From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 1 19:35:48 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 13:35:48 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:Placement Testing Policies Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 01 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Placement Testing Policies Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 May 2006 From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh Subject:Placement Testing Policies Query 'ahlan ya zumalaa'i I am writing to ask for information about what you do in your program in terms of placing students that come into your program and have not done the immediately preceding prerequisite level at your institution? How do you determine the placement of such students? Do you also test your own students coming back from summer programs? Thanks for providing this information. Or referring me to a written policy if there is one. If you choose to respond to me personally, I will summarize the responses for the members of the list, with your permission to do so. Peace, Martha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 01 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:37 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:37 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middle East Institute Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Middle East Institute Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:languages at mideasti.org Subject:Middle East Institute Summer Program Middle East Institute (MEI) DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND REGIONAL STUDIES INTENSIVE SUMMER COURSES IN ARABIC AND FARSI 6 COLLEGE CREDITS (90 Contact hours per course) WHEN: May 19-June 25, 2006; 2:00pm-7:00pm Fri, Sat, and Sun LOCATION: Middle East Institute, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-2882 TO ENROLL: Register on line with MEI (www.mideasti.org) or call the Department of Languages and Regional Studies at 202-785-2710 TUITION: $1,350 per course Other fees: $75 registration fee (includes MEI membership fee) I. ARABIC A. BEGINNING ARABIC DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this intensive course is to develop mastery of Arabic orthographic and sound systems and the five language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture) at the beginning level. Students will develop the ability to interact successfully in basic communicative situations and to deal with language in its most essential uses. Depending on student interest, supplemental cultural excursions may be scheduled, including visiting mosques, attending lectures on Islam and Islam in the West, visiting Arabic restaurants to become acquainted with Arabic cuisine, visiting Arabic markets and book stores, meeting with members of the Arab community, and attending sessions on cultural topics such as Arabic music and calligraphy. PREREQUISITE: None TEXTBOOKS: a. Brustad K, Al-Batal M, and Al-Tonsi A. Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. b. Mahdi A. Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. c. MEI supplementary materials. B. HIGH INTERMEDIATE ARABIC DESCRIPTION: Using the newly developed text Adwaa’ cla -l-carabiyya - l-casriyya (Focus on Contemporary Arabic Language and Culture) and the DVD that accompanies it, this intensive course further develops the five language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture) at the high intermediate level, including developing the student’s ability to interact successfully in a variety of general communicative situations and deal with short texts and topics of general import. Adwaa’ cla -l-carabiyya -l-casriyya is part of the Yale series Conversations with Native Speakers. As the title implies, this book sheds light not only on the challenges Arabs currently face, but also on what they think of those challenges and the language they use to express what they think. The text and DVD expose students of Arabic to spontaneous, unrehearsed use of the language by native speakers, expressing themselves for the most part in Formal Spoken Arabic, a somewhat simplified form of Modern Standard Arabic understood by the majority of Arabs. Subject matter for the book chapters is drawn from actual conversations with native speakers from various Arab countries on issues that concern them, ranging from personal matters (such as family life and memories of youth) to their views on globalization and Arab-American relations. PREREQUISITE: Beginning Arabic or the approval of the department TEXTBOOKS: a. Abed S. Adwaa’ cla -l-carabiyya -l-casriyya (Focus on Contemporary Arabic Language and Culture) with DVD. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. b. Cowan J M. The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, 1993. c. MEI supplementary materials. II. BEGINNIG FARSI DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this intensive course is to develop mastery of Farsi orthographic and sound systems and the five language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture) at the beginning level. Students will develop the ability to interact successfully in basic communicative situations and to deal with the language in its most essential uses. Depending on student interest, supplemental cultural excursions may be scheduled during this course, including visiting mosques, attending lectures on Islam and Islam in the West, visiting Persian restaurants to become acquainted with Persian cuisine, visiting Persian markets and book stores, meeting with members of the Persian community, and attending sessions on cultural topics such as Persian music and calligraphy. PREREQUISITE: None TEXTBOOKS: a. Pūrn~md~rī~n T. Persian for Foreigners: An Elementary Course. Tehran: Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2005. b, Kouchak M. 50 Articles: A Textbook for Reading and Listening Comprehension in Persian Language (with CD). No Publisher: 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:34 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:34 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Poetry Recitation Competition Deadline Extention Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Poetry Recitation Competition Deadline Extention -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh Subject:Arabic Poetry Recitation Competition Deadline Extention Dear Arabic Teachers, thank you to those of you who have already requested accounts and are encouraging your students to participate. We are extending the deadline for submissions to May 12th in the hopes that this will give more of you an opportunity to have your students participate. Details for the competition are repeated below: Please feel free to logon to the OLE board site at http://epsilon.ltc.arizona.edu/ole/oleboard.html to see what the submissions look like. you can log on using the ID and password: AATA You will find there an example recitation for one of our second semester students (yes it's my son Sharif :-) ) In order for your students to participate you will need your own account logon. I hope to be inundated with requests for accounts in the next few days!! For those of you who like the idea but just didn't have enough time to fit it into the schedule on such short notice know that next year you'll have much more forwarning! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:28 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:28 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Opportunity for U.S. K-12 Schools Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Opportunity for U.S. K-12 Schools -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From: "Cashner, Catharine E" Subject:Opportunity for U.S. K-12 Schools Opportunity for U.S. K-12 Schools The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State is pleased to announce the Teachers of Critical Languages Program, an exchange program under the new National Security Language Initiative. This program seeks to strengthen the teaching of Chinese and Arabic at U.S. schools, while also providing the exchange teachers the opportunity to learn about U.S. teaching methodologies, culture and society. For the 2006-2007 academic year, U.S. primary or secondary schools with existing Arabic or Chinese language programs may apply for the opportunity to host a teacher from the People's Republic of China or Jordan to teach Mandarin Chinese or Arabic, respectively, and also to serve as cultural resources in the school and community. Ten Chinese and two Jordanian teachers will be selected to participate through a merit competition in their home countries. The Department of State will provide J-1 visa sponsorship, airfare, accident and illness insurance, and a living allowance for the teacher. U.S. schools must provide a mentor teacher and must demonstrate a plan for how both the U.S. school and the international teacher will benefit from the program. The deadline for applications from U.S. schools is Wednesday, May 31. For more information about hosting an exchange teacher, or to request an application, e-mail tclp at state.gov. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:32 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:32 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Special on Wehr's Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Gerlach Special on Wehr's -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:wehr at gerlach-books.de Subject:Gerlach Special on Wehr's This is our 2006 spring offer of Hans Wehr's two famous Arabic dictionaries: "Arabisches Woerterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart", published in its 5th edition by Otto Harrassowitz, is until today the most important dictionary of its kind. It's English version "Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic" set the same superior standards, including transliteration of Arabic. We are now offering the two Wehr dictionaries as well as Goetz Schregle's German-Arabic counterpart each at the FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: * Orders until MAY 5 only: ***96 EUR*** per copy (instead of 136) * Orders until May 31: 110 EUR per copy (instead of 136) * Orders until June 30: 120 EUR per copy (instead of 136) (Please note: This offer is valid outside Germany, Austria & Switzerland only.) Order your Arabic dictionaries TODAY! Looking forward, (Ms) Dagmar Konrad Marketing Manager Details: http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/index_books.php KAI-HENNING GERLACH - BOOKS & ONLINE Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies D-10627 Berlin, Germany Kantstrasse 89 Telefon +49 30 3249441 Telefax +49 30 3235667 e-mail khg at gerlach-books.de www.gerlach-books.de USt/VAT No. DE 185 061 373 Verkehrs-Nr. 24795 (BAG) EAN 4330931247950 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:30 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:30 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:How to teach Intensive Arabic Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:How to teach Intensive Arabic Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:noura_hamdane at yahoo.ie Subject:How to teach Intensive Arabic Query I would like to ask Arabic teachers about strategies and practices of teaching Beginning Arabic in an intensive class, the number of new words per day, topics to speak about, material design, speaking first language or Arabic, and all issues related to teaching beginning classes Best, Noura ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:39 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:39 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Placement Testing Policies response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Placement Testing Policies response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:abussaydeh at sharjah.ac.ae Subject:Placement Testing Policies response Hi, You might like to know that some of my colleagues at the English Department here have developed an Arabic placement test that is similar to TOEFL. We have used the test several times in placing translation program candidates, though the test is not in its final form as yet. If you are interested, I can put ypu in touch with them. Cheers. Dr. A.F. Abu-ssaydeh, Chairman English Dept Sharjah University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:18:35 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:18:35 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 01 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Summer Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 May 2006 From:moderator Subject:Summer Programs [I will post the info on any of your summer programs in full IF you send them to me in an e-mail message (not as an attachment) in text format.] I have received information about the following summer programs by regular mail. Since my fingers are rebelling at typing all the info in, I am simply going to list the websites where you can get more information: 1. Columbia University Arabic Summer Program www.ce.columbia.edu/summer (elementary, intermediate and advanced) Contact: George El-Hage ge at columbia.edu 2. University of Wisconsin, Madison Arabic and Persian Immersion Program, Summer 2005 global.wisc.edu/apip (elementary, intermediate and advanced) Global Studies global at intl-institute.wisc.edu 3. Intensive Course in Distinguished Arabic (designed to bring students who are at the 2+/3 level on the way to level 4) San Diego State University, Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) Center for the Advancement of Distinguished Level Proficiency (ADLP) larcnet.sdsu.edu/workshops.php Brandi Sanford-Fischer bfischer at projects.sdsu.edu Christian Degueldre cdegueld at mail.sdsu.edu Application Deadline: May 15 4. 4 week Arabic Language Immersion in Cairo Aug 26- Sep 22, 2006 for 2+/3 level speakers Also sponsored by SDSU, LARC, ADLP Same contact info as above Deadline: July 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 01 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:13 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:13 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:XML->PDF response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:XML->PDF response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:t.a.mcallister at leeds.ac.uk Subject:XML->PDF response You could try OpenOffice. That uses XML as its basic format, and the word-processor can export text directly to PDF. I've just tested it with vowelled Arabic, and it worked. Alec McAllister Multilingual Computing Co-ordinator Information Systems Services University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom tel 0113 343 3573 email: t.a.mcallister at leeds.ac.uk fax: 0113 343 5411 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:06 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:06 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Arabic Translator Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Translator Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Arabic Translator Job University or Organization: L-3 Communications Job Rank: Translator Specialty Areas: Translation; Arabic/English -English/Arabic Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Urdu (urd) , English (eng) Description: $149,820 - $179,000 a yr L-3 Communications is a leading provider of comprehensive information and communications products, solutions, and services for National Security. We work with the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and many other government customers. L-3 Communications is currently looking for Arabic Linguist to work with other linguist and military personnel at an overseas location You will be a full-time employee of L-3 Communications. Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, 2 weeks paid vacation every 6 months, etc., As expected, the variety of jobs using your ability to translate between Arabic and English ranges greatly. You will provide general linguistic support for military operations. You will interpret during interviews, meetings, and conferences. You will interpret between local citizens and soldiers, transcribe and analyze verbal communications and perform document translation. (a) Minimum required: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing Arabic & English as you will spend most of your time interpreting between the two languages. U.S. Citizen, Green Card holder or I-94 L-3 Communications is a leading provider of comprehensive information and communications products, solutions, and services for National Security. We work with the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and many other government customers. L-3 Communications is currently looking for Arabic Linguist to work with other linguist and military personnel at an overseas location. Required American Citizens - don't need to speak Iraqui dialect Green Card and I-94 holders - must speak the Iraqi Dialect All applicants will undergo background investigation, oral and written skills language examination, medical examination and counter- intelligence screening as conditions of employment on this contract. Contact Info: 703-390-4654 Address for Applications: Cecilia Elmadi 10718 Wynkoop Dr Greatfalls, VA 22066 USA Application Deadline: Open until filled. Contact Information: cel. 571-338-3478 Elmadi Email: Cecilia.Elmadi at Titan.com Phone: 703-390-4654 Website: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:17 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:17 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:HISCC in Copenhagen Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:HISCC in Copenhagen -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:Adil Al-Kufaishi Subject:HISCC in Copenhagen Dear Colleagues We, some Iraqi academics in Denmark, have opened an institute called "The Higher Institute for Studies and Consultation in Copenhagen" HISCC which aims at establishing links between the Danish Academic higher Institutions and the Iraqi universities and higher institutions, extending help to our Iraqi colleagues and staff members specialized in different disciplines and fields of study. The Institute holds joint short and long term training courses for both the postgraduate students and the faculty members in collaboration with Danish academic institutions and universities to update their knowledge and build up their capacities. It also furnishes the Iraqi staff members who are on a sabbatical leave with the research facilities and the technical training required. Those who seek our support may contact us on our emails. For further information you may refer to our homepage: http://www.hiscc.dk http://www.hiscc.dk/ENpressRelease020506.pdf http://www.hiscc.dk/ARComminuqe.