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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:New books on Muhammad
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1) Subject:New books on Muhammad

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:nagel at gerlach-books.de
Subject:New books on Muhammad

Two academic studies in German have just been publihsed by the well  
known German scholar Tilman Nagel, professor emeritus at the  
University of Goettingen.

Both works focus on the Prophet Muhammad and deal with a subject  
disputed ever since the origins of Islamic Studies: the biography of  
the Prophet.
The two publications will certainly contribute substantially to the  
academic discussion for many years.

(1)	Tilman NAGEL, Mohammed, Leben und Legende.
Publisher: Oldenbourg Verlag, Muenchen, 2008
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-486-58534-6
Format: 1052 pages, 3 maps, cloth bound
Publisher's list price: 178 EUR

(2)	Tilman NAGEL, Allahs Liebling. Ursprünge und Erscheinungsformen  
des Mohammedglaubens.
Publisher: Oldenbourg Verlag, Muenchen, 2008
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-486-58534-6
Format: 430 pages, cloth bound
Publisher's list price: 79.80 EUR

***Our offer valid until 4 April 2008***

-Free worldwide surface mail delivery (air mail on request)
-Order one book and get 5% discount
-Order both books and get 20% discount
-Discounts granted outside Germany, Austria, Switzerland only
-Prepayment by credit card required
-This offer is valid for 1 week only

Best regards from Berlin,

Kai Gerlach
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr  1 17:31:23 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Getting permission to use authentic listening
 material
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1) Subject:Getting permission to use authentic listening material

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Meriem Sahli <meriemsahli at hotmail.com>
Subject:Getting permission to use authentic listening material

Dear Arabic-L members:

I would like all the people who have been using authentic listening  
material from Arabic channels such as Al-jazeerah and others to inform  
me how they got the permission to use this material particularly in  
published books such as al-kitaab fii ta3allum al 3arabiyya and  
others. What are the steps you have taken? have you paid for those  
rights because you published a book?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Meriem Sahli
  ***********************************************************
Meriem Sahli
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
( AUI )P.O.Box 104,
Avenue Hassan II,
Ifrane 53000, Morocco
Tlf: (212) 35 86 24 70
E-mail: m.sahli at aui.ma

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr  1 17:31:26 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:PT Annotation Jobs at Columbia for Arabic Speakers
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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Nizar Habash <habash at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:PT Annotation Jobs at Columbia for Arabic Speakers

Dear all,

	please forward this message to people who may be interested.

Thanks
Nizar Habash

====================================================
Part Time Job for Arabic Speakers at Columbia University

We are starting a project at Columbia University to develop
an Arabic Tree Bank.  A Tree Bank is a collection of text with
syntactic analyses. The goal of the research is to produce data
to use to train computers to do this task automatically.

We are looking to hire a number of Arabic speakers to annotate
sentences. The job pays between $15 and $25 per hour and can
include bonuses for good quality/efficiency.  You can work at the
Columbia University campus in New York or from home (if you
have your own computer).


Please contact Dr. Nizar Habash (habash at cs.columbia.edu).
Please include answers to the following questions in your email:

(1) What is your work permit / citizenship status in the USA? [required]
(2) Are you a Columbia student?
(3) Are you a native speaker of Arabic?
(4) Have you studied Arabic grammar in high school or college?
(5) Did you enjoy Arabic grammar classes?
(6) Where do you live?
(7) How many hours per week can you work on this project between
      April 1st and November 1st.

Please let us know if you have any questions for us.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr  1 17:31:31 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants colloquial oriented summer Arabic program
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1) Subject:Wants colloquial oriented summer Arabic program

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Kevin Schluter <schlu017 at umn.edu>
Subject:Wants colloquial oriented summer Arabic program

I'm looking for a summer Arabic language program that focuses on a  
Colloquial dialect (more than just one or two hours a week).  So far  
the only one I've found is the Arabic Language Institute in Fez (http://www.alif-fes.com/ 
).

Does anyone know of any others?

Thanks,

Kevin Schluter

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of li-
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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Jonathan Lange <jonathanlange at yahoo.com>
Subject:use of li-

The talk of apposition reminded me of another Arabic
grammatical form I have seen numerous times in the
Middle East, but never learned in school.  That is the
use of the particle 'li' to link words, but not in
normal idafa-like order.  Ex. 'Misr li-tayyaraan' for
'Egypt Airlines'.  Should this not be 'tayyaraan
li-Misr' or just 'tayyaraan Misr'?

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr  1 17:31:33 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac and Yamil
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1) Subject:Arabic on Mac
2) Subject:Arabic on Mac
3) Subject:Yamil

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:"Kamal AlEkhnawy" <kamal19 at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

Dear all,
Since I started using Mac in 1992 to prepare materials for my classes,  
there
has been a problem with Arabic script. If Arabic letters are connected
properly, you may face a problem with the word order.
However, those who have old Mac (bought before 07), they can use "Open
Office" software. It is totally free, and you can download it either  
form
www.OpenOffice.org  or from www.download.com. It allows you use Word and
PowerPoint but may not support all Office product such as Access or  
OneNote.

Those who have new Mac (2007 Mac or later), they can either get Open  
Office
or use Windows operating system and install Office in their Mac. All  
new Mac
computers support dual operating systems: Mac and Windows.
p.s.: all office products are fully Arabic enabled, and some of which  
can be
useful for classroom activities. For example, I've used Office OneNote  
in
some of my classes and found it very useful to engage/challenge my  
class in
integrated interactive drills, i.e., you can ask your students to  
respond,
simultaneously, either by speaking or typing in Arabic while they are
watching a clip.

Cheers,
Kamal AlEkhnawy
Head of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) unit
The American University in Cairo
Kamal19 at aucegypt.edu

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

he trouble with NeoOffice is that it continues (version 2.2.3) not to  
have
a "context" selection for numerals.  As a consequence, if you have mixed
documents, it seems to me to be not possible at this time to show  
Hindi and
Arabic (automatic) numbering at the same time.

Another annoying problem is that the two fonts Simplified Arabic and
Traditional Arabic don't exist on the Mac.  I have not been able to buy
either one.  These two in particular are important because there is  
ample
spacing between dots diacritics.  As a consequence, when I open a Word
document --created under Windows-- on the Mac --under NeoOffice, the
document differs.  Some of my students use Windows, and others Macs.   
Fonts
such as Arial, common on both systems, are not designed for Arabic  
because
dots and diacritics overlap.

A colleague of mine, a computer consultant at the Language Resource  
Center
at Michigan University, told me that the problem with Arabic on  
MSOffice on
the Mac is an Apple problem.  He said that his contacts at Apple have
informed him that they have not found it to be worth their time to  
develop
products for Arabic.  They might in the future, but it's not a priority.

(I have an iPhone.  Apple provides no Arabic for it.  The third-party  
Arabic
for it is atrocious)

Waheed

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Loren Siebert <loren at siebert.org>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

It doesn't appear as though anyone has mentioned Yamli on this list,  
and as I am having such a good experience with Yamli lately, I thought  
I would mention it on Arabic-L.

First, you can find Yamli here:
	http://www.yamli.com

In short, it enables you to type in transliterated Arabic (e.g.,  
"3rabi, mu2tamar, ...) and have it automatically (or almost  
automatically) transformed into Arabic characters (عربي،  
مؤتمر). For those of you who have an interest in Arabic corpus  
linguistics, you might find the "almost" part interesting, because the  
lookup is essentially doing a form of predictive text input, like  
you'd see on a cell phone, against an Arabic corpus.

Yamli has an API that is in Beta right now, and I found it incredibly  
easy to integrate their input functionality into the writing  
components of LinguaStep, allowing LinguaStep's students and  
instructors the ability to type in Arabic without using a keyboard  
mapping. My users who are already quite comfortable typing natively in  
Arabic don't even notice Yamli, as it only pops up when you type in  
Latin characters.

I've found that LinguaStep users who have avoided these writing  
components for months are suddenly making heavy use of them, and this  
has overcome my initial reluctance to have users create Arabic via  
transliteration. If you have a website that involves user input in  
Arabic, Yamli might be a good fit for your users.

-Loren Siebert
loren at linguastep.com
http://www.linguastep.com
Where students share what they know and learn from others.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr  1 17:31:36 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UC Riverside Job
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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:"Jeff Sacks" <jeff.sacks.ca at gmail.com>
Subject:UC Riverside Job

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE* *

DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE & FOREIGN LANGUAGES
ARABIC LANGUAGE LECTURER

The University of California, Riverside, invites applications for a
part-time lecturer position in Arabic Language for the 2008-2009  
academic
year (pending enrollment and final administrative approval).  
Candidates must
have native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic and at  
least
one dialect. Candidates must hold at least an M.A. degree, demonstrate
significant teaching experience at the college or university level,  
and have
a commitment to teaching the Arabic language for academic purposes in  
line
with the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. Duties over three quarters
(fall/winter/spring) include teaching two sections of Elementary  
Arabic per
quarter and participation in the administration of the Arabic language
program (this is a 67% appointment, which includes benefits).

Please send cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching evaluations, and  
three
letters of recommendation to:

Jeffrey Sacks, Chair
Arabic Lecturer Search Committee
Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
2401 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California 92521

Review of applications will begin April 28, 2008; the position will  
remain
open until filled. The successful candidate must show proof of  
employment
eligibility.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs student volunteers for questionaire
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1) Subject:Needs student volunteers for questionaire

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:jeremy.palmer at gmail.com
Subject:Needs student volunteers for questionaire

Hello Arabic students and teachers,

My name is Jeremy Palmer. I am a PhD student in Second Language  
Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona. I have  
made a questionnaire about student perception of spoken Arabic.  I  
would like to ask that you pass along my request for volunteers to  
take this questionnaire to your students of Arabic who meet the  
following criteria:

This questionnaire is intended for American students in higher  
education who studied Arabic for 1 year (2 semesters) or more in the  
United States after which they spent at least one month in an Arabic  
speaking country. These students must also come from families in which  
they were not (or very minimally) exposed to any type of Arabic before  
taking Arabic classes.

I would like to ask those who meet these criteria if they would  
volunteer to complete this questionnaire. Those who would like to  
volunteer should email me at Jeremy.palmer at gmail.com . I will then  
reply with thequestionnaire attached as a Microsoft Word document.  
Volunteers may type their responses into the word document and email  
it directly back to me. Volunteers may withdraw from this research at  
any time without any consequences. The completion of the questionnaire  
should take only 15-20 minutes.

Thank you,
-- 
Jeremy Palmer
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT)
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
University of Arizona

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Bergen Job
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1) Subject:U. of Bergen Job

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:gunvor.mejdell at ikos.uio.no
Subject:U. of Bergen Job

Position: Professor/Associate Professor in Arabic language and
culture, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, ref    
08/3192

The Department of Foreign Languages is seeking to appoint a Professor/
Associate Professor in Arabic language and culture. The successful
candidate must document high academic qualifications in Arabic
language and culture. The scholarly production may be in various    
fields
of Arabic studies: philology, linguistics, dialectology,
literature, religion, or history. A particular emphasis will be put   on
research in Arabic culture and history, including Islamic studies   or
philology. Knowledge of one or more Middle Eastern languages other    
than
Arabic will also be considered an advantage.

Arabic is taught at all levels up to Ph.D. It is also a component of   a
Bachelor program in Middle Eastern studies, which includes
specializations in history, religion, archaeology and social
anthropology. Arabic is thus part of a wider research and teaching
milieu of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Bergen, with a focus
inter alia on Muslim Africa and the Sudan, Levantine studies and    
Sufism.
The successful candidate is expected to participate in the   development
of this milieu.

The teaching language will normally be Norwegian. The successful
applicant must be able to teach in Norwegian or one of the other
Scandinavian languages within two years of his/her appointment.

If no applicant is qualified for a full professorship, the University
may consider appointing a candidate to the position of Associate
Professor. Applicants should state whether a position as Associate
Professor is of interest. Associate professors in permanent  
positions   in
Norway may apply for promotion to full professorship on the basis   of
personal qualifications.

Applications should be addressed to the Senate of the University of
Bergen and sent with confirmed copies of certificates and
testimonials to the Department of Foreign Languages, University of
Bergen, PO Box 7805, 5020 Bergen, Norway, by 26 April 2008.
Mark application: 08/3192

See further information and job description at
<http://melding.uib.no/doc/Ledige_stillinger/1206517042.html>
<http://www.hf.uib.no/fakultet/aktuelt/stillinger/Job%20description%
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs textbooks for Tunisian Arabic and Berber
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1) Subject:Needs textbooks for Tunisian Arabic and Berber

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:paula santillan <capraia at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs textbooks for Tunisian Arabic and Berber

Dear members,

A student of mine has asked me about textbooks to
learn Tunisian Arabic and Berber (he hasn't specified
what variety of Berber). He's looking for
communicative-oriented materials (as opposed to
grammars or other theoretical approaches). Any
suggestions?

Thanks a lot before hand.

-paula

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:09:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac response
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:Arabic on Mac response
Subject:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>

> A colleague of mine, a computer consultant at the Language Resource  
> Center
> at Michigan University, told me that the problem with Arabic on  
> MSOffice on
> the Mac is an Apple problem.  He said that his contacts at Apple have
> informed him that they have not found it to be worth their time to  
> develop
> products for Arabic.  They might in the future, but it's not a  
> priority.

I've had people tell me this as well, but I honestly don't see how it  
could possibly be true, given that:
1- the Apple developed and otherwise very basic program Textedit works  
fine with Arabic, allowing full bi-directionality
2- the Mail program works fine with Arabic, also allowing full bi- 
directionality
3- other programs work more or less with Arabic, if not with full bi- 
directionality, INCLUDING MS Excell, into which you can paste Arabic  
text and it displays, lines up, and prints reasonably
4- Many other programs on the Mac work fine with Arabic, including  
most browsers (inlcuding Apple's own Safari), Mellel, Nisus, Indesign  
ME, etc.
5- ONLY MS Word actually 'eats' and destroys the Arabic that is in any  
text you read into it, including Arabic from MS Word documents created  
on the PC.  Other programs may not display things correctly, but they  
don't actively destroy the Arabic.
6- Only Microsoft ships its Apple office products with a font that  
automatically installs that actively WRECKS the Arabic on your  
browsers, so that you have to do a search and destroy mission to  
restore Arabic functionality whenever you install an MS program on  
your computer.

It is actually true that when OS X first came out it did not provide  
Arabic support, but that deficit was soon fixed, and has been fixed  
for several years now.  There has been nothing for Microsoft to wait  
for Apple to do for years.  Microsoft clearly know how to deal with  
Arabic script and bi-directionality, since they do it in the same  
product on a different platform, and clearly Apple is providing them  
the resources to do it on the Mac.  They have simply decided they  
won't do it.

IM(not so)HO

Dil

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Teachers Professional Dev Seminar + Stipend
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Sumaya" <sumaya at hadi.org>
Subject:Arabic Teachers Professional Dev Seminar + Stipend

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:KWIC for Arabic query
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:KWIC for Arabic query

Dear all,

Can we use KWIC for Arabic text written in Arabic characters?

KWIC which i have downloaded does not want to search an Arabic word
in text written in Arabic characters, or, i cannot type any Arabic  
letters... sigh.

Do you know any KWIC programme which can work with Arabic characters?

Best wishes,
Haruko
Part-Time Lecturer of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
(NOT University of Tokyo)
*******************
Haruko SAKAEDANI
harukos at tufs.ac.jp

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:etymology of shiin 'ayn raa'
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Laila Familiar" <lailafam at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:etymology of shiin 'ayn raa'

Dear colleagues,

Is there a scientific etymological explanation for why the root ش ع ر
(sh ‘ r) has two basic meanings (‘to know/feel’ and ‘hair’)?  
Can we
trace back which one appeared first? Did anybody try in the past to
find any semantic relationship between both lexical meanings?

Any suggestion concerning books or articles on Arabic semantics
dealing with this kind of phenomena?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Laila Hasan Familiar
CASA Program - AUC

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr  7 20:10:29 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Algerian Arabic native speaker jobs at NFLC Maryland
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Lampe, Gerald" <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject:Native speaking Algerians needed at NFLC Maryland

The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of
Maryland seeks native Algerian Arabic speakers as narrators and lesson
content reviewers for a multimedia project on Arabic Variants
Identification. Narrators must be local and able to record at our
College Park, Maryland office, which is located one block from the
College Park metro station on the Green line. This is a short-term
contractual assignment. For more information, please contact Margo Rice
at 301-405-9827 or mrice at nflc.org.

Jerry Lampe, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
National Foreign Language Center (NFLC)
5201 Paint Branch Pkwy, Suite 2132
College Park MD 20742
(301)405-9690
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs source for books
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs source for books

Hello Everyone,
  Your help would be greatly appreciated if you could kindly help my  
friend who is looking for these books:
  "I am looking for 2 Arabic books by Dr. Ali Muhammad Darwish and  
Muhammad al-Adnani ... if you can ask Mouchy or any of your colleagues  
that would be great. The books are:
  "Kitab al-a3ajeeb fi lughat al-aghareeb"
  "mu3jam al-akhta' al-sha'3ah" [dictionary of the most common mistakes]

  I just want to know of a site that I can order from"

  Any ideas on how to get them
  Many thanks
  Iman

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SLRF reminder
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:SLRF reminder

Our apologies for any cross-postings . . .

The SLRF 2008 Call for Proposals deadline (April 15) is fast  
approaching.
Submit your proposal online today!

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

The Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa is pleased to announce. . .

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

31st Annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
October 17-19, 2008
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/

ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION SYSTEM OPEN! (See Call for Proposals
section for complete details and instructions for proposal submissions)

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15, 2008
Notification of selection: Mid-May 2008

Theme:  EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES

Plenary speakers:
- Dr. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
- Dr. Alan Firth (Newcastle University)
- Dr. Eva Lam (Northwestern University)
- Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)


We welcome all areas of second language research, including, but not
limited to:
- Instructed SLA
- Acquisition of grammar and phonology
- Child SLA
- L2 Processing
- Language and learner characteristics
- Language and cognition
- Discourse and interaction
- Language and socialization
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Language and ideology
- Literacy development
- Learner corpora
- Language learning and technology
- Second language measurement


1) PAPERS:
Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for
discussion).

2) POSTERS:
Posters will be displayed for a full day.  Posters are intended for
one-on-one discussion or reports of work in progress.

3) COLLOQIUA:
The colloquia/panels consist of individual paper presentations that  
relate
to a specific or related topics of interest.  They are offered in 2-hour
sessions.


Please see our website for complete proposal submission instructions and
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Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Colloquial oriented summer programs
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6) Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs
7) Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs
8) Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs
9) Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs
10) Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

Dear Kevin:
The University of Michigan offers Intensive Colloquial Egyptian Arabic  
for 6 credits durung summer 2008. The coutse requires one uear of  
previous study of Arabic. It meets 3 hours per day 9-12 for 5 days a  
week.
Please contact Angela Beskow  at  aradjews at umich.edu for details.

Raji Rammuny
Professor of Arabic
University of Michigan

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

I studied Egyptian colloquial at the Département d'enseignement de
l'arabe contemporain (DEAC), run by the French government in Cairo,
and found it to be a pretty good quality, reasonably priced programme,
if you have at least intermediate French.  Their full-academic-year
course starts out composed of about 70% colloquial and 30% classical,
and gradually reverses those proportions over the course of the year.
I understand that they've recently moved more in the direction of
teaching students to mix registers from the outset.

http://www.ambafrance-eg.org/cfcc/article.php3?id_article=11

-- 
Benjamin Geer
Postgraduate student
Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Christensen, Jayme M" <jayme-christensen at uiowa.edu>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

the university of damascus in syria

The French Institute (IFPO), <http://www.ifporient.org/article.php3?id_article=28 
 > Institut Français du Proche-Orient<http://www.ou.edu/ssa/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=1 
 >, Damascus

good luck

-jayme

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

I'd suggest the Arabic Language Institute at the American University in
Cairo or the Arabic and Translation Studies Division at the School for
Continuing Education, also at AUC.  The ALI summer program features  
some two
and a half hours per day of spoken Egyptian with the rest focussed on  
fusha.
The deadline for ALI may have passed, and even if it has not, places  
have
been filling up quickly in the past few years.  ATS on the other hand  
has no
deadline. If you could get yourself three other students to go in with  
you,
you could design your own program for as many hours a week you want  
and for
as many weeks as you want - and all spoken Arabic, if you want  (you  
could
actually do on your own but the price per hour drops with the number of
students with four or more getting the lowest cost).  They have the best
Arabic teacher I have seen anywhere: Manal Hassan. She is especially  
good
with teaching spoken Egyptian Arabic.  Write to Madiha Hegazy, the
coordinator of Arabic: madiha_h at aucegypt.edu. Just for good measure,  
copy
Ahmed Abdel Moneim,  ahmoneim at gmail.com who helps her out with  
computing tasks.  The American
University of Beirut has a summer program of about five hours a day  
for six
weeks, but only an hour of that every day is with spoken Lebanese  
Arabic.
The deadline for application for that program was on the 25th of  
March.  So
it may prove fruitless to apply anyway.

-- 
David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:baldino <dhiabaldino at yahoo.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

http://www.iblv.rnu.tn/english/index.html

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Madiha Doss" <madihadoss at yahoo.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

The DEAC in Cairo standing for Départment d'enseignement de l'arabe au  
Caire (which depends of the French embassy) could be offering such a  
course since it does follow the progression starting from colloquial  
and following into standard Arabic. This progression was started by  
Claude Audebert in the late seventies or early eighties.
Madiha Doss

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Haroon Shirwani" <arabictutor at hotmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

Dear Kevin

Kalimat, in Cairo, offer an excellent intensive colloquial course:

http://www.kalimategypt.com/

Best wishes,
Haroon

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Maria" <apple at swissmail.org>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

See my posting about the Gulf Arabic Programme Intensive Summer  
Programme.

Regards,
Maria

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:rania essa <drraniaessa at hotmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

dear sir,
there is a center for teaching arabic as a second language in  
alexandria , egypt this center follows the alexandria university i  
think it is a good place to know aboot (tafel ) it teaches arabic  
language both standerd and colloquial you can see ite website to know  
more about it www.tafelcenter.edu.eg
i hope it will be helpful.

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:benmamou at ad.uiuc.edu
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

http://scali.afrst.uiuc.edu/general/languages/

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf Arabic Program
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From: "Maria" <apple at swissmail.org>
Subject:Gulf Arabic Program

Gulf Arabic Programme Full-time MSA&colloquial program and Part Time  
Arabic Lessons

The Gulf Arabic Programme offers both a full-time program and private  
lessons in colloquial Gulf Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic year  
round. Our programme is located in Buraimi, Oman, a twin city to Al  
Ain, United Arab Emirates.

The full-time programme is designed to take in students who know  
nothing of the Arabic language and equip them to become competent  
communicators able to live, work and build relationships within the  
medium of the Arabic language. We can also accommodate students who  
have previously studied Arabic, either by placing them at the  
appropriate level in our existing classes or by tailoring private  
classes according to individual needs and requirements please contact  
us for more details.

The full course consists of four eighteen-week modules over a period  
of two years. Classes are held five days a week, (Sunday to Thursday)  
with 3.5 hours of class time each morning, making a course module of  
315 hours.

In addition to the class time, students are also expected to spend  
time divided between 'community learning' (spending time with local  
people) and private study (practising and preparing for classes),  
averaging four hours a day. The proportion of community learning will  
increase as the course progresses. This is a programme and not merely  
an institute and we believe language is best learned through a  
combination of classroom activities and language use in the community  
and every day life.

A student who has completed the full course will be proficient to the  
Advanced Level (ACTFL) in the four language skills, for example he/she  
will be able to:

Speaking
·   Discuss topics of current and personal interest.
·   Handle most situations of daily life.
·   Narrate and describe topics of interest for the student in smooth  
paragraphs.

·   Handle arrangements regarding study and travel, involving minor  
complications, e.g. losing documents, missing an appointment etc.

Listening
·   Understand topics of current and personal interest when talking  
face to face.
·   Understand everyday topics, well-known current events, routine  
matters etc.
·   Often be able to follow the dialogue when listening to a  
conversation between two native speakers.

Reading
·   Read multi-paragraph materials of a factual nature.
·   Read articles from popular newspapers on familiar subjects.

Writing
·   Correspond with Arabic friends.
·   Join sentences in simple discourse of several paragraphs on  
familiar topics.
·   Write narratives and descriptions of a factual nature.

Our next intake of students for the full time programme will be on the  
14th September 2008.

For further details or application information please email to info at gapschool.net 
. Web: www.gapschool.net

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:George Mason U. Summer Study Abroad in Jordan
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:George Mason U. Summer Study Abroad in Jordan

Dear all,

Led by Sana Hilmi, George Mason University is offering an Intensive  
Arabic- Study Abroad to Jordan at the University of Jordan

A wonderful opportunity to study intensive Arabic language in the  
beautiful city of Amman, Jordan at the University of Jordan. The  
language courses are offered Sunday through Thursday for 4 hours a  
day, taught by local faculty. Classes cover Modern Standard Arabic  
with the taste of the Colloquial Jordanian dialect.
Students will gain a greater understanding of the Middle East  
particularly Jordan. Students are required to interact with local  
people and expected to immerse themselves in the Jordanian society.

Visiting Cites: in addition to the daily cultural and social  
activities, we will visit the most exciting and exotic locations in  
the world: Petra and the Dead Sea, and weekend sight seeing to Dana  
and Ajloon-Um Qais.

Courses taught: students may choose one of these combination and earn  
up to 6 credits:

Beginning ARAB 110: must have basic knowledge of the script (6 credits)
Intermediate ARAB 210 (3 credits) and Gateway to advance ARAB 250 (3  
credits)
Intermediate ARAB I 201 (3 credits) and Intermediate ARAB II 202 (3  
credits)
Advanced reading and Conversation I and II, ARAB 330 and 331 (3  
credits each course.

Dates: June 28- July 30-2008

Housing: students will stay in a Hotel that is 10 min away from the  
university.

Price: $6,292 This price will include: airfare, tuition, housing, some  
meals, visa fees, excursion, ground transportation, ID card, travel  
guide, emergency evacuation insurance, pre-departure orientation and  
much more.
If you are out of state, the price will be the same.

Please visit our web site:
http://globaled.gmu.edu/Programs/summer/intarabicsummerjordan08.html

Deadline for the Applications is April 20th.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Salam,

Miss Sana Hilmi, M.A.
Arabic Professor and Coordinator
Modern and Classical Languages
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 3E5
Fairfax, VA 22030
Fax: 703-993-1245

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:more on colloquial summer programs
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:more on colloquial summer programs

More on colloquial summer programs; as it happens, I just got  
information
today about the Arabic program at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah,  
where you
can take 12 hours per week of spoken Palestinian Arabic or MSA or both.
Check the website:  *http://www.birzeit.edu/* <http://www.birzeit.edu/>

As is the case with many university websites, the Bir Zeit site is not
entirely intuative in its layout, so here are the classes offered:

_____________________________________

*The Palestine and Arabic Studies Program**
*__________________ ____________________

*Introduction *

The Palestine and Arabic Studies (PAS) Program is an academic program at
Birzeit University that offers international students the opportunity to
combine the study of the Arabic language with social science courses  
about
Palestine and the Arab World. International students carry out their  
studies
while experiencing first hand the political and social realities on the
ground.

Drawing upon its record of reputable language and social science  
professors,
Birzeit University has produced this comprehensive international study
program, offering accredited courses of academic quality, together  
with a
series of extra-curricular lectures and field trips. The year-round  
program
consists of three semesters, two regular semesters and one intensive  
summer
semester. Students may enroll at the beginning of any semester. The PAS
Program is open to university students and graduates from around the  
world,
those working in a field related to the Middle East, and those who  
wish to
gain an in-depth knowledge of the region, its language and cultures.

The PAS Program comprises Arabic language and social science courses  
from
which students may select a maximum of four courses during the regular
semesters or three courses in the summer. The Arabic courses include  
four
levels of Modern Standard Arabic and two levels of Colloquial Arabic
(Jerusalem dialect).

Arabic courses are designed to teach the language as an integral part  
of the
culture, while the social science courses, taught in English, provide
analyses of Arab and Palestinian issues in the disciplines of politics,
sociology, literature, and history. International students proficient in
Arabic may, with permission, take courses in various fields that are  
taught
in Arabic and offered within the university's regular program.  
International
students can also register for classes that are taught in English,  
such as
French, English, math, business and various economic courses along with
Birzeit University regular students.

_______________________________________________
*Arabic and Social Science Courses:
Study Options, Accreditation and Extra-Curricular
Activities*_______________________________________________

*Arabic Courses *

Birzeit University has offered courses in Arabic as a Foreign Language  
(AFL)
to non-native speakers for over eighteen years. The University's highly
qualified professors of AFL have drawn upon their extensive local and
international experience to formulate two streams of language courses  
for
the PAS Program: one in Modern Standard Arabic and one in Colloquial  
Arabic
(Jerusalem dialect).

Language placement tests are given at the beginning of the program (for
students who have previous knowledge in Arabic and not to beginners) to
ensure that each student is placed in the appropriate level. The levels
offered depend on student demand.

*MODERN STANDARD ARABIC *

*ARSK 131 - Modern Standard Arabic I* (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3  
credits.
Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students with no previous  
knowledge of
Modern Standard Arabic.

This course is designed for students requiring Arabic for academic  
purposes.
It introduces students to the Arabic script and phonology, and combines
training in the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and
speaking. Its methodology entails the introduction of basic vocabulary  
and
grammatical structures through oral communication activities, followed  
by
short readings and situational dialogues in which the newly introduced
structures are utilized.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular written
assignments;      achievement tests;   mid-term examination;     final
examination.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*ARSK 132 - Modern Standard Arabic II* (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3  
credits.
Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students who have completed the
prerequisite course, ARSK 131, or its equivalent.

Conducted entirely in Arabic, and using a communicative approach, this
course continues discussion of the basic structure of the Arabic
language beyond
the basics introduced in ARSK 131. It is designed to further develop the
four language skills using selected texts on various cultural, social  
and
political issues.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular written
assignments and achievement tests;     achievement tests;    mid-term
examinations;    final examination.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*ARSK 231 - Modern Standard Arabic III* (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3
credits. Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students who have  
completed
the prerequisite course, ARSK 132, or its equivalent.

This course continues to develop the four language skills by introducing
higher level literary and socio-political texts. Students improve their
ability to express more abstract ideas and opinions in oral and written
forms through the discussion of selected texts (mainly authentic),  
including
newspaper articles, and pieces from various literary genres.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular oral
presentations;      written assignments related to various texts;      a
final paper of 8-10 pages;    achievement tests;     mid-term
examinations;    final examination.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*ARSK 232 - Modern Standard Arabic IV* - (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3
credits. Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students who have  
completed
the prerequisite course, ARSK 231, or its equivalent.

The course is designed to increase students' ability to read items  
related
to social, economic, political and cultural life. The selected texts for
this course are authentic and introduced using content- based  
approach, were
content of texts are integrated with second language teaching aims.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular oral
presentations;      written assignments related to various texts;     a
final paper of 8-10 pages;    achievement tests;     mid-term
examinations;    final examination.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*COLLOQUIAL ARABIC *

*ARSK 133 - Colloquial Arabic I* - (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3 credits.
Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students with no previous  
knowledge of
Arabic, or with a basic knowledge of written Arabic, but without any
practice in spoken Arabic.

This course is designed to enable students to communicate in Arabic on a
basic level in order to deal with everyday life situations such as
introducing oneself and others; requesting and giving information;  
shopping;
talking about food; describing people, things and places; responding to
offers; and generally communicating in a courteous manner.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular oral
interviews;      regular group role-plays;      final oral proficiency
interview.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*ARSK 134 - Colloquial Arabic II* (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3 credits.
Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students with previous knowledge of
spoken Arabic, able to conduct conversations described in ARSK 133.

The aim of this course is to develop student's spoken Arabic skills for
everyday situations and promotes discussion skills for more specialized
conversations about cultural and social aspects of life. Student  
skills of
narration are developed by means of describing past events and daily
activities; placing themselves and others in time and space; giving
directions; and expressing facts, desires, hopes, obligations, and  
future
plans.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular oral
interviews;      regular group role-plays;      final oral proficiency
interview.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.



David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf Arabic Program Summer Program
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1) Subject:Gulf Arabic Program Summer Program

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Maria" <apple at swissmail.org>
Subject:Gulf Arabic Program Summer Program

Gulf Arabic Programme Intensive Summer Programme

The Gulf Arabic Programme is offering a one-month intensive course in  
colloquial Gulf Arabic from Sunday, June 29 until Thursday, July 24.  
The summer the course will be in Buraimi, Oman, a twin city to Al Ain,  
United Arab Emirates.

This course is for (almost) beginners. We require that students be  
able to read, write, pronounce and recognise the characters of the  
Arabic script before they arrive. We have placed this requirement on  
applicants because it is possible for students to acquire this  
familiarity at home using one of the many 'Teach Yourself' courses and  
it allows us to move straight into teaching the language. To help  
students see if they are sufficiently competent in the script to  
benefit from the course we have devised a self-test for the Arabic  
alphabet on our website.

This course concentrates on the spoken Arabic so no Modern Standard  
Arabic is taught. If you are interested in verbal communication with  
Gulf Arabs and with developing your speaking and listening skills then  
this course is for you. If you are interested in improving your  
reading and writing skills then it is not. Local native speakers will  
teach you everyday vocabulary and common expressions used by Arabic  
speakers in this part of the world, within a framework that teaches  
you to express yourself as Arabs would express themselves. Classes run  
from 8:00 a.m. until 2:40 p.m. every day with a one-hour lunch break.   
However, once the day's classes are over the learning continues!!  
Students will then need to spend 4 hours a day divided between   
'community learning' (spending time with local people) and private  
study (practising and preparing for classes).

By the end of the course it is expected that students will be at  
Novice High level on the ACTFL scale, i.e. be able to give and receive  
directions; use verbs in the past and (to some extent) the present and  
engage in very basic conversations in a few topics.

The total cost for the Intensive Summer Programme is AED 3500, this  
includes tuition fees and the course book. Students should also allow  
for AED 6 per day for travel to and from the institute. Please contact  
us if you would like more details on accommodation options.

