double-spaced) in order to be considered.  All submissions will
be judged blindly by a three-person jury of distinguished
scholar-translators chosen from outside the University of Arkansas
system.  Current students, faculty or staff of the University of
Arkansas, their spouses, or immediate family members are not eligible
to submit translations.  Any submission of a translation by the
original author will be eligible for only a $5000 award.

Entries for the 2004 award must be received by May 1, 2004.  The winner
will be announced in November 2004, in conjunction with the annual
Middle East Studies meeting.

Entrants should submit four copies of both the original and translation
and a cover letter that contains contact information for both author
and translator.  A brief introduction to the significance of author and
translated text and a brief profile or vitae of the translator is
desirable.  A formal release from a living author and/or any other
relevant copyright holder, including the original publisher, should
also be included.  Submissions may not be under contract with another
press.

Please direct all submissions and any inquiries to:

Arkansas Translation Award
King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
University of Arkansas
202 Old Main
Fayetteville, AR 72701
phone: (479) 575-4157
e-mail: mest at uark.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:29:48 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:29:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:COLING 2004 Call for Papers and Arabic Workshop
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Ali Farghaly <farghaly at systransoft.com>
Subject:COLING 2004 Call for Papers and Arabic Workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS

COLING 2004 Workshop
Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages

Saturday, August 28, 2004
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

Conference Website
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/

Workshop description

   Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the study of the
languages of the Middle East, especially Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Pashto
and Urdu. This sudden and urgent interest is manifested by the
availability of funding for rapid development of practical systems for
processing large volumes of data in these languages. Computational
applications for proper name identification, entity recognition,
categorization, information retrieval, summarization, machine
translation and other implementations are currently in high demand. This
comes at a time when advances in formal and computational linguistics
over the last fifty years are being consolidated, while work on machine
learning and statistical methods has been showing great promise.

   Although there exists a considerable body of work in computational
linguistics specifically targeted to these middle eastern languages,
much of the research and development has been the result of initiatives
by individual research establishments or industry firms. Furthermore,
the usage of the Arabic script gives rise to certain issues that are
common to all these languages despite their being of distinct language
families. Hence, these languages share properties such as the absence of
capitalization, right to left direction, lack of clear word boundaries,
complex word structure, a high degree of ambiguity due to
non-representation of short vowels in the writing system, and related
encoding issues.

   The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for those involved in
the development of NLP systems in Arabic script languages to exchange
ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems; to
discuss the common challenges faced by all practitioners; and to assess
the state of the art in the field. In addition, one of the aims of the
workshop is to identify promising areas for future collaborative
research in the development of NLP systems for Arabic script languages.
Solutions that are designed to solve the specific problems of these
languages could very well have wider applications and relevance to the
rest of the NLP community.

Workshop Topics

Authors of papers in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages
are encouraged to apply. We encourage submissions dealing with
language-specific issues, as well as discussions of challenges imposed
by the usage of the Arabic script. Papers could be on ? but not limited
to ? any of the following topics:

?	Morphological analysis
?	Syntactic ambiguity resolution
?	Relevance of shallow parsing
?	Machine translation from and to Arabic script languages
?	Sense disambiguation
?	Homograph resolution
?	Semantic analysis
?	Entity recognition
?	Information retrieval
?	Classification of documents
?	Text mining
?	Summarization
?	Statistical approaches
?	Speech recognition and generation
?	Lexical databases
?	Knowledge and domain representation
?	Spelling and grammar checking tools

Submission Requirements

Papers should be original, previously unpublished work and should not
identify the author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than
intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must
reflect this fact on the title page.

Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (including figures and
references). Email submissions (ps or pdf) are preferred and should be
sent to both AliFarghaly at aol.com and karinem at inxight.com by midnight of
the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers should be
attached to an email indicating contact information for the author(s)
and paper?s title. Formatting requirements for the final version of
accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available.

Hardcopy submissions should be sent to:
Ali Farghaly
SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
9333 Genesee Ave, Pl 1
San Diego, CA 92121
USA

Important dates

Submissions due:	March 25th, 2004
Notification date:	April 25th, 2004
Deadline for camera ready copy:	May 25th, 2004

Organizing committee

This workshop is organized by
Ali Farghaly (SYSTRAN Software, Inc.)
Karine Megerdoomian (Inxight Software and University of California, San
Diego)

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be
found at http://members.cox.net/karinem/COLING2004

Program Committee

Jan W. Amtrup		Bowne Global Solutions
Tim Buckwalter		Linguistic Data  Consortium
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza	Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph Dichy		Lyon University
Andrew Freeman		University of Washington
Nizar Habash		University of Maryland, College Park
Masayo Iida		Inxight Software, Inc.
Simin Karimi		University of Arizona
Martin Kay    		Stanford University
Kevin Knight		USC/Information Sciences Institute
Farhad Oroumchian	University of Wollongong in Dubai
Ahmed Rafea 		The American University in Cairo
Jean Sennellart		SYSTRAN Software
R?mi Zajac		SYSTRAN Software

Regards,
Ali Farghaly

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:30:01 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LREC 2004 Arabic Treebank Workshop
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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Petr Zemanek <petr.zemanek at ff.cuni.cz>
Subject:LREC 2004 Arabic Treebank Workshop

*** WORKSHOP REMINDER & NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE *** FEBRUARY 04, 2004
***

LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop
May 24, 2004, 14:30-20:00
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal

The LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop intends to bring together
people
from different areas of the Natural Language Processing community, who
are
either interested in the problem of multi-level linguistic description
of
Arabic, or concerned with the resources, tools and methods used
recently in
the study of this language.

