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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Academy Hamza Guidelines query
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Cairo Academy Hamza Guidelines query

[moderator's note: I know that the answer to this query appeared in  
Arabic-L some time back, but unfortunately I can't locate it.  If  
anyone saved it, pass it on. --dil]

i hear that Arabic Academy of Cairo has already settled some  
guidelines to write hamzahs.
Is this correct infomation?
If so, please inform me of the journal or the website which announces  
those rules.

Thanks in advance.
Haruko

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Student reviews thanks
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"J Murgida" <jmurg at ttlc.net>
Subject:Student reviews thanks

Many thanks to Debra and Gara for such detailed, helpful reports.
  -- Jackie Murgida

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:58 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Iraq etymology repost (with Greek letters)
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1) Subject:Iraq etymology repost (with Greek letters)

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"C.G.Häberl" <haberl at rutgers.edu>
Subject:Iraq etymology repost (with Greek letters)

[thanks to those who helped me get the Greek letters looking right! -- 
dil]

Dear Colleagues:

As far as I know, the site of Uruk (Biblical Erech) is known as  Warka:'
in
Arabic, possibly by way of Greek Ορχόη.  I'm  not
entirely sure how one could derive the name 3Ira:q from either   
Warka:' or
Ορχόη, but I've learned to be very wary of
etymologies that take such liberties with phonemic segments.  In this
case, you have three root consonants, of which you are substituting two
with completely separate phonemes.  Furthermore, there is no attempt at
demonstrating a regular correspondence between these segments in the two
languages.

A similar problem is posed by practically every other etymology I've
seen,
including one which derives the name Iraq from the Middle Persian word
e:rag.  Boyce translates this word as "south;" it is transparently
related
to the Middle Persian word e:r meaning "low," and elsewhere I've seen it
translated as "lowlands."  While the expected form *e:ra:g is
unfortunately not attested in Pahlavi to my knowledge, there is a modern
reflex i:ra:h which means "coast."

The correspondence between Middle Persian g and Arabic q is not
controversial, but determining a correspondence between the glottal stop
and Arabic 3ayn- is much more problematic.  According to Ja:7i6', the
Arabs around Kufa pronounced their language in the Naba6i: manner,
replacing the 3ayn- with hamza.  If we accept an etymology from *e:ra:g
we might adduce a hypercorrection here.  Thus "Iraq" would be the
low-lying river valley complement to the Iranian plateau.  Considering
that the territory known today as Iraq was part of an Iranian empire in
one form or another for a millennium or more, it would not surprise   
me to
find an Iranian etymology for the name.

With regard to the Arab Iraq (3ira:qu l-3arabi:) as opposed to the
"Persian" Iraq (3ira:qu l-3ajami:), this distinction did not arise  (as
far
as I know) until the Seljuk period, when the Seljuks ruled a territory
spanning both Iraq and the mountainous area formerly known as the Jebal.
Because the Arabic Iraq was the much more significant part of this
territory, it gave its name to the whole, but since the Seljuks ruled
from
Hamadan, it became necessary to distinguish between the two parts  
for  the
first time.  A similar development gave us the "Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies" (1816-1861), which was ruled from Naples.

-- 
Charles G. Häberl, PhD
Instructor in Middle Eastern Studies
Assistant Director, Development and Communication
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-316, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:55 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Chic Lit
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"Dr. M. Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Chic Lit

Chic Lit
        There is an inexhaustible list of lits: Eng Lit, Fr Lit, Comp  
Lit, Queer Lit &ct., and they come with their own baggage of  
terminology.   An engaging study on feminist fiction, entitled See  
Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick-lit, by Sarah Mlynowski  
and Farrin Jacobs, (Quirk Books, 2006),  introduces yet the new  
critical term: “Chic-Lit / Chic Lit.”  I wonder how to translate  
this term into Arabic.  Below are three attempts, and it is a matter  
of luck as to which of them obtains in Arabic critical jargon:
أدب الناشئات     ،  أدب البرابر     ،    
"كلام نواعم"
        The closest rendition of “Chic Lit” is (أدب  
البرابر).  There may well be some objection to the use of the  
colloquial Arabic term (برابر) for young chickens, the singular  
of which is /بربر = /birbir/, a typically Egyptian word borrowed  
from the Coptic language.  As for ("كلام نواعم"), it is a  
patented name of a weekly TV show on the Future channel, hosted by  
able women from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
     <><>  I'd expect my colleagues to have their own views of these  
Arabic equivalents or suggestions for more fitting alternatives.

*M. Deeb

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:45 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Army research Job
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:igyartol at ahqb.soc.mil
Subject:Army research Job

FULL TIME POSITION AS AN
ARAB MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH SPECIALIST
22 February 2007

The 4th PSYOP Group (ABN), Ft. Bragg, NC has an opening for an Arab  
Middle East research specialist with area expertise and proficiency  
in Arabic.  Candidates who have completed their Ph.D. degrees are  
preferred, but ABDs and holders of masters degrees will be given  
serious consideration. Previous experience in the Middle East is  
extremely desirable. Strong research and writing skills are essential.

The opening for this position is in the GMI GG-132 series  
(intelligence research specialist). Staff members do social science  
research and analysis and write studies that are usually 20-40 pages  
long. Information is gathered from both classified and unclassified  
sources. The individual selected will work with a team of regional  
specialists who all have advanced degrees, language proficiency, and  
extensive on-the-ground regional experience.
The position requires expertise in one of the social sciences as well  
as a deep understanding of the issues and culture of this region. The  
position requires proficiency in Arabic on both the listening and  
reading comprehension portions of the Defense Language Proficiency  
Test (or the Foreign Service Institute test) and a willingness to  
travel periodically in the United States and abroad. The candidate  
must also be a US citizen with the ability to obtain a secret  
security clearance.
Hiring will be at the GG-9 or GG-11 levels, depending on the  
successful applicant’s qualifications. Promotion is possible to the  
GG-12 level following the completion of training and after  
demonstrating satisfactory performance.  Promotion is from GG-9 to  
GG-11 with no GG-10 in between, and then from GG-11 to GG-12.  The  
starting salary of a GG-9 is now $45,106 and for a GG-11 is $54,574.   
A fully qualified GG-12 starts at $65,411.  Step increases over time  
can bring the GG-12 salary up to a maximum of $85,037.
Applicants must have a resume in the US Army’s central RESUMIX  
database in order to be considered for this government position.  
Applicants should apply by using the US Government resume builder  
site that can be found at: http://Cpol.army.mil . Resumes must be  
submitted into this system by 16 March, 2007.

 From this page select “Employment” and then “Build a Resume/View  
Status.”  This will open a new window which will give you the  
opportunity to view a demo video by clicking on the “demo” button in  
the upper right corner.  This video will give you invaluable  
information and instructions on how to use the RESUMIX system, and is  
highly recommended.  If you have trouble with the RESUMIX system,  
please contact Lori Igyarto at (910)432-2097 or email at:  
igyartol at soc.mil.

Once your resume is in the system (it can take 24 hours for it to be  
processed), go to “Employment” again, then “Search for Jobs,” which  
will open a separate window.  Once on the “Vacancy Announcement  
Board”, skip down to “State:” and choose “North Carolina” and press  
“Get Results”.  Choose Announcement WTST07780546 and at the bottom of  
the announcement select “Self-Nominate”. Follow the instructions from  
there.

If you have specific questions concerning the position at Ft. Bragg  
form you are encouraged to contact:: Mari Borstelmann, Chief,  
Strategic Studies Detachment, at (910) 907-3655 or by email at:  
borstelm at soc.mil.

  DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

4TH PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS GROUPS (AIRBORNE)

FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA 28310-5240


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:45:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Online Arabic Course query
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From: "Adil Elshikh" <adil59 at gmail.com>
Subject:Online Arabic Course query

I am developing Arabic online course , can any one sow me any similar
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Poem Suggestions
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3) Subject:Poem Suggestion
4) Subject:Poem Suggestion
5) Subject:Poem Suggestion

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:Fadia Hamid <fetfet at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

My Arabic I students (High school) just finished reciting a cute  
little poem about a bird "Ana 'asfoura" . you can find it at the  
following website.
http://www.arabicpoems.com/children/alef/elmarsafy/elmarsafi/2.html

They have many other poems but i liked this one and it fit right in  
with the vocabulary they are learning.
fadia

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at u.arizona.edu>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

Dear Haroon,
our second semester students have been reciting poems in our annual  
spring language fair for the last five years.  We have been  
collecting recordings of poems that they have chosen to recite and  
many of them are available at the following website:
http://blog.ltc.arizona.edu/arabicpoetry/
The poem by Ilya Abu Madi that you are remembering is probably the  
one often referred to as "lastu 'adri" based on a phrase repeated in  
the poem although the actual name of the poem is "Talaasim" or in  
English "Cryptic Charms". There is a recording of it at the Arabic  
poetry "blog" (above).

Peace, Martha

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From: Anna-Karin Guindy <akguindy at get2net.dk>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

Muniam Alfaker has written some very simple poems. I don't know if  
they are available in your part of the world, but you might ask him  
on his e-mail address alfaker at assununu.dk

Regards,
Anna-Karin Guindy
Odense

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From: "lailafam" <lailafam at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

I particularly like a poem by Sarkun Bulus, one of the best Iraqi
poets, called هذا السيد الأمريكي
You can check it in:
http://www.iraqiculture.net/arabic/articles.php? 
subaction=showfull&id=1148687414&archive=&start_from=
Enjoy!
Laila H. Familiar

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From: "htdo34 at juno.com" <htdo34 at juno.com>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

Hello Haroon,
Have you looked into Taha Muhammad Ali? He is a Palestinian poet who  
writes beautifully and simply. His book of poetry, "So What" is quite  
good and it comes with parallel English text translations for each poem.
Hope that helps,
Nazir
Arabic Student Instructor at Seattle University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs verified English to Arabic transcription
 database
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:Joel Shapiro <jrs_14618 at YAHOO.COM>
Subject:Needs verified English to Arabic transcription database

Hello All,

I am an automated robot script / Python computer
programmer with a long time interest and
fascination for foreign languages and cultures;
especially those of the Middle East.

I have programmed the "foundation" of what I term
a multilingual search engine utility (MULSEU) for
searching web pages in a given "target" language's
native text or character set (encoding) that the
user need not have -any- familiarity with the
target language to realize -very- effective
searches in the native text of the target
language.

In a nutshell what my application does is take
an English word list or combination of words in
English and the target language and derive the
best dictionary translations and transcriptions
as the case may be per the current word being
dispositioned.

My current focus is on Arabic, the most developed
and studied in the Middle East.  When I refer to
"target language" henceforth in this document, for
all intents and purposes Arabic is implied.

The efficacy of my MULSEU is directly proportional
to the level of sophistication and development of
the English - target language dictionary and
"verified" English to target language transcription
database.

What I mean by "verified"  English to target
language transcription database is each entry
in the transcription database; generally proper
names/nouns, geographic places, company names etc.
has been "run" through a popular search engine
as a search term and the number of URLs returned
is an indication of the relative "veracity" of the
given transcription.

In other words (no pun intended) the number of
URLs, if any, indicate the veracity of the given
transcription in its own right and importantly
with respect to other valid transcriptions that
have subtle differences between them but these
subtle differences have generally a more profound
effect than comparable subtle differences in
English.

While there will be readily recognizable and
distinct search results for English Mohammad,
Muhammad, Mohamad etc. taking each respectively
as an individual search engine search term,
there will be a lot of overlap as well especially
for the most or second most common word in the
Arabic and Islamic world that is "Mohammad" (one
of several Arabic to English transcription variant
renditions.

As of course Mohammad is Arabic in origin it
has really only one generally recognized or
accepted spelling.  The variation comes on the
English side with several valid transcription
alternatives where I just named a few.

The converse is generally the case for the
names and terms English in origin.

For instance the name "Clinton" has really just
one generally recognized spelling but has no
less than three valid, popular and accepted
transcription variants in Arabic.

The very subtle Arabic transcription differences
with respect to their use as search engine
search terms in general are much more profound
than comparable English variations.

To realize a verified database for a given
target language I have programmed an "offshoot"
from my MULSEU infrastructure that pipes each
English term through an English to target
language "transcription engine" or
"transcriptor" and then through a search engine
or metasearch engine such as of course Google,
AltaVista, Yahoo just to name a few to get
what I term the "empirical value" of the
transcription.

Every language and language dialect would need
to have its own transcriptor and the more
transcriptors the better as there are subtle
differences between the transcriptors
themselves.  For instance one Arabic transcriptor
may have a transcription starting with just a
Aleph and another Aleph Hamza for essentially the
same transcription in terms of "primary" letters
or characters.

If the term is already in the target language
the transcriptor can be bypassed and immediately
directed to the search engine to realize its
empirical value.

In this respect or context in the preceding
example, Arabic to English "transcription pairs"
already in place from the field would be a
tremendous cumulative boon not having to take
initiate an English to Arabic transcription
process.

What I'm doing here is inquiring if anyone here
in this group has a database of "already
transcripted" pairs of any language of the Middle
East; again especially Arabic.

For your efforts I will return your contribution
with valuable information of the relative value of
each entry as a search engine term or as the
databases become more established for every new
valid transcription pair not yet present in the
database I would return 10:1 pairs in the same
genre of terms in the same language or one term
from ten different languages.

I have not yet worked out the details in this
respect.  Currently because the verified
databases are so undeveloped, all I have in
place is a database of a thousand or so proper
English - Arabic transcription name pairs and a
few thousand English - Arabic transcription
geographic place names that have yet to be put
through a search engine I will return all
submitted.

One great English Arabic transcription source
would be an English - Arabic phone directory on
CD say from a modern Arabic place such as Dubai.
In all my Arabic travels on the Internet I've
never seen any reference to this.

I vigorously contend the establishment of a
verified English to Arabic transcription
database could be a valuable tool in its own
right for Arabic interpreters and translators
who while deriving valid Arabic transcriptions
on their own may miss other equally valid
transcriptions not from any ignorance or lack
of skill on their part, but rather it is an
inherent circumstance or phenomena.

 From all my inquiries to Arabists before and
you dear reader, who has a knowledge and
command of Arabic far greater than my own and
what I ever will achieve in my lifetime will
concur: [T]here is no English to Arabic rules
or methodology that will return the one most
popular, recognized and accepted Arabic
transcription.

Thank you for your interest and consideration.
I sincerely thank anyone for their English
- Middle Eastern language transcription pair
contribution or reference.

I welcome corresponding with anyone who is
so inclined as I can, have time and anyone
needing further clarification or FAQ please
don't hesitate to contact me:

Joel Shapiro
(585) 255-0997 (Cell)
jrs_14618 at yahoo.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UofArizona/NMELRC Fast-Track Intensive Arabic
 Program in Amman, Jordan
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:belnap at byu.edu
Subject:UofArizona/NMELRC Fast-Track Intensive Arabic Program in  
Amman, Jordan

The University of Arizona’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)  
and the National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC),  
headquartered at Brigham Young University, are partnering to sponsor  
an intensive Arabic program in Amman, Jordan. This is an intensive  
program designed to assist students to make significant breakthroughs  
in acquiring functional fluency in speaking and reading.

Due to the high demand for Arabic, students are having a difficult  
time finding quality summer study abroad opportunities. Building on  
considerable previous experience, CMES and NMELRC are sponsoring this  
program as a model for what can be accomplished in a study abroad  
program (without spending a lot of money). Building on lessons  
learned in successful pilot programs, key aspects of this program  
include:

1) more time in country than the usual 6-8 weeks (program dates: June  
10 to August 16, 2007)
2) admitting only qualified students with a track record of serious  
drive to learn
3) a tightly focused curriculum based on using Arabic for real  
communication (speaking, listening, reading, and writing)
4) continuous program oversight consisting of aggressive quality control
5) regular one-on-one student advisement on how to make the best of  
in-country study

Course information
1)    Jordanian Arabic. Taught by a dynamic teacher with “homework”  
that takes students deep into Jordanian society. Students may fulfill  
speaking requirements through volunteer internship and service  
opportunities.

2)    Current Events. Students build fluency in using Arabic for real- 
word purposes that matter deeply to Arabs through reading selected  
newspaper articles, watching relevant news clips, and discussing  
important events of the day.

3)    Writing. Students develop facility in expressing themselves in  
Modern Standard Arabic and strengthen their control of its structures  
and collocations through meaningful writing.


Estimated Program Fee

Program costs (tuition & fees) $2476
Housing – $200 - $500 per month (according to quality of apartment or  
homestay and number of students sharing in an apartment)
Food – as low as $10/day
Airfare – $1600 (approx.)
Spending money: $750 - (local transportation & souvenirs)

For more information, see: http://studyabroad.arizona.edu/ 
display_program.php?id=171 or contact Jeremy Palmer  
<jeremy.palmer at gmail.com>.

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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Looking for grad program
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1) Subject:Looking for grad program

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:NS <shenaz99 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Looking for grad program

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Dear all,
I am an Egyptian graduate student seeking to join a
program at one of the US or UK university specialised
in Arabic with the research potential of working
either in translation studies or rhetorics and
discourse analysis. Would you kindly direct to a
program.
Best regards,
my email is
shenaz99 at yahoo.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:02 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT|LING:Code switched poetry query
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1) Subject:Code switched poetry query

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:"Rashid Hasan" <richardhasan at gmail.com>
Subject:Code switched poetry query

talking about poetry, do we have Arab poets (in the Arab world  
particularly,
and also diaspora) who write good poetry and blend it with English/ 
French or
other languages (maybe Spanish or Portugese)?  My PhD thesis talks about
foreign influences on MSA in general.  I would like to check it out  
in the
literature as well, particularly poetry, and prose also if there is a
significant distinction from usual external influence that we  
normally see.

Thanks to everyone in anticipation!!

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:21:59 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:21:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Seeking Advanced High/Superior speakers for
 research project
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1) Subject:Seeking Advanced High/Superior speakers for research project

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:Sara Hillman <greeklassie at yahoo.com>
Subject:Seeking Advanced High/Superior speakers for research project

I am seeking Arabic foreign language learners who have
either been formally tested or would assess themselves
as advanced high (or
superior/distinguished/professional/near-native) in
reading, listening, and speaking Arabic.
Participants should be non heritage learners
(participants should not have grown up speaking Arabic
in their house or to other relatives)

All participants will complete an open-ended
questionnaire and language strategy survey sent via
e-mail and may be additionally selected to take part
in short phone interviews. All data is confidential
and  participants will not be identifiable in any
reports of the research.

Although there is no monetary compensation for this
research, participants will get a chance to reflect on
their own language learning and may contribute to a
better understanding of how Arabic is learned as a
foreign language.

Please contact Sara Hillman at sarapatra at gmail.com, or
517-775-0034 if you would like more information. Your
participation is greatly appreciated!!!

Materials Development Assistant
ALIF (Arabic Language Instruction Flagship)
Wells Hall A-712
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI, 48823
(517) 775-0034

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:06 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Incompatibility of security clearance and good Arabic
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1) Subject:Incompatibility of security clearance and good Arabic

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:"David Wilmsen" <dww22 at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Incompatibility of security clearance and good Arabic

Here we go again.  The Army is advertising for a position that
requires   a) "previous experience in the Middle East," which it names
as "extremely desirable" b) "a deep understanding of the issues and
culture of this region" and c) "a US citizen with the ability to
obtain a secret security clearance".

Apparently any US citizen who has gained experience in the Middle East
by virtue of having travelled there and so also acquired any
understanding of the issues and culture of the region, let alone a
deep understanding, cannot get a security clearance.

For example, one of my students, a member of the Marine reserves,
managed to travel to the Middle East on his own initiative in order to
study Arabic and lost his secret security clearance thereby.  Another,
who can hardly speak a word of Arabic, is hurrying to obtain her
clearance before she goes (and hurrying to bone up on the lingo before
she goes too).

I wonder what the US government will do with all of the youngsters it
is funding with critical language fellowships ( for which I am
currently being inundated with requests for letters of reference),
once these courageous souls return from their language study
programmes abroad, having thereby rendered themselves unemployable by
the government in the positions for which the government needs their
expertise?


--  
David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Dept of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:21:56 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:21:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:U of Maryland Arabic High School program news
 release
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1) Subject:U of Maryland Arabic High School program news release

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:"Lampe, Gerald" <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject:U of Maryland Arabic High School program news release

University of Maryland/ News Release
March 8, 2007

New Natl. Program Will Immerse High Schoolers and Teachers in Arabic and
Chinese

The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland is
launching a new federally funded initiative this summer that will send
as many as 1,100 students to intensive camp and school programs to learn
Arabic and Chinese - part of an effort to teach critical, uncommonly
taught languages at an earlier age. The program will also help train as
many as 600 Arabic and Chinese speakers to teach the languages in high
schools.

The Center is awarding grants averaging $100,000 to 34 institutions in
21 states and the District of Columbia to run the so-called STARTALK
programs this summer. It is the newest program in the National Security
Language Initiative launched by the Bush administration last year. The
$4.8 million program is being funded jointly by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Department of Defense.

"This is a vital experiment because we need to start teaching critical
languages like Arabic and Chinese much earlier in life, if the nation is
to develop the skills needed for national security and economic
competitiveness," says Catherine Ingold, director of the University of
Maryland's National Foreign Language Center. "Right now, in most of the
country there's very little capacity to teach Arabic and Chinese to high
school students. In all but a handful of spots, we lack the programs and
teachers. And even where there are programs, a long summer away from the
language is a real setback. STARTALK is an effort to jumpstart the
process."

The 34 programs receiving funding differ widely, Ingold says, calling
this year's launch a kind of trial run. Some offer total immersion,
while others offer more modest training to give students a head start at
learning languages so different from English. Some programs offer a camp
atmosphere, while others are more traditional summer school sessions.
Many offer simultaneous programs to train both students and teachers.

"We need to do much more than just train students - we need to create a
supply of qualified teachers who can offer instruction at the high
school level," says Gerald Lampe, the deputy director of the National
Foreign Language Center and coordinator of the Arabic portion of
STARTALK. "On a national basis, we're almost starting from scratch. Most
of the instructors have only worked in a college environment, and most
need help getting certified. We'll give these teachers some of the
classroom experience they'll need for certification. For many of them,
these sessions represent a rare opportunity to work with students.
Teacher training, certification, along with curriculum and development
of teaching materials, will help to create the infrastructure we need to
sustain durable programs year-round."

"Quality is vital, and we want to make sure the programs use the best
practices in the field and the strongest curricula," Ingold says. "We
all have a lot of work to do to recruit students and teachers and get
these programs going."

A special effort will be made to recruit students from families with an
Arabic or Chinese heritage, but who lack formal education in the
languages. Many of the teachers who will receive training are proficient
heritage speakers, but lack high school classroom experience.

Plans call for the program to expand in the summer of 2008 to include
additional languages such as Hindi, Persian and Korean. In coming years,
the STARTALK program is expected to extend to Middle School Programs.

STARTALK is one of more than a dozen programs in the National Security
Language Initiative, announced by President Bush in January of 2006. The
Initiative seeks to expand and improve the teaching and learning of
strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught
in the United States. The U.S. Department of Education, the U.S.
Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence are all participating. More
information at:
http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/competitiveness/nsli/nsli.pdf.

The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) is dedicated to
understanding and addressing the nation's needs for languages other than
English. The Center implements that mission through intensive and
innovative strategic planning, research and development in cooperation
with academic institutions, organizations, and enterprises in the United
States and abroad. http://www.nflc.org/

The NFLC is part of the intensive language research and education
efforts at the University of Maryland, including the university's Center
for Advanced Study of Language, the largest U.S. national language
research facility, and Department of Defense funded National Flagship
Language Programs in Arabic and Persian.

http://www.casl.umd.edu/
http://www.languages.umd.edu/AsianEastEuropean/arabic/index.htm
http://www.languages.umd.edu/persianflagship/

MEDIA CONTACT:
Neil Tickner
University of Maryland
301-405-4622
ntickner at umd.edu

Gerald E. Lampe, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
National Foreign Language Center
5201 Paint Branch Parkway, Suite 2132
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-9690
glampe at nflc.org
www.nflc.org

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:21:57 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:21:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Pittsburgh Job
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1) Subject:U of Pittsburgh Job

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:U of Pittsburgh Job

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:31:39
From: Susan Merriman < susanmer at pitt.edu >
Subject: Arabic, Standard: Assistant Instructor, University of  
Pittsburgh, PA, USA


University or Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Department: Linguistics, LCTL Center
Web Address: http://www.linguistics.pitt.edu/lctl

Job Rank: Assistant Instructor

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language  
Teaching

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:

The Less-Commonly-Taught-Languages Center (Department of Linguistics) at
the University of Pittsburgh seeks applications for a full-time  
assistant
instructor of Arabic (non-tenure stream) to be hired on a twelve-month
contract beginning August 1, 2007, renewable annually. This position is
subject to budgetary approval. Qualifications required are native or
near-native proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic, Ph.D. or M.A. in  
Arabic,
Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics,  
Foreign
Language Education, or TESOL and at least three years Arabic teaching
experience. Preferred qualifications include ability to teach advanced
courses in the linguistic structure of Arabic, advanced communication in
Arabic, Middle Eastern/Islamic culture, or sociology/sociolinguistics of
the Arabic-speaking world.

Responsibilities: teaching 7 courses per year (over three terms);  
teaching
duties will range from beginning Arabic through advanced courses. In
addition, the position will involve assisting the coordination of the
Arabic curriculum, supervising 3-4 part-time instructors, and  
fostering the
growth of the Arabic program at Pitt. Solid teaching, administrative and
supervisory skills are essential.

Send letter of application, CV or resume, and evidence of teaching
excellence to the address below. Three letters of reference must be sent
directly to the Department. Deadline for applications: April 16, 2007.

The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity
employer. Women and members of minority groups under-represented in
academia are especially encouraged to apply.


Application Deadline: 16-Apr-2007

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Dr. Claude Mauk
	Director of the LCTL Center
	Department of Linguistics, 2816 CL
	University of Pittsburgh
	Pittsburgh, PA 15260
	USA


Contact Information:
	Dr. Claude Mauk
	Email: cemauk at pitt.edu
	Phone: 412-624-5943
	Fax: 412-624-6130

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:00 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:which dialect discussion
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1) Subject:which dialect discussion

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:"Ahmed Farrag" <ah_farrag at hotmail.com>
Subject:which dialect discussion

The best method to learn Arabic as a foreign language

As an educator,I am always asked about that.
The only way to answer this is to answer another question: what do  
you want to do with Arabic? Is your goal to read a newspaper?  
Scholarly journals? The Qu’ran? Do you want to chat with people in  
the Arab world? If so, in which country?
If you are interested in the printed word, you should study Modern  
Standard Arabic. If you are interested in reading the Qu’ran, you  
should study Qu’ranic Arabic . If you want to talk to people about  
everyday subjects such as their lives, their jobs, or their opinions,  
you will need to study Colloquial Arabic. Despite what people may  
tell you, it is possible to study both MSA and colloquial Arabic at  
the same time.

No matter what flavor of Arabic you decide to study, lay out your  
goals for the short and long term. This will help you chart your  
progress. Don’t worry about the curriculum of a school or a  
university. If you are reaching your own goals, then you’re making  
concrete progress in Arabic. Those goals may change as you learn more  
about the language and Arabic culture.

What’s the best colloquial dialect?

Wherever you travel in the Arabic-speaking world, the people will  
tell you that their dialect is the purest and closest to Classical  
Arabic. All of the dialects have evolved beyond Classical Arabic, and  
these differences are heard most often in everyday speech.

Television and movies have made the Egyptian dialect the most widely  
understood throughout the Arab world.If you speak colloquial  
Egyptian, you will probably be understood by many Arabic speakers—but  
this does not mean that you’ll understand them. As someone wrote, an  
Egyptian might be able to go to Gulf and talk about politics or  
literature, but he might have problems if he went to a store and  
asked for a loaf of bread. There seems to be some major groups of  
colloquial Arabic:

Egyptian (possibly including the Sudan)
Maghrebi, used in the North African countries of Morocco, Tunisia,  
and Algeria
Levantine, used in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine
Gulf Arabic, used in the Emirates, Kuwait, possibly Saudi Arabia (?)
- Iraqi

Here’s how you’d say “how are you?” to a man on the street:
Egyptian: izzayak?
Levantine: keefak?
- Iraqi: shloonak?

I have no idea about the dialects spoken in Yemen, but I hear (of  
course) it’s close to Classical Arabic.

Ahmed Farrag BA, MA
AFL Sr. Lecturer
http://arabic-private-tutor.faithweb.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:04 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:The requested hamza reference
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1) Subject:The requested hamza reference

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:Munther Younes <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:The requested hamza reference

Is this the reference you have in mind?

Hijaazi, Mustafa and Daahi Abdel Baaqi (ed.) Kitaab fii Usuul al- 
Lugha, Part 3. Cairo: al-Hai'a al-'Amma li Shu'uun al-Mataabi'  
al-'Amiiriyya, pp. 287-301 (1983)?

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:21:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:University of Zurich Job
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:almuslim5-1 at office-dateien.de
Subject:University of Zurich Job

An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich ist zum  
nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt

eine Professur in Gender Studies und Islamwissenschaft

zu besetzen.
Die Professur wird dem Orientalischen Seminar zugeordnet sein und  
soll einen Schwerpunkt in den Gesellschaften, den Kulturen und der  
Geschichte der modernen islamischen Welt haben. Gleichzeitig wird  
erwartet, dass der oder die zu Berufende das Fach Gender Studies  
vertritt und darin einen Masterstudiengang aufbaut und koordiniert.  
Vorausgesetzt werden Habilitation oder gleichwertige Leistungen sowie  
die Kenntnis des Arabischen und einer weiteren Sprache der  
islamischen Welt.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Publikations-  
und Lehrveranstaltungsverzeichnis, aber keine Schriften) sind bis zum  
17. März 2007 erbeten an das Dekanat der Philosophischen Fakultät der  
Universität Zürich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich, sowie in  
elektronischer Form an: heidi.moor at access.unizh.ch.
Die Universität Zürich strebt eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils in  
Forschung und Lehre an und bittet qualifizierte Wissenschaftlerinnen  
deshalb ausdrücklich um ihre Bewerbung

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:10 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translation query
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1) Subject:Translation query

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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:gmion at fub.it
Subject:Translation query

Hello!!!
I’m doing a little experiment (only for Arabs)…
I have this short text in Egyptian Arabic:

بس قبل كدا بيستطلعوا هازا الهلال
واللي فيهم شافه بيولي شهادته للقاضي  
الشرعي


ÈÓ ÞÈá ßÏÇ ÈãÌãæÚÉ ãä ÇáÔåæÏ  
ÈíÓÊØáÚæÇ åÇÒÇ ÇáåáÇá æÇááí Ýíåã ÔÇÝå  
ÈíæáÜøí
ÔåÇÏÊå ááÞÇÖí ÇáÔÑÚí.