For further details or application information please email to info at gapschool.net 
. Web: www.gapschool.net

-----------------------------------------------
Maria Persson Ph.D, Gulf Arabic Programme
P.O. Box 683, 512 Buraimi, Oman

and

Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics
Centre for Languages and Literature
Lund University
Box 201
221 00 Lund
Sweden

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of ll- responses
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From: "Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:use of ll- response

> The talk of apposition reminded me of another Arabic
> grammatical form I have seen numerous times in the
> Middle East, but never learned in school.  That is the
> use of the particle 'li' to link words, but not in
> normal idafa-like order.  Ex. 'Misr li-tayyaraan' for
> 'Egypt Airlines'.  Should this not be 'tayyaraan
> li-Misr' or just 'tayyaraan Misr'?

Probably ten other people will answer this, too, but it's "miSr
li-T-Tayaraan" (i.e. there's a definite article in there), and it
doesn't mean "Egypt's aviation", but rather something like "The Egypt
Aviation Company".  "Egypt" is in this case the name of the company,
and its purpose (indicated by "li") is aviation.  Company names are
often of the form PROPER NAME + "li" + FIELD, like "ramsis li-t-taSdir
wa-l-istirad" (Ramses Import/Export Co.).  In Egypt, you'll often see
these sorts of names translated into English as "Ramses for Import and
Export".

-- 
Benjamin Geer
Postgraduate student
Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:podcasts related to Al-Kitaab Part One
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:moderator
Subject:podcasts related to Al-Kitaab Part One

Your students may find the following Al-Kitaab Part One podcasts  
useful for homework: http://alkitaab.blogspot.com/

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr  7 20:10:31 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Muwashshahat refs
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:rania essa <drraniaessa at hotmail.com>
Subject:Muwashshahat refs

dear madam,
there are some good book about muashahat by many Arabic authers among  
them dr fawzy essa he is a proffesor of andalusian literature . ther  
is also the book of dr daied ghazy which called " diwan almushahat wa  
alazjal " but i think you can contact with dr fawzy essa he will be  
more helpful and here is his e-mail " drfawzyessa at hotmail.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac query
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1) Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac query
1) Subject:Dil's response

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac query
Subject:Alexander Elinson" <alexander.elinson at gmail.com>

Dear All,

The recent discussion has prompted this question: I am preparing some
Arabic text on a Mac using Mellel. When I have a letter with a shadda
and a short vowel over it, the short vowel shows up right on top of
the shadda, resulting in a smudge-like mark. This is both onscreen,
and when printed. I have tried different fonts, font sizes,
magnifications, etc., but to no avail. Is there a way to deal with
this so as to have a clearly vowelled text, shaddas and all?

Thank you,

Alexander Elinson
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Department of Classical and Oriental Studies
Hunter College of the City University of New York

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac query
Subject:Dil's response

I also cannot get vowel markings to work properly on Mellel.  You  
should know, however, that using the exact same font, and pasting the  
exact same text into Textedit, they work perfectly.  So if your text  
is not fancy in terms of formatting, you might just want to use  
Textedit for the ones where you need shaddas combined with vowels.  It  
also works fine on Indesign ME.
dil

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr  7 20:12:55 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:12:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:another ll- response
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From: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU>
Date: April 7, 2008 2:10:17 PM MDT
To: List arabic-l <arabic-l at listserv.byu.edu>
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of ll- responses

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From: "Srpko Lestaric" <srpkole at eunet.yu>
Subject:uanother ll- response

Hi Jonathan,
There's al-mu3arrif (a "definite article") omitted in your question,  
so the whole construction falls apart. The exacte title reads "miSr li- 
T-Tayaraan" (no "double" yaa' in Tayaraan!) and is an example of  
ellipsis as it stays for "sharika miSr li-T-Tayaraan". Knowing that,  
you see that everything is simple and in place.
Srpko Lestaric


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From: DILWORTH_PARKINSON at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Knut S. Vikør" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

I just joined the list today, but there seem already to be issues  
relating to my Arabic Mac interest...

The colleague had got it almost right, but just mixed up the culprit...

The attitude reported is that of Microsoft, not Apple. The reason is  
that Microsoft Office for Mac is to be as compatible as possible with  
Office for Windows. Support for Arabic is handled differently on the  
Mac and on Windows, so for Microsoft to support Arabic (and Hebrew) on  
the Mac, they would have to change that code element in Office, which  
would make it less compatible with its own Windows product. That could  
be done, but they made a choice several years ago (one must assume  
based on size of market base) that this was too costly, as they would  
then have to re-do it for every upgrade, and have refrained from doing  
so. It is part of the same calculation that stops them from supporting  
macros in the new Word 2008 for Mac: It can be done, but it is too  
costly, so they are not doing it.

For the technically minded, there was a small Catch-22 involved. Both  
Mac and Windows accept a type of fonts called OpenType. The element of  
OpenType that handles Arabic context analysis is something called  
Uniscribe, which was developed by Microsoft (which also made the  
OpenType system). But uniscribe did not do context analysis under the  
Mac system - and since it was Microsoft that owns and developed it,  
there was nothing Apple could do except to sit quietly and wait for  
Microsoft to upgrade this tool so that Apple also could use it... For  
this reason, Apple developed its own Arabic fonts, using a separate  
technology, and could not use the Arabic OpenType fonts you find on  
the Internet (Mellel and InDesign can, but that is because they  
developed in-house OpenType solutions, or hacks to be precise).

This last explains Dil's point 6, by the way: The font that wrecks  
Safari is Microsoft "Times New Roman", which the installer puts  
instead of the older Apple version of the same font. Apple's Times NR  
does not have Arabic characters. Microsoft's does, but it is an  
OpenType font. SO, before, when a web page with Arabic text asks for  
display in Times New Roman, Safari did not find any Arabic in that  
font, and substituted a real Apple Arabic font instead. Now, with the  
Microsoft Times NR installed, Safari *does* find Arabic characters in  
the requested font, and displays them. But since Times NR is an  
OpenType font, they cannot display as ligatures, only as separate  
characters.

In the latest Mac OS, 10.5, Apple finally has got support for Arabic  
OpenType fonts, I do not know yet if this is because Microsoft has  
relented and upgraded uniscribe, or whether Apple has made its own  
parallel hacks to handle them. But, as far as I have seen (I haven't  
upgraded to 10.5 / Word 2008 myself yet), Word still does not handle  
Arabic, so there were also other problems involved.

Knut S. Vikør
(not a computer person, this is just an interest)

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From: DILWORTH_PARKINSON at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Summer Academy Job
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:steven at berbeco.com
Subject:Arabic Summer Academy Job

The Arabic Summer Academy is seeking applications for a position as an  
Arabic language instructor. We are particularly interested in  
undergraduate and graduate students of Arabic from the Boston area.

Responsibilities include teaching first-year and second-year high  
school Arabic to students in a five week non-residential summer  
enrichment program. Instructors will also lead daily co-curricular  
activities. Instruction will be in Arabic.

Requirements include high-level fluency in both Arabic and English,  
high school or college level experience teaching Arabic, and  
experience working with high school students in an academic setting.

More information on the Arabic Summer Academy can be found here:

http://www.arabicsummeracademy.org

Applicants should send a letter of application with vita by April 30,  
2008.


Steven Berbeco
Teacher, Charlestown High School
Director, Arabic Summer Academy

Charlestown High School
240 Medford Street
Boston, MA 02129
http://boston.k12.ma.us/charlestown/arabic

Telephone: (617) 395-2600
Email: director at arabicsummeracademy.org

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From: DILWORTH_PARKINSON at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:book source responses
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2) Subject:book source response
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"tons" <tons at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:book source response

The second book Mujam alaghlaat can be downloaded from http://www.ahlalhdeeth.cc/vb/showthread.php?t=98995
Abbas Al-Tonsi

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:kalam la" <lakalam at gmail.com>
Subject:book source response


As for the second book, معجم الأخطاء الشائعة ،  
معجم يعالج الأخطاء اللغوية الشائعة  
ويبين تصويباتها مع الشرح والأمثلة /  
تأليف محمد العدناني., it's published by Maktabat  
Lubnān in Beirut in 1973. The website should be www.ldlp.com.
Although I couldn't find this dictionary in their online catalogue,  
you may ask the publisher directly by email.
Also, if you have access to the American University in Cairo, the  
library holds this dictionary in the reference shelf. (But the library  
will temporarily close from June 4 to September 13 for moving to the  
new campus, I heard.)

Good luck

lakalam
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Martine Pétrod <martine.petrod at webspeed.dk>
Subject:book source response

Hi

Try the neelwafurat online bookshop, they seem to have one of them :
http://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb133410-93539&search=books

Best
Martine Pétrod

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:jonathanlange at yahoo.com
Subject:use of ll-
> There's al-mu3arrif (a "definite article") omitted in your question,  
> so the whole construction falls apart. The exacte title reads "miSr  
> li-T-Tayaraan" (no "double" yaa' in Tayaraan!) and is an example of  
> ellipsis as it stays for "sharika miSr li-T-Tayaraan". Knowing that,  
> you see that everything is simple and in place.

Dil,

This response doesn't make sense to me.  This
grammatical pattern seems in many ways to me to be an
attempt at an imitation of indo-european compound word
syntax (Egypt Airlines = 'Misr l-l-Tayyaraan').  Am I
missing something?

-J

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"Ola Moshref" <omoshref at gmail.com>
Subject:'hair' etymology response

salaam

I don't know of a scientific reference for this. But my own native  
insight
is that because 'a hair' is so fine and delicate, and 'the feeling'  
senses
the slightest unseen facts, so both are essentially characterized by the
qualities of fineness and delicacy.

Ola Moshref
TA- UIUC

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:'hair' etymology response

Hair is a sensory organ.

David Wilmsen

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Zouheir Khalsi <list.khalsi at hotmail.com>
Subject:Tunisian Arabic book response

Hi

As far as I know, there is an in-house publication for teaching  
Tunisian Arabic at the Bourguiba Intstitute for Modern Languages,  
Tunis, Tunisia. I am an instructor myself at the Institute but I am  
teaching English. I'll check whether an how you can get a copy and  
tell you later.

Zouheir Khalsi
Bourguiba Intstitute for Modern Languages
University of Tunis El Manar

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac responses
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3) Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response
4) Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Michael Fishbein <fishbein at humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac

Although Mellel handles Arabic and the vowels very well, and will even  
allow the text of a Word document generated on Windows and opened as  
blank squares on the Mac to be cut and pasted into Mellel, whereupon  
it miraculously turns into Arabic, Mellel does not know how to  
position shadda plus another vowel over a consonant; the two overprint  
each other, both on the screen and when the file is printed.

I have found a work-around. Unicode includes single glyphs for shadda  
plus each of the vowels, and some of the Mac Arabic fonts can access  
these glyphs. I suggest putting them into your list of favorites in  
Character Palate, so that they are readily accessible. Also, to  
facilitate matters, one can type the combinations normally and then do  
a global search and replace in Mellel. It works beautifully. Into the  
Find box, type shadda and the vowel; in the Replace box insert the  
compound glyph from your favorites. One can even turn the search into  
a macro. Unfortunately, you cannot use an OR search to include all the  
combinations of shadda and a vowel, because the replacement needs to  
vary on the basis of what is found.

Put the following compound glyphs into your favorites ). Look under  
Unicode Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic Presentation Forms- 
B), the first number (hex) after Unicode is what you are looking for:

ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH FATHA (Unicode FC60, UTF8 EF B1 A0)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRA (Unicode FC62, UTF8 EF B1 A2)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMA (Unicode FC61, UTF8 EF B1 A1)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRA (Unicode FC62, UTF8 EF B1 A2)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMATAN (Unicode FC5E, UTF8 EF B1 9E)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRATAN (Unicode FC5F, UTF8 EF B1 9F)
ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALIF (Unicode 0670, UTF8 D9 B0)
ARABIC LETTER ALIF WASLA (Unicode 0671, UTF8 D9 B1
ARABIC LIGATURE ALLAH ISOLATED FORM (Unicode FDF2, UTF8 EF B7 B2)
ARABIC END OF AYAH (Unicode 06DD, UTF8 D8 9D)
ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE... (Unicode FDFA, UTF8 EF B7 BA)

Not all the Arabic fonts have all these glyphs. Bayan seems to have  
most of them, except for Alif Wasla, which will come out in a  
different font (and smaller). I have not located shadda with fathatan.


Michael Fishbein, Lecturer in Arabic
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
366 Humanities Building, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
tel. 310 206-2229


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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Connie Bobroff" <connieb at gmail.com>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

This series of Perso-Arabic fonts which can be used on both PC and Mac  
can
properly display short vowels and diacritics.
http://wiki.irmug.org/index.php/X_Series_2
I'm sorry I deleted the orignal post(s) on this subject but these  
fonts work
perfectly in Mellel and
all Mac applications.

-Connie Bobroff
University of Texas at Austin

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"Kevin Burnham" <kburnham at gmail.com>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

Hi,
I use Mellel on a MAC with the Scheherazade font and have no trouble  
putting
fathas on top of shaddas.  I believe it can be downloaded for free from
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ArabicFonts
.
Kevin Burnham

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4)
Date: 08 Apr 2008
From: "Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

Have you tried different fonts?  Under MS-Word the same effect -dot and
diacritic overlap-occurs with certain fonts, such as Arial.  However,  
if you
select all the text displaying this symptom then change the font to
Simplified Arabic, the display is fine.

Waheed

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"Knut S. Vikør" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

In a separate message today, I mentioned a bit about Arabic font  
types, and this is related. It is also relevant for complex Latin  
diacritics, by the way.

Apple has created a basic, operating system level, way of handling  
typography, that is to my eyes very flexible. One element of it, is  
that diacritics in either Arabic or Latin are aware of each of other  
and can relate to each other: If you have a font that can show both  
"dot under" and then "line under", try to type both onto the same  
character, in e.g. TextEdit, which uses the system typography resource  
only. You will see that the second one you type moves down so that  
both are visible. Some Semiticits do use "d with line under and dot  
under" for whom this will be useful. Even better, "dot above" over a  
lower-case character is placed just above it; over an upper-case  
character the same dot moves higher up, and is placed correctly in  
relation to, and also centrally placed whether it is a wide W or a  
narrow I.

Fine. However, as mentioned in the other mail, this system did not  
handle Arabic ligatures in certain fonts (of the OpenType kind). So,  
some programs do not use this system-level function, but create their  
own. Mellel is one such. It does mean it can use a much greater  
variety of Arabic fonts. But it also means that it must forgo this  
dynamic placement of diacritics, or recreate the complex typography  
behind it by itself. InDesign is a beautiful program, and can do lots  
of fine typography, but is unfortunately terribly expensive. Mellel is  
affordable, but you get the trade-off.

What to do? Well, what happens is that without these system-based  
adjustments, the program uses just what the font itself provides.  
Fonts actually do differ on this shadda + vowel combination. Most  
fonts will in Mellel do as you say, superimpose them. But a few do  
not. Apple's al-Bayan seems actually to work well. So do the two very  
nice SIL fonts, Lateef and Scheherazade, and a couple of WinSoft  
newest fonts (WinSoft Pro). But these are about it. The very nice set  
of Persian fonts available on Mellel's website (the X series),  
unfortunately do not [but I believe the producer is actively working  
on a new set of more sophisticated fonts which may work better].

Perhaps this will become more automatic in new OS, but since these  
finer things are ultimately about development time and costs, there  
may always be trade-offs.

(The program Dil does not mention, but which I prefer for Arabic text,  
is NisusWriter Pro. Its typography is Apple based, so it has all these  
niceties, but it is also as powerful as Mellel or more in terms of  
word processing, in my experience.)

Knut
<http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv>
- There is somewhere there a comment about the particular issue of  
shadda + kasra, which is an issue apart -

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic dictionary plug-in for Mac query
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:rsricks at gmail.com
Subject:Arabic dictionary plug-in for Mac query

http://lipflip.org/blog/lipflip/2008/02/dictcc-plugin-for-os-xs-dictionaryapp 
  is the link for the German-English plugin for Mac's dictionary.app.  
It would be fantastic (for translators, students, etc.) to have  
something analogous for Arabic.  Does anyone know of one that either  
exists or is under development?

RSR

P.S. I saw the comments about using Arabic on Macs. Have you used  
Pages (from Apple's iWork suite) at all? I've found that it does the  
job for most of my Arabic word processing/page layout needs. For those  
who can't afford InDesign, it's a feasible option.

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New LDC Arabic resources
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:New LDC Arabic resources

(2)  GALE Phase 1 Arabic Blog Parallel Text was prepared by the LDC  
and consists of 102K words (222 files) of Arabic blog text and its  
English translation from thirty-three sources. This release was used  
as training data in Phase 1 of the DARPA-funded GALE program.

The task of preparing this corpus involved four stages of work: data  
scouting, data harvesting, formatting, and data selection.

Data scouting involved manually searching the web for suitable blog  
text. Data scouts were assigned particular topics and genres along  
with a production target in order to focus their web search. Formal  
annotation guidelines and a customized annotation toolkit helped data  
scouts to manage the search process and to track progress.
Data scouts logged their decisions about potential text of interest  
(sites, threads and posts) to a database. A nightly process queried  
the annotation database and harvested all designated URLs. Whenever  
possible, the entire site was downloaded, not just the individual  
thread or post located by the data scout.

Once the text was downloaded, its format was standardized so that the  
data could be more easily integrated into downstream annotation  
processes. Typically a new script was required for each new domain  
name that was identified. After scripts were run, an optional manual  
process corrected any remaining formatting problems.

The selected documents were then reviewed for content suitability  
using a semi-automatic process. A statistical approach was used to  
rank a document's relevance to a set of already-selected documents  
labeled as "good." An annotator then reviewed the list of relevance- 
ranked documents and selected those which were suitable for a  
particular annotation task or for annotation in general.

After files were selected, they were reformatted into a human-readable  
translation format, and the files were then assigned to professional  
translators for careful translation. Translators followed LDC's GALE  
Translation guidelines, which describe the makeup of the translation  
team, the source, data format, the translation data format, best  
practices for translating certain linguistic features (such as names  
and speech disfluencies), and quality control procedures applied to  
completed translations.

All final data are in Tab Delimited Format (TDF). TDF is compatible  
with other transcription formats, such as the Transcriber format and  
AG format, and it is easy to process.  Each line of a TDF file  
corresponds to a speech segment and contains 13 tab delimited field.A  
source TDF file and its translation are the same except that the  
transcript in the source TDF is replaced by its English translation.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALPER Summer Workshops
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:gxa9 at psu.edu
Subject:CALPER Summer Workshops

enter for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research
at the Pennsylvania State University

U.S. Dept. of Education
Title VI Language Resource Center
Language Education for the 21st Century


Dear Colleagues,

Spring Break is passed and we are in the second half of our semester  
at Penn State. Now we are looking towards June, when we will hold our  
yearly workshop series for foreign language educators here on the main  
campus.

Over the past few years, many teachers traveled to State College and  
we spent an exciting time together learning about topics and issues  
very relevant to world language education.

Once again, we are looking forward to meeting new colleagues and re- 
connecting with participants from previous years and we hope to see  
you at University Park.

Gabriela Appel
Summer Workshops at Penn State
June 20 - Projects in Foreign Language Courses
June 21 - Language Portfolios
June 23-24 - Investigating Real Language
June 23-24 - New Technologies for Language Teaching and Learning
June 25-26 - Challenges in Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language  
Learners
June 25-26 - Investigating Language Use in Study Abroad
June 27-28 - Dynamic Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom


As in the past, ACT 48 credits are available to Pennsylvania teachers!  
Consult the entries on our workshop page.

Please visit our professional development web space for a more  
detailed overview of this year's workshop series in June.
Campus housing is open and you can make your housing arrangements  
directly with the Penn State Housing Office. Alternatively, reserve a  
room with one of the local hotels. You will find hotel information on  
our site.

Deadline for registration is: June 9, 2008.

CALPER Podcasts

Some time ago, we initiated our series of podcasts, in which we  
introduce and discuss current issues of interest to language  
educators. A free resource in an alternative medium, we hope that many  
of our colleagues find the information useful to their teaching  
practice.

In the series, there are two podcasts on topics that relate to this  
year's workshops and we invite you to listen in:

CALPER Podcast: "Corpora and their Use in Language Teaching"
An interview with Michael McCarthy, co-director of CALPER's Learner  
Corpora project, and author of among other works: Language as  
Discourse: Perspectives for Language Teaching (Longman) andFrom Corpus  
to Classroom (Cambridge). Professor Michael McCarthy explains some of  
the background information about the use of corpora and highlights  
some issues in the new area of working with corpora in language  
teaching. Working with corpora in language teaching or "Investigating  
Real Language" is the focus of the workshop that Professor McCarthy  
will conduct here at University Park in this exciting new field that  
will surely have an impact on teachers' practices.

CALPER Podcast: "Dynamic Assessment"
A conversation between James Lantolf and Matthew Poehner, co-directors  
of CALPER's project on Dynamic Assessment (DA) and authors of the  
Teacher's Guide to DA , which we published in 2007. Professors Lantolf  
and Poehner will conduct our workshop on "Dynamic Assessment", an  
innovative pedagogical approach that has gained significant momentum  
amongst teachers who are re-thinking the relationship between  
assessment and instruction in foreign language education.

Once you are on the CALPER Podcast Page, you will also find previous  
releases focusing on Computer-mediated-communication and newer CMC  
Tools such as the

CALPER Podcast: "Blogs in the FL Classroom"
Dana Webber, who teaches Spanish at the State College High School,  
collaborated with CALPER and in this recording shares her experiences  
with using "Blogs" with her Spanish students.

Teaching Materials:

For Teachers of Korean:
Korean Grammar in Discourse and Interaction
Unit 5: Noun Modifiers
Unit 6: Relative Clause Construction

Professor Susan Strauss, who is the director of our Korean project,  
made two more units in her series on "Korean Grammar in Discourse and  
Interaction" available to teachers of Korean. Both units are in pdf- 
format and can be downloaded from the web page of the Korean project  
atcalper.la.psu.edu/korean.php free of charge.

For Teachers of German:
If you are teaching high-intermediate and advanced learners of German,  
and would like to explore a new approach to teaching modal particles  
you might be interested in "Teaching German Modal Particles: A Corpus- 
based Approach" by Nina Vyatkina and Karen E. Johnson. The  
instructional sequence in this workbook moves from simple to complex  
awareness raising activities. Seven handouts contain explicit  
information on modal particles; ten worksheets engage learners in  
noticing, defining, analyzing, and using modal particles. Worksheets  
and handouts are ready to be copied for classroom use. For more  
details click here
Conferences

IUP Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching
Plenary Speaker: Professor Renate Schulz, University of Arizona
Date: April 18, 2008
Location: Holiday Inn, Indiana, PA

Indiana University of Pennsylvania will hold its Spring Methodology  
Conference soon. Once again, you can look forward to this yearly event  
that brings you exciting new ideas that you can take back to your  
classroom, current issues in language education for you to discuss,  
opportunities for you to network with other language professionals,  
and the latest textbooks and materials for you to peruse. As in the  
past, you will receive six hours Pennsylvania Act 48 professional  
education credits. We hope to see PA teachers at the conference, where  
CALPER will display some of its resources and materials! more  
information.
20th Annual Conference of CATJ
Theme: Towards Advanced Japanese Language Proficiency
Plenary Speakers: Professor Steven Thorne, Penn State and Professor  
Mari Noda, Ohio State
Date: May 31 - June 1, 2008
Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Co-sponsored by the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures and  
the Center for East Asian Studies at UW-Madison, CALPER at Penn State,  
and the National East Asian Language Resource Center at the Ohio State  
University.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State University and Penn  
State paired up with the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese  
to bring the annual conference of the organization to Madison this  
year. The program of CATJ 20 has now been finalized and a preview is  
available at the conference site. Please visit the conference website  
for updated information. We hope to see many of our colleagues in  
Madison!
We also maintain an up-to-date calendar of conferences and events on  
our web site. If you would like to suggest an event to be included in  
the calendar, please send information to Vickie Lucas at the CALPER  
office.
In the News

National Language Service Corps Recruitment Began.The National  
Language Service Corps (NLSC) is a civilian corps of volunteers with  
certified expertise in languages important to the security and welfare  
of the United States. Run by the Department of Defense, the corps is  
to consist of volunteers willing to serve as on-call Federal  
employees. The NLSC is an integral component of the Department of  
Defense Language Transformation Plan and the President's National  
Security Language Initiative. Recruitment will continue over the next  
two years. Currently, the languages for which volunteers are sought,  
are: Mandarin Chinese, Hausa, Somali, Swahili, Hindi, Indonesian,  
Vietnamese, and Russian. National Language Service Corps
Tennessee Senate Bill. Recently, the General Assembly of the State of  
Tennessee passed Senate Bill 2980 that urges the State Board of  
Education to develop guidelines for fostering fluency in a foreign  
language. The guidelines are to be used by Local Education Agencies  
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UPenn Summer Intensive Arabic Courses
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:emad at sas.upenn.edu
Subject:UPenn Summer Intensive Arabic Courses

UPenn Summer Intensive Arabic Program

ARAB 131-910. Intensive Elementary Arabic I & II. (Jamal Ali and  
Mbarek Sryfi)
Prerequisite: None
This is a six- week intensive course offered in the summer through the  
Office of Summer
Sessions; (see Penn Summer Course Guide.)
  This is the beginners course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It  
introduce learners to the speaking, listening, reading, and writing  
skills in the standard means of communication in the Arab world. The  
course is proficiency-based, implying that all activities are aimed at  
placing you, the learner, in the context of the native-speaking  
environment from the very beginning. Evaluation is done by the more  
traditional testing methods (vocabulary tests, dictations, grammar and  
translation exercises). We anticipate that by the end of this course  
students will range in proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate  
Low on the ACTFL scale; in other words (using the terminology of the  
government's Foreign Service Institute), from 'incipient survival' to  
'full survival' in the native-speaking environment. (see course  
description for more details).

ARAB 133-910. Intermediate Arabic I & II. (Hassan Nitami)
Prerequisite: ARAB 031-032  or ARAB 131-910
This is a six- weeks intensive course offered in the summer through  
the Office of Summer Sessions; see Penn Summer Course Guide.) This is  
the continuation of ARAB 031-032,  or ARAB 131-910 the elementary  
course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This course is also  
proficiency-based, implying that all activities within the course are  
aimed at placing you, the learner, in the context of the native- 
speaking environment from the very beginning. As in ARAB 031-032,  and  
131-910 evaluation is done by the more traditional testing methods  
(vocabulary tests, grammar and translation exercises). Completion of  
this course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences' language  
requirement in Arabic. However, it should be emphasized that you will  
need a longer period of study to achieve proficiency in Arabic. We  
anticipate that students range from Intermediate Low to Intermediate  
High according to ACTFL scale.
For inquiries, please contact
Emad Rushdie
Lecturer in Foreign Languages
Coordinator of the Arabic Language Program
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
847 Williams Hall
255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel/(215)898-7466
E-mail: emad at sas.upenn.edu

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology
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2) Subject:'hair' etymology

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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:"jmurg" <jmurg at cox.net>
Subject:'hair' etymology

One of my professors used to refer to "non-synonymous, homophonous  
roots." It will be interesting to see what the Arabic-L verdict is on  
this!
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:Uri Horesh <urih at mail.utexas.edu>
Subject:'hair' etymology

I haven't checked this thoroughly, but here's my two-cents' worth  
based on a
synchronic analysis with Hebrew and my knowledge of comparative Semitic:

Hebrew has two distinct roots:

sh-3-r for verbs such as /she:3e:r/ (/shier/ in Modern Hebrew),  
'estimate'

s'-3-r for the noun /s'e:3a:r/ (/sear/ in MH), 'hair'

I am using /s'/ here to represent the "third sibilant", historically
reconstructed as a voiceless lateral fricative. In MH it has merged in
pronunciation with /s/, but is still written as a "shin" with a  
diacritical
dot on the left (as opposed to the "regular" shin with a diacritical  
on the
right, pronounced /sh/).

While Arabic has 28 consonantal phonemes, more than any living Semitic
language, it lacks that 29th consonant. Only Epigraphic South Arabian  
has
graphemes for 29 consonants. Tiberian Hebrew has 22 graphemes, but  
with that
diacritic really has 23 consonantal phonemes. That 23rd Hebrew phoneme  
is
associated with the 29th ESA phoneme, the only Proto-Semitic phoneme not
attested in Arabic. The Ethiopic script also has three graphemes,  
though in
modern Ethiopian languages (e.g., Amharic), they are all pronounced /s/.

What happened in Arabic, historically (i.e., prior to the  
solidification of
Arabic orthography as we know it) is that /s'/ and /sh/ have merged  
as /sh/.

The real picture is really a bit more complex, because Arabic /sh/  
usually
corresponds with Hebrew /s/, not Hebrew /sh/, but there are individual
exceptions, even within a single word, e.g., Arabic /shams/ and Hebrew
/shemesh/.

It is therefore my conclusion that Arabic /sha3r/ 'hair' should be
reconstructed as Proto-Semitic /s'a3r/ (root s'-3-r), whereas Arabic
/sha3ara/ 'feel' is cognate with Hebrew /she:3e:r/ 'estimate' and  
should be
reconstructed as having derived from PS root sh-3-r.

What to do with the Arabic root s-3-r is another question that has to be
dealt with in this context, but the solution to that problem, I believe,
will be immaterial to the question at hand.

So I'd cease looking for explanations linking 'hair' with 'sense' or
'feeling' and stick to the evidence provided across Semitic languages.

Comments are welcome.

Uri Horesh
http://www.endhomophobia.org

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:March AATA Newsletter out
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From:moderator
Subject:March AATA Newsletter out

The AATA newsletter for March 2008 has been released, and it is full  
of job listings (some of which have appeared here), summer programs,  
and a variety of other information.  Check it out.
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs intensive summer program in Syria
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:"Christian Sinclair" <christian.sinclair at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs intensive summer program in Syria

Greetings,
I have a student who was planning on participating in the Damascus  
Summer
Arabic Program but just found out it wouldn't be running this summer.   
She's
looking for an alternate program that provides at least 120 contacts  
hours
in MSA.  She's looking at IFEAD as a possibility.  Does anyone know of  
other
programs?  She would like to be in Damascus.  Aleppo is also of  
interest to
her.

Please respond directly to the student, Andrea Shaheen, at
ashaheen at email.arizona.edu.

best,
Christian Sinclair
University of Arizona
Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Second Lang. for Business Comm. Summer Institute
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:LauderCiber at wharton.upenn.edu
Subject:Second Lang. for Business Comm. Summer Institute

Penn Lauder CIBER is proud to announce our
Sixth Annual
Summer Institute for Teaching a Second Language for Business  
Communication
June 23-27, 2008.

Lauder Institute at the Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Registration deadline is June 2, 2008

Institute Overview:
·         Designed primarily for secondary and post-secondary language  
educators, this program provides an overview of basic business  
concepts, combined with discussions of current issues in language- 
teaching methodology and curriculum design.
·         The institute is team-taught by Mr. Carlos Menendez, a  
Wharton/Lauder graduate, and Dr. Cheri Micheau of Penn’s Graduate  
School of Education.
·         Participants work on group projects in which they design  
curriculum modules that apply the concepts addressed during the program.
·         After the Institute, participants receive a compilation of  
all the projects to enable them to adapt and use the modules in their  
own classroom situations.
·         This year’s participants will also have the opportunity to  
participate in a partnership program with the Wharton School and  
Penn’s Graduate School of Education.  The dualTeaching Language for  
Business Communication Certificate prepares graduates to develop and  
teach courses in business language.  For further information please  
contact us at lauderciber at wharton.upenn.edu


Registration:
·         The cost of the program is $450, which covers all program  
materials and lunch each day.
·         There is an additional $75 state-processing fee for  
Pennsylvania public school teachers who elect to receive continuing  
education credit under Pennsylvania’s Act 48.
·         We offer a 20% discount to participants who register with a  
colleague.

If you or your colleagues would like more information or have any  
questions about either program, please feel free to contact us at lauderciber at wharton.upenn.edu 
  or visit our website at http://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/ciber.

Kathryn M. Homa
Program Coordinator
Penn Lauder CIBER
The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies
Lauder-Fischer Hall, 2nd Floor
256 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
Ph: 215.898.4642
Fax: 215.898.2067
Email: khoma at wharton.upenn.edu
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr  9 14:30:36 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of ll-
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From: Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:use of ll-

This specific example --sharikat miSr liTTayaraan, شركة مصر  
للطيران--  might
warrant a different interpretation.
The company name is miSr (مصر).  Hence one gets شركة مصر,  
which loosely
means: The Egypt Company.  At this juncture, when introducing the term
'aviation' (or a term to that effect), one can get something like:
شركة طيران مصر, which is a problem because مصر can be an  
amplifying term to
either شركة or طيران.
It is not possible to do شركة مصر and then follow that construct  
with the
term طيران:
*شركة مصر طيران.
In such instances, the لِ provides a solution: شركة مصر  
للطيران.
There are several such companies in Egypt whose name begins with  
شركة مصر:
The Egypt Company (for something or another):
شركة مصر للألومنيوم
شركة مصر لإدارة الأصول العقارية
شركة مصر للغزل والنسيج

The use of "li" to break up an idafa is common.  One reason seems to  
be to
disambiguate without being obliged to use case marking; والله  
أعلم.

Waheed

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:06:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tunisian Arabic textbooks
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:taoufiq ben amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Tunisian Arabic textbooks

I have published in 1988 a book for the Peace Corps entitled: A  
Beginner's Course in Tunisian Arabic. unfortunately, it is not easy to  
find hard copies of it. To my dismay, however, i found it in a  
downloadable version on the internet. Someone put it up there without  
even asking for my permission. Since it is available, you might as  
well use it  if you can actually open the file, which i cannot.

here is the link (please scroll down and look under Arabic):

http://goto.glocalnet.net/maho/webresources/semitic.html

here are some of the titles listed on this site:

Rached ben Abdelkader, others
Tunisian Arabic (PDF). Peace Corps Tunisia.
eric.ed.gov (ED401742)

Taoufik ben Amor
A beginner's course in Tunisian Arabic (PDF). Peace Corps Tunisia.
eric.ed.gov (ED402739)

Abdessalem Choura
Tunisian Arabic: competency based language education curriculum guide  
(PDF). Peace Corps Tunisia.
eric.ed.gov (ED402755)

the Peace Corps has also issued a while ago a phrasebook for Tunisian  
Arabic, not a full course, but still helpful.