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:37 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:37 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Georgetown Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Georgetown Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:kb339 at georgetown.edu Subject:Georgetown Summer Program GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Summer Arabic & Persian Institute 2006 June 5^th - August 11^th Intensive Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced ARABIC Spoken IRAQI Arabic Beginning PERSIAN in the Evening Beginning ARABIC in the Evening Spoken EGYPTIAN Arabic Please visit our website for more information: http://summerschool.georgetown.edu/courses/arabicandpersian.html Or contact the Assistant Director, Kelly Beyer, at 202-687-5743 or Applications are due May 3, 2006. Late applications will be reviewed on a space-available basis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:32 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:32 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NYU Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:NYU Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:ms93 at nyu.edu Subject:NYU Summer Program New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies is offering again its 3-week Summer Intensive programs in MSA. Intensive Arabic I and II (for beginners) 51 hrs of classroom instruction and 6 hours of cultural field trips to the ethnic communities. June 26 - July 14 ; Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thurs at 9 am - 1 pm ; field trips on Fridays. This course applies towards a certificate in Arabic or can be taken for 3 undergraduate credits. Intensive Arabic III and IV 51 hrs of classroom instruction and 6 hours of cultural field trips to the ethnic communities. July 17 - August 4; Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thurs at 9 am - 1 pm ; field trips on Fridays. This course applies towards a certificate in Arabic or can be taken for 3 undergraduate credits. For more information please call an education advisor at (212) 998-7171 or go to www.scps.nyu.edu/trans ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:29 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:29 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:James Madison U Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:James Madison U Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:absiox at jmu.edu Subject:James Madison U Summer Program James Madison University Department Of Foreign Languages And Literatures offers Intensive Summer Courses IN ARABIC 6 CREDITS (80 Contact hours total) When: May 15-June 9, 2006; 9:00am-1:PM Monday to Friday. Location: James Madison University, Harrisonburg Virginia 22807. For Information call: 540-514-6826 To Enroll: Register online at www.jmu.edu Class title: FL490 Tuition: $1584 Course Description: If you are in the Shenandoah valley this summer and You would like to learn Arabic, James Madison University offers an intensive Arabic course from May 15th to June 9th. The purpose of this course is to enable students to master Arabic orthographic and sound systems,basic vocabulary and to be able to communicate at a low intermediate level. Students who successfully finish this course will have excellent understanding of the internal functioning of the Arabic language, moreover they will acquire solid bases in Arabic structure, pronunciation and culture. The course includes screening of different Arabic videos from the Arab world, as well as in class use of a variety of Arabic educational software. Prerequisites: None Textbooks used: a. Brustad K, Al-Batal M, and Al-Tonsi A. Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. b. Mahdi A. Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. c. James Madison University supplementary materials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:34 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:34 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayat Institute Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:nhedayet at yahoo.com Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Program Hedayet Institute Summer Program 6 week language/culture intensive program. All levels from beginner's to advanced. Cultural activities including, lectures, Cairo historic sites tours, live discussions etc. Start date: Jul. 2nd, 06 End date: Aug 10th, 06 Deadline for application is May 25th, 06 www.hedayetinstitute.com www.hias.nilenetwork.com For more info. pls. contact: Nagwa Hedayet at: info at hedayetinstitute.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:20 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:20 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Lesson Builder Software Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Lesson Builder Software -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:Mahmoud Elsayess Subject:Arabic Lesson Builder Software Arabic Lesson Builder Software We are starting the design phase of Arabic Lesson Builder, a computerized Arabic language teaching tool, and we would appreciate your comments and suggestions regarding the features that we intend to include. Arabic Lesson Builder is a new, Internet-based software that will offer significant benefits to Arabic teachers and students. The foundation of this software can be seen at www.readverse.com/ Arabic_Abacus.html. This Arabic Abacus will be expanded into a full, text editor lesson builder, and will have the same functionality as “Note Pad”. It will assist teachers in typing lessons with Tashkeel in Arabic. Students then can take a lesson and type their answers on the Internet without the need of installing any additional software on their machines. Arabic Lesson Builder will include these functions: · the complete contents of a lesson · A list of questions (multiple choices, fill in, true of false and other features) · The expected correct answers · Lesson Builder will compare the student’s answer against the expected answers that the teacher previously typed. · It can send the grade to a teacher only, or to student and teacher, or to other recipients. · Lesson Builder will keep track of all of the lessons that one student took with date, time, and grades. · The software will keep track of all of the lessons that one teacher created with date, and time. · A teacher will be able to copy an Arabic text and paste it in the Lesson Builder panel. (Providing that the character sets are compatible) · A teacher will be able to copy an existing lesson and create a new one. Your suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated. Please send them to melsayess at socal.rr.com Thank you. 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URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:10:58 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:10:58 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Teaching Jobs with MultiLingual Solutions Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Teaching Jobs with MultiLingual Solutions -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:eissa at comcast.net Subject:Arabic Teaching Jobs with MultiLingual Solutions I have received this request from the company below. Please contact the company directly. Muhammad Eissa =================================================== MultiLingual Solutions, Inc. (www.MLSolutions.com) is a premier provider of customized foreign language training and course materials for U.S. government agencies and corporate clients throughout the country. We are currently seeking experienced Foreign Language Instructors in the following languages and dialects: Iraqi, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian Farsi, Urdu, Modern Standard Arabic, Korean and Turkish, who will be responsible for developing and delivering basic, intermediate and advanced level language courses to military and civilian personnel. Duties also include assisting with the evaluation of students and academic counseling. Short-term and long-term positions available. Courses will take place in various locations throughout the United States. Instructors should possess the following: 1. a native-level proficiency of the standard form of the language 2. fully knowledgeable of the target culture and current usage of the language (grammatical forms and idiomatic expressions) 3. sufficient English speaking skills to effectively explain complex syntactic structures of the target language 4. experience in classroom language teaching, preferably in the instruction of adult learners 5. competence in task-based methodology, utilizing communicative activities 6. ability to address four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) 7. competence in locating suitable authentic materials and experience in developing proficiency-based training with integrated activities using such materials as newspaper articles or radio broadcasts 8. have proven ability to apply Instructional Systems Design components (writing of objectives, matching content to those objects, writing assessments, quizzes, tests that measure the standard set forth in the objectives) 9. academic credentials in the language are highly desirable: Master or Doctoral degree or comparable directly related work experience Interested candidates are encouraged to send the following as soon as possible to : HR at MLSolutions.com. *A detailed updated CV (as an attachment in Word or PDF), *A cover letter highlighting key qualifications and relevant teaching and translation/interpretation experience, *Information regarding current commitments/earliest availability, *Salary requirements, *Type of security clearance held, if any, *Nationality/visa status, and *Willingness to relocate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:11:13 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:13 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Placement Testing Policies Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Placement Testing Policies -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:abussaydeh at sharjah.ac.ae Subject:Placement Testing Policies Hello again, The professors who are currently working on a standardized Arabic test are Professor Mohammad Asfour: mhmasfour at hsrajah.ac.ae and Dr, Sane Yagi: yagi at hsrajah.ac.ae Feel free to post their addresses on the list; they would welcome any queries regarding their test. Regards Fattah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:11:01 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:01 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Open Language Archives Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Open Language Archives -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Open Language Archives Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:26:23 From: Steven Bird < sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au > Subject: Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) News Here is a summary of the developments in the Open Language Archives Community over the last year. Full details are available at: http://www.language-archives.org/ OLAC SEARCH ENGINE HANDLES 2000 QUERIES PER DAY In 2005, the OLAC Search Engine handled 824,676 queries, an average of 2259 per day or an average 68273 per month. The most popular languages searched for in 2005 were Dutch, English, Quechua, Arabic, Greek, German, Chinese, and Malay. Only 35% of queries specified a particular archive, the majority were generic searches across all archives. The most commonly searched repository was SIL-LCA, followed by PARADISEC and SCOIL. Thanks to Baden Hughes for his analysis of the server logs. OLAC Search Engine: http://www.language-archives.org/tools/search SIL Language and Culture Archives: http://www.language-archives.org/archive.php4?id=35 Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures: http://www.language-archives.org/archive.php4?id=18 Survey for California and Other Indian Languages: http://www.language-archives.org/archive.php4?id=21 EMELD WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION The 2006 E-MELD workshop will focus on 'Tools and Standards: the State of the Art.' This annual workshop marks the culmination of the 5-year E-MELD project; one goal of the workshop is to review digital standards ratified by the community in prior workshops on text, lexicons, databases, and annotation. The workshop will be held in June, in conjunction with the LSA Summer Meeting at Michigan State University. Workshop website: http://emeld.org/workshop/2006/ OLAC TUTORIAL AT THE LSA ANNUAL MEETING A tutorial organized by the OLAC Outreach working group was held at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in January. The focus of the presentations was on audio and video recording. The event was officially sponsored by the LSA's Committee for Endangered Languages and their Preservation. Tutorial website: http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/lsa_olac06.html NEW OLAC REPOSITORIES IN 2005 Four repositories joined OLAC in 2005: - the *Audio Archive of Linguistic Fieldwork* at the Berkeley Language Center, UC Berkeley, USA; - the *Comparative Corpus of Spoken Portuguese* at IEL Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil; - *The Online Database of Interlinear Text (ODIN)* at California State University, Fresno, USA; and - *Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)*, at the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney, New England, and Australian National University. Full list of OLAC Archives: http://www.language-archives.org/archives.php4 EMELD WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION The 2005 E-MELD workshop focussed on linguistic ontologies and data categories as aids in linguistic annotation and as tools for the fine-grained search and retrieval of language documentation. It was be held in July 2005, in conjunction with the LSA Institute at MIT. Workshop website: http://emeld.org/workshop/2005/ LSA TUTORIAL ON ARCHIVING AND LINGUISTIC RESOURCES This tutorial provided a forum where people who are compiling documentary linguistic resources could learn about current best practices for creating and conserving those resources. The tutorial was organized by Jeff Good (MPI Leipzig) and Heidi Johnson (University of Texas, Austin and AILLA) and held at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, in Oakland, California, in January 2005. Tutorial abstracts and slides: http://www.language-archives.org//events/olac05/ RECENT OLAC PUBLICATIONS Baden Hughes and Amol Kamat (2005). A Metadata Search Engine for Digital Language Archives. D-Lib Magazine 11(2). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february05/hughes/02hughes.html Baden Hughes (2004). Metadata Quality Evaluation: Experience from the Open Language Archives Community. Proc 7th Intl Conf on Asian Digital Libraries, Shanghai. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001408/ Steven Bird, University of Melbourne Gary Simons, SIL International OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:11:16 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:16 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Syrian Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Syrian Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:Abdulkafi Albirini Subject:U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Syrian Arabic The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to anounce two Syrian Arabic intensive summer courses. The first course (ARAB 210)will be June 12-July 07, 2006, Monday-Thursday 9-1 PM. The second course(ARAB 211) will be July 10-August 3, 2006, Monday-Thursday 9-1 PM. Thecourses are aimed at developing speaking and listening skills through exposure to Syrian Arabic in a variety of contexts. The courses will utilize professional texts accompanied by audio and video material as well as authentic audio and video material taken from the Syrian culture. For additional information please contact Dr. Albirini at albirini at uiuc.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:11:03 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:03 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Lesson Builder Response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Lesson Builder Response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:j.hoogland at let.ru.nl Subject:Arabic Lesson Builder Response I would suggest: - option to look up a word in the vocabulary list (both directions) - communication between student and teacher - feed back related to multiple choice questions, But I realize this means you’re about to copy existing software. BTW, is there, in Unicode and XP-era, a need for a specific Arabic- based tool? Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:02:52 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:02:52 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:U of Chicago Jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:U of Chicago Jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:Tahera Qutbuddin Subject:U of Chicago Jobs The University of Chicago Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Lecturer in Arabic The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations announces two positions of Lecturer in Arabic – each position for two years, renewable. Classes begin September 25, 2006. Lecturers teach two classes of various levels of Arabic in each of three quarters (autumn, winter, spring) to both undergraduate and graduate students. Applicants must have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and experience at the college level teaching Arabic as a foreign language. A Ph.D. is desirable but not required. Applicants should submit a cover letter referencing this announcement along with a brief description of teaching philosophy, a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and supporting documents including teaching evaluations and sample syllabi, if available, to Chair, Arabic Lecturer Search Committee Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street Rm 212 Chicago, IL 60637 Review of applications will begin on May 26, 2006, and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:27 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:27 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Software Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Transliteration Software Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Transliteration Software Query Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:28:17 From: Rho Hi < rho_hi_3514 at yahoo.com > Subject: Software for Transliteration of Arabic Texts Dear Linguists, Are you aware of any software for doing transliteration of such standard and canonical texts as the Koran. By transliteration, I mean romanization of the text so that the text could be more accessible to those who are unfamiliar with the Arabic script could read standard and classical Arabic texts. I will be grateful for your reply and cooperation. Kind regards, Rho Hi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:02 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:02 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Article -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:from LINGUIST Subject:New Article Journal Title: Babel Volume Number: 51 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2005 Cumulative difference and catastrophic change: The translation of Arabic bacda into English James Dickins 262-283 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:30 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:30 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:More Iraq-based Translator Jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:More Iraq-based Translator Jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 Subject:More Iraq-based Translator Jobs [moderator's note: as per the arabic-l policy, I did not include the attachments referred to in the message. If you would like to see them, I'm sure you could request them directly from the poster of the message.] Hello: My name is C. C., and I am a Lead Recruiter for the Worldwide Linguist effort here at SYColeman Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications). We are currently hiring ARABIC Linguists to translate Arabic into English and English into Arabic for positions that are located in Iraq. We are currently hiring 2 levels of Linguists, CAT I and CAT II. For Category I (CAT I), we require that you must have a Green Card to work in the United States. For Category II (CAT II), we require that you must be a U.S. citizen OR have a DOD issued Security clearance. These Linguist opportunities are for full-time positions and come with a host of benefits. Pay can exceed over $150,000.00 in the first year alone! If you are interested in this opportunity, please review the files I have attached in this email. Also, please send me a soft copy of your current resume along with answering our basic employee sheet enclosed with this email. Thank you, and I look forward to speaking to you in the very near future. PS: If you know someone who has the same skills you have as an Arabic Linguist and ALSO has either a Green Card US - Social Security Number US/ US Citizen OR a Security clearance, you can receive $500.00 per referral that is hired along with you!!!! You will receive $500.00 after your referral is on the project 3 months! We have some applicants that have made over $50,000 on referrals alone!!!!!!!!! So send them to us ASAP!!!! C. C. Recruiting - Linguist Project TS2 SYColeman Corp. (a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications) Crystal Square IV Arlington, Va. 22202 http://www.L-3Com.com http://www.SYColeman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:22 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:22 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Linguists Group Lecture Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Cairo Linguists Group Lecture -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:madihadoss at yahoo.com Subject:Cairo Linguists Group Lecture جماعة اللغويين في القاهرة و مركز البحوث العربية و الإفريقية نتشرف بدعوتكم لحضور محاضرة د. وفاء كامل قسم اللغة العربية بجامعة القاهرة "ملاحظات على المدونة اللغوية النصية لمعجم التعابير الاصطلاحية العربية الحديثة والمعاصرة" في المقر لمركز البحوث العربية والأفريقية 11 ش قرة بن شريك ، الدور الأول، في مواجهة مستشفى الرمد بالجيزة يوم السبت 27 مايو 2006 الساعة السادسة مساءً رجاء الحضور في الموعد المحدد CAIRO LINGUISTS GROUP and the Arab African Research Center are inviting you to a lecture by Wafaa Kamel (Prof. of Arabic linguistics, Cairo University) “Remarks on the text based corpus linguistics of the dictionary of contemporary Arabic idioms” at the headquarters of the Arab & African Research Center: 11 Qura Ibn Shureik Street, 1st floor, (2nd street to the right after crossing Abbas Bridge into Giza, opposite the Eye Hospital). Saturday, 27th May 2006, at 6 p.m. PLEASE COME ON TIME. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:05 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:05 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching a child Arabic query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Teaching a child Arabic query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:nevsab02 at yahoo.com Subject:Teaching a child Arabic query Hi Id like to get advice for how to teach a 5 year old Arabic Thanks -nevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:10 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:10 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Dialect materials in Arabic Script Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Dialect materials in Arabic Script -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh Subject:Needs Dialect materials in Arabic Script Dear Colleagues, Next year we are planning to offer a first year course in Levantine Arabic and also one in Iraqi Arabic and I am interested in looking at materials that are written in Arabic script rather than transliteration. I would appreciate your help in identifying such materials. Thank you in advance for your help. -- Peace, Martha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:18 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:18 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Modern Syriac Literature Conference Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Modern Syriac Literature Conference -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:shafiq.abouzayd at orinst.ox.ac.uk Subject:Modern Syriac Literature Conference Dear Colleague, ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organising its Twenty Third International Conference on “Modern Syriac Literature”, to be held at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (USA), 10-12 April 2007. The conference will start on Tuesday 10 April at 9am, finishing on Thursday 12 April at 5pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact our Oxford address as soon as possible: ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. ++1865-514041. Fax ++1865-516824. E.Mail: aram at orinst.ox.ac.uk or aram at aramsociety.org All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you know of colleagues who might like to contribute to the conference, please forward this message to them or send us their names and email addresses. Yet, we would liked to remind our colleagues that only academics are allowed to present a paper at an ARAM conference. If you wish to know ARAM Society and its cultural activities, please open our website: www.aramsociety.org If you have any questions or comments at any time, I am always happy to receive them. Yours sincerely, Dr Shafiq Abouzayd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:02:59 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:02:59 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:XML->PDF response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:XML->PDF response 2) Subject:XML->PDF response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:"Rahawi, Mohammed A" Subject:XML->PDF response I use the print function on Mac OS 10.4 to save in PDF format. It works perfectly. Keeking the format, the fonts (including harakat) and graphic. Hope this helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2) Date: 17 May 2006 From:Dil Parkinson Subject:XML->PDF response Indesign CS2 ME works very well with XML, and easily creates PDF files with full vowels. My book "Using Arabic Synonyms" was set on a Mac using Indesign, and it is full of vowels. I used the Mac version, but I believe there is a PC version that is equivalent. You cannot just get regular Indesign off the shelf, however. You need to specifically order the ME version that works with Arabic script and understands the script direction issues. It also has a nice feature that lets you put the vowels 'tight' against the letters, 'normal', or distant, for various aesthetic effects. The program is almost ridiculously expensive, and it has a rather steep learning curve--I went for a long time ignorant of some of its nicest features--, but for me it has been well worth it. dil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:18 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:18 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Software response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Transliteration Software response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:saneyagi at gmail.com Subject:Transliteration Software response Hi, Buckwalter, available on LDC, has a decent transliterator. Best, sane yagi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:21 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:21 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:What to call Arabic Dialect Course Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:What to call Arabic Dialect Course -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:Christian Sinclair Subject:What to call Arabic Dialect Course All, I have a question about nomenclature for Arabic courses we offer abroad. In addition to MSA we teach local dialects. The question has arisen as to the best way to name the courses for our catalogues. Debate has been heated. I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this. For example, here are the choices for Jordan. --Colloquial Jordanian Arabic --Jordanian Arabic --Jordanian Colloquial Arabic --Spoken Arabic of Jordan --Jordanian Dialect --'Amiyyah --other? I personally lean towards the Colloquial Jordanian Arabic. Please send your responses directly to me at christian.sinclair at sit.edu. shukran, Christian ----- Christian Sinclair Assistant Director, Middle Eastern Studies, SIT Study Abroad Adjunct Faculty, School for International Training Box 676, Kipling Road Brattleboro, VT 05302 USA tel: 802/258.3506 fax: 802/258.3296 www.sit.edu/studyabroad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:16 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:16 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dialect Materials in Script response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Dialect Materials in Script response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:j.hoogland at let.ru.nl Subject:Dialect Materials in Script response Martha, I would strongly advise you not to teach colloquial Arabic using the Arabic script. There are many reasons, but the most important is you give students a hard time for something they will never need. Furthermore you will probably be using writings in which MSA-spellings will be used (writers simply cannot avoid it), while the pronunciation is different, i.e. the students will pronounce it in one way, but read it in a different way, that's not just confusing, it's pedagogically unwise to do so. And what about vowels/tashkil? If you find unvocalised texts, students will miss about one third of necessary information. Still, I could supply you with tons of written Moroccan dialect, but not Levantine. Jan Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland Dept. of Arabic, University of Nijmegen POB 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, the Netherlands phone (0)24-3612641, residence: (0)24-3550199, mobile:(0)653652861 mobile in Morocco/GSM au Maroc: +-212-(0)79 146312 fax: (0)24-3500719 mail: j.hoogland at let.ru.nl personal website: www.janhoogland.com Arabic dictionary project website: www.let.ru.nl/wba website Nederlands Instituut in Marokko: www.let.ru.nl/NIMAR ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:25 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:25 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information Structure Conference Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information Structure Conference -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:Jonathan Owens Subject:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information Structure Conference Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic June 8-10, 2006 University of Maryland, Stamp Student Union, Benjamin Banneker Room AGENDA Thursday, June 8th 9:00 Welcome Richard Brecht, Center for Advanced Study of Language Alaa Elgibali, Arabic Department, University of Maryland Pragmatics, Semantics and Psycholinguistics Chair: Bruce Ingham 9:20 Mohammed Farghal, Yarmouk University “Pragmatics and Information Structure in Arabic” 10:05 Daniela Firanescu, Dalhousie University “The Meanings of Becoming in Syrian Arabic: Approach of the Modal Saar” 10:35 Break 10:50 David Wilmsen, American University, Cairo, Egypt “Understatement, Euphemism, and Circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic: Cooperation in Conversational Dissembling” 11:20 Mahmoud Alkhatib, University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan “The Pragmatics of Invitation Making and Acceptance in Jordanian Arabic” 11:50 Break 12:00 Sami Boudelaa, Cambridge University “The Structure of Information in Standard and Dialectal Arabic: A Cognitive Perspective” 12:45 Lunch Syntax, Word Order Chair: Mohammed Farghal 2:00 Steve Hewitt, UNESCO, Paris “Arabic: verb-subject-object or verb-given-new?” 2:30 Malcolm Edwards, University of London “Word Order and Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic: Formal and Functional Considerations” 3:00 Break 3:15 George Grigore, University of Bucharest “Conditional Structures in Mardini Arabic” 3:45 Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University “Topicalization in Egyptian Arabic” 4:15 Adjourn Friday, June 9th Codeswitching Chair: Amy Weinberg (CASL) 9:00 Karima Ziamari, ENS Meknes “Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching and Information Structure” 9:45 Break 10:00 Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan CASL and University of Maiduguri, Nigeria “Conversation Particles in Arabic-Hausa Codeswitching: Saliency and Language Hierarchies” 10:30 Uri Horesh, University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown University Variable Code-Switching and Atypical Sentence Structure in Palestinian Arabic 11:00 Break 11:15 Najat Benchiba, SOAS, London University “Structural and Social Considerations in Moroccan Arabic and English Codeswitching” 11:45 Raggia Effat, Cairo University “A Descriptive Analysis of Educated Spoken Standard Arabic in Cairo” 12:15 Lunch Phonetics and Phonology Chair: Alan Kaye 2:00 Dina ElZarka, Graz University, Austria “The Prosody of Focus in Egyptian Arabic” 2:30 Judith Rosenhouse, Swantech Ltd., Haifa, Israel “A Comparison of Intonation Patterns in Eastern and Western Arabic Dialects” 3:00 Break 3:15 Soha Abboud, University of Madrid “Accent and Syllabical Structure in Arabic Dialects: The case of Cairene Linguistic Variety as a Model” 3:45 Samantha Hellmuth, SOAS/University of Potsdam “The (Absence of) Prosodic Reflexes of the Given/New Distinction in Egyptian Arabic” 4:15 Adjourn Saturday, June 10th Discourse Particles Chair: Enam Al-Wer 9:00 Bruce Ingham, SOAS, London University “Information Structure in Najdi Arabic” 9:45 Marie Aimee Germanos, Université de Paris III “The Syntactic and Pragmatic Functions of enno in Lebanese Spoken Arabic” 10:15 Break 10:30 Maher Bahloul, University of Utah “The Pragmatics of the Particle Tab'an in Conversational Arabic” Corpus Analysis Chair: Sami Boudelaa 11:00 Alan Kaye, University of California, Fullerton “On the Use of Aspects, Independent Personal Pronouns, Fillers, and Attention Grabbers in an Algerian Arabic Oral Narrative” 11:45 Break 11:55 Jonathan Owens, David Mehall, Trent Rockwood, Bill Young, Robin Dodsworth, CASL “Explaining Ø Subjects in Spoken Arabic” 12:40 Otakar Smrz, Petr Zemanek, Jakub Kracmar, Viktor Bielicky, Charles University, Prague “Information Structure with the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank” 1:10 Lunch Sociolinguistics Chair: Karima Ziamari 2:15 Enam Al-Wer, Essex University “The Making of the Amman Dialect: From Chaos to Order” 3:00 Salma Arraf, Middle East School III, Defense Language Institute “The Palestinian Dialect in Contact with Hebrew: Overcoming Ethnical Obstacles and Group Boundaries” 3:30 Break 3:45 Rania Habib, University of Florida “An OT Account of a Sociolinguistic inter-personal Variation in the Syrian Himsi Colloquial Arabic” 4:15 Closing Remarks 4:30 Adjourn 45 minute sessions will consist of a 30 minute talk and 15 minute discussion 30 minute sessions will consist of a 20 minute talk and 10 minute discussion Jonathan Owens Senior Researcher University of Maryland CASL 301-226-8830 jowens at casl.umd.edu 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Thank you!! Lisa Taylor, Hilary Davis and Jasmin Zine ========================================================= Special Issue of Intercultural Education: CONTESTED IMAGINARIES Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back: Transnational Feminist Reading Practices, Pedagogy and Ethical Concerns Guest Editors: Lisa Taylor, Hilary Davis and Jasmin Zine Call for Abstracts: This special issue traces its origins to a conference panel examining the reception and teaching of Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi�s memoir within an Islamophobic global context in which Muslim women are increasingly the subject of neo-Orientalist pity, fear and fascination produced through a complex nexus of societal and imperial aggression. A proliferation of literary and cultural production about Muslim women in the form of memoirs, fiction, children�s literature and non-fiction both challenges and perpetuates the currency of Orientalist writing and representation. Within the context of the current global and geo-political landscape and the �War on Terror,� competing imaginaries: -- Western imperialist, Orientalist as well as feminist, anti-colonial, and Islamic -- form a contested terrain of knowledge production upon which the lives, histories and subjectivities of Muslim women are discursively constituted, debated, claimed and consumed through a variety of literary, academic and visual forms of representation This special issue seeks to examine critically how these forms of representation are taken up in various educational sites and also to interrogate and reflect on pedagogies which focus on the politics and ethics of reading. We invite scholarly papers that explore the literary, academic and cultural genres through which Muslim women are represented in relation to the pedagogical considerations, ethical concerns and political challenges arising from them. We are interested in the different facets of the politics of reception and the resulting tensions which must be negotiated by both Western and Muslim readers � i.e. not only responses which challenge neo-Orientalist and Islamaphobic narratives but also those which grapple with conservative Islamist narratives. Our overall aim is to explore the pedagogic possibilities opened up by readings which are transnational, feminist, and anti-colonial. . Engaging the problematic described here, papers are invited that examine (but are not limited to) the intersection of the following: a.. Feminist & postcolonial pedagogies of reading the �activated colonial divide� (Said) in different institutional and geographical settings within the global context of gendered Islamophobia and Western imperialism b.. Muslim women�s literary or cultural production and the complex subject positions and forms of community and agency imagined and re-membered therein c.. Reading and writing back: Muslim women�s literary, cultural and academic knowledge production as counter-hegemonic pedagogies d.. Western produced literature about Muslim women or girls in the Middle East, Africa and South or Western Asia including children�s literature and the structures of feeling, practices of reading and reading communities these invite e.. Publishing & marketing strategies targeting literature by/concerning Muslim women in the Middle East, Africa and South and Western Asia f.. Cultural and literary production which contests Western imaginaries of Muslim women g.. The reception of literature by/concerning Muslim women amongst book clubs and popular feminist reading practices h.. Reading and representing Muslim women: stories of teaching/learning from K-12 classrooms i.. The politics, problematics and practice of anti-Orientalist and anti-colonial readings j.. Muslim women in Islamist writings: Anti-patriarchal readings as pedadogical praxis Abstracts of 250 words are invited to be submitted electronically to the address below by June 30 2006. Please provide a brief bio with your abstract. Abstracts will be subject to peer review and selected authors will be invited to submit complete manuscripts for peer review by November 1, 2006. The special issue will be published in November, 2007. Submit abstracts to: intercultural_imaginaries at yahoo.com. Questions may be directed to the guest editors: Lisa Taylor, ltaylor at ubishops.ca Hilary E. Davis, hilarydavis at sympatico.ca Jasmin Zine, jzine at wlu.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:08 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:08 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching a child Arabic responses Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Teaching a child Arabic response 2) Subject:Teaching a child Arabic response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:maysa at comcast.net Subject:Teaching a child Arabic response Noorart is a good website that has good materials -- How can you get the best out of your students? Love them, respect them, and treat them as your treasure.Maysa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2) Date: 22 May 2006 From:ibc at ibcbooks.com Subject:Teaching a child Arabic response This is a reply to Nevin regarding teaching a 5 year old the Arabic language Please note International Book Centre sells product for teaching children Arabic called "Arabic Learning Treasure Chest" the package contains 18 animated DVD's. A sing-a-Long song CD; CD- Rom Game, Vocabulary DVD; Play & Think Activing Books; Fun activities, Stickers; Alphabet Puzzle; Flashcards, ;Sticker books and an Illustrated Dictionary.and Instruction Manual with Teacher's Guide included. Over 500 Arabic vocabulary words are introduced. Perfect for clasrooms, individuals,or home-school. For more information contact International Book Centre at ibc at ibcbooks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:11 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:11 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Article -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:hgadalla at yahoo.com Subject:New Article Dear Colleagues, I'm pleased to announce the appearance of my new article: "Arabic Imperfect Verbs in Translation: A Corpus Study of English Renderings" in META: Journal des Traducteurs, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2006, pp. 51-71 This paper proposes a model for translating Standard Arabic imperfect verbs into English based on their contextual references. It starts with a brief introduction to tense and aspect in English and Arabic. Then, it shows the study aim and technique. After that, it provides an analysis of the study results by discussing the various translations of Arabic imperfect verbs in the translations of two novels written by Naguib Mahfouz. The study compares the translations with the original texts to highlight the different English renderings of the Arabic imperfect verbs. A corpus of 430 sentences was randomly chosen from the two novels, 215 sentences from each novel. The structures in which Arabic imperfect verbs occur are classified into ten classes. For each class, the various English translations are provided with a count of the examples representing them in the corpus and their percentages. Then, the contextual reference of each translation is explained and commented on. Hassan Gadalla Hassan Gadalla Assistant Professor of Linguistics Faculty of Education for Girls at Al-Baha Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:14 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:14 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2nd Arabic Teacher Training Seminar at BYU Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:2nd Arabic Teacher Training Seminar at BYU -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:mnnassif at byu.edu Subject:2nd Arabic Teacher Training Seminar at BYU [moderator's note: Maggie tells me that the 1st scheduled seminar has filled and that many others applied that were not able to be accommodated, so a second one has been added.--dil] 2nd Arabic Teacher Training Seminar at BYU The National Middle East Language Resource Center NMELRC will be holding an additional Arabic seminar on August 31st, September 1st and 2nd, 2006 at Brigham Young University in Utah. The seminar will focus mainly on training new instructors and/or those who have been hired to launch new Arabic programs in colleges that have not traditionally offered Arabic. Seminar fees will be fully covered by NMELRC. Participants will be responsible for their transportation to and from Provo as well as lodging and board. All who are interested should submit their applications online to NMELRC by May 31st, 2006. Please go to www.nmelrc.org/ application.html and fill out and send in an application. For inquiries please call NMELRC at (801) 422-7192 or e-mail NMELRC_research at byu.edu Maggie N. Nassif, PhD, MBA Administrative Director National Middle East Language Resource Center Brigham Young University 212 HRCB, BYU, Provo, Utah, 84602 mnnassif at byu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:06 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:06 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book Review Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Book Review -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:New Book Review The following book review was announced in LINGUIST: Journal Title: Anthropological Linguistics Volume Number: 47 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2005 BOOK REVIEWS A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (Yasir Suleiman), BERNARD SPOLSKY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:03 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:03 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs Arabic Font Without Dots; Transliteration font available Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Arabic Font Without Dots; Transliteration font available -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:rogier visser Subject:Needs Arabic Font Without Dots; Transliteration font available Hello, I am working on a project on digitalizing Arabic manuscripts. I am looking for a font that contains Arabic characters without any diacritical dots, for instance a ta' without the two dots, or a fa' without the dot. Does anybody know of a font that supports this? I tried to create mine, but it doesn't work properly (too complex to explain) I also altered the font Times New Roman so that it includes Arabic transliteration characters (such as the t with a dot underneath). It includes a whole range of characters, which might come in handy for linguists. I sort of have the feeling that I have done work that has been done before, but I do not know of a similar font which is as complete as mine. The font is called unayza, and includes a regular, italic, bold and italic/bold variant. As far as I know, it is unicode supported (with the possible exception of the 'ayn), so that text in Arial Unicode should be displayed properly in Unayza. I would be very pleased if someone could mail me some feedback on it. http://home.student.uva.nl/rogier.visser/unayza-0.1.zip Many thanks Rogier Visser ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:11 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:11 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:What to call dialect class responses Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:What to call dialect class response 2) Subject:What to call dialect class response 3) Subject:Why teach dialect in the first place? -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:wasamy at umich.edu Subject:What to call dialect class response I suggest Jordanian Arabic. Waheed Samy wasamy at umich.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2) Date: 31 May 2006 From:josabih at mail.dk Subject:What to call dialect class response "Jordanian Arabic" will be best, and less prejudiced.The afct is that there many Arabics. Joshua A. Sabih ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 3) Date: 31 May 2006 From: Subject:Why teach dialect in the first place? I remember over 50 years ago, there was a radio show and the host asked a person a question using the Colloquial Egyptian Arabic, that person replied and said "in Russia we only learn to speak the proper Arabic Language, and if you want to ask me a question, then you need to speak using the Formal Arabic language". The point is simply focus on Formal Arabic language and the slang can be picked up later on. If you teach for example, Jordanian Colloquial Arabic and one of your student transferred to another University that does not teach Jordanian Colloquial Arabic, what would that student do? Thank you. Mahmoud Elsayess www.readverse.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:27:59 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:27:59 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs to contact Muhammad Muhammad Hilmi Heliel Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs to contact Muhammad Muhammad Hilmi Heliel -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:capraia at yahoo.com Subject:Needs to contact Muhammad Muhammad Hilmi Heliel I would appreciate any contact information about: Muhammad Muhammad Hilmi Heliel. thanks a lot -paula santillan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:01 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:01 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UC Davis Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:UC Davis Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:UC Davis Job Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:43:17 From: Jocelyn Sharlet < jcsharlet at ucdavis.edu > Subject: Arabic, Standard & Arabic Language: Senior Lecturer, University of California, Davis, CA, USA University or Organization: University of California, Davis Department: Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies Job Rank: Senior Lecturer Specialty Areas: Arabic Language Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The University of California, Davis, the Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies, announces a lecturer position to teach first-year Arabic in a new and growing Arabic program. The lecturer will teach one course in each of three terms, September 25-June 14, with the possibility of renewal. Applicant must have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic. Applicant must have an M.A. or a Ph.D., or be A.B.D, preferably in Arabic or a related field. Applicant should have experience teaching Arabic as a second language at the college level. Please send a letter of application describing texts and methods that you have used in Arabic instruction. Enclose a c.v., one-two sets of student evaluations, samples of tests, quizzes, and teaching materials that you have developed, and three letters of reference or a list of three references. Send these to: Professor Suad Joseph, Director, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616. Salary is contingent upon qualifications and experience, and percent of employment is determined by number of courses taught. Review of applications will begin on June 14 and will continue until the position is filled. The University of California, Davis is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Address for Applications: Suad Joseph Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies One Shields Avenue University of California Davis, CA 95616 USA Application Deadline: Open until filled. Contact Information: Jocelyn Sharlet Email: jcsharlet at ucdavis.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:06 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:06 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Book -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:jenny.breaker at oup.com Subject:New Book NEW FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS TITLE: A Linguistic History of Arabic AUTHOR: Jonathan Owens, University of Maryland and Bayreuth University, Germany PUBLICATION DATE: May 2006 A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich and complex picture of early Arabic language history and establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a manner accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists. Hardback, 0-19-929082-2, 978-0-19-929082-6, 328 pages, £60.00 For more information, please visit http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/? ci=9780199290826 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:09 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:09 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:marthas at email.arizona.edu Subject:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion 'ahlan ya zumalaa' Thanks to Jan Hogland for his input on the question of using materials written in Arabic script to teach colloquial. As with any pedagogical decision, the best course always requires consideration of the specific learning/teaching situation. In our case, at the University of Arizona, most of our students have already learned the Arabic script and have at least some level of ability in reading it. Most have had at least 1 year of MSA study before beginning to study the dialect. For many years, like Jan, I thought that it was preferable to use transliteration when teaching dialect. However, this last year I taught Egyptian Arabic using materials written in Arabic script and the experience has really convinced me of it's value. Students who learn the dialect through the script are able to make connections between what they are learning in the dialect and what they know in MSA in a positive way. There is "positive transfer" in terms of vocabulary learning and decoding skills. With the use of tashkiil, it is possible to get a pretty good representation of the pronunciation of the dialect, using certain conventions that can be taught. It is not perfect, but then what writing system for any language has a perfect one to one correspondence of sound to symbol? And in the final analysis I don't believe that my students who learned Egyptian (in past years) using transliteration ended up with better pronunciation because of it. Nor did they learn "more" because they didn't have to read the Arabic script. Many students used to complain to me that they found it hard to read the transliteration with all it's strange symbol conventions. Arabic works quite adequately in representing colloquial Arabic and using Arabic is more "authentic". In the case of Egyptian, there is a fair amount of written colloquial out there. Egyptian Arabic is all over the internet, written in Arabic script. There is something very odd about teaching a language in a script other than the one native speakers read the language in. Of course my arguments are based entirely on my "beliefs" and impressions. I don't believe that it is feasible to "prove" one way or the other which is better, but I can report that most of my students really enjoyed learning with materials written in script. Of course, the fact that I was so enthusiastically embracing those materials undoubtedly had an influence. :-) In sum then, I think that for students whose ultimate objective is to gain proficiency in both dialect and MSA learning the dialect throught the Arabic script strengthens their familiarity with the script and also faciliates their making connections between the two varieties of the language in a way that reinforces the learning of both. I hope that we will see more materials on the market for teaching the dialects written in Arabic script. Peace, Martha Martha Schulte-Nafeh Assistant Professor and Middle Eastern Language Coordinator Department of Near Eastern Studies/Center for Middle Eastern Studies Louise Marshall Foucar Bldg. Room 454/845 N Park Ave University of Arizona Tucson Arizona 85721 520 730-7605 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:27:56 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:27:56 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:de Gruyter's Atlas of Jerusalem Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:de Gruyter's Atlas of Jerusalem -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:jerusalem at gerlach-books.de Subject:de Gruyter's Atlas of Jerusalem de Gruyter's Atlas of Jerusalem This remarkable work, edited by the Geography Dept of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/ New York shows the development and expansion of Jerusalem from its beginnings around 3000 BC until 1973. The main focus is on the 1960ies. The Holy City is depicted on 53 large folding colour maps (65.5 x 48 cm each). Maps and legend are bi-lingual (English and Hebrew), the accompanying text volume (173 pp) is in English. Both are stored in a cloth covered wooden box (53 x 37 x 4.5 cm). The Atlas of Jerusalem has additional political relevance as the work was completed before 1973. CONTENTS: The Region / Quarters and Streets / History / Urban Structure / Land- Use / Public Institutions / Transportation / Population / Town Planning / Changes after 1967 *** Our special offer until 30 June 2006: 190 EUR *** (Former list price 490 EUR) This offer applies to the remaining stock of 50 copies. Kind regards from Berlin, (Ms) Dagmar Konrad Marketing Manager FOR DETAILS & ONLINE ORDERS: http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/books_atlas_jerus.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:38:43 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:38:43 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic from PDF Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic from PDF -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:Dilworth Parkinson Subject:Arabic from PDF If a pdf file isn't protected, I can usually choose the text and copy the Arabic from it into an application like textedit on the mac and it works fine. I do it all the time. However, I have been given some pdf files which have Arabic in them, but when I copy the text into any other program, it turns to garbage. Is there anyone out there who can explain this to me? Dil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 1 19:35:48 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 13:35:48 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:Placement Testing Policies Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 01 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Placement Testing Policies Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 May 2006 From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh Subject:Placement Testing Policies Query 'ahlan ya zumalaa'i I am writing to ask for information about what you do in your program in terms of placing students that come into your program and have not done the immediately preceding prerequisite level at your institution? How do you determine the placement of such students? Do you also test your own students coming back from summer programs? Thanks for providing this information. Or referring me to a written policy if there is one. If you choose to respond to me personally, I will summarize the responses for the members of the list, with your permission to do so. Peace, Martha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 01 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:37 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:37 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middle East Institute Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Middle East Institute Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:languages at mideasti.org Subject:Middle East Institute Summer Program Middle East Institute (MEI) DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND REGIONAL STUDIES INTENSIVE SUMMER COURSES IN ARABIC AND FARSI 6 COLLEGE CREDITS (90 Contact hours per course) WHEN: May 19-June 25, 2006; 2:00pm-7:00pm Fri, Sat, and Sun LOCATION: Middle East Institute, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-2882 TO ENROLL: Register on line with MEI (www.mideasti.org) or call the Department of Languages and Regional Studies at 202-785-2710 TUITION: $1,350 per course Other fees: $75 registration fee (includes MEI membership fee) I. ARABIC A. BEGINNING ARABIC DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this intensive course is to develop mastery of Arabic orthographic and sound systems and the five language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture) at the beginning level. Students will develop the ability to interact successfully in basic communicative situations and to deal with language in its most essential uses. Depending on student interest, supplemental cultural excursions may be scheduled, including visiting mosques, attending lectures on Islam and Islam in the West, visiting Arabic restaurants to become acquainted with Arabic cuisine, visiting Arabic markets and book stores, meeting with members of the Arab community, and attending sessions on cultural topics such as Arabic music and calligraphy. PREREQUISITE: None TEXTBOOKS: a. Brustad K, Al-Batal M, and Al-Tonsi A. Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. b. Mahdi A. Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. c. MEI supplementary materials. B. HIGH INTERMEDIATE ARABIC DESCRIPTION: Using the newly developed text Adwaa? cla -l-carabiyya - l-casriyya (Focus on Contemporary Arabic Language and Culture) and the DVD that accompanies it, this intensive course further develops the five language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture) at the high intermediate level, including developing the student?s ability to interact successfully in a variety of general communicative situations and deal with short texts and topics of general import. Adwaa? cla -l-carabiyya -l-casriyya is part of the Yale series Conversations with Native Speakers. As the title implies, this book sheds light not only on the challenges Arabs currently face, but also on what they think of those challenges and the language they use to express what they think. The text and DVD expose students of Arabic to spontaneous, unrehearsed use of the language by native speakers, expressing themselves for the most part in Formal Spoken Arabic, a somewhat simplified form of Modern Standard Arabic understood by the majority of Arabs. Subject matter for the book chapters is drawn from actual conversations with native speakers from various Arab countries on issues that concern them, ranging from personal matters (such as family life and memories of youth) to their views on globalization and Arab-American relations. PREREQUISITE: Beginning Arabic or the approval of the department TEXTBOOKS: a. Abed S. Adwaa? cla -l-carabiyya -l-casriyya (Focus on Contemporary Arabic Language and Culture) with DVD. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. b. Cowan J M. The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, 1993. c. MEI supplementary materials. II. BEGINNIG FARSI DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this intensive course is to develop mastery of Farsi orthographic and sound systems and the five language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture) at the beginning level. Students will develop the ability to interact successfully in basic communicative situations and to deal with the language in its most essential uses. Depending on student interest, supplemental cultural excursions may be scheduled during this course, including visiting mosques, attending lectures on Islam and Islam in the West, visiting Persian restaurants to become acquainted with Persian cuisine, visiting Persian markets and book stores, meeting with members of the Persian community, and attending sessions on cultural topics such as Persian music and calligraphy. PREREQUISITE: None TEXTBOOKS: a. P?rn~md~r?~n T. Persian for Foreigners: An Elementary Course. Tehran: Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2005. b, Kouchak M. 50 Articles: A Textbook for Reading and Listening Comprehension in Persian Language (with CD). No Publisher: 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:34 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:34 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Poetry Recitation Competition Deadline Extention Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Poetry Recitation Competition Deadline Extention -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh Subject:Arabic Poetry Recitation Competition Deadline Extention Dear Arabic Teachers, thank you to those of you who have already requested accounts and are encouraging your students to participate. We are extending the deadline for submissions to May 12th in the hopes that this will give more of you an opportunity to have your students participate. Details for the competition are repeated below: Please feel free to logon to the OLE board site at http://epsilon.ltc.arizona.edu/ole/oleboard.html to see what the submissions look like. you can log on using the ID and password: AATA You will find there an example recitation for one of our second semester students (yes it's my son Sharif :-) ) In order for your students to participate you will need your own account logon. I hope to be inundated with requests for accounts in the next few days!! For those of you who like the idea but just didn't have enough time to fit it into the schedule on such short notice know that next year you'll have much more forwarning! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:28 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:28 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Opportunity for U.S. K-12 Schools Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Opportunity for U.S. K-12 Schools -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From: "Cashner, Catharine E" Subject:Opportunity for U.S. K-12 Schools Opportunity for U.S. K-12 Schools The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State is pleased to announce the Teachers of Critical Languages Program, an exchange program under the new National Security Language Initiative. This program seeks to strengthen the teaching of Chinese and Arabic at U.S. schools, while also providing the exchange teachers the opportunity to learn about U.S. teaching methodologies, culture and society. For the 2006-2007 academic year, U.S. primary or secondary schools with existing Arabic or Chinese language programs may apply for the opportunity to host a teacher from the People's Republic of China or Jordan to teach Mandarin Chinese or Arabic, respectively, and also to serve as cultural resources in the school and community. Ten Chinese and two Jordanian teachers will be selected to participate through a merit competition in their home countries. The Department of State will provide J-1 visa sponsorship, airfare, accident and illness insurance, and a living allowance for the teacher. U.S. schools must provide a mentor teacher and must demonstrate a plan for how both the U.S. school and the international teacher will benefit from the program. The deadline for applications from U.S. schools is Wednesday, May 31. For more information about hosting an exchange teacher, or to request an application, e-mail tclp at state.gov. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:32 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:32 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Special on Wehr's Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Gerlach Special on Wehr's -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:wehr at gerlach-books.de Subject:Gerlach Special on Wehr's This is our 2006 spring offer of Hans Wehr's two famous Arabic dictionaries: "Arabisches Woerterbuch f?r die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart", published in its 5th edition by Otto Harrassowitz, is until today the most important dictionary of its kind. It's English version "Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic" set the same superior standards, including transliteration of Arabic. We are now offering the two Wehr dictionaries as well as Goetz Schregle's German-Arabic counterpart each at the FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: * Orders until MAY 5 only: ***96 EUR*** per copy (instead of 136) * Orders until May 31: 110 EUR per copy (instead of 136) * Orders until June 30: 120 EUR per copy (instead of 136) (Please note: This offer is valid outside Germany, Austria & Switzerland only.) Order your Arabic dictionaries TODAY! Looking forward, (Ms) Dagmar Konrad Marketing Manager Details: http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/index_books.php KAI-HENNING GERLACH - BOOKS & ONLINE Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies D-10627 Berlin, Germany Kantstrasse 89 Telefon +49 30 3249441 Telefax +49 30 3235667 e-mail khg at gerlach-books.de www.gerlach-books.de USt/VAT No. DE 185 061 373 Verkehrs-Nr. 24795 (BAG) EAN 4330931247950 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:30 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:30 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:How to teach Intensive Arabic Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:How to teach Intensive Arabic Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:noura_hamdane at yahoo.ie Subject:How to teach Intensive Arabic Query I would like to ask Arabic teachers about strategies and practices of teaching Beginning Arabic in an intensive class, the number of new words per day, topics to speak about, material design, speaking first language or Arabic, and all issues related to teaching beginning classes Best, Noura ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:08:39 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:08:39 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Placement Testing Policies response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 03 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Placement Testing Policies response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 May 2006 From:abussaydeh at sharjah.ac.ae Subject:Placement Testing Policies response Hi, You might like to know that some of my colleagues at the English Department here have developed an Arabic placement test that is similar to TOEFL. We have used the test several times in placing translation program candidates, though the test is not in its final form as yet. If you are interested, I can put ypu in touch with them. Cheers. Dr. A.F. Abu-ssaydeh, Chairman English Dept Sharjah University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 03 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 3 19:18:35 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:18:35 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 01 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Summer Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 May 2006 From:moderator Subject:Summer Programs [I will post the info on any of your summer programs in full IF you send them to me in an e-mail message (not as an attachment) in text format.] I have received information about the following summer programs by regular mail. Since my fingers are rebelling at typing all the info in, I am simply going to list the websites where you can get more information: 1. Columbia University Arabic Summer Program www.ce.columbia.edu/summer (elementary, intermediate and advanced) Contact: George El-Hage ge at columbia.edu 2. University of Wisconsin, Madison Arabic and Persian Immersion Program, Summer 2005 global.wisc.edu/apip (elementary, intermediate and advanced) Global Studies global at intl-institute.wisc.edu 3. Intensive Course in Distinguished Arabic (designed to bring students who are at the 2+/3 level on the way to level 4) San Diego State University, Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) Center for the Advancement of Distinguished Level Proficiency (ADLP) larcnet.sdsu.edu/workshops.php Brandi Sanford-Fischer bfischer at projects.sdsu.edu Christian Degueldre cdegueld at mail.sdsu.edu Application Deadline: May 15 4. 4 week Arabic Language Immersion in Cairo Aug 26- Sep 22, 2006 for 2+/3 level speakers Also sponsored by SDSU, LARC, ADLP Same contact info as above Deadline: July 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 01 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:13 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:13 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:XML->PDF response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:XML->PDF response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:t.a.mcallister at leeds.ac.uk Subject:XML->PDF response You could try OpenOffice. That uses XML as its basic format, and the word-processor can export text directly to PDF. I've just tested it with vowelled Arabic, and it worked. Alec McAllister Multilingual Computing Co-ordinator Information Systems Services University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom tel 0113 343 3573 email: t.a.mcallister at leeds.ac.uk fax: 0113 343 5411 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:06 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:06 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Arabic Translator Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Translator Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Arabic Translator Job University or Organization: L-3 Communications Job Rank: Translator Specialty Areas: Translation; Arabic/English -English/Arabic Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Urdu (urd) , English (eng) Description: $149,820 - $179,000 a yr L-3 Communications is a leading provider of comprehensive information and communications products, solutions, and services for National Security. We work with the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and many other government customers. L-3 Communications is currently looking for Arabic Linguist to work with other linguist and military personnel at an overseas location You will be a full-time employee of L-3 Communications. Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, 2 weeks paid vacation every 6 months, etc., As expected, the variety of jobs using your ability to translate between Arabic and English ranges greatly. You will provide general linguistic support for military operations. You will interpret during interviews, meetings, and conferences. You will interpret between local citizens and soldiers, transcribe and analyze verbal communications and perform document translation. (a) Minimum required: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing Arabic & English as you will spend most of your time interpreting between the two languages. U.S. Citizen, Green Card holder or I-94 L-3 Communications is a leading provider of comprehensive information and communications products, solutions, and services for National Security. We work with the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and many other government customers. L-3 Communications is currently looking for Arabic Linguist to work with other linguist and military personnel at an overseas location. Required American Citizens - don't need to speak Iraqui dialect Green Card and I-94 holders - must speak the Iraqi Dialect All applicants will undergo background investigation, oral and written skills language examination, medical examination and counter- intelligence screening as conditions of employment on this contract. Contact Info: 703-390-4654 Address for Applications: Cecilia Elmadi 10718 Wynkoop Dr Greatfalls, VA 22066 USA Application Deadline: Open until filled. Contact Information: cel. 571-338-3478 Elmadi Email: Cecilia.Elmadi at Titan.com Phone: 703-390-4654 Website: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:17 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:17 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:HISCC in Copenhagen Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:HISCC in Copenhagen -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:Adil Al-Kufaishi Subject:HISCC in Copenhagen Dear Colleagues We, some Iraqi academics in Denmark, have opened an institute called "The Higher Institute for Studies and Consultation in Copenhagen" HISCC which aims at establishing links between the Danish Academic higher Institutions and the Iraqi universities and higher institutions, extending help to our Iraqi colleagues and staff members specialized in different disciplines and fields of study. The Institute holds joint short and long term training courses for both the postgraduate students and the faculty members in collaboration with Danish academic institutions and universities to update their knowledge and build up their capacities. It also furnishes the Iraqi staff members who are on a sabbatical leave with the research facilities and the technical training required. Those who seek our support may contact us on our emails. For further information you may refer to our homepage: http://www.hiscc.dk http://www.hiscc.dk/ENpressRelease020506.pdf http://www.hiscc.dk/ARComminuqe.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:37 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:37 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Georgetown Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Georgetown Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:kb339 at georgetown.edu Subject:Georgetown Summer Program GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Summer Arabic & Persian Institute 2006 June 5^th - August 11^th Intensive Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced ARABIC Spoken IRAQI Arabic Beginning PERSIAN in the Evening Beginning ARABIC in the Evening Spoken EGYPTIAN Arabic Please visit our website for more information: http://summerschool.georgetown.edu/courses/arabicandpersian.html Or contact the Assistant Director, Kelly Beyer, at 202-687-5743 or Applications are due May 3, 2006. Late applications will be reviewed on a space-available basis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:32 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:32 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NYU Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:NYU Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:ms93 at nyu.edu Subject:NYU Summer Program New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies is offering again its 3-week Summer Intensive programs in MSA. Intensive Arabic I and II (for beginners) 51 hrs of classroom instruction and 6 hours of cultural field trips to the ethnic communities. June 26 - July 14 ; Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thurs at 9 am - 1 pm ; field trips on Fridays. This course applies towards a certificate in Arabic or can be taken for 3 undergraduate credits. Intensive Arabic III and IV 51 hrs of classroom instruction and 6 hours of cultural field trips to the ethnic communities. July 17 - August 4; Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thurs at 9 am - 1 pm ; field trips on Fridays. This course applies towards a certificate in Arabic or can be taken for 3 undergraduate credits. For more information please call an education advisor at (212) 998-7171 or go to www.scps.nyu.edu/trans ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:29 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:29 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:James Madison U Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:James Madison U Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:absiox at jmu.edu Subject:James Madison U Summer Program James Madison University Department Of Foreign Languages And Literatures offers Intensive Summer Courses IN ARABIC 6 CREDITS (80 Contact hours total) When: May 15-June 9, 2006; 9:00am-1:PM Monday to Friday. Location: James Madison University, Harrisonburg Virginia 22807. For Information call: 540-514-6826 To Enroll: Register online at www.jmu.edu Class title: FL490 Tuition: $1584 Course Description: If you are in the Shenandoah valley this summer and You would like to learn Arabic, James Madison University offers an intensive Arabic course from May 15th to June 9th. The purpose of this course is to enable students to master Arabic orthographic and sound systems,basic vocabulary and to be able to communicate at a low intermediate level. Students who successfully finish this course will have excellent understanding of the internal functioning of the Arabic language, moreover they will acquire solid bases in Arabic structure, pronunciation and culture. The course includes screening of different Arabic videos from the Arab world, as well as in class use of a variety of Arabic educational software. Prerequisites: None Textbooks used: a. Brustad K, Al-Batal M, and Al-Tonsi A. Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. b. Mahdi A. Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. c. James Madison University supplementary materials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:34 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:34 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayat Institute Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:nhedayet at yahoo.com Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Program Hedayet Institute Summer Program 6 week language/culture intensive program. All levels from beginner's to advanced. Cultural activities including, lectures, Cairo historic sites tours, live discussions etc. Start date: Jul. 2nd, 06 End date: Aug 10th, 06 Deadline for application is May 25th, 06 www.hedayetinstitute.com www.hias.nilenetwork.com For more info. pls. contact: Nagwa Hedayet at: info at hedayetinstitute.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Fri May 5 15:34:20 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:34:20 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Lesson Builder Software Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 05 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Lesson Builder Software -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 May 2006 From:Mahmoud Elsayess Subject:Arabic Lesson Builder Software Arabic Lesson Builder Software We are starting the design phase of Arabic Lesson Builder, a computerized Arabic language teaching tool, and we would appreciate your comments and suggestions regarding the features that we intend to include. Arabic Lesson Builder is a new, Internet-based software that will offer significant benefits to Arabic teachers and students. The foundation of this software can be seen at www.readverse.com/ Arabic_Abacus.html. This Arabic Abacus will be expanded into a full, text editor lesson builder, and will have the same functionality as ?Note Pad?. It will assist teachers in typing lessons with Tashkeel in Arabic. Students then can take a lesson and type their answers on the Internet without the need of installing any additional software on their machines. Arabic Lesson Builder will include these functions: ? the complete contents of a lesson ? A list of questions (multiple choices, fill in, true of false and other features) ? The expected correct answers ? Lesson Builder will compare the student?s answer against the expected answers that the teacher previously typed. ? It can send the grade to a teacher only, or to student and teacher, or to other recipients. ? Lesson Builder will keep track of all of the lessons that one student took with date, time, and grades. ? The software will keep track of all of the lessons that one teacher created with date, and time. ? A teacher will be able to copy an Arabic text and paste it in the Lesson Builder panel. (Providing that the character sets are compatible) ? A teacher will be able to copy an existing lesson and create a new one. Your suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated. Please send them to melsayess at socal.rr.com Thank you. Mahmoud Elsayess www.readverse.com 714 376 4862 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:10:58 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:10:58 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Teaching Jobs with MultiLingual Solutions Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Teaching Jobs with MultiLingual Solutions -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:eissa at comcast.net Subject:Arabic Teaching Jobs with MultiLingual Solutions I have received this request from the company below. Please contact the company directly. Muhammad Eissa =================================================== MultiLingual Solutions, Inc. (www.MLSolutions.com) is a premier provider of customized foreign language training and course materials for U.S. government agencies and corporate clients throughout the country. We are currently seeking experienced Foreign Language Instructors in the following languages and dialects: Iraqi, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian Farsi, Urdu, Modern Standard Arabic, Korean and Turkish, who will be responsible for developing and delivering basic, intermediate and advanced level language courses to military and civilian personnel. Duties also include assisting with the evaluation of students and academic counseling. Short-term and long-term positions available. Courses will take place in various locations throughout the United States. Instructors should possess the following: 1. a native-level proficiency of the standard form of the language 2. fully knowledgeable of the target culture and current usage of the language (grammatical forms and idiomatic expressions) 3. sufficient English speaking skills to effectively explain complex syntactic structures of the target language 4. experience in classroom language teaching, preferably in the instruction of adult learners 5. competence in task-based methodology, utilizing communicative activities 6. ability to address four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) 7. competence in locating suitable authentic materials and experience in developing proficiency-based training with integrated activities using such materials as newspaper articles or radio broadcasts 8. have proven ability to apply Instructional Systems Design components (writing of objectives, matching content to those objects, writing assessments, quizzes, tests that measure the standard set forth in the objectives) 9. academic credentials in the language are highly desirable: Master or Doctoral degree or comparable directly related work experience Interested candidates are encouraged to send the following as soon as possible to : HR at MLSolutions.com. *A detailed updated CV (as an attachment in Word or PDF), *A cover letter highlighting key qualifications and relevant teaching and translation/interpretation experience, *Information regarding current commitments/earliest availability, *Salary requirements, *Type of security clearance held, if any, *Nationality/visa status, and *Willingness to relocate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:11:13 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:13 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Placement Testing Policies Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Placement Testing Policies -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:abussaydeh at sharjah.ac.ae Subject:Placement Testing Policies Hello again, The professors who are currently working on a standardized Arabic test are Professor Mohammad Asfour: mhmasfour at hsrajah.ac.ae and Dr, Sane Yagi: yagi at hsrajah.ac.ae Feel free to post their addresses on the list; they would welcome any queries regarding their test. Regards Fattah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:11:01 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:01 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Open Language Archives Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Open Language Archives -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Open Language Archives Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:26:23 From: Steven Bird < sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au > Subject: Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) News Here is a summary of the developments in the Open Language Archives Community over the last year. Full details are available at: http://www.language-archives.org/ OLAC SEARCH ENGINE HANDLES 2000 QUERIES PER DAY In 2005, the OLAC Search Engine handled 824,676 queries, an average of 2259 per day or an average 68273 per month. The most popular languages searched for in 2005 were Dutch, English, Quechua, Arabic, Greek, German, Chinese, and Malay. Only 35% of queries specified a particular archive, the majority were generic searches across all archives. The most commonly searched repository was SIL-LCA, followed by PARADISEC and SCOIL. Thanks to Baden Hughes for his analysis of the server logs. OLAC Search Engine: http://www.language-archives.org/tools/search SIL Language and Culture Archives: http://www.language-archives.org/archive.php4?id=35 Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures: http://www.language-archives.org/archive.php4?id=18 Survey for California and Other Indian Languages: http://www.language-archives.org/archive.php4?id=21 EMELD WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION The 2006 E-MELD workshop will focus on 'Tools and Standards: the State of the Art.' This annual workshop marks the culmination of the 5-year E-MELD project; one goal of the workshop is to review digital standards ratified by the community in prior workshops on text, lexicons, databases, and annotation. The workshop will be held in June, in conjunction with the LSA Summer Meeting at Michigan State University. Workshop website: http://emeld.org/workshop/2006/ OLAC TUTORIAL AT THE LSA ANNUAL MEETING A tutorial organized by the OLAC Outreach working group was held at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in January. The focus of the presentations was on audio and video recording. The event was officially sponsored by the LSA's Committee for Endangered Languages and their Preservation. Tutorial website: http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/lsa_olac06.html NEW OLAC REPOSITORIES IN 2005 Four repositories joined OLAC in 2005: - the *Audio Archive of Linguistic Fieldwork* at the Berkeley Language Center, UC Berkeley, USA; - the *Comparative Corpus of Spoken Portuguese* at IEL Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil; - *The Online Database of Interlinear Text (ODIN)* at California State University, Fresno, USA; and - *Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)*, at the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney, New England, and Australian National University. Full list of OLAC Archives: http://www.language-archives.org/archives.php4 EMELD WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION The 2005 E-MELD workshop focussed on linguistic ontologies and data categories as aids in linguistic annotation and as tools for the fine-grained search and retrieval of language documentation. It was be held in July 2005, in conjunction with the LSA Institute at MIT. Workshop website: http://emeld.org/workshop/2005/ LSA TUTORIAL ON ARCHIVING AND LINGUISTIC RESOURCES This tutorial provided a forum where people who are compiling documentary linguistic resources could learn about current best practices for creating and conserving those resources. The tutorial was organized by Jeff Good (MPI Leipzig) and Heidi Johnson (University of Texas, Austin and AILLA) and held at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, in Oakland, California, in January 2005. Tutorial abstracts and slides: http://www.language-archives.org//events/olac05/ RECENT OLAC PUBLICATIONS Baden Hughes and Amol Kamat (2005). A Metadata Search Engine for Digital Language Archives. D-Lib Magazine 11(2). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february05/hughes/02hughes.html Baden Hughes (2004). Metadata Quality Evaluation: Experience from the Open Language Archives Community. Proc 7th Intl Conf on Asian Digital Libraries, Shanghai. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001408/ Steven Bird, University of Melbourne Gary Simons, SIL International OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:11:16 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:16 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Syrian Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Syrian Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:Abdulkafi Albirini Subject:U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Syrian Arabic The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to anounce two Syrian Arabic intensive summer courses. The first course (ARAB 210)will be June 12-July 07, 2006, Monday-Thursday 9-1 PM. The second course(ARAB 211) will be July 10-August 3, 2006, Monday-Thursday 9-1 PM. Thecourses are aimed at developing speaking and listening skills through exposure to Syrian Arabic in a variety of contexts. The courses will utilize professional texts accompanied by audio and video material as well as authentic audio and video material taken from the Syrian culture. For additional information please contact Dr. Albirini at albirini at uiuc.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 10 21:11:03 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:03 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Lesson Builder Response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 10 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Lesson Builder Response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 10 May 2006 From:j.hoogland at let.ru.nl Subject:Arabic Lesson Builder Response I would suggest: - option to look up a word in the vocabulary list (both directions) - communication between student and teacher - feed back related to multiple choice questions, But I realize this means you?re about to copy existing software. BTW, is there, in Unicode and XP-era, a need for a specific Arabic- based tool? Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 10 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:02:52 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:02:52 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:U of Chicago Jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:U of Chicago Jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:Tahera Qutbuddin Subject:U of Chicago Jobs The University of Chicago Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Lecturer in Arabic The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations announces two positions of Lecturer in Arabic ? each position for two years, renewable. Classes begin September 25, 2006. Lecturers teach two classes of various levels of Arabic in each of three quarters (autumn, winter, spring) to both undergraduate and graduate students. Applicants must have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and experience at the college level teaching Arabic as a foreign language. A Ph.D. is desirable but not required. Applicants should submit a cover letter referencing this announcement along with a brief description of teaching philosophy, a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and supporting documents including teaching evaluations and sample syllabi, if available, to Chair, Arabic Lecturer Search Committee Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street Rm 212 Chicago, IL 60637 Review of applications will begin on May 26, 2006, and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:27 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:27 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Software Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Transliteration Software Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Transliteration Software Query Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:28:17 From: Rho Hi < rho_hi_3514 at yahoo.com > Subject: Software for Transliteration of Arabic Texts Dear Linguists, Are you aware of any software for doing transliteration of such standard and canonical texts as the Koran. By transliteration, I mean romanization of the text so that the text could be more accessible to those who are unfamiliar with the Arabic script could read standard and classical Arabic texts. I will be grateful for your reply and cooperation. Kind regards, Rho Hi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:02 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:02 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Article -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:from LINGUIST Subject:New Article Journal Title: Babel Volume Number: 51 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2005 Cumulative difference and catastrophic change: The translation of Arabic bacda into English James Dickins 262-283 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:30 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:30 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:More Iraq-based Translator Jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:More Iraq-based Translator Jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 Subject:More Iraq-based Translator Jobs [moderator's note: as per the arabic-l policy, I did not include the attachments referred to in the message. If you would like to see them, I'm sure you could request them directly from the poster of the message.] Hello: My name is C. C., and I am a Lead Recruiter for the Worldwide Linguist effort here at SYColeman Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications). We are currently hiring ARABIC Linguists to translate Arabic into English and English into Arabic for positions that are located in Iraq. We are currently hiring 2 levels of Linguists, CAT I and CAT II. For Category I (CAT I), we require that you must have a Green Card to work in the United States. For Category II (CAT II), we require that you must be a U.S. citizen OR have a DOD issued Security clearance. These Linguist opportunities are for full-time positions and come with a host of benefits. Pay can exceed over $150,000.00 in the first year alone! If you are interested in this opportunity, please review the files I have attached in this email. Also, please send me a soft copy of your current resume along with answering our basic employee sheet enclosed with this email. Thank you, and I look forward to speaking to you in the very near future. PS: If you know someone who has the same skills you have as an Arabic Linguist and ALSO has either a Green Card US - Social Security Number US/ US Citizen OR a Security clearance, you can receive $500.00 per referral that is hired along with you!!!! You will receive $500.00 after your referral is on the project 3 months! We have some applicants that have made over $50,000 on referrals alone!!!!!!!!! So send them to us ASAP!!!! C. C. Recruiting - Linguist Project TS2 SYColeman Corp. (a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications) Crystal Square IV Arlington, Va. 22202 http://www.L-3Com.com http://www.SYColeman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:22 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:22 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Linguists Group Lecture Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Cairo Linguists Group Lecture -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:madihadoss at yahoo.com Subject:Cairo Linguists Group Lecture ????? ???????? ?? ??????? ? ???? ?????? ??????? ? ????????? ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ?. ???? ???? ??? ????? ??????? ?????? ??????? "??????? ??? ??????? ??????? ?????? ????? ???????? ?????????? ??????? ??????? ?????????" ?? ????? ????? ?????? ??????? ?????????? 11 ? ??? ?? ???? ? ????? ?????? ?? ?????? ?????? ????? ??????? ??? ????? 27 ???? 2006 ?????? ??????? ????? ???? ?????? ?? ?????? ?????? CAIRO LINGUISTS GROUP and the Arab African Research Center are inviting you to a lecture by Wafaa Kamel (Prof. of Arabic linguistics, Cairo University) ?Remarks on the text based corpus linguistics of the dictionary of contemporary Arabic idioms? at the headquarters of the Arab & African Research Center: 11 Qura Ibn Shureik Street, 1st floor, (2nd street to the right after crossing Abbas Bridge into Giza, opposite the Eye Hospital). Saturday, 27th May 2006, at 6 p.m. PLEASE COME ON TIME. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:05 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:05 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching a child Arabic query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Teaching a child Arabic query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:nevsab02 at yahoo.com Subject:Teaching a child Arabic query Hi Id like to get advice for how to teach a 5 year old Arabic Thanks -nevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:10 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:10 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Dialect materials in Arabic Script Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Dialect materials in Arabic Script -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh Subject:Needs Dialect materials in Arabic Script Dear Colleagues, Next year we are planning to offer a first year course in Levantine Arabic and also one in Iraqi Arabic and I am interested in looking at materials that are written in Arabic script rather than transliteration. I would appreciate your help in identifying such materials. Thank you in advance for your help. -- Peace, Martha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:03:18 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:03:18 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Modern Syriac Literature Conference Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Modern Syriac Literature Conference -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:shafiq.abouzayd at orinst.ox.ac.uk Subject:Modern Syriac Literature Conference Dear Colleague, ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organising its Twenty Third International Conference on ?Modern Syriac Literature?, to be held at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (USA), 10-12 April 2007. The conference will start on Tuesday 10 April at 9am, finishing on Thursday 12 April at 5pm. Each speaker?s paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact our Oxford address as soon as possible: ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. ++1865-514041. Fax ++1865-516824. E.Mail: aram at orinst.ox.ac.uk or aram at aramsociety.org All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you know of colleagues who might like to contribute to the conference, please forward this message to them or send us their names and email addresses. Yet, we would liked to remind our colleagues that only academics are allowed to present a paper at an ARAM conference. If you wish to know ARAM Society and its cultural activities, please open our website: www.aramsociety.org If you have any questions or comments at any time, I am always happy to receive them. Yours sincerely, Dr Shafiq Abouzayd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 17 15:02:59 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:02:59 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:XML->PDF response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 17 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:XML->PDF response 2) Subject:XML->PDF response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 May 2006 From:"Rahawi, Mohammed A" Subject:XML->PDF response I use the print function on Mac OS 10.4 to save in PDF format. It works perfectly. Keeking the format, the fonts (including harakat) and graphic. Hope this helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2) Date: 17 May 2006 From:Dil Parkinson Subject:XML->PDF response Indesign CS2 ME works very well with XML, and easily creates PDF files with full vowels. My book "Using Arabic Synonyms" was set on a Mac using Indesign, and it is full of vowels. I used the Mac version, but I believe there is a PC version that is equivalent. You cannot just get regular Indesign off the shelf, however. You need to specifically order the ME version that works with Arabic script and understands the script direction issues. It also has a nice feature that lets you put the vowels 'tight' against the letters, 'normal', or distant, for various aesthetic effects. The program is almost ridiculously expensive, and it has a rather steep learning curve--I went for a long time ignorant of some of its nicest features--, but for me it has been well worth it. dil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 17 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:18 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:18 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Software response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Transliteration Software response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:saneyagi at gmail.com Subject:Transliteration Software response Hi, Buckwalter, available on LDC, has a decent transliterator. Best, sane yagi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:21 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:21 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:What to call Arabic Dialect Course Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:What to call Arabic Dialect Course -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:Christian Sinclair Subject:What to call Arabic Dialect Course All, I have a question about nomenclature for Arabic courses we offer abroad. In addition to MSA we teach local dialects. The question has arisen as to the best way to name the courses for our catalogues. Debate has been heated. I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this. For example, here are the choices for Jordan. --Colloquial Jordanian Arabic --Jordanian Arabic --Jordanian Colloquial Arabic --Spoken Arabic of Jordan --Jordanian Dialect --'Amiyyah --other? I personally lean towards the Colloquial Jordanian Arabic. Please send your responses directly to me at christian.sinclair at sit.edu. shukran, Christian ----- Christian Sinclair Assistant Director, Middle Eastern Studies, SIT Study Abroad Adjunct Faculty, School for International Training Box 676, Kipling Road Brattleboro, VT 05302 USA tel: 802/258.3506 fax: 802/258.3296 www.sit.edu/studyabroad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:16 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:16 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dialect Materials in Script response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Dialect Materials in Script response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:j.hoogland at let.ru.nl Subject:Dialect Materials in Script response Martha, I would strongly advise you not to teach colloquial Arabic using the Arabic script. There are many reasons, but the most important is you give students a hard time for something they will never need. Furthermore you will probably be using writings in which MSA-spellings will be used (writers simply cannot avoid it), while the pronunciation is different, i.e. the students will pronounce it in one way, but read it in a different way, that's not just confusing, it's pedagogically unwise to do so. And what about vowels/tashkil? If you find unvocalised texts, students will miss about one third of necessary information. Still, I could supply you with tons of written Moroccan dialect, but not Levantine. Jan Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland Dept. of Arabic, University of Nijmegen POB 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, the Netherlands phone (0)24-3612641, residence: (0)24-3550199, mobile:(0)653652861 mobile in Morocco/GSM au Maroc: +-212-(0)79 146312 fax: (0)24-3500719 mail: j.hoogland at let.ru.nl personal website: www.janhoogland.com Arabic dictionary project website: www.let.ru.nl/wba website Nederlands Instituut in Marokko: www.let.ru.nl/NIMAR ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:25 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:25 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information Structure Conference Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information Structure Conference -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:Jonathan Owens Subject:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information Structure Conference Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic June 8-10, 2006 University of Maryland, Stamp Student Union, Benjamin Banneker Room AGENDA Thursday, June 8th 9:00 Welcome Richard Brecht, Center for Advanced Study of Language Alaa Elgibali, Arabic Department, University of Maryland Pragmatics, Semantics and Psycholinguistics Chair: Bruce Ingham 9:20 Mohammed Farghal, Yarmouk University ?Pragmatics and Information Structure in Arabic? 10:05 Daniela Firanescu, Dalhousie University ?The Meanings of Becoming in Syrian Arabic: Approach of the Modal Saar? 10:35 Break 10:50 David Wilmsen, American University, Cairo, Egypt ?Understatement, Euphemism, and Circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic: Cooperation in Conversational Dissembling? 11:20 Mahmoud Alkhatib, University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan ?The Pragmatics of Invitation Making and Acceptance in Jordanian Arabic? 11:50 Break 12:00 Sami Boudelaa, Cambridge University ?The Structure of Information in Standard and Dialectal Arabic: A Cognitive Perspective? 12:45 Lunch Syntax, Word Order Chair: Mohammed Farghal 2:00 Steve Hewitt, UNESCO, Paris ?Arabic: verb-subject-object or verb-given-new?? 2:30 Malcolm Edwards, University of London ?Word Order and Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic: Formal and Functional Considerations? 3:00 Break 3:15 George Grigore, University of Bucharest ?Conditional Structures in Mardini Arabic? 3:45 Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University ?Topicalization in Egyptian Arabic? 4:15 Adjourn Friday, June 9th Codeswitching Chair: Amy Weinberg (CASL) 9:00 Karima Ziamari, ENS Meknes ?Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching and Information Structure? 9:45 Break 10:00 Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan CASL and University of Maiduguri, Nigeria ?Conversation Particles in Arabic-Hausa Codeswitching: Saliency and Language Hierarchies? 10:30 Uri Horesh, University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown University Variable Code-Switching and Atypical Sentence Structure in Palestinian Arabic 11:00 Break 11:15 Najat Benchiba, SOAS, London University ?Structural and Social Considerations in Moroccan Arabic and English Codeswitching? 11:45 Raggia Effat, Cairo University ?A Descriptive Analysis of Educated Spoken Standard Arabic in Cairo? 12:15 Lunch Phonetics and Phonology Chair: Alan Kaye 2:00 Dina ElZarka, Graz University, Austria ?The Prosody of Focus in Egyptian Arabic? 2:30 Judith Rosenhouse, Swantech Ltd., Haifa, Israel ?A Comparison of Intonation Patterns in Eastern and Western Arabic Dialects? 3:00 Break 3:15 Soha Abboud, University of Madrid ?Accent and Syllabical Structure in Arabic Dialects: The case of Cairene Linguistic Variety as a Model? 3:45 Samantha Hellmuth, SOAS/University of Potsdam ?The (Absence of) Prosodic Reflexes of the Given/New Distinction in Egyptian Arabic? 4:15 Adjourn Saturday, June 10th Discourse Particles Chair: Enam Al-Wer 9:00 Bruce Ingham, SOAS, London University ?Information Structure in Najdi Arabic? 9:45 Marie Aimee Germanos, Universit? de Paris III ?The Syntactic and Pragmatic Functions of enno in Lebanese Spoken Arabic? 10:15 Break 10:30 Maher Bahloul, University of Utah ?The Pragmatics of the Particle Tab'an in Conversational Arabic? Corpus Analysis Chair: Sami Boudelaa 11:00 Alan Kaye, University of California, Fullerton ?On the Use of Aspects, Independent Personal Pronouns, Fillers, and Attention Grabbers in an Algerian Arabic Oral Narrative? 11:45 Break 11:55 Jonathan Owens, David Mehall, Trent Rockwood, Bill Young, Robin Dodsworth, CASL ?Explaining ? Subjects in Spoken Arabic? 12:40 Otakar Smrz, Petr Zemanek, Jakub Kracmar, Viktor Bielicky, Charles University, Prague ?Information Structure with the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank? 1:10 Lunch Sociolinguistics Chair: Karima Ziamari 2:15 Enam Al-Wer, Essex University ?The Making of the Amman Dialect: From Chaos to Order? 3:00 Salma Arraf, Middle East School III, Defense Language Institute ?The Palestinian Dialect in Contact with Hebrew: Overcoming Ethnical Obstacles and Group Boundaries? 3:30 Break 3:45 Rania Habib, University of Florida ?An OT Account of a Sociolinguistic inter-personal Variation in the Syrian Himsi Colloquial Arabic? 4:15 Closing Remarks 4:30 Adjourn 45 minute sessions will consist of a 30 minute talk and 15 minute discussion 30 minute sessions will consist of a 20 minute talk and 10 minute discussion Jonathan Owens Senior Researcher University of Maryland CASL 301-226-8830 jowens at casl.umd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:23 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:23 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Call:Contested Imaginaries: Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Call for Contributions:Contested Imaginaries: Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:Afra Al-Mussawir Subject:Call for Contributionsl:Contested Imaginaries: Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back Dear Colleagues, We would greatly appreciate your circulating this as widely as possible. Thank you!! Lisa Taylor, Hilary Davis and Jasmin Zine ========================================================= Special Issue of Intercultural Education: CONTESTED IMAGINARIES Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back: Transnational Feminist Reading Practices, Pedagogy and Ethical Concerns Guest Editors: Lisa Taylor, Hilary Davis and Jasmin Zine Call for Abstracts: This special issue traces its origins to a conference panel examining the reception and teaching of Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi???s memoir within an Islamophobic global context in which Muslim women are increasingly the subject of neo-Orientalist pity, fear and fascination produced through a complex nexus of societal and imperial aggression. A proliferation of literary and cultural production about Muslim women in the form of memoirs, fiction, children???s literature and non-fiction both challenges and perpetuates the currency of Orientalist writing and representation. Within the context of the current global and geo-political landscape and the ???War on Terror,??? competing imaginaries: -- Western imperialist, Orientalist as well as feminist, anti-colonial, and Islamic -- form a contested terrain of knowledge production upon which the lives, histories and subjectivities of Muslim women are discursively constituted, debated, claimed and consumed through a variety of literary, academic and visual forms of representation This special issue seeks to examine critically how these forms of representation are taken up in various educational sites and also to interrogate and reflect on pedagogies which focus on the politics and ethics of reading. We invite scholarly papers that explore the literary, academic and cultural genres through which Muslim women are represented in relation to the pedagogical considerations, ethical concerns and political challenges arising from them. We are interested in the different facets of the politics of reception and the resulting tensions which must be negotiated by both Western and Muslim readers ??? i.e. not only responses which challenge neo-Orientalist and Islamaphobic narratives but also those which grapple with conservative Islamist narratives. Our overall aim is to explore the pedagogic possibilities opened up by readings which are transnational, feminist, and anti-colonial. . Engaging the problematic described here, papers are invited that examine (but are not limited to) the intersection of the following: a.. Feminist & postcolonial pedagogies of reading the ???activated colonial divide??? (Said) in different institutional and geographical settings within the global context of gendered Islamophobia and Western imperialism b.. Muslim women???s literary or cultural production and the complex subject positions and forms of community and agency imagined and re-membered therein c.. Reading and writing back: Muslim women???s literary, cultural and academic knowledge production as counter-hegemonic pedagogies d.. Western produced literature about Muslim women or girls in the Middle East, Africa and South or Western Asia including children???s literature and the structures of feeling, practices of reading and reading communities these invite e.. Publishing & marketing strategies targeting literature by/concerning Muslim women in the Middle East, Africa and South and Western Asia f.. Cultural and literary production which contests Western imaginaries of Muslim women g.. The reception of literature by/concerning Muslim women amongst book clubs and popular feminist reading practices h.. Reading and representing Muslim women: stories of teaching/learning from K-12 classrooms i.. The politics, problematics and practice of anti-Orientalist and anti-colonial readings j.. Muslim women in Islamist writings: Anti-patriarchal readings as pedadogical praxis Abstracts of 250 words are invited to be submitted electronically to the address below by June 30 2006. Please provide a brief bio with your abstract. Abstracts will be subject to peer review and selected authors will be invited to submit complete manuscripts for peer review by November 1, 2006. The special issue will be published in November, 2007. Submit abstracts to: intercultural_imaginaries at yahoo.com. Questions may be directed to the guest editors: Lisa Taylor, ltaylor at ubishops.ca Hilary E. Davis, hilarydavis at sympatico.ca Jasmin Zine, jzine at wlu.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:08 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:08 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching a child Arabic responses Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Teaching a child Arabic response 2) Subject:Teaching a child Arabic response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:maysa at comcast.net Subject:Teaching a child Arabic response Noorart is a good website that has good materials -- How can you get the best out of your students? Love them, respect them, and treat them as your treasure.Maysa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2) Date: 22 May 2006 From:ibc at ibcbooks.com Subject:Teaching a child Arabic response This is a reply to Nevin regarding teaching a 5 year old the Arabic language Please note International Book Centre sells product for teaching children Arabic called "Arabic Learning Treasure Chest" the package contains 18 animated DVD's. A sing-a-Long song CD; CD- Rom Game, Vocabulary DVD; Play & Think Activing Books; Fun activities, Stickers; Alphabet Puzzle; Flashcards, ;Sticker books and an Illustrated Dictionary.and Instruction Manual with Teacher's Guide included. Over 500 Arabic vocabulary words are introduced. Perfect for clasrooms, individuals,or home-school. For more information contact International Book Centre at ibc at ibcbooks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:11 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:11 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Article -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:hgadalla at yahoo.com Subject:New Article Dear Colleagues, I'm pleased to announce the appearance of my new article: "Arabic Imperfect Verbs in Translation: A Corpus Study of English Renderings" in META: Journal des Traducteurs, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2006, pp. 51-71 This paper proposes a model for translating Standard Arabic imperfect verbs into English based on their contextual references. It starts with a brief introduction to tense and aspect in English and Arabic. Then, it shows the study aim and technique. After that, it provides an analysis of the study results by discussing the various translations of Arabic imperfect verbs in the translations of two novels written by Naguib Mahfouz. The study compares the translations with the original texts to highlight the different English renderings of the Arabic imperfect verbs. A corpus of 430 sentences was randomly chosen from the two novels, 215 sentences from each novel. The structures in which Arabic imperfect verbs occur are classified into ten classes. For each class, the various English translations are provided with a count of the examples representing them in the corpus and their percentages. Then, the contextual reference of each translation is explained and commented on. Hassan Gadalla Hassan Gadalla Assistant Professor of Linguistics Faculty of Education for Girls at Al-Baha Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:14 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:14 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2nd Arabic Teacher Training Seminar at BYU Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:2nd Arabic Teacher Training Seminar at BYU -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:mnnassif at byu.edu Subject:2nd Arabic Teacher Training Seminar at BYU [moderator's note: Maggie tells me that the 1st scheduled seminar has filled and that many others applied that were not able to be accommodated, so a second one has been added.--dil] 2nd Arabic Teacher Training Seminar at BYU The National Middle East Language Resource Center NMELRC will be holding an additional Arabic seminar on August 31st, September 1st and 2nd, 2006 at Brigham Young University in Utah. The seminar will focus mainly on training new instructors and/or those who have been hired to launch new Arabic programs in colleges that have not traditionally offered Arabic. Seminar fees will be fully covered by NMELRC. Participants will be responsible for their transportation to and from Provo as well as lodging and board. All who are interested should submit their applications online to NMELRC by May 31st, 2006. Please go to www.nmelrc.org/ application.html and fill out and send in an application. For inquiries please call NMELRC at (801) 422-7192 or e-mail NMELRC_research at byu.edu Maggie N. Nassif, PhD, MBA Administrative Director National Middle East Language Resource Center Brigham Young University 212 HRCB, BYU, Provo, Utah, 84602 mnnassif at byu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Mon May 22 18:44:06 2006 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:44:06 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book Review Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 22 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Book Review -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 22 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:New Book Review The following book review was announced in LINGUIST: Journal Title: Anthropological Linguistics Volume Number: 47 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2005 BOOK REVIEWS A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (Yasir Suleiman), BERNARD SPOLSKY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 22 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:03 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:03 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs Arabic Font Without Dots; Transliteration font available Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Arabic Font Without Dots; Transliteration font available -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:rogier visser Subject:Needs Arabic Font Without Dots; Transliteration font available Hello, I am working on a project on digitalizing Arabic manuscripts. I am looking for a font that contains Arabic characters without any diacritical dots, for instance a ta' without the two dots, or a fa' without the dot. Does anybody know of a font that supports this? I tried to create mine, but it doesn't work properly (too complex to explain) I also altered the font Times New Roman so that it includes Arabic transliteration characters (such as the t with a dot underneath). It includes a whole range of characters, which might come in handy for linguists. I sort of have the feeling that I have done work that has been done before, but I do not know of a similar font which is as complete as mine. The font is called unayza, and includes a regular, italic, bold and italic/bold variant. As far as I know, it is unicode supported (with the possible exception of the 'ayn), so that text in Arial Unicode should be displayed properly in Unayza. I would be very pleased if someone could mail me some feedback on it. http://home.student.uva.nl/rogier.visser/unayza-0.1.zip Many thanks Rogier Visser ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:11 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:11 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:What to call dialect class responses Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:What to call dialect class response 2) Subject:What to call dialect class response 3) Subject:Why teach dialect in the first place? -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:wasamy at umich.edu Subject:What to call dialect class response I suggest Jordanian Arabic. Waheed Samy wasamy at umich.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2) Date: 31 May 2006 From:josabih at mail.dk Subject:What to call dialect class response "Jordanian Arabic" will be best, and less prejudiced.The afct is that there many Arabics. Joshua A. Sabih ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 3) Date: 31 May 2006 From: Subject:Why teach dialect in the first place? I remember over 50 years ago, there was a radio show and the host asked a person a question using the Colloquial Egyptian Arabic, that person replied and said "in Russia we only learn to speak the proper Arabic Language, and if you want to ask me a question, then you need to speak using the Formal Arabic language". The point is simply focus on Formal Arabic language and the slang can be picked up later on. If you teach for example, Jordanian Colloquial Arabic and one of your student transferred to another University that does not teach Jordanian Colloquial Arabic, what would that student do? Thank you. Mahmoud Elsayess www.readverse.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:27:59 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:27:59 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs to contact Muhammad Muhammad Hilmi Heliel Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs to contact Muhammad Muhammad Hilmi Heliel -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:capraia at yahoo.com Subject:Needs to contact Muhammad Muhammad Hilmi Heliel I would appreciate any contact information about: Muhammad Muhammad Hilmi Heliel. thanks a lot -paula santillan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:01 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:01 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UC Davis Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:UC Davis Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:UC Davis Job Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:43:17 From: Jocelyn Sharlet < jcsharlet at ucdavis.edu > Subject: Arabic, Standard & Arabic Language: Senior Lecturer, University of California, Davis, CA, USA University or Organization: University of California, Davis Department: Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies Job Rank: Senior Lecturer Specialty Areas: Arabic Language Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The University of California, Davis, the Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies, announces a lecturer position to teach first-year Arabic in a new and growing Arabic program. The lecturer will teach one course in each of three terms, September 25-June 14, with the possibility of renewal. Applicant must have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic. Applicant must have an M.A. or a Ph.D., or be A.B.D, preferably in Arabic or a related field. Applicant should have experience teaching Arabic as a second language at the college level. Please send a letter of application describing texts and methods that you have used in Arabic instruction. Enclose a c.v., one-two sets of student evaluations, samples of tests, quizzes, and teaching materials that you have developed, and three letters of reference or a list of three references. Send these to: Professor Suad Joseph, Director, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616. Salary is contingent upon qualifications and experience, and percent of employment is determined by number of courses taught. Review of applications will begin on June 14 and will continue until the position is filled. The University of California, Davis is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Address for Applications: Suad Joseph Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies One Shields Avenue University of California Davis, CA 95616 USA Application Deadline: Open until filled. Contact Information: Jocelyn Sharlet Email: jcsharlet at ucdavis.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:06 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:06 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Book -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:jenny.breaker at oup.com Subject:New Book NEW FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS TITLE: A Linguistic History of Arabic AUTHOR: Jonathan Owens, University of Maryland and Bayreuth University, Germany PUBLICATION DATE: May 2006 A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich and complex picture of early Arabic language history and establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a manner accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists. Hardback, 0-19-929082-2, 978-0-19-929082-6, 328 pages, ?60.00 For more information, please visit http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/? ci=9780199290826 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:28:09 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:09 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:marthas at email.arizona.edu Subject:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion 'ahlan ya zumalaa' Thanks to Jan Hogland for his input on the question of using materials written in Arabic script to teach colloquial. As with any pedagogical decision, the best course always requires consideration of the specific learning/teaching situation. In our case, at the University of Arizona, most of our students have already learned the Arabic script and have at least some level of ability in reading it. Most have had at least 1 year of MSA study before beginning to study the dialect. For many years, like Jan, I thought that it was preferable to use transliteration when teaching dialect. However, this last year I taught Egyptian Arabic using materials written in Arabic script and the experience has really convinced me of it's value. Students who learn the dialect through the script are able to make connections between what they are learning in the dialect and what they know in MSA in a positive way. There is "positive transfer" in terms of vocabulary learning and decoding skills. With the use of tashkiil, it is possible to get a pretty good representation of the pronunciation of the dialect, using certain conventions that can be taught. It is not perfect, but then what writing system for any language has a perfect one to one correspondence of sound to symbol? And in the final analysis I don't believe that my students who learned Egyptian (in past years) using transliteration ended up with better pronunciation because of it. Nor did they learn "more" because they didn't have to read the Arabic script. Many students used to complain to me that they found it hard to read the transliteration with all it's strange symbol conventions. Arabic works quite adequately in representing colloquial Arabic and using Arabic is more "authentic". In the case of Egyptian, there is a fair amount of written colloquial out there. Egyptian Arabic is all over the internet, written in Arabic script. There is something very odd about teaching a language in a script other than the one native speakers read the language in. Of course my arguments are based entirely on my "beliefs" and impressions. I don't believe that it is feasible to "prove" one way or the other which is better, but I can report that most of my students really enjoyed learning with materials written in script. Of course, the fact that I was so enthusiastically embracing those materials undoubtedly had an influence. :-) In sum then, I think that for students whose ultimate objective is to gain proficiency in both dialect and MSA learning the dialect throught the Arabic script strengthens their familiarity with the script and also faciliates their making connections between the two varieties of the language in a way that reinforces the learning of both. I hope that we will see more materials on the market for teaching the dialects written in Arabic script. Peace, Martha Martha Schulte-Nafeh Assistant Professor and Middle Eastern Language Coordinator Department of Near Eastern Studies/Center for Middle Eastern Studies Louise Marshall Foucar Bldg. Room 454/845 N Park Ave University of Arizona Tucson Arizona 85721 520 730-7605 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:27:56 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:27:56 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:de Gruyter's Atlas of Jerusalem Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:de Gruyter's Atlas of Jerusalem -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:jerusalem at gerlach-books.de Subject:de Gruyter's Atlas of Jerusalem de Gruyter's Atlas of Jerusalem This remarkable work, edited by the Geography Dept of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/ New York shows the development and expansion of Jerusalem from its beginnings around 3000 BC until 1973. The main focus is on the 1960ies. The Holy City is depicted on 53 large folding colour maps (65.5 x 48 cm each). Maps and legend are bi-lingual (English and Hebrew), the accompanying text volume (173 pp) is in English. Both are stored in a cloth covered wooden box (53 x 37 x 4.5 cm). The Atlas of Jerusalem has additional political relevance as the work was completed before 1973. CONTENTS: The Region / Quarters and Streets / History / Urban Structure / Land- Use / Public Institutions / Transportation / Population / Town Planning / Changes after 1967 *** Our special offer until 30 June 2006: 190 EUR *** (Former list price 490 EUR) This offer applies to the remaining stock of 50 copies. Kind regards from Berlin, (Ms) Dagmar Konrad Marketing Manager FOR DETAILS & ONLINE ORDERS: http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/books_atlas_jerus.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006 From Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed May 31 22:38:43 2006 From: Dilworth_Parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:38:43 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic from PDF Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 31 May 2006 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic from PDF -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 31 May 2006 From:Dilworth Parkinson Subject:Arabic from PDF If a pdf file isn't protected, I can usually choose the text and copy the Arabic from it into an application like textedit on the mac and it works fine. I do it all the time. However, I have been given some pdf files which have Arabic in them, but when I copy the text into any other program, it turns to garbage. Is there anyone out there who can explain this to me? Dil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 31 May 2006