Research Context

There has been a noticeable increase in the amount of Arabic-oriented
research in NLP in recent years. The conferences, workshops and symposia
include enterprises such as:

-       ACL 2001 Arabic Language Processing Workshop,
-       International Symposium on Processing of Arabic in Tunisia in
2002,
-       LREC 2002 Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation Workshop,
-       ACL 2002 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic
Languages,
-       MT Summit IX Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic
Languages
         in 2003.

The areas covered in the papers of these forums seem to describe
research
projects which, although diversified and scientifically important,
frequently do not present systematic and extensible descriptions of the
language that are also supported by resources and tools for their
management.
The LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop would offer the opportunity to
present the on-going work and efforts in this respect, enhance
co-operation
with and receive feedback from colleagues in the community.

Tentative Schedule

There will be two major sessions in the course of the Workshop. One of
them
will be reserved for invited talks on the leading treebanking projects
in
Arabic, namely, the LDC Arabic Treebank and the Prague Arabic Dependency
Treebank, while the other session will be devoted to the regular
contributions, discussions and perspectives in the scope of the research
interest.

The invited talks will deliver overall and comprehensive reports on the
two
Arabic treebanking projects, giving details on their theoretical grounds
and general architecture, on the annotation process of the language data
and the utilization of the resources, as well as on software tools
involved
in the work and on related research, such as development of systems
based
on machine-learning techniques, etc. The talks will be accompanied by
presentations and demos of the following systems during the Workshop:

-       AraMorph, the morphological analyzer of Arabic
-       SelectPOS, the annotation tool for morphological disambiguation
-       Tree Editor, the LDC tool for phrase-structure tree annotation
-       TrEd, the Prague system for annotations of trees/graphs in
general
-       Netgraph, the search tool for linguistic research of treebanks
-       Conversion tool for transforming constituency trees to
dependency
         ones
-       Statistical parsers used in annotation by either of the teams
-       Arabic morphological tagger

Submission Requirements

We invite papers describing original approaches to the various aspects
of
Arabic language treebanking, and/or addressing research issues that the
treebanking projects might help improve. In particular, we strongly
invite
papers on constituency and dependency syntax, propositional theory,
tectogrammatical theory, valency, application to machine translation,
computational tools, algorithm implementations etc., as well as lexicons
and databases reusable in the description of the language.
Papers will be accepted as PDF or PostScript files conforming to the
style
guidelines of the main Conference, which will appear at the LREC 2004
web
site http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/ at the end of January 2004.
Submissions and questions should be sent to Otakar Smrz
<smrz at ckl.mff.cuni.cz>, the secretary of the Program Committee.

Important Dates

The Workshop will be held on May 24, 2004, from 14:30 to 20:00 in Centro
Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. The time reserved for one regular
paper presentation will be up to 30 minutes.

First call for Workshop papers          December 09, 2003
Workshop paper submission deadline      February 04, 2004 *** NEW ***
Notification of acceptance              February 16, 2004
Final versions for the proceedings      March 01, 2004

Registration Information

The LREC 2004 half-day Workshop registration fee is 50 EURO for
Conference
participants and 85 EURO for the others. These fees will include a
coffee
break and the Proceedings of the Workshop.

Program Committee

Tim Buckwalter
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Jan Hajic
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

Mohamed Maamouri, co-chair of the committee
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania

Otakar Smrz, co-chair of the committee
Center for Computational Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

Petr Zemanek
Institute of Comparative Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

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Petr Zemanek
Institute of Comparative Linguistics
Charles University, Prague

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:57:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Needs Arabic of a Hadith in English
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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic of a Hadith in English

For a new Humanities building at our University, they are putting up
glass panels with quotations dealing with knowledge and light from
various cultural traditions.  Our department includes Arabic, Japanese,
Chinese, Korean and Hebrew, so our panel will be full of strange and
wonderful scripts.  Anyway, we gave them a bunch of quotes from the
Quran and Hadith, and they choose some.  The Quran ones I was able to
find, but the Hadith (which came out of a book of nice Hadith in
English) I was not able to find.  In other words, I have the English,
but even when searching for likely phrases in the online Hadith indexes
I couldn't find the Arabic version.  Does anyone know, off the top of
his/her head, what the Arabic for the following Hadith is:

"Whoever goes forth in search of knowledge is in the path of God until
he returns."

Thanks!
Dil

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Jan 29 22:30:04 2004
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Pennsylvania Summer Program
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1) Subject:U of Pennsylvania Summer Program

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Maher Awad <awadm at sas.upenn.edu>
Subject:U of Pennsylvania Summer Program

The Arabic Language Program at the University of
Pennsylvania announces its summer intensive program for the
year 2004.  The program runs from May 18 to June 25.  Two
proficiency-oriented courses in Modern Standard Arabic are
offered:  Intensive Elementary Arabic and Intensive
Intermediate Arabic.  Both classes meet Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  Students earn two (2)
University of Pennsylvania Course Units for either course.
(Note:  1 Course Unit is equivalent to 4 semester credit
hours.)

Information about the Arabic program can be found here:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arabic/

Information about summer tuition, registration, and housing
can be found here:  http://www.upenn.edu/summer/

For information about the courses, contact:

Maher Awad, Coordinator
Arabic Language Program
Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA  19104-5502
E-mail: awadm at sas.upenn.edu

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