Best of luck,

Taoufik Ben Amor
Columbia University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs info on teaching Arabic children with
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Hana Abu Khadra Salem" <hana.abukhadra at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs info on teaching Arabic children with disabilities

Greetings,

I was referred to you by Professor Lina Choueiri from the American
University of Beirut. I am looking for information about the
psycholinguistics of the Arabic language. My interest is to try to
find strategies to help children with intellectual disabilities  
particularly
kids with Down Syndrome learn reading. Please advice.

Hana Abu Khadra

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"kalam la" <lakalam at gmail.com>
Subject:'hair' etymology

  thank Uri for his explanation by Hebrew. I also tried Hebrew, but I  
could
find only s'e:3a:r meaning 'hair'.
We can't do etymological study without referring to other Semitic  
languages.
To reinforce a hypothesis, we should check the words of this root in
other Semitic languages such as Assyrian, Babylonian, Aramaic and  
Syrian.
Unfortunately I couldn't find any dictionary of these languages in my
university. So I'll expect contribution of the specialists of these
languages.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:58:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Website for Summer Startalk Programs
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1) Subject:Website for Summer Startalk Programs

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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:Kirk Belnap <belnap at byu.edu>
Subject:Website for Summer Startalk Programs

There are a number of places around the country where high school  
students will be able to study Arabic intensively this year, funded by  
the Startalk initiative.  Besides Arabic, programs also exist for  
Chinese, Hindi, Persian and Urdu.  For more information (including  
curricular materials and tools of interest to all language teachers),  
please see: http://startalk.umd.edu/


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:arabic named entity recognition
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:from CORPORA
Subject:arabic named entity recognition

[I thought some of you might find this exchange from CORPORA  
interesting.  dil]

Dear all,

I wonder if there is an available named entity recognition system that  
could be used for an arabic Question-Answering system?
Thanks in advance.

Wissal BRINI

Master student
MIRACL Laboratory
Sfax, TUNISIA

______

If you can afford a commercial system, check out software from Basis
Technology, http://basistech.com .

					Seth

________


or better yet Inxight's thingfinder:

http://www.inxight.com/products/sdks/tf/


-Ronald P. Reck

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Goucher College Job
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Elizabeth M. Bergman" <emb at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Goucher College Job

Please note that the application deadline has been extended.

Half-Time Instructor, Arabic

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Goucher College  
invites applications for a half-time instructor in Arabic Language to  
begin Fall 2008. We seek an energetic individual who will contribute  
to a dynamic and growing Arabic language program. Native or near- 
native proficiency in Arabic, previous collegiate teaching experience,  
and experience in proficiency-based language instruction a must; Ph.D.  
preferred, but candidates with an MA will be considered.  The  
successful candidate must be able to teach 2 courses a semester in  
Modern Standard Arabic at the introductory, elementary, and  
intermediate levels, advise students in Arabic, and further develop  
the Arabic program.

Interested applicants should respond with a letter of application,  
curriculum vitae, and 3 letters of reference to: Arabic Search  
Committee, c/o Human Resources, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley  
Rd, Baltimore, MD 21204-2794.  Review of applications will continue  
until position is filled. EOE.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs suggestions for Third Year texts
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Hirchi,Mohammed" <Mohammed.Hirchi at ColoState.EDU>
Subject:Needs suggestions for Third Year texts

Dear Colleagues,

I will be teaching a third year Arabic class this coming fall with a  
focus on Reading & Writing and I would like to know if you have any  
textbooks to suggest for the course.

Thank you for your input.

-Mohammed

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&LING&GEN:Edinburgh Conference on Arabic on Campus
 and Beyond
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:Elisabeth Kendall <elisabeth.kendall at ed.ac.uk>
Subject:Edinburgh Conference on Arabic on Campus and Beyond

Conference: Arabic on Campus and Beyond

Location: University of Edinburgh, UK (Martin Hall, New College, Mound  
Place)

Date: 25 April 2008

Organizer: Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a  
collaborative initiative comprising the Universities of Edinburgh,  
Durham and Manchester

Sponsors: CMEIS University of Cambridge, LLAS, CASAW (funded by ESRC,  
AHRC, SFC, HEFCE)

Aim: The main aim of the conference is to enable students and teachers  
of Arabic at UK institutions to share perspectives and experiences of  
the way Arabic is taught - at universities, schools, and in other  
professional environments. The final session compares the challenges  
and opportunities facing students and teachers of a range of  
strategically important languages: Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and  
Russian.

To Book a Free Place: Contact Sophie Lowry on Sophie.Lowry at ed.ac.uk or  
+44 (0)131 650 6814

Outline of Day:
Sessions will run consecutively through the day, with breaks for  
refreshments and lunch. Each session will open with a panel of four  
expert speakers, followed by a chaired question and answer and  
discussion session from the floor.

10.30am
Coffee

10.45am
Welcome by Professor Yasir Suleiman and Dr Elisabeth Kendall

11.00am
Session 1 – Learners’ Perspectives

12.15pm

Session 2 – Resources

1.30pm

Lunch
2.45pm

Session 3 – Arabic beyond Campus
4.00pm

Coffee
4.15pm
Session 4 – Comparative Perspectives

5.30pm

Conclusion

5.35pm

End


Session 1 – “Living Arabic”: Learners’ Perspectives

Purpose
This session invites students to reflect critically on their  
experiences of their year abroad.

Chair: Paul Anderson (Edinburgh)
Panel:
Yonatan Mendel (Cambridge)
Luke Peterson (Cambridge)
Lindsay Stewart (St Andrews) (tbc)
Edinburgh student (tbc)


Session 2 – “Resourcing the Future”

Purpose
This session invites practitioners to reflect critically on the  
resources they use in teaching Arabic.

Chair: Philip Sadgrove (Manchester)
Panel:
Shahla Suleiman (Edinburgh)
Otared Haidar (Oxford)
Manuela Giolfo (Exeter)
Mourad Diouri (Edinburgh)


Session 3 – Arabic Beyond Campus

Purpose
This session focuses on the methods and objectives of Arabic teaching  
outside universities, and the demands and needs for Arabic language  
expertise beyond universities.

Chair: Paul Starkey (Durham)
Panel:
Amal Ayoubi (SOAS)
Anissa Daoudi (Durham)
Haroon Shirwani (Eton)
Defence School of Languages speaker


Session 4 – “How hard is hard?” – Arabic in a Comparative Perspective

Purpose
This session considers similarities and differences in the way that  
“hard” languages are taught in the UK, and in particular the role of  
technology in teaching. The panel will consist of Russian, Arabic,  
Chinese and Japanese teachers working at ESRC-funded language-based  
area studies centres.

Chair: Yasir Suleiman (Cambridge)
Panel:
Shioyun Kan (Chinese ESRC centre – BICC)
Margaret Tejerizo (Russian ESRC centre – CEELBAS)
James Dickins (Salford - Arabic)
Tom McAuley (Japanese ESRC centre – White Rose)


  ______________
Dr Elisabeth Kendall
Director, Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World

Administrative Address:
University of Edinburgh
16-19 George Square
Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, U.K.

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 14 15:18:41 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALPER newsletter URL
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:gxa9 at psu.edu
Subject:CALPER newsletter URL

Dear Colleagues, several of our subscribers received our last CALPER E- 
News in less than intact formatting.

Therefore, we had to find a permanent space for the newsletter on our  
site. Here is the link to our E-News, where we will display the  
current issue:

http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsletter.php
Thank you,
Gabriela Appel
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)
Penn State

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Advanced Arabic Summer Program at Wesleyan U.
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1) Subject:Advanced Arabic Summer Program at Wesleyan U.

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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:yhamed at wesleyan.edu
Subject:Advanced Arabic Summer Program at Wesleyan U.

Summer Language Institute at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan offers the uncommon opportunity to study colloquial Levantine
Arabic and advanced Modern Standard in summer immersion. In this  
intensive
four-week session, you will study continuously: in class, in  
conversation
sessions, in your Arabic housing, at the Arabic dining table, and in
ongoing Arabic-themed activities designed for fun and practice.
Program Date: June 2-27, 2008
LANG 355: Intensive Advanced Modern Standard Arabic
Faculty: Yasir Hamed
Language Assistant: Abdulrahman Nasser
Third year Arabic emphasizes proficiency in reading, writing, listening,
speaking, and conversation skills. Simultaneously develops vocabulary,
functional communication skills, and the culture of the Arab world with
more focus on understanding grammar construction, syntax and morphology.
Activities (subject to change):
•	Daily showings of short educational video clips
•	Twice-weekly showings of a feature Arabic movie
•	Daily in-class conversation performances based on the theme or topic  
for
that day
•	Weekly skits
•	End of the session performance (longer skit)
•	Visits to local Arabic stores/restaurant in New Haven
•	A visit to New York City to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art's
collection of Islamic art and to explore the vibrant life of Brooklyn's
Atlantic Avenue, the heart of New York's Arab-American community
•	Cooking Arab cuisine in Arabic
•	Additional activities include dances, music, sports and more.
LANG 359: Intensive Introduction to Levantine Colloquial Arabic
Faculty: Bruce Masters
Language Assistant: Halim Farouk Rizk
Learn Arabic as it is actually spoken in the Levant:  Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. The text uses a  
phonetic
Latin transcription. The Arabic script will not be used. Emphasis will  
be
on language needed for everyday situations, speaking, and aural
comprehension. Students should have one year of modern standard Arabic.
Heritage speakers (children/spouses of native speakers) without previous
Arabic study may be eligible with permission of the instructor.
Activities (subject to change):
•	Twice-weekly showings of feature films, produced in Lebanon, Syria,
Israel, and the Palestinian territories in the Levantine dialect
•	Cooking Arab cuisine in Arabic
•	Learning Arab folk-dances and popular songs in the Levantine dialect
•	A visit to New York City to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art's
collection of Islamic art and to explore the vibrant life of Brooklyn's
Atlantic Avenue, the heart of New York's Arab-American community
•	Additional activities include dances, music, sports and more

For more info, please, visit www.wesleyan.edu/summer
or send an email to: summer at wesleyan.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 14 15:18:48 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tunisian Arabic Textbooks
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Dora Johnson" <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:Tunisian Arabic Textbooks

[the reference is to taoufiq ben amor's message about Tunisian Arabic  
textbooks.]

The ED numbers next to the texts listed below mean that they are also
available from ERIC (Educational Research Information Center). Older
pubications are sometimes not available in full text, but I just checked
and it looks like these are available in full text, so you can also
download them from there. www.eric.ed.gov. Type in "Tunisian Arabic"
into the search field. It will give you some other things also, but you
can find the referenced textbooks.

Dora Johnson

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Ali Darwish contact info
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:adil at hum.ku.dk
Subject:Ali Darwish contact info

Here is Ali Darwish email. You may kindly contact him. Best regards
Adil Al-Kufaishi
"Ali Darwish" <darwish at surf.net.au>


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NPR report on Studying Arabic in Syria
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1) Subject:NPR report on Studying Arabic in Syria

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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:NPR report on Studying Arabic in Syria

National Public Radio (NPR) reported from Syria this Saturday morning  
about American and British students studying Arabic there and  
interviewed some of them. If interested, you can go to the web site  
below and read a synopsis and/or listen to the 5-minute report  
entitled "Syria Sees Influx of Arabic Language Students" by Peter  
Kenyon.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89466433

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Bergen Job--new deadline
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1) Subject:U. of Bergen Job--new deadline

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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at if.uib.no>
Subject:U. of Bergen Job--new deadline

UPDATE - NEW DEADLINE MAY 10

The position of Professor/Associate Professor of Arabic at the  
University of Bergen was advertised internationally with a very short  
deadline (April 26), though not especially short by local standards  
for other more usual fields. Moreover, the link to guidelines for  
applicants was inadvertently to a page only in Norwegian.

Because of this, the problematic links have been deleted from both the  
English and the Norwegian texts of the job advertisement, which itself  
contains the information needed to apply.

Likewise, the deadline for application has been extended by 14 days to  
May 10. See http://melding.uib.no/doc/Ledige_stillinger/1206517042.html.

Please note that the deadline is the date of the postmark on one’s  
application, not the date the application reaches the University of  
Bergen. If possible, check to make sure the postmark on your  
application is legible.

The combination of a short deadline and missing links may have led  
some persons interested in the position not to apply, on the  
assumption that there already were preferred candidates in line and  
that the advertisement was merely a pro forma exercise.

This is not the case. The position was advertised with the intention  
that all qualified applicants with a doctorate (a prerequisite) and a  
reasonable publication record would be considered without  
discrimination. The short deadline had to do with administrative  
concerns.

All interested persons with the necessary qualifications are therefore  
encouraged to apply.

Please note that publications to be considered for evaluation may be  
sent “within one month of the expiry of the application deadline”.

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

The official languages of instruction are Norwegian and (secondarily)  
Arabic, as stated in the job advertisement and as is in line with  
French, German, and other languages taught in our department. However  
no one will have to prepare a series of lectures in Arabic anytime  
soon. Lectures are held during the first four semesters of full-time  
study. During such a short period, it is not possible to assume that  
all in a particular class of Norwegian students will be able to follow  
serious lectures in Arabic, whereas they will all understand English.  
In practice, therefore, the language of instruction is Norwegian, or  
English, until an appointee has gained sufficient command of  
Norwegian. Arabic is used as one of the languages of instruction in  
lower level conversation classes. It may also be used when  
communicating with advanced students at the master’s or doctoral  
level, but this is something that is decided between student and  
advisor. Ability to teach in English is consequently an assumed, if  
unstated, condition for employment for those who cannot teach in a  
Scandinavian language.

INFORMATION FOR FOREIGN EMPLOYEES

The link here contains a wealth of useful information for potential  
foreign applicants: http://uib.no/english/Guests/

Regards,

Joseph Bell
Retiring Professor of Arabic

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From: DSTEWAR at LEARNLINK.EMORY.EDU (Devin Stewart)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:24:06 -0400
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:arabic named entity recognition
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From: DSTEWAR at LEARNLINK.EMORY.EDU (Devin Stewart)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:24:13 -0400
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Goucher College Job
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Indo-Islamic Art and Arch. books
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Global Media Publications" <publicationsgm at gmail.com>
Subject:Indo-Islamic Art and Arch. books

Some new titles on Indo-Islamic Mughal art and Architecture published in
2008

*(Shop online at our secure online bookstore:  
**www.gmpublications.com**. We
have one of the largest collections of books on Art, Feminism,  
Education,
Human rights, Biographies, Christianity, Islam, Islamic Law, Law, South
Asia, Pakistan, terrorism and History etc. (If you don't want to order
online please contact us by mail or telephone.)*


Indian Miniatures : The Library of A. Chester Beatty By J.V.S. Wilkinson
(ed. revsed)  Sir Thomas W. Arnold   Physical Description: 37 cm., pp.  
144,
ills. 20 colour & 84 b/w Year of Publication: 2008
http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25639

*Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture : Hindu, Buddhist, Jain &  
Islamic :
Vol. 1 (Hindu) *

By D.P. Sharma , Dulari Qureshi,  K.M. Suresh

ISBN: 8180901744

Physical Description: 488 pages, plates, fig

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25633


*Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture : Hindu, Buddhist, Jain &  
Islamic :
Vol 2 (Buddhist) *

By D.P. Sharma, Dulari Qureshi, K.M. Suresh

ISBN: 8180901751

Physical Description: 424 pages, fig, plates

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25634


*Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture : Hindu, Buddhist, Jain &  
Islamic :
Volume 4 (Islamic) *

By D.P. Sharma, Dulari Qureshi, K.M. Suresh

ISBN: 8180901775

Physical Description: 354 pages, plates, figures

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25632


*Encyclopedia of Indian Heritage and Culture (11 Volume set) *

By Devendra Mishra, K.L. Chanchreek, Mahesh K Jain

ISBN: 8183292474

Physical Description: 4094 pages, fig, plates

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25636


Indian Classical Music and Gharana Tradition

By RC Mehta

ISBN: 8189973096

Physical Description: 252 pages

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25637

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic dictionary plugin
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic dictionary plugin

There's Verbace:
http://www.verbace.com/

I don't know whether there's a version for the Mac.

Waheed

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From: DSTEWAR at LEARNLINK.EMORY.EDU (Devin Stewart)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:23:56 -0400
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology
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From: DSTEWAR at LEARNLINK.EMORY.EDU (Devin Stewart)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:23:37 -0400
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Website for Summer Startalk Programs
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:more on arabic named entity recognition
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:from CORPORA
Subject:more on arabic named entity recognition

Hi Wissal,

You can download NooJ and its Arabic resources (www.nooj4nlp.net).

The syntactic parser of NooJ locates named entities using local  
grammars and produces outputs. These outputs can be used in a Question- 
Answering system.

Regards,

Slim Mesfar

____________________


Hi Wissal,

Try this,

http://www.dsic.upv.es/~ybenajiba/

Thanks
Abdusalam Nwesri
PhD Candidate,
School of Computer Science and IT,
RMIT University,
Melbourne,
Australia

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs help with Old Mac to New Mac Arabic Conversion
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:Rose Aslan <rsaslan at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs help with Old Mac to New Mac Arabic Conversion

Hello,

Could any Mac experts help me out here? Someone I know has a really
old Mac from back in the days when Arabic worked really well on the
Mac platform. He has a bunch of Arabic-language documents that I want  
to be able to transfer onto my MacBook so I can
access and modify them. I believe he uses an Arabic program called
"al-nashar al-sahafi," for word processing on his Mac, I use Nisus Pro
for word-processing in Arabic and MS Word for English. Neither I nor
my acquaintance have any idea how to transfer these files onto my
computer, any suggestions?

shukran,
Rose

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs piece on Arabic programs in Higher Ed and K-12
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:ValerieSmi at aol.com
Subject:Needs piece on Arabic programs in Higher Ed and K-12

My colleagues at the AAI Foundation are looking for a relatively  
short, sweet, accessible piece on Arabic programs  both in higher ed  
and K-12 to use as an "overnight reading" assignmet in preparation for  
a participant disucssion on the second day of the NCORE (National  
Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education)  
conference in May.   If you know of any appropriate resources, please  
let us know.

Valerie Smith
Helen Samhan  hsamhan at aaiusa.org
Sabeen Altaf  saltaf at aaiusa.org

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 16 18:23:22 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Third Year text suggestions
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:yhamed at wesleyan.edu
Subject:Third Year text suggestions

Hello Mohammed,
I suggest the Al-kitab Al-asasi: Arabic for Non-Native Speakers The
Essential Coursebook, Volume II. This is an ARABIC ONLY textbook and  
is a
great source of reading Arabic text without English interruption. Also,
students will be able to  do extra writing through exercises and
specialized texts.
Below, find more info about the book:
Al-kitab Al-asasi: Arabic for Non-Native Speakers The Essential  
Coursebook
Author: El Said Badawi
Language: Arabic
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: October 2006
Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Pr
Dimensions:10.5"H x 8"W x 1"D; 2.45 lbs.
ISBN-10: 9774160231
ISBN-13: 9789774160233
List Price: $29.95
I hope this is helpful
Best regards
_____________________________
Yasir G. Hamed
Visiting Instructor in Arabic
Less Commonly Taught Languages
Fisk Hall, Room 410
www.wesleyan.edu/lctls

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Moroccan Arabic Substitution Language
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Book on Moroccan Arabic Substitution Language

[moderator's note: I have no Idea what the question marks are supposed  
to be.  they were there in the original.]

Title: The Moroccan Arabic Substitution ?u?
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 21

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu
	
Author: Nasser Berjaoui

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895861901 Pages: 182 Price: Europe EURO 42.00


Abstract:

This book, which is the fifth of a series of works on Moroccan Arabic
secret languages, proposes an extremely detailed account of the "?u?", a
secret language of one region in the south-east of Morocco, the  
Tafilalet.
The language in question contains a rich number of varieties. This work,
which addresses linguistic areas of main concern to linguists,
phonologists, morphologists, sociolinguists, dialectologists,  
arabicists,
sociologists, graduate and post-graduate students, for instance,  
focuses on
the secretising of a multitude of words, prepositions, verbs, phrases,
clauses and sentences, for instance.

For descriptive convenience, this study proposes eight chapters and a
detailed bibliography. The substitution "?u?", which is the main  
concern of
this book and which involves thirty-two varieties, operates through the
mere and single replacement of a consonant of the word by a given  
consonant
of the variety of the family "x". In this family of the secret  
languages no
additional disguise item follows the encoded word. Thus, the word "kla"
(eat), for instance, is encoded in one variety of the substitution "? 
u?" as
"sla" and as "wla" in another one. One extremely important aspect of the
substitution secret language under study in this work is the crucial  
effect
of the context of use of the language itself on the comprehension of the
secret encounters, given the total absence of the disguise element,  
which
would stand as the necessary key for the genuine deciphering of the  
encoded
word.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Survey for recent Study Abroad Participants
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:Aja Ishmael <aqi at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Survey for recent Study Abroad Participants

Greetings colleagues!

My name is Aja Ishmael, and I am a PhD student in the Department of  
Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and a first-time  
poster to this list. I am currently working on a paper with two of my  
colleagues that deals with Arabic second language acquisition in a  
study abroad context, and it is this project that has brought me out  
of lurk mode and encouraged me to post an e-mail asking for your help.

My colleagues and I are hoping to collect a variety of information  
about Arabic study abroad experiences for our paper. To do so, we have  
created an electronic survey, which can be found at the link listed  
below. If you, or if any of your students or colleagues or anyone else  
you know has studied Arabic abroad in the recent past-- i.e., finished  
studying abroad in 2005 or later-- would you be so kind as to help us  
out by completing the survey or passing it along? Participants do NOT  
have to be university students-- any adult who has studied Arabic  
abroad since 2005 can fill out the survey.

As I am sure you know, this is a relatively new area of research. We  
are hoping to get a rather large response rate, covering student  
experiences in as many different programs in as many different  
countries as possible. We can only do this with your help-- so please  
know that any assistance you are able to provide will be greatly  
appreciated.

The link can be found here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hVWzZDtfAQhRFRpZwaujFQ_3d_3d

(If it doesn't work, please copy and paste it into your browser.)

Thank you in advance for your time and help!

Alf shukr!

Aja Q. Ishmael
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Poulton Hall North, Second Floor
Georgetown University
1437 37th St., N.W.
Box 571046
Washington, D.C. 20007

aqi at georgetown.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 16 18:23:24 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:plurals of paucity and abundance
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:plurals of paucity and abundance

For those interested in the difference between plurals of paucity and  
abundance:  on the switch by Ibn Hisham (851,1) from the plural of  
abundance for 'noses'  /unuuf/  to the plural of paucity  /aanuf/   
Reckendorf notes that "One must realize the refinement [embodied] in  
the switch of plural forms; its significance is that fewer than ten  
[lopped off] noses would be strung together.  Haut-gout {Fr.  
'sublime'} grammatical exactitude."

Reckendorf, H.  *Die Syntaktischen Verhaeltnisse des Arabischen*  
Reprint Leiden  (1967) p.670.

Abundant best wishes to all,
                                                                                   Mike 
  Schub

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Tabari and Hadith Index
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:tabari at gerlach-books.de
Subject:Tabari and Hadith Index

Today we would like to offer you antiquarian editions of two Arabic  
titles:

(1) Al-Tabari, Muhammad Ibn Jarir, Jami' al-bayan fi tafsir al-qur?an  
wa-ghara?ib al-furqan. In the margin: al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al- 
Nisaburi, Tafsir gharib al-qur?an,
Reprint Beirut Dar al-ma'rifa 1978 of the edition Bulaq 1323-1329 H  
(1925-1930 AD), 30 parts in 12 vols. Cl., pencil notes.
12 vols (28 x 20 cm), all vols in good condition.
Price: 675 EUR

(2) A.J. Wensinck, P.J. Mensing, J Brugman (edd.), Concordance et  
Indices de la Tradition Musulmane. Les six livres, le Musnad  d'al- 
Darimi, le Muwatta' de Malik, le Musnad de Ahmad Ibn Hanbal. Al mu'jam  
al-mufahras li-alfaz al-hadith al-nabawi. Tome 1 (?- h) Leiden 1936;  
tome 2 (khb - snr) Leiden 1943; tome 3 (snm - t,m) Leiden 1955; tome 4  
(t,n - ghmr) Leiden 1962; tome 5 (ghmz - krm) Leiden 1965; tome 6,   
(krm - nkl) Leiden 1967; tome 7 (nkl - ywm) Leiden 1969. Pencil notes.  
NB: tome 8 (noms propres) missing.
7 vols (each 35.5 cm x 25.5 cm), original edition
Red half leather binding, all vols in good condition.
Price: 975 EUR

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Post-doc in multilingual text processing in Italy
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:Ralf Steinberger <ralf.steinberger at jrc.it>
Subject:Post-doc in multilingual text processing in Italy

Application deadline is 18 April midnight CET! Please excuse the late  
posting!

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC <http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm 
 > ) in Ispra, at the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy has an opening  
for a post-doc position in multilingual text analysis (see below). The  
JRC is running several public news aggregation and analysis web  
portals (see http://emm.jrc.it/overview.html) and provides a number of  
services to a wide range of international customers. A strong focus in  
the JRC’s work is on multilinguality and on tools to provide cross- 
lingual information access.

Applications (3-page  <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/job/appl_form_grantholders.xls 
 > application form and an updated  <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/job/EU_CV_template_EN.doc 
 > CV in English) should be submitted by e-mail to the following e- 
mail address: JRC-IPSC-GRANTHOLDERS at ec.europa.eu .

According to the Vademecum for grantholders (see http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showdoc.php?doc=job/VademecumforGholders2008.pdf) 
, the remuneration is about 54,000 Euro/year plus allowances.

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Automatic Multilingual Text Analysis

CALL REFERENCE NO. : IPSC/G02/5

Category: Post-Doc researcher (category 30)

Duration: 36 months

Action: EMM

Remuneration: see Vademecum for grantholders <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showdoc.php?doc=job/VademecumforGholders2008.pdf 
 >

URL generic call:  http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs.php?id=8
URL specific post:  <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=7> http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=7


In the Web Mining and Intelligence (EMM) activity, the person will be  
working on research activities on automatic multilingual text  
analysis. Typical examples of subjects being studied currently are  
automatic event extraction, automatic entity recognition and cross- 
language clustering.

These techniques are already being deployed in several operational  
applications and part of the work would be in support of these  
applications. The on-going research has a strong focus on  
applicability in a multilingual environment

A new area of research is the automatic generation of summaries from  
multi-document texts, in particular from news article clusters. The  
work is highly practical and goal oriented. Research results are  
expected to be used operationally. The system within which the results  
will be deployed is implemented in Java as a set of servlets in Tomcat.

University degree in computer science or computational linguistics.  
Doctoral degree in similar discipline, or equivalent work experience  
of 5 years. Good programming skills, preferably in Java are therefore  
recommended. The working language of the action is English and strong  
English language skills are required. Given the multilingual aspect of  
the work, active knowledge of at least one other language and an  
understanding of at least another one is also required.

Good knowledge of Arabic would be seen as an asset.

Ralf Steinberger ( <mailto:Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.it> Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.it 
)
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
IPSC - SeS - Language Technology
URL: Applications: http://emm.jrc.it/overview.html
URL: The science behind them:  <http://langtech.jrc.it/> http://langtech.jrc.it 
.

The JRC’s Language Technology group specialises in the development of  
highly multilingual text analysis tools and in cross-lingual  
applications. Many applications are accessible online, e.g.:
*        <http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/> NewsExplorer:  
multilingual news aggregation and analysis (19 languages); allows to  
navigate the news over time and across languages; trend analysis;  
collects information about people from the news; social network  
detection.
*        <http://press.jrc.it/> NewsBrief: breaking news detection and  
display of the very latest thematic news from around the world; email  
alerting (22+ languages).
*        <http://medusa.jrc.it/> MedISys Medical Information System:  
latest health-related news from around the world according to themes  
and diseases (22+ languages).
*       EMM-Labs <http://emm-labs.jrc.it:8080/> : Latest developments;  
social networks; live people-in-the-news; country and theme fact  
sheets; maps showing violent events world-wide.
JRC-Acquis Multilingual Parallel Corpus (Version 3)
*       Freely available for research purposes.
*       22 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek,  
English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian,  
Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,  
Slovak, Slovene and Swedish.
*       Altogether over 1 Billion words.
*       Sentence alignment for 231 language pairs.
*       For more information and download, see  <http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html 
 > http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html.

DGT-Translation Memory
*       Freely available for research purposes.
*       Aligned translation units for 231 language pairs.
*       Alignment manually verified.
*       For more information and download, see http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html 
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Apr 18 15:48:31 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Third Year Book and Experience
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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Muhammad Eissa" <eissa at comcast.net>
Subject:Third Year Book and Experience

Any reply to a request for material or a text(book) that has the word  
"year"
in it is bound to be misleading. Also, we better use a level of  
students'
proficiency and clarify the objectives of teaching the course. That  
would
make answers more specific and relevant.

Having said that, here is a personal experience to share. Last year I  
was
asked to teach a class of mainly graduate students that was titled "High
Intermediate Classical Arabic". Students were supposed to be at an
intermediate mid or high in the proficiency scale. Some of them could be
rated at the advanced low but they all are trained as learner of what  
is so
called "Modern Standard Arabic". Those were the typical students that  
you
may label as 'third year' level.

In an attempt to be true to the title of the course (classical) and the
expectations of specific objectives to be met, I assigned a book that is
identified as an anthology of Arabic texts. The book contained a great  
and
wide selection of texts from Pre-Islamic to modern times in multitude of
themes. It was not surprising to discover that students with such  
training
and proficiency level felt at loss in the first meeting of the class.  
They
have not been trained to handle a text and read it independently, let  
alone
be ready to discuss its content in a class conducted totally in  
Arabic. On
the other hand, the anthology was not pedagogically prepared to  
introduce a
reading strategy for comprehension and analysis. It provided a  
vocabulary
list and some questions all placed at the end of the text. Soon I  
discovered
that the students' level of proficiency has to be treated differently  
and
the teaching should continue in a manner that is closer to the previous
courses, yet with considerable progression and careful preparation. They
need to build a solid ground in reading and comprehension strategies and
ought to be challenged with more independent assignments. However, we
continued with the same anthology but we started to create more  
vocabulary
lists, drills, sentences and assign more chapters from grammar reference
works for the whole year.

This year I choose to use Al-Kitaab, Part III for the same-level  
course. The
purpose was to train students pedagogically on how to study Arabic  
rather
than what to study. In the process, any vocabulary, content and  
grammatical
features they would acquire will surely come handy, regardless of the  
nature
of the text. Due to the nature and title of this course, I paid more
attention and spent more time on reading and analyzing the "classical"
selections of readings in "Al-Kitaab, P. III". I supplied short  
selections
from classical works that kept students practice and gain language
proficiency compatible with the objectives of the course.

Now, as we usher the third part of a year long course of six hours a  
week,
we are done with al-Kitaab. Students feel more comfortable speaking,
dialoging, and analyzing texts in Arabic in varieties of topics and
linguistic complexity. This week we are starting to deal with authentic
longer selected texts featuring the content and style of what they  
initially
needed to learn, e. g. "classical". They feel that they are more  
prepared
pedagogically to work on their own with confidence and much less  
anxiety.
They are applying the learning strategies that were acquired through the
past two thirds of the course.

The merit of the story is .. If your students are somehow similar to  
those
described above, with the exception of "classical" adjective, Al- 
Kitaab, P.
III is a good choice. Those who may not be familiar with the approach  
and
philosophy behind Al-Kitaab and other similar textbooks may need to  
spend
sometime configuring the purpose of the lesson organization, drill
objectives and the choice of reading selections. Teachers will  
definitely
need to provide supplementary materials and use them as learning and/or
assessment tools. Needless to say that any teachers' selected material  
will
be informed by the objectives set for the course with regard to both  
content
and form.

            Sorry for the long message and thanks for reading up to  
here.

            Salaam

Muhammad S. Eissa, Ph. D.
University of Chicago,
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,
1155 E. 58th. Street,
Chicago, IL 60637
Ph. (773) 834-0123
Fax (773) 702-2587

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation-Language Planning in Jordan
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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Dissertation-Language Planning in Jordan

nstitution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Program: Department of Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 1985

Author: Fawwaz Mohammad Al-Rashed Al-Abed Al-Haq

Dissertation Title: A Case Study of Language Planning in Jordan

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     English (eng)


Dissertation Director(s):
S Verma S

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation is an exploratory study of language conflict, language
planning, and language-user attitudes toward Arabicization in the  
context
of language policy in Jordan. It pursues three objectives: (1) To  
report on
the language-planning activities carried out in Jordan. (2) To survey
language and language-policy attitudes among groups of essential  
language
users, by means of two questionnaires developed for this purpose. One  
was
distributed to faculty members at the University of Jordan-Amman and the
University of Yarmouk-Irbid, the other to students in the same  
schools. The
questionnaires probe nine factors: (a) language use patterns; (b)  
language
attitudes; (c) proficiency in Arabic and English; (d) attitudes and
knowledge about variation in Arabic; (e) instrumentality of language;  
(f)
students' achievement; (g) general standard of education if  
Arabicization
were implemented in Jordan; (h) practical commitment to Arabicization;  
and
(i) attitudes towards Arabicization. Correlations between some of these
factors are also investigated, in order to examine possible  
ambivalence in
attitudes towards the major speech varieties in use in Jordan (English,
Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Jordanian Arabic). This study
seeks to show the effects of ambivalence, if any, on language policy,
especially with regard to Arabicization. (3) The final objective is to
relate the results of this study to the overall field of language  
planning.
In summary, the study has demonstrated the desire and commitment of  
faculty
members and students alike to proceed with Arabicization--despite their
awareness of the problems connected with variation in Arabic, the lack  
of
technical terms in scientific fields, and the lack of reference  
materials;
it was also felt that study of English should be retained, but not in  
such
a way that it detracts from the use of Arabic as a scientific language.
Finally, the review of literature of Language Planning in Jordan reveals
that there is a lack of formal association between the Arabic Language
Academy of Jordan and the Jordanian universities' authorities, such that
there is no real incentive for universities to adopt the fruits of the
Academy's labors.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology
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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Almog Kasher" <almogk at gmail.com>
Subject:'hair' etymology

As Uri Horesh mentioned, Arabic sh normally corresponds to Hebrew s',
whereas Arabic s corresponds to Hebrew sh (or s).
Yet, the sh in the Arabic word shams does not correspond to the (first  
token
of) sh in the Hebrew word shemesh, but is rather
explained by Semitists as a case of dissimilation. That is, we cannot  
simply
explain away the two meanings of the Arabic root
sh-3-r by merely stating that one of these sh's corresponds to Hebrew  
sh.
The studies I have consulted (I admit, very few) hold that Arabic sh-3- 
r, in
the sense of knowledge, corresponds to the (Biblical) Hebrew
root s'-3-r, which appears, as far as I know, only once in a verb  
conveying
(probably) this meaning (in Deut. 32, 17).
Arabic sh-3-r, in the sense of hair, also, as Uri Horesh has already
mentioned, corresponds to Hebrew root s'-3-r.
On the other hand, the Hebrew root sh-3-r corresponds to Arabic s-3-r  
(in
the sense of estimating).
I haven't encountered any suggestion concerning the alleged etymological
connection between these two meanings
of Arabic sh-3-r (and Hebrew s'-3-r).