[bass 'abli kida byistaTli3u haza lhilaal willi fihom shaafu biwalli
shahaadtu lilqaDi shshara3i].

How do you “translate” it in pure CLASSICAL Arabic ? Any idea ???
Thanks,
Giuliano Mion

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:text to fusha
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2) Subject:text to fusha
3) Subject:text to fusha
4) Subject:text to fusha
5) Subject:text to fusha

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:text to fusha

>
> بس قبل كدا بيستطلعوا هازا الهلال
> واللي فيهم شافه بيولي شهادته للقاضي   
> الشرعي
>
> [bass 'abli kida byistaTli3u haza lhilaal willi fihom shaafu biwalli
> shahaadtu lilqaDi shshara3i].
>
> How do you “translate” it in pure CLASSICAL Arabic ?


ولكنْ، قَبلَ ذَلِكَ يَستَطْلِعونَ  
الهلالَ، وَمَن يَرَهُ فيهِم يُولِ
شهادَتَهُ للقاضي الشرعي.

But before that they go out to see the new moon.  Whoever sees it  
informs
al-qadi al-shar`i.

Waheed

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Waleed El-shobaki <Waleed.El-shobaki at manchester.ac.uk>
Subject:text to fusha

و لكن قبل ذلك يستطلعون الهلال, و من يره  
منهم
يولي شهادته الى القاضي الشرعي.

Wa Laken Qabl Haza yastatilu'un al-hilal, wa man yarahu minhum yuli  
shhadatuhu
ila al-Qadi al-Shar'i

I hope that helps
Best wishes
Waleed

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3)
Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"Amira Nowaira" <amira at nowaira.net>
Subject:text to fusha


ولكن قبل ذلك يستطلعون هذا الهلال ومن  
منهم رآه يدلي بشهادته للقاضي الشرعي

Amira Nowaira
Department of English
Alexandria University

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:""Marco Hamam" <marco.hamam at poste.it>
Subject:text to fusha

Hi Giuliano, how are you doing?
This is a nice example of "middle arabic". There are many possible  
solutions to "translate" this sentence in classical arabic and all of  
these concern the "jumlat al-shart" which in dialect is very simple  
(willi fihom shaafu biwalli).
I would translate:

ولكنهم قبل ذلك يستطلعون هذا الهلال  
ومن يره منهم يولّ القاضي الشرعي شهادته

[walaakinnahum qabla dhaalik yastaTli3uun haadha al-hilaal wa-man  
yarahu minhum yuwalli al-qaaDii ash-shar3ii shahaadatahu]

Marco Hamam

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:""saharmhy" <saharmhy at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:text to fusha


وقبل استطلاع الهلال من رأى الهلال  
يدلى بشهادته للقاضى الشرعى

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:15 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING|LIT:Korean KAALL Arabic Language and Literature
 Conference
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1) Subject:Korean KAALL Arabic Language and Literature Conference

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"CHO HEESUN"<chohs10 at hanafos.com>
Subject:Korean KAALL Arabic Language and Literature Conference

Announcement of KAALL(Korean Association for Arabic Language and  
Literature) 2007 International Conference on the Arabic Language &  
Literature

The KAALL will hold the 2nd International Conference on the Arabic  
Language & Literature during Oct. 5-7 2007 in Seoul, Korea.

Send letter of application to Prof. Cho, Hee Sun, the Chair of the  
Organizing Committee (chohs10 at hanafos.com, chohs at mju.ac.kr) Deadline  
for applications: March 25, 2007.

Title " The Role of Arabic Language & Literature in the Globalization  
Age "
  Conference official Language: Arabic
KAALL will provide accommodations and meals for all foreign scholars  
during the conference period.

  The Letter of application includes name, nationality, sex,  
affiliation, position, address, e-mail address, telephone no, paper  
title, and language of presentation(Arabic or English.

Dr. Cho, Hee Sun
Professor of Arabic Studies,
120-728, 50-3, Namgajwa-dong, Seodaemun-ku,
Myongji, University,
Seoul, Korea

e-mail: chohs10 at hanafos.com, chohs at mju.ac.kr
Office Tel : 82-2-300-0593
Office Fax : 82-2-300-0504
Home Tel & Fax : 82-2-2231-2889
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LDC resources
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:LDC resources

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) would like to announce the  
availability of two new publications and provide information  
regarding forthcoming publications.

..........

(2)  ISI Arabic-English Automatically Extracted Parallel Text  
consists of Arabic-English parallel sentences which were extracted  
automatically from two monolingual corpora: Arabic Gigaword Second  
Edition (LDC2006T02) and English Gigaword Second Edition  
(LDC2005T12). The data was extracted from news articles published by  
Xinhua News Agency and Agence France Presse.  The corpus contains  
1,124,609 sentence pairs; the word count on the English side is  
approximately 31M words. The sentences in the parallel corpus  
preserve the form and encoding of the texts in the original Gigaword  
corpora.

For each sentence pair in the corpus we provide the names of the  
documents from which the two sentences were extracted, as well as a  
confidence score (between 0.5 and 1.0), which is indicative of their  
degree of parallelism. The parallel sentence identification approach  
is designed to judge sentence pairs in isolation from their contexts,  
and can therefore find parallel sentences within document pairs which  
are not parallel.

In order to make this resource useful for research in Machine  
Translation (MT), we made efforts to detect potential overlaps  
between this data and the standard test and development data sets  
used by the MT community.


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Ali Baba Center Summer Arabic Programs in Amman,
 Jordan
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1) Subject:Ali Baba Center Summer Arabic Programs in Amman, Jordan

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:info at alibaba.jo
Subject:Ali Baba Center Summer Arabic Programs in Amman, Jordan

                 Summer Arabic Programs in Amman, Jordan

Ali Baba International Center (www.alibaba.jo)  is a Jordanian  
organization
established exclusively to give people, of different ages and  
nationalities,
the opportunity to learn and live the Arabic language and culture in  
Jordan.
The center organizes at  the University of Jordan  four  1-month  
sessions in
2007:  in June,  in July, in August and  in September. This is in  
addition to a
2-month regular summer session  lasting from mid-June to mid-August,  
2007.

A typical 1-month  intensive summer class meets four  hours and a  
half per day,
five days per week, for a total of 90 contact hours. A typical 2- 
month  regular
summer class meets three  hours  per day, five days per week, for a  
total of 120
contact hours. A placement test will be given to the registered  
students before
the start of the course  to determine the level and accordingly the  
appropriate
class they should enroll in. For details please refer to    
www.alibaba.jo.

Other than the summer sessions described above,  its also possible  
for Ali Baba
International Center to arrange for group of university students to  
study
Arabic at the University of  Jordan using the same text book which  
they use in
their mother universities. Some universities in the US  request this
arrangement to guarantee the  accreditation of the courses studied  
here by
their students. We have had this sort of experience with some  
universities in
the United States and will be happy to consider any suggestion  
regarding this
arrangement by universities offering Arabic courses throughout the  
world.
Please contact info at alibaba.jo for more information on this issue.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:19 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Security and 'Good' Arabic
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1) Subject:Security and 'Good' Arabic

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Security and 'Good' Arabic

David writes:
> ...>  Another,
> who can hardly speak a word of Arabic, is hurrying to obtain her
> clearance before she goes (and hurrying to bone up on the lingo before
> she goes too).

Good Arabic:

Going through security at Detroit Metro Airport, walking past a table
(طاولة), I read a notice taped on it.  It said, in English,  
something like
the following:

DO NOT TOUCH TABLE

The Arabic translation:

ممنوع مَس الجدول

[Dil's attempt at transliteration for those who aren't getting the  
script: mamnuu‘ mass al-jadwal]

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:58 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middlebury Arabic TA Job
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1) Subject:Middlebury Arabic TA Job

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:qmecham at middlebury.edu
Subject:Middlebury Arabic TA Job

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE is seeking to hire a Teaching Assistant in Arabic  
for the academic year, September 2007 until June 2008. The successful  
candidate will have strong Arabic and English language skills, and a  
willingness to work closely with students and faculty in the Arabic  
program. Please send a letter of application, a CV, and three letters  
of recommendation to Dr. Ian Barrow, Director of International  
Studies, Robert A. Jones ’59 House, Middlebury College, Middlebury  
Vermont 05753, USA. Applications and letters of recommendation may  
also be sent by email to: ibarrow at middlebury.edu.

The Arabic Teaching Assistant (TA) will assist the faculty of the  
Arabic program as necessary: this might include leading conversation  
or drill sections; conducting oral interviews of exams; occasionally  
substituting for faculty away at conferences; and holding office  
hours. This will average six contact hours per week during both  
twelve-week semesters and the four-week winter term. During the  
winter term there may be the opportunity, depending on student need  
and the Dean’s approval, to teach a section of the first-year Arabic  
course, which will entail more than six contact hours per week.

The TA will live in the Arabic House with students who have made a  
commitment to speak primarily in Arabic while in the house. The TA  
will encourage the use of Arabic by providing a linguistic model and  
by organizing cultural and recreational activities that will promote  
it. These activities might include movie and video showings, guest  
lectures, parties, dinners, an Arabic radio show, etc. The TA will  
organize and supervise a student committee that will help plan Arabic  
cultural programming. The TA is responsible for ensuring the smooth  
functioning of the Arabic lunch tables.

If the TA is not a US citizen, then he or she must enroll, for free,  
in two courses, one each term. If the TA is a US citizen, then he or  
she may choose to enroll in up to two courses. Middlebury College is  
an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting a diverse  
faculty to complement its increasingly diverse student body. Review  
of applications will begin immediately and end when the position has  
been filled.


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:13 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Academy Hamza info
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1) Subject:Cairo Academy Hamza info

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"lailafam" <lailafam at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Cairo Academy Hamza info

According to Ramadan Abd El-Tawwaab (1996) -مشكلة الهمزة  
العربية- the
Arabic Language Academy of Cairo has established at two different
points in time the guidelines for writing the Hamza:

1. January, 5th, 1960.
وقد نشر في مجموعة القرارات العلمية من  
الدورة الأولى إلى الدورة الثامنة
والعشرين (ص 189-190)

2. During the 46th Session of the Arabic Language Academy of Cario
(1878-1979).
وقد نشر في ملحق محاضر جلسات المجلس  
والمؤتمر، في الدورة السادسة
والأربعين (ص 23-24).

They are two different ways of explaining the orthographic rule for
writing the Hamza, being the second -supposedly- simplier.

Hope this helps.

Salaam

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:17 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:Lit|LING:Code switched poetry
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1) Subject:Code switched poetry

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"Madiha Doss" <madihadoss at yahoo.com>
Subject:Code switched poetry

[Moderator's note: Madiha's first message came through garbled even  
for me, so I didn't post it.  Here is the follow on message.]

In case my previous message could not be read, I suggest to the  
researcher Rashid Hasan to look at a novel by Ahamd El Aidi An takuun  
Abbas el 'abd (Merritt), which contains quite a few occurences of  
code switching and borrowings sometime written in roman script
Madiha Doss

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:34 2007
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Etymology and 'timeline' of Salibi for 'crusader'
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1) Subject:Etymology and 'timeline' of Salibi for 'crusader'

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:moderator
Subject:Etymology and 'timeline' of Salibi for 'crusader'

I received the following request for information from a non- 
subscriber.  If you could send me any answers or comments, I will  
compile them for the list and send them to the person who made the  
request.
dil

Medieval sources refer to the Crusaders as "al Franj" ("the Franks").  
At what point does Arab culture make the transition to using the term  
"Salibi"? Bernard Lewis mentions the vocabulary transition as a  
response to colonialism (which I suppose places it in the late 19th/ 
early 20th century) but only in a sort of off-handed way.

Can you point me towards a more detailed entymology (preferably in  
English)?
I would appreciate any assistance you could offer.

Thanks,
Gerry Watkins

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:26 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&K-16:NCLRC Scholarship Application
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:nclrc <nclrc at gwu.edu>
Subject:NCLRC Scholarship Application

Dear Arabic educators and administrators,
The scholarship application form is now online and we strongly
encourage you to completely fill it out and send it back to us by
March 28th, as it will be sent to the Scholarship Review Committee  
for consideration, then we will announce scholarships on April 6th.
You must submit your application through the NCLRC on-line
application system. Go to this link: http://nclrc.org/profdev/ 
nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html, choose the Arabic Institute of your  
interest and click where it says “Scholarships and Stipends  
available, click here”, then you will be taken to the page of NCLRC  
STARTALK Scholarship Application.
Should you have any question, please contact Mrs. Salima Intidame at:  
(202)973-1086
Best of luck to you all,
NCLRC staff

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:00 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:00 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Middlebury Arabic School STATALK Teacher Training
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:jnorthru at middlebury.edu
Subject:Middlebury Arabic School STATALK Teacher Training Workshop

Middlebury College Arabic School STARTALK Teacher-Training Workshop

The Middlebury College Arabic School is offering an intensive, two- 
week teacher-training workshop for K-12 teachers involved in (or  
preparing to) teach Arabic at the secondary level.  This workshop  
will be conducted at Middlebury College in Vermont and will run  
concurrent with the summer Arabic Language School.  Participants in  
the Teacher Training will receive the equivalent of 3 credits for  
graduate-level coursework.

Application information:
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the program is  
full.  The application material can be downloaded at:  
www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/startalk

Dates:
July 20-August 3

Cost:
All participants' fees (room, board and tuition) for the Workshops  
will be covered by the STARTALK grant. Please check on the web for  
information regarding travel grants.

Contact information:
Bill Mayers- Coordinator of the Middlebury College summer Arabic School
Web site : www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls
Email: wmayers at middlebury.edu
Phone: 802-443-2006

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:54 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book
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1) Subject:New Book

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Pierre.Larcher at up.univ-mrs.fr
Subject:New Book

The Publishing Services of Universite de Provence (France) announces the
availability of the following new work on the field of Semitic
Linguistics:

La formation des mots dans les langues semitiques, sous la direction de
Philippe Cassuto et Pierre Larcher, Coll. Langues et langage, 15, 202p.
Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Universite de Provence, 2007.
ISBN 978-2-85399-660-0
ISSN 1158-629X
Price: 25 Euros

Table of contents

Philippe CASSUTO & Pierre LARCHER
Préface (p. 6-12)

1. La racine et son traitement dans les linguistiques d’hier et  
d’aujourd’hui

Philippe CASSUTO
Base, roi et serviteur (p. 15-43)

Victor PORKHOMOVSKY
Structure de la racine et formation des mots dans la tradition
semitologique russe (p. 44-52)

Jean-François PRUNET (United Arab Emirates University)
La racine semitique dans les sciences cognitives (p. 53-80)

2. Au delà de la racine et du schème

Christian TOURATIER (Université de Provence)
Racine et analyse en morphemes dans les langues semitiques (p. 83-95)

Pierre LARCHER
Racine et scheme, significations lexicale et grammaticale :
Quelques exemples de non-bijection en arabe classique (p. 97-112)

Lutz EDZARD
La morpho-syntaxe de l'annexion, des formations compositionnelles
et des syncretismes dans les langues semitiques modernes:
Analyse contrastive de nouveaux developpements (p. 113-147)

3. To be or not to be ‘semitic’

Mauro TOSCO
Le maltais, ou de la crise d’une morphologie semitique (p. 151-163)

Andrzej ZABORSKI
Entre l’apophonie et l’alternation : sur l’origine de quelques formes
verbales en semitique et chamito-semitique (p. 165-172)

4. Nominalia

Herve GABRION
L’hebreu et le sexe des anges: genre et formes dans le systeme nominal
hebraique (p. 175-184)

Remo MUGNAIONI
L’etat construit en babylonien entre morphologie et phonologie (p.  
185-200)

For further information and orders, please contact:
Universite de Provence
Service des Publications
29, avenue Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex
Tel. (33) 04 42 95 31 91
Fax (33) 04 42 20 28 04
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:36 2007
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books single copies
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1) Subject:Gerlach Books single copies

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:march2007 at gerlach-books.de
Subject:Gerlach Books single copies

Dear Prof. Parkinson,
Our offices have just been moved and we would like to offer the  
remaining stock from our old warehouse. All copies are hard cover  
exhibtion copies in mint condition.
*** PLEAE NOTE: Prepayment or credit card payment is required. Offer  
valid until March, 30th, 2007***
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards
Kai-H. Gerlach

P.S. Single copies only. We sell on a "first come first serve" basis!

(  )	A Literary History of Persia / 4 vols set (1 copy only)
	Curzon Press /	by E.G. Browne
	OFFER: 400 EUR per set incl. shipping (list price 675 EUR)

(  )	Atlas of Jerusalem (5 copies only)
	de Gruyter / by the Geography Dept of the Hebrew University of  
Jerusalem
	OFFER: 190 EUR incl. shipping (list price 490 EUR, TITLE OUT OF PRINT)

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayet Institute Summer 2007
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
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Subject:Hedayet Institute Summer 2007

Hedayet Institute for Arabic Studies (HIAS) is pleased to announce  
its total immersion summer program of 2007.  www.hedayetinstitute.com

HIAS program is an intensive total immersion Arabic language and  
cultural program where both Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial  
Egyptian Arabic are combined. Elective courses are offered in Arabic  
literature, oriental music ('Ud, nayy etc.), Arab/Islamic history,  
Arabic calligraphy, women in Islam, History of the Copts in Egypt,  
tajweed al Qur'an, Media Arabic, Business Arabic and others. The  
institute provides the syllabi, assessment criteria, and the  
professors' CVs for its content-based area courses.
Cultural Activities: An essential part of the summer program there  
are cultural activities and events. They include tours, seminars and  
films. Preparation and follow up on these activities help students  
better comprehend the content and practice their Arabic in different  
contexts and culture topics.
Venue: HIAS is located 5 minutes walk from Hadayeq El Maadi metro  
station and 20 minutes far from the center of Cairo. The institute  
has a fascinating Arab ambiance.

Dates: Both the 7 week and the 12 week summer intensive programs will  
start on Sunday Jun. 17th, 07.  The deadline for application is Apr.  
30th, 07.

Tuition fees:.
For groups of three students, the 7 week program of a total of 140  
hours will cost each student a total of USD 1400 (i.e. USD 10 per  
each contact class hour).  The 12 week program (total of 240 contact  
class hours) will be USD 2400 for each student in a group of three.
For individual students, costs will be USD 14 per contact class hour.  
Thus the 7 week program will cost for an individual student USD 1960,  
while the 12 week program will cost him/her USD 3360.
How to Apply:
Fill an application on line on: www.hedayetinstitute.com
Pay a deposit fee to reserve your place before the deadline (Pls. ask  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&K-16:NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes
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Excellent opportunities to enhance your teaching abilities and  
strengthen your experience!
Workshops are scheduled and offered by competent professors of Arabic  
language.
Meet teachers of Arabic from other schools and institutions across  
the U.S., share ideas, methods, and materials.
We invite you to join us for one or more Arabic Teacher Institutes,  
and we look forward to seeing you this summer.
Limited spaces, Scholarships & Stipends are available!
See below for detailed information or visit us at:
http://nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html


Teaching Arabic to College and Upper High School Students May 21 - 25
A Hands-On Workshop Conducted in Arabic by Mahmoud Al-Batal,  
University of Texas & Martha Schulte-Nafeh, University of Arizona.
The workshop is designed for teachers of college students. Teachers  
of upper level high school students are welcome; however, the methods  
assume high levels of learner autonomy and engagement. Through  
demonstrations, video, discussion, and interactive activities,  
participants will experience the methods of learner-centered,  
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coaching and feedback from the presenters.

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Conducted in Arabic by Iman Hashem, California State University, Long  
Beach & Muhammad Eissa, Ph.D., University of Chicago
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design instruction for Arabic K-12 students which incorporates ACTFL  
proficiency guidelines and the National Standards for Arabic.  
Participants will be guided in preparing student-centered, standards- 
based instruction for their classrooms.

Writing and Implementing Curricula for Teachers of Arabic July 9 - 13
Conducted in English and Arabic by Iman Hashem, California State  
University, Dr. Muhammad Eissa, University of Chicago, & Dr.  
Christine Brown, Glastonbury Public Schools.
The goal of this institute is to provide guidelines and frameworks  
for curriculum development and specifically to assist teachers  
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for their schools, programs, or districts. The institute will give  
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developers experienced in Arabic language curriculum development at a  
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ELRA Arabic resources
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ELRA-S0157 NetDC Arabic BNSC (Broadcast News Speech Corpus)
The NetDC Arabic BNSC (Broadcast News Speech Corpus) is a corpus  
developed by ELDA in the framework of the European-funded project  
Network of Data Centres (NetDC). The project was done in  
collaboration with the LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium), which has  
produced a similar corpus from the news broadcasted by Voice of  
America Arabic in the United States. The database contains ca. 22.5  
hours of broadcast news speech recorded from Radio Orient (France)  
during a 3-month period.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php? 
products_id=13&language=en

or more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli  
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu
Subject:lam walan +subjunctive or jussive?


      Could someone do a machine search to find instances of:   /lam   
wa-lan  (+ imperfect)/  to indicate
'[X] has never, nor will ever do [Y]'.   With some verbs in an  
unvocalized text, we can distinguish
between the subjunctive and jussive moods; how Arab writers deal with  
this 'crux' would certainly be of interest to us all.  Thank you.

      Best wishes,
                                                                         
        Mike Schub

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Dil Parkinson
Subject:Results of lam walan from arabiCorpus.byu.edu

It is difficult to export the results from arabiCorpus.byu.edu in a  
nicely readable format without a lot of work, and without being able  
to attach a file, but here are the results for the verbs which show a  
difference between jussive and subjunctive.  I searced for lam walan  
and got 200+ results, copied them into Excell and deleted the lines  
where the jussive and subjunctive of the verbs would be the same.   
After each number is the verb in question, so you can glance through  
that way.  If you want to read the sentence, you must start at the  
bottom, right above the name of the paper.  For instance, the first  
one reads:  haadhaa al-mawduu9 lam walan 'uthiirahu 'abadan, wala  
'a9taqid...
A quick glance through shows mostly subjunctive, but there are a few  
examples of jussive (#94, 207, 228?).

2
أثيره
أثيره أبدا، ولا أعتقد أنه يمثل مشكلة  
بالنسبة لي لأني
لم ولن
هذا الموضوع
Ahram99
8
انتمي
انتمي لأي حزب. وليس كلامي تقليلا من  
شأن الاحزاب او
لم ولن
- لست عضوا في اي حزب من الاحزاب، واؤكد  
أنني
Hayat96
12
تبالي
تبالي. هؤلاء أصحاب الضمائر الميتة  
والقلوب المتحجرة الذين يلهثون وراء
لم ولن
علي حياة المواطنين البسطاء رغم  
القوانين والقرارات الحاسمة إلا أنها
Ahram99
16
تتخلى
تتخلى عن محاولاتها سن دستور اسلامي  
لحكم السودان. هذه الأحزاب
لم ولن
بأن الأحزاب السودانية التقليدية  
(الأمة والاتحادي الديموقراطي والجبهة  
الاسلامية القومية)
Hayat97
17
تتخلى
تتخلى عن قرارها، وانها تعرف ان تختار  
من يحمي هذا
لم ولن
الاحباء، تحتشدون اليوم، في يوم قرار  
بيروت، لتعلنوا ان بيروت
Hayat96
40
تختفي
تختفي من المنطقة حتى وبعد التوصل الى  
سلام شامل.
لم ولن
غير دولة من دول المنطقة». وأكد نباري  
ان المشكلة الأمنية
Hayat96
43
تدوس
تدوس بعقيدتها وأخلاقها على الردى ولن  
تلطخها في الوحل مهما
لم ولن
ثانيا: إنك تعلم جيدا ان المرأة السعودية
Hayat96
44
تزيح
تزيح شبح أو تبعة الحرب مع الدولة  
العبرية، وذلك على
لم ولن
استيعابه عربيا على المستويين الرسمي  
والشعبي هو أن عملية التسوية
Hayat97
45
تزيد
تزيد الصهاينة إلا خوفا وانهزاما، في  
الوقت الدي يزداد فيع
لم ولن
على أن السياسة الحديدية التي جاء بها  
مجرم الحرب شارون
Tajdid02
48
تستطيع
تستطيع إيقاف تقدم العملية السلمية  
وتجد نفسها أمام مأزق التعامل
لم ولن
المعارضة الفلسطينية
Hayat96
49
تستطيع
تستطيع ان تركع آلة الحرب هذه في سبيل  
استرجاع المكتسبات
لم ولن
العنصرية، الا اننا نتحسر لفقداننا نهج  
غاندي.. نبكي لانتفاضة عنيفة
Watan02
66
تغيب
تغيب عن وعيهم للحظة واحدة، وهم في  
تداركهم أي ثغرة
لم ولن
وأعلن وزير الداخلية أن مسئوليات رجال  
الشرطة
Ahram99
80
تكون
تكون المقارنة في صالح المسلسل فقد كان  
هناك كم كبير
ولم ولن
مسلسل ( رد قلبي يقول: إنني لم أستمتع به  
إطلاقا
Ahram99
81
تكون
تكون دائما عقلانية، ولن تعدو السوق أن  
تكون مكانا للكسب
لم ولن
المنطق ويطبقها بشكل متزن وعادل لصالح  
البائع والمشتري معا، فالسوق
Ahram99
82
تكون
تكون يوما بعيدة عن الساحة الأدبية  
والفكرية في مصر، فأبناؤها
لم ولن
أبنائها وخريجيها وسوف تحمل لكم دوما  
كل الإعزاز والتقدير، وأنها
Ahram99
83
تكون
تكون من الاشياء التي تمتعنا، واننا  
كنا دائما مثالا للتعايش
لم ولن
يعلق المشانق، وان القتل ليس من عادة  
الكونجوليين، وان الدماء
Ahram99
84
تكون
تكون في محنة، لأنها المرجع الأخير لكل  
مظلوم لكي يتشبث
لم ولن
بين المحاماة والنقابة فنقابة  
المحامين فعلا في محنة، ولكن المحاماة
Ahram99
85
تكون
تكون سوي جهاز تنفيذي إضافي من ابتكار  
الانسان ذاته يعمل
لم ولن
مخ الانسان وتقوم بعمله علي نحو ما سلف  
بيانه، فهي
Ahram99
86
تكون
تكون يوما بعيدة عن الساحة الادبية  
والفكرية في مصر، فابناؤها
لم ولن
ابنائها وخريجيها وسوف تحمل له دوما كل  
الاعزاز والتقدير، وأنها
Ahram99
87
تكون
تكون ضد مصالح الشعوب والدول العربية».  
وتأتي هذه الخطوة في
«لم ولن
المجالات، وأكد دعم ايران الحقوق  
العربية. وشدد على ان ايران
Hayat97
88
تكون
تكون هناك علاقة بينها وبين السلطة  
الفلسطينية.
لم ولن
المؤسسات حقق المراد منه باعلان  
المسؤولين عن تلك المؤسسات انها
Hayat97
89
تكون
تكون سهلة، ولا يمكن تصور حضور هذا  
الحشد من العراقيين
لم ولن
حساب الأردن. وعلى ذكر الصعوبة  
والسهولة فان مهمة هذا المؤتمر
Hayat96
90
تكون
تكون له علاقة بالاسلام سواء الاسلام  
السياسي او الاسلام الروحي.
لم ولن
ويبدو ان هذه الاطراف حاولت تناسي  
حقيقة ان العنف
Hayat96
91
تكون
تكون جهادا بقدر ما تكون حربا للعصبية  
الجاهلية.
لم ولن
لهؤلاء كونهم اجانب على المنطقة  
وبسببهم اندلعت هذه الحرب التي
Watan02
94
تنته
تنته، وبداية لمشروع رياضي سياحي عملاق  
يتبناه ويشرف عليه ويرعاه
لم ولن
من فندق ماريوت بمدينة الغردقة الي  
بداية حقيقية لصحوة رياضية
Ahram99
95
تنتهي
تنتهي فقط هو ينتظر دوره ويؤكد انه لن  
يترك القدس
لم ولن
في عهد حكومة نيتانياهو باستخدامها  
اسوأ استخدام مشكلة البديري وغيره
Ahram99
98
تنحاز
تنحاز إلي جانب أحد الفصائل الصومالية  
علي حساب أي فصيل
لم ولن
النزيهة والمحايدة بين جميع الاطراف  
والفصائل الصومالية. وقال إن مصر
Ahram99
99
تنسي
تنسي.. فقد حقق كلينتون اداء اقتصاديا  
افضل مما كان عليه
لم ولن
الإنجاز الاقتصادي والاجتماعي، لولا  
فضائحه الجنسية مع مونيكا لوينسكي، التي
Ahram99
130
يتخلي
يتخلي عن الشعب الفلسطيني إلي أن يبلغ  
غايته الوطنية، وبقوله:
لم ولن
يتحرك انطلاقا من القاعدة التي صاغها  
الحسين بقوله: إن الأردن
Ahram99
131
يتخلي
يتخلي عن السلطة طالما بقي علي قيد  
الحياة والدليل علي
لم ولن
وتستند الصحف السالفة لطبائع يلتسين  
ومفادها بأنه
Ahram99
132
يتخلى
يتخلى عن الأكراد ولو لحظة واحدة، ولم  
يتخلوا عنه. ان
لم ولن
وكتبت صحيفة «الثورة» الناطقة باسم حزب  
البعث ان «العراق
Hayat96
138
يتعافي
يتعافي من هذه العلة.. طالما ظل السبب  
وبقيت العلة!! والكامنة
لم ولن
دائه العضال.. حيث تترنح دعاواه الي  
مديد من الآجال. وهو
Ahram99
151
يتوانى
يتوانى في استعمال الضحايا كقرابين  
لآلهة الحرب، لضرب هذه الاتفاقيات
لم ولن
إيل لا تساعد على تنفيذ الاتفاقيات، بل  
تساعد نتانياهو، الذي
Hayat97
154
يجدي
يجدي في مخطط التهام الحقوق العربية  
المشروعة، ولن يزيد إحساس
لم ولن
دعم مسيرة التسوية في المرحلة الراهنة،  
فالتلويح بقدرات إسرائيل العسكرية
Ahram99
155
يجري
يجري على الاطلاق». واعتبر «ان جهاز  
الأمن المصري أقوى جهاز
لم ولن
من دول أخرى للقيام باجراءات ضبط أو  
تحر، وهذا أمر
Hayat97
156
يجود
يجود التاريخ بأمثالهم. ولكن كيف  
يمكننا أن نشيد بهم وأكثرنا
لم ولن
يحق لنا نحن المسلمين أن نعتز بعلمائنا  
وزعمائنا الأجلاء، الذين
Tajdid02
174
يرضي
يرضي عن هذا العمل.. وأن كل مواطن في  
بورسعيد وفي
لم ولن
رجل أمن ورجل سياسة.. فانني أستشعر وأثق  
بأن شعب بورسعيد
Ahram99
178
يستطيع
يستطيع أن يهزم الشيشانيين، بمن فيهم  
الزعيم السوفيتي الأسبق جوزيف
لم ولن
في حديثه لمحطة تليفزيون إن. تي. في  
الروسية أن أحدا
Ahram99
179
يستطيع
يستطيع العيش بدونها من الآن. فتحت أم  
لبنى وقالت في
لم ولن
مرة يشعر بكل هذا التوتر... ماذا حدث  
لها؟ هل تعذبت؟...
Madbuli
180
يستهين
يستهين بالمنتخب المصري القوي الذي  
يقدره ويحترمه ويعلم انه يسعى
لم ولن
تونس في التأهل. ورفض شعار (لقاء تحصيل  
حاصل)، مشيرا انه
Hayat97
207
يكن
يكن راغبا في مشاركة المعارضة في اي  
حوار بناء، وإنما
لم ولن
جميعا متفقين في هذا المحور، بأن  
النظام الحاكم في بغداد
Hayat97
208
يكون
يكون مناصرا للديمقراطية في بلادنا،  
حيث إنه يدرك تماما أن
لم ولن
الغرب التي تتذرع بحجج رغبته في عودة  
الديمقراطية للبلاد. فالغرب
Ahram99
209
يكون
يكون يوما عملا خاصا أو ذاتيا يحقق نفعا  
للنائب علي
ولم ولن
العمل النيابي عبر تاريخ مصر كان وسيظل  
لصالح الوطن والمواطنين..
Ahram99
210
يكون
يكون في يوم من الايام حكرا على  
الجماعات الدينية. لقد
لم ولن
الاتجاهات والتغييرات التي طرأت على  
المنطقة. أما تيار العنف فإنه
Hayat97
211
يكون
يكون رهنا لموقعة بدر التي غدا زمانها  
بعيدا حيث كان
لم ولن
ولعله، بل من المؤكد، ان النصر ذاك
Hayat96
212
يكون
يكون الحل بل مأزق اضافي جديد لاسرائيل  
وعلى كل المستويات».
لم ولن
لأن كل التجارب اثبتت على مدى السنوات  
الطويلة ان العدوان
Hayat96
213
يكون
يكون أبدا غايتها إلا إذا كان وسيلة  
تتحقق من ورائها
لم ولن
بالأحرى صاحباتها على حد قولها وعن  
التمثيل قالت ميادة انه
Watan02
214
يكون
يكون لها أي دور لصالح القضية  
الفلسطينية باعتبارهم يهودا قبل
لم ولن
اليهود المغاربة داخل الكيان المحتل،  
بأن هذه الفئة من اليهود
Tajdid02
220
ينتهي
ينتهي اللهم إلا في يوم القيامة رغم أن  
رؤساء تحرير
لم ولن
أدركت المجلة أن التاريخ
Ahram99
221
ينتهي
ينتهي اصلا لعدم وضع الحلول الناجعة  
وعلى هذا الاساس سنكمل
لم ولن
والمالية بوزارة الشؤون الاجتماعية  
والعمل لانعقاد اجتماع عاجل... ولكنه  
موضوع
Watan02
222
ينساها
ينساها اهل الكويت رافعا بهذه المناسبة  
اسمى آيات التهنئة والتبريكات
لم ولن
دولة الكويت، وشدد الشيخ احمد الفهد  
على ان هذه المواقف
Watan02
224
ينسي
ينسي ما فعلته مصر للحفاظ علي وحدة  
اراضي الكونجو في
لم ولن
مستوي أفريقيا فقط وإنما علي مستوي  
العالم.. إن الشعب الكونجولي
Ahram99
228
ينل
ينل منها المغرضون أو أصحاب النوايا  
السيئة أو الارهابيون الأشرار…».
لم ولن
واعتبرت ان العلاقات الكويتية مع  
البحرين وباقي الدول الخليجية «علاقة
Hayat96

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:23 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Egyptian Arabic Bible Translation
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Needs Egyptian Arabic Bible Translation

Dear List members,
Does anyone know where I might be able to find a copy of Willcox's  
1925 translation of the Bible in Egyptian Arabic? My understanding is  
that he translated various texts into the Cairene dialect of the  
time, but that translation of the Bible received quite a bit of  
criticism and was eventually banned.
Thank you
Mustafa Mughazy

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:23 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs reference for AlHuseini Arabic/Western
 grammar comparison
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From: "Uhlmann, Allon" <uhlmanna at umsl.edu>
Subject:Needs reference for AlHuseini Arabic/Western grammar comparison

Hi Everyone,

I am looking for the reference for a book written by IsHaq Musa  
AlHuseini, probably in the early 1930s, that compares Western and  
Arab grammars of Arabic.  Can anybody help?

Thanks,
A.

Allon J. Uhlmann
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Missouri - St. Louis
http://www.umsl.edu/~uhlmanna/

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Conference on Middle Arabic, Amsterdam
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:"C. J. Roset" <C.J.Roset at uva.nl>
Subject:Conference on Middle Arabic, Amsterdam

International Conference on Middle Arabic

Amsterdam, 22-25 October 2007

Hosted by the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Theme

The structural differences between spoken and written varieties in  
the Arabic language, which has been a permanent reality throughout  
its history, resulted in the creation and development of intermediate  
and mixed varieties which were written and probably spoken as well.  
These are commonly called « Middle Arabic » varieties.

After the publication of some pioneering research in that field,  
Middle Arabic has been established as a new scientific branch in its  
own right by Prof. J. Blau’s works. Although research on Middle  
Arabic is of vital importance to the reconstruction of the history of  
the Arabic language, its value has not been sufficiently recognized,  
as becomes clear from the limited dispersion of the work in the field  
and the absence of an overview on the research.

This colloquium aims firstly to review the current state of knowledge  
of Middle Arabic, taking into account its historical and geographical  
context, and secondly to debate the different methods of analysis,  
and the problems of definition and terminology which are always  
present in this field of research.

Keynote speakers: Yoshua Blau and Madiha Doss

For more information and subscription, please check http:// 
www.fgw.uva.nl/aimacolloque

Caroline Roset
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/c.j.roset/

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:31 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Texas job
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1) Subject:U of Texas job

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From: "Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:U of Texas job

Arabic Lecturer Position

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN invites applications for a full-time,
academic year-long appointment as a lecturer in Arabic, to begin
September 1, 2007 with possibility of annual renewal. To be considered,
candidates should have completed at least a Masters degree in Arabic or
a related field.  Preference will be given to candidates who hold a
Ph.D. in Arabic. The successful candidate will have demonstrated
teaching excellence at the university level and be expected to teach six
courses during the academic year 2007-2008. Experience in coordinating
multiple sections of Arabic classes is desired.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three
reference letters, and evidence of teaching and research excellence to:
Mahmoud Al-Batal, Director, National Flagship Language Program in
Arabic, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at
Austin (WMB 6.102); 1 University Station # F9400, Austin, TX 78712-0527.
Phone: (512) 471-3881; Fax: (512) 471-7834.

All application materials must be received by April 15, 2007.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Salibi responses
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1) Subject:Salibi response
2) Subject:Salibi response
3) Subject:Salibi response

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at mac.com>
Subject:Salibi response

No precise timeline, here, but I can only assume it was considerably  
after the fact, when the Arabic-speaking world gained access to  
"Firanji" accounts of the Crusades as history. Then, the foreign term  
"al-Huruub aS-Saliibiyya" might have been borrowed, just as other  
Western-centric terms like "alquruun al-wuSTaa" and "ash-sharq al- 
awSaT," none of which really make much sense from an Arab/Islamic  
point of view.

-Dan.

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2)
Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:"Reda Aly" <rdalyh at hotmail.com>
Subject:Salibi response

The word 'alfirinj' or alfirinjah' (synonymous to French or Franks -  
the /dj/ sound in Arbic replaces the /ch/ in french) came to be known  
in Egypt, Lebenon, and Syria when the French campaign came to Egypt   
in 1798. Long ago before 1798,  the word 'saliibi' was used as a  
direct translation for 'crusades' (the people who raise the 'saliib'  
or 'the cross' to apear as religous fighter to hide their real  
intentions).

Reda A. Mahoumd

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Salibi response

I can't vouch for the perfection of the text of 1001 Nights on  
arabiCorpus.byu.edu (I haven't compared it to any original  
manuscripts, but my guess is it is something like the medieval text),  
but a quick search shows 95 uses of afrnj, and 4 uses of Saliibi,  
both referring to the appropriate group of people.  So I don't think  
it can be claimed that either term is of modern provenance.
dil


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:35 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Online Arabic Course response
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:Online Arabic Course response

Please check the following website.
http://lrc.cornell.edu/arabic/selflearn

Best wishes,
Nimat

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:44 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Iraq in Fragments documentary
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1) Subject:Iraq in Fragments documentary

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:"John Eisele" <jceise at wm.edu>
Subject:Iraq in Fragments documentary

Message forwarded from:
Jessica Nolfo (HBO-NS)
Jessica.Nolfo at hbo.com

I am working on some of the outreach regarding the film IRAQ IN  
FRAGMENTS,
which was an Oscar nominee for Documentary Feature a few weeks ago,  
and is a
riveting and beautiful film on Iraqi lives during the war ---  
premieres next
week on Tuesday the 20th.

Attached is the press release for your reference.
A clip of the film is on www.iraqinfragments.com and will soon be on the
www.hbo.com/docs site.

Look forward to your thoughts,

Jessica
212-512-5478

HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS
1100 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:38 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Call for MLI Newsletter submissions
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1) Subject:Call for MLI Newsletter submissions

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:mbahloul at aus.edu
Subject:Call for MLI Newsletter submissions

Call for AFL experts’ participation to MLI’s Newsletter
MLI advocates the teaching and learning of Arabic as a Foreign  
Language through the expression of performance arts. In its first MLI  
Newsletter, we would like to include a brief history of the teaching  
of Standard Arabic as a Foreign Language (SAFL) and most other  
dialects as a Foreign Language as well: Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian,  
Egyptian, Levantine, and Gulf. We would therefore welcome the input  
from those with such knowledge and expertise. The newsletter will be  
published online on MLI’s website with a ‘friendly printable’ version  
and distributed to various institutions, including cultural centers  
around the world. MLI promotes multilingualism and accepts  
submissions in English, French, or Arabic.


Send your submissions to Dr. Hedi Belazi at belazi at iobf.org  by April  
30, 2007.
For more information about MLI, visit our website at: http:// 
www.maher-language-institute.com/

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:47 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Getting Arabic to appear in Arabic-L messages
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1) Subject:Getting Arabic to appear in Arabic-L messages

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:moderator
Subject:Getting Arabic to appear in Arabic-L messages

I have received several requests for help from those who aren't  
getting the Arabic script part of Arabic-L messages.  I have spent  
another morning with the list administrator trying to understand the  
issues and how they might be solved.  Here is what he thinks is  
happening:

1) the messages are sent to me in all kinds of character coding:  
unicode, windows, who knows what else.

2) my Mac, being relatively smart, just goes ahead and figures out  
what they are and displays them correctly, so I can't tell that they  
are actually encoded differently from each other.

3) so if I just copy the message and send it out, the server thinks  
that everything unusual is unicode, and if it happens not to be that,  
it turns to garbage. (except that sometimes the original message  
Arabic is such an unusual encoding that my Mac can't figure it out  
either, and in that case all even I can see is garbage, in which case  
it is guaranteed that if I send it out it will be garbage as well.)

4) however, if I go ahead and copy the message (with the readable  
Arabic script) into my mac text editor and specifically save it as  
unicode, and then copy it back in, it supposedly gets sent out  
correctly as unicode text.

5) However, apparently, this server sends everything out in html  
format, i.e. surrounded by tags that tell the e-mail program how to  
interpret things.  Supposedly, one of the things it tells your e-mail  
program, when there is script, is what encoding it should use.

6) So, supposedly, as long as you are using an e-mail program that  
correctly interprets the html, and is set to interpret html, it  
should have the information it needs to display the message  
correctly.  If you are using Windows and have not installed the  
Arabic language resources, you may need to do that for this to happen.

7) He suggests the following to check this out:  a) determine if you  
can get most Arabic language websites with correct looking Arabic.   
b) if so, with a browser (Firefox is best), go to listserv.byu.edu ,  
log in with the e-mail address to which you are subscribed to Arabic- 
L (if you haven't already established an Arabic-L password, you would  
have to do that with the appropriate button), and then click on  
Online Mailing List Archives.  In the list the comes up, click on  
Arabic-L and scroll through the current month's messages (or search  
with a keyword) until you find a message that you know has Arabic  
script in it (one, for example, that showed up as garbage on your e- 
mail program).  Open that message in the server and determine if the  
script comes through fine there.  If it does, then, according to my  
guy, the message is fine, and your computer is set fine to show  
Arabic script, and can and does show it, so the problem is in the way  
your e-mail program is set up.  So that is where you might either  
need to look through the settings, or get some computer savvy person  
to help you.

8) I somehow doubt things are all that simple (was that simple?), but  
if this helps anyone, could you let me know?  I am going to type a  
line of Arabic at the end of this message so that those who see  
garbage there will have something to check it out on. If worse comes  
to worse, you could read most messages on your e-mail program, but  
when you come to one where you really want to be able to read the  
Arabic script, you could log in to the listserv website, find the  
message, and read it there.  In general, as well, I would encourage  
people sending messages to provide transliteration when they are  
using a small amount of script in their message.  I know this is  
harder when there is more than a small amount.

Thanks,
Dil

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:more LDC resources
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:more LDC resources


(1) Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech contains  
279 conversations totaling 45 hours of speech.  Levantine Arabic is  
spoken along the western Mediterranean coast from Anatolia to the  
Sinai Peninsula and encompasses the local dialects of Lebanon, Syria  
and Palestine. There are two distinct varieties: Northern, centered  
around Syria and Lebanon; and Southern, spoken in Jordan and  
Palestine.  The majority of speakers in Fisher Levantine Arabic  
Conversational Telephone Speech are from Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.

The conversations in this corpus are a subset of the conversations in  
Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Speech, LDC2006S29. The  
individual audio files are in NIST SPHERE format. The corresponding  
transcripts may be found in Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational  
Telephone Speech, Transcripts, LDC2007T04.  Fisher Levantine Arabic  
Conversational Telephone Speech is distributed on one DVD-ROM.

2007 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of  
this corpus. 2007 Standard Members may request a copy as part of  
their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data  
for US$1000.

*

(2) Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech,  
Transcripts contains the transcripts for the 279 telephone  
conversations in  Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone  
Speech , LDC2007S02.  The transcripts were created with "green" and  
"yellow" layers using LDC's Multi-Dialectal Transcription Tool  
(AMADAT). The green layer seeks to anchor dialectal forms to similar  
or related Modern Standard Arabic orothgraphy-based forms. The yellow  
layer is a more careful and detailed transcription that adds  
functionally necessary vowels and marks important sociolinguistic  
variations and morphophonemic features.

  The green layer transcripts in this corpus are a subset of the  
transcripts contained in Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5,  
Transcripts, LDC2006T07. The yellow layer transcription was added in  
this release.  Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone  
Speech, Transcripts is distributed via wed download.

2007 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of  
this corpus on disc. 2007 Standard Members may request a copy as part  
of their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data  
for US$3000.


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:"Typology of Modern Arabic Dialects" Deadline
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1) Subject:"Typology of Modern Arabic Dialects" Deadline extended

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:"Barkat-Defradas" <melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr>
Subject:"Typology of Modern Arabic Dialects" Deadline extended

The abstract submission deadline for the conference “Typology of  
Modern Arabic Dialects: features, methods a models of  
classification” (see description below) has been extended till March  
26, 2007.

Important dates :

*         March 26th : deadline submissions for posters (abstract)

*         1er April : deadline for AFCP grants submissions

*         15 April : Registration fees to be paid at the CNRS

Best regards,

__________________________________

Dr. Melissa Barkat-Defradas (CR-CNRS)
Laboratoire Praxiling UMR 5191
17, rue Abée de l’Epée
34090 Montpellier - France
Tel : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 63 ou 28 (secrétariat)
Fax : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 68
web :  <http://praxiling.univ-montp3.fr/> http://praxiling.univ- 
montp3.fr
e-mail : melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr
May 14th-15th 2007

Montpellier — France
International Congress on
Typology of Modern Arabic Dialects
“Features, Methods and Models of Classification”

organized by
laboratory Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS – University of Montpellier 3 –  
France
laboratory Dynamique du Langage UMR 5596 – University of  Lyon 2 –  
France

The Arabic speaking world constitutes a field of choice for  
comparative linguistics as it is a linguistic continuum which covers  
a vast territory (from Mauritania to the borders of the Persian  
region, with some projections in Europe, in Malta and Cyprus).  
Nevertheless, in the field of Arabic linguistics, studies dealing  
with dialectology still occupy a marginal place as compared to the  
huge amount of dialectal works conducted on French and/or English.

Contradictorily, the interest for speech in Arabic is very old: many  
works produced by the old Arab grammarians of the traditional period  
(8th – 10th century) testify the interest of philologists for Arabic  
grammar and lexicography. In their enterprise of standardization of  
the Arabic language, they had mainly adopted the same methodological  
approach for the evaluation of linguistic features. Three operational  
criteria prevailed for the classification of the linguistic features  
encountered on the field (i) eloquent Arabic to imitate, (ii)  
acceptable Arabic but which cannot be used as a model and (iii)  
incorrect Arabic to be avoided and condemned.

The traditional conception of what should be The Arabic Language   
(i.e. Al’Arabiyya) resulted in the emergence of a model built around  
a set of linguistic characteristics present in the pre-Islamic poetic  
koine. This model attributed a certain tolerance to bedouin features  
and rejected quasi systematically sedentary ones. The formidable  
effervescence of the times of standardization focused the interest on  
the linguistic features of that “ideal” language called fusha, a  
language purified from regional characteristics which lead the Arabic  
dialects to be regarded as distorted linguistic forms not worth  
studying. This uncommon situation prevailed for more than one  
thousand years. At the end of the 19th century, following the  
development of comparative Semitic grammar, a prompt renewed interest  
for Arabic dialectal studies occurred. Many major contributions made  
it possible to have an overall picture of the dialectal Arabic  
speaking world and some proposals for regional regroupings based on  
linguistic features (i.e. mainly morpho-phonological) emerged. The  
suggestion which collects the adhesion of the specialists of the  
domain consists in classifying all the different Arabic dialects into  
five principal groups : (1) dialects of Arabian type (i.e. Saudi  
Arabia, country of the Gulf, Yemen);  (2) dialects of Levantine type  
(i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine);  (3) dialects of  
Mesopotamian type (i.e. Iraq);  (4) dialects of Egyptian type (i.e.  
Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Nigeria);  (5) dialects of Maghrebi type (i.e.  
Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya).

In addition to a certain geographical coherence, these five dialectal  
areas were defined on the basis of some reliable phonological  
features like (i) the maintenance vs. the loss of the three  
interdental fricatives // (ث ذ ض) and (ii) the  
nature of the realization of the uvular stop /(ق ) (i.e.  
voiced vs. unvoiced). These phonological features seem to transcend  
the regional borders as they also allow a sociological division of  
dialects into three categories: (1) dialects of nomadic bedouin type,  
(2) dialects of sedentary bedouin type ; (3) dialects of urban type.  
To this double discrimination of geographical and sociological  
nature, a third one, more specific, is determined by the nature of  
the local substrate (i.e. Aramaic, Coptic and/or Berber).

But, with the deep social and demographic changes the Arabic  
countries have known in the course the 20th  century, many important  
urban centres mushroomed. These are undoubtedly important places for  
language contacts. What linguistic impacts these centres have had —  
and still have — on the nature of Arabic koines? What is the present  
value of the phonological features that previously enabled the  
geographical and sociological classification? What is their role in  
the processes of linguistic accommodation and dialectal levelling?  
Does the centrifugal force of the sedentary urban centres reach the  
surrounding sedentary rural areas ? Does the language of urban  
sedentary type used and conveyed by the media exert any influence on  
bedouin nomadic linguistic varieties? If such  an influence is  
conceivable, any classification based on the phonological units  
quoted above becomes extremely delicate, even inoperable since the  
same linguistic object could be interpreted as typical of sedentary  
bedouin dialects by the ones, or as specifically nomadic by the  
others and eventually, as the product of the integration (conscious  
or unconscious)  of a prestigious feature at a local, regional,  
national or cross national level? Did the ancient Arabic dialects  
that were not worth studying by traditional philologists simply  
ceased to exist after the establishment of the linguistic norm? Was  
their use reduced to local minorities and specific situations of  
communication or did these vernacular forms evolved to become the  
modern dialects that are spoken nowadays? We attend here or there in  
particular thanks to the process of koinization which develops itself  
in the great urban centres, to the resurgence of linguistic features  
with strong diachronic value that are interpreted — sometimes  
wrongly — like the results of linguistic accommodation and/or  
levelling. These features — though they entirely belong to the  
subjects’ competence — deeply  modify the structural organization  
of the regional linguistic systems. What is our knowledge about the  
systems of these dialects? What methodological tools the researchers  
can use to distinguish between what should be considered as a  
linguistic fossil from what is a recent element of urban koinization?  
How old and new features should be arranged in any work of  
classification?

The speakers invited to participate to the Congress on “Typology of  
Modern Arabic Dialects” are all specialists of Arabic dialectology.  
They will debate the questions raised before and confront their views  
and opinions on the question of the geographical and sociological  
classification of the Arabic dialects. Finally, a set of new  
classification features will be proposed at the segmental (i.e.  
consonants, vowels, diphthongs), and the prosodic levels (i.e.  
stress, rate, rhythm, intonation). These new elements will be  
explored in isolation or in relation with other linguistic domains  
(morphology, lexicology, syntax).

Poster submission

Apart from invited oral communications (see program below) a poster  
session is scheduled. Studies dealing with Arabic dialects’  
classification, methods of sociolinguistic investigations, phonetic  
and phonological descriptions of regional, rural, urban and/or  
peripheral varieties, use and/or perception of specific linguistic  
features….etc, will be submitted under the form of an abstract which  
should not exceed 1 page, Times New Roman 11, line space 1,5). Note  
that according to the French law, we have to include a French summary  
in any published document. We therefore have to ask you TO INCLUDE A  
SHORT SUMMARY OF YOUR ABSTRACT IN FRENCH (no more than 5 lines).  
Without this summary we are not authorised to publish your abstract.  
This document will also include the authors’ last and first names,  
academic affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses.

Please submit 2 versions of your abstract, one in PDF format **AND**  
one in WORD, RTF format. The name of these two files should be:  
TMAD_abstract_lastname (e.g. TMAD_abstract_barkat.pdf and  
TMAD_abstract_barkat.doc or TMAD_abstract_barkat.rtf) Your abstract  
should be sent electronically by MARCH 15th 2007 to the following  
address : melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr. Languages of presentation  
are French and English. Format for posters is A0 landscape ( height  
84cm*length 119 cm).

Registration fees

Registration fees to attend the conference are 60 € (normal) 45 €  
(normal AFCP); 30 € (students); 15 € (AFCP students) to be paid by  
APRIL 15  2007 by postal / bank cheque or bank transfer to:

*By bank transfer (please precise the name of the : Typologie des  
Parlers Arabes Modernes) ) to : Monsieur L’Agent Comptable  
Secondaire du  CNRS Délégation Régionale Languedoc Roussillon.

*         National bank transfer :

TP Montpellier  10071  34000  00001003417 34

*         International bank transfer

IBAN : FR76  1007  1340  0000  0010  0341  734

Code BIC          BDFEFRPPXXX

*By cheque to:

Monsieur L’Agent Comptable Secondaire du  CNRS Délégation  
Régionale  Languedoc Roussillon.

(Precise the name of the conference at the back of the cheque)

COLLOQUE

Typologie des parlers arabes modernes – 14 et 15 mai 2007 -  
Montpellier

Registration fees

Normal :
60 €
Normal AFCP (precise  membership n°)
45 €
Student :
30 €
Student : AFCP (precise  membership n°)
15 €
Extra
Reception dinner (May 14th evening) :
+ 20 € / Person
TOTAL

Registration fees include the participation at the conference, coffee  
breaks, aperitif and the booklet of the abstracts.  The proceedings  
of the conference “Typology of the modern Arabic Dialects: Features,  
methods and models of classification ” will be published.

Grants

With the support of the AFCP a certain number of grants (for  
participants presenting a poster only) can be delivered to foreign  
students and/or researchers. The number and the amount of these  
grants will be established according to the number of demands.  
Applicants are invited to send by APRIL 1st 2007, in electronic form  
preferably, a file of request including a CV ; a letter of motivation  
(indicating the awaited benefit of the participation of the applicant  
at the conference) and an estimate of the amount of the expenses  
(travelling, accommodation, registration fees…) to:  
melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr, or by snail mail to :

Dr. Melissa Barkat-Defradas
Laboratoire Praxiling UMR 5191
17, rue Abée de l’Epée - 34090 Montpellier — FRANCE

The conference will be held at the Delegation Regionale of the CNRS
1919, route de Mende 34090 Montpellier —  France

Schedule

May 14th 2007

09:00–09:15 : Opening of the Conference (M.Barkat-Defradas &  
M.Embarki)
09:15–10:15 : Kees Versteegh (University of Nijmegen – The  
Netherlands) :
10:15–10:30 : Break
10:30–11:30 :  Jérôme Lentin (INALCO – Paris – France) subject  
to
11:30–12:30 : Alexander Borg (University Ben Gourion of Jerusalem  
– Israel)
12h30–14h00 : Lunch
14:00–15:00 : Salem Ghazali (University of Tunis – Tunisia
15:00–16:00  : Enam Al-Wer (University of Essex – Great Britain)
16 :00–16 :15 : Break
16 :15–17 :15 : Joseph Dichy (University of Lyon 2)
17h15–18h15 : Poster session
18:30 – 19:00 : Aperitif
20:00 : Dinner

May 15th 2007
09:00–10:00 : Moha Ennaji (University Mohamed Ben Abdallah  of Fez  
– Morocco)
10:00–10:15 : Break
10:15–11:15 : Gilbert Puech  (University of Lyon 2 – France)
11:15–12:15 :  Martine Vanhove (LLACAN & Inalco – France)
12:15–14:00 : Lunch
14:00–15:00 : Amr Ibrahim (University of Franche-Comté & Paris IV)
15:00–16:00 : Mohamed Embarki & Melissa Barkat-Defradas (Laboratory  
Praxiling ULMR 5267 & University of Montpellier –  France)
16:00–16:15 : Break
16:30-17:00 : Closing of the Conference — Gérard Ghersi, Director  
of the MSH-M
__________________________________

Dr. Melissa Barkat-Defradas (CR-CNRS)
Laboratoire Praxiling UMR 5191
17, rue Abée de l’Epée
34090 Montpellier - France
Tel : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 63 ou 28 (secrétariat)
Fax : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 68
web :  <http://praxiling.univ-montp3.fr/> http://praxiling.univ- 
montp3.fr
e-mail : melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs help with 'hujayna'
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1) Subject:Needs help with 'hujayna'

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:Li Guo <li.guo.6 at nd.edu>
Subject:Needs help with 'hujayna'

Hi all,

in my media arabic class last week we did some surfing on lebanese  
internet
sites and checked out one www.ajeeb.com. there was a service column  
called
akhbar hujayna (hojaina). now the question: what is hujayna? i was quite
baffled by this word. the hava dictionary gives very weird meanings  
which i
doubt is the case here. is it just a proper name? any thoughts?

Li Guo
University of Notre Dame

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:45 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic and Persian Summer Institutes at SDSU
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1) Subject:Arabic and Persian Summer Institutes at SDSU

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:Arabic and Persian Summer Institutes at SDSU

Below are the URLs for the Language
Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University's Arabic &
Persian summer institutes.  I would greatly appreciate it if you can
can post them on the AATA website.

http://larcmaterials.sdsu.edu:8080/Materials/Arabic.jsp

http://larcmaterials.sdsu.edu:8080/Materials/Persian.jsp

With appreciation, hanada

Hanada Taha-Thomure, PhD
Director of Arabic Programs, Language Acquisition Resource Center,
SDSU http://larcnet.sdsu.edu
Director, ArabExpertise www.arabexpertise.com
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics & Oriental Languages, SDSU

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:38 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Religious Studies 1-year job, Beloit College
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1) Subject:Religious Studies 1-year job, Beloit College

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:mbayelo at duke.edu
Subject:Religious Studies 1-year job, Beloit College

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Beloit
College invites
applications for a one-year sabbatical leave position in
Judaism, Hinduism or
African Religions for the 2007-2008 academic year. Beyond
courses in the
successful cadidate's area of experience, the six-course
teaching assignment will
include RLST 101 "Understanding Religious Traditions in a
Global Context." The
position is ideal for, but not limited to, the advanced
Ph.D. student or recent Ph.D.
in Religion/Religious Studies seeking teaching and course
development experience
in an undergraduate private liberal arts environment.
Beloit College is committed
to the educational benefits of diversity and urges all
interested individuals to
apply. AA/EEO Employer.  Send letter of application, vita,
applicable course
evaluations, samply syllabi for three relevant courses, and
three professional
references to:
Dr. Debra Majeed
Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
Beloit College
700 College St.
Beloit, WI 53511

Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
Beloit College
700 College St.
Beloit, WI 53511
USA
tel: 608-363-2318
fax: 608-363-2194
email: mubashsh at beloit.edu
webpage: http://beloit.edu/~mubashsh

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:51 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Doha Islamic Art Symposium
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1) Subject:Doha Islamic Art Symposium

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From: "Dauod, T.  Kareema" <DauodTK at state.gov>
Subject:Doha Islamic Art Symposium

Colleagues
An international Islamic Art symposium is being organized for Doha in
November.  Participants will enjoy all-expense paid travel &
accommodation.  If you know of scholars who might be interested in
applying, kindly forward this info to them.  Contact organizer Diane
Tepfer directly:  dtepfer at vcu.edu.  She's a former State Dept.
colleague.

Rex Moser
Cultural Affairs Officer
U.S. Embassy
Centro Franklin
Av. Mexico 71, El Vergel
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Tel:  809-566-3131
Fax:  809-683-0285

==========================================.

The Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art strives to foster the
development of an international community of researchers and scholars in
Islamic art and cultures. The Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art
Fellowship provides financial support for conference attendance and to
provide recognition of serious scholars from diverse geographic and
cultural areas including those from the less developed and less
well-funded countries. Attendance at the Rivers of Paradise: Water in
Islamic Art and Culture Symposium in Doha, Qatar is an opportunity for
advanced students and other scholars to meet and interact with other
scholars in Islamic art and culture from around the world. The
Fellowship will also allow students and scholars to visit Doha, one of
the fastest growing Islamic Art centers in the Middle East.

Virginia Commonwealth University' School of the Arts in Qatar will
publicize the fifteen winners of the Fellowship through news releases
circulated internationally and in each awardee's local area. By applying
for the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art Fellowship, the
applicant declares and represents that the biographical information
submitted is accurate, and that unconditional permission is granted to
allow VCUArts-Qatar and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and
Community Development to publicize your participation and your award.

Accepted Fellows will be provided with:

*	A round-trip air ticket from their respective local airports to
Doha, Qatar
*	Hotel lodging in Doha from November 4-November 7
*	A Qatar entrance visa
*	Per diem expenses [at US Department of State rate] for the
period from arrival in Doha, Qatar by November 4, 2007 and departure by
November 7, 2007
*	A certificate of award as a Hamad bin Khalifa 2007 Islamic Art
Fellow
*	A copy of the symposium proceedings, to be published in 2009

Only applications submitted before June 1, 2007, will be considered.
All applications must include:

*	CV or Resume (1-2 page), including:

	*	Current research area / interest
	*	International symposia and conferences you have attended
in the past 5 years
	*	A statement (up to one page or 250 words) of interest
from you, outlining why you want to attend Rivers of Paradise: Water in
Islamic Art and Culture in Doha, Qatar.
	*	How would attending this conference enhance your
academic/career/scholarly objectives?
	*	Anything else you want us to know about.

Applicants will be notified of decisions by August 1, 2007. Only
electronic submissions will be accepted.

____________________________
Diane Tepfer
Coordinator, Islamic Art Symposium
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of the Arts
Richmond, VA 23284-2519
804-248-5040
www.IslamicArtDoha.org

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:SEMEVAL Task #18: Arabic Semantic Labeling
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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:"Mona Diab" <mdiab at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:SEMEVAL Task #18: Arabic Semantic Labeling

[APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATES]
The train and test data is now ready for download from the main SEMEVAL
webpage at http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/

The relevant dates are included on the webpage

Below is a description of the task:

Tasks:

We propose several tasks for Arabic Semantic Labeling.  The tasks  
will span
both the WSD and Semantic Role labeling processes for this  
evaluation. Both
sets of tasks will be evaluated on data derived from the same data  
set, the
test set.

We propose 3 subtasks for WSD all of which will only have test data for
evaluation and trial data for formatting purposes. This will be taken  
from
the Arabic Treebank 3v2 text data, roughly 3000 words long:

1.       The first task is to discover different senses in the data for
nouns and verbs without associating labels with those senses.  
Therefore it
is a sense discrimination task.

In this task the participants will be required to identify that the
different number of senses for nouns and verbs without associating  
labels
with those identified senses. The assumption is that word is one of  
these
senses identified. These senses will be derived from the Arabic WordNet,
which correspond to English WN 2.0. There will be two levels of  
granularity,
coarse and fine grain.

2.       The second task is to annotate all nouns and verbs in the  
data with
Arabic WordNet senses (provided with the test data, and also  
accessible via
the web at http://www.globalwordnet.org/AWN
All verbs and nouns in the data will need to be annotated with their  
sense
indices and/or offsets from Arabic WordNet

3.       The third task is to annotate all nouns and verbs in the  
data with
English wordnet senses
a.       In this task, the participants will be required to link the  
Arabic
nouns and verbs with their corresponding sense(s) in the English  
WordNet 2.0
b.       An English translation corpus will be provided along with the
trial/test data
c.       A bilingual word list will also be provided

  We propose 2 subtasks for Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). These  
subtasks will
have trial, training and test data available for it:

4.       Identifying Arguments in a sentence
In this task, the participants are required to identify all the  
constituents
in a constituency tree that should be annotated with argument roles  
related
to some predetermined verbs

5.       Automatic annotations for all arguments
In this task, the participants are required to identify and label all  
the
constituents in a constituency tree that should be annotated with both
numbered argument roles and ARGM roles related to some predetermined  
verbs

Data

The data will be Arabic Treebank 3 v.2 data which is newswire in Modern
Standard Arabic. The data will be presented in ascii encoding, with the
Buckwalter transliteration scheme. The data will be unvowelised and
tokenized according to the Arabic Treebank clitic tokenization  
scheme. We
will provide code for conversion of encoding from UTF-8 and CP1256 to  
the
Buckwalter transliteration scheme. Moreover, we will provide code for  
the
tokenization, POS tagging and Base Phrase chunking of the Arabic text, a
package can be downloaded from
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mdiab/ASVMTools.tar.gz.

We will only opt for 100 most frequent verbs in this set to draw  
training,
trial (for the semantic role labeling tasks) and test data for the  
semantic
role labeling and WSD tasks)

The data is syntactically and morphologically manually annotated. The
syntactic trees are constituency trees.

A preliminary version of the Arabic WordNet will be available

Evaluation metric

SRL: Conlleval metrics of precision recall and f measure

WSD: Scorer 2.0 metrics of precision, recall and f-measure on both  
coarse
and fine grained sense distinctions.

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Mona T. Diab, PhD
Center for Computational Learning Systems
Computational Linguistics Group
Columbia University
Tel.: +1 212 870 1290
Fax: +1 212 870 1285

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:54 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:crusader etymology
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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:"Katia Zakharia" <Katia.Zakharia at mom.fr>
Subject:crusader etymology

Masaa' al-khayr

In case it may help

I had a look on alwarraq for saliibii.

Saliibii is used in 68 references (see below) when Ifranj is in 2193 and
Franj in 9981. As we know, the books on alwarraq are mainly medieval and
classical.

It seems to me that in old texts, except Maqrizi, salibii is used as a
general word for < my cross >, < cross-shaped > or < christian > (in a
general way).

Maqrizi uses the plural saliibiyyiin twice, speaking specifically  
about the
soldiers of Louis the ninth.

Was it a first step for using it in the meaningof crusaders ?

Anyway, it clearly shows that the usual word was Ifranj which was used
earlier and more often than saliibii

Sincerly

Katia Zakharia


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:50 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Needs High School Arabic Textbook advice
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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:"abdel khila" <akhila at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs High School Arabic Textbook advice

My district wants to start an Arabic program in the high school and I  
was asked to review some textbooks and offer my recommendation as to  
what would be the best textbook to use for the high school students.  
These are American students and would have Arabic for the first time  
ever. I would really appreciate it if there are any K-12 Arabic  
teachers here who could offer any suggestions of good textbooks to  
use with students of that level and background based on their own  
teaching experiences.


I am myself a native speaker of Arabic and I currently teach French  
at the middle school level. My department wants me to submit my  
recommendation for an appropriate textbook ASAP. I also need to  
reject at least another three books explaining why I did not think  
they were suitable for the students. I am really interested in a  
textbook that allows students to learn Arabic in a communicative and  
functional way and helps them hone different skills, a textbook that  
has authentic and valid cultural representations, is free of  
stereotypes, and most importantly is neutral in terms of religion  
(These are American students and promoting any brand of religion is  
prohibited in public schools, etc. The textbook would really be a  
supplement to the instruction in the classroom and a guide for  
students for homework, etc. I am planning on using and creating other  
resources besides the book.

I was able to get the textbook "Ahlan wa Sahlan" by Mahdi Alosh from  
a friend who uses it at the university level. It is an ok book;  
however, it is dense and lectures a lot. I am not sure if it is  
appropriate for High school kids. I also looked at Alif Baa and  
Alkitaab. I hate to say both books are poor textbooks in terms of  
what we are looking for. Alif Baa focuses solely on form and Arabic  
writing (which are of course very important)in a very static way, we  
are however  looking more for a book that can teach students Arabic  
writing gradually coupled with other skills also like speaking,, etc.  
I also noticed ALKEETAB FII TA'ALLUM AL-ARABIYYA somewhat lacks a lot  
of functional objectives and the lessons in it are sequenced somewhat  
poorly.

I am thinking more and more there are really no Arabic textbooks for  
k-12 students and I might have to end up using college Arabic  
textbooks or do without a textbook altogether!

I apologize for my message being long. I really appreciate any help  
or suggestions.
Abdelkader

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:42 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:George Mason U Study Abroad in Jordan
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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:George Mason U Study Abroad in Jordan

George Mason University is offering Intensive Arabic- Study Abroad to  
Jordan through Ali Baba Institute.

We are offering beginning (101-102), intermediate (201-202) and  
advanced (330-331) courses.
Students can register for 4 weeks to earn 6 credits, or 7 weeks and  
earn 9 credits.

Besides taking Arabic, students will be given field trips and weekend  
tours to visit exotic locations such as Petra and the Dead Sea.
Prices will include two meals, trips, double or triple room  
accommodation, and orientation.

Please visit our web site:
http://globaled.gmu.edu/Programs/summer/intarabicjordansummer.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. I will be  
the faculty director.
thanks,

Miss Sana Hilmi, M.A.
Arabic Professor and Coordinator
Modern and Classical Languages
George Mason University
703-993-1823
shilmi at gmu.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:47 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Southern Denmark job
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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:U. of Southern Denmark job

Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:36:39
From: Anne Grethe Hansen < agh at humsek.sdu.dk >
Subject: Modern Arabic: Asst Prof, University of Southern Denmark,  
Odense, Denmark

University or Organization: University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Department: Faculty of Humanities
Web Address: http://www.sdu.dk/

Job Rank: Assistant Professor
Specialty Areas: Modern Arabic
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:
Institute of History and Civilization, The Department of Contemporary
Middle East Studies, at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense,
invites applications for a three year tenure-track position as assistant
professor in Modern Arabic, beginning fall 2007.

You can read more about the position at: http://www.jobs.sdu.dk/
Deadline for applications: 16 April 2007, at 12 o'clock
Marked: 076009

Application Deadline: 16-Apr-2007

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Anne Grethe Hansen
	University of Southern Denmark
	Faculty of Humanities
	Campusvej 55
	Odense DK-5230
	Denmark

Contact Information:
	Anne Grethe Hansen
	Email: agh at humsek.sdu.dk
	Phone: +45-65502931
	Fax: 6550 2055

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 28 20:15:46 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:46 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Gilman Scholarship Deadline approaching
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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Gilman" <Gilman at iie.org>
Subject:Gilman Scholarship Deadline approaching

There is only one week remaining until the student deadline for the
Gilman International Scholarship! All applicants must submit an online
application by 11:59 Central Time on Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Advisors
must certify applications by Tuesday, April 10, 2007.

There has never been a better time to apply for the Gilman Scholarship.
With the recent funding increases for the Gilman Program, we will be
able to award over 800 scholarships to students studying abroad during
the 2007-2008 academic year.  The selection rate is approximately 1 in 3
applicants, so please encourage all eligible applicants to apply.

Promotional materials:

A Gilman flyer can be downloaded on the Gilman website at
http://www.iie.org/programs/gilman/advisors/publicity.html. Please feel
free to email this flyer to Pell Grant recipients on your campus or
print it out and have these materials available in your office. To
request brochures and the new Gilman Advisor CD, please email your
mailing address to gilman_scholars at iie.org

You can access more tips for advising applicants on our website at
http://www.iie.org/programs/gilman/faq/advisor.html

Please feel free to contact our office should you have any questions.

Thank you again,
Lindsay G. Calvert
Program Coordinator
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

Institute for International Education
520 S. Post Oak Blvd. Ste 740
Houston, TX 77027
(713)621-6300 ext. 25
Fax: (713)621-0876
www.iie.org/gilman

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 28 20:15:48 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:High School Text responses
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4) Subject:High School Text responses
5) Subject:High School Text responses
6) Subject:High School Text responses

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1)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"IBCBOOKS.COM" <ibc at ibcbooks.com>
Subject:High School Text responses

This is in response to your request for Arabic textbooks for High School
students
We can recomend the following textbooks. Read & Speack Arabic for
Beginners;Book and 60 minute CD
Your first 100 words in Arabic book and CD. features Flashcards and  
audio
CD. You can see our Arabic textbooks on our website: www.ibcbooks.com
  I will be happy to answer any questions regard our selection of Arabic
material. Claudette/International Book Centre

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2)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:Rafik Berjak <rberjak at shaw.ca>
Subject:High School Text responses

Dear Abdel,
I think al kitab al asasi would be suitable for your purpose.
Good luck,
Rafik Berjak

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3)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:Saleh Kholaki <skholoki at yahoo.com>
Subject:High School Text responses

I would recommend from my experience teaching Arabic at elementary  
and middle school, text book (Uhibu Alarabiyyah) you can order them  
from WWW.Noorart.com, they are based on communicative approach with  
pictures and tapes to help students review and listen at home. Also  
they are developed for non native speakers, rich in culture, I  
recommend that you examine them, they are not the best, however the  
best that available for now.


Lina Kholaki
ACTFL LLC SIG co-chair
New Horizon School
Aldeen board member and Arabic langauge coordinator and trainer

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4)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From: Fadia Hamid <fetfet at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:High School Text responses

It will be difficult to find a book that does everything you want to  
do with the students. The book is usually one vehicle for teaching.  
Mahdi's book is an excellent one but it is more geared for college  
students. I use Alif baa and by the end of the first semester my  
students can communicate using basic language functions - not quite  
like a first year French student, but they have meaningful dialogues.  
I introduce those to them. I don;t wait for the book to do so. I also  
add a great deal of culture from various sources. I like Alif Baa and  
Alkitaab and so do my students. There are some glitches with the  
DVD's but we make up for that in class.
If I had to recommend a textbook for HS students, I would choose  
AlifBaa & Alkitab.
fadia

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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:High School Text responses

Dear Abdelkader:

I have developed a Beginning Programmed Introduction Course to teach
Arabic Sounds and Letters. It consists of two parts, Textbook and
Manual. Part One includes 20 units aimed at introducing the Arabic and
writing system to beginning students of Arabic in the most effective
method, using common words illustrated by pictures. The Manual contains
15 brief exchanges and lists of y useful commonly used vocabulary
(greetings, introductions, polite requests, invitations, telling time,
foods, drinks, professions, family members, clothes, Arab countries and
capitals, etc.) The primary purpose of including basic communicative
practice and vocabulary lists is to create a climate for enjoyable and
successful learning while students are learning Arabic sounds and
letters. At the end of the course, students will be ready to read all
the communicative activities presented to them orally and additional
situational dialogues based on the lexical items they have learned and
act them out in class.

The book is accompanied by DVD to guide students while using the
material and to reinforce correct pronunciation of the new sounds and
letters in each unit and how we produce them.

The book is available through University of Michigan Distribution Office
at the following address:

Client Distribution Service
1094 Flex Drive
Jackson, TN  38301

Phone: (800) 343-4499
Fax: (800) 351-5073
Email: orderentry at cdsbooks.com

This book can be used by young learners and adults.

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6)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Sanaa Ghanem" <ghanem at arabacademy.com>
Subject:High School Text responses

The Arab Academy (www.arabacademy.com ) has workbooks specially  
created for
High School Students in the US along with interactive courses.  Those
courses were initially created for Fairfax County, Virginia, but  
since then
have been used in other schools as well.  They are composed of Levels  
1, 2
and 3 where each level is composed of 4 or 5 units.  Those levels are
preceded by Level 0, which introduces the Arabic alphabet.  For more
information on our course offerings, visit:
http://www.arabacademy.com/register/hs

Our texts are free of religious material and are heavily culture  
oriented.
Each lesson starts with an introduction on culture that relates to  
the topic
of the lesson.  We follow a communicative approach and our material is
designed to suit students 13-18 years of age.

I would be happy to send you any further information you need.

Best regards,
Sanaa Ghanem (www.arabacademy.com/ghanem )
President,
Arab Academy
www.arabacademy.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MedBridge Systems Linguist Job
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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Barb Clogg-Wright" <barb.cloggw at medbridge.net>
Subject:MedBridge Systems Linguist Job

To the moderator and readers of the Arabic_L list.

We are looking for a PhD linguist to help us in the immediate short term
with the following.  This person would also stand as a back-up for our
primary linguist who is currently out on sick leave, and help on  
occasions
when deadline dates and content amount collide.  The following is the
general letter that we send to recruit our linguists in all languages.
Currently, we need MSA and our translator and voice are Egyptian.

Hello,

  Would you be interested in sending your CV for consideration for a  
position
helping us to achieve language excellence in the following area?

We are a software development enterprise in Fredericton, New Brunswick,
Canada (www.medbridge.net).  We have developed an interpretation program
designed to aid health-care professionals to communicate with
non-English-speaking patients.  This program serves as a bridge,  
allowing
second-language speakers immediate access to health care while  
waiting for
an interpreter to arrive.

We need a linguist.  The usual role of the linguist is to help us to  
select
the native voice with the correct accent and choose the appropriate  
writing
system, ensure the standards of language usage, review samples of the
standard language content, and to assess the translators.  This is on- 
going
work that can be done on our internet website on a part-time basis.  The
linguist would also arbitrate any problems that might arise for the
translator, reviewers and recording voice. This is the stage where we
require support now. The linguist should have a PhD in Linguistics  
and in
the native language if at all possible.  The challenge is to maintain  
high
standards of grammatical excellence while having the content sound like
spoken-form language that will put the patient at ease in a stressful
situation.

We have a very tight deadline to complete the last of our current  
content
and our primary linguist is currently unavailable.  We need someone who
would be willing to start work immediately.  This person could then be
available in the future when work demands exceed the capacity of one  
person.

We would like to discuss the possibility of your participation in our
project or, we would appreciate your referral to colleagues who might  
be,
both interested in and, available for linguistic work of this type.   
Thank
you.

Sincerely,

Barb Clogg-Wright
Language Coordinator
MedBridge Systems
Fredericton, NB CANADA
1-888-889-6727 (direct)
1-800-801-0866 (reception)
Fax:  1-800-309-5510

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 28 20:15:44 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Juhayna responses
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4) Subject:Juhayna response
5) Subject:Juhayna response
6) Subject:Juhayna response
7) Subject:Juhayna response
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1)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:moderator
Subject:Juhayna response

This is just to apologize for writing hujayna and not juhayna.  I  
(the moderator) type the headings.  Li Guo, the person who sent the  
message had it right.  It was just a typo on my part.
dil

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2)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"fawm at uchicago.edu" <fawm at uchicago.edu>
Subject:Juhayna response

Hi Li and all,
It is Juhayna made famous by the saying : wa inda Juhayna al-khabr al- 
yaqin.
I hope this helps a little.
All the best,
Farouk Mustafa

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3)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:marco.hamam at poste.it
Subject:Juhayna response

Hi Li Guo. Juhayna (and not hujayna) has been given as a name for a  
"news" service because Juhayna (a name of an arabic qabila) is linked  
to an arabic proverb:
عند جهينة الخبر اليقين
or
فلان جهينة الأخبار

And here follows the story of the proverb.

ومن أمثال العرب : "عند جُهينة الخبر  
اليقين"، يُضرب في معرفة حقيقة الأمر ،  
وقصة هذا المثل أنَّ الحُصين الغطفاني  
خرج ومعه رجل من قبيلة جُهينة اسمه  
الأخنس ، وكان كلّ منهما فتاكًا غادرًا  
، فوجدا رجلاً معه شراب وطعام ، فدعاهما  
، فنزلا وأكلا وشربا معه ، ثم ذهب  
الأخنس لبعض شأنه ورجع ، فإذا بالحُصين  
قد قتل الرجل الذي دعاهما ، وكان  
الحُصين ينوي قتل الأخنس . ففطن الأخنس  
الجهيني لمراده ، وبعد ساعة غافله  
الجهيني ووضع سيفه في عنق الحُصين  
وقتله وانصرف ، فمرَّ بقوم من قيس ،  
وإذا بامرأة تُنشد الحُصين ، فقال لها  
من أنتِ ؟ قالت : أنا صخرة زوجة الحُصين  
الغطفاني ، قال : أنا قتلته ، فقالت :  
كذبت ما مثلك يقتل مثله ، فمضى وهو  
يُردد : تُسائِلُ عَنْ حُصينٍ كلَّ ركبٍ  
وعند جُهينة الخبرُ اليقينُ *

Hope this helps.
Regards,

Marco Hamam


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4)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Dr. M. Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Juhayna response


     There is most likely an oversight, caused by inadvertent  
metathesis, for the 'Ajeeb service column is /  أخبار  
جهينة  /.   The naming of the service is established on "Juhayna"  
of the Arabic proverb /  وعند جهينة الخبر  
اليقين /.  Contrary to popular understanding, the proverb  
questions the veracity of the news source rather than relies on it!   
More background of the proverb may be discussed on request.
M.D.

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5)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Sane Yagi" <saneyagi at gmail.com>
Subject:Juhayna response

Salam,

Re: The Query on 'hujayna'

I think the word of concern is 'juhayna' rather than 'hujayna'. It is  
the
name of a news bulletin on Sakhr.

Perhaps it is a reference to the proverbs: "qata3at juhaynatu qawla  
kulli
khateeb" or "jaa<t juhaynatu bilkhabaril yaqeen" *قطعت جهينة  
قول كل خطيب*،
وجاءت جهينة بالخبر اليقين

Wassalam,
sane yagi

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6)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"John Whatley" <schkoolio at gmail.com>
Subject:Juhayna response

Probably already noted but the word is juhaina vice hujaina.  juhaina  
is as
follows:

Johaina <http://ejohaina.ajeeb.com/> is the news monitoring service  
in the
Middle-East that scans hundreds of Arabic, English and French news sites
targeting the Middle East region. Johaina makes you read and navigate  
Arabic
news in English. It keeps you aware of the public opinion in the
Middle-East. All that using Sakhr's powerful Machine Translation
Technology<http://www.sakhr.com/Sakhr_e/Technology/MT.htm? 
Index=5&Main=Technology&Sub=Machine>to
display in English the originally Arabic articles. This grants a
better
reach of information for non-Arabic speaking users.

Johaina <http://ejohaina.ajeeb.com/> operates around the clock to  
scan its
resourceful directory of the online newspapers, press sites, and news
portals. It collects, categorizes, classifies, archives, and displays  
news
from an extensive range of around 500 reliable sources that cover the
Middle-East and offers news seekers a one-stop newsstand to look for  
news.

http://www.sakhr.com/Sakhr_e/Products/Johaina.htm? 
Index=2&Main=Products&Sub=Johaina

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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:Rafik Berjak <rberjak at shaw.ca>
Subject:Juhayna response

It is Johyna and not hujayna. This is a name that had been mentioned  
in the
Arabic proverp wa 3inda Joynata al khabaru al yaqeen in the meaning  
of which
(johyna has the right news.)This proverb is very popular in classical  
Arabic
and is used when someone wants to get the news from an authentic  
source. I
hope this helps.

Rafik Berjak

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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Juhayna response

Hi Li:

The word is not "hujayna". It is "Juhayna" a well-known eloquent woman
poetess during the Jahiliyya period, before Islam. If you go to Kitab
Al-Amthal 'inda al-'Arab( Can't remember the Author ??) you'll find a
proverb which says:
            QATRA'AT JUHAYNAH QAWLA KULLI KHATIBIN

        Juhaynah outshined all her competitors (orators who spoke before
her)

Good luck,

Raji Rammuny

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:41:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Transcribing Colloquials jobs
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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:KHendzel at asetquality.com
Subject:Transcribing Colloquials jobs

My name is Kevin Hendzel and I'm the COO of ASET International and  
the national media spokesman for the American Translators Association.

We are looking for a large number of US Citizens who are capable of  
transcribing spoken Arabic to written Arabic for development of a  
speech-to-text system.  They can work from their homes and do not  
need to relocate.  Pay rate is negotiable.  We are looking for native  
speakers of each of the following dialects:

Algerian
Tunisian
Egyptian
Jordanian
Moroccan
Saudi
Yemeni
Sudanese

We are actually looking for individuals who can transcribe into the  
dialects with the specific markers and idiom used in each dialect (as  
opposed to MSA).

I would very much appreciate it if you could post this to the site or  
other appropriate sites.

The US citizenship requirement is firm.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you and kind regards,

Kevin Hendzel
COO
ASET International Services Corporation
www.asetquality.com
(800) 787-8726 ext. 14
(571) 237-0678 (cell)

National Media Spokesman
American Translators Association

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 30 18:42:29 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers
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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:lctl at umn.edu
Subject:Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers

Dear teacher (or administrator of a program)   of a less commonly  
taught language (LCTL)

I am writing to you with several purposes:

1. CARLA offers summer institutes, which are described below. There  
are some scholarship opportunities for LCTL teachers, which I hope  
you will consider for this summer.

2. I have your email from the LCTL project's database of LCTL  
offerings in North America, which I administer. This database is  
searchable from this page: http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db . The  
database is the most visited page of all the very popular CARLA  
pages. So people find this resource very helpful. I would appreciate  
it if you checked the listings for you and your institution and let  
the project know of any updates, additions or corrections. We have  
made the updating easy, so if you see a mistake, just click on  
'submit a correction' on the page that contains the information that  
needs updating. If you have a new course, click on "Add a new LCTL  
course" on the main search page, and fill out the information.

3. As all of us know, email addresses change constantly. I will go  
through our database and eliminate all emails that bounce, but if you  
have a better address for yourself, let me know.

Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers
for Professional Development at the CARLA Summer Institutes
The University's National Resource Centers Institute for Global  
Studies (IGS) and the European Studies Consortium (ESC) are pleased  
to provide a limited number of $600 scholarships for teachers of less  
commonly taught languages (LCTLs) to attend any of the CARLA summer  
institutes. Applications are due by April 16, 2007.
See the following for more information and application materials:
European LCTLs
If you teach a European LCTL, you should use the ESC scholarship  
application at: http://www.esc.umn.edu/CARLA.htm
For more information, contact Laura Seifert at esc at umn.edu.

Non-European LCTLs
If you teach a LCTL from any country outside of Europe, you should  
use the IGS scholarship application at:
http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html
For more information, contact Klaas van der Sanden at vande001 at umn.edu.

CARLA Summer Institutes 2007
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at  
the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program  
for second language teachers since 1996. These internationally-known  
institutes reflect CARLA's commitment to link research and theory  
with practical applications for the classroom.

Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory- 
building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking  
opportunities. Participants at the CARLA summer institutes have come  
from all over the world. They have included foreign language and ESL  
teachers at all levels of instruction, program administrators, and  
curriculum specialists. Over 2,000 language teachers have  
participated in the summer institute program since it began in 1996.
The institutes for summer 2007 are:
Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching for Chinese/ 
Japanese
June 25-29, 2007 (Session 1)
Focusing on Learner Language:
Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers
July 16-20, 2007
Teaching and Learning Pragmatics:
Enhancing Learners' Ability to Use Second Language in Culturally  
Appropriate Ways
July 16-20, 2007

Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education:
"How well do students speak the immersion language?"
July 16-20, 2007

Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
July 23-27, 2007

Improving Language Learning:
Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
July 23-27, 2007

Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
July 23-27, 2007

Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching
June 23-27, 2007 (Session 1) -or- July 30-August 3, 2007 (Session 2)

Maximizing Study Abroad:
Teaching Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use
July 30-August 3, 2007

Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
July 30-August 3, 2007
Using Technology in Second Language Teaching
July 30-August 3, 2007
The cost of each of the CARLA summer institutes is $300 if  
registration is received by May 31, 2007 and $350 after that date.  
More information and registration forms are available on the CARLA  
website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/ or you can request a  
print copy of the brochure by contacting the CARLA office at:  
carla at umn.edu.

Note: The summer institutes were developed and are supported, in  
part, by the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Language  
Resource Center program and by the University of Minnesota's College  
of Education and Human Development and College of Liberal Arts. The  
LCTL stipends are supported by the University of Minnesota's Title VI  
National Resource Centers.
**our apologies for cross-posting**

-- 
=====================================================
Louis Janus
  Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project
  Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
  University of Minnesota
  619 Heller Hall (mail)
674 Heller Hall (visiting)
  271 19th Avenue So.
  Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
  phone: 612/624-9016; fax: 612/624-7514
-------------------------------
LCTL at umn.edu  or  janus005 at umn.edu
-------------------------------
http://www.carla.umn.edu/LCTL
http://www.carla.umn.edu/about/profiles/janus.html
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Online resources for Endangered Languages
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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:"Dora Johnson" <dora at cal.org>
Subject:Online resources for Endangered Languages

  The Arabic list might be of interest to this list.

Subject: Online Resources for Endangered Languages

The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project has just updated OREL:
Online Resources for Endangered Languages.  This bilingual library of
annotated and categorised links now includes a total of more than 300
resources in English and Arabic, covering language endangerment and
revitalisation, technology and techniques, ethical issues, and funding
sources.

To access OREL in English, go to
http://www.hrelp.org/languages/resources/orel/ ; to access it in Arabic,
go to http://www.hrelp.org/languages/resources/orel-ar/.

Lameen Souag

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 30 18:42:49 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Response to HS textbook query reponses
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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:"Dora Johnson" <dora at cal.org>
Subject:Response to HS textbook query reponses

This is a nice list of existing textbooks and curricula, but it should
be a wakeup call to all of us that there are simply not enough textbooks
for the growing market of Arabic as a foreign language for use by K-12
students in the U.S. I am not sure how we're going to find the funds to
develop more materials, but somehow we have to keep on trying. This
summer there will be a workshop on developing curricula for Arabic in
Washington through the National Capital Language Resource Center. A
notice was posted earlier on this list about the workshop. It is one
place to begin developing something to share.

The second thing that comes to mind is that, from our experience of
listening to presentations and talking with teachers, there are some
incredibly creative teachers out there who have been developing their
own teacher-made materials for quite a while. I know that many of them
are unwilling to share them because (a) they're
unsure that they are complete and can be subject to criticism; (b)
someone will pick them up and use them without attribution; and (c)
there is not a good way to disseminate them.

Is there a way to start a conversation on what might be a good venue to
encourage the teachers we know have developed materials and ask them to
post them or information about them with contact information on how to
get them from the teacher? It would be very helpful to get some solid
suggestions. Please post your answers to the entire list. It's a good
way to keep everybody informed.

Dora Johnson

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 30 18:42:46 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:46 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Juhayna thanks and correction
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2) Subject:Juhayna

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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From: Li Guo <li.guo.6 at nd.edu>
Subject:Juhayna thanks

dear all,
thank you so much for helping me out with the johaina/juhayna query!
Li

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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From: "raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Juhayna

Correction:

  JUHAYNA is the name of an ancient Arabian tribe whose members were
known for their honesty and telling the truth.

Raji Rammuny

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:List of Universities with Arabic Programs
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1) Subject:List of Universities with Arabic Programs query
2) Subject:List of Universities with Arabic Programs response

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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:Fadia Hamid <fetfet at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:List of Universities with Arabic Programs query

Dear All,

Is there a data base with the names of all US universities/colleges  
that have an Arabic program? Parents have been asking me that & I am  
not able to come up with a complete list by googling it.
Any help in this matter will be much appreciated.
Thanks!
fadia

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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:Fadia Hamid <fetfet at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:List of Universities with Arabic Programs response

I sent a message yesterday inquiring about a database listing  
universities and colleges that offer Arabic. Well, I found one today!  
the website is:

http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db/

in case anyone else is looking for similar info.
Thanks.
fadia

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:40 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Academy Hamza Guidelines query
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Cairo Academy Hamza Guidelines query

[moderator's note: I know that the answer to this query appeared in  
Arabic-L some time back, but unfortunately I can't locate it.  If  
anyone saved it, pass it on. --dil]

i hear that Arabic Academy of Cairo has already settled some  
guidelines to write hamzahs.
Is this correct infomation?
If so, please inform me of the journal or the website which announces  
those rules.

Thanks in advance.
Haruko

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:51 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Student reviews thanks
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"J Murgida" <jmurg at ttlc.net>
Subject:Student reviews thanks

Many thanks to Debra and Gara for such detailed, helpful reports.
  -- Jackie Murgida

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:58 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Iraq etymology repost (with Greek letters)
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"C.G.H?berl" <haberl at rutgers.edu>
Subject:Iraq etymology repost (with Greek letters)

[thanks to those who helped me get the Greek letters looking right! -- 
dil]

Dear Colleagues:

As far as I know, the site of Uruk (Biblical Erech) is known as  Warka:'
in
Arabic, possibly by way of Greek ?????.  I'm  not
entirely sure how one could derive the name 3Ira:q from either   
Warka:' or
?????, but I've learned to be very wary of
etymologies that take such liberties with phonemic segments.  In this
case, you have three root consonants, of which you are substituting two
with completely separate phonemes.  Furthermore, there is no attempt at
demonstrating a regular correspondence between these segments in the two
languages.

A similar problem is posed by practically every other etymology I've
seen,
including one which derives the name Iraq from the Middle Persian word
e:rag.  Boyce translates this word as "south;" it is transparently
related
to the Middle Persian word e:r meaning "low," and elsewhere I've seen it
translated as "lowlands."  While the expected form *e:ra:g is
unfortunately not attested in Pahlavi to my knowledge, there is a modern
reflex i:ra:h which means "coast."

The correspondence between Middle Persian g and Arabic q is not
controversial, but determining a correspondence between the glottal stop
and Arabic 3ayn- is much more problematic.  According to Ja:7i6', the
Arabs around Kufa pronounced their language in the Naba6i: manner,
replacing the 3ayn- with hamza.  If we accept an etymology from *e:ra:g
we might adduce a hypercorrection here.  Thus "Iraq" would be the
low-lying river valley complement to the Iranian plateau.  Considering
that the territory known today as Iraq was part of an Iranian empire in
one form or another for a millennium or more, it would not surprise   
me to
find an Iranian etymology for the name.

With regard to the Arab Iraq (3ira:qu l-3arabi:) as opposed to the
"Persian" Iraq (3ira:qu l-3ajami:), this distinction did not arise  (as
far
as I know) until the Seljuk period, when the Seljuks ruled a territory
spanning both Iraq and the mountainous area formerly known as the Jebal.
Because the Arabic Iraq was the much more significant part of this
territory, it gave its name to the whole, but since the Seljuks ruled
from
Hamadan, it became necessary to distinguish between the two parts  
for  the
first time.  A similar development gave us the "Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies" (1816-1861), which was ruled from Naples.

-- 
Charles G. H?berl, PhD
Instructor in Middle Eastern Studies
Assistant Director, Development and Communication
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-316, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8045

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:55 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Chic Lit
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"Dr. M. Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Chic Lit

Chic Lit
        There is an inexhaustible list of lits: Eng Lit, Fr Lit, Comp  
Lit, Queer Lit &ct., and they come with their own baggage of  
terminology.   An engaging study on feminist fiction, entitled See  
Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick-lit, by Sarah Mlynowski  
and Farrin Jacobs, (Quirk Books, 2006),  introduces yet the new  
critical term: ?Chic-Lit / Chic Lit.?  I wonder how to translate  
this term into Arabic.  Below are three attempts, and it is a matter  
of luck as to which of them obtains in Arabic critical jargon:
??? ????????     ?  ??? ???????     ?    
"???? ?????"
        The closest rendition of ?Chic Lit? is (???  
???????).  There may well be some objection to the use of the  
colloquial Arabic term (?????) for young chickens, the singular  
of which is /???? = /birbir/, a typically Egyptian word borrowed  
from the Coptic language.  As for ("???? ?????"), it is a  
patented name of a weekly TV show on the Future channel, hosted by  
able women from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
     <><>  I'd expect my colleagues to have their own views of these  
Arabic equivalents or suggestions for more fitting alternatives.

*M. Deeb

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:45 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Army research Job
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:igyartol at ahqb.soc.mil
Subject:Army research Job

FULL TIME POSITION AS AN
ARAB MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH SPECIALIST
22 February 2007

The 4th PSYOP Group (ABN), Ft. Bragg, NC has an opening for an Arab  
Middle East research specialist with area expertise and proficiency  
in Arabic.  Candidates who have completed their Ph.D. degrees are  
preferred, but ABDs and holders of masters degrees will be given  
serious consideration. Previous experience in the Middle East is  
extremely desirable. Strong research and writing skills are essential.

The opening for this position is in the GMI GG-132 series  
(intelligence research specialist). Staff members do social science  
research and analysis and write studies that are usually 20-40 pages  
long. Information is gathered from both classified and unclassified  
sources. The individual selected will work with a team of regional  
specialists who all have advanced degrees, language proficiency, and  
extensive on-the-ground regional experience.
The position requires expertise in one of the social sciences as well  
as a deep understanding of the issues and culture of this region. The  
position requires proficiency in Arabic on both the listening and  
reading comprehension portions of the Defense Language Proficiency  
Test (or the Foreign Service Institute test) and a willingness to  
travel periodically in the United States and abroad. The candidate  
must also be a US citizen with the ability to obtain a secret  
security clearance.
Hiring will be at the GG-9 or GG-11 levels, depending on the  
successful applicant?s qualifications. Promotion is possible to the  
GG-12 level following the completion of training and after  
demonstrating satisfactory performance.  Promotion is from GG-9 to  
GG-11 with no GG-10 in between, and then from GG-11 to GG-12.  The  
starting salary of a GG-9 is now $45,106 and for a GG-11 is $54,574.   
A fully qualified GG-12 starts at $65,411.  Step increases over time  
can bring the GG-12 salary up to a maximum of $85,037.
Applicants must have a resume in the US Army?s central RESUMIX  
database in order to be considered for this government position.  
Applicants should apply by using the US Government resume builder  
site that can be found at: http://Cpol.army.mil . Resumes must be  
submitted into this system by 16 March, 2007.

 From this page select ?Employment? and then ?Build a Resume/View  
Status.?  This will open a new window which will give you the  
opportunity to view a demo video by clicking on the ?demo? button in  
the upper right corner.  This video will give you invaluable  
information and instructions on how to use the RESUMIX system, and is  
highly recommended.  If you have trouble with the RESUMIX system,  
please contact Lori Igyarto at (910)432-2097 or email at:  
igyartol at soc.mil.

Once your resume is in the system (it can take 24 hours for it to be  
processed), go to ?Employment? again, then ?Search for Jobs,? which  
will open a separate window.  Once on the ?Vacancy Announcement  
Board?, skip down to ?State:? and choose ?North Carolina? and press  
?Get Results?.  Choose Announcement WTST07780546 and at the bottom of  
the announcement select ?Self-Nominate?. Follow the instructions from  
there.

If you have specific questions concerning the position at Ft. Bragg  
form you are encouraged to contact:: Mari Borstelmann, Chief,  
Strategic Studies Detachment, at (910) 907-3655 or by email at:  
borstelm at soc.mil.

  DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

4TH PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS GROUPS (AIRBORNE)

FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA 28310-5240


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:45:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Online Arabic Course query
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From: "Adil Elshikh" <adil59 at gmail.com>
Subject:Online Arabic Course query

I am developing Arabic online course , can any one sow me any similar
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Poem Suggestions
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3) Subject:Poem Suggestion
4) Subject:Poem Suggestion
5) Subject:Poem Suggestion

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:Fadia Hamid <fetfet at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

My Arabic I students (High school) just finished reciting a cute  
little poem about a bird "Ana 'asfoura" . you can find it at the  
following website.
http://www.arabicpoems.com/children/alef/elmarsafy/elmarsafi/2.html

They have many other poems but i liked this one and it fit right in  
with the vocabulary they are learning.
fadia

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at u.arizona.edu>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

Dear Haroon,
our second semester students have been reciting poems in our annual  
spring language fair for the last five years.  We have been  
collecting recordings of poems that they have chosen to recite and  
many of them are available at the following website:
http://blog.ltc.arizona.edu/arabicpoetry/
The poem by Ilya Abu Madi that you are remembering is probably the  
one often referred to as "lastu 'adri" based on a phrase repeated in  
the poem although the actual name of the poem is "Talaasim" or in  
English "Cryptic Charms". There is a recording of it at the Arabic  
poetry "blog" (above).

Peace, Martha

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From: Anna-Karin Guindy <akguindy at get2net.dk>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

Muniam Alfaker has written some very simple poems. I don't know if  
they are available in your part of the world, but you might ask him  
on his e-mail address alfaker at assununu.dk

Regards,
Anna-Karin Guindy
Odense

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From: "lailafam" <lailafam at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

I particularly like a poem by Sarkun Bulus, one of the best Iraqi
poets, called ??? ????? ????????
You can check it in:
http://www.iraqiculture.net/arabic/articles.php? 
subaction=showfull&id=1148687414&archive=&start_from=
Enjoy!
Laila H. Familiar

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From: "htdo34 at juno.com" <htdo34 at juno.com>
Subject:Poem Suggestion

Hello Haroon,
Have you looked into Taha Muhammad Ali? He is a Palestinian poet who  
writes beautifully and simply. His book of poetry, "So What" is quite  
good and it comes with parallel English text translations for each poem.
Hope that helps,
Nazir
Arabic Student Instructor at Seattle University

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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs verified English to Arabic transcription
 database
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:Joel Shapiro <jrs_14618 at YAHOO.COM>
Subject:Needs verified English to Arabic transcription database

Hello All,

I am an automated robot script / Python computer
programmer with a long time interest and
fascination for foreign languages and cultures;
especially those of the Middle East.

I have programmed the "foundation" of what I term
a multilingual search engine utility (MULSEU) for
searching web pages in a given "target" language's
native text or character set (encoding) that the
user need not have -any- familiarity with the
target language to realize -very- effective
searches in the native text of the target
language.

In a nutshell what my application does is take
an English word list or combination of words in
English and the target language and derive the
best dictionary translations and transcriptions
as the case may be per the current word being
dispositioned.

My current focus is on Arabic, the most developed
and studied in the Middle East.  When I refer to
"target language" henceforth in this document, for
all intents and purposes Arabic is implied.

The efficacy of my MULSEU is directly proportional
to the level of sophistication and development of
the English - target language dictionary and
"verified" English to target language transcription
database.

What I mean by "verified"  English to target
language transcription database is each entry
in the transcription database; generally proper
names/nouns, geographic places, company names etc.
has been "run" through a popular search engine
as a search term and the number of URLs returned
is an indication of the relative "veracity" of the
given transcription.

In other words (no pun intended) the number of
URLs, if any, indicate the veracity of the given
transcription in its own right and importantly
with respect to other valid transcriptions that
have subtle differences between them but these
subtle differences have generally a more profound
effect than comparable subtle differences in
English.

While there will be readily recognizable and
distinct search results for English Mohammad,
Muhammad, Mohamad etc. taking each respectively
as an individual search engine search term,
there will be a lot of overlap as well especially
for the most or second most common word in the
Arabic and Islamic world that is "Mohammad" (one
of several Arabic to English transcription variant
renditions.

As of course Mohammad is Arabic in origin it
has really only one generally recognized or
accepted spelling.  The variation comes on the
English side with several valid transcription
alternatives where I just named a few.

The converse is generally the case for the
names and terms English in origin.

For instance the name "Clinton" has really just
one generally recognized spelling but has no
less than three valid, popular and accepted
transcription variants in Arabic.

The very subtle Arabic transcription differences
with respect to their use as search engine
search terms in general are much more profound
than comparable English variations.

To realize a verified database for a given
target language I have programmed an "offshoot"
from my MULSEU infrastructure that pipes each
English term through an English to target
language "transcription engine" or
"transcriptor" and then through a search engine
or metasearch engine such as of course Google,
AltaVista, Yahoo just to name a few to get
what I term the "empirical value" of the
transcription.

Every language and language dialect would need
to have its own transcriptor and the more
transcriptors the better as there are subtle
differences between the transcriptors
themselves.  For instance one Arabic transcriptor
may have a transcription starting with just a
Aleph and another Aleph Hamza for essentially the
same transcription in terms of "primary" letters
or characters.

If the term is already in the target language
the transcriptor can be bypassed and immediately
directed to the search engine to realize its
empirical value.

In this respect or context in the preceding
example, Arabic to English "transcription pairs"
already in place from the field would be a
tremendous cumulative boon not having to take
initiate an English to Arabic transcription
process.

What I'm doing here is inquiring if anyone here
in this group has a database of "already
transcripted" pairs of any language of the Middle
East; again especially Arabic.

For your efforts I will return your contribution
with valuable information of the relative value of
each entry as a search engine term or as the
databases become more established for every new
valid transcription pair not yet present in the
database I would return 10:1 pairs in the same
genre of terms in the same language or one term
from ten different languages.

I have not yet worked out the details in this
respect.  Currently because the verified
databases are so undeveloped, all I have in
place is a database of a thousand or so proper
English - Arabic transcription name pairs and a
few thousand English - Arabic transcription
geographic place names that have yet to be put
through a search engine I will return all
submitted.

One great English Arabic transcription source
would be an English - Arabic phone directory on
CD say from a modern Arabic place such as Dubai.
In all my Arabic travels on the Internet I've
never seen any reference to this.

I vigorously contend the establishment of a
verified English to Arabic transcription
database could be a valuable tool in its own
right for Arabic interpreters and translators
who while deriving valid Arabic transcriptions
on their own may miss other equally valid
transcriptions not from any ignorance or lack
of skill on their part, but rather it is an
inherent circumstance or phenomena.

 From all my inquiries to Arabists before and
you dear reader, who has a knowledge and
command of Arabic far greater than my own and
what I ever will achieve in my lifetime will
concur: [T]here is no English to Arabic rules
or methodology that will return the one most
popular, recognized and accepted Arabic
transcription.

Thank you for your interest and consideration.
I sincerely thank anyone for their English
- Middle Eastern language transcription pair
contribution or reference.

I welcome corresponding with anyone who is
so inclined as I can, have time and anyone
needing further clarification or FAQ please
don't hesitate to contact me:

Joel Shapiro
(585) 255-0997 (Cell)
jrs_14618 at yahoo.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Mar  4 00:44:43 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:44:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UofArizona/NMELRC Fast-Track Intensive Arabic
 Program in Amman, Jordan
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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:belnap at byu.edu
Subject:UofArizona/NMELRC Fast-Track Intensive Arabic Program in  
Amman, Jordan

The University of Arizona?s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)  
and the National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC),  
headquartered at Brigham Young University, are partnering to sponsor  
an intensive Arabic program in Amman, Jordan. This is an intensive  
program designed to assist students to make significant breakthroughs  
in acquiring functional fluency in speaking and reading.

Due to the high demand for Arabic, students are having a difficult  
time finding quality summer study abroad opportunities. Building on  
considerable previous experience, CMES and NMELRC are sponsoring this  
program as a model for what can be accomplished in a study abroad  
program (without spending a lot of money). Building on lessons  
learned in successful pilot programs, key aspects of this program  
include:

1) more time in country than the usual 6-8 weeks (program dates: June  
10 to August 16, 2007)
2) admitting only qualified students with a track record of serious  
drive to learn
3) a tightly focused curriculum based on using Arabic for real  
communication (speaking, listening, reading, and writing)
4) continuous program oversight consisting of aggressive quality control
5) regular one-on-one student advisement on how to make the best of  
in-country study

Course information
1)    Jordanian Arabic. Taught by a dynamic teacher with ?homework?  
that takes students deep into Jordanian society. Students may fulfill  
speaking requirements through volunteer internship and service  
opportunities.

2)    Current Events. Students build fluency in using Arabic for real- 
word purposes that matter deeply to Arabs through reading selected  
newspaper articles, watching relevant news clips, and discussing  
important events of the day.

3)    Writing. Students develop facility in expressing themselves in  
Modern Standard Arabic and strengthen their control of its structures  
and collocations through meaningful writing.


Estimated Program Fee

Program costs (tuition & fees) $2476
Housing ? $200 - $500 per month (according to quality of apartment or  
homestay and number of students sharing in an apartment)
Food ? as low as $10/day
Airfare ? $1600 (approx.)
Spending money: $750 - (local transportation & souvenirs)

For more information, see: http://studyabroad.arizona.edu/ 
display_program.php?id=171 or contact Jeremy Palmer  
<jeremy.palmer at gmail.com>.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Looking for grad program
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:NS <shenaz99 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Looking for grad program

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Dear all,
I am an Egyptian graduate student seeking to join a
program at one of the US or UK university specialised
in Arabic with the research potential of working
either in translation studies or rhetorics and
discourse analysis. Would you kindly direct to a
program.
Best regards,
my email is
shenaz99 at yahoo.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:02 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT|LING:Code switched poetry query
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:"Rashid Hasan" <richardhasan at gmail.com>
Subject:Code switched poetry query

talking about poetry, do we have Arab poets (in the Arab world  
particularly,
and also diaspora) who write good poetry and blend it with English/ 
French or
other languages (maybe Spanish or Portugese)?  My PhD thesis talks about
foreign influences on MSA in general.  I would like to check it out  
in the
literature as well, particularly poetry, and prose also if there is a
significant distinction from usual external influence that we  
normally see.

Thanks to everyone in anticipation!!

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:21:59 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:21:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Seeking Advanced High/Superior speakers for
 research project
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:Sara Hillman <greeklassie at yahoo.com>
Subject:Seeking Advanced High/Superior speakers for research project

I am seeking Arabic foreign language learners who have
either been formally tested or would assess themselves
as advanced high (or
superior/distinguished/professional/near-native) in
reading, listening, and speaking Arabic.
Participants should be non heritage learners
(participants should not have grown up speaking Arabic
in their house or to other relatives)

All participants will complete an open-ended
questionnaire and language strategy survey sent via
e-mail and may be additionally selected to take part
in short phone interviews. All data is confidential
and  participants will not be identifiable in any
reports of the research.

Although there is no monetary compensation for this
research, participants will get a chance to reflect on
their own language learning and may contribute to a
better understanding of how Arabic is learned as a
foreign language.

Please contact Sara Hillman at sarapatra at gmail.com, or
517-775-0034 if you would like more information. Your
participation is greatly appreciated!!!

Materials Development Assistant
ALIF (Arabic Language Instruction Flagship)
Wells Hall A-712
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI, 48823
(517) 775-0034

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:06 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Incompatibility of security clearance and good Arabic
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:"David Wilmsen" <dww22 at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Incompatibility of security clearance and good Arabic

Here we go again.  The Army is advertising for a position that
requires   a) "previous experience in the Middle East," which it names
as "extremely desirable" b) "a deep understanding of the issues and
culture of this region" and c) "a US citizen with the ability to
obtain a secret security clearance".

Apparently any US citizen who has gained experience in the Middle East
by virtue of having travelled there and so also acquired any
understanding of the issues and culture of the region, let alone a
deep understanding, cannot get a security clearance.

For example, one of my students, a member of the Marine reserves,
managed to travel to the Middle East on his own initiative in order to
study Arabic and lost his secret security clearance thereby.  Another,
who can hardly speak a word of Arabic, is hurrying to obtain her
clearance before she goes (and hurrying to bone up on the lingo before
she goes too).

I wonder what the US government will do with all of the youngsters it
is funding with critical language fellowships ( for which I am
currently being inundated with requests for letters of reference),
once these courageous souls return from their language study
programmes abroad, having thereby rendered themselves unemployable by
the government in the positions for which the government needs their
expertise?


--  
David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Dept of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:21:56 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:21:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:U of Maryland Arabic High School program news
 release
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:"Lampe, Gerald" <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject:U of Maryland Arabic High School program news release

University of Maryland/ News Release
March 8, 2007

New Natl. Program Will Immerse High Schoolers and Teachers in Arabic and
Chinese

The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland is
launching a new federally funded initiative this summer that will send
as many as 1,100 students to intensive camp and school programs to learn
Arabic and Chinese - part of an effort to teach critical, uncommonly
taught languages at an earlier age. The program will also help train as
many as 600 Arabic and Chinese speakers to teach the languages in high
schools.

The Center is awarding grants averaging $100,000 to 34 institutions in
21 states and the District of Columbia to run the so-called STARTALK
programs this summer. It is the newest program in the National Security
Language Initiative launched by the Bush administration last year. The
$4.8 million program is being funded jointly by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Department of Defense.

"This is a vital experiment because we need to start teaching critical
languages like Arabic and Chinese much earlier in life, if the nation is
to develop the skills needed for national security and economic
competitiveness," says Catherine Ingold, director of the University of
Maryland's National Foreign Language Center. "Right now, in most of the
country there's very little capacity to teach Arabic and Chinese to high
school students. In all but a handful of spots, we lack the programs and
teachers. And even where there are programs, a long summer away from the
language is a real setback. STARTALK is an effort to jumpstart the
process."

The 34 programs receiving funding differ widely, Ingold says, calling
this year's launch a kind of trial run. Some offer total immersion,
while others offer more modest training to give students a head start at
learning languages so different from English. Some programs offer a camp
atmosphere, while others are more traditional summer school sessions.
Many offer simultaneous programs to train both students and teachers.

"We need to do much more than just train students - we need to create a
supply of qualified teachers who can offer instruction at the high
school level," says Gerald Lampe, the deputy director of the National
Foreign Language Center and coordinator of the Arabic portion of
STARTALK. "On a national basis, we're almost starting from scratch. Most
of the instructors have only worked in a college environment, and most
need help getting certified. We'll give these teachers some of the
classroom experience they'll need for certification. For many of them,
these sessions represent a rare opportunity to work with students.
Teacher training, certification, along with curriculum and development
of teaching materials, will help to create the infrastructure we need to
sustain durable programs year-round."

"Quality is vital, and we want to make sure the programs use the best
practices in the field and the strongest curricula," Ingold says. "We
all have a lot of work to do to recruit students and teachers and get
these programs going."

A special effort will be made to recruit students from families with an
Arabic or Chinese heritage, but who lack formal education in the
languages. Many of the teachers who will receive training are proficient
heritage speakers, but lack high school classroom experience.

Plans call for the program to expand in the summer of 2008 to include
additional languages such as Hindi, Persian and Korean. In coming years,
the STARTALK program is expected to extend to Middle School Programs.

STARTALK is one of more than a dozen programs in the National Security
Language Initiative, announced by President Bush in January of 2006. The
Initiative seeks to expand and improve the teaching and learning of
strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught
in the United States. The U.S. Department of Education, the U.S.
Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence are all participating. More
information at:
http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/competitiveness/nsli/nsli.pdf.

The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) is dedicated to
understanding and addressing the nation's needs for languages other than
English. The Center implements that mission through intensive and
innovative strategic planning, research and development in cooperation
with academic institutions, organizations, and enterprises in the United
States and abroad. http://www.nflc.org/

The NFLC is part of the intensive language research and education
efforts at the University of Maryland, including the university's Center
for Advanced Study of Language, the largest U.S. national language
research facility, and Department of Defense funded National Flagship
Language Programs in Arabic and Persian.

http://www.casl.umd.edu/
http://www.languages.umd.edu/AsianEastEuropean/arabic/index.htm
http://www.languages.umd.edu/persianflagship/

MEDIA CONTACT:
Neil Tickner
University of Maryland
301-405-4622
ntickner at umd.edu

Gerald E. Lampe, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
National Foreign Language Center
5201 Paint Branch Parkway, Suite 2132
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-9690
glampe at nflc.org
www.nflc.org

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:21:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Pittsburgh Job
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:U of Pittsburgh Job

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:31:39
From: Susan Merriman < susanmer at pitt.edu >
Subject: Arabic, Standard: Assistant Instructor, University of  
Pittsburgh, PA, USA


University or Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Department: Linguistics, LCTL Center
Web Address: http://www.linguistics.pitt.edu/lctl

Job Rank: Assistant Instructor

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language  
Teaching

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:

The Less-Commonly-Taught-Languages Center (Department of Linguistics) at
the University of Pittsburgh seeks applications for a full-time  
assistant
instructor of Arabic (non-tenure stream) to be hired on a twelve-month
contract beginning August 1, 2007, renewable annually. This position is
subject to budgetary approval. Qualifications required are native or
near-native proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic, Ph.D. or M.A. in  
Arabic,
Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics,  
Foreign
Language Education, or TESOL and at least three years Arabic teaching
experience. Preferred qualifications include ability to teach advanced
courses in the linguistic structure of Arabic, advanced communication in
Arabic, Middle Eastern/Islamic culture, or sociology/sociolinguistics of
the Arabic-speaking world.

Responsibilities: teaching 7 courses per year (over three terms);  
teaching
duties will range from beginning Arabic through advanced courses. In
addition, the position will involve assisting the coordination of the
Arabic curriculum, supervising 3-4 part-time instructors, and  
fostering the
growth of the Arabic program at Pitt. Solid teaching, administrative and
supervisory skills are essential.

Send letter of application, CV or resume, and evidence of teaching
excellence to the address below. Three letters of reference must be sent
directly to the Department. Deadline for applications: April 16, 2007.

The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity
employer. Women and members of minority groups under-represented in
academia are especially encouraged to apply.


Application Deadline: 16-Apr-2007

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Dr. Claude Mauk
	Director of the LCTL Center
	Department of Linguistics, 2816 CL
	University of Pittsburgh
	Pittsburgh, PA 15260
	USA


Contact Information:
	Dr. Claude Mauk
	Email: cemauk at pitt.edu
	Phone: 412-624-5943
	Fax: 412-624-6130

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:00 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:which dialect discussion
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:"Ahmed Farrag" <ah_farrag at hotmail.com>
Subject:which dialect discussion

The best method to learn Arabic as a foreign language

As an educator,I am always asked about that.
The only way to answer this is to answer another question: what do  
you want to do with Arabic? Is your goal to read a newspaper?  
Scholarly journals? The Qu?ran? Do you want to chat with people in  
the Arab world? If so, in which country?
If you are interested in the printed word, you should study Modern  
Standard Arabic. If you are interested in reading the Qu?ran, you  
should study Qu?ranic Arabic . If you want to talk to people about  
everyday subjects such as their lives, their jobs, or their opinions,  
you will need to study Colloquial Arabic. Despite what people may  
tell you, it is possible to study both MSA and colloquial Arabic at  
the same time.

No matter what flavor of Arabic you decide to study, lay out your  
goals for the short and long term. This will help you chart your  
progress. Don?t worry about the curriculum of a school or a  
university. If you are reaching your own goals, then you?re making  
concrete progress in Arabic. Those goals may change as you learn more  
about the language and Arabic culture.

What?s the best colloquial dialect?

Wherever you travel in the Arabic-speaking world, the people will  
tell you that their dialect is the purest and closest to Classical  
Arabic. All of the dialects have evolved beyond Classical Arabic, and  
these differences are heard most often in everyday speech.

Television and movies have made the Egyptian dialect the most widely  
understood throughout the Arab world.If you speak colloquial  
Egyptian, you will probably be understood by many Arabic speakers?but  
this does not mean that you?ll understand them. As someone wrote, an  
Egyptian might be able to go to Gulf and talk about politics or  
literature, but he might have problems if he went to a store and  
asked for a loaf of bread. There seems to be some major groups of  
colloquial Arabic:

Egyptian (possibly including the Sudan)
Maghrebi, used in the North African countries of Morocco, Tunisia,  
and Algeria
Levantine, used in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine
Gulf Arabic, used in the Emirates, Kuwait, possibly Saudi Arabia (?)
- Iraqi

Here?s how you?d say ?how are you?? to a man on the street:
Egyptian: izzayak?
Levantine: keefak?
- Iraqi: shloonak?

I have no idea about the dialects spoken in Yemen, but I hear (of  
course) it?s close to Classical Arabic.

Ahmed Farrag BA, MA
AFL Sr. Lecturer
http://arabic-private-tutor.faithweb.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:04 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:The requested hamza reference
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:Munther Younes <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:The requested hamza reference

Is this the reference you have in mind?

Hijaazi, Mustafa and Daahi Abdel Baaqi (ed.) Kitaab fii Usuul al- 
Lugha, Part 3. Cairo: al-Hai'a al-'Amma li Shu'uun al-Mataabi'  
al-'Amiiriyya, pp. 287-301 (1983)?

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:21:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:University of Zurich Job
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:almuslim5-1 at office-dateien.de
Subject:University of Zurich Job

An der Philosophischen Fakult?t der Universit?t Z?rich ist zum  
n?chstm?glichen Zeitpunkt

eine Professur in Gender Studies und Islamwissenschaft

zu besetzen.
Die Professur wird dem Orientalischen Seminar zugeordnet sein und  
soll einen Schwerpunkt in den Gesellschaften, den Kulturen und der  
Geschichte der modernen islamischen Welt haben. Gleichzeitig wird  
erwartet, dass der oder die zu Berufende das Fach Gender Studies  
vertritt und darin einen Masterstudiengang aufbaut und koordiniert.  
Vorausgesetzt werden Habilitation oder gleichwertige Leistungen sowie  
die Kenntnis des Arabischen und einer weiteren Sprache der  
islamischen Welt.

Bewerbungen mit den ?blichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Publikations-  
und Lehrveranstaltungsverzeichnis, aber keine Schriften) sind bis zum  
17. M?rz 2007 erbeten an das Dekanat der Philosophischen Fakult?t der  
Universit?t Z?rich, R?mistrasse 71, 8006 Z?rich, sowie in  
elektronischer Form an: heidi.moor at access.unizh.ch.
Die Universit?t Z?rich strebt eine Erh?hung des Frauenanteils in  
Forschung und Lehre an und bittet qualifizierte Wissenschaftlerinnen  
deshalb ausdr?cklich um ihre Bewerbung

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar  8 23:22:10 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:22:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translation query
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Date: 08 Mar 2007
From:gmion at fub.it
Subject:Translation query

Hello!!!
I?m doing a little experiment (only for Arabs)?
I have this short text in Egyptian Arabic:

?? ??? ??? ????????? ???? ??????
????? ???? ???? ????? ?????? ??????  
??????


?? ??? ??? ??????? ?? ??????  
????????? ???? ?????? ????? ???? ????  
???????
?????? ?????? ??????.

[bass 'abli kida byistaTli3u haza lhilaal willi fihom shaafu biwalli
shahaadtu lilqaDi shshara3i].

How do you ?translate? it in pure CLASSICAL Arabic ? Any idea ???
Thanks,
Giuliano Mion

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:text to fusha
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2) Subject:text to fusha
3) Subject:text to fusha
4) Subject:text to fusha
5) Subject:text to fusha

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1)
Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:text to fusha

>
> ?? ??? ??? ????????? ???? ??????
> ????? ???? ???? ????? ?????? ??????   
> ??????
>
> [bass 'abli kida byistaTli3u haza lhilaal willi fihom shaafu biwalli
> shahaadtu lilqaDi shshara3i].
>
> How do you ?translate? it in pure CLASSICAL Arabic ?


?????? ????? ?????? ?????????????  
???????? ????? ?????? ????? ?????
????????? ?????? ??????.

But before that they go out to see the new moon.  Whoever sees it  
informs
al-qadi al-shar`i.

Waheed

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Waleed El-shobaki <Waleed.El-shobaki at manchester.ac.uk>
Subject:text to fusha

? ??? ??? ??? ???????? ??????, ? ?? ???  
????
???? ?????? ??? ?????? ??????.

Wa Laken Qabl Haza yastatilu'un al-hilal, wa man yarahu minhum yuli  
shhadatuhu
ila al-Qadi al-Shar'i

I hope that helps
Best wishes
Waleed

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"Amira Nowaira" <amira at nowaira.net>
Subject:text to fusha


???? ??? ??? ???????? ??? ?????? ???  
???? ??? ???? ??????? ?????? ??????

Amira Nowaira
Department of English
Alexandria University

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:""Marco Hamam" <marco.hamam at poste.it>
Subject:text to fusha

Hi Giuliano, how are you doing?
This is a nice example of "middle arabic". There are many possible  
solutions to "translate" this sentence in classical arabic and all of  
these concern the "jumlat al-shart" which in dialect is very simple  
(willi fihom shaafu biwalli).
I would translate:

?????? ??? ??? ???????? ??? ??????  
??? ??? ???? ???? ?????? ?????? ??????

[walaakinnahum qabla dhaalik yastaTli3uun haadha al-hilaal wa-man  
yarahu minhum yuwalli al-qaaDii ash-shar3ii shahaadatahu]

Marco Hamam

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:""saharmhy" <saharmhy at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:text to fusha


???? ??????? ?????? ?? ??? ??????  
???? ??????? ?????? ??????

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:15 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING|LIT:Korean KAALL Arabic Language and Literature
 Conference
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"CHO HEESUN"<chohs10 at hanafos.com>
Subject:Korean KAALL Arabic Language and Literature Conference

Announcement of KAALL(Korean Association for Arabic Language and  
Literature) 2007 International Conference on the Arabic Language &  
Literature

The KAALL will hold the 2nd International Conference on the Arabic  
Language & Literature during Oct. 5-7 2007 in Seoul, Korea.

Send letter of application to Prof. Cho, Hee Sun, the Chair of the  
Organizing Committee (chohs10 at hanafos.com, chohs at mju.ac.kr) Deadline  
for applications: March 25, 2007.

Title " The Role of Arabic Language & Literature in the Globalization  
Age "
  Conference official Language: Arabic
KAALL will provide accommodations and meals for all foreign scholars  
during the conference period.

  The Letter of application includes name, nationality, sex,  
affiliation, position, address, e-mail address, telephone no, paper  
title, and language of presentation(Arabic or English.

Dr. Cho, Hee Sun
Professor of Arabic Studies,
120-728, 50-3, Namgajwa-dong, Seodaemun-ku,
Myongji, University,
Seoul, Korea

e-mail: chohs10 at hanafos.com, chohs at mju.ac.kr
Office Tel : 82-2-300-0593
Office Fax : 82-2-300-0504
Home Tel & Fax : 82-2-2231-2889
Mobile: 82-11-9921-2889

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:40 2007
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LDC resources
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:LDC resources

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) would like to announce the  
availability of two new publications and provide information  
regarding forthcoming publications.

..........

(2)  ISI Arabic-English Automatically Extracted Parallel Text  
consists of Arabic-English parallel sentences which were extracted  
automatically from two monolingual corpora: Arabic Gigaword Second  
Edition (LDC2006T02) and English Gigaword Second Edition  
(LDC2005T12). The data was extracted from news articles published by  
Xinhua News Agency and Agence France Presse.  The corpus contains  
1,124,609 sentence pairs; the word count on the English side is  
approximately 31M words. The sentences in the parallel corpus  
preserve the form and encoding of the texts in the original Gigaword  
corpora.

For each sentence pair in the corpus we provide the names of the  
documents from which the two sentences were extracted, as well as a  
confidence score (between 0.5 and 1.0), which is indicative of their  
degree of parallelism. The parallel sentence identification approach  
is designed to judge sentence pairs in isolation from their contexts,  
and can therefore find parallel sentences within document pairs which  
are not parallel.

In order to make this resource useful for research in Machine  
Translation (MT), we made efforts to detect potential overlaps  
between this data and the standard test and development data sets  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Ali Baba Center Summer Arabic Programs in Amman,
 Jordan
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:info at alibaba.jo
Subject:Ali Baba Center Summer Arabic Programs in Amman, Jordan

                 Summer Arabic Programs in Amman, Jordan

Ali Baba International Center (www.alibaba.jo)  is a Jordanian  
organization
established exclusively to give people, of different ages and  
nationalities,
the opportunity to learn and live the Arabic language and culture in  
Jordan.
The center organizes at  the University of Jordan  four  1-month  
sessions in
2007:  in June,  in July, in August and  in September. This is in  
addition to a
2-month regular summer session  lasting from mid-June to mid-August,  
2007.

A typical 1-month  intensive summer class meets four  hours and a  
half per day,
five days per week, for a total of 90 contact hours. A typical 2- 
month  regular
summer class meets three  hours  per day, five days per week, for a  
total of 120
contact hours. A placement test will be given to the registered  
students before
the start of the course  to determine the level and accordingly the  
appropriate
class they should enroll in. For details please refer to    
www.alibaba.jo.

Other than the summer sessions described above,  its also possible  
for Ali Baba
International Center to arrange for group of university students to  
study
Arabic at the University of  Jordan using the same text book which  
they use in
their mother universities. Some universities in the US  request this
arrangement to guarantee the  accreditation of the courses studied  
here by
their students. We have had this sort of experience with some  
universities in
the United States and will be happy to consider any suggestion  
regarding this
arrangement by universities offering Arabic courses throughout the  
world.
Please contact info at alibaba.jo for more information on this issue.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:19 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Security and 'Good' Arabic
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Security and 'Good' Arabic

David writes:
> ...>  Another,
> who can hardly speak a word of Arabic, is hurrying to obtain her
> clearance before she goes (and hurrying to bone up on the lingo before
> she goes too).

Good Arabic:

Going through security at Detroit Metro Airport, walking past a table
(?????), I read a notice taped on it.  It said, in English,  
something like
the following:

DO NOT TOUCH TABLE

The Arabic translation:

????? ??? ??????

[Dil's attempt at transliteration for those who aren't getting the  
script: mamnuu? mass al-jadwal]

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:58 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middlebury Arabic TA Job
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:qmecham at middlebury.edu
Subject:Middlebury Arabic TA Job

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE is seeking to hire a Teaching Assistant in Arabic  
for the academic year, September 2007 until June 2008. The successful  
candidate will have strong Arabic and English language skills, and a  
willingness to work closely with students and faculty in the Arabic  
program. Please send a letter of application, a CV, and three letters  
of recommendation to Dr. Ian Barrow, Director of International  
Studies, Robert A. Jones ?59 House, Middlebury College, Middlebury  
Vermont 05753, USA. Applications and letters of recommendation may  
also be sent by email to: ibarrow at middlebury.edu.

The Arabic Teaching Assistant (TA) will assist the faculty of the  
Arabic program as necessary: this might include leading conversation  
or drill sections; conducting oral interviews of exams; occasionally  
substituting for faculty away at conferences; and holding office  
hours. This will average six contact hours per week during both  
twelve-week semesters and the four-week winter term. During the  
winter term there may be the opportunity, depending on student need  
and the Dean?s approval, to teach a section of the first-year Arabic  
course, which will entail more than six contact hours per week.

The TA will live in the Arabic House with students who have made a  
commitment to speak primarily in Arabic while in the house. The TA  
will encourage the use of Arabic by providing a linguistic model and  
by organizing cultural and recreational activities that will promote  
it. These activities might include movie and video showings, guest  
lectures, parties, dinners, an Arabic radio show, etc. The TA will  
organize and supervise a student committee that will help plan Arabic  
cultural programming. The TA is responsible for ensuring the smooth  
functioning of the Arabic lunch tables.

If the TA is not a US citizen, then he or she must enroll, for free,  
in two courses, one each term. If the TA is a US citizen, then he or  
she may choose to enroll in up to two courses. Middlebury College is  
an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting a diverse  
faculty to complement its increasingly diverse student body. Review  
of applications will begin immediately and end when the position has  
been filled.


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:13 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Academy Hamza info
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1) Subject:Cairo Academy Hamza info

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"lailafam" <lailafam at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Cairo Academy Hamza info

According to Ramadan Abd El-Tawwaab (1996) -????? ??????  
???????- the
Arabic Language Academy of Cairo has established at two different
points in time the guidelines for writing the Hamza:

1. January, 5th, 1960.
??? ??? ?? ?????? ???????? ??????? ??  
?????? ?????? ??? ?????? ???????
???????? (? 189-190)

2. During the 46th Session of the Arabic Language Academy of Cario
(1878-1979).
??? ??? ?? ???? ????? ????? ??????  
????????? ?? ?????? ???????
????????? (? 23-24).

They are two different ways of explaining the orthographic rule for
writing the Hamza, being the second -supposedly- simplier.

Hope this helps.

Salaam

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:17 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:Lit|LING:Code switched poetry
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:"Madiha Doss" <madihadoss at yahoo.com>
Subject:Code switched poetry

[Moderator's note: Madiha's first message came through garbled even  
for me, so I didn't post it.  Here is the follow on message.]

In case my previous message could not be read, I suggest to the  
researcher Rashid Hasan to look at a novel by Ahamd El Aidi An takuun  
Abbas el 'abd (Merritt), which contains quite a few occurences of  
code switching and borrowings sometime written in roman script
Madiha Doss

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:34 2007
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Etymology and 'timeline' of Salibi for 'crusader'
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1) Subject:Etymology and 'timeline' of Salibi for 'crusader'

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:moderator
Subject:Etymology and 'timeline' of Salibi for 'crusader'

I received the following request for information from a non- 
subscriber.  If you could send me any answers or comments, I will  
compile them for the list and send them to the person who made the  
request.
dil

Medieval sources refer to the Crusaders as "al Franj" ("the Franks").  
At what point does Arab culture make the transition to using the term  
"Salibi"? Bernard Lewis mentions the vocabulary transition as a  
response to colonialism (which I suppose places it in the late 19th/ 
early 20th century) but only in a sort of off-handed way.

Can you point me towards a more detailed entymology (preferably in  
English)?
I would appreciate any assistance you could offer.

Thanks,
Gerry Watkins

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:26 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&K-16:NCLRC Scholarship Application
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1) Subject:NCLRC Scholarship Application

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:nclrc <nclrc at gwu.edu>
Subject:NCLRC Scholarship Application

Dear Arabic educators and administrators,
The scholarship application form is now online and we strongly
encourage you to completely fill it out and send it back to us by
March 28th, as it will be sent to the Scholarship Review Committee  
for consideration, then we will announce scholarships on April 6th.
You must submit your application through the NCLRC on-line
application system. Go to this link: http://nclrc.org/profdev/ 
nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html, choose the Arabic Institute of your  
interest and click where it says ?Scholarships and Stipends  
available, click here?, then you will be taken to the page of NCLRC  
STARTALK Scholarship Application.
Should you have any question, please contact Mrs. Salima Intidame at:  
(202)973-1086
Best of luck to you all,
NCLRC staff

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:00 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:00 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Middlebury Arabic School STATALK Teacher Training
 Workshop
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1) Subject:Middlebury Arabic School STATALK Teacher Training Workshop

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:jnorthru at middlebury.edu
Subject:Middlebury Arabic School STATALK Teacher Training Workshop

Middlebury College Arabic School STARTALK Teacher-Training Workshop

The Middlebury College Arabic School is offering an intensive, two- 
week teacher-training workshop for K-12 teachers involved in (or  
preparing to) teach Arabic at the secondary level.  This workshop  
will be conducted at Middlebury College in Vermont and will run  
concurrent with the summer Arabic Language School.  Participants in  
the Teacher Training will receive the equivalent of 3 credits for  
graduate-level coursework.

Application information:
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the program is  
full.  The application material can be downloaded at:  
www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/startalk

Dates:
July 20-August 3

Cost:
All participants' fees (room, board and tuition) for the Workshops  
will be covered by the STARTALK grant. Please check on the web for  
information regarding travel grants.

Contact information:
Bill Mayers- Coordinator of the Middlebury College summer Arabic School
Web site : www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls
Email: wmayers at middlebury.edu
Phone: 802-443-2006

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:54 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book
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1) Subject:New Book

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Pierre.Larcher at up.univ-mrs.fr
Subject:New Book

The Publishing Services of Universite de Provence (France) announces the
availability of the following new work on the field of Semitic
Linguistics:

La formation des mots dans les langues semitiques, sous la direction de
Philippe Cassuto et Pierre Larcher, Coll. Langues et langage, 15, 202p.
Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l?Universite de Provence, 2007.
ISBN 978-2-85399-660-0
ISSN 1158-629X
Price: 25 Euros

Table of contents

Philippe CASSUTO & Pierre LARCHER
Pr?face (p. 6-12)

1. La racine et son traitement dans les linguistiques d?hier et  
d?aujourd?hui

Philippe CASSUTO
Base, roi et serviteur (p. 15-43)

Victor PORKHOMOVSKY
Structure de la racine et formation des mots dans la tradition
semitologique russe (p. 44-52)

Jean-Fran?ois PRUNET (United Arab Emirates University)
La racine semitique dans les sciences cognitives (p. 53-80)

2. Au del? de la racine et du sch?me

Christian TOURATIER (Universit? de Provence)
Racine et analyse en morphemes dans les langues semitiques (p. 83-95)

Pierre LARCHER
Racine et scheme, significations lexicale et grammaticale :
Quelques exemples de non-bijection en arabe classique (p. 97-112)

Lutz EDZARD
La morpho-syntaxe de l'annexion, des formations compositionnelles
et des syncretismes dans les langues semitiques modernes:
Analyse contrastive de nouveaux developpements (p. 113-147)

3. To be or not to be ?semitic?

Mauro TOSCO
Le maltais, ou de la crise d?une morphologie semitique (p. 151-163)

Andrzej ZABORSKI
Entre l?apophonie et l?alternation : sur l?origine de quelques formes
verbales en semitique et chamito-semitique (p. 165-172)

4. Nominalia

Herve GABRION
L?hebreu et le sexe des anges: genre et formes dans le systeme nominal
hebraique (p. 175-184)

Remo MUGNAIONI
L?etat construit en babylonien entre morphologie et phonologie (p.  
185-200)

For further information and orders, please contact:
Universite de Provence
Service des Publications
29, avenue Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex
Tel. (33) 04 42 95 31 91
Fax (33) 04 42 20 28 04
pup at up.univ-aix.fr
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/wpup

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:36 2007
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books single copies
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1) Subject:Gerlach Books single copies

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:march2007 at gerlach-books.de
Subject:Gerlach Books single copies

Dear Prof. Parkinson,
Our offices have just been moved and we would like to offer the  
remaining stock from our old warehouse. All copies are hard cover  
exhibtion copies in mint condition.
*** PLEAE NOTE: Prepayment or credit card payment is required. Offer  
valid until March, 30th, 2007***
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards
Kai-H. Gerlach

P.S. Single copies only. We sell on a "first come first serve" basis!

(  )	A Literary History of Persia / 4 vols set (1 copy only)
	Curzon Press /	by E.G. Browne
	OFFER: 400 EUR per set incl. shipping (list price 675 EUR)

(  )	Atlas of Jerusalem (5 copies only)
	de Gruyter / by the Geography Dept of the Hebrew University of  
Jerusalem
	OFFER: 190 EUR incl. shipping (list price 490 EUR, TITLE OUT OF PRINT)

(  )	A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic - Arabic/English (2 copies  
only)
	Harrossowitz / by Hans Wehr
	OFFER: 100 EUR incl. shipping (list price 136 EUR)
*offer not valid in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland*

(  )	Encyclopedia of Islam / 12 vols set (1 copy only )
	Brill / by C.E. Bosworth et al.
	OFFER: 3,600.00 EUR per set incl. shipping (list price 9312 EUR)

(  )	Encyclopedia of the Quran / 6 vols set (1 copy only)
	Brill / by Jane D. McAuliffe (ed)
	OFFER: 1000 EUR per set incl. shipping (list price 1452 EUR)

(  )	The Cambridge History of Egypt / 2 vols set (1 copy only)
	Cambridge / by Carl F. Petry and M.W. Daly (ed)
	OFFER: 220 EUR per set incl. shipping (list price 360 EUR)

(  )	Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften - Register of Arabic  
Manuscripts / 10 vols set (1 copy only)
	Olms / by Wilhelm Ahlwardt
	OFFER: 700 EUR per set incl. shipping (list price 1248 EUR)
*offer not valid in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland*

(  )	 Who's Who in the Arab World 2005-2006 (1 copy only)
	K G Saur / Publitec Publications (ed)
	OFFER: 230 EUR incl. shipping (list price 468 EUR)
*offer not valid in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland*


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:05 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayet Institute Summer 2007
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1) Subject:Hedayet Institute Summer 2007

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:nhedayet at yahoo.com
Subject:Hedayet Institute Summer 2007

Hedayet Institute for Arabic Studies (HIAS) is pleased to announce  
its total immersion summer program of 2007.  www.hedayetinstitute.com

HIAS program is an intensive total immersion Arabic language and  
cultural program where both Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial  
Egyptian Arabic are combined. Elective courses are offered in Arabic  
literature, oriental music ('Ud, nayy etc.), Arab/Islamic history,  
Arabic calligraphy, women in Islam, History of the Copts in Egypt,  
tajweed al Qur'an, Media Arabic, Business Arabic and others. The  
institute provides the syllabi, assessment criteria, and the  
professors' CVs for its content-based area courses.
Cultural Activities: An essential part of the summer program there  
are cultural activities and events. They include tours, seminars and  
films. Preparation and follow up on these activities help students  
better comprehend the content and practice their Arabic in different  
contexts and culture topics.
Venue: HIAS is located 5 minutes walk from Hadayeq El Maadi metro  
station and 20 minutes far from the center of Cairo. The institute  
has a fascinating Arab ambiance.

Dates: Both the 7 week and the 12 week summer intensive programs will  
start on Sunday Jun. 17th, 07.  The deadline for application is Apr.  
30th, 07.

Tuition fees:.
For groups of three students, the 7 week program of a total of 140  
hours will cost each student a total of USD 1400 (i.e. USD 10 per  
each contact class hour).  The 12 week program (total of 240 contact  
class hours) will be USD 2400 for each student in a group of three.
For individual students, costs will be USD 14 per contact class hour.  
Thus the 7 week program will cost for an individual student USD 1960,  
while the 12 week program will cost him/her USD 3360.
How to Apply:
Fill an application on line on: www.hedayetinstitute.com
Pay a deposit fee to reserve your place before the deadline (Pls. ask  
about details at: info at hedayetinstitute.com )
Indicate if you need assistance in finding a suitable accommodation- 
apartment or 3 star hotel room-during the period of your study;  
sharing apartment will cut down your housing expenses as low as $150  
per month.

For more information please have a look at our web site at:  
www.hedayetinstitute.com  or write to: info at hedayetinstitute.com
For Universities co-programs please email nhedayet at hedayetinstitute.com
Or call: +(202)5272190/ +(2012)2261308
Vonage No.: +(646)2168-308

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:28 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&K-16:NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes
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1) Subject:NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:nclrc <nclrc at gwu.edu>
Subject:NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes

Excellent opportunities to enhance your teaching abilities and  
strengthen your experience!
Workshops are scheduled and offered by competent professors of Arabic  
language.
Meet teachers of Arabic from other schools and institutions across  
the U.S., share ideas, methods, and materials.
We invite you to join us for one or more Arabic Teacher Institutes,  
and we look forward to seeing you this summer.
Limited spaces, Scholarships & Stipends are available!
See below for detailed information or visit us at:
http://nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html


Teaching Arabic to College and Upper High School Students May 21 - 25
A Hands-On Workshop Conducted in Arabic by Mahmoud Al-Batal,  
University of Texas & Martha Schulte-Nafeh, University of Arizona.
The workshop is designed for teachers of college students. Teachers  
of upper level high school students are welcome; however, the methods  
assume high levels of learner autonomy and engagement. Through  
demonstrations, video, discussion, and interactive activities,  
participants will experience the methods of learner-centered,  
proficiency-based instruction. The presenters will demonstrate best  
practices by micro-teaching with small groups of university students,  
and participants will practice learner-centered instruction with  
coaching and feedback from the presenters.

Teaching Arabic K-12 Hands-on Workshop July 2-6
Conducted in Arabic by Iman Hashem, California State University, Long  
Beach & Muhammad Eissa, Ph.D., University of Chicago
In this five-day intensive institute participants will learn how to  
design instruction for Arabic K-12 students which incorporates ACTFL  
proficiency guidelines and the National Standards for Arabic.  
Participants will be guided in preparing student-centered, standards- 
based instruction for their classrooms.

Writing and Implementing Curricula for Teachers of Arabic July 9 - 13
Conducted in English and Arabic by Iman Hashem, California State  
University, Dr. Muhammad Eissa, University of Chicago, & Dr.  
Christine Brown, Glastonbury Public Schools.
The goal of this institute is to provide guidelines and frameworks  
for curriculum development and specifically to assist teachers  
develop standards-based curricula, units and lesson plans for Arabic  
for their schools, programs, or districts. The institute will give  
participants the opportunity to share their ideas, frustrations, and  
solutions with each other under the guidance of expert curriculum  
developers experienced in Arabic language curriculum development at a  
variety of levels and for various ages.

To see updates, check our website: http://nclrc.org/profdev/ 
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:36:44 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ELRA Arabic resources
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:reposted from CORPORA
Subject:ELRA Arabic resources


ELRA-S0157 NetDC Arabic BNSC (Broadcast News Speech Corpus)
The NetDC Arabic BNSC (Broadcast News Speech Corpus) is a corpus  
developed by ELDA in the framework of the European-funded project  
Network of Data Centres (NetDC). The project was done in  
collaboration with the LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium), which has  
produced a similar corpus from the news broadcasted by Voice of  
America Arabic in the United States. The database contains ca. 22.5  
hours of broadcast news speech recorded from Radio Orient (France)  
during a 3-month period.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php? 
products_id=13&language=en

or more information on the catalogue, please contact Val?rie Mapelli  
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Our on-line catalogue has moved to the following address: http:// 
catalog.elra.info. Please update your bookmarks.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:11 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:lam walan +subjunctive or jussive?
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1) Subject:lam walan +subjunctive or jussive?

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu
Subject:lam walan +subjunctive or jussive?


      Could someone do a machine search to find instances of:   /lam   
wa-lan  (+ imperfect)/  to indicate
'[X] has never, nor will ever do [Y]'.   With some verbs in an  
unvocalized text, we can distinguish
between the subjunctive and jussive moods; how Arab writers deal with  
this 'crux' would certainly be of interest to us all.  Thank you.

      Best wishes,
                                                                         
        Mike Schub

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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Dil Parkinson
Subject:Results of lam walan from arabiCorpus.byu.edu

It is difficult to export the results from arabiCorpus.byu.edu in a  
nicely readable format without a lot of work, and without being able  
to attach a file, but here are the results for the verbs which show a  
difference between jussive and subjunctive.  I searced for lam walan  
and got 200+ results, copied them into Excell and deleted the lines  
where the jussive and subjunctive of the verbs would be the same.   
After each number is the verb in question, so you can glance through  
that way.  If you want to read the sentence, you must start at the  
bottom, right above the name of the paper.  For instance, the first  
one reads:  haadhaa al-mawduu9 lam walan 'uthiirahu 'abadan, wala  
'a9taqid...
A quick glance through shows mostly subjunctive, but there are a few  
examples of jussive (#94, 207, 228?).

2
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8
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Hayat96
12
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Ahram99
16
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(????? ????????? ??????????? ???????  
????????? ???????)
Hayat97
17
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????? ?? ??????? ????? ???? ?? ?????  
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Hayat96
40
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????? ?? ??????? ??? ???? ?????? ???  
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??? ???? ?? ??? ????????. ???? ?????  
?? ??????? ???????
Hayat96
43
????
???? ???????? ???????? ??? ????? ???  
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Hayat96
44
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???? ??? ?? ???? ????? ?? ??????  
???????? ???? ???
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???????? ????? ??? ????????? ??????  
??????? ?? ?? ????? ???????
Hayat97
45
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???? ???????? ??? ???? ????????? ??  
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Tajdid02
48
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Hayat96
49
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?????? ?? ???? ??? ????? ??? ?? ????  
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Watan02
66
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???? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ??? ??  
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??????
Ahram99
80
????
???? ???????? ?? ???? ??????? ??? ???  
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????? ( ?? ???? ????: ???? ?? ?????? ??  
??????
Ahram99
81
????
???? ????? ???????? ??? ???? ????? ??  
???? ????? ?????
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Ahram99
82
????
???? ???? ????? ?? ?????? ???????  
???????? ?? ???? ????????
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??????? ???????? ???? ???? ??? ????  
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Ahram99
83
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???? ?? ??????? ???? ??????? ?????  
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???? ???????? ??? ????? ??? ?? ????  
???????????? ??? ??????
Ahram99
84
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???? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ?????? ???  
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?? ???
??? ???????? ???????? ??????  
???????? ???? ?? ????? ???? ????????
Ahram99
85
????
???? ??? ???? ?????? ????? ?? ??????  
??????? ???? ????
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?????? ???
Ahram99
86
????
???? ???? ????? ?? ?????? ???????  
???????? ?? ???? ????????
?? ???
??????? ???????? ???? ???? ?? ???? ??  
??????? ????????? ?????
Ahram99
87
????
???? ?? ????? ?????? ?????? ????????.  
????? ??? ?????? ??
??? ???
????????? ???? ??? ????? ??????  
???????. ???? ??? ?? ?????
Hayat97
88
????
???? ???? ????? ????? ???? ??????  
??????????.
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???????? ??? ?????? ??? ??????  
????????? ?? ??? ???????? ????
Hayat97
89
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???? ????? ??? ???? ???? ???? ???  
????? ?? ?????????
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???? ??????. ???? ??? ???????  
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Hayat96
90
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????? ?? ??? ??????? ????? ?????  
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Hayat96
91
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???? ????? ???? ?? ???? ???? ???????  
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Watan02
94
????
????? ?????? ?????? ????? ????? ?????  
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?? ???? ?????? ?????? ??????? ???  
????? ?????? ????? ??????
Ahram99
95
?????
????? ??? ?? ????? ???? ????? ??? ??  
???? ?????
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???? ??????? ????? ??????? ?????
Ahram99
98
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????? ??? ???? ??? ??????? ?????????  
??? ???? ?? ????
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??????? ????????? ??? ???? ???????  
???????? ?????????. ???? ?? ???
Ahram99
99
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????.. ??? ??? ??????? ???? ????????  
???? ??? ??? ????
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??????? ????????? ??????????? ????  
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Ahram99
130
?????
????? ?? ????? ????????? ??? ?? ????  
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????? ??????? ?? ??????? ???? ?????  
?????? ?????: ?? ??????
Ahram99
131
?????
????? ?? ?????? ????? ??? ??? ???  
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?????? ????? ??????? ?????? ??????  
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Ahram99
132
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????? ?? ??????? ??? ???? ?????? ???  
?????? ???. ??
?? ???
????? ????? ???????? ??????? ???? ???  
????? ?? ???????
Hayat96
138
??????
?????? ?? ??? ?????.. ????? ?? ?????  
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???? ??????.. ??? ????? ?????? ???  
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Ahram99
151
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?????? ?? ??????? ??????? ???????  
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??? ?? ????? ??? ????? ??????????? ??  
????? ????????? ????
Hayat97
154
????
???? ?? ???? ?????? ?????? ???????  
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??? ????? ??????? ?? ??????? ????????  
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Ahram99
155
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???? ??? ????????. ?????? ??? ????  
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Hayat97
156
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Tajdid02
174
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???? ?? ??? ?????.. ??? ?? ????? ??  
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Ahram99
178
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Ahram99
179
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???? ?? ??????...
Madbuli
180
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????? ??????? ????? ??? ????
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???? ?? ??????. ???? ???? (???? ?????  
????)? ????? ???
Hayat97
207
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Hayat97
208
????
???? ?????? ??????????? ?? ???????  
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Ahram99
209
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???? ???? ???? ???? ?? ????? ???? ????  
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??? ???
????? ??????? ??? ????? ??? ??? ?????  
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Ahram99
210
????
???? ?? ??? ?? ?????? ???? ???  
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Hayat97
211
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???? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ??? ??????  
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Hayat96
212
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???? ???? ?? ???? ????? ???? ????????  
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Hayat96
213
????
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Watan02
214
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???? ??? ?? ??? ????? ??????  
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Tajdid02
220
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????? ????? ??? ?? ??? ??????? ??? ??  
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Ahram99
221
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?????
Watan02
222
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?? ???
???? ??????? ???? ????? ???? ?????  
??? ?? ??? ???????
Watan02
224
????
???? ?? ????? ??? ?????? ??? ????  
????? ??????? ??
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Ahram99
228
???
??? ???? ???????? ?? ????? ???????  
?????? ?? ?????????? ?????????.
?? ???
??????? ?? ???????? ???????? ??  
??????? ????? ????? ???????? ??????
Hayat96

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 16 15:37:23 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Egyptian Arabic Bible Translation
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Date: 16 Mar 2007
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Needs Egyptian Arabic Bible Translation

Dear List members,
Does anyone know where I might be able to find a copy of Willcox's  
1925 translation of the Bible in Egyptian Arabic? My understanding is  
that he translated various texts into the Cairene dialect of the  
time, but that translation of the Bible received quite a bit of  
criticism and was eventually banned.
Thank you
Mustafa Mughazy

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:23 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs reference for AlHuseini Arabic/Western
 grammar comparison
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From: "Uhlmann, Allon" <uhlmanna at umsl.edu>
Subject:Needs reference for AlHuseini Arabic/Western grammar comparison

Hi Everyone,

I am looking for the reference for a book written by IsHaq Musa  
AlHuseini, probably in the early 1930s, that compares Western and  
Arab grammars of Arabic.  Can anybody help?

Thanks,
A.

Allon J. Uhlmann
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Missouri - St. Louis
http://www.umsl.edu/~uhlmanna/

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Conference on Middle Arabic, Amsterdam
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:"C. J. Roset" <C.J.Roset at uva.nl>
Subject:Conference on Middle Arabic, Amsterdam

International Conference on Middle Arabic

Amsterdam, 22-25 October 2007

Hosted by the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Theme

The structural differences between spoken and written varieties in  
the Arabic language, which has been a permanent reality throughout  
its history, resulted in the creation and development of intermediate  
and mixed varieties which were written and probably spoken as well.  
These are commonly called ? Middle Arabic ? varieties.

After the publication of some pioneering research in that field,  
Middle Arabic has been established as a new scientific branch in its  
own right by Prof. J. Blau?s works. Although research on Middle  
Arabic is of vital importance to the reconstruction of the history of  
the Arabic language, its value has not been sufficiently recognized,  
as becomes clear from the limited dispersion of the work in the field  
and the absence of an overview on the research.

This colloquium aims firstly to review the current state of knowledge  
of Middle Arabic, taking into account its historical and geographical  
context, and secondly to debate the different methods of analysis,  
and the problems of definition and terminology which are always  
present in this field of research.

Keynote speakers: Yoshua Blau and Madiha Doss

For more information and subscription, please check http:// 
www.fgw.uva.nl/aimacolloque

Caroline Roset
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:31 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Texas job
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From: "Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:U of Texas job

Arabic Lecturer Position

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN invites applications for a full-time,
academic year-long appointment as a lecturer in Arabic, to begin
September 1, 2007 with possibility of annual renewal. To be considered,
candidates should have completed at least a Masters degree in Arabic or
a related field.  Preference will be given to candidates who hold a
Ph.D. in Arabic. The successful candidate will have demonstrated
teaching excellence at the university level and be expected to teach six
courses during the academic year 2007-2008. Experience in coordinating
multiple sections of Arabic classes is desired.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three
reference letters, and evidence of teaching and research excellence to:
Mahmoud Al-Batal, Director, National Flagship Language Program in
Arabic, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at
Austin (WMB 6.102); 1 University Station # F9400, Austin, TX 78712-0527.
Phone: (512) 471-3881; Fax: (512) 471-7834.

All application materials must be received by April 15, 2007.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Salibi responses
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2) Subject:Salibi response
3) Subject:Salibi response

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at mac.com>
Subject:Salibi response

No precise timeline, here, but I can only assume it was considerably  
after the fact, when the Arabic-speaking world gained access to  
"Firanji" accounts of the Crusades as history. Then, the foreign term  
"al-Huruub aS-Saliibiyya" might have been borrowed, just as other  
Western-centric terms like "alquruun al-wuSTaa" and "ash-sharq al- 
awSaT," none of which really make much sense from an Arab/Islamic  
point of view.

-Dan.

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:"Reda Aly" <rdalyh at hotmail.com>
Subject:Salibi response

The word 'alfirinj' or alfirinjah' (synonymous to French or Franks -  
the /dj/ sound in Arbic replaces the /ch/ in french) came to be known  
in Egypt, Lebenon, and Syria when the French campaign came to Egypt   
in 1798. Long ago before 1798,  the word 'saliibi' was used as a  
direct translation for 'crusades' (the people who raise the 'saliib'  
or 'the cross' to apear as religous fighter to hide their real  
intentions).

Reda A. Mahoumd

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Salibi response

I can't vouch for the perfection of the text of 1001 Nights on  
arabiCorpus.byu.edu (I haven't compared it to any original  
manuscripts, but my guess is it is something like the medieval text),  
but a quick search shows 95 uses of afrnj, and 4 uses of Saliibi,  
both referring to the appropriate group of people.  So I don't think  
it can be claimed that either term is of modern provenance.
dil


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:35 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Online Arabic Course response
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:Online Arabic Course response

Please check the following website.
http://lrc.cornell.edu/arabic/selflearn

Best wishes,
Nimat

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:44 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Iraq in Fragments documentary
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:"John Eisele" <jceise at wm.edu>
Subject:Iraq in Fragments documentary

Message forwarded from:
Jessica Nolfo (HBO-NS)
Jessica.Nolfo at hbo.com

I am working on some of the outreach regarding the film IRAQ IN  
FRAGMENTS,
which was an Oscar nominee for Documentary Feature a few weeks ago,  
and is a
riveting and beautiful film on Iraqi lives during the war ---  
premieres next
week on Tuesday the 20th.

Attached is the press release for your reference.
A clip of the film is on www.iraqinfragments.com and will soon be on the
www.hbo.com/docs site.

Look forward to your thoughts,

Jessica
212-512-5478

HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS
1100 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:38 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Call for MLI Newsletter submissions
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:mbahloul at aus.edu
Subject:Call for MLI Newsletter submissions

Call for AFL experts? participation to MLI?s Newsletter
MLI advocates the teaching and learning of Arabic as a Foreign  
Language through the expression of performance arts. In its first MLI  
Newsletter, we would like to include a brief history of the teaching  
of Standard Arabic as a Foreign Language (SAFL) and most other  
dialects as a Foreign Language as well: Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian,  
Egyptian, Levantine, and Gulf. We would therefore welcome the input  
from those with such knowledge and expertise. The newsletter will be  
published online on MLI?s website with a ?friendly printable? version  
and distributed to various institutions, including cultural centers  
around the world. MLI promotes multilingualism and accepts  
submissions in English, French, or Arabic.


Send your submissions to Dr. Hedi Belazi at belazi at iobf.org  by April  
30, 2007.
For more information about MLI, visit our website at: http:// 
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:47 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Getting Arabic to appear in Arabic-L messages
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1) Subject:Getting Arabic to appear in Arabic-L messages

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:moderator
Subject:Getting Arabic to appear in Arabic-L messages

I have received several requests for help from those who aren't  
getting the Arabic script part of Arabic-L messages.  I have spent  
another morning with the list administrator trying to understand the  
issues and how they might be solved.  Here is what he thinks is  
happening:

1) the messages are sent to me in all kinds of character coding:  
unicode, windows, who knows what else.

2) my Mac, being relatively smart, just goes ahead and figures out  
what they are and displays them correctly, so I can't tell that they  
are actually encoded differently from each other.

3) so if I just copy the message and send it out, the server thinks  
that everything unusual is unicode, and if it happens not to be that,  
it turns to garbage. (except that sometimes the original message  
Arabic is such an unusual encoding that my Mac can't figure it out  
either, and in that case all even I can see is garbage, in which case  
it is guaranteed that if I send it out it will be garbage as well.)

4) however, if I go ahead and copy the message (with the readable  
Arabic script) into my mac text editor and specifically save it as  
unicode, and then copy it back in, it supposedly gets sent out  
correctly as unicode text.

5) However, apparently, this server sends everything out in html  
format, i.e. surrounded by tags that tell the e-mail program how to  
interpret things.  Supposedly, one of the things it tells your e-mail  
program, when there is script, is what encoding it should use.

6) So, supposedly, as long as you are using an e-mail program that  
correctly interprets the html, and is set to interpret html, it  
should have the information it needs to display the message  
correctly.  If you are using Windows and have not installed the  
Arabic language resources, you may need to do that for this to happen.

7) He suggests the following to check this out:  a) determine if you  
can get most Arabic language websites with correct looking Arabic.   
b) if so, with a browser (Firefox is best), go to listserv.byu.edu ,  
log in with the e-mail address to which you are subscribed to Arabic- 
L (if you haven't already established an Arabic-L password, you would  
have to do that with the appropriate button), and then click on  
Online Mailing List Archives.  In the list the comes up, click on  
Arabic-L and scroll through the current month's messages (or search  
with a keyword) until you find a message that you know has Arabic  
script in it (one, for example, that showed up as garbage on your e- 
mail program).  Open that message in the server and determine if the  
script comes through fine there.  If it does, then, according to my  
guy, the message is fine, and your computer is set fine to show  
Arabic script, and can and does show it, so the problem is in the way  
your e-mail program is set up.  So that is where you might either  
need to look through the settings, or get some computer savvy person  
to help you.

8) I somehow doubt things are all that simple (was that simple?), but  
if this helps anyone, could you let me know?  I am going to type a  
line of Arabic at the end of this message so that those who see  
garbage there will have something to check it out on. If worse comes  
to worse, you could read most messages on your e-mail program, but  
when you come to one where you really want to be able to read the  
Arabic script, you could log in to the listserv website, find the  
message, and read it there.  In general, as well, I would encourage  
people sending messages to provide transliteration when they are  
using a small amount of script in their message.  I know this is  
harder when there is more than a small amount.

Thanks,
Dil

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:42 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:more LDC resources
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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:more LDC resources


(1) Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech contains  
279 conversations totaling 45 hours of speech.  Levantine Arabic is  
spoken along the western Mediterranean coast from Anatolia to the  
Sinai Peninsula and encompasses the local dialects of Lebanon, Syria  
and Palestine. There are two distinct varieties: Northern, centered  
around Syria and Lebanon; and Southern, spoken in Jordan and  
Palestine.  The majority of speakers in Fisher Levantine Arabic  
Conversational Telephone Speech are from Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.

The conversations in this corpus are a subset of the conversations in  
Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Speech, LDC2006S29. The  
individual audio files are in NIST SPHERE format. The corresponding  
transcripts may be found in Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational  
Telephone Speech, Transcripts, LDC2007T04.  Fisher Levantine Arabic  
Conversational Telephone Speech is distributed on one DVD-ROM.

2007 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of  
this corpus. 2007 Standard Members may request a copy as part of  
their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data  
for US$1000.

*

(2) Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech,  
Transcripts contains the transcripts for the 279 telephone  
conversations in  Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone  
Speech , LDC2007S02.  The transcripts were created with "green" and  
"yellow" layers using LDC's Multi-Dialectal Transcription Tool  
(AMADAT). The green layer seeks to anchor dialectal forms to similar  
or related Modern Standard Arabic orothgraphy-based forms. The yellow  
layer is a more careful and detailed transcription that adds  
functionally necessary vowels and marks important sociolinguistic  
variations and morphophonemic features.

  The green layer transcripts in this corpus are a subset of the  
transcripts contained in Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5,  
Transcripts, LDC2006T07. The yellow layer transcription was added in  
this release.  Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone  
Speech, Transcripts is distributed via wed download.

2007 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of  
this corpus on disc. 2007 Standard Members may request a copy as part  
of their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data  
for US$3000.


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 21 18:25:27 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:25:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:"Typology of Modern Arabic Dialects" Deadline
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1) Subject:"Typology of Modern Arabic Dialects" Deadline extended

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:"Barkat-Defradas" <melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr>
Subject:"Typology of Modern Arabic Dialects" Deadline extended

The abstract submission deadline for the conference ?Typology of  
Modern Arabic Dialects: features, methods a models of  
classification? (see description below) has been extended till March  
26, 2007.

Important dates :

*         March 26th : deadline submissions for posters (abstract)

*         1er April : deadline for AFCP grants submissions

*         15 April : Registration fees to be paid at the CNRS

Best regards,

__________________________________

Dr. Melissa Barkat-Defradas (CR-CNRS)
Laboratoire Praxiling UMR 5191
17, rue Ab?e de l?Ep?e
34090 Montpellier - France
Tel : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 63 ou 28 (secr?tariat)
Fax : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 68
web :  <http://praxiling.univ-montp3.fr/> http://praxiling.univ- 
montp3.fr
e-mail : melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr
May 14th-15th 2007

Montpellier ? France
International Congress on
Typology of Modern Arabic Dialects
?Features, Methods and Models of Classification?

organized by
laboratory Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS ? University of Montpellier 3 ?  
France
laboratory Dynamique du Langage UMR 5596 ? University of  Lyon 2 ?  
France

The Arabic speaking world constitutes a field of choice for  
comparative linguistics as it is a linguistic continuum which covers  
a vast territory (from Mauritania to the borders of the Persian  
region, with some projections in Europe, in Malta and Cyprus).  
Nevertheless, in the field of Arabic linguistics, studies dealing  
with dialectology still occupy a marginal place as compared to the  
huge amount of dialectal works conducted on French and/or English.

Contradictorily, the interest for speech in Arabic is very old: many  
works produced by the old Arab grammarians of the traditional period  
(8th ? 10th century) testify the interest of philologists for Arabic  
grammar and lexicography. In their enterprise of standardization of  
the Arabic language, they had mainly adopted the same methodological  
approach for the evaluation of linguistic features. Three operational  
criteria prevailed for the classification of the linguistic features  
encountered on the field (i) eloquent Arabic to imitate, (ii)  
acceptable Arabic but which cannot be used as a model and (iii)  
incorrect Arabic to be avoided and condemned.

The traditional conception of what should be The Arabic Language   
(i.e. Al?Arabiyya) resulted in the emergence of a model built around  
a set of linguistic characteristics present in the pre-Islamic poetic  
koine. This model attributed a certain tolerance to bedouin features  
and rejected quasi systematically sedentary ones. The formidable  
effervescence of the times of standardization focused the interest on  
the linguistic features of that ?ideal? language called fusha, a  
language purified from regional characteristics which lead the Arabic  
dialects to be regarded as distorted linguistic forms not worth  
studying. This uncommon situation prevailed for more than one  
thousand years. At the end of the 19th century, following the  
development of comparative Semitic grammar, a prompt renewed interest  
for Arabic dialectal studies occurred. Many major contributions made  
it possible to have an overall picture of the dialectal Arabic  
speaking world and some proposals for regional regroupings based on  
linguistic features (i.e. mainly morpho-phonological) emerged. The  
suggestion which collects the adhesion of the specialists of the  
domain consists in classifying all the different Arabic dialects into  
five principal groups : (1) dialects of Arabian type (i.e. Saudi  
Arabia, country of the Gulf, Yemen);  (2) dialects of Levantine type  
(i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine);  (3) dialects of  
Mesopotamian type (i.e. Iraq);  (4) dialects of Egyptian type (i.e.  
Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Nigeria);  (5) dialects of Maghrebi type (i.e.  
Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya).

In addition to a certain geographical coherence, these five dialectal  
areas were defined on the basis of some reliable phonological  
features like (i) the maintenance vs. the loss of the three  
interdental fricatives /??????/ (? ? ?) and (ii) the  
nature of the realization of the uvular stop /????(? ) (i.e.  
voiced vs. unvoiced). These phonological features seem to transcend  
the regional borders as they also allow a sociological division of  
dialects into three categories: (1) dialects of nomadic bedouin type,  
(2) dialects of sedentary bedouin type ; (3) dialects of urban type.  
To this double discrimination of geographical and sociological  
nature, a third one, more specific, is determined by the nature of  
the local substrate (i.e. Aramaic, Coptic and/or Berber).

But, with the deep social and demographic changes the Arabic  
countries have known in the course the 20th  century, many important  
urban centres mushroomed. These are undoubtedly important places for  
language contacts. What linguistic impacts these centres have had ?  
and still have ? on the nature of Arabic koines? What is the present  
value of the phonological features that previously enabled the  
geographical and sociological classification? What is their role in  
the processes of linguistic accommodation and dialectal levelling?  
Does the centrifugal force of the sedentary urban centres reach the  
surrounding sedentary rural areas ? Does the language of urban  
sedentary type used and conveyed by the media exert any influence on  
bedouin nomadic linguistic varieties? If such  an influence is  
conceivable, any classification based on the phonological units  
quoted above becomes extremely delicate, even inoperable since the  
same linguistic object could be interpreted as typical of sedentary  
bedouin dialects by the ones, or as specifically nomadic by the  
others and eventually, as the product of the integration (conscious  
or unconscious)  of a prestigious feature at a local, regional,  
national or cross national level? Did the ancient Arabic dialects  
that were not worth studying by traditional philologists simply  
ceased to exist after the establishment of the linguistic norm? Was  
their use reduced to local minorities and specific situations of  
communication or did these vernacular forms evolved to become the  
modern dialects that are spoken nowadays? We attend here or there in  
particular thanks to the process of koinization which develops itself  
in the great urban centres, to the resurgence of linguistic features  
with strong diachronic value that are interpreted ? sometimes  
wrongly ? like the results of linguistic accommodation and/or  
levelling. These features ? though they entirely belong to the  
subjects? competence ? deeply  modify the structural organization  
of the regional linguistic systems. What is our knowledge about the  
systems of these dialects? What methodological tools the researchers  
can use to distinguish between what should be considered as a  
linguistic fossil from what is a recent element of urban koinization?  
How old and new features should be arranged in any work of  
classification?

The speakers invited to participate to the Congress on ?Typology of  
Modern Arabic Dialects? are all specialists of Arabic dialectology.  
They will debate the questions raised before and confront their views  
and opinions on the question of the geographical and sociological  
classification of the Arabic dialects. Finally, a set of new  
classification features will be proposed at the segmental (i.e.  
consonants, vowels, diphthongs), and the prosodic levels (i.e.  
stress, rate, rhythm, intonation). These new elements will be  
explored in isolation or in relation with other linguistic domains  
(morphology, lexicology, syntax).

Poster submission

Apart from invited oral communications (see program below) a poster  
session is scheduled. Studies dealing with Arabic dialects?  
classification, methods of sociolinguistic investigations, phonetic  
and phonological descriptions of regional, rural, urban and/or  
peripheral varieties, use and/or perception of specific linguistic  
features?.etc, will be submitted under the form of an abstract which  
should not exceed 1 page, Times New Roman 11, line space 1,5). Note  
that according to the French law, we have to include a French summary  
in any published document. We therefore have to ask you TO INCLUDE A  
SHORT SUMMARY OF YOUR ABSTRACT IN FRENCH (no more than 5 lines).  
Without this summary we are not authorised to publish your abstract.  
This document will also include the authors? last and first names,  
academic affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses.

Please submit 2 versions of your abstract, one in PDF format **AND**  
one in WORD, RTF format. The name of these two files should be:  
TMAD_abstract_lastname (e.g. TMAD_abstract_barkat.pdf and  
TMAD_abstract_barkat.doc or TMAD_abstract_barkat.rtf) Your abstract  
should be sent electronically by MARCH 15th 2007 to the following  
address : melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr. Languages of presentation  
are French and English. Format for posters is A0 landscape ( height  
84cm*length 119 cm).

Registration fees

Registration fees to attend the conference are 60 ? (normal) 45 ?  
(normal AFCP); 30 ? (students); 15 ? (AFCP students) to be paid by  
APRIL 15  2007 by postal / bank cheque or bank transfer to:

*By bank transfer (please precise the name of the : Typologie des  
Parlers Arabes Modernes) ) to : Monsieur L?Agent Comptable  
Secondaire du  CNRS D?l?gation R?gionale Languedoc Roussillon.

*         National bank transfer :

TP Montpellier  10071  34000  00001003417 34

*         International bank transfer

IBAN : FR76  1007  1340  0000  0010  0341  734

Code BIC          BDFEFRPPXXX

*By cheque to:

Monsieur L?Agent Comptable Secondaire du  CNRS D?l?gation  
R?gionale  Languedoc Roussillon.

(Precise the name of the conference at the back of the cheque)

COLLOQUE

Typologie des parlers arabes modernes ? 14 et 15 mai 2007 -  
Montpellier

Registration fees

Normal :
60 ?
Normal AFCP (precise  membership n?)
45 ?
Student :
30 ?
Student : AFCP (precise  membership n?)
15 ?
Extra
Reception dinner (May 14th evening) :
+ 20 ? / Person
TOTAL

Registration fees include the participation at the conference, coffee  
breaks, aperitif and the booklet of the abstracts.  The proceedings  
of the conference ?Typology of the modern Arabic Dialects: Features,  
methods and models of classification ? will be published.

Grants

With the support of the AFCP a certain number of grants (for  
participants presenting a poster only) can be delivered to foreign  
students and/or researchers. The number and the amount of these  
grants will be established according to the number of demands.  
Applicants are invited to send by APRIL 1st 2007, in electronic form  
preferably, a file of request including a CV ; a letter of motivation  
(indicating the awaited benefit of the participation of the applicant  
at the conference) and an estimate of the amount of the expenses  
(travelling, accommodation, registration fees?) to:  
melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr, or by snail mail to :

Dr. Melissa Barkat-Defradas
Laboratoire Praxiling UMR 5191
17, rue Ab?e de l?Ep?e - 34090 Montpellier ? FRANCE

The conference will be held at the Delegation Regionale of the CNRS
1919, route de Mende 34090 Montpellier ?  France

Schedule

May 14th 2007

09:00?09:15 : Opening of the Conference (M.Barkat-Defradas &  
M.Embarki)
09:15?10:15 : Kees Versteegh (University of Nijmegen ? The  
Netherlands) :
10:15?10:30 : Break
10:30?11:30 :  J?r?me Lentin (INALCO ? Paris ? France) subject  
to
11:30?12:30 : Alexander Borg (University Ben Gourion of Jerusalem  
? Israel)
12h30?14h00 : Lunch
14:00?15:00 : Salem Ghazali (University of Tunis ? Tunisia
15:00?16:00  : Enam Al-Wer (University of Essex ? Great Britain)
16 :00?16 :15 : Break
16 :15?17 :15 : Joseph Dichy (University of Lyon 2)
17h15?18h15 : Poster session
18:30 ? 19:00 : Aperitif
20:00 : Dinner

May 15th 2007
09:00?10:00 : Moha Ennaji (University Mohamed Ben Abdallah  of Fez  
? Morocco)
10:00?10:15 : Break
10:15?11:15 : Gilbert Puech  (University of Lyon 2 ? France)
11:15?12:15 :  Martine Vanhove (LLACAN & Inalco ? France)
12:15?14:00 : Lunch
14:00?15:00 : Amr Ibrahim (University of Franche-Comt? & Paris IV)
15:00?16:00 : Mohamed Embarki & Melissa Barkat-Defradas (Laboratory  
Praxiling ULMR 5267 & University of Montpellier ?  France)
16:00?16:15 : Break
16:30-17:00 : Closing of the Conference ? G?rard Ghersi, Director  
of the MSH-M
__________________________________

Dr. Melissa Barkat-Defradas (CR-CNRS)
Laboratoire Praxiling UMR 5191
17, rue Ab?e de l?Ep?e
34090 Montpellier - France
Tel : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 63 ou 28 (secr?tariat)
Fax : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 68
web :  <http://praxiling.univ-montp3.fr/> http://praxiling.univ- 
montp3.fr
e-mail : melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs help with 'hujayna'
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1) Subject:Needs help with 'hujayna'

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:Li Guo <li.guo.6 at nd.edu>
Subject:Needs help with 'hujayna'

Hi all,

in my media arabic class last week we did some surfing on lebanese  
internet
sites and checked out one www.ajeeb.com. there was a service column  
called
akhbar hujayna (hojaina). now the question: what is hujayna? i was quite
baffled by this word. the hava dictionary gives very weird meanings  
which i
doubt is the case here. is it just a proper name? any thoughts?

Li Guo
University of Notre Dame

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:45 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic and Persian Summer Institutes at SDSU
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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:Arabic and Persian Summer Institutes at SDSU

Below are the URLs for the Language
Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University's Arabic &
Persian summer institutes.  I would greatly appreciate it if you can
can post them on the AATA website.

http://larcmaterials.sdsu.edu:8080/Materials/Arabic.jsp

http://larcmaterials.sdsu.edu:8080/Materials/Persian.jsp

With appreciation, hanada

Hanada Taha-Thomure, PhD
Director of Arabic Programs, Language Acquisition Resource Center,
SDSU http://larcnet.sdsu.edu
Director, ArabExpertise www.arabexpertise.com
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics & Oriental Languages, SDSU

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:38 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Religious Studies 1-year job, Beloit College
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1) Subject:Religious Studies 1-year job, Beloit College

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:mbayelo at duke.edu
Subject:Religious Studies 1-year job, Beloit College

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Beloit
College invites
applications for a one-year sabbatical leave position in
Judaism, Hinduism or
African Religions for the 2007-2008 academic year. Beyond
courses in the
successful cadidate's area of experience, the six-course
teaching assignment will
include RLST 101 "Understanding Religious Traditions in a
Global Context." The
position is ideal for, but not limited to, the advanced
Ph.D. student or recent Ph.D.
in Religion/Religious Studies seeking teaching and course
development experience
in an undergraduate private liberal arts environment.
Beloit College is committed
to the educational benefits of diversity and urges all
interested individuals to
apply. AA/EEO Employer.  Send letter of application, vita,
applicable course
evaluations, samply syllabi for three relevant courses, and
three professional
references to:
Dr. Debra Majeed
Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
Beloit College
700 College St.
Beloit, WI 53511

Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
Beloit College
700 College St.
Beloit, WI 53511
USA
tel: 608-363-2318
fax: 608-363-2194
email: mubashsh at beloit.edu
webpage: http://beloit.edu/~mubashsh

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:51 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Doha Islamic Art Symposium
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1) Subject:Doha Islamic Art Symposium

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From: "Dauod, T.  Kareema" <DauodTK at state.gov>
Subject:Doha Islamic Art Symposium

Colleagues
An international Islamic Art symposium is being organized for Doha in
November.  Participants will enjoy all-expense paid travel &
accommodation.  If you know of scholars who might be interested in
applying, kindly forward this info to them.  Contact organizer Diane
Tepfer directly:  dtepfer at vcu.edu.  She's a former State Dept.
colleague.

Rex Moser
Cultural Affairs Officer
U.S. Embassy
Centro Franklin
Av. Mexico 71, El Vergel
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Tel:  809-566-3131
Fax:  809-683-0285

==========================================.

The Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art strives to foster the
development of an international community of researchers and scholars in
Islamic art and cultures. The Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art
Fellowship provides financial support for conference attendance and to
provide recognition of serious scholars from diverse geographic and
cultural areas including those from the less developed and less
well-funded countries. Attendance at the Rivers of Paradise: Water in
Islamic Art and Culture Symposium in Doha, Qatar is an opportunity for
advanced students and other scholars to meet and interact with other
scholars in Islamic art and culture from around the world. The
Fellowship will also allow students and scholars to visit Doha, one of
the fastest growing Islamic Art centers in the Middle East.

Virginia Commonwealth University' School of the Arts in Qatar will
publicize the fifteen winners of the Fellowship through news releases
circulated internationally and in each awardee's local area. By applying
for the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art Fellowship, the
applicant declares and represents that the biographical information
submitted is accurate, and that unconditional permission is granted to
allow VCUArts-Qatar and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and
Community Development to publicize your participation and your award.

Accepted Fellows will be provided with:

*	A round-trip air ticket from their respective local airports to
Doha, Qatar
*	Hotel lodging in Doha from November 4-November 7
*	A Qatar entrance visa
*	Per diem expenses [at US Department of State rate] for the
period from arrival in Doha, Qatar by November 4, 2007 and departure by
November 7, 2007
*	A certificate of award as a Hamad bin Khalifa 2007 Islamic Art
Fellow
*	A copy of the symposium proceedings, to be published in 2009

Only applications submitted before June 1, 2007, will be considered.
All applications must include:

*	CV or Resume (1-2 page), including:

	*	Current research area / interest
	*	International symposia and conferences you have attended
in the past 5 years
	*	A statement (up to one page or 250 words) of interest
from you, outlining why you want to attend Rivers of Paradise: Water in
Islamic Art and Culture in Doha, Qatar.
	*	How would attending this conference enhance your
academic/career/scholarly objectives?
	*	Anything else you want us to know about.

Applicants will be notified of decisions by August 1, 2007. Only
electronic submissions will be accepted.

____________________________
Diane Tepfer
Coordinator, Islamic Art Symposium
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of the Arts
Richmond, VA 23284-2519
804-248-5040
www.IslamicArtDoha.org

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:SEMEVAL Task #18: Arabic Semantic Labeling
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1) Subject:SEMEVAL Task #18: Arabic Semantic Labeling

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:"Mona Diab" <mdiab at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:SEMEVAL Task #18: Arabic Semantic Labeling

[APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATES]
The train and test data is now ready for download from the main SEMEVAL
webpage at http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/

The relevant dates are included on the webpage

Below is a description of the task:

Tasks:

We propose several tasks for Arabic Semantic Labeling.  The tasks  
will span
both the WSD and Semantic Role labeling processes for this  
evaluation. Both
sets of tasks will be evaluated on data derived from the same data  
set, the
test set.

We propose 3 subtasks for WSD all of which will only have test data for
evaluation and trial data for formatting purposes. This will be taken  
from
the Arabic Treebank 3v2 text data, roughly 3000 words long:

1.       The first task is to discover different senses in the data for
nouns and verbs without associating labels with those senses.  
Therefore it
is a sense discrimination task.

In this task the participants will be required to identify that the
different number of senses for nouns and verbs without associating  
labels
with those identified senses. The assumption is that word is one of  
these
senses identified. These senses will be derived from the Arabic WordNet,
which correspond to English WN 2.0. There will be two levels of  
granularity,
coarse and fine grain.

2.       The second task is to annotate all nouns and verbs in the  
data with
Arabic WordNet senses (provided with the test data, and also  
accessible via
the web at http://www.globalwordnet.org/AWN
All verbs and nouns in the data will need to be annotated with their  
sense
indices and/or offsets from Arabic WordNet

3.       The third task is to annotate all nouns and verbs in the  
data with
English wordnet senses
a.       In this task, the participants will be required to link the  
Arabic
nouns and verbs with their corresponding sense(s) in the English  
WordNet 2.0
b.       An English translation corpus will be provided along with the
trial/test data
c.       A bilingual word list will also be provided

  We propose 2 subtasks for Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). These  
subtasks will
have trial, training and test data available for it:

4.       Identifying Arguments in a sentence
In this task, the participants are required to identify all the  
constituents
in a constituency tree that should be annotated with argument roles  
related
to some predetermined verbs

5.       Automatic annotations for all arguments
In this task, the participants are required to identify and label all  
the
constituents in a constituency tree that should be annotated with both
numbered argument roles and ARGM roles related to some predetermined  
verbs

Data

The data will be Arabic Treebank 3 v.2 data which is newswire in Modern
Standard Arabic. The data will be presented in ascii encoding, with the
Buckwalter transliteration scheme. The data will be unvowelised and
tokenized according to the Arabic Treebank clitic tokenization  
scheme. We
will provide code for conversion of encoding from UTF-8 and CP1256 to  
the
Buckwalter transliteration scheme. Moreover, we will provide code for  
the
tokenization, POS tagging and Base Phrase chunking of the Arabic text, a
package can be downloaded from
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mdiab/ASVMTools.tar.gz.

We will only opt for 100 most frequent verbs in this set to draw  
training,
trial (for the semantic role labeling tasks) and test data for the  
semantic
role labeling and WSD tasks)

The data is syntactically and morphologically manually annotated. The
syntactic trees are constituency trees.

A preliminary version of the Arabic WordNet will be available

Evaluation metric

SRL: Conlleval metrics of precision recall and f measure

WSD: Scorer 2.0 metrics of precision, recall and f-measure on both  
coarse
and fine grained sense distinctions.

************************************************************************ 
****
************************************************************************ 
****
Mona T. Diab, PhD
Center for Computational Learning Systems
Computational Linguistics Group
Columbia University
Tel.: +1 212 870 1290
Fax: +1 212 870 1285

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:54 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:crusader etymology
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1) Subject:crusader etymology

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1)
Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:"Katia Zakharia" <Katia.Zakharia at mom.fr>
Subject:crusader etymology

Masaa' al-khayr

In case it may help

I had a look on alwarraq for saliibii.

Saliibii is used in 68 references (see below) when Ifranj is in 2193 and
Franj in 9981. As we know, the books on alwarraq are mainly medieval and
classical.

It seems to me that in old texts, except Maqrizi, salibii is used as a
general word for < my cross >, < cross-shaped > or < christian > (in a
general way).

Maqrizi uses the plural saliibiyyiin twice, speaking specifically  
about the
soldiers of Louis the ninth.

Was it a first step for using it in the meaningof crusaders ?

Anyway, it clearly shows that the usual word was Ifranj which was used
earlier and more often than saliibii

Sincerly

Katia Zakharia


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:50 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Needs High School Arabic Textbook advice
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1) Subject:Needs High School Arabic Textbook advice

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:"abdel khila" <akhila at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs High School Arabic Textbook advice

My district wants to start an Arabic program in the high school and I  
was asked to review some textbooks and offer my recommendation as to  
what would be the best textbook to use for the high school students.  
These are American students and would have Arabic for the first time  
ever. I would really appreciate it if there are any K-12 Arabic  
teachers here who could offer any suggestions of good textbooks to  
use with students of that level and background based on their own  
teaching experiences.


I am myself a native speaker of Arabic and I currently teach French  
at the middle school level. My department wants me to submit my  
recommendation for an appropriate textbook ASAP. I also need to  
reject at least another three books explaining why I did not think  
they were suitable for the students. I am really interested in a  
textbook that allows students to learn Arabic in a communicative and  
functional way and helps them hone different skills, a textbook that  
has authentic and valid cultural representations, is free of  
stereotypes, and most importantly is neutral in terms of religion  
(These are American students and promoting any brand of religion is  
prohibited in public schools, etc. The textbook would really be a  
supplement to the instruction in the classroom and a guide for  
students for homework, etc. I am planning on using and creating other  
resources besides the book.

I was able to get the textbook "Ahlan wa Sahlan" by Mahdi Alosh from  
a friend who uses it at the university level. It is an ok book;  
however, it is dense and lectures a lot. I am not sure if it is  
appropriate for High school kids. I also looked at Alif Baa and  
Alkitaab. I hate to say both books are poor textbooks in terms of  
what we are looking for. Alif Baa focuses solely on form and Arabic  
writing (which are of course very important)in a very static way, we  
are however  looking more for a book that can teach students Arabic  
writing gradually coupled with other skills also like speaking,, etc.  
I also noticed ALKEETAB FII TA'ALLUM AL-ARABIYYA somewhat lacks a lot  
of functional objectives and the lessons in it are sequenced somewhat  
poorly.

I am thinking more and more there are really no Arabic textbooks for  
k-12 students and I might have to end up using college Arabic  
textbooks or do without a textbook altogether!

I apologize for my message being long. I really appreciate any help  
or suggestions.
Abdelkader

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:42 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:George Mason U Study Abroad in Jordan
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1) Subject:George Mason U Study Abroad in Jordan

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:George Mason U Study Abroad in Jordan

George Mason University is offering Intensive Arabic- Study Abroad to  
Jordan through Ali Baba Institute.

We are offering beginning (101-102), intermediate (201-202) and  
advanced (330-331) courses.
Students can register for 4 weeks to earn 6 credits, or 7 weeks and  
earn 9 credits.

Besides taking Arabic, students will be given field trips and weekend  
tours to visit exotic locations such as Petra and the Dead Sea.
Prices will include two meals, trips, double or triple room  
accommodation, and orientation.

Please visit our web site:
http://globaled.gmu.edu/Programs/summer/intarabicjordansummer.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. I will be  
the faculty director.
thanks,

Miss Sana Hilmi, M.A.
Arabic Professor and Coordinator
Modern and Classical Languages
George Mason University
703-993-1823
shilmi at gmu.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Mar 26 18:44:47 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:44:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Southern Denmark job
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1) Subject:U. of Southern Denmark job

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Date: 26 Mar 2007
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:U. of Southern Denmark job

Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:36:39
From: Anne Grethe Hansen < agh at humsek.sdu.dk >
Subject: Modern Arabic: Asst Prof, University of Southern Denmark,  
Odense, Denmark

University or Organization: University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Department: Faculty of Humanities
Web Address: http://www.sdu.dk/

Job Rank: Assistant Professor
Specialty Areas: Modern Arabic
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:
Institute of History and Civilization, The Department of Contemporary
Middle East Studies, at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense,
invites applications for a three year tenure-track position as assistant
professor in Modern Arabic, beginning fall 2007.

You can read more about the position at: http://www.jobs.sdu.dk/
Deadline for applications: 16 April 2007, at 12 o'clock
Marked: 076009

Application Deadline: 16-Apr-2007

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Anne Grethe Hansen
	University of Southern Denmark
	Faculty of Humanities
	Campusvej 55
	Odense DK-5230
	Denmark

Contact Information:
	Anne Grethe Hansen
	Email: agh at humsek.sdu.dk
	Phone: +45-65502931
	Fax: 6550 2055

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 28 20:15:46 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:46 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Gilman Scholarship Deadline approaching
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1) Subject:Gilman Scholarship Deadline approaching

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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Gilman" <Gilman at iie.org>
Subject:Gilman Scholarship Deadline approaching

There is only one week remaining until the student deadline for the
Gilman International Scholarship! All applicants must submit an online
application by 11:59 Central Time on Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Advisors
must certify applications by Tuesday, April 10, 2007.

There has never been a better time to apply for the Gilman Scholarship.
With the recent funding increases for the Gilman Program, we will be
able to award over 800 scholarships to students studying abroad during
the 2007-2008 academic year.  The selection rate is approximately 1 in 3
applicants, so please encourage all eligible applicants to apply.

Promotional materials:

A Gilman flyer can be downloaded on the Gilman website at
http://www.iie.org/programs/gilman/advisors/publicity.html. Please feel
free to email this flyer to Pell Grant recipients on your campus or
print it out and have these materials available in your office. To
request brochures and the new Gilman Advisor CD, please email your
mailing address to gilman_scholars at iie.org

You can access more tips for advising applicants on our website at
http://www.iie.org/programs/gilman/faq/advisor.html

Please feel free to contact our office should you have any questions.

Thank you again,
Lindsay G. Calvert
Program Coordinator
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

Institute for International Education
520 S. Post Oak Blvd. Ste 740
Houston, TX 77027
(713)621-6300 ext. 25
Fax: (713)621-0876
www.iie.org/gilman

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 28 20:15:48 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:High School Text responses
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1) Subject:High School Text responses
2) Subject:High School Text responses
3) Subject:High School Text responses
4) Subject:High School Text responses
5) Subject:High School Text responses
6) Subject:High School Text responses

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1)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"IBCBOOKS.COM" <ibc at ibcbooks.com>
Subject:High School Text responses

This is in response to your request for Arabic textbooks for High School
students
We can recomend the following textbooks. Read & Speack Arabic for
Beginners;Book and 60 minute CD
Your first 100 words in Arabic book and CD. features Flashcards and  
audio
CD. You can see our Arabic textbooks on our website: www.ibcbooks.com
  I will be happy to answer any questions regard our selection of Arabic
material. Claudette/International Book Centre

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2)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:Rafik Berjak <rberjak at shaw.ca>
Subject:High School Text responses

Dear Abdel,
I think al kitab al asasi would be suitable for your purpose.
Good luck,
Rafik Berjak

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3)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:Saleh Kholaki <skholoki at yahoo.com>
Subject:High School Text responses

I would recommend from my experience teaching Arabic at elementary  
and middle school, text book (Uhibu Alarabiyyah) you can order them  
from WWW.Noorart.com, they are based on communicative approach with  
pictures and tapes to help students review and listen at home. Also  
they are developed for non native speakers, rich in culture, I  
recommend that you examine them, they are not the best, however the  
best that available for now.


Lina Kholaki
ACTFL LLC SIG co-chair
New Horizon School
Aldeen board member and Arabic langauge coordinator and trainer

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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From: Fadia Hamid <fetfet at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:High School Text responses

It will be difficult to find a book that does everything you want to  
do with the students. The book is usually one vehicle for teaching.  
Mahdi's book is an excellent one but it is more geared for college  
students. I use Alif baa and by the end of the first semester my  
students can communicate using basic language functions - not quite  
like a first year French student, but they have meaningful dialogues.  
I introduce those to them. I don;t wait for the book to do so. I also  
add a great deal of culture from various sources. I like Alif Baa and  
Alkitaab and so do my students. There are some glitches with the  
DVD's but we make up for that in class.
If I had to recommend a textbook for HS students, I would choose  
AlifBaa & Alkitab.
fadia

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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:High School Text responses

Dear Abdelkader:

I have developed a Beginning Programmed Introduction Course to teach
Arabic Sounds and Letters. It consists of two parts, Textbook and
Manual. Part One includes 20 units aimed at introducing the Arabic and
writing system to beginning students of Arabic in the most effective
method, using common words illustrated by pictures. The Manual contains
15 brief exchanges and lists of y useful commonly used vocabulary
(greetings, introductions, polite requests, invitations, telling time,
foods, drinks, professions, family members, clothes, Arab countries and
capitals, etc.) The primary purpose of including basic communicative
practice and vocabulary lists is to create a climate for enjoyable and
successful learning while students are learning Arabic sounds and
letters. At the end of the course, students will be ready to read all
the communicative activities presented to them orally and additional
situational dialogues based on the lexical items they have learned and
act them out in class.

The book is accompanied by DVD to guide students while using the
material and to reinforce correct pronunciation of the new sounds and
letters in each unit and how we produce them.

The book is available through University of Michigan Distribution Office
at the following address:

Client Distribution Service
1094 Flex Drive
Jackson, TN  38301

Phone: (800) 343-4499
Fax: (800) 351-5073
Email: orderentry at cdsbooks.com

This book can be used by young learners and adults.

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6)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Sanaa Ghanem" <ghanem at arabacademy.com>
Subject:High School Text responses

The Arab Academy (www.arabacademy.com ) has workbooks specially  
created for
High School Students in the US along with interactive courses.  Those
courses were initially created for Fairfax County, Virginia, but  
since then
have been used in other schools as well.  They are composed of Levels  
1, 2
and 3 where each level is composed of 4 or 5 units.  Those levels are
preceded by Level 0, which introduces the Arabic alphabet.  For more
information on our course offerings, visit:
http://www.arabacademy.com/register/hs

Our texts are free of religious material and are heavily culture  
oriented.
Each lesson starts with an introduction on culture that relates to  
the topic
of the lesson.  We follow a communicative approach and our material is
designed to suit students 13-18 years of age.

I would be happy to send you any further information you need.

Best regards,
Sanaa Ghanem (www.arabacademy.com/ghanem )
President,
Arab Academy
www.arabacademy.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MedBridge Systems Linguist Job
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Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Barb Clogg-Wright" <barb.cloggw at medbridge.net>
Subject:MedBridge Systems Linguist Job

To the moderator and readers of the Arabic_L list.

We are looking for a PhD linguist to help us in the immediate short term
with the following.  This person would also stand as a back-up for our
primary linguist who is currently out on sick leave, and help on  
occasions
when deadline dates and content amount collide.  The following is the
general letter that we send to recruit our linguists in all languages.
Currently, we need MSA and our translator and voice are Egyptian.

Hello,

  Would you be interested in sending your CV for consideration for a  
position
helping us to achieve language excellence in the following area?

We are a software development enterprise in Fredericton, New Brunswick,
Canada (www.medbridge.net).  We have developed an interpretation program
designed to aid health-care professionals to communicate with
non-English-speaking patients.  This program serves as a bridge,  
allowing
second-language speakers immediate access to health care while  
waiting for
an interpreter to arrive.

We need a linguist.  The usual role of the linguist is to help us to  
select
the native voice with the correct accent and choose the appropriate  
writing
system, ensure the standards of language usage, review samples of the
standard language content, and to assess the translators.  This is on- 
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar 28 20:15:44 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Juhayna responses
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2) Subject:Juhayna response
3) Subject:Juhayna response
4) Subject:Juhayna response
5) Subject:Juhayna response
6) Subject:Juhayna response
7) Subject:Juhayna response
8) Subject:Juhayna response

-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------
1)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:moderator
Subject:Juhayna response

This is just to apologize for writing hujayna and not juhayna.  I  
(the moderator) type the headings.  Li Guo, the person who sent the  
message had it right.  It was just a typo on my part.
dil

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2)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"fawm at uchicago.edu" <fawm at uchicago.edu>
Subject:Juhayna response

Hi Li and all,
It is Juhayna made famous by the saying : wa inda Juhayna al-khabr al- 
yaqin.
I hope this helps a little.
All the best,
Farouk Mustafa

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3)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:marco.hamam at poste.it
Subject:Juhayna response

Hi Li Guo. Juhayna (and not hujayna) has been given as a name for a  
"news" service because Juhayna (a name of an arabic qabila) is linked  
to an arabic proverb:
??? ????? ????? ??????
or
???? ????? ???????

And here follows the story of the proverb.

??? ????? ????? : "??? ?????? ?????  
??????"? ????? ?? ????? ????? ????? ?  
???? ??? ????? ???? ??????? ????????  
??? ???? ??? ?? ????? ?????? ????  
?????? ? ???? ??? ????? ?????? ??????  
? ????? ????? ??? ???? ????? ? ???????  
? ????? ????? ????? ??? ? ?? ???  
?????? ???? ???? ???? ? ???? ????????  
?? ??? ????? ???? ?????? ? ????  
??????? ???? ??? ?????? . ???? ??????  
??????? ?????? ? ???? ???? ?????  
??????? ???? ???? ?? ??? ???????  
????? ?????? ? ????? ???? ?? ??? ?  
???? ?????? ????? ??????? ? ???? ???  
?? ???? ? ???? : ??? ???? ???? ???????  
???????? ? ??? : ??? ????? ? ????? :  
???? ?? ???? ???? ???? ? ???? ???  
????? : ???????? ???? ?????? ???? ????  
???? ?????? ?????? ??????? *

Hope this helps.
Regards,

Marco Hamam


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4)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Dr. M. Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Juhayna response


     There is most likely an oversight, caused by inadvertent  
metathesis, for the 'Ajeeb service column is /  ?????  
?????  /.   The naming of the service is established on "Juhayna"  
of the Arabic proverb /  ???? ????? ?????  
?????? /.  Contrary to popular understanding, the proverb  
questions the veracity of the news source rather than relies on it!   
More background of the proverb may be discussed on request.
M.D.

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5)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"Sane Yagi" <saneyagi at gmail.com>
Subject:Juhayna response

Salam,

Re: The Query on 'hujayna'

I think the word of concern is 'juhayna' rather than 'hujayna'. It is  
the
name of a news bulletin on Sakhr.

Perhaps it is a reference to the proverbs: "qata3at juhaynatu qawla  
kulli
khateeb" or "jaa<t juhaynatu bilkhabaril yaqeen" *???? ?????  
??? ?? ????*?
????? ????? ?????? ??????

Wassalam,
sane yagi

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6)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"John Whatley" <schkoolio at gmail.com>
Subject:Juhayna response

Probably already noted but the word is juhaina vice hujaina.  juhaina  
is as
follows:

Johaina <http://ejohaina.ajeeb.com/> is the news monitoring service  
in the
Middle-East that scans hundreds of Arabic, English and French news sites
targeting the Middle East region. Johaina makes you read and navigate  
Arabic
news in English. It keeps you aware of the public opinion in the
Middle-East. All that using Sakhr's powerful Machine Translation
Technology<http://www.sakhr.com/Sakhr_e/Technology/MT.htm? 
Index=5&Main=Technology&Sub=Machine>to
display in English the originally Arabic articles. This grants a
better
reach of information for non-Arabic speaking users.

Johaina <http://ejohaina.ajeeb.com/> operates around the clock to  
scan its
resourceful directory of the online newspapers, press sites, and news
portals. It collects, categorizes, classifies, archives, and displays  
news
from an extensive range of around 500 reliable sources that cover the
Middle-East and offers news seekers a one-stop newsstand to look for  
news.

http://www.sakhr.com/Sakhr_e/Products/Johaina.htm? 
Index=2&Main=Products&Sub=Johaina

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7)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:Rafik Berjak <rberjak at shaw.ca>
Subject:Juhayna response

It is Johyna and not hujayna. This is a name that had been mentioned  
in the
Arabic proverp wa 3inda Joynata al khabaru al yaqeen in the meaning  
of which
(johyna has the right news.)This proverb is very popular in classical  
Arabic
and is used when someone wants to get the news from an authentic  
source. I
hope this helps.

Rafik Berjak

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8)
Date: 28 Mar 2007
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Juhayna response

Hi Li:

The word is not "hujayna". It is "Juhayna" a well-known eloquent woman
poetess during the Jahiliyya period, before Islam. If you go to Kitab
Al-Amthal 'inda al-'Arab( Can't remember the Author ??) you'll find a
proverb which says:
            QATRA'AT JUHAYNAH QAWLA KULLI KHATIBIN

        Juhaynah outshined all her competitors (orators who spoke before
her)

Good luck,

Raji Rammuny

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:41:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Transcribing Colloquials jobs
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1)
Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:KHendzel at asetquality.com
Subject:Transcribing Colloquials jobs

My name is Kevin Hendzel and I'm the COO of ASET International and  
the national media spokesman for the American Translators Association.

We are looking for a large number of US Citizens who are capable of  
transcribing spoken Arabic to written Arabic for development of a  
speech-to-text system.  They can work from their homes and do not  
need to relocate.  Pay rate is negotiable.  We are looking for native  
speakers of each of the following dialects:

Algerian
Tunisian
Egyptian
Jordanian
Moroccan
Saudi
Yemeni
Sudanese

We are actually looking for individuals who can transcribe into the  
dialects with the specific markers and idiom used in each dialect (as  
opposed to MSA).

I would very much appreciate it if you could post this to the site or  
other appropriate sites.

The US citizenship requirement is firm.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you and kind regards,

Kevin Hendzel
COO
ASET International Services Corporation
www.asetquality.com
(800) 787-8726 ext. 14
(571) 237-0678 (cell)

National Media Spokesman
American Translators Association

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 30 18:42:29 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers
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1)
Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:lctl at umn.edu
Subject:Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers

Dear teacher (or administrator of a program)   of a less commonly  
taught language (LCTL)

I am writing to you with several purposes:

1. CARLA offers summer institutes, which are described below. There  
are some scholarship opportunities for LCTL teachers, which I hope  
you will consider for this summer.

2. I have your email from the LCTL project's database of LCTL  
offerings in North America, which I administer. This database is  
searchable from this page: http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db . The  
database is the most visited page of all the very popular CARLA  
pages. So people find this resource very helpful. I would appreciate  
it if you checked the listings for you and your institution and let  
the project know of any updates, additions or corrections. We have  
made the updating easy, so if you see a mistake, just click on  
'submit a correction' on the page that contains the information that  
needs updating. If you have a new course, click on "Add a new LCTL  
course" on the main search page, and fill out the information.

3. As all of us know, email addresses change constantly. I will go  
through our database and eliminate all emails that bounce, but if you  
have a better address for yourself, let me know.

Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers
for Professional Development at the CARLA Summer Institutes
The University's National Resource Centers Institute for Global  
Studies (IGS) and the European Studies Consortium (ESC) are pleased  
to provide a limited number of $600 scholarships for teachers of less  
commonly taught languages (LCTLs) to attend any of the CARLA summer  
institutes. Applications are due by April 16, 2007.
See the following for more information and application materials:
European LCTLs
If you teach a European LCTL, you should use the ESC scholarship  
application at: http://www.esc.umn.edu/CARLA.htm
For more information, contact Laura Seifert at esc at umn.edu.

Non-European LCTLs
If you teach a LCTL from any country outside of Europe, you should  
use the IGS scholarship application at:
http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html
For more information, contact Klaas van der Sanden at vande001 at umn.edu.

CARLA Summer Institutes 2007
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at  
the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program  
for second language teachers since 1996. These internationally-known  
institutes reflect CARLA's commitment to link research and theory  
with practical applications for the classroom.

Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory- 
building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking  
opportunities. Participants at the CARLA summer institutes have come  
from all over the world. They have included foreign language and ESL  
teachers at all levels of instruction, program administrators, and  
curriculum specialists. Over 2,000 language teachers have  
participated in the summer institute program since it began in 1996.
The institutes for summer 2007 are:
Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching for Chinese/ 
Japanese
June 25-29, 2007 (Session 1)
Focusing on Learner Language:
Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers
July 16-20, 2007
Teaching and Learning Pragmatics:
Enhancing Learners' Ability to Use Second Language in Culturally  
Appropriate Ways
July 16-20, 2007

Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education:
"How well do students speak the immersion language?"
July 16-20, 2007

Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
July 23-27, 2007

Improving Language Learning:
Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
July 23-27, 2007

Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
July 23-27, 2007

Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching
June 23-27, 2007 (Session 1) -or- July 30-August 3, 2007 (Session 2)

Maximizing Study Abroad:
Teaching Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use
July 30-August 3, 2007

Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
July 30-August 3, 2007
Using Technology in Second Language Teaching
July 30-August 3, 2007
The cost of each of the CARLA summer institutes is $300 if  
registration is received by May 31, 2007 and $350 after that date.  
More information and registration forms are available on the CARLA  
website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/ or you can request a  
print copy of the brochure by contacting the CARLA office at:  
carla at umn.edu.

Note: The summer institutes were developed and are supported, in  
part, by the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Language  
Resource Center program and by the University of Minnesota's College  
of Education and Human Development and College of Liberal Arts. The  
LCTL stipends are supported by the University of Minnesota's Title VI  
National Resource Centers.
**our apologies for cross-posting**

-- 
=====================================================
Louis Janus
  Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project
  Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
  University of Minnesota
  619 Heller Hall (mail)
674 Heller Hall (visiting)
  271 19th Avenue So.
  Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
  phone: 612/624-9016; fax: 612/624-7514
-------------------------------
LCTL at umn.edu  or  janus005 at umn.edu
-------------------------------
http://www.carla.umn.edu/LCTL
http://www.carla.umn.edu/about/profiles/janus.html
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Online resources for Endangered Languages
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1)
Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:"Dora Johnson" <dora at cal.org>
Subject:Online resources for Endangered Languages

  The Arabic list might be of interest to this list.

Subject: Online Resources for Endangered Languages

The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project has just updated OREL:
Online Resources for Endangered Languages.  This bilingual library of
annotated and categorised links now includes a total of more than 300
resources in English and Arabic, covering language endangerment and
revitalisation, technology and techniques, ethical issues, and funding
sources.

To access OREL in English, go to
http://www.hrelp.org/languages/resources/orel/ ; to access it in Arabic,
go to http://www.hrelp.org/languages/resources/orel-ar/.

Lameen Souag

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 30 18:42:49 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Response to HS textbook query reponses
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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:"Dora Johnson" <dora at cal.org>
Subject:Response to HS textbook query reponses

This is a nice list of existing textbooks and curricula, but it should
be a wakeup call to all of us that there are simply not enough textbooks
for the growing market of Arabic as a foreign language for use by K-12
students in the U.S. I am not sure how we're going to find the funds to
develop more materials, but somehow we have to keep on trying. This
summer there will be a workshop on developing curricula for Arabic in
Washington through the National Capital Language Resource Center. A
notice was posted earlier on this list about the workshop. It is one
place to begin developing something to share.

The second thing that comes to mind is that, from our experience of
listening to presentations and talking with teachers, there are some
incredibly creative teachers out there who have been developing their
own teacher-made materials for quite a while. I know that many of them
are unwilling to share them because (a) they're
unsure that they are complete and can be subject to criticism; (b)
someone will pick them up and use them without attribution; and (c)
there is not a good way to disseminate them.

Is there a way to start a conversation on what might be a good venue to
encourage the teachers we know have developed materials and ask them to
post them or information about them with contact information on how to
get them from the teacher? It would be very helpful to get some solid
suggestions. Please post your answers to the entire list. It's a good
way to keep everybody informed.

Dora Johnson

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 30 18:42:46 2007
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:46 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Juhayna thanks and correction
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2) Subject:Juhayna

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1)
Date: 30 Mar 2007
From: Li Guo <li.guo.6 at nd.edu>
Subject:Juhayna thanks

dear all,
thank you so much for helping me out with the johaina/juhayna query!
Li

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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From: "raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Juhayna

Correction:

  JUHAYNA is the name of an ancient Arabian tribe whose members were
known for their honesty and telling the truth.

Raji Rammuny

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:List of Universities with Arabic Programs
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1) Subject:List of Universities with Arabic Programs query
2) Subject:List of Universities with Arabic Programs response

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1)
Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:Fadia Hamid <fetfet at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:List of Universities with Arabic Programs query

Dear All,

Is there a data base with the names of all US universities/colleges  
that have an Arabic program? Parents have been asking me that & I am  
not able to come up with a complete list by googling it.
Any help in this matter will be much appreciated.
Thanks!
fadia

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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:Fadia Hamid <fetfet at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:List of Universities with Arabic Programs response

I sent a message yesterday inquiring about a database listing  
universities and colleges that offer Arabic. Well, I found one today!  
the website is:

http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db/

in case anyone else is looking for similar info.
Thanks.
fadia

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