Remark: Adherents of the Proto-Semitic theory reconstruct the triad s'  
- sh
- s for PS (the exact actualization is not certain).
They claim that in Arabic, s' was shifted to sh, whether sh - to s.  
Luckily,
Sibawayhi, the famous grammarian from the 8th century,
provides us with a phonetic description of Arabic as pronounced in the  
8th
century. This enables us to reconstruct an intermediary
stage between PS and the Arabic as we know it. According to his  
description,
the phoneme actualized today as sh was pronounced
at his time as the consonant at the end of the German word ich (or as
something similar). The exact 8th century's actualization of
the phoneme pronounced today as s is disputable, but is might be
reconstructed as sh or as something similar.
Therefore we can reconstruct the following shifts in Arabic:
PS s' -> 8th cent. ch? -> today sh.
PS sh -> 8th cent. sh? -> today s.

I will be happy to receive any comment.

Almog Kasher
Bar-Ilan University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:How to get a copy of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi, Part III
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1) Subject:How to get a copy of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi, Part III

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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:Sam Liebhaber <slieb at middlebury.edu>
Subject:How to get a copy of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi, Part III

Hello,

As an Arabic student, I deeply enjoyed using the third volume of the  
"al-Kitaab al-'Asaasi" series.  During this last year, I've searched  
for this textbook from a variety of sources (including the AUC press)  
and have come up with nothing; it is as though this book never  
existed. This is a shame since is one of the best text books for  
superior level Arabic students.

Does anyone know where copies of al-Kitaab al-'Asaasi Part III can be  
purchased?  Any leads would be deeply appreciated.

Thank you,

Sam Liebhaber
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Middlebury College

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion
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2) Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion
3) Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion
4) Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:A Clarke <bookwright at bogvaerker.dk>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

An-Nashir as-Sahafi is actually a desktop publishing programme, and  
its file format can only be opened by other versions of the programme.  
If he can export them as RTF or some other word processor format such  
as MS Word doc, then you should have no problems opening them in  
Nisus. They have updated an-Nashir for Mac OS X, but as you are using  
Nisus Writer Pro you don't need to follow that route.

Regards,
Abdassamad Clarke
Bookwright

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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From: "raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Marhaban Rose:
Contact Al-Nashir al-Sahafi office in London for guidance to convert  
documents from old Mac to Macbook. I'm sorry I'm far away from my  
office to give you their telephone number.
Good luck,
Raji Rammuny

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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Rahawi, Mohammed A" <RahawiMA at state.gov>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Al-Nashir Al-Sahafi can save in rtf format. Your friend can save any
file he wants to give you in rtf, making sure of using the standard
fonts, such as Geeza or Albayan. You shouldn't have any problem opening
the rtf files with Nisus.
Hope this helps.
Mohammed Rahawi

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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Knut S. Vikør" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Al-Nashir al-Sahafi and similar less-used programs create some  
problems, in that few regular applications such as Nisus have import  
filters for them.

I am not aware of any program that can import Nashir files with all  
formatting. However, since Dilworth apparently has access to InDesign  
ME, perhaps you could ask him to check its import choices; that is the  
program that would be most likely to have an import filter. InDesign  
is e.g. the only program that can import WinText files (that made,  
however, by the same company WinSoft, unlike Nashir), and they are in  
much the same layout/publishing market as Nashir. There are still  
Arabic newspaper being produced in Nashir, so there may also be users  
of it around, although it is a fairly dated program now.

Otherwise, if he still has access to the original Nashir application,  
he would have to save the documents (or the texts in them) as text- 
only files, and use Nisus or other OS X programs to open the files,  
making sure to set the encoding to "Arabic (Mac)" when opening them,  
to get the Arabic letters right.

Knut

[note from Dilworth: I checked the help file and Indesign ME doesn't  
claim to have a filter for Al-Nashir.  That doesn't necessarily mean  
they don't have one, however.  If someone wants to send me an Al- 
Nashir file, I can actually try it.]

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 21 15:38:21 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:CUP Middle East & Islamic Studies books on sale at
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:cambridge at gerlach-books.de
Subject:CUP Middle East & Islamic Studies books on sale at Gerlach

This week we offer all Middle East and Islamic Studies hardcover  
titles published by Cambridge University Press during 2007 and 2008  
(to date) with up to 25% discount!

***This offer is valid during this week only!***

Enclosed please find the list of all titles. Please note that our  
offer applies to the hardcover titles only. Paperback editions cannot  
be purchased from us.

Conditions of our offer:
- 10% basic discount on each hardcover title
- AND additional 5% discount for ordering 3 to 9 hardcover titles  
(totalling 15% discount)
- OR additional 15% discount for ordering 10 and more hardcover titles  
(totalling 25% discount)
- prepayment required
- shipping to be added (surface or air mail)
- plus European VAT (if applicable only)
- offer only applies to hardcover titles, not to paperbacks
- offer ends on Friday 25th April 2008

Looking forward to your orders. Our order form is attached.

Best regards from Berlin

(Ms) Dagmar Konrad


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 21 15:38:25 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SOAS Certificate in Teaching Arabic
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:yo2 at soas.ac.uk
Subject:SOAS Certificate in Teaching Arabic

[Arabic-L could not attach the poster referred to, buy you may obtain  
it from Mr. Omar.]

Dear Dr Kendall

I has just got to know a bout the Arabic conference from one of our  
teacher trainees, and I wish I could know earlier so we can contribute  
in this Arabic teaching even .however I would like to take this  
opportunity to Send you some details a bout the our certificate in  
teaching Arabic as a foreign language at SOAS LC and which may be in  
the interest of people who involved in the teaching in Arabic and  
would be grateful if you can pass these information about the course  
to the attendees.

The Language Centre at SOAS - in conjunction with SOAS-UCL CETL  
Languages of the Wider World (LWW) – last year launched a part-time  
Certificate in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language at the start of  
the academic year 2007-8.and this course is now credited from SOAS in  
2008/2009 after A successful year .
  We are currently advertising the course and are looking for ways to  
ensure it is advertised nationally, both for those involved in higher  
education and secondary education.
If you would like to find out more about the course in Teaching Arabic  
as a Foreign Language, by all means you can call me or send me an  
email. There is also information on our course on the SOAS Language  
Centre website on the following link:
  http://www.soas.ac.uk/programmes/prog10663.php

Also I am attaching the poster.

Thanks very much in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards
Yousef Omar
Coordinator
Certificate in Teaching Arabic
Diploma in Arabic
Language Centre
School of Oriental and African Studies
The University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 21 15:38:27 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Source of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Source of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi

The textbooks al-kitaab al-'asaasi are published by المنظمة  
العربية للتربية
والثقافة والعلوم.  I the acronym is ALECSO.  This  
organization is located in
Tunis, and the URL is: www.alecso.org.tn/

Waheed

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Spelling of 800 query
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Spelling of 800

How do you spell 800?

i was thinking that 800 is "thamaanii mi'ah" but there are many  
websites where they spell 800 as "thamaani mi'ah."
i searched ثماني مئة,  ثمان مئة, and so on last week by  
Google.
The followings are the results.

ثماني مئة = 839
276ثمان مئة = 0

58 = ثمانيمئة
ثمانمئة = 8730

ثماني مائة = 1160
6420 = ثمان مائة

  202 = ثمانيمائة
  64200 = ثمانمائة

A lot of the websites are spelling not ثماني but ثمان !
Why?
ثمان must be ثماني before muDaaf ilay-hi.

Thank you.
Haruko

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ARAM Conferences on Neo-Aramaic Dialects and the
 Mandeans
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:aram at aramsociety.org
Subject:ARAM Conferences on Neo-Aramaic Dialects and the Mandeans

Dear Colleague,

I am writing to inform you that ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian  
Studies is organising its Twenty Seventh International Conference on  
“Neo-Aramaic Dialects”, at the Oriental Institute (University of  
Oxford), 06-08 July 2009. And it will be followed immediately by the  
ARAM Twenty Eighth International Conference on “The Mandaeans”, at the  
Oriental Institute (University of Oxford), 09-11 July 2009.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact our  
Oxford address:
ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford  
OX1 2LE, England. Tel. ++1865-514041. Fax ++1865-516824. E.Mail:aram at aramsociety.org

Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd


ARAM Twenty Eighth International Conference: The Mandaeans
09-11 July 2009

A- Academic Papers:

Dr. Gaby Abousamra (Holy Spirit University – Lebanon):
	“New Mandaean magic bowl.”
Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University):
	“The Mandaean contribution to the Arab civilisation.”
Mr. Sabah Aldhisi (University College London)
	“The Role of Abathur (the Third Life) in the Mandaean Story of  
Creation.”
Mr. Mehrdad Arabestani, (PhD candidate, University of Malaya, Malaysia):
“Food symbolism in Mandaean religion.”
Dr. Daphna Arbel (University of British Columbia):
“ ‘Acquainted with the Mystery of Heavens and Earth’ Sfar Malwašia,  
Mesopotamian Divinatory Traditions, and 3 Enoch.”
Dr. Werner Arnold (Heidelberg University):
	“Subject to be defined.”
Dr. Krzysztof Bilinski (University of Wroclaw):
	“The texts of Nag Hammadi and Gnostic vision of The Mandaens.”
Prof. Jorunn J. Buckley (Bowdoin College):
	“Mandaean-Sethian Connections.”
Prof. Iain Gardner, (University of Sydney):
“Mani's 'Book of Mysteries': Prolegomena to a new look at Mani, the  
baptists and the Mandaeans.”
Dr. Charles G. Häberl (The State University of New Jersey):
“The demon and the damsel: A Mandaean folk tale from Iraq.”
Dr. David Hamidovic (Western Catholic University, Angers, France):
	“The links between Dead Sea Scrolls and Mandaean Liturgy.”
Dr. Erica Hunter (SOAS):
	“Subject to be defined.”
Dr. Matthew Morgenstern (Haifa University):
	“Literary connections between Jewish and Mandaic texts.”
Dr. Ilnur I. Nadirov (St Petersburg Institute of Oriental Research):
	“Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Mandaean religious books.”
Miss. Caroline Nik Nafs (University of Bamberg-Germany):
	“The ‘Lebenswelt’ of the Iranian Mandaeans in the 21st century.”
Dr. Sacha Stern (University College London):
	“The origins of the Mandaean calendar.”
Dr. van Bladel Kevin (University of Southern California):
	“Subject to be defined.”



B- Public Events:

Mandaean Baptism on Saturday morning 11 July at 8am.
Books exhibition by Gorgias Press.
Painting exhibition by Mr. Salam Khedher.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:42:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:spelling of 800
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1) Subject:spelling of 800
2) Subject:original post with transliteration
3) Subject:spelling of 800
4) Subject:spelling of 800
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1)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:spelling of 800

Dear Ms. Sakaedani:

I agree with you: the construction is
thamaanii mi'atin or, in pause form, thamaanii mi'ah.

/mi'ah/ is often spelled with an 'alif between the miim and the hamza,  
as if it were maa'ah.
Unfortunately, my e-mail software cannot read your Arabic script nor  
can it read my own Window's Arabic script.

Ernest McCarus

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2)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Haruko's original post

[I have run the original post through a filter that changes the Arabic  
font to DT transliteration (you can see details of that one to one  
system at arabiCorpus.byu.edu).  Even if the details aren't clear, you  
should be able to hone in on the point here, which is the presence or  
absence of the 'y' or yaa' on the end of the form for 'eight'.  The  
point is that the 'correct' form, with the 'y', is much less common  
than the 'incorrect' form, without it--dil]

How do you spell 800?

i was thinking that 800 is "thamaanii mi'ah" but there are many  
websites where they spell 800 as "thamaani mi'ah."
i searched VmAny mYQ,  VmAn mYQ, and so on last week by Google.
The followings are the results.

VmAny mYQ = 839
VmAn mYQ = 2670

58 = VmAnymYQ
VmAnmYQ = 8730

VmAny mAYQ = 1160
6420 = VmAn mAYQ

  202 = VmAnymAYQ
  64200 = VmAnmAYQ

A lot of the websites are spelling not VmAny but VmAn !
Why?
VmAn must be VmAny before muDaaf ilay-hi.

Thank you.
Haruko

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3)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:Dil Parkinson
Subject:spelling of 800

Ryding (2005) only gives VmAny mYQ and VmAnymYQ (i.e. both with the  
'y').  The results from arabiCorpus, however, agree with your google  
results:  the forms with 'y' are exceedingly rare, compared with the  
forms without them.  Here are the data, in script and then in DT  
transliteration:

الثمانمائة	80
ثمانمائة	39
ثمانمئة	33
وثمانمائة	25
وثمانمئة	24
الثمانمئة	9
بثمانمئة	5
لثمانمائة	2
بثمانمائة	2
ثماني مئة	2
وثمانمائه	1
ثماني مائة	1

AlVmAnmAYQ	80
VmAnmAYQ	39
VmAnmYQ	33
wVmAnmAYQ	25
wVmAnmYQ	24
AlVmAnmYQ	9
bVmAnmYQ	5
lVmAnmAYQ	2
bVmAnmAYQ	2
VmAny mYQ	2
wVmAnmAYh	1
VmAny mAYQ	1

These results include many from Al-Ahram and Al-Hayat and other  
newspapers from throughout the Arab World, which are heavily 'gone  
over' by professional correctors, and there are only 3 examples with  
the 'y' out of over 200 examples.  It seems facile to say that this is  
just colloquial influence since the 'correctors' consistently root  
that out whenever they want.  Is it possible that speakers now see  
this as a frozen form, and NOT an example of a defective noun/ 
adjective as the first term of a construct state (which in other cases  
would require the presence of the 'y')?
dil

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4)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at UMICH.EDU>
Subject:spelling of 800

For three to nine hundred:
خَمسٌ + مئة > خَمسُمئةٍٍ
سِتٌّ + مئة > سِتُّمئةٍٍ
سَبعٌ + مئة > سَبعُمئةٍٍ
ثمانٍٍ + مئة > ثمانيمئة

However, as you point out, there are variations (at least in Egypt).

The number 100 itself is sometimes written مئة, and sometimes  
مائة.

Waheed

[in DT transliteration:]

For three to nine hundred:
xamsU + mYQ > xamsumYQI
sit~U + mYQ > situ~mYQI
sabcU + mYQ > sabcumYQI
VmAnI + mYQ > VmAnymYQ

However, as you point out, there are variations (at least in Egypt).

The number 100 itself is sometimes written mYQ, and sometimes mAYQ.

Waheed


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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:42:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDAMore and revised info on Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii
 Publisher
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1) Subject:Revised info on Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii Publisher
2) Subject:American Source for  Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii

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1)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From: "Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Revised info on Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii Publisher

My colleague Laila al-Sawi informs me that al-kitaab al-'asaasi is now  
published by the AUC Press.

Waheed

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1)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From: Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:American Source for  Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii

Here is an American vendor for the book:

International Book Centre, Inc.
2391 Auburn Road
Shelby Township, MI 48317

Phone: (586) 254-7230
Fax: (586) 254-7230
Email: ibc at ibcbooks.com

Book 1 is listed at $34.95.

Ernest McCarus

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:42:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Aldeen Foundation Startalk Programs
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1) Subject:Aldeen Student Summer Event
2) Subject:Aldeen Teacher Training

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1)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:AldeenFoundation at aol.com
Subject:Aldeen Student Summer Event

Deadline is approaching! Please encourage students to participate in  
our Summer Immersion Program

Aldeen Foundation and STARTALK are proud to announce “Discover Arabic”  
the first Middle and High School Summer Immersion Program.

This program will provide students with an introduction to Modern  
Standard Arabic and Arab culture. It is designed for students who have  
never studied Arabic before, or students who have some knowledge of  
Arabic.

The teaching and learning emphasize the functional use of Arabic and  
communication. Student will acquire enough familiarity with the Arabic  
language and develop cultural sensitivity towards the Arabic-speaking  
world, from immersed daily activities and enriched language groups  
including art, calligraphy, cooking, dance and music, outing to local  
Arabic restaurants and shops, guest speakers and subtitled movies.

Attached is a flyer that you can hand out to all your students who are  
interested in beginning a fascinating new journey to the Arab world  
and culture without traveling abroad.

Thank you in advance for distributing the enclosed flyer and  
encouraging the students to sign up for world language learning… 
Discover Arabic!

For more information on our program and for application information,  
please visit our website atwww.aldeenfoundation.org.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact by email Lina  
Kholaki at aldeenfoundation at aol.com or call at (626) 577-2199.

Thank you very much.

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2)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:AldeenFoundation at aol.com
Subject:Aldeen Teacher Training

Deadline is approaching!

Aldeen Foundation and STARTALK are pleased to announce its intensive  
summer 2008 program for Arabic teacher training. In this program,  
participating teachers will meet for two weeks, excluding weekends,  
and will sharpen their teaching skills and knowledge through a series  
of seminars, hands-on workshops, presentations, and practicum.

The program will include intensive hands-on training in the areas of  
pedagogy, testing and evaluation, Arabic National Standards, and using  
technology in the Arabic class.

Our trainers are nationally acclaimed in the field of Teaching Arabic  
as a Foreign Language. Our trainers list includes:

·      Dr. Mahdi Alosh, Associate Dean of International Affairs.
·      Professor Ahmad Elghamrawy, Arabic Lecturer at California State  
University at San Bernardino.
·      Professor Lina Kholaki, Arabic Lecturer at California State  
University at San Bernardino.

We are offering $1000 stipend for each admitted participant upon  
completion of the program. For more information on our program and for  
application information, please visit our website at www.aldeenfoundation.org 
.

We invite all K-12 teachers of Arabic to apply for the program. If you  
have any questions, please feel free to contact by email Ahmad  
Elghamrawy at aldeenfoundation at aol.com or call at (626) 577-2199.

Thank you very much.


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 23 14:49:49 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:machine readable Arabic lexicons query
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Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:reposted from CORPORA
Subject:machine readable Arabic lexicons query

[The following query and response of interest to some Arabic-L  
subscribers appeared on Corpora.]

Dear All,

  I wonder if there is an available machine readable Arabic language  
lexicons or dictionaries that associate for each word its root and   
morphological analysis. This, to be used for building up free Arabic   
lexicon resource integrated to the (NLTK) natural language toolkit.

  Best regards

  Majdi Sawalha

  PhD Student,

  School of Computing,

  University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

e-mail: sawalha at comp.leeds.ac.uk

___________________


Yes,

http://www.qamus.org/morphology.htm
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/aramorph/aramorph-1.2.1.tar.gz

Regards,

Fran

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 23 14:50:04 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:50:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Conf. on Arabic Applied Linguistics,
 Rhetoric, Writing
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1) Subject:Cairo Conf. on Arabic Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric, Writing

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1)
Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Cairo Conf. on Arabic Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric, Writing

The American University in Cairo
and
Western Michigan University

are pleased to announce

The First International Congress on Arabic & English
Applied Linguistics and Rhetoric & Writing

Challenges in Teaching Language and Rhetoric

23-26 March 2009
American University in Cairo, New Cairo


For more information visit conference website:
http://www1.aucegypt.edu/webresources/auc-wmu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs native Yemeni, Omani, Moroccan, Lebanese,
 Tunisian speakers
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1) Subject:Needs native Yemeni, Omani, Moroccan, Lebanese, Tunisian  
speakers

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1)
Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:jeremy.palmer at gmail.com
Subject:Needs native Yemeni, Omani, Moroccan, Lebanese, Tunisian  
speakers

Looking for native Yemeni, Omani, Moroccan, Lebanese,Tunisian speakers  
to help create Arabic Speech Acts for research!

It could all be done in less than an hour! (maybe even 20 minutes!)

My name is Jeremy Palmer. I am a PhD student in Second Language  
Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona.I am  
writing to ask for assistance with one of my dissertation research  
instruments.

I will collect data this summer at several institutions throughout the  
Arabic-speaking world at Arabic study abroad locations. One of my  
instruments is a Speech Acts test consisting for 4 short audio clips.  
The speech acts range from bargaining, complaining, holiday greetings,  
asking for directions, asking for information. Each clip is less than  
1 minute long. Students will hear the clips 3 times each and will then  
answer some basic questions about what they heard. I can send you  
example clips and questions from Egyptian and Jordanian to give you an  
idea.

Please let me know if you can help! All you would do is sit down and  
record (audio only) a few unscripted situations with another native  
speaker of your Arabic variety.


Thank you,
Jeremy Palmer
jeremy.palmer at gmail.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants feedback on Qatar program
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1)
Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at email.arizona.edu>
Subject:Wants feedback on Qatar program

Greetings ya zumalaa' wa zamiilaat,

I have a student interested in the 10-month Arabic program offered at  
Qatar University (sponsored by Georgetown University).  The student  
was interested in getting feedback from former students who have  
completed the program, both males and females.  Her name is Kaitlyn,  
and her contact information is KBACCA at GMAIL.COM, phone number (813)  
841-4853.  If you know of any students who have participated in this  
program, it would be greatly appreciated if you could pass her contact  
information along to them and encourage them to contact her.

-- 
Peace, Martha

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Mastering Nahw and Sarf
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1) Subject:Mastering Nahw and Sarf

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1)
Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:info at wcm-press.com
Subject:Mastering Nahw and Sarf

[Moderator's note: The transcription of the title came with the  
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: Morphologies of Asia and Africa
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1) Subject:New Book: Morphologies of Asia and Africa

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Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Book: Morphologies of Asia and Africa

EDITOR: Kaye, Alan S.
TITLE: Morphologies of Asia and Africa
PUBLISHER: Eisenbrauns
YEAR: 2007

Mary Paster, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona  
College

SUMMARY
This book is an encyclopedic, two-volume reference comprising  
descriptions of a
wide range of Asian and African morphological systems, 46 in all. As  
described
in the Introduction by editor Alan Kaye (who tragically died of bone  
cancer in
May 2007, before the collection was published), the book aims to  
''present
interesting facts about the word-formation strategies of the  
language(s) under
discussion in an informative and typologically relevant way.'' The  
selection of
languages is meant to be both broad and deep, but not evenly  
distributed across
language families or geographic areas. For example, Kaye points out  
that there
is a particular emphasis on Semitic and Afroasiatic languages since  
these were
areas of his own interest. The depth in certain areas comes at the  
acknowledged
expense of coverage of some more well-known languages; e.g., there is  
no essay
on Chinese or Japanese.

The individual language entries are written by experts on each  
particular
language and, in many cases, people who are well-known experts on the  
relevant
language family as a whole. The entries vary in their style, range of  
coverage,
and theoretical perspective, but all of them are descriptively  
oriented and have
large amounts of data. Most of the essays state linguistic  
generalizations in
pretheoretical terms, and most  range from being almost completely non- 
formal to
mentioning points of formal theoretical interest only in passing.

The essays are organized mainly according to their genetic  
affiliation. Volume 1
deals with the Afroasiatic languages. Essays 1-10 cover the ancient  
Semitic
languages, and essays 11-18 cover modern Semitic languages. Essay 19  
is on
Berber, essays 20-24 are on Cushitic languages, essays 25-28 are on  
Chadic
languages, and essay 29 is on Omotic. In volume 2, essays 30-37 are on
Indo-European languages. Essay 30 is on an Anatolian language  
(Hittite), essays
31-32 are on Indo-Iranian, 33-34 cover ancient Iranian languages,  
35-36 cover
modern Iranian languages, and essay 37 is on Classical Armenian. Essay  
38 is on
a Nilo-Saharan language (Kanuri), 39 is on a Niger-Congo language  
(Swahili), and
40 is on an Altaic language (Turkish). Essays 41-42 cover Caucasian  
languages,
43 is on a Malayo-Polynesian language (Indonesian), and 44-46 cover  
language
isolates (Burushaski, Ket, and Sumerian).

EVALUATION
Kaye's pointedly humorous introduction is a rallying cry for linguists  
who are
interested in morphology and wish to see it treated as a full-fledged  
component
of grammar worthy of study in its own right. It is also a passionate  
call to
arms for linguists of the descriptive persuasion who agree with Kaye's  
view that
''linguistics deals with languages and, in particular, should deal  
more with
exotic tongues.'' These views are carried through consistently  
throughout the
collection, with each contributor giving a very detailed description  
using data
that in many cases have never been exposed to such a wide audience.  
Bello Buba
and Jonathan Owens' essay on Glavda describes a particularly interesting
language that was virtually undescribed before.

This is an inspiring set of volumes. The expertise represented in its  
pages is
almost overwhelming, as are the copious quantities of data in the  
essays. It
seems, therefore, that this work is an absolute success with respect  
to the
goals set forth by the editor. It is also quite an impressive  
testament to the
editor that such a who's-who of language experts contributed to the  
collection.

The papers are of consistently high quality in terms of their depth of
description, less so in their clarity. Some (e.g., Alan Kaye on  
Arabic, Jeffrey
Heath on Moroccan) are entertaining and even flowery in parts, while  
most are
straightforward and in some cases even somewhat like an outline in  
their style.
One example is Wolf Leslau's essay on Amharic; in that case the sparse  
style is
a good thing because there is such a wealth of data (much of it quite  
usefully
organized into paradigms) that the paper takes up 51 pages even  
without a lot of
exposition.

Several of the authors helpfully attempt to contextualize the  
morphological
descriptions. Some do a particularly nice job of integrating the  
discussion of
morphology with other areas of interest in the same language,  
particularly
phonology. For example, Robert Hoberman's essay on Maltese contains a  
lucid
discussion of a 'ghost consonant' that has played a major role in  
analyses of
Maltese phonology, and Grover Hudson's contribution on Highland East  
Cushitic
languages discusses a fascinating process in Hadiyya taboo language that
replaces a syllable and the onset of the following syllable of a word  
that
shares its first syllable with the name of a woman's father-in-law. As  
Hudson
points out, this replacement pattern is problematic for the notion  
that rules of
this type must refer to some element of the prosodic hierarchy such as  
a mora,
syllable, or foot.

Other authors' essays raise issues of historical and dialectological  
interest.
For example, Gregory Anderson's contribution on Burushaski deals with  
three
separate dialects and makes explicit comparisons among the three. And  
Russell
Schuh's essay on Bade, for example, includes considerable discussion of
developments in Western Bade compared with other Bade dialects and other
languages in the same subgroup of West Chadic. In essays such as  
these, the
reader has a good point of reference for understanding what is of  
special
interest in the language. All of the essays contain weighty  
descriptions and
bountiful data, but some will be of more use than others for non- 
specialist
readers due to their varying efforts to situate the descriptions in  
some wider
context, whether theoretical or comparative.

Although there is much to appreciate in these volumes, it is also  
worth pointing
out a couple of attributes of the collection that may be viewed as  
flaws by some
readers. One aspect of these volumes that may disappoint is the scant  
coverage
of certain language families, most notably Niger-Congo. According to  
Ethnologue,
the Niger-Congo language family has 1,514 languages in it, while  
Altaic has 66
languages. Yet both families are represented by the same number of  
essays in
this collection (namely, one). And Afroasiatic has far fewer languages  
than
Niger-Congo (375, according to Ethnologue), but the entirety of volume  
1 (29 of
the 46 essays) is devoted to Afroasiatic. Kaye does predict in the  
Introduction
that ''[r]eviewers will inevitably point out that this language should  
have been
included or that one was superfluous,'' but even if one accepts that  
the main
focus is on Afroasiatic with only a side helping of languages that are
''culturally and geographically related'' to it, the minimal coverage of
Niger-Congo in the context of volume 2 is still disappointing  
(although Ellen
Contini-Morava's essay on Swahili is excellent, and it is also likely  
to be
among the most interesting to those with interests in morphological  
theory since
it gives a nice overview of the controversy over the formal analysis  
of the
Swahili verb and how competing morphological models have proposed to  
model it).

A more significant issue is the heavy emphasis on description at the  
expense of
theoretical discussion. One of Kaye's stated goals, which this  
collection is
meant to contribute to, is a '''grand synthesis' of morphological  
theory and
Universal Grammar''. If such a synthesis is to be achieved, it seems  
that people
working on the descriptive side may need to reach a bit further  
towards the
theoretical side. In the Introduction, Kaye discusses various types of
morphological models falling under the general frameworks known as
''Item-and-Process'', ''Item-and-Arrangement'', and ''Word-and- 
Paradigm''. Yet the
individual contributions to the collection rarely make any mention of  
these
types of approaches or to which approach might work best for the  
language in
question, and few explicitly state which type of model they are  
assuming (Sharon
Rose's essay on Chaha is one notable exception). The vast majority of  
essays are
purely descriptive, making it difficult to relate the language data to  
problems
in morphological theory. I do not necessarily intend this as a  
criticism of the
contributors; in light of the almost uniform non-theoretical nature of  
the
contributions, this appears to have been a decision made by the editor  
and
passed along to the authors. But a reader interested in bridging the  
gap between
good description and theoretical relevance is likely to find that this
collection falls a bit short on the theory side.

Despite these shortcomings, the depth, breadth, and overall quality of  
this
collection are outstanding. _Morphologies of Asia and Africa_ is an  
impressive
achievement and will serve as a valuable and authoritative reference  
on the
languages it describes.

ABOUT THE REVIEWER
Mary Paster is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive  
Science at
Pomona College. Her research interests are in phonology and morphology,
primarily in African languages, and her recent work has focused on tone,
language description and documentation, and the phonology-morphology  
interface.

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:IERA Rabat Morocco Summer Arabic program
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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:Abderrezzak Tourabi < atourabi at hotmail.com >
Subject:IERA Rabat Morocco Summer Arabic program

The Institute for the Studies and Researches on Arabization (IERA) in
Rabat-Morocco, launches the registration for the Arabic to speakers of
other languages intensive summer course. The session is scheduled July  
1st
through July 30th, 2008, IERA, Rabat, Morocco.
For information, please visit our website, fill in and send the
registration form, at:
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'already' in fusha query
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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:'already' in fusha query

n Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, the verb لحق  [liHiq] can be used to  
mean
"already", as in:

إنت لحقت تنسى؟

'inta liHi't tinsa?

("Have you forgotten already?")

Does anyone know of a fusha verb that means the same thing?

Ben

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Kitaab Al'-Asaasi
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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:a elsherif <alarish5 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:Al-Kitaab Al'-Asaasi

Hi i just came back from Cairo where i asked all the book shop about  
ALKITAAB ALASSASI the answer was not yet printed ????

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs North American Arabic dictionary source
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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:<mbooth at uiuc.edu>
Subject:Needs North American Arabic dictionary source

Dear colleagues,

I'm wondering if anyone can recommend North America-based sites  
(electronic or otherwise) for purchasing (quickly) a good selection of  
Arabic dictionaries, both Arabic-Arabic and Arabic/English?

thanks,
Marilyn Booth
mbooth at uiuc.edu
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Illinois

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Arabic at Tufts
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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:Valerie Anishchenkova <valerie.anishchenkova at tufts.edu>
Subject:Summer Arabic at Tufts

Summer Arabic Courses at Tufts University

(1) Elementary Arabic: ARB 01/2A

Description:
The course begins with an introduction to Modern Standard Arabic. We
start with pronunciation, script, basic grammar, and reading skills
using a communicative approach for the first half of the course to later
developing the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and
speaking. No previous knowledge of Arabic language or script is
required. No prerequisite.

Material covered:
"Alif Baa" and 12 chapters of "Al-Kitaab Part I", plus supplementary
materials.

Offered in : First session (May 21 – June 27)
Day(s) : MTWThF
Times : 9:30 am – 2:15 pm (with 1-hr lunch break)
Instructor : Rana Abdul-Aziz


(2) Intermediate Arabic: ARB 03/4A

Description:
A continuation of Elementary Modern Standard Arabic. Communicative
approach with particular emphasis on active control of Arabic grammar
and vocabulary, conversation, reading, translation, and discussion of
selected texts. The course includes oral presentations and short papers
in Arabic. Prerequisite: ARB 0002 or equivalent.

Material covered:
Chapters 13-20 of "Al-Kitaab Part I" and 2 chapters of "Al-Kitaab Part
II", plus supplementary materials.

Offered in : First session (May 21 – June 27)
Day(s) : MTWThF
Times : 9:30 am – 2:15 pm (with 1-hr lunch break)
Instructor : Valerie Anishchenkova

To register please visit: ase.tufts.edu/summer

For more information about courses contact:
Rana Abdul-Aziz (elementary Arabic): rana.abdulaziz at gmail.com
Valerie Anishchenkova (intermediate Arabic):
valerie.anishchenkova at tufts.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf programs
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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Gulf programs

The Arabic Language Program of the pre-academic unit of the UAE   
University
(UAEU) in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, offered (still offers?) a three-month   
special
interdepartmental course, conducted only during its the fall   
semester, on Gulf
Arabic (Emirati dialect) and regional orientation (escorted  tours of  
UAE and
Oman).

That UAEU program might be an option if that interesting ten-month   
program
in Qatar is inconvenient or filled.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:20 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:IJCPOL special issue on Arabic Natural Language
 Processing CFP
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1) Subject:IJCPOL special issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing  
CFP

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From: "Prof_Khaled Shaalan" <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject:IJCPOL special issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing CFP


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL For Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages  
(IJCPOL)
World Scientific http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by over 250 million people, in an  
area
extending from the Arabian Gulf in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the
west. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.  
It is
also the language in which some of the world's greatest works of  
literature,
science, and history have been written.

Arabic is a strongly structured and highly derivational language. Arabic
language processing requires the treatment of the language  
constituents at
all levels. Each level requires extensive study and exploitation of the
associated linguistic characteristics. Over the last few years, Arabic
natural language processing (ANLP) has been gaining increasing  
importance,
and has found a wide range of applications including: machine  
translation,
information extraction, and tutoring systems. These applications require
developing innovative approaches and techniques for natural language
analysis, natural language generation, and linguistic resources.

Various forums have been dedicated to ANLP:
• Special track on Natural Language Processing, The  International
Conference on Informatics and Systems (NLP-INFOS 2008), Cairo Univ.,  
Egypt.
• Workshop on HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and  
local
languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects, LREC, 2008
• Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, workshop  
series
(04, 07).
• International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools  
(NEMLAR
2004), Cairo Egypt,

This special issue of the International Journal of Computer Processing  
of
Oriental Languages is intended to present the state-of-the-art in  
research
on Arabic natural language processing, Arabic computational linguistics,
applied Arabic linguistics and related areas. This call is intended to  
be as
broad as possible. We solicit original research papers on topics  
including,
but not limited to:
• Linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks,  
etc.)
• Transliteration, transcription and diacritization
• Part of speech tagging
• Morphological analysis and generation
• Shallow and deep parsing
• Machine translation
• Word sense and syntactic disambiguation
• Semantic analysis
• Information extraction and retrieval
• Question answering
• Text clustering, and classification
• Text summarization
• Text and web content  mining
• Named entity recognition
• Colloquial-based language processing

>>>> Important Dates <<<<<
• Submissions due for review: 15 Jan 2009
• Notification of 1st decision: 30 April 2009
• Revisions due: 30 May 2009
• Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2009
• Final version submitted: 15 July 2009
• Issue publication: 2010

>>>>> Submission Guidelines <<<<<
Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure  
or
table as 200 words) and should follow the journal's style and  
presentation
guidelines (see http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/mkt/guidelines.shtml).
References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript,  
access
the Journal online submission system at
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/editorial/submitpaper.shtml.  In the
message to editors, please state clearly that the paper is submitted  
to the
special issue on Arabic NLP.  An electronic version of the paper  
should also
be submitted directly to the Guest Editor by e-mail at the same time.

               * * * * *

For further information, contact Guest Editor  Prof. Khaled Shaalan
- (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, UK
- Faculty of Informatics, British Univ. in Dubai
- Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University:
k.shaalan_AT_fci-cu.edu.eg.

For a PDF version of this Call for papers upload
http://www.buid.ac.ae/shaalan/arabnlpcfp.pdf

-- 

Regards,
Khaled
________________________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Khaled Shaalan
Computer Science Dept.
Faculty of Computers & Information
Cairo Univ.

5 Ahmed Zewel St.,
Orman, Dokki,
Giza
12613 Egypt

Email: k.shaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg
Personal Email: khaled.shaalan at gmail.com

Honorary Fellow
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:response to Dr. Kaye's new book
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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:Afaf Nash <afafnash at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:response to Dr. Kaye's new book

Greetings,
  It is great to read dear Dr. Kaye's name after his sudden and tragic  
death. Dr. Kaye was my graduate studies professor and I am sure this  
book will be a bible to everybody interested in the morphology of  the  
Semitic and Afroasiatic languages.
  Afaf

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:New books on Muhammad
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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:nagel at gerlach-books.de
Subject:New books on Muhammad

Two academic studies in German have just been publihsed by the well  
known German scholar Tilman Nagel, professor emeritus at the  
University of Goettingen.

Both works focus on the Prophet Muhammad and deal with a subject  
disputed ever since the origins of Islamic Studies: the biography of  
the Prophet.
The two publications will certainly contribute substantially to the  
academic discussion for many years.

(1)	Tilman NAGEL, Mohammed, Leben und Legende.
Publisher: Oldenbourg Verlag, Muenchen, 2008
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-486-58534-6
Format: 1052 pages, 3 maps, cloth bound
Publisher's list price: 178 EUR

(2)	Tilman NAGEL, Allahs Liebling. Urspr?nge und Erscheinungsformen  
des Mohammedglaubens.
Publisher: Oldenbourg Verlag, Muenchen, 2008
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-486-58534-6
Format: 430 pages, cloth bound
Publisher's list price: 79.80 EUR

***Our offer valid until 4 April 2008***

-Free worldwide surface mail delivery (air mail on request)
-Order one book and get 5% discount
-Order both books and get 20% discount
-Discounts granted outside Germany, Austria, Switzerland only
-Prepayment by credit card required
-This offer is valid for 1 week only

Best regards from Berlin,

Kai Gerlach
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Getting permission to use authentic listening
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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Meriem Sahli <meriemsahli at hotmail.com>
Subject:Getting permission to use authentic listening material

Dear Arabic-L members:

I would like all the people who have been using authentic listening  
material from Arabic channels such as Al-jazeerah and others to inform  
me how they got the permission to use this material particularly in  
published books such as al-kitaab fii ta3allum al 3arabiyya and  
others. What are the steps you have taken? have you paid for those  
rights because you published a book?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Meriem Sahli
  ***********************************************************
Meriem Sahli
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
( AUI )P.O.Box 104,
Avenue Hassan II,
Ifrane 53000, Morocco
Tlf: (212) 35 86 24 70
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:PT Annotation Jobs at Columbia for Arabic Speakers
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1) Subject:PT Annotation Jobs at Columbia for Arabic Speakers

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Nizar Habash <habash at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:PT Annotation Jobs at Columbia for Arabic Speakers

Dear all,

	please forward this message to people who may be interested.

Thanks
Nizar Habash

====================================================
Part Time Job for Arabic Speakers at Columbia University

We are starting a project at Columbia University to develop
an Arabic Tree Bank.  A Tree Bank is a collection of text with
syntactic analyses. The goal of the research is to produce data
to use to train computers to do this task automatically.

We are looking to hire a number of Arabic speakers to annotate
sentences. The job pays between $15 and $25 per hour and can
include bonuses for good quality/efficiency.  You can work at the
Columbia University campus in New York or from home (if you
have your own computer).


Please contact Dr. Nizar Habash (habash at cs.columbia.edu).
Please include answers to the following questions in your email:

(1) What is your work permit / citizenship status in the USA? [required]
(2) Are you a Columbia student?
(3) Are you a native speaker of Arabic?
(4) Have you studied Arabic grammar in high school or college?
(5) Did you enjoy Arabic grammar classes?
(6) Where do you live?
(7) How many hours per week can you work on this project between
      April 1st and November 1st.

Please let us know if you have any questions for us.

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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants colloquial oriented summer Arabic program
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1) Subject:Wants colloquial oriented summer Arabic program

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Kevin Schluter <schlu017 at umn.edu>
Subject:Wants colloquial oriented summer Arabic program

I'm looking for a summer Arabic language program that focuses on a  
Colloquial dialect (more than just one or two hours a week).  So far  
the only one I've found is the Arabic Language Institute in Fez (http://www.alif-fes.com/ 
).

Does anyone know of any others?

Thanks,

Kevin Schluter

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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of li-
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1) Subject:use of li-

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Jonathan Lange <jonathanlange at yahoo.com>
Subject:use of li-

The talk of apposition reminded me of another Arabic
grammatical form I have seen numerous times in the
Middle East, but never learned in school.  That is the
use of the particle 'li' to link words, but not in
normal idafa-like order.  Ex. 'Misr li-tayyaraan' for
'Egypt Airlines'.  Should this not be 'tayyaraan
li-Misr' or just 'tayyaraan Misr'?

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac and Yamil
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1) Subject:Arabic on Mac
2) Subject:Arabic on Mac
3) Subject:Yamil

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:"Kamal AlEkhnawy" <kamal19 at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

Dear all,
Since I started using Mac in 1992 to prepare materials for my classes,  
there
has been a problem with Arabic script. If Arabic letters are connected
properly, you may face a problem with the word order.
However, those who have old Mac (bought before 07), they can use "Open
Office" software. It is totally free, and you can download it either  
form
www.OpenOffice.org  or from www.download.com. It allows you use Word and
PowerPoint but may not support all Office product such as Access or  
OneNote.

Those who have new Mac (2007 Mac or later), they can either get Open  
Office
or use Windows operating system and install Office in their Mac. All  
new Mac
computers support dual operating systems: Mac and Windows.
p.s.: all office products are fully Arabic enabled, and some of which  
can be
useful for classroom activities. For example, I've used Office OneNote  
in
some of my classes and found it very useful to engage/challenge my  
class in
integrated interactive drills, i.e., you can ask your students to  
respond,
simultaneously, either by speaking or typing in Arabic while they are
watching a clip.

Cheers,
Kamal AlEkhnawy
Head of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) unit
The American University in Cairo
Kamal19 at aucegypt.edu

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

he trouble with NeoOffice is that it continues (version 2.2.3) not to  
have
a "context" selection for numerals.  As a consequence, if you have mixed
documents, it seems to me to be not possible at this time to show  
Hindi and
Arabic (automatic) numbering at the same time.

Another annoying problem is that the two fonts Simplified Arabic and
Traditional Arabic don't exist on the Mac.  I have not been able to buy
either one.  These two in particular are important because there is  
ample
spacing between dots diacritics.  As a consequence, when I open a Word
document --created under Windows-- on the Mac --under NeoOffice, the
document differs.  Some of my students use Windows, and others Macs.   
Fonts
such as Arial, common on both systems, are not designed for Arabic  
because
dots and diacritics overlap.

A colleague of mine, a computer consultant at the Language Resource  
Center
at Michigan University, told me that the problem with Arabic on  
MSOffice on
the Mac is an Apple problem.  He said that his contacts at Apple have
informed him that they have not found it to be worth their time to  
develop
products for Arabic.  They might in the future, but it's not a priority.

(I have an iPhone.  Apple provides no Arabic for it.  The third-party  
Arabic
for it is atrocious)

Waheed

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2)
Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:Loren Siebert <loren at siebert.org>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

It doesn't appear as though anyone has mentioned Yamli on this list,  
and as I am having such a good experience with Yamli lately, I thought  
I would mention it on Arabic-L.

First, you can find Yamli here:
	http://www.yamli.com

In short, it enables you to type in transliterated Arabic (e.g.,  
"3rabi, mu2tamar, ...) and have it automatically (or almost  
automatically) transformed into Arabic characters (?????  
?????). For those of you who have an interest in Arabic corpus  
linguistics, you might find the "almost" part interesting, because the  
lookup is essentially doing a form of predictive text input, like  
you'd see on a cell phone, against an Arabic corpus.

Yamli has an API that is in Beta right now, and I found it incredibly  
easy to integrate their input functionality into the writing  
components of LinguaStep, allowing LinguaStep's students and  
instructors the ability to type in Arabic without using a keyboard  
mapping. My users who are already quite comfortable typing natively in  
Arabic don't even notice Yamli, as it only pops up when you type in  
Latin characters.

I've found that LinguaStep users who have avoided these writing  
components for months are suddenly making heavy use of them, and this  
has overcome my initial reluctance to have users create Arabic via  
transliteration. If you have a website that involves user input in  
Arabic, Yamli might be a good fit for your users.

-Loren Siebert
loren at linguastep.com
http://www.linguastep.com
Where students share what they know and learn from others.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UC Riverside Job
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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:"Jeff Sacks" <jeff.sacks.ca at gmail.com>
Subject:UC Riverside Job

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE* *

DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE & FOREIGN LANGUAGES
ARABIC LANGUAGE LECTURER

The University of California, Riverside, invites applications for a
part-time lecturer position in Arabic Language for the 2008-2009  
academic
year (pending enrollment and final administrative approval).  
Candidates must
have native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic and at  
least
one dialect. Candidates must hold at least an M.A. degree, demonstrate
significant teaching experience at the college or university level,  
and have
a commitment to teaching the Arabic language for academic purposes in  
line
with the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. Duties over three quarters
(fall/winter/spring) include teaching two sections of Elementary  
Arabic per
quarter and participation in the administration of the Arabic language
program (this is a 67% appointment, which includes benefits).

Please send cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching evaluations, and  
three
letters of recommendation to:

Jeffrey Sacks, Chair
Arabic Lecturer Search Committee
Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
2401 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California 92521

Review of applications will begin April 28, 2008; the position will  
remain
open until filled. The successful candidate must show proof of  
employment
eligibility.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs student volunteers for questionaire
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1) Subject:Needs student volunteers for questionaire

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:jeremy.palmer at gmail.com
Subject:Needs student volunteers for questionaire

Hello Arabic students and teachers,

My name is Jeremy Palmer. I am a PhD student in Second Language  
Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona. I have  
made a questionnaire about student perception of spoken Arabic.  I  
would like to ask that you pass along my request for volunteers to  
take this questionnaire to your students of Arabic who meet the  
following criteria:

This questionnaire is intended for American students in higher  
education who studied Arabic for 1 year (2 semesters) or more in the  
United States after which they spent at least one month in an Arabic  
speaking country. These students must also come from families in which  
they were not (or very minimally) exposed to any type of Arabic before  
taking Arabic classes.

I would like to ask those who meet these criteria if they would  
volunteer to complete this questionnaire. Those who would like to  
volunteer should email me at Jeremy.palmer at gmail.com . I will then  
reply with thequestionnaire attached as a Microsoft Word document.  
Volunteers may type their responses into the word document and email  
it directly back to me. Volunteers may withdraw from this research at  
any time without any consequences. The completion of the questionnaire  
should take only 15-20 minutes.

Thank you,
-- 
Jeremy Palmer
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT)
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
University of Arizona

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:31:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Bergen Job
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1) Subject:U. of Bergen Job

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Date: 01 Apr 2008
From:gunvor.mejdell at ikos.uio.no
Subject:U. of Bergen Job

Position: Professor/Associate Professor in Arabic language and
culture, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, ref    
08/3192

The Department of Foreign Languages is seeking to appoint a Professor/
Associate Professor in Arabic language and culture. The successful
candidate must document high academic qualifications in Arabic
language and culture. The scholarly production may be in various    
fields
of Arabic studies: philology, linguistics, dialectology,
literature, religion, or history. A particular emphasis will be put   on
research in Arabic culture and history, including Islamic studies   or
philology. Knowledge of one or more Middle Eastern languages other    
than
Arabic will also be considered an advantage.

Arabic is taught at all levels up to Ph.D. It is also a component of   a
Bachelor program in Middle Eastern studies, which includes
specializations in history, religion, archaeology and social
anthropology. Arabic is thus part of a wider research and teaching
milieu of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Bergen, with a focus
inter alia on Muslim Africa and the Sudan, Levantine studies and    
Sufism.
The successful candidate is expected to participate in the   development
of this milieu.

The teaching language will normally be Norwegian. The successful
applicant must be able to teach in Norwegian or one of the other
Scandinavian languages within two years of his/her appointment.

If no applicant is qualified for a full professorship, the University
may consider appointing a candidate to the position of Associate
Professor. Applicants should state whether a position as Associate
Professor is of interest. Associate professors in permanent  
positions   in
Norway may apply for promotion to full professorship on the basis   of
personal qualifications.

Applications should be addressed to the Senate of the University of
Bergen and sent with confirmed copies of certificates and
testimonials to the Department of Foreign Languages, University of
Bergen, PO Box 7805, 5020 Bergen, Norway, by 26 April 2008.
Mark application: 08/3192

See further information and job description at
<http://melding.uib.no/doc/Ledige_stillinger/1206517042.html>
<http://www.hf.uib.no/fakultet/aktuelt/stillinger/Job%20description%
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs textbooks for Tunisian Arabic and Berber
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1) Subject:Needs textbooks for Tunisian Arabic and Berber

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:paula santillan <capraia at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs textbooks for Tunisian Arabic and Berber

Dear members,

A student of mine has asked me about textbooks to
learn Tunisian Arabic and Berber (he hasn't specified
what variety of Berber). He's looking for
communicative-oriented materials (as opposed to
grammars or other theoretical approaches). Any
suggestions?

Thanks a lot before hand.

-paula

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr  7 20:09:44 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:09:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac response
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:Arabic on Mac response
Subject:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>

> A colleague of mine, a computer consultant at the Language Resource  
> Center
> at Michigan University, told me that the problem with Arabic on  
> MSOffice on
> the Mac is an Apple problem.  He said that his contacts at Apple have
> informed him that they have not found it to be worth their time to  
> develop
> products for Arabic.  They might in the future, but it's not a  
> priority.

I've had people tell me this as well, but I honestly don't see how it  
could possibly be true, given that:
1- the Apple developed and otherwise very basic program Textedit works  
fine with Arabic, allowing full bi-directionality
2- the Mail program works fine with Arabic, also allowing full bi- 
directionality
3- other programs work more or less with Arabic, if not with full bi- 
directionality, INCLUDING MS Excell, into which you can paste Arabic  
text and it displays, lines up, and prints reasonably
4- Many other programs on the Mac work fine with Arabic, including  
most browsers (inlcuding Apple's own Safari), Mellel, Nisus, Indesign  
ME, etc.
5- ONLY MS Word actually 'eats' and destroys the Arabic that is in any  
text you read into it, including Arabic from MS Word documents created  
on the PC.  Other programs may not display things correctly, but they  
don't actively destroy the Arabic.
6- Only Microsoft ships its Apple office products with a font that  
automatically installs that actively WRECKS the Arabic on your  
browsers, so that you have to do a search and destroy mission to  
restore Arabic functionality whenever you install an MS program on  
your computer.

It is actually true that when OS X first came out it did not provide  
Arabic support, but that deficit was soon fixed, and has been fixed  
for several years now.  There has been nothing for Microsoft to wait  
for Apple to do for years.  Microsoft clearly know how to deal with  
Arabic script and bi-directionality, since they do it in the same  
product on a different platform, and clearly Apple is providing them  
the resources to do it on the Mac.  They have simply decided they  
won't do it.

IM(not so)HO

Dil

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr  7 20:10:10 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Teachers Professional Dev Seminar + Stipend
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1) Subject:Arabic Teachers Professional Dev Seminar + Stipend

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Sumaya" <sumaya at hadi.org>
Subject:Arabic Teachers Professional Dev Seminar + Stipend

The Center for Languages, Arts, & Societies of the Silk Road   
(CLASSRoad)
and National Foreign Language Center  -  STARTALK
Present

Striving for Excellence in the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language

- Do you teach Arabic in a school or college?
- Are you interested in teaching Arabic in public or private schools  
at all
levels?

Join Us for 4 weeks* or professional training!

You will receive:

-2 weeks of training online
-2 weeks of training at California State University, San Bernardino
-Chance to practice teaching in front of real Arabic language students
-Nationally recognized lecturers with proven experience in teaching  
Arabic
-Hands-on techniques that you can apply in your classrooms
-Generous Stipends ($500/person) plus FREE accomodations
-OPI professional training
-100% gaurenteed to promote your career
-University credit available

*20 students will be selected from the online session to attend the  
onsite
session at CSUSB.
Students must participate in the online session to be eligible to  
attend the
onsite session.

Online Session:
May 5 - May 16, 2008

Onsite Session 1:
June 30 - July 11, 2008

Onsite Session 2:
July 14 - July 25, 2008

HURRY!! REGISTRATION ENDS APRIL 20th, 2008!

To apply or for more information, go to
www.hadi.org/startalk
or call 310-642-0006 ext. 102

This course is brought to you by the Center for Languages, Arts,  
Societies
of the Silk Road (CLASSRoad) , a project of HADI. Human Assistance &
Development International
This program is funded by a generous grant from Startalk.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr  7 20:10:35 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:KWIC for Arabic query
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1) Subject:KWIC for Arabic query

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:KWIC for Arabic query

Dear all,

Can we use KWIC for Arabic text written in Arabic characters?

KWIC which i have downloaded does not want to search an Arabic word
in text written in Arabic characters, or, i cannot type any Arabic  
letters... sigh.

Do you know any KWIC programme which can work with Arabic characters?

Best wishes,
Haruko
Part-Time Lecturer of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
(NOT University of Tokyo)
*******************
Haruko SAKAEDANI
harukos at tufs.ac.jp

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:etymology of shiin 'ayn raa'
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1) Subject:etymology of shiin 'ayn raa'

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Laila Familiar" <lailafam at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:etymology of shiin 'ayn raa'

Dear colleagues,

Is there a scientific etymological explanation for why the root ? ? ?
(sh ? r) has two basic meanings (?to know/feel? and ?hair?)?  
Can we
trace back which one appeared first? Did anybody try in the past to
find any semantic relationship between both lexical meanings?

Any suggestion concerning books or articles on Arabic semantics
dealing with this kind of phenomena?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Laila Hasan Familiar
CASA Program - AUC

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Algerian Arabic native speaker jobs at NFLC Maryland
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Lampe, Gerald" <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject:Native speaking Algerians needed at NFLC Maryland

The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of
Maryland seeks native Algerian Arabic speakers as narrators and lesson
content reviewers for a multimedia project on Arabic Variants
Identification. Narrators must be local and able to record at our
College Park, Maryland office, which is located one block from the
College Park metro station on the Green line. This is a short-term
contractual assignment. For more information, please contact Margo Rice
at 301-405-9827 or mrice at nflc.org.

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

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs source for books
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs source for books

Hello Everyone,
  Your help would be greatly appreciated if you could kindly help my  
friend who is looking for these books:
  "I am looking for 2 Arabic books by Dr. Ali Muhammad Darwish and  
Muhammad al-Adnani ... if you can ask Mouchy or any of your colleagues  
that would be great. The books are:
  "Kitab al-a3ajeeb fi lughat al-aghareeb"
  "mu3jam al-akhta' al-sha'3ah" [dictionary of the most common mistakes]

  I just want to know of a site that I can order from"

  Any ideas on how to get them
  Many thanks
  Iman

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SLRF reminder
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:SLRF reminder

Our apologies for any cross-postings . . .

The SLRF 2008 Call for Proposals deadline (April 15) is fast  
approaching.
Submit your proposal online today!

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

The Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa is pleased to announce. . .

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

31st Annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
October 17-19, 2008
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/

ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION SYSTEM OPEN! (See Call for Proposals
section for complete details and instructions for proposal submissions)

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15, 2008
Notification of selection: Mid-May 2008

Theme:  EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES

Plenary speakers:
- Dr. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
- Dr. Alan Firth (Newcastle University)
- Dr. Eva Lam (Northwestern University)
- Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)


We welcome all areas of second language research, including, but not
limited to:
- Instructed SLA
- Acquisition of grammar and phonology
- Child SLA
- L2 Processing
- Language and learner characteristics
- Language and cognition
- Discourse and interaction
- Language and socialization
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Language and ideology
- Literacy development
- Learner corpora
- Language learning and technology
- Second language measurement


1) PAPERS:
Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for
discussion).

2) POSTERS:
Posters will be displayed for a full day.  Posters are intended for
one-on-one discussion or reports of work in progress.

3) COLLOQIUA:
The colloquia/panels consist of individual paper presentations that  
relate
to a specific or related topics of interest.  They are offered in 2-hour
sessions.


Please see our website for complete proposal submission instructions and
additional updates:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/.

Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.

For any proposal submission questions, please contact the SLRF 2008
Program Chairs at slrf2008program at gmail.com.


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Colloquial oriented summer programs
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8) Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs
9) Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs
10) Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

Dear Kevin:
The University of Michigan offers Intensive Colloquial Egyptian Arabic  
for 6 credits durung summer 2008. The coutse requires one uear of  
previous study of Arabic. It meets 3 hours per day 9-12 for 5 days a  
week.
Please contact Angela Beskow  at  aradjews at umich.edu for details.

Raji Rammuny
Professor of Arabic
University of Michigan

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2)
Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

I studied Egyptian colloquial at the D?partement d'enseignement de
l'arabe contemporain (DEAC), run by the French government in Cairo,
and found it to be a pretty good quality, reasonably priced programme,
if you have at least intermediate French.  Their full-academic-year
course starts out composed of about 70% colloquial and 30% classical,
and gradually reverses those proportions over the course of the year.
I understand that they've recently moved more in the direction of
teaching students to mix registers from the outset.

http://www.ambafrance-eg.org/cfcc/article.php3?id_article=11

-- 
Benjamin Geer
Postgraduate student
Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Christensen, Jayme M" <jayme-christensen at uiowa.edu>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

the university of damascus in syria

The French Institute (IFPO), <http://www.ifporient.org/article.php3?id_article=28 
 > Institut Fran?ais du Proche-Orient<http://www.ou.edu/ssa/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=1 
 >, Damascus

good luck

-jayme

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4)
Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

I'd suggest the Arabic Language Institute at the American University in
Cairo or the Arabic and Translation Studies Division at the School for
Continuing Education, also at AUC.  The ALI summer program features  
some two
and a half hours per day of spoken Egyptian with the rest focussed on  
fusha.
The deadline for ALI may have passed, and even if it has not, places  
have
been filling up quickly in the past few years.  ATS on the other hand  
has no
deadline. If you could get yourself three other students to go in with  
you,
you could design your own program for as many hours a week you want  
and for
as many weeks as you want - and all spoken Arabic, if you want  (you  
could
actually do on your own but the price per hour drops with the number of
students with four or more getting the lowest cost).  They have the best
Arabic teacher I have seen anywhere: Manal Hassan. She is especially  
good
with teaching spoken Egyptian Arabic.  Write to Madiha Hegazy, the
coordinator of Arabic: madiha_h at aucegypt.edu. Just for good measure,  
copy
Ahmed Abdel Moneim,  ahmoneim at gmail.com who helps her out with  
computing tasks.  The American
University of Beirut has a summer program of about five hours a day  
for six
weeks, but only an hour of that every day is with spoken Lebanese  
Arabic.
The deadline for application for that program was on the 25th of  
March.  So
it may prove fruitless to apply anyway.

-- 
David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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5)
Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:baldino <dhiabaldino at yahoo.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

http://www.iblv.rnu.tn/english/index.html

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Madiha Doss" <madihadoss at yahoo.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

The DEAC in Cairo standing for D?partment d'enseignement de l'arabe au  
Caire (which depends of the French embassy) could be offering such a  
course since it does follow the progression starting from colloquial  
and following into standard Arabic. This progression was started by  
Claude Audebert in the late seventies or early eighties.
Madiha Doss

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7)
Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Haroon Shirwani" <arabictutor at hotmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

Dear Kevin

Kalimat, in Cairo, offer an excellent intensive colloquial course:

http://www.kalimategypt.com/

Best wishes,
Haroon

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8)
Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Maria" <apple at swissmail.org>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

See my posting about the Gulf Arabic Programme Intensive Summer  
Programme.

Regards,
Maria

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9)
Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:rania essa <drraniaessa at hotmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

dear sir,
there is a center for teaching arabic as a second language in  
alexandria , egypt this center follows the alexandria university i  
think it is a good place to know aboot (tafel ) it teaches arabic  
language both standerd and colloquial you can see ite website to know  
more about it www.tafelcenter.edu.eg
i hope it will be helpful.

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10)
Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:benmamou at ad.uiuc.edu
Subject:Colloquial oriented summer programs

http://scali.afrst.uiuc.edu/general/languages/

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf Arabic Program
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From: "Maria" <apple at swissmail.org>
Subject:Gulf Arabic Program

Gulf Arabic Programme Full-time MSA&colloquial program and Part Time  
Arabic Lessons

The Gulf Arabic Programme offers both a full-time program and private  
lessons in colloquial Gulf Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic year  
round. Our programme is located in Buraimi, Oman, a twin city to Al  
Ain, United Arab Emirates.

The full-time programme is designed to take in students who know  
nothing of the Arabic language and equip them to become competent  
communicators able to live, work and build relationships within the  
medium of the Arabic language. We can also accommodate students who  
have previously studied Arabic, either by placing them at the  
appropriate level in our existing classes or by tailoring private  
classes according to individual needs and requirements please contact  
us for more details.

The full course consists of four eighteen-week modules over a period  
of two years. Classes are held five days a week, (Sunday to Thursday)  
with 3.5 hours of class time each morning, making a course module of  
315 hours.

In addition to the class time, students are also expected to spend  
time divided between 'community learning' (spending time with local  
people) and private study (practising and preparing for classes),  
averaging four hours a day. The proportion of community learning will  
increase as the course progresses. This is a programme and not merely  
an institute and we believe language is best learned through a  
combination of classroom activities and language use in the community  
and every day life.

A student who has completed the full course will be proficient to the  
Advanced Level (ACTFL) in the four language skills, for example he/she  
will be able to:

Speaking
?   Discuss topics of current and personal interest.
?   Handle most situations of daily life.
?   Narrate and describe topics of interest for the student in smooth  
paragraphs.

?   Handle arrangements regarding study and travel, involving minor  
complications, e.g. losing documents, missing an appointment etc.

Listening
?   Understand topics of current and personal interest when talking  
face to face.
?   Understand everyday topics, well-known current events, routine  
matters etc.
?   Often be able to follow the dialogue when listening to a  
conversation between two native speakers.

Reading
?   Read multi-paragraph materials of a factual nature.
?   Read articles from popular newspapers on familiar subjects.

Writing
?   Correspond with Arabic friends.
?   Join sentences in simple discourse of several paragraphs on  
familiar topics.
?   Write narratives and descriptions of a factual nature.

Our next intake of students for the full time programme will be on the  
14th September 2008.

For further details or application information please email to info at gapschool.net 
. Web: www.gapschool.net

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:George Mason U. Summer Study Abroad in Jordan
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:George Mason U. Summer Study Abroad in Jordan

Dear all,

Led by Sana Hilmi, George Mason University is offering an Intensive  
Arabic- Study Abroad to Jordan at the University of Jordan

A wonderful opportunity to study intensive Arabic language in the  
beautiful city of Amman, Jordan at the University of Jordan. The  
language courses are offered Sunday through Thursday for 4 hours a  
day, taught by local faculty. Classes cover Modern Standard Arabic  
with the taste of the Colloquial Jordanian dialect.
Students will gain a greater understanding of the Middle East  
particularly Jordan. Students are required to interact with local  
people and expected to immerse themselves in the Jordanian society.

Visiting Cites: in addition to the daily cultural and social  
activities, we will visit the most exciting and exotic locations in  
the world: Petra and the Dead Sea, and weekend sight seeing to Dana  
and Ajloon-Um Qais.

Courses taught: students may choose one of these combination and earn  
up to 6 credits:

Beginning ARAB 110: must have basic knowledge of the script (6 credits)
Intermediate ARAB 210 (3 credits) and Gateway to advance ARAB 250 (3  
credits)
Intermediate ARAB I 201 (3 credits) and Intermediate ARAB II 202 (3  
credits)
Advanced reading and Conversation I and II, ARAB 330 and 331 (3  
credits each course.

Dates: June 28- July 30-2008

Housing: students will stay in a Hotel that is 10 min away from the  
university.

Price: $6,292 This price will include: airfare, tuition, housing, some  
meals, visa fees, excursion, ground transportation, ID card, travel  
guide, emergency evacuation insurance, pre-departure orientation and  
much more.
If you are out of state, the price will be the same.

Please visit our web site:
http://globaled.gmu.edu/Programs/summer/intarabicsummerjordan08.html

Deadline for the Applications is April 20th.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Salam,

Miss Sana Hilmi, M.A.
Arabic Professor and Coordinator
Modern and Classical Languages
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 3E5
Fairfax, VA 22030
Fax: 703-993-1245

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:more on colloquial summer programs
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:more on colloquial summer programs

More on colloquial summer programs; as it happens, I just got  
information
today about the Arabic program at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah,  
where you
can take 12 hours per week of spoken Palestinian Arabic or MSA or both.
Check the website:  *http://www.birzeit.edu/* <http://www.birzeit.edu/>

As is the case with many university websites, the Bir Zeit site is not
entirely intuative in its layout, so here are the classes offered:

_____________________________________

*The Palestine and Arabic Studies Program**
*__________________ ____________________

*Introduction *

The Palestine and Arabic Studies (PAS) Program is an academic program at
Birzeit University that offers international students the opportunity to
combine the study of the Arabic language with social science courses  
about
Palestine and the Arab World. International students carry out their  
studies
while experiencing first hand the political and social realities on the
ground.

Drawing upon its record of reputable language and social science  
professors,
Birzeit University has produced this comprehensive international study
program, offering accredited courses of academic quality, together  
with a
series of extra-curricular lectures and field trips. The year-round  
program
consists of three semesters, two regular semesters and one intensive  
summer
semester. Students may enroll at the beginning of any semester. The PAS
Program is open to university students and graduates from around the  
world,
those working in a field related to the Middle East, and those who  
wish to
gain an in-depth knowledge of the region, its language and cultures.

The PAS Program comprises Arabic language and social science courses  
from
which students may select a maximum of four courses during the regular
semesters or three courses in the summer. The Arabic courses include  
four
levels of Modern Standard Arabic and two levels of Colloquial Arabic
(Jerusalem dialect).

Arabic courses are designed to teach the language as an integral part  
of the
culture, while the social science courses, taught in English, provide
analyses of Arab and Palestinian issues in the disciplines of politics,
sociology, literature, and history. International students proficient in
Arabic may, with permission, take courses in various fields that are  
taught
in Arabic and offered within the university's regular program.  
International
students can also register for classes that are taught in English,  
such as
French, English, math, business and various economic courses along with
Birzeit University regular students.

_______________________________________________
*Arabic and Social Science Courses:
Study Options, Accreditation and Extra-Curricular
Activities*_______________________________________________

*Arabic Courses *

Birzeit University has offered courses in Arabic as a Foreign Language  
(AFL)
to non-native speakers for over eighteen years. The University's highly
qualified professors of AFL have drawn upon their extensive local and
international experience to formulate two streams of language courses  
for
the PAS Program: one in Modern Standard Arabic and one in Colloquial  
Arabic
(Jerusalem dialect).

Language placement tests are given at the beginning of the program (for
students who have previous knowledge in Arabic and not to beginners) to
ensure that each student is placed in the appropriate level. The levels
offered depend on student demand.

*MODERN STANDARD ARABIC *

*ARSK 131 - Modern Standard Arabic I* (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3  
credits.
Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students with no previous  
knowledge of
Modern Standard Arabic.

This course is designed for students requiring Arabic for academic  
purposes.
It introduces students to the Arabic script and phonology, and combines
training in the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and
speaking. Its methodology entails the introduction of basic vocabulary  
and
grammatical structures through oral communication activities, followed  
by
short readings and situational dialogues in which the newly introduced
structures are utilized.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular written
assignments;      achievement tests;   mid-term examination;     final
examination.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*ARSK 132 - Modern Standard Arabic II* (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3  
credits.
Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students who have completed the
prerequisite course, ARSK 131, or its equivalent.

Conducted entirely in Arabic, and using a communicative approach, this
course continues discussion of the basic structure of the Arabic
language beyond
the basics introduced in ARSK 131. It is designed to further develop the
four language skills using selected texts on various cultural, social  
and
political issues.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular written
assignments and achievement tests;     achievement tests;    mid-term
examinations;    final examination.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*ARSK 231 - Modern Standard Arabic III* (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3
credits. Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students who have  
completed
the prerequisite course, ARSK 132, or its equivalent.

This course continues to develop the four language skills by introducing
higher level literary and socio-political texts. Students improve their
ability to express more abstract ideas and opinions in oral and written
forms through the discussion of selected texts (mainly authentic),  
including
newspaper articles, and pieces from various literary genres.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular oral
presentations;      written assignments related to various texts;      a
final paper of 8-10 pages;    achievement tests;     mid-term
examinations;    final examination.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*ARSK 232 - Modern Standard Arabic IV* - (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3
credits. Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students who have  
completed
the prerequisite course, ARSK 231, or its equivalent.

The course is designed to increase students' ability to read items  
related
to social, economic, political and cultural life. The selected texts for
this course are authentic and introduced using content- based  
approach, were
content of texts are integrated with second language teaching aims.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular oral
presentations;      written assignments related to various texts;     a
final paper of 8-10 pages;    achievement tests;     mid-term
examinations;    final examination.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*COLLOQUIAL ARABIC *

*ARSK 133 - Colloquial Arabic I* - (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3 credits.
Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students with no previous  
knowledge of
Arabic, or with a basic knowledge of written Arabic, but without any
practice in spoken Arabic.

This course is designed to enable students to communicate in Arabic on a
basic level in order to deal with everyday life situations such as
introducing oneself and others; requesting and giving information;  
shopping;
talking about food; describing people, things and places; responding to
offers; and generally communicating in a courteous manner.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular oral
interviews;      regular group role-plays;      final oral proficiency
interview.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.

*ARSK 134 - Colloquial Arabic II* (Fall & Spring - 8 hrs/wk, 3 credits.
Summer - 12 hrs/wk, 3 credits) - For students with previous knowledge of
spoken Arabic, able to conduct conversations described in ARSK 133.

The aim of this course is to develop student's spoken Arabic skills for
everyday situations and promotes discussion skills for more specialized
conversations about cultural and social aspects of life. Student  
skills of
narration are developed by means of describing past events and daily
activities; placing themselves and others in time and space; giving
directions; and expressing facts, desires, hopes, obligations, and  
future
plans.

Assessment includes:      classroom participation;      regular oral
interviews;      regular group role-plays;      final oral proficiency
interview.

Course materials: Birzeit University course pack.



David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf Arabic Program Summer Program
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:"Maria" <apple at swissmail.org>
Subject:Gulf Arabic Program Summer Program

Gulf Arabic Programme Intensive Summer Programme

The Gulf Arabic Programme is offering a one-month intensive course in  
colloquial Gulf Arabic from Sunday, June 29 until Thursday, July 24.  
The summer the course will be in Buraimi, Oman, a twin city to Al Ain,  
United Arab Emirates.

This course is for (almost) beginners. We require that students be  
able to read, write, pronounce and recognise the characters of the  
Arabic script before they arrive. We have placed this requirement on  
applicants because it is possible for students to acquire this  
familiarity at home using one of the many 'Teach Yourself' courses and  
it allows us to move straight into teaching the language. To help  
students see if they are sufficiently competent in the script to  
benefit from the course we have devised a self-test for the Arabic  
alphabet on our website.

This course concentrates on the spoken Arabic so no Modern Standard  
Arabic is taught. If you are interested in verbal communication with  
Gulf Arabs and with developing your speaking and listening skills then  
this course is for you. If you are interested in improving your  
reading and writing skills then it is not. Local native speakers will  
teach you everyday vocabulary and common expressions used by Arabic  
speakers in this part of the world, within a framework that teaches  
you to express yourself as Arabs would express themselves. Classes run  
from 8:00 a.m. until 2:40 p.m. every day with a one-hour lunch break.   
However, once the day's classes are over the learning continues!!  
Students will then need to spend 4 hours a day divided between   
'community learning' (spending time with local people) and private  
study (practising and preparing for classes).

By the end of the course it is expected that students will be at  
Novice High level on the ACTFL scale, i.e. be able to give and receive  
directions; use verbs in the past and (to some extent) the present and  
engage in very basic conversations in a few topics.

The total cost for the Intensive Summer Programme is AED 3500, this  
includes tuition fees and the course book. Students should also allow  
for AED 6 per day for travel to and from the institute. Please contact  
us if you would like more details on accommodation options.

For further details or application information please email to info at gapschool.net 
. Web: www.gapschool.net

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Maria Persson Ph.D, Gulf Arabic Programme
P.O. Box 683, 512 Buraimi, Oman

and

Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics
Centre for Languages and Literature
Lund University
Box 201
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of ll- responses
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From: "Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:use of ll- response

> The talk of apposition reminded me of another Arabic
> grammatical form I have seen numerous times in the
> Middle East, but never learned in school.  That is the
> use of the particle 'li' to link words, but not in
> normal idafa-like order.  Ex. 'Misr li-tayyaraan' for
> 'Egypt Airlines'.  Should this not be 'tayyaraan
> li-Misr' or just 'tayyaraan Misr'?

Probably ten other people will answer this, too, but it's "miSr
li-T-Tayaraan" (i.e. there's a definite article in there), and it
doesn't mean "Egypt's aviation", but rather something like "The Egypt
Aviation Company".  "Egypt" is in this case the name of the company,
and its purpose (indicated by "li") is aviation.  Company names are
often of the form PROPER NAME + "li" + FIELD, like "ramsis li-t-taSdir
wa-l-istirad" (Ramses Import/Export Co.).  In Egypt, you'll often see
these sorts of names translated into English as "Ramses for Import and
Export".

-- 
Benjamin Geer
Postgraduate student
Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:podcasts related to Al-Kitaab Part One
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From:moderator
Subject:podcasts related to Al-Kitaab Part One

Your students may find the following Al-Kitaab Part One podcasts  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Muwashshahat refs
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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:rania essa <drraniaessa at hotmail.com>
Subject:Muwashshahat refs

dear madam,
there are some good book about muashahat by many Arabic authers among  
them dr fawzy essa he is a proffesor of andalusian literature . ther  
is also the book of dr daied ghazy which called " diwan almushahat wa  
alazjal " but i think you can contact with dr fawzy essa he will be  
more helpful and here is his e-mail " drfawzyessa at hotmail.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:10:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac query
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1) Subject:Dil's response

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac query
Subject:Alexander Elinson" <alexander.elinson at gmail.com>

Dear All,

The recent discussion has prompted this question: I am preparing some
Arabic text on a Mac using Mellel. When I have a letter with a shadda
and a short vowel over it, the short vowel shows up right on top of
the shadda, resulting in a smudge-like mark. This is both onscreen,
and when printed. I have tried different fonts, font sizes,
magnifications, etc., but to no avail. Is there a way to deal with
this so as to have a clearly vowelled text, shaddas and all?

Thank you,

Alexander Elinson
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Department of Classical and Oriental Studies
Hunter College of the City University of New York

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac query
Subject:Dil's response

I also cannot get vowel markings to work properly on Mellel.  You  
should know, however, that using the exact same font, and pasting the  
exact same text into Textedit, they work perfectly.  So if your text  
is not fancy in terms of formatting, you might just want to use  
Textedit for the ones where you need shaddas combined with vowels.  It  
also works fine on Indesign ME.
dil

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:12:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:another ll- response
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From: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU>
Date: April 7, 2008 2:10:17 PM MDT
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Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of ll- responses

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Date: 07 Apr 2008
From: "Srpko Lestaric" <srpkole at eunet.yu>
Subject:uanother ll- response

Hi Jonathan,
There's al-mu3arrif (a "definite article") omitted in your question,  
so the whole construction falls apart. The exacte title reads "miSr li- 
T-Tayaraan" (no "double" yaa' in Tayaraan!) and is an example of  
ellipsis as it stays for "sharika miSr li-T-Tayaraan". Knowing that,  
you see that everything is simple and in place.
Srpko Lestaric


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From: DILWORTH_PARKINSON at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Knut S. Vik?r" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

I just joined the list today, but there seem already to be issues  
relating to my Arabic Mac interest...

The colleague had got it almost right, but just mixed up the culprit...

The attitude reported is that of Microsoft, not Apple. The reason is  
that Microsoft Office for Mac is to be as compatible as possible with  
Office for Windows. Support for Arabic is handled differently on the  
Mac and on Windows, so for Microsoft to support Arabic (and Hebrew) on  
the Mac, they would have to change that code element in Office, which  
would make it less compatible with its own Windows product. That could  
be done, but they made a choice several years ago (one must assume  
based on size of market base) that this was too costly, as they would  
then have to re-do it for every upgrade, and have refrained from doing  
so. It is part of the same calculation that stops them from supporting  
macros in the new Word 2008 for Mac: It can be done, but it is too  
costly, so they are not doing it.

For the technically minded, there was a small Catch-22 involved. Both  
Mac and Windows accept a type of fonts called OpenType. The element of  
OpenType that handles Arabic context analysis is something called  
Uniscribe, which was developed by Microsoft (which also made the  
OpenType system). But uniscribe did not do context analysis under the  
Mac system - and since it was Microsoft that owns and developed it,  
there was nothing Apple could do except to sit quietly and wait for  
Microsoft to upgrade this tool so that Apple also could use it... For  
this reason, Apple developed its own Arabic fonts, using a separate  
technology, and could not use the Arabic OpenType fonts you find on  
the Internet (Mellel and InDesign can, but that is because they  
developed in-house OpenType solutions, or hacks to be precise).

This last explains Dil's point 6, by the way: The font that wrecks  
Safari is Microsoft "Times New Roman", which the installer puts  
instead of the older Apple version of the same font. Apple's Times NR  
does not have Arabic characters. Microsoft's does, but it is an  
OpenType font. SO, before, when a web page with Arabic text asks for  
display in Times New Roman, Safari did not find any Arabic in that  
font, and substituted a real Apple Arabic font instead. Now, with the  
Microsoft Times NR installed, Safari *does* find Arabic characters in  
the requested font, and displays them. But since Times NR is an  
OpenType font, they cannot display as ligatures, only as separate  
characters.

In the latest Mac OS, 10.5, Apple finally has got support for Arabic  
OpenType fonts, I do not know yet if this is because Microsoft has  
relented and upgraded uniscribe, or whether Apple has made its own  
parallel hacks to handle them. But, as far as I have seen (I haven't  
upgraded to 10.5 / Word 2008 myself yet), Word still does not handle  
Arabic, so there were also other problems involved.

Knut S. Vik?r
(not a computer person, this is just an interest)

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From: DILWORTH_PARKINSON at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Summer Academy Job
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:steven at berbeco.com
Subject:Arabic Summer Academy Job

The Arabic Summer Academy is seeking applications for a position as an  
Arabic language instructor. We are particularly interested in  
undergraduate and graduate students of Arabic from the Boston area.

Responsibilities include teaching first-year and second-year high  
school Arabic to students in a five week non-residential summer  
enrichment program. Instructors will also lead daily co-curricular  
activities. Instruction will be in Arabic.

Requirements include high-level fluency in both Arabic and English,  
high school or college level experience teaching Arabic, and  
experience working with high school students in an academic setting.

More information on the Arabic Summer Academy can be found here:

http://www.arabicsummeracademy.org

Applicants should send a letter of application with vita by April 30,  
2008.


Steven Berbeco
Teacher, Charlestown High School
Director, Arabic Summer Academy

Charlestown High School
240 Medford Street
Boston, MA 02129
http://boston.k12.ma.us/charlestown/arabic

Telephone: (617) 395-2600
Email: director at arabicsummeracademy.org

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From: DILWORTH_PARKINSON at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:book source responses
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2) Subject:book source response
3) Subject:book source response

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"tons" <tons at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:book source response

The second book Mujam alaghlaat can be downloaded from http://www.ahlalhdeeth.cc/vb/showthread.php?t=98995
Abbas Al-Tonsi

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:kalam la" <lakalam at gmail.com>
Subject:book source response


As for the second book, ???? ??????? ??????? ?  
???? ????? ??????? ??????? ???????  
????? ????????? ?? ????? ???????? /  
????? ???? ????????., it's published by Maktabat  
Lubn?n in Beirut in 1973. The website should be www.ldlp.com.
Although I couldn't find this dictionary in their online catalogue,  
you may ask the publisher directly by email.
Also, if you have access to the American University in Cairo, the  
library holds this dictionary in the reference shelf. (But the library  
will temporarily close from June 4 to September 13 for moving to the  
new campus, I heard.)

Good luck

lakalam
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Martine P?trod <martine.petrod at webspeed.dk>
Subject:book source response

Hi

Try the neelwafurat online bookshop, they seem to have one of them :
http://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb133410-93539&search=books

Best
Martine P?trod

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From: DILWORTH_PARKINSON at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of ll-
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:jonathanlange at yahoo.com
Subject:use of ll-
> There's al-mu3arrif (a "definite article") omitted in your question,  
> so the whole construction falls apart. The exacte title reads "miSr  
> li-T-Tayaraan" (no "double" yaa' in Tayaraan!) and is an example of  
> ellipsis as it stays for "sharika miSr li-T-Tayaraan". Knowing that,  
> you see that everything is simple and in place.

Dil,

This response doesn't make sense to me.  This
grammatical pattern seems in many ways to me to be an
attempt at an imitation of indo-european compound word
syntax (Egypt Airlines = 'Misr l-l-Tayyaraan').  Am I
missing something?

-J

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From: DILWORTH_PARKINSON at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology response
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"Ola Moshref" <omoshref at gmail.com>
Subject:'hair' etymology response

salaam

I don't know of a scientific reference for this. But my own native  
insight
is that because 'a hair' is so fine and delicate, and 'the feeling'  
senses
the slightest unseen facts, so both are essentially characterized by the
qualities of fineness and delicacy.

Ola Moshref
TA- UIUC

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:'hair' etymology response

Hair is a sensory organ.

David Wilmsen

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:37 -0600
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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Zouheir Khalsi <list.khalsi at hotmail.com>
Subject:Tunisian Arabic book response

Hi

As far as I know, there is an in-house publication for teaching  
Tunisian Arabic at the Bourguiba Intstitute for Modern Languages,  
Tunis, Tunisia. I am an instructor myself at the Institute but I am  
teaching English. I'll check whether an how you can get a copy and  
tell you later.

Zouheir Khalsi
Bourguiba Intstitute for Modern Languages
University of Tunis El Manar

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:50:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac responses
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3) Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response
4) Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response
5) Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Michael Fishbein <fishbein at humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac

Although Mellel handles Arabic and the vowels very well, and will even  
allow the text of a Word document generated on Windows and opened as  
blank squares on the Mac to be cut and pasted into Mellel, whereupon  
it miraculously turns into Arabic, Mellel does not know how to  
position shadda plus another vowel over a consonant; the two overprint  
each other, both on the screen and when the file is printed.

I have found a work-around. Unicode includes single glyphs for shadda  
plus each of the vowels, and some of the Mac Arabic fonts can access  
these glyphs. I suggest putting them into your list of favorites in  
Character Palate, so that they are readily accessible. Also, to  
facilitate matters, one can type the combinations normally and then do  
a global search and replace in Mellel. It works beautifully. Into the  
Find box, type shadda and the vowel; in the Replace box insert the  
compound glyph from your favorites. One can even turn the search into  
a macro. Unfortunately, you cannot use an OR search to include all the  
combinations of shadda and a vowel, because the replacement needs to  
vary on the basis of what is found.

Put the following compound glyphs into your favorites ). Look under  
Unicode Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic Presentation Forms- 
B), the first number (hex) after Unicode is what you are looking for:

ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH FATHA (Unicode FC60, UTF8 EF B1 A0)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRA (Unicode FC62, UTF8 EF B1 A2)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMA (Unicode FC61, UTF8 EF B1 A1)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRA (Unicode FC62, UTF8 EF B1 A2)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMATAN (Unicode FC5E, UTF8 EF B1 9E)
ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRATAN (Unicode FC5F, UTF8 EF B1 9F)
ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALIF (Unicode 0670, UTF8 D9 B0)
ARABIC LETTER ALIF WASLA (Unicode 0671, UTF8 D9 B1
ARABIC LIGATURE ALLAH ISOLATED FORM (Unicode FDF2, UTF8 EF B7 B2)
ARABIC END OF AYAH (Unicode 06DD, UTF8 D8 9D)
ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE... (Unicode FDFA, UTF8 EF B7 BA)

Not all the Arabic fonts have all these glyphs. Bayan seems to have  
most of them, except for Alif Wasla, which will come out in a  
different font (and smaller). I have not located shadda with fathatan.


Michael Fishbein, Lecturer in Arabic
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
366 Humanities Building, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
tel. 310 206-2229


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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:Connie Bobroff" <connieb at gmail.com>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

This series of Perso-Arabic fonts which can be used on both PC and Mac  
can
properly display short vowels and diacritics.
http://wiki.irmug.org/index.php/X_Series_2
I'm sorry I deleted the orignal post(s) on this subject but these  
fonts work
perfectly in Mellel and
all Mac applications.

-Connie Bobroff
University of Texas at Austin

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"Kevin Burnham" <kburnham at gmail.com>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

Hi,
I use Mellel on a MAC with the Scheherazade font and have no trouble  
putting
fathas on top of shaddas.  I believe it can be downloaded for free from
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ArabicFonts
.
Kevin Burnham

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From: "Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

Have you tried different fonts?  Under MS-Word the same effect -dot and
diacritic overlap-occurs with certain fonts, such as Arial.  However,  
if you
select all the text displaying this symptom then change the font to
Simplified Arabic, the display is fine.

Waheed

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:"Knut S. Vik?r" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Vowel markings with Mellel on Mac response

In a separate message today, I mentioned a bit about Arabic font  
types, and this is related. It is also relevant for complex Latin  
diacritics, by the way.

Apple has created a basic, operating system level, way of handling  
typography, that is to my eyes very flexible. One element of it, is  
that diacritics in either Arabic or Latin are aware of each of other  
and can relate to each other: If you have a font that can show both  
"dot under" and then "line under", try to type both onto the same  
character, in e.g. TextEdit, which uses the system typography resource  
only. You will see that the second one you type moves down so that  
both are visible. Some Semiticits do use "d with line under and dot  
under" for whom this will be useful. Even better, "dot above" over a  
lower-case character is placed just above it; over an upper-case  
character the same dot moves higher up, and is placed correctly in  
relation to, and also centrally placed whether it is a wide W or a  
narrow I.

Fine. However, as mentioned in the other mail, this system did not  
handle Arabic ligatures in certain fonts (of the OpenType kind). So,  
some programs do not use this system-level function, but create their  
own. Mellel is one such. It does mean it can use a much greater  
variety of Arabic fonts. But it also means that it must forgo this  
dynamic placement of diacritics, or recreate the complex typography  
behind it by itself. InDesign is a beautiful program, and can do lots  
of fine typography, but is unfortunately terribly expensive. Mellel is  
affordable, but you get the trade-off.

What to do? Well, what happens is that without these system-based  
adjustments, the program uses just what the font itself provides.  
Fonts actually do differ on this shadda + vowel combination. Most  
fonts will in Mellel do as you say, superimpose them. But a few do  
not. Apple's al-Bayan seems actually to work well. So do the two very  
nice SIL fonts, Lateef and Scheherazade, and a couple of WinSoft  
newest fonts (WinSoft Pro). But these are about it. The very nice set  
of Persian fonts available on Mellel's website (the X series),  
unfortunately do not [but I believe the producer is actively working  
on a new set of more sophisticated fonts which may work better].

Perhaps this will become more automatic in new OS, but since these  
finer things are ultimately about development time and costs, there  
may always be trade-offs.

(The program Dil does not mention, but which I prefer for Arabic text,  
is NisusWriter Pro. Its typography is Apple based, so it has all these  
niceties, but it is also as powerful as Mellel or more in terms of  
word processing, in my experience.)

Knut
<http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv>
- There is somewhere there a comment about the particular issue of  
shadda + kasra, which is an issue apart -

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic dictionary plug-in for Mac query
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:rsricks at gmail.com
Subject:Arabic dictionary plug-in for Mac query

http://lipflip.org/blog/lipflip/2008/02/dictcc-plugin-for-os-xs-dictionaryapp 
  is the link for the German-English plugin for Mac's dictionary.app.  
It would be fantastic (for translators, students, etc.) to have  
something analogous for Arabic.  Does anyone know of one that either  
exists or is under development?

RSR

P.S. I saw the comments about using Arabic on Macs. Have you used  
Pages (from Apple's iWork suite) at all? I've found that it does the  
job for most of my Arabic word processing/page layout needs. For those  
who can't afford InDesign, it's a feasible option.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New LDC Arabic resources
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:New LDC Arabic resources

(2)  GALE Phase 1 Arabic Blog Parallel Text was prepared by the LDC  
and consists of 102K words (222 files) of Arabic blog text and its  
English translation from thirty-three sources. This release was used  
as training data in Phase 1 of the DARPA-funded GALE program.

The task of preparing this corpus involved four stages of work: data  
scouting, data harvesting, formatting, and data selection.

Data scouting involved manually searching the web for suitable blog  
text. Data scouts were assigned particular topics and genres along  
with a production target in order to focus their web search. Formal  
annotation guidelines and a customized annotation toolkit helped data  
scouts to manage the search process and to track progress.
Data scouts logged their decisions about potential text of interest  
(sites, threads and posts) to a database. A nightly process queried  
the annotation database and harvested all designated URLs. Whenever  
possible, the entire site was downloaded, not just the individual  
thread or post located by the data scout.

Once the text was downloaded, its format was standardized so that the  
data could be more easily integrated into downstream annotation  
processes. Typically a new script was required for each new domain  
name that was identified. After scripts were run, an optional manual  
process corrected any remaining formatting problems.

The selected documents were then reviewed for content suitability  
using a semi-automatic process. A statistical approach was used to  
rank a document's relevance to a set of already-selected documents  
labeled as "good." An annotator then reviewed the list of relevance- 
ranked documents and selected those which were suitable for a  
particular annotation task or for annotation in general.

After files were selected, they were reformatted into a human-readable  
translation format, and the files were then assigned to professional  
translators for careful translation. Translators followed LDC's GALE  
Translation guidelines, which describe the makeup of the translation  
team, the source, data format, the translation data format, best  
practices for translating certain linguistic features (such as names  
and speech disfluencies), and quality control procedures applied to  
completed translations.

All final data are in Tab Delimited Format (TDF). TDF is compatible  
with other transcription formats, such as the Transcriber format and  
AG format, and it is easy to process.  Each line of a TDF file  
corresponds to a speech segment and contains 13 tab delimited field.A  
source TDF file and its translation are the same except that the  
transcript in the source TDF is replaced by its English translation.

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALPER Summer Workshops
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:gxa9 at psu.edu
Subject:CALPER Summer Workshops

enter for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research
at the Pennsylvania State University

U.S. Dept. of Education
Title VI Language Resource Center
Language Education for the 21st Century


Dear Colleagues,

Spring Break is passed and we are in the second half of our semester  
at Penn State. Now we are looking towards June, when we will hold our  
yearly workshop series for foreign language educators here on the main  
campus.

Over the past few years, many teachers traveled to State College and  
we spent an exciting time together learning about topics and issues  
very relevant to world language education.

Once again, we are looking forward to meeting new colleagues and re- 
connecting with participants from previous years and we hope to see  
you at University Park.

Gabriela Appel
Summer Workshops at Penn State
June 20 - Projects in Foreign Language Courses
June 21 - Language Portfolios
June 23-24 - Investigating Real Language
June 23-24 - New Technologies for Language Teaching and Learning
June 25-26 - Challenges in Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language  
Learners
June 25-26 - Investigating Language Use in Study Abroad
June 27-28 - Dynamic Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom


As in the past, ACT 48 credits are available to Pennsylvania teachers!  
Consult the entries on our workshop page.

Please visit our professional development web space for a more  
detailed overview of this year's workshop series in June.
Campus housing is open and you can make your housing arrangements  
directly with the Penn State Housing Office. Alternatively, reserve a  
room with one of the local hotels. You will find hotel information on  
our site.

Deadline for registration is: June 9, 2008.

CALPER Podcasts

Some time ago, we initiated our series of podcasts, in which we  
introduce and discuss current issues of interest to language  
educators. A free resource in an alternative medium, we hope that many  
of our colleagues find the information useful to their teaching  
practice.

In the series, there are two podcasts on topics that relate to this  
year's workshops and we invite you to listen in:

CALPER Podcast: "Corpora and their Use in Language Teaching"
An interview with Michael McCarthy, co-director of CALPER's Learner  
Corpora project, and author of among other works: Language as  
Discourse: Perspectives for Language Teaching (Longman) andFrom Corpus  
to Classroom (Cambridge). Professor Michael McCarthy explains some of  
the background information about the use of corpora and highlights  
some issues in the new area of working with corpora in language  
teaching. Working with corpora in language teaching or "Investigating  
Real Language" is the focus of the workshop that Professor McCarthy  
will conduct here at University Park in this exciting new field that  
will surely have an impact on teachers' practices.

CALPER Podcast: "Dynamic Assessment"
A conversation between James Lantolf and Matthew Poehner, co-directors  
of CALPER's project on Dynamic Assessment (DA) and authors of the  
Teacher's Guide to DA , which we published in 2007. Professors Lantolf  
and Poehner will conduct our workshop on "Dynamic Assessment", an  
innovative pedagogical approach that has gained significant momentum  
amongst teachers who are re-thinking the relationship between  
assessment and instruction in foreign language education.

Once you are on the CALPER Podcast Page, you will also find previous  
releases focusing on Computer-mediated-communication and newer CMC  
Tools such as the

CALPER Podcast: "Blogs in the FL Classroom"
Dana Webber, who teaches Spanish at the State College High School,  
collaborated with CALPER and in this recording shares her experiences  
with using "Blogs" with her Spanish students.

Teaching Materials:

For Teachers of Korean:
Korean Grammar in Discourse and Interaction
Unit 5: Noun Modifiers
Unit 6: Relative Clause Construction

Professor Susan Strauss, who is the director of our Korean project,  
made two more units in her series on "Korean Grammar in Discourse and  
Interaction" available to teachers of Korean. Both units are in pdf- 
format and can be downloaded from the web page of the Korean project  
atcalper.la.psu.edu/korean.php free of charge.

For Teachers of German:
If you are teaching high-intermediate and advanced learners of German,  
and would like to explore a new approach to teaching modal particles  
you might be interested in "Teaching German Modal Particles: A Corpus- 
based Approach" by Nina Vyatkina and Karen E. Johnson. The  
instructional sequence in this workbook moves from simple to complex  
awareness raising activities. Seven handouts contain explicit  
information on modal particles; ten worksheets engage learners in  
noticing, defining, analyzing, and using modal particles. Worksheets  
and handouts are ready to be copied for classroom use. For more  
details click here
Conferences

IUP Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching
Plenary Speaker: Professor Renate Schulz, University of Arizona
Date: April 18, 2008
Location: Holiday Inn, Indiana, PA

Indiana University of Pennsylvania will hold its Spring Methodology  
Conference soon. Once again, you can look forward to this yearly event  
that brings you exciting new ideas that you can take back to your  
classroom, current issues in language education for you to discuss,  
opportunities for you to network with other language professionals,  
and the latest textbooks and materials for you to peruse. As in the  
past, you will receive six hours Pennsylvania Act 48 professional  
education credits. We hope to see PA teachers at the conference, where  
CALPER will display some of its resources and materials! more  
information.
20th Annual Conference of CATJ
Theme: Towards Advanced Japanese Language Proficiency
Plenary Speakers: Professor Steven Thorne, Penn State and Professor  
Mari Noda, Ohio State
Date: May 31 - June 1, 2008
Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Co-sponsored by the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures and  
the Center for East Asian Studies at UW-Madison, CALPER at Penn State,  
and the National East Asian Language Resource Center at the Ohio State  
University.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State University and Penn  
State paired up with the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese  
to bring the annual conference of the organization to Madison this  
year. The program of CATJ 20 has now been finalized and a preview is  
available at the conference site. Please visit the conference website  
for updated information. We hope to see many of our colleagues in  
Madison!
We also maintain an up-to-date calendar of conferences and events on  
our web site. If you would like to suggest an event to be included in  
the calendar, please send information to Vickie Lucas at the CALPER  
office.
In the News

National Language Service Corps Recruitment Began.The National  
Language Service Corps (NLSC) is a civilian corps of volunteers with  
certified expertise in languages important to the security and welfare  
of the United States. Run by the Department of Defense, the corps is  
to consist of volunteers willing to serve as on-call Federal  
employees. The NLSC is an integral component of the Department of  
Defense Language Transformation Plan and the President's National  
Security Language Initiative. Recruitment will continue over the next  
two years. Currently, the languages for which volunteers are sought,  
are: Mandarin Chinese, Hausa, Somali, Swahili, Hindi, Indonesian,  
Vietnamese, and Russian. National Language Service Corps
Tennessee Senate Bill. Recently, the General Assembly of the State of  
Tennessee passed Senate Bill 2980 that urges the State Board of  
Education to develop guidelines for fostering fluency in a foreign  
language. The guidelines are to be used by Local Education Agencies  
for the K-12 levels of instruction. The bill considers fluency in a  
foreign language "to be part of a holistic education".
Cervantes TV. Instituto Cervantes initiated the first cultural TV  
channel in Spanish that can be viewed around the world through the  
Internet. The Instituto Cervantes is a public not-for-profit  
institution founded by the Government of Spain in 1991 to promote  
Spanish language teaching and knowledge of the cultures of Spanish  
speaking countries throughout the world. Visit CervantesTV .
Best regards from CALPER- the LRC in Pennsylvania
Gabriela Appel, Program Coordinator

We greatly welcome you to share this information with your colleagues.  
If you wish to unsubscribe to our occasional newsletter, please send  
email to Gabriela Appel

Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research
The Pennsylvania State University 5 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802-5203
Phone: 814-863-1212 Fax: 814-865-1316
Email: calper at psu.edu
Web: calper.la.psu.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UPenn Summer Intensive Arabic Courses
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:emad at sas.upenn.edu
Subject:UPenn Summer Intensive Arabic Courses

UPenn Summer Intensive Arabic Program

ARAB 131-910. Intensive Elementary Arabic I & II. (Jamal Ali and  
Mbarek Sryfi)
Prerequisite: None
This is a six- week intensive course offered in the summer through the  
Office of Summer
Sessions; (see Penn Summer Course Guide.)
  This is the beginners course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It  
introduce learners to the speaking, listening, reading, and writing  
skills in the standard means of communication in the Arab world. The  
course is proficiency-based, implying that all activities are aimed at  
placing you, the learner, in the context of the native-speaking  
environment from the very beginning. Evaluation is done by the more  
traditional testing methods (vocabulary tests, dictations, grammar and  
translation exercises). We anticipate that by the end of this course  
students will range in proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate  
Low on the ACTFL scale; in other words (using the terminology of the  
government's Foreign Service Institute), from 'incipient survival' to  
'full survival' in the native-speaking environment. (see course  
description for more details).

ARAB 133-910. Intermediate Arabic I & II. (Hassan Nitami)
Prerequisite: ARAB 031-032  or ARAB 131-910
This is a six- weeks intensive course offered in the summer through  
the Office of Summer Sessions; see Penn Summer Course Guide.) This is  
the continuation of ARAB 031-032,  or ARAB 131-910 the elementary  
course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This course is also  
proficiency-based, implying that all activities within the course are  
aimed at placing you, the learner, in the context of the native- 
speaking environment from the very beginning. As in ARAB 031-032,  and  
131-910 evaluation is done by the more traditional testing methods  
(vocabulary tests, grammar and translation exercises). Completion of  
this course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences' language  
requirement in Arabic. However, it should be emphasized that you will  
need a longer period of study to achieve proficiency in Arabic. We  
anticipate that students range from Intermediate Low to Intermediate  
High according to ACTFL scale.
For inquiries, please contact
Emad Rushdie
Lecturer in Foreign Languages
Coordinator of the Arabic Language Program
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
847 Williams Hall
255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel/(215)898-7466
E-mail: emad at sas.upenn.edu

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:"jmurg" <jmurg at cox.net>
Subject:'hair' etymology

One of my professors used to refer to "non-synonymous, homophonous  
roots." It will be interesting to see what the Arabic-L verdict is on  
this!
-- Jackie Murgida

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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:Uri Horesh <urih at mail.utexas.edu>
Subject:'hair' etymology

I haven't checked this thoroughly, but here's my two-cents' worth  
based on a
synchronic analysis with Hebrew and my knowledge of comparative Semitic:

Hebrew has two distinct roots:

sh-3-r for verbs such as /she:3e:r/ (/shier/ in Modern Hebrew),  
'estimate'

s'-3-r for the noun /s'e:3a:r/ (/sear/ in MH), 'hair'

I am using /s'/ here to represent the "third sibilant", historically
reconstructed as a voiceless lateral fricative. In MH it has merged in
pronunciation with /s/, but is still written as a "shin" with a  
diacritical
dot on the left (as opposed to the "regular" shin with a diacritical  
on the
right, pronounced /sh/).

While Arabic has 28 consonantal phonemes, more than any living Semitic
language, it lacks that 29th consonant. Only Epigraphic South Arabian  
has
graphemes for 29 consonants. Tiberian Hebrew has 22 graphemes, but  
with that
diacritic really has 23 consonantal phonemes. That 23rd Hebrew phoneme  
is
associated with the 29th ESA phoneme, the only Proto-Semitic phoneme not
attested in Arabic. The Ethiopic script also has three graphemes,  
though in
modern Ethiopian languages (e.g., Amharic), they are all pronounced /s/.

What happened in Arabic, historically (i.e., prior to the  
solidification of
Arabic orthography as we know it) is that /s'/ and /sh/ have merged  
as /sh/.

The real picture is really a bit more complex, because Arabic /sh/  
usually
corresponds with Hebrew /s/, not Hebrew /sh/, but there are individual
exceptions, even within a single word, e.g., Arabic /shams/ and Hebrew
/shemesh/.

It is therefore my conclusion that Arabic /sha3r/ 'hair' should be
reconstructed as Proto-Semitic /s'a3r/ (root s'-3-r), whereas Arabic
/sha3ara/ 'feel' is cognate with Hebrew /she:3e:r/ 'estimate' and  
should be
reconstructed as having derived from PS root sh-3-r.

What to do with the Arabic root s-3-r is another question that has to be
dealt with in this context, but the solution to that problem, I believe,
will be immaterial to the question at hand.

So I'd cease looking for explanations linking 'hair' with 'sense' or
'feeling' and stick to the evidence provided across Semitic languages.

Comments are welcome.

Uri Horesh
http://www.endhomophobia.org

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:March AATA Newsletter out
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:moderator
Subject:March AATA Newsletter out

The AATA newsletter for March 2008 has been released, and it is full  
of job listings (some of which have appeared here), summer programs,  
and a variety of other information.  Check it out.
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs intensive summer program in Syria
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:"Christian Sinclair" <christian.sinclair at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs intensive summer program in Syria

Greetings,
I have a student who was planning on participating in the Damascus  
Summer
Arabic Program but just found out it wouldn't be running this summer.   
She's
looking for an alternate program that provides at least 120 contacts  
hours
in MSA.  She's looking at IFEAD as a possibility.  Does anyone know of  
other
programs?  She would like to be in Damascus.  Aleppo is also of  
interest to
her.

Please respond directly to the student, Andrea Shaheen, at
ashaheen at email.arizona.edu.

best,
Christian Sinclair
University of Arizona
Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Second Lang. for Business Comm. Summer Institute
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:LauderCiber at wharton.upenn.edu
Subject:Second Lang. for Business Comm. Summer Institute

Penn Lauder CIBER is proud to announce our
Sixth Annual
Summer Institute for Teaching a Second Language for Business  
Communication
June 23-27, 2008.

Lauder Institute at the Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Registration deadline is June 2, 2008

Institute Overview:
?         Designed primarily for secondary and post-secondary language  
educators, this program provides an overview of basic business  
concepts, combined with discussions of current issues in language- 
teaching methodology and curriculum design.
?         The institute is team-taught by Mr. Carlos Menendez, a  
Wharton/Lauder graduate, and Dr. Cheri Micheau of Penn?s Graduate  
School of Education.
?         Participants work on group projects in which they design  
curriculum modules that apply the concepts addressed during the program.
?         After the Institute, participants receive a compilation of  
all the projects to enable them to adapt and use the modules in their  
own classroom situations.
?         This year?s participants will also have the opportunity to  
participate in a partnership program with the Wharton School and  
Penn?s Graduate School of Education.  The dualTeaching Language for  
Business Communication Certificate prepares graduates to develop and  
teach courses in business language.  For further information please  
contact us at lauderciber at wharton.upenn.edu


Registration:
?         The cost of the program is $450, which covers all program  
materials and lunch each day.
?         There is an additional $75 state-processing fee for  
Pennsylvania public school teachers who elect to receive continuing  
education credit under Pennsylvania?s Act 48.
?         We offer a 20% discount to participants who register with a  
colleague.

If you or your colleagues would like more information or have any  
questions about either program, please feel free to contact us at lauderciber at wharton.upenn.edu 
  or visit our website at http://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/ciber.

Kathryn M. Homa
Program Coordinator
Penn Lauder CIBER
The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies
Lauder-Fischer Hall, 2nd Floor
256 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
Ph: 215.898.4642
Fax: 215.898.2067
Email: khoma at wharton.upenn.edu
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:30:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:use of ll-
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From: Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:use of ll-

This specific example --sharikat miSr liTTayaraan, ???? ???  
???????--  might
warrant a different interpretation.
The company name is miSr (???).  Hence one gets ???? ???,  
which loosely
means: The Egypt Company.  At this juncture, when introducing the term
'aviation' (or a term to that effect), one can get something like:
???? ????? ???, which is a problem because ??? can be an  
amplifying term to
either ???? or ?????.
It is not possible to do ???? ??? and then follow that construct  
with the
term ?????:
*???? ??? ?????.
In such instances, the ?? provides a solution: ???? ???  
???????.
There are several such companies in Egypt whose name begins with  
???? ???:
The Egypt Company (for something or another):
???? ??? ??????????
???? ??? ?????? ?????? ????????
???? ??? ????? ???????

The use of "li" to break up an idafa is common.  One reason seems to  
be to
disambiguate without being obliged to use case marking; ?????  
????.

Waheed

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:06:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tunisian Arabic textbooks
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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From:taoufiq ben amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Tunisian Arabic textbooks

I have published in 1988 a book for the Peace Corps entitled: A  
Beginner's Course in Tunisian Arabic. unfortunately, it is not easy to  
find hard copies of it. To my dismay, however, i found it in a  
downloadable version on the internet. Someone put it up there without  
even asking for my permission. Since it is available, you might as  
well use it  if you can actually open the file, which i cannot.

here is the link (please scroll down and look under Arabic):

http://goto.glocalnet.net/maho/webresources/semitic.html

here are some of the titles listed on this site:

Rached ben Abdelkader, others
Tunisian Arabic (PDF). Peace Corps Tunisia.
eric.ed.gov (ED401742)

Taoufik ben Amor
A beginner's course in Tunisian Arabic (PDF). Peace Corps Tunisia.
eric.ed.gov (ED402739)

Abdessalem Choura
Tunisian Arabic: competency based language education curriculum guide  
(PDF). Peace Corps Tunisia.
eric.ed.gov (ED402755)

the Peace Corps has also issued a while ago a phrasebook for Tunisian  
Arabic, not a full course, but still helpful.

Best of luck,

Taoufik Ben Amor
Columbia University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs info on teaching Arabic children with
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Hana Abu Khadra Salem" <hana.abukhadra at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs info on teaching Arabic children with disabilities

Greetings,

I was referred to you by Professor Lina Choueiri from the American
University of Beirut. I am looking for information about the
psycholinguistics of the Arabic language. My interest is to try to
find strategies to help children with intellectual disabilities  
particularly
kids with Down Syndrome learn reading. Please advice.

Hana Abu Khadra

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"kalam la" <lakalam at gmail.com>
Subject:'hair' etymology

  thank Uri for his explanation by Hebrew. I also tried Hebrew, but I  
could
find only s'e:3a:r meaning 'hair'.
We can't do etymological study without referring to other Semitic  
languages.
To reinforce a hypothesis, we should check the words of this root in
other Semitic languages such as Assyrian, Babylonian, Aramaic and  
Syrian.
Unfortunately I couldn't find any dictionary of these languages in my
university. So I'll expect contribution of the specialists of these
languages.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:58:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Website for Summer Startalk Programs
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1) Subject:Website for Summer Startalk Programs

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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:Kirk Belnap <belnap at byu.edu>
Subject:Website for Summer Startalk Programs

There are a number of places around the country where high school  
students will be able to study Arabic intensively this year, funded by  
the Startalk initiative.  Besides Arabic, programs also exist for  
Chinese, Hindi, Persian and Urdu.  For more information (including  
curricular materials and tools of interest to all language teachers),  
please see: http://startalk.umd.edu/


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:arabic named entity recognition
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:from CORPORA
Subject:arabic named entity recognition

[I thought some of you might find this exchange from CORPORA  
interesting.  dil]

Dear all,

I wonder if there is an available named entity recognition system that  
could be used for an arabic Question-Answering system?
Thanks in advance.

Wissal BRINI

Master student
MIRACL Laboratory
Sfax, TUNISIA

______

If you can afford a commercial system, check out software from Basis
Technology, http://basistech.com .

					Seth

________


or better yet Inxight's thingfinder:

http://www.inxight.com/products/sdks/tf/


-Ronald P. Reck

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Goucher College Job
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Elizabeth M. Bergman" <emb at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Goucher College Job

Please note that the application deadline has been extended.

Half-Time Instructor, Arabic

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Goucher College  
invites applications for a half-time instructor in Arabic Language to  
begin Fall 2008. We seek an energetic individual who will contribute  
to a dynamic and growing Arabic language program. Native or near- 
native proficiency in Arabic, previous collegiate teaching experience,  
and experience in proficiency-based language instruction a must; Ph.D.  
preferred, but candidates with an MA will be considered.  The  
successful candidate must be able to teach 2 courses a semester in  
Modern Standard Arabic at the introductory, elementary, and  
intermediate levels, advise students in Arabic, and further develop  
the Arabic program.

Interested applicants should respond with a letter of application,  
curriculum vitae, and 3 letters of reference to: Arabic Search  
Committee, c/o Human Resources, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley  
Rd, Baltimore, MD 21204-2794.  Review of applications will continue  
until position is filled. EOE.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs suggestions for Third Year texts
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Hirchi,Mohammed" <Mohammed.Hirchi at ColoState.EDU>
Subject:Needs suggestions for Third Year texts

Dear Colleagues,

I will be teaching a third year Arabic class this coming fall with a  
focus on Reading & Writing and I would like to know if you have any  
textbooks to suggest for the course.

Thank you for your input.

-Mohammed

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&LING&GEN:Edinburgh Conference on Arabic on Campus
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:Elisabeth Kendall <elisabeth.kendall at ed.ac.uk>
Subject:Edinburgh Conference on Arabic on Campus and Beyond

Conference: Arabic on Campus and Beyond

Location: University of Edinburgh, UK (Martin Hall, New College, Mound  
Place)

Date: 25 April 2008

Organizer: Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a  
collaborative initiative comprising the Universities of Edinburgh,  
Durham and Manchester

Sponsors: CMEIS University of Cambridge, LLAS, CASAW (funded by ESRC,  
AHRC, SFC, HEFCE)

Aim: The main aim of the conference is to enable students and teachers  
of Arabic at UK institutions to share perspectives and experiences of  
the way Arabic is taught - at universities, schools, and in other  
professional environments. The final session compares the challenges  
and opportunities facing students and teachers of a range of  
strategically important languages: Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and  
Russian.

To Book a Free Place: Contact Sophie Lowry on Sophie.Lowry at ed.ac.uk or  
+44 (0)131 650 6814

Outline of Day:
Sessions will run consecutively through the day, with breaks for  
refreshments and lunch. Each session will open with a panel of four  
expert speakers, followed by a chaired question and answer and  
discussion session from the floor.

10.30am
Coffee

10.45am
Welcome by Professor Yasir Suleiman and Dr Elisabeth Kendall

11.00am
Session 1 ? Learners? Perspectives

12.15pm

Session 2 ? Resources

1.30pm

Lunch
2.45pm

Session 3 ? Arabic beyond Campus
4.00pm

Coffee
4.15pm
Session 4 ? Comparative Perspectives

5.30pm

Conclusion

5.35pm

End


Session 1 ? ?Living Arabic?: Learners? Perspectives

Purpose
This session invites students to reflect critically on their  
experiences of their year abroad.

Chair: Paul Anderson (Edinburgh)
Panel:
Yonatan Mendel (Cambridge)
Luke Peterson (Cambridge)
Lindsay Stewart (St Andrews) (tbc)
Edinburgh student (tbc)


Session 2 ? ?Resourcing the Future?

Purpose
This session invites practitioners to reflect critically on the  
resources they use in teaching Arabic.

Chair: Philip Sadgrove (Manchester)
Panel:
Shahla Suleiman (Edinburgh)
Otared Haidar (Oxford)
Manuela Giolfo (Exeter)
Mourad Diouri (Edinburgh)


Session 3 ? Arabic Beyond Campus

Purpose
This session focuses on the methods and objectives of Arabic teaching  
outside universities, and the demands and needs for Arabic language  
expertise beyond universities.

Chair: Paul Starkey (Durham)
Panel:
Amal Ayoubi (SOAS)
Anissa Daoudi (Durham)
Haroon Shirwani (Eton)
Defence School of Languages speaker


Session 4 ? ?How hard is hard?? ? Arabic in a Comparative Perspective

Purpose
This session considers similarities and differences in the way that  
?hard? languages are taught in the UK, and in particular the role of  
technology in teaching. The panel will consist of Russian, Arabic,  
Chinese and Japanese teachers working at ESRC-funded language-based  
area studies centres.

Chair: Yasir Suleiman (Cambridge)
Panel:
Shioyun Kan (Chinese ESRC centre ? BICC)
Margaret Tejerizo (Russian ESRC centre ? CEELBAS)
James Dickins (Salford - Arabic)
Tom McAuley (Japanese ESRC centre ? White Rose)


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Dr Elisabeth Kendall
Director, Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World

Administrative Address:
University of Edinburgh
16-19 George Square
Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, U.K.

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALPER newsletter URL
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:gxa9 at psu.edu
Subject:CALPER newsletter URL

Dear Colleagues, several of our subscribers received our last CALPER E- 
News in less than intact formatting.

Therefore, we had to find a permanent space for the newsletter on our  
site. Here is the link to our E-News, where we will display the  
current issue:

http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsletter.php
Thank you,
Gabriela Appel
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)
Penn State

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Advanced Arabic Summer Program at Wesleyan U.
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:yhamed at wesleyan.edu
Subject:Advanced Arabic Summer Program at Wesleyan U.

Summer Language Institute at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan offers the uncommon opportunity to study colloquial Levantine
Arabic and advanced Modern Standard in summer immersion. In this  
intensive
four-week session, you will study continuously: in class, in  
conversation
sessions, in your Arabic housing, at the Arabic dining table, and in
ongoing Arabic-themed activities designed for fun and practice.
Program Date: June 2-27, 2008
LANG 355: Intensive Advanced Modern Standard Arabic
Faculty: Yasir Hamed
Language Assistant: Abdulrahman Nasser
Third year Arabic emphasizes proficiency in reading, writing, listening,
speaking, and conversation skills. Simultaneously develops vocabulary,
functional communication skills, and the culture of the Arab world with
more focus on understanding grammar construction, syntax and morphology.
Activities (subject to change):
?	Daily showings of short educational video clips
?	Twice-weekly showings of a feature Arabic movie
?	Daily in-class conversation performances based on the theme or topic  
for
that day
?	Weekly skits
?	End of the session performance (longer skit)
?	Visits to local Arabic stores/restaurant in New Haven
?	A visit to New York City to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art's
collection of Islamic art and to explore the vibrant life of Brooklyn's
Atlantic Avenue, the heart of New York's Arab-American community
?	Cooking Arab cuisine in Arabic
?	Additional activities include dances, music, sports and more.
LANG 359: Intensive Introduction to Levantine Colloquial Arabic
Faculty: Bruce Masters
Language Assistant: Halim Farouk Rizk
Learn Arabic as it is actually spoken in the Levant:  Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. The text uses a  
phonetic
Latin transcription. The Arabic script will not be used. Emphasis will  
be
on language needed for everyday situations, speaking, and aural
comprehension. Students should have one year of modern standard Arabic.
Heritage speakers (children/spouses of native speakers) without previous
Arabic study may be eligible with permission of the instructor.
Activities (subject to change):
?	Twice-weekly showings of feature films, produced in Lebanon, Syria,
Israel, and the Palestinian territories in the Levantine dialect
?	Cooking Arab cuisine in Arabic
?	Learning Arab folk-dances and popular songs in the Levantine dialect
?	A visit to New York City to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art's
collection of Islamic art and to explore the vibrant life of Brooklyn's
Atlantic Avenue, the heart of New York's Arab-American community
?	Additional activities include dances, music, sports and more

For more info, please, visit www.wesleyan.edu/summer
or send an email to: summer at wesleyan.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tunisian Arabic Textbooks
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Dora Johnson" <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:Tunisian Arabic Textbooks

[the reference is to taoufiq ben amor's message about Tunisian Arabic  
textbooks.]

The ED numbers next to the texts listed below mean that they are also
available from ERIC (Educational Research Information Center). Older
pubications are sometimes not available in full text, but I just checked
and it looks like these are available in full text, so you can also
download them from there. www.eric.ed.gov. Type in "Tunisian Arabic"
into the search field. It will give you some other things also, but you
can find the referenced textbooks.

Dora Johnson

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Ali Darwish contact info
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:adil at hum.ku.dk
Subject:Ali Darwish contact info

Here is Ali Darwish email. You may kindly contact him. Best regards
Adil Al-Kufaishi
"Ali Darwish" <darwish at surf.net.au>


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NPR report on Studying Arabic in Syria
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:NPR report on Studying Arabic in Syria

National Public Radio (NPR) reported from Syria this Saturday morning  
about American and British students studying Arabic there and  
interviewed some of them. If interested, you can go to the web site  
below and read a synopsis and/or listen to the 5-minute report  
entitled "Syria Sees Influx of Arabic Language Students" by Peter  
Kenyon.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89466433

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Bergen Job--new deadline
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at if.uib.no>
Subject:U. of Bergen Job--new deadline

UPDATE - NEW DEADLINE MAY 10

The position of Professor/Associate Professor of Arabic at the  
University of Bergen was advertised internationally with a very short  
deadline (April 26), though not especially short by local standards  
for other more usual fields. Moreover, the link to guidelines for  
applicants was inadvertently to a page only in Norwegian.

Because of this, the problematic links have been deleted from both the  
English and the Norwegian texts of the job advertisement, which itself  
contains the information needed to apply.

Likewise, the deadline for application has been extended by 14 days to  
May 10. See http://melding.uib.no/doc/Ledige_stillinger/1206517042.html.

Please note that the deadline is the date of the postmark on one?s  
application, not the date the application reaches the University of  
Bergen. If possible, check to make sure the postmark on your  
application is legible.

The combination of a short deadline and missing links may have led  
some persons interested in the position not to apply, on the  
assumption that there already were preferred candidates in line and  
that the advertisement was merely a pro forma exercise.

This is not the case. The position was advertised with the intention  
that all qualified applicants with a doctorate (a prerequisite) and a  
reasonable publication record would be considered without  
discrimination. The short deadline had to do with administrative  
concerns.

All interested persons with the necessary qualifications are therefore  
encouraged to apply.

Please note that publications to be considered for evaluation may be  
sent ?within one month of the expiry of the application deadline?.

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

The official languages of instruction are Norwegian and (secondarily)  
Arabic, as stated in the job advertisement and as is in line with  
French, German, and other languages taught in our department. However  
no one will have to prepare a series of lectures in Arabic anytime  
soon. Lectures are held during the first four semesters of full-time  
study. During such a short period, it is not possible to assume that  
all in a particular class of Norwegian students will be able to follow  
serious lectures in Arabic, whereas they will all understand English.  
In practice, therefore, the language of instruction is Norwegian, or  
English, until an appointee has gained sufficient command of  
Norwegian. Arabic is used as one of the languages of instruction in  
lower level conversation classes. It may also be used when  
communicating with advanced students at the master?s or doctoral  
level, but this is something that is decided between student and  
advisor. Ability to teach in English is consequently an assumed, if  
unstated, condition for employment for those who cannot teach in a  
Scandinavian language.

INFORMATION FOR FOREIGN EMPLOYEES

The link here contains a wealth of useful information for potential  
foreign applicants: http://uib.no/english/Guests/

Regards,

Joseph Bell
Retiring Professor of Arabic

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:24:06 -0400
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:arabic named entity recognition
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:24:13 -0400
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Goucher College Job
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Indo-Islamic Art and Arch. books
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Global Media Publications" <publicationsgm at gmail.com>
Subject:Indo-Islamic Art and Arch. books

Some new titles on Indo-Islamic Mughal art and Architecture published in
2008

*(Shop online at our secure online bookstore:  
**www.gmpublications.com**. We
have one of the largest collections of books on Art, Feminism,  
Education,
Human rights, Biographies, Christianity, Islam, Islamic Law, Law, South
Asia, Pakistan, terrorism and History etc. (If you don't want to order
online please contact us by mail or telephone.)*


Indian Miniatures : The Library of A. Chester Beatty By J.V.S. Wilkinson
(ed. revsed)  Sir Thomas W. Arnold   Physical Description: 37 cm., pp.  
144,
ills. 20 colour & 84 b/w Year of Publication: 2008
http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25639

*Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture : Hindu, Buddhist, Jain &  
Islamic :
Vol. 1 (Hindu) *

By D.P. Sharma , Dulari Qureshi,  K.M. Suresh

ISBN: 8180901744

Physical Description: 488 pages, plates, fig

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25633


*Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture : Hindu, Buddhist, Jain &  
Islamic :
Vol 2 (Buddhist) *

By D.P. Sharma, Dulari Qureshi, K.M. Suresh

ISBN: 8180901751

Physical Description: 424 pages, fig, plates

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25634


*Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture : Hindu, Buddhist, Jain &  
Islamic :
Volume 4 (Islamic) *

By D.P. Sharma, Dulari Qureshi, K.M. Suresh

ISBN: 8180901775

Physical Description: 354 pages, plates, figures

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25632


*Encyclopedia of Indian Heritage and Culture (11 Volume set) *

By Devendra Mishra, K.L. Chanchreek, Mahesh K Jain

ISBN: 8183292474

Physical Description: 4094 pages, fig, plates

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25636


Indian Classical Music and Gharana Tradition

By RC Mehta

ISBN: 8189973096

Physical Description: 252 pages

Year of Publication: 2008

http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25637

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic dictionary plugin
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Date: 14 Apr 2008
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic dictionary plugin

There's Verbace:
http://www.verbace.com/

I don't know whether there's a version for the Mac.

Waheed

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From: DSTEWAR at LEARNLINK.EMORY.EDU (Devin Stewart)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:23:56 -0400
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology
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From: DSTEWAR at LEARNLINK.EMORY.EDU (Devin Stewart)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:23:37 -0400
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Website for Summer Startalk Programs
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:more on arabic named entity recognition
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:from CORPORA
Subject:more on arabic named entity recognition

Hi Wissal,

You can download NooJ and its Arabic resources (www.nooj4nlp.net).

The syntactic parser of NooJ locates named entities using local  
grammars and produces outputs. These outputs can be used in a Question- 
Answering system.

Regards,

Slim Mesfar

____________________


Hi Wissal,

Try this,

http://www.dsic.upv.es/~ybenajiba/

Thanks
Abdusalam Nwesri
PhD Candidate,
School of Computer Science and IT,
RMIT University,
Melbourne,
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs help with Old Mac to New Mac Arabic Conversion
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:Rose Aslan <rsaslan at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs help with Old Mac to New Mac Arabic Conversion

Hello,

Could any Mac experts help me out here? Someone I know has a really
old Mac from back in the days when Arabic worked really well on the
Mac platform. He has a bunch of Arabic-language documents that I want  
to be able to transfer onto my MacBook so I can
access and modify them. I believe he uses an Arabic program called
"al-nashar al-sahafi," for word processing on his Mac, I use Nisus Pro
for word-processing in Arabic and MS Word for English. Neither I nor
my acquaintance have any idea how to transfer these files onto my
computer, any suggestions?

shukran,
Rose

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 16 18:23:20 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs piece on Arabic programs in Higher Ed and K-12
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:ValerieSmi at aol.com
Subject:Needs piece on Arabic programs in Higher Ed and K-12

My colleagues at the AAI Foundation are looking for a relatively  
short, sweet, accessible piece on Arabic programs  both in higher ed  
and K-12 to use as an "overnight reading" assignmet in preparation for  
a participant disucssion on the second day of the NCORE (National  
Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education)  
conference in May.   If you know of any appropriate resources, please  
let us know.

Valerie Smith
Helen Samhan  hsamhan at aaiusa.org
Sabeen Altaf  saltaf at aaiusa.org

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 16 18:23:22 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Third Year text suggestions
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:yhamed at wesleyan.edu
Subject:Third Year text suggestions

Hello Mohammed,
I suggest the Al-kitab Al-asasi: Arabic for Non-Native Speakers The
Essential Coursebook, Volume II. This is an ARABIC ONLY textbook and  
is a
great source of reading Arabic text without English interruption. Also,
students will be able to  do extra writing through exercises and
specialized texts.
Below, find more info about the book:
Al-kitab Al-asasi: Arabic for Non-Native Speakers The Essential  
Coursebook
Author: El Said Badawi
Language: Arabic
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: October 2006
Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Pr
Dimensions:10.5"H x 8"W x 1"D; 2.45 lbs.
ISBN-10: 9774160231
ISBN-13: 9789774160233
List Price: $29.95
I hope this is helpful
Best regards
_____________________________
Yasir G. Hamed
Visiting Instructor in Arabic
Less Commonly Taught Languages
Fisk Hall, Room 410
www.wesleyan.edu/lctls

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 16 18:23:13 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Moroccan Arabic Substitution Language
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Book on Moroccan Arabic Substitution Language

[moderator's note: I have no Idea what the question marks are supposed  
to be.  they were there in the original.]

Title: The Moroccan Arabic Substitution ?u?
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 21

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu
	
Author: Nasser Berjaoui

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895861901 Pages: 182 Price: Europe EURO 42.00


Abstract:

This book, which is the fifth of a series of works on Moroccan Arabic
secret languages, proposes an extremely detailed account of the "?u?", a
secret language of one region in the south-east of Morocco, the  
Tafilalet.
The language in question contains a rich number of varieties. This work,
which addresses linguistic areas of main concern to linguists,
phonologists, morphologists, sociolinguists, dialectologists,  
arabicists,
sociologists, graduate and post-graduate students, for instance,  
focuses on
the secretising of a multitude of words, prepositions, verbs, phrases,
clauses and sentences, for instance.

For descriptive convenience, this study proposes eight chapters and a
detailed bibliography. The substitution "?u?", which is the main  
concern of
this book and which involves thirty-two varieties, operates through the
mere and single replacement of a consonant of the word by a given  
consonant
of the variety of the family "x". In this family of the secret  
languages no
additional disguise item follows the encoded word. Thus, the word "kla"
(eat), for instance, is encoded in one variety of the substitution "? 
u?" as
"sla" and as "wla" in another one. One extremely important aspect of the
substitution secret language under study in this work is the crucial  
effect
of the context of use of the language itself on the comprehension of the
secret encounters, given the total absence of the disguise element,  
which
would stand as the necessary key for the genuine deciphering of the  
encoded
word.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 16 18:23:26 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Survey for recent Study Abroad Participants
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:Aja Ishmael <aqi at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Survey for recent Study Abroad Participants

Greetings colleagues!

My name is Aja Ishmael, and I am a PhD student in the Department of  
Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and a first-time  
poster to this list. I am currently working on a paper with two of my  
colleagues that deals with Arabic second language acquisition in a  
study abroad context, and it is this project that has brought me out  
of lurk mode and encouraged me to post an e-mail asking for your help.

My colleagues and I are hoping to collect a variety of information  
about Arabic study abroad experiences for our paper. To do so, we have  
created an electronic survey, which can be found at the link listed  
below. If you, or if any of your students or colleagues or anyone else  
you know has studied Arabic abroad in the recent past-- i.e., finished  
studying abroad in 2005 or later-- would you be so kind as to help us  
out by completing the survey or passing it along? Participants do NOT  
have to be university students-- any adult who has studied Arabic  
abroad since 2005 can fill out the survey.

As I am sure you know, this is a relatively new area of research. We  
are hoping to get a rather large response rate, covering student  
experiences in as many different programs in as many different  
countries as possible. We can only do this with your help-- so please  
know that any assistance you are able to provide will be greatly  
appreciated.

The link can be found here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hVWzZDtfAQhRFRpZwaujFQ_3d_3d

(If it doesn't work, please copy and paste it into your browser.)

Thank you in advance for your time and help!

Alf shukr!

Aja Q. Ishmael
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Poulton Hall North, Second Floor
Georgetown University
1437 37th St., N.W.
Box 571046
Washington, D.C. 20007

aqi at georgetown.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 16 18:23:24 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:plurals of paucity and abundance
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:plurals of paucity and abundance

For those interested in the difference between plurals of paucity and  
abundance:  on the switch by Ibn Hisham (851,1) from the plural of  
abundance for 'noses'  /unuuf/  to the plural of paucity  /aanuf/   
Reckendorf notes that "One must realize the refinement [embodied] in  
the switch of plural forms; its significance is that fewer than ten  
[lopped off] noses would be strung together.  Haut-gout {Fr.  
'sublime'} grammatical exactitude."

Reckendorf, H.  *Die Syntaktischen Verhaeltnisse des Arabischen*  
Reprint Leiden  (1967) p.670.

Abundant best wishes to all,
                                                                                   Mike 
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Tabari and Hadith Index
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:tabari at gerlach-books.de
Subject:Tabari and Hadith Index

Today we would like to offer you antiquarian editions of two Arabic  
titles:

(1) Al-Tabari, Muhammad Ibn Jarir, Jami' al-bayan fi tafsir al-qur?an  
wa-ghara?ib al-furqan. In the margin: al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al- 
Nisaburi, Tafsir gharib al-qur?an,
Reprint Beirut Dar al-ma'rifa 1978 of the edition Bulaq 1323-1329 H  
(1925-1930 AD), 30 parts in 12 vols. Cl., pencil notes.
12 vols (28 x 20 cm), all vols in good condition.
Price: 675 EUR

(2) A.J. Wensinck, P.J. Mensing, J Brugman (edd.), Concordance et  
Indices de la Tradition Musulmane. Les six livres, le Musnad  d'al- 
Darimi, le Muwatta' de Malik, le Musnad de Ahmad Ibn Hanbal. Al mu'jam  
al-mufahras li-alfaz al-hadith al-nabawi. Tome 1 (?- h) Leiden 1936;  
tome 2 (khb - snr) Leiden 1943; tome 3 (snm - t,m) Leiden 1955; tome 4  
(t,n - ghmr) Leiden 1962; tome 5 (ghmz - krm) Leiden 1965; tome 6,   
(krm - nkl) Leiden 1967; tome 7 (nkl - ywm) Leiden 1969. Pencil notes.  
NB: tome 8 (noms propres) missing.
7 vols (each 35.5 cm x 25.5 cm), original edition
Red half leather binding, all vols in good condition.
Price: 975 EUR

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 16 18:23:15 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Post-doc in multilingual text processing in Italy
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Date: 16 Apr 2008
From:Ralf Steinberger <ralf.steinberger at jrc.it>
Subject:Post-doc in multilingual text processing in Italy

Application deadline is 18 April midnight CET! Please excuse the late  
posting!

The European Commission?s Joint Research Centre (JRC <http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm 
 > ) in Ispra, at the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy has an opening  
for a post-doc position in multilingual text analysis (see below). The  
JRC is running several public news aggregation and analysis web  
portals (see http://emm.jrc.it/overview.html) and provides a number of  
services to a wide range of international customers. A strong focus in  
the JRC?s work is on multilinguality and on tools to provide cross- 
lingual information access.

Applications (3-page  <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/job/appl_form_grantholders.xls 
 > application form and an updated  <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/job/EU_CV_template_EN.doc 
 > CV in English) should be submitted by e-mail to the following e- 
mail address: JRC-IPSC-GRANTHOLDERS at ec.europa.eu .

According to the Vademecum for grantholders (see http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showdoc.php?doc=job/VademecumforGholders2008.pdf) 
, the remuneration is about 54,000 Euro/year plus allowances.

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Automatic Multilingual Text Analysis

CALL REFERENCE NO. : IPSC/G02/5

Category: Post-Doc researcher (category 30)

Duration: 36 months

Action: EMM

Remuneration: see Vademecum for grantholders <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showdoc.php?doc=job/VademecumforGholders2008.pdf 
 >

URL generic call:  http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs.php?id=8
URL specific post:  <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=7> http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=7


In the Web Mining and Intelligence (EMM) activity, the person will be  
working on research activities on automatic multilingual text  
analysis. Typical examples of subjects being studied currently are  
automatic event extraction, automatic entity recognition and cross- 
language clustering.

These techniques are already being deployed in several operational  
applications and part of the work would be in support of these  
applications. The on-going research has a strong focus on  
applicability in a multilingual environment

A new area of research is the automatic generation of summaries from  
multi-document texts, in particular from news article clusters. The  
work is highly practical and goal oriented. Research results are  
expected to be used operationally. The system within which the results  
will be deployed is implemented in Java as a set of servlets in Tomcat.

University degree in computer science or computational linguistics.  
Doctoral degree in similar discipline, or equivalent work experience  
of 5 years. Good programming skills, preferably in Java are therefore  
recommended. The working language of the action is English and strong  
English language skills are required. Given the multilingual aspect of  
the work, active knowledge of at least one other language and an  
understanding of at least another one is also required.

Good knowledge of Arabic would be seen as an asset.

Ralf Steinberger ( <mailto:Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.it> Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.it 
)
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
IPSC - SeS - Language Technology
URL: Applications: http://emm.jrc.it/overview.html
URL: The science behind them:  <http://langtech.jrc.it/> http://langtech.jrc.it 
.

The JRC?s Language Technology group specialises in the development of  
highly multilingual text analysis tools and in cross-lingual  
applications. Many applications are accessible online, e.g.:
*        <http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/> NewsExplorer:  
multilingual news aggregation and analysis (19 languages); allows to  
navigate the news over time and across languages; trend analysis;  
collects information about people from the news; social network  
detection.
*        <http://press.jrc.it/> NewsBrief: breaking news detection and  
display of the very latest thematic news from around the world; email  
alerting (22+ languages).
*        <http://medusa.jrc.it/> MedISys Medical Information System:  
latest health-related news from around the world according to themes  
and diseases (22+ languages).
*       EMM-Labs <http://emm-labs.jrc.it:8080/> : Latest developments;  
social networks; live people-in-the-news; country and theme fact  
sheets; maps showing violent events world-wide.
JRC-Acquis Multilingual Parallel Corpus (Version 3)
*       Freely available for research purposes.
*       22 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek,  
English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian,  
Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,  
Slovak, Slovene and Swedish.
*       Altogether over 1 Billion words.
*       Sentence alignment for 231 language pairs.
*       For more information and download, see  <http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html 
 > http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html.

DGT-Translation Memory
*       Freely available for research purposes.
*       Aligned translation units for 231 language pairs.
*       Alignment manually verified.
*       For more information and download, see http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html 
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Third Year Book and Experience
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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Muhammad Eissa" <eissa at comcast.net>
Subject:Third Year Book and Experience

Any reply to a request for material or a text(book) that has the word  
"year"
in it is bound to be misleading. Also, we better use a level of  
students'
proficiency and clarify the objectives of teaching the course. That  
would
make answers more specific and relevant.

Having said that, here is a personal experience to share. Last year I  
was
asked to teach a class of mainly graduate students that was titled "High
Intermediate Classical Arabic". Students were supposed to be at an
intermediate mid or high in the proficiency scale. Some of them could be
rated at the advanced low but they all are trained as learner of what  
is so
called "Modern Standard Arabic". Those were the typical students that  
you
may label as 'third year' level.

In an attempt to be true to the title of the course (classical) and the
expectations of specific objectives to be met, I assigned a book that is
identified as an anthology of Arabic texts. The book contained a great  
and
wide selection of texts from Pre-Islamic to modern times in multitude of
themes. It was not surprising to discover that students with such  
training
and proficiency level felt at loss in the first meeting of the class.  
They
have not been trained to handle a text and read it independently, let  
alone
be ready to discuss its content in a class conducted totally in  
Arabic. On
the other hand, the anthology was not pedagogically prepared to  
introduce a
reading strategy for comprehension and analysis. It provided a  
vocabulary
list and some questions all placed at the end of the text. Soon I  
discovered
that the students' level of proficiency has to be treated differently  
and
the teaching should continue in a manner that is closer to the previous
courses, yet with considerable progression and careful preparation. They
need to build a solid ground in reading and comprehension strategies and
ought to be challenged with more independent assignments. However, we
continued with the same anthology but we started to create more  
vocabulary
lists, drills, sentences and assign more chapters from grammar reference
works for the whole year.

This year I choose to use Al-Kitaab, Part III for the same-level  
course. The
purpose was to train students pedagogically on how to study Arabic  
rather
than what to study. In the process, any vocabulary, content and  
grammatical
features they would acquire will surely come handy, regardless of the  
nature
of the text. Due to the nature and title of this course, I paid more
attention and spent more time on reading and analyzing the "classical"
selections of readings in "Al-Kitaab, P. III". I supplied short  
selections
from classical works that kept students practice and gain language
proficiency compatible with the objectives of the course.

Now, as we usher the third part of a year long course of six hours a  
week,
we are done with al-Kitaab. Students feel more comfortable speaking,
dialoging, and analyzing texts in Arabic in varieties of topics and
linguistic complexity. This week we are starting to deal with authentic
longer selected texts featuring the content and style of what they  
initially
needed to learn, e. g. "classical". They feel that they are more  
prepared
pedagogically to work on their own with confidence and much less  
anxiety.
They are applying the learning strategies that were acquired through the
past two thirds of the course.

The merit of the story is .. If your students are somehow similar to  
those
described above, with the exception of "classical" adjective, Al- 
Kitaab, P.
III is a good choice. Those who may not be familiar with the approach  
and
philosophy behind Al-Kitaab and other similar textbooks may need to  
spend
sometime configuring the purpose of the lesson organization, drill
objectives and the choice of reading selections. Teachers will  
definitely
need to provide supplementary materials and use them as learning and/or
assessment tools. Needless to say that any teachers' selected material  
will
be informed by the objectives set for the course with regard to both  
content
and form.

            Sorry for the long message and thanks for reading up to  
here.

            Salaam

Muhammad S. Eissa, Ph. D.
University of Chicago,
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,
1155 E. 58th. Street,
Chicago, IL 60637
Ph. (773) 834-0123
Fax (773) 702-2587

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation-Language Planning in Jordan
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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Dissertation-Language Planning in Jordan

nstitution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Program: Department of Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 1985

Author: Fawwaz Mohammad Al-Rashed Al-Abed Al-Haq

Dissertation Title: A Case Study of Language Planning in Jordan

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     English (eng)


Dissertation Director(s):
S Verma S

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation is an exploratory study of language conflict, language
planning, and language-user attitudes toward Arabicization in the  
context
of language policy in Jordan. It pursues three objectives: (1) To  
report on
the language-planning activities carried out in Jordan. (2) To survey
language and language-policy attitudes among groups of essential  
language
users, by means of two questionnaires developed for this purpose. One  
was
distributed to faculty members at the University of Jordan-Amman and the
University of Yarmouk-Irbid, the other to students in the same  
schools. The
questionnaires probe nine factors: (a) language use patterns; (b)  
language
attitudes; (c) proficiency in Arabic and English; (d) attitudes and
knowledge about variation in Arabic; (e) instrumentality of language;  
(f)
students' achievement; (g) general standard of education if  
Arabicization
were implemented in Jordan; (h) practical commitment to Arabicization;  
and
(i) attitudes towards Arabicization. Correlations between some of these
factors are also investigated, in order to examine possible  
ambivalence in
attitudes towards the major speech varieties in use in Jordan (English,
Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Jordanian Arabic). This study
seeks to show the effects of ambivalence, if any, on language policy,
especially with regard to Arabicization. (3) The final objective is to
relate the results of this study to the overall field of language  
planning.
In summary, the study has demonstrated the desire and commitment of  
faculty
members and students alike to proceed with Arabicization--despite their
awareness of the problems connected with variation in Arabic, the lack  
of
technical terms in scientific fields, and the lack of reference  
materials;
it was also felt that study of English should be retained, but not in  
such
a way that it detracts from the use of Arabic as a scientific language.
Finally, the review of literature of Language Planning in Jordan reveals
that there is a lack of formal association between the Arabic Language
Academy of Jordan and the Jordanian universities' authorities, such that
there is no real incentive for universities to adopt the fruits of the
Academy's labors.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'hair' etymology
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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Almog Kasher" <almogk at gmail.com>
Subject:'hair' etymology

As Uri Horesh mentioned, Arabic sh normally corresponds to Hebrew s',
whereas Arabic s corresponds to Hebrew sh (or s).
Yet, the sh in the Arabic word shams does not correspond to the (first  
token
of) sh in the Hebrew word shemesh, but is rather
explained by Semitists as a case of dissimilation. That is, we cannot  
simply
explain away the two meanings of the Arabic root
sh-3-r by merely stating that one of these sh's corresponds to Hebrew  
sh.
The studies I have consulted (I admit, very few) hold that Arabic sh-3- 
r, in
the sense of knowledge, corresponds to the (Biblical) Hebrew
root s'-3-r, which appears, as far as I know, only once in a verb  
conveying
(probably) this meaning (in Deut. 32, 17).
Arabic sh-3-r, in the sense of hair, also, as Uri Horesh has already
mentioned, corresponds to Hebrew root s'-3-r.
On the other hand, the Hebrew root sh-3-r corresponds to Arabic s-3-r  
(in
the sense of estimating).
I haven't encountered any suggestion concerning the alleged etymological
connection between these two meanings
of Arabic sh-3-r (and Hebrew s'-3-r).

Remark: Adherents of the Proto-Semitic theory reconstruct the triad s'  
- sh
- s for PS (the exact actualization is not certain).
They claim that in Arabic, s' was shifted to sh, whether sh - to s.  
Luckily,
Sibawayhi, the famous grammarian from the 8th century,
provides us with a phonetic description of Arabic as pronounced in the  
8th
century. This enables us to reconstruct an intermediary
stage between PS and the Arabic as we know it. According to his  
description,
the phoneme actualized today as sh was pronounced
at his time as the consonant at the end of the German word ich (or as
something similar). The exact 8th century's actualization of
the phoneme pronounced today as s is disputable, but is might be
reconstructed as sh or as something similar.
Therefore we can reconstruct the following shifts in Arabic:
PS s' -> 8th cent. ch? -> today sh.
PS sh -> 8th cent. sh? -> today s.

I will be happy to receive any comment.

Almog Kasher
Bar-Ilan University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:How to get a copy of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi, Part III
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1) Subject:How to get a copy of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi, Part III

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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:Sam Liebhaber <slieb at middlebury.edu>
Subject:How to get a copy of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi, Part III

Hello,

As an Arabic student, I deeply enjoyed using the third volume of the  
"al-Kitaab al-'Asaasi" series.  During this last year, I've searched  
for this textbook from a variety of sources (including the AUC press)  
and have come up with nothing; it is as though this book never  
existed. This is a shame since is one of the best text books for  
superior level Arabic students.

Does anyone know where copies of al-Kitaab al-'Asaasi Part III can be  
purchased?  Any leads would be deeply appreciated.

Thank you,

Sam Liebhaber
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Middlebury College

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:48:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion
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2) Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion
3) Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion
4) Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

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1)
Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:A Clarke <bookwright at bogvaerker.dk>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

An-Nashir as-Sahafi is actually a desktop publishing programme, and  
its file format can only be opened by other versions of the programme.  
If he can export them as RTF or some other word processor format such  
as MS Word doc, then you should have no problems opening them in  
Nisus. They have updated an-Nashir for Mac OS X, but as you are using  
Nisus Writer Pro you don't need to follow that route.

Regards,
Abdassamad Clarke
Bookwright

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2)
Date: 18 Apr 2008
From: "raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Marhaban Rose:
Contact Al-Nashir al-Sahafi office in London for guidance to convert  
documents from old Mac to Macbook. I'm sorry I'm far away from my  
office to give you their telephone number.
Good luck,
Raji Rammuny

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3)
Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Rahawi, Mohammed A" <RahawiMA at state.gov>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Al-Nashir Al-Sahafi can save in rtf format. Your friend can save any
file he wants to give you in rtf, making sure of using the standard
fonts, such as Geeza or Albayan. You shouldn't have any problem opening
the rtf files with Nisus.
Hope this helps.
Mohammed Rahawi

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4)
Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Knut S. Vik?r" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Al-Nashir al-Sahafi and similar less-used programs create some  
problems, in that few regular applications such as Nisus have import  
filters for them.

I am not aware of any program that can import Nashir files with all  
formatting. However, since Dilworth apparently has access to InDesign  
ME, perhaps you could ask him to check its import choices; that is the  
program that would be most likely to have an import filter. InDesign  
is e.g. the only program that can import WinText files (that made,  
however, by the same company WinSoft, unlike Nashir), and they are in  
much the same layout/publishing market as Nashir. There are still  
Arabic newspaper being produced in Nashir, so there may also be users  
of it around, although it is a fairly dated program now.

Otherwise, if he still has access to the original Nashir application,  
he would have to save the documents (or the texts in them) as text- 
only files, and use Nisus or other OS X programs to open the files,  
making sure to set the encoding to "Arabic (Mac)" when opening them,  
to get the Arabic letters right.

Knut

[note from Dilworth: I checked the help file and Indesign ME doesn't  
claim to have a filter for Al-Nashir.  That doesn't necessarily mean  
they don't have one, however.  If someone wants to send me an Al- 
Nashir file, I can actually try it.]

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 21 15:38:21 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:CUP Middle East & Islamic Studies books on sale at
 Gerlach
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:cambridge at gerlach-books.de
Subject:CUP Middle East & Islamic Studies books on sale at Gerlach

This week we offer all Middle East and Islamic Studies hardcover  
titles published by Cambridge University Press during 2007 and 2008  
(to date) with up to 25% discount!

***This offer is valid during this week only!***

Enclosed please find the list of all titles. Please note that our  
offer applies to the hardcover titles only. Paperback editions cannot  
be purchased from us.

Conditions of our offer:
- 10% basic discount on each hardcover title
- AND additional 5% discount for ordering 3 to 9 hardcover titles  
(totalling 15% discount)
- OR additional 15% discount for ordering 10 and more hardcover titles  
(totalling 25% discount)
- prepayment required
- shipping to be added (surface or air mail)
- plus European VAT (if applicable only)
- offer only applies to hardcover titles, not to paperbacks
- offer ends on Friday 25th April 2008

Looking forward to your orders. Our order form is attached.

Best regards from Berlin

(Ms) Dagmar Konrad


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To order please use our attached order form and send us the following  
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(3) Please indicate your preference: surface / air mail delivery
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 21 15:38:25 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SOAS Certificate in Teaching Arabic
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:yo2 at soas.ac.uk
Subject:SOAS Certificate in Teaching Arabic

[Arabic-L could not attach the poster referred to, buy you may obtain  
it from Mr. Omar.]

Dear Dr Kendall

I has just got to know a bout the Arabic conference from one of our  
teacher trainees, and I wish I could know earlier so we can contribute  
in this Arabic teaching even .however I would like to take this  
opportunity to Send you some details a bout the our certificate in  
teaching Arabic as a foreign language at SOAS LC and which may be in  
the interest of people who involved in the teaching in Arabic and  
would be grateful if you can pass these information about the course  
to the attendees.

The Language Centre at SOAS - in conjunction with SOAS-UCL CETL  
Languages of the Wider World (LWW) ? last year launched a part-time  
Certificate in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language at the start of  
the academic year 2007-8.and this course is now credited from SOAS in  
2008/2009 after A successful year .
  We are currently advertising the course and are looking for ways to  
ensure it is advertised nationally, both for those involved in higher  
education and secondary education.
If you would like to find out more about the course in Teaching Arabic  
as a Foreign Language, by all means you can call me or send me an  
email. There is also information on our course on the SOAS Language  
Centre website on the following link:
  http://www.soas.ac.uk/programmes/prog10663.php

Also I am attaching the poster.

Thanks very much in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards
Yousef Omar
Coordinator
Certificate in Teaching Arabic
Diploma in Arabic
Language Centre
School of Oriental and African Studies
The University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 21 15:38:27 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Source of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Source of Al-Kitaab Al-'Asaasi

The textbooks al-kitaab al-'asaasi are published by ???????  
??????? ???????
???????? ???????.  I the acronym is ALECSO.  This  
organization is located in
Tunis, and the URL is: www.alecso.org.tn/

Waheed

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Spelling of 800 query
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Spelling of 800

How do you spell 800?

i was thinking that 800 is "thamaanii mi'ah" but there are many  
websites where they spell 800 as "thamaani mi'ah."
i searched ????? ???,  ???? ???, and so on last week by  
Google.
The followings are the results.

????? ??? = 839
276???? ??? = 0

58 = ????????
??????? = 8730

????? ???? = 1160
6420 = ???? ????

  202 = ?????????
  64200 = ????????

A lot of the websites are spelling not ????? but ???? !
Why?
???? must be ????? before muDaaf ilay-hi.

Thank you.
Haruko

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 21 15:38:23 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ARAM Conferences on Neo-Aramaic Dialects and the
 Mandeans
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Date: 21 Apr 2008
From:aram at aramsociety.org
Subject:ARAM Conferences on Neo-Aramaic Dialects and the Mandeans

Dear Colleague,

I am writing to inform you that ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian  
Studies is organising its Twenty Seventh International Conference on  
?Neo-Aramaic Dialects?, at the Oriental Institute (University of  
Oxford), 06-08 July 2009. And it will be followed immediately by the  
ARAM Twenty Eighth International Conference on ?The Mandaeans?, at the  
Oriental Institute (University of Oxford), 09-11 July 2009.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact our  
Oxford address:
ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford  
OX1 2LE, England. Tel. ++1865-514041. Fax ++1865-516824. E.Mail:aram at aramsociety.org

Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd


ARAM Twenty Eighth International Conference: The Mandaeans
09-11 July 2009

A- Academic Papers:

Dr. Gaby Abousamra (Holy Spirit University ? Lebanon):
	?New Mandaean magic bowl.?
Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University):
	?The Mandaean contribution to the Arab civilisation.?
Mr. Sabah Aldhisi (University College London)
	?The Role of Abathur (the Third Life) in the Mandaean Story of  
Creation.?
Mr. Mehrdad Arabestani, (PhD candidate, University of Malaya, Malaysia):
?Food symbolism in Mandaean religion.?
Dr. Daphna Arbel (University of British Columbia):
? ?Acquainted with the Mystery of Heavens and Earth? Sfar Malwa?ia,  
Mesopotamian Divinatory Traditions, and 3 Enoch.?
Dr. Werner Arnold (Heidelberg University):
	?Subject to be defined.?
Dr. Krzysztof Bilinski (University of Wroclaw):
	?The texts of Nag Hammadi and Gnostic vision of The Mandaens.?
Prof. Jorunn J. Buckley (Bowdoin College):
	?Mandaean-Sethian Connections.?
Prof. Iain Gardner, (University of Sydney):
?Mani's 'Book of Mysteries': Prolegomena to a new look at Mani, the  
baptists and the Mandaeans.?
Dr. Charles G. H?berl (The State University of New Jersey):
?The demon and the damsel: A Mandaean folk tale from Iraq.?
Dr. David Hamidovic (Western Catholic University, Angers, France):
	?The links between Dead Sea Scrolls and Mandaean Liturgy.?
Dr. Erica Hunter (SOAS):
	?Subject to be defined.?
Dr. Matthew Morgenstern (Haifa University):
	?Literary connections between Jewish and Mandaic texts.?
Dr. Ilnur I. Nadirov (St Petersburg Institute of Oriental Research):
	?Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Mandaean religious books.?
Miss. Caroline Nik Nafs (University of Bamberg-Germany):
	?The ?Lebenswelt? of the Iranian Mandaeans in the 21st century.?
Dr. Sacha Stern (University College London):
	?The origins of the Mandaean calendar.?
Dr. van Bladel Kevin (University of Southern California):
	?Subject to be defined.?



B- Public Events:

Mandaean Baptism on Saturday morning 11 July at 8am.
Books exhibition by Gorgias Press.
Painting exhibition by Mr. Salam Khedher.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 22 14:42:39 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:42:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:spelling of 800
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1) Subject:spelling of 800
2) Subject:original post with transliteration
3) Subject:spelling of 800
4) Subject:spelling of 800
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1)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:spelling of 800

Dear Ms. Sakaedani:

I agree with you: the construction is
thamaanii mi'atin or, in pause form, thamaanii mi'ah.

/mi'ah/ is often spelled with an 'alif between the miim and the hamza,  
as if it were maa'ah.
Unfortunately, my e-mail software cannot read your Arabic script nor  
can it read my own Window's Arabic script.

Ernest McCarus

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2)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Haruko's original post

[I have run the original post through a filter that changes the Arabic  
font to DT transliteration (you can see details of that one to one  
system at arabiCorpus.byu.edu).  Even if the details aren't clear, you  
should be able to hone in on the point here, which is the presence or  
absence of the 'y' or yaa' on the end of the form for 'eight'.  The  
point is that the 'correct' form, with the 'y', is much less common  
than the 'incorrect' form, without it--dil]

How do you spell 800?

i was thinking that 800 is "thamaanii mi'ah" but there are many  
websites where they spell 800 as "thamaani mi'ah."
i searched VmAny mYQ,  VmAn mYQ, and so on last week by Google.
The followings are the results.

VmAny mYQ = 839
VmAn mYQ = 2670

58 = VmAnymYQ
VmAnmYQ = 8730

VmAny mAYQ = 1160
6420 = VmAn mAYQ

  202 = VmAnymAYQ
  64200 = VmAnmAYQ

A lot of the websites are spelling not VmAny but VmAn !
Why?
VmAn must be VmAny before muDaaf ilay-hi.

Thank you.
Haruko

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Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:Dil Parkinson
Subject:spelling of 800

Ryding (2005) only gives VmAny mYQ and VmAnymYQ (i.e. both with the  
'y').  The results from arabiCorpus, however, agree with your google  
results:  the forms with 'y' are exceedingly rare, compared with the  
forms without them.  Here are the data, in script and then in DT  
transliteration:

??????????	80
????????	39
???????	33
?????????	25
????????	24
?????????	9
????????	5
?????????	2
?????????	2
????? ???	2
?????????	1
????? ????	1

AlVmAnmAYQ	80
VmAnmAYQ	39
VmAnmYQ	33
wVmAnmAYQ	25
wVmAnmYQ	24
AlVmAnmYQ	9
bVmAnmYQ	5
lVmAnmAYQ	2
bVmAnmAYQ	2
VmAny mYQ	2
wVmAnmAYh	1
VmAny mAYQ	1

These results include many from Al-Ahram and Al-Hayat and other  
newspapers from throughout the Arab World, which are heavily 'gone  
over' by professional correctors, and there are only 3 examples with  
the 'y' out of over 200 examples.  It seems facile to say that this is  
just colloquial influence since the 'correctors' consistently root  
that out whenever they want.  Is it possible that speakers now see  
this as a frozen form, and NOT an example of a defective noun/ 
adjective as the first term of a construct state (which in other cases  
would require the presence of the 'y')?
dil

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Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at UMICH.EDU>
Subject:spelling of 800

For three to nine hundred:
????? + ??? > ??????????
????? + ??? > ??????????
????? + ??? > ??????????
?????? + ??? > ????????

However, as you point out, there are variations (at least in Egypt).

The number 100 itself is sometimes written ???, and sometimes  
????.

Waheed

[in DT transliteration:]

For three to nine hundred:
xamsU + mYQ > xamsumYQI
sit~U + mYQ > situ~mYQI
sabcU + mYQ > sabcumYQI
VmAnI + mYQ > VmAnymYQ

However, as you point out, there are variations (at least in Egypt).

The number 100 itself is sometimes written mYQ, and sometimes mAYQ.

Waheed


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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:42:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDAMore and revised info on Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii
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2) Subject:American Source for  Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii

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Date: 22 Apr 2008
From: "Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Revised info on Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii Publisher

My colleague Laila al-Sawi informs me that al-kitaab al-'asaasi is now  
published by the AUC Press.

Waheed

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1)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From: Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:American Source for  Al-Kitaab Al-Asaasii

Here is an American vendor for the book:

International Book Centre, Inc.
2391 Auburn Road
Shelby Township, MI 48317

Phone: (586) 254-7230
Fax: (586) 254-7230
Email: ibc at ibcbooks.com

Book 1 is listed at $34.95.

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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:42:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Aldeen Foundation Startalk Programs
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1) Subject:Aldeen Student Summer Event
2) Subject:Aldeen Teacher Training

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1)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:AldeenFoundation at aol.com
Subject:Aldeen Student Summer Event

Deadline is approaching! Please encourage students to participate in  
our Summer Immersion Program

Aldeen Foundation and STARTALK are proud to announce ?Discover Arabic?  
the first Middle and High School Summer Immersion Program.

This program will provide students with an introduction to Modern  
Standard Arabic and Arab culture. It is designed for students who have  
never studied Arabic before, or students who have some knowledge of  
Arabic.

The teaching and learning emphasize the functional use of Arabic and  
communication. Student will acquire enough familiarity with the Arabic  
language and develop cultural sensitivity towards the Arabic-speaking  
world, from immersed daily activities and enriched language groups  
including art, calligraphy, cooking, dance and music, outing to local  
Arabic restaurants and shops, guest speakers and subtitled movies.

Attached is a flyer that you can hand out to all your students who are  
interested in beginning a fascinating new journey to the Arab world  
and culture without traveling abroad.

Thank you in advance for distributing the enclosed flyer and  
encouraging the students to sign up for world language learning? 
Discover Arabic!

For more information on our program and for application information,  
please visit our website atwww.aldeenfoundation.org.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact by email Lina  
Kholaki at aldeenfoundation at aol.com or call at (626) 577-2199.

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2)
Date: 22 Apr 2008
From:AldeenFoundation at aol.com
Subject:Aldeen Teacher Training

Deadline is approaching!

Aldeen Foundation and STARTALK are pleased to announce its intensive  
summer 2008 program for Arabic teacher training. In this program,  
participating teachers will meet for two weeks, excluding weekends,  
and will sharpen their teaching skills and knowledge through a series  
of seminars, hands-on workshops, presentations, and practicum.

The program will include intensive hands-on training in the areas of  
pedagogy, testing and evaluation, Arabic National Standards, and using  
technology in the Arabic class.

Our trainers are nationally acclaimed in the field of Teaching Arabic  
as a Foreign Language. Our trainers list includes:

?      Dr. Mahdi Alosh, Associate Dean of International Affairs.
?      Professor Ahmad Elghamrawy, Arabic Lecturer at California State  
University at San Bernardino.
?      Professor Lina Kholaki, Arabic Lecturer at California State  
University at San Bernardino.

We are offering $1000 stipend for each admitted participant upon  
completion of the program. For more information on our program and for  
application information, please visit our website at www.aldeenfoundation.org 
.

We invite all K-12 teachers of Arabic to apply for the program. If you  
have any questions, please feel free to contact by email Ahmad  
Elghamrawy at aldeenfoundation at aol.com or call at (626) 577-2199.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 23 14:49:49 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:machine readable Arabic lexicons query
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Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:reposted from CORPORA
Subject:machine readable Arabic lexicons query

[The following query and response of interest to some Arabic-L  
subscribers appeared on Corpora.]

Dear All,

  I wonder if there is an available machine readable Arabic language  
lexicons or dictionaries that associate for each word its root and   
morphological analysis. This, to be used for building up free Arabic   
lexicon resource integrated to the (NLTK) natural language toolkit.

  Best regards

  Majdi Sawalha

  PhD Student,

  School of Computing,

  University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

e-mail: sawalha at comp.leeds.ac.uk

___________________


Yes,

http://www.qamus.org/morphology.htm
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/aramorph/aramorph-1.2.1.tar.gz

Regards,

Fran

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:50:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Conf. on Arabic Applied Linguistics,
 Rhetoric, Writing
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1) Subject:Cairo Conf. on Arabic Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric, Writing

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Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Cairo Conf. on Arabic Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric, Writing

The American University in Cairo
and
Western Michigan University

are pleased to announce

The First International Congress on Arabic & English
Applied Linguistics and Rhetoric & Writing

Challenges in Teaching Language and Rhetoric

23-26 March 2009
American University in Cairo, New Cairo


For more information visit conference website:
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs native Yemeni, Omani, Moroccan, Lebanese,
 Tunisian speakers
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1) Subject:Needs native Yemeni, Omani, Moroccan, Lebanese, Tunisian  
speakers

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1)
Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:jeremy.palmer at gmail.com
Subject:Needs native Yemeni, Omani, Moroccan, Lebanese, Tunisian  
speakers

Looking for native Yemeni, Omani, Moroccan, Lebanese,Tunisian speakers  
to help create Arabic Speech Acts for research!

It could all be done in less than an hour! (maybe even 20 minutes!)

My name is Jeremy Palmer. I am a PhD student in Second Language  
Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona.I am  
writing to ask for assistance with one of my dissertation research  
instruments.

I will collect data this summer at several institutions throughout the  
Arabic-speaking world at Arabic study abroad locations. One of my  
instruments is a Speech Acts test consisting for 4 short audio clips.  
The speech acts range from bargaining, complaining, holiday greetings,  
asking for directions, asking for information. Each clip is less than  
1 minute long. Students will hear the clips 3 times each and will then  
answer some basic questions about what they heard. I can send you  
example clips and questions from Egyptian and Jordanian to give you an  
idea.

Please let me know if you can help! All you would do is sit down and  
record (audio only) a few unscripted situations with another native  
speaker of your Arabic variety.


Thank you,
Jeremy Palmer
jeremy.palmer at gmail.com

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants feedback on Qatar program
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Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at email.arizona.edu>
Subject:Wants feedback on Qatar program

Greetings ya zumalaa' wa zamiilaat,

I have a student interested in the 10-month Arabic program offered at  
Qatar University (sponsored by Georgetown University).  The student  
was interested in getting feedback from former students who have  
completed the program, both males and females.  Her name is Kaitlyn,  
and her contact information is KBACCA at GMAIL.COM, phone number (813)  
841-4853.  If you know of any students who have participated in this  
program, it would be greatly appreciated if you could pass her contact  
information along to them and encourage them to contact her.

-- 
Peace, Martha

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Mastering Nahw and Sarf
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1) Subject:Mastering Nahw and Sarf

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Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:info at wcm-press.com
Subject:Mastering Nahw and Sarf

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: Morphologies of Asia and Africa
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Date: 23 Apr 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Book: Morphologies of Asia and Africa

EDITOR: Kaye, Alan S.
TITLE: Morphologies of Asia and Africa
PUBLISHER: Eisenbrauns
YEAR: 2007

Mary Paster, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona  
College

SUMMARY
This book is an encyclopedic, two-volume reference comprising  
descriptions of a
wide range of Asian and African morphological systems, 46 in all. As  
described
in the Introduction by editor Alan Kaye (who tragically died of bone  
cancer in
May 2007, before the collection was published), the book aims to  
''present
interesting facts about the word-formation strategies of the  
language(s) under
discussion in an informative and typologically relevant way.'' The  
selection of
languages is meant to be both broad and deep, but not evenly  
distributed across
language families or geographic areas. For example, Kaye points out  
that there
is a particular emphasis on Semitic and Afroasiatic languages since  
these were
areas of his own interest. The depth in certain areas comes at the  
acknowledged
expense of coverage of some more well-known languages; e.g., there is  
no essay
on Chinese or Japanese.

The individual language entries are written by experts on each  
particular
language and, in many cases, people who are well-known experts on the  
relevant
language family as a whole. The entries vary in their style, range of  
coverage,
and theoretical perspective, but all of them are descriptively  
oriented and have
large amounts of data. Most of the essays state linguistic  
generalizations in
pretheoretical terms, and most  range from being almost completely non- 
formal to
mentioning points of formal theoretical interest only in passing.

The essays are organized mainly according to their genetic  
affiliation. Volume 1
deals with the Afroasiatic languages. Essays 1-10 cover the ancient  
Semitic
languages, and essays 11-18 cover modern Semitic languages. Essay 19  
is on
Berber, essays 20-24 are on Cushitic languages, essays 25-28 are on  
Chadic
languages, and essay 29 is on Omotic. In volume 2, essays 30-37 are on
Indo-European languages. Essay 30 is on an Anatolian language  
(Hittite), essays
31-32 are on Indo-Iranian, 33-34 cover ancient Iranian languages,  
35-36 cover
modern Iranian languages, and essay 37 is on Classical Armenian. Essay  
38 is on
a Nilo-Saharan language (Kanuri), 39 is on a Niger-Congo language  
(Swahili), and
40 is on an Altaic language (Turkish). Essays 41-42 cover Caucasian  
languages,
43 is on a Malayo-Polynesian language (Indonesian), and 44-46 cover  
language
isolates (Burushaski, Ket, and Sumerian).

EVALUATION
Kaye's pointedly humorous introduction is a rallying cry for linguists  
who are
interested in morphology and wish to see it treated as a full-fledged  
component
of grammar worthy of study in its own right. It is also a passionate  
call to
arms for linguists of the descriptive persuasion who agree with Kaye's  
view that
''linguistics deals with languages and, in particular, should deal  
more with
exotic tongues.'' These views are carried through consistently  
throughout the
collection, with each contributor giving a very detailed description  
using data
that in many cases have never been exposed to such a wide audience.  
Bello Buba
and Jonathan Owens' essay on Glavda describes a particularly interesting
language that was virtually undescribed before.

This is an inspiring set of volumes. The expertise represented in its  
pages is
almost overwhelming, as are the copious quantities of data in the  
essays. It
seems, therefore, that this work is an absolute success with respect  
to the
goals set forth by the editor. It is also quite an impressive  
testament to the
editor that such a who's-who of language experts contributed to the  
collection.

The papers are of consistently high quality in terms of their depth of
description, less so in their clarity. Some (e.g., Alan Kaye on  
Arabic, Jeffrey
Heath on Moroccan) are entertaining and even flowery in parts, while  
most are
straightforward and in some cases even somewhat like an outline in  
their style.
One example is Wolf Leslau's essay on Amharic; in that case the sparse  
style is
a good thing because there is such a wealth of data (much of it quite  
usefully
organized into paradigms) that the paper takes up 51 pages even  
without a lot of
exposition.

Several of the authors helpfully attempt to contextualize the  
morphological
descriptions. Some do a particularly nice job of integrating the  
discussion of
morphology with other areas of interest in the same language,  
particularly
phonology. For example, Robert Hoberman's essay on Maltese contains a  
lucid
discussion of a 'ghost consonant' that has played a major role in  
analyses of
Maltese phonology, and Grover Hudson's contribution on Highland East  
Cushitic
languages discusses a fascinating process in Hadiyya taboo language that
replaces a syllable and the onset of the following syllable of a word  
that
shares its first syllable with the name of a woman's father-in-law. As  
Hudson
points out, this replacement pattern is problematic for the notion  
that rules of
this type must refer to some element of the prosodic hierarchy such as  
a mora,
syllable, or foot.

Other authors' essays raise issues of historical and dialectological  
interest.
For example, Gregory Anderson's contribution on Burushaski deals with  
three
separate dialects and makes explicit comparisons among the three. And  
Russell
Schuh's essay on Bade, for example, includes considerable discussion of
developments in Western Bade compared with other Bade dialects and other
languages in the same subgroup of West Chadic. In essays such as  
these, the
reader has a good point of reference for understanding what is of  
special
interest in the language. All of the essays contain weighty  
descriptions and
bountiful data, but some will be of more use than others for non- 
specialist
readers due to their varying efforts to situate the descriptions in  
some wider
context, whether theoretical or comparative.

Although there is much to appreciate in these volumes, it is also  
worth pointing
out a couple of attributes of the collection that may be viewed as  
flaws by some
readers. One aspect of these volumes that may disappoint is the scant  
coverage
of certain language families, most notably Niger-Congo. According to  
Ethnologue,
the Niger-Congo language family has 1,514 languages in it, while  
Altaic has 66
languages. Yet both families are represented by the same number of  
essays in
this collection (namely, one). And Afroasiatic has far fewer languages  
than
Niger-Congo (375, according to Ethnologue), but the entirety of volume  
1 (29 of
the 46 essays) is devoted to Afroasiatic. Kaye does predict in the  
Introduction
that ''[r]eviewers will inevitably point out that this language should  
have been
included or that one was superfluous,'' but even if one accepts that  
the main
focus is on Afroasiatic with only a side helping of languages that are
''culturally and geographically related'' to it, the minimal coverage of
Niger-Congo in the context of volume 2 is still disappointing  
(although Ellen
Contini-Morava's essay on Swahili is excellent, and it is also likely  
to be
among the most interesting to those with interests in morphological  
theory since
it gives a nice overview of the controversy over the formal analysis  
of the
Swahili verb and how competing morphological models have proposed to  
model it).

A more significant issue is the heavy emphasis on description at the  
expense of
theoretical discussion. One of Kaye's stated goals, which this  
collection is
meant to contribute to, is a '''grand synthesis' of morphological  
theory and
Universal Grammar''. If such a synthesis is to be achieved, it seems  
that people
working on the descriptive side may need to reach a bit further  
towards the
theoretical side. In the Introduction, Kaye discusses various types of
morphological models falling under the general frameworks known as
''Item-and-Process'', ''Item-and-Arrangement'', and ''Word-and- 
Paradigm''. Yet the
individual contributions to the collection rarely make any mention of  
these
types of approaches or to which approach might work best for the  
language in
question, and few explicitly state which type of model they are  
assuming (Sharon
Rose's essay on Chaha is one notable exception). The vast majority of  
essays are
purely descriptive, making it difficult to relate the language data to  
problems
in morphological theory. I do not necessarily intend this as a  
criticism of the
contributors; in light of the almost uniform non-theoretical nature of  
the
contributions, this appears to have been a decision made by the editor  
and
passed along to the authors. But a reader interested in bridging the  
gap between
good description and theoretical relevance is likely to find that this
collection falls a bit short on the theory side.

Despite these shortcomings, the depth, breadth, and overall quality of  
this
collection are outstanding. _Morphologies of Asia and Africa_ is an  
impressive
achievement and will serve as a valuable and authoritative reference  
on the
languages it describes.

ABOUT THE REVIEWER
Mary Paster is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive  
Science at
Pomona College. Her research interests are in phonology and morphology,
primarily in African languages, and her recent work has focused on tone,
language description and documentation, and the phonology-morphology  
interface.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:IERA Rabat Morocco Summer Arabic program
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1) Subject:IERA Rabat Morocco Summer Arabic program

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:Abderrezzak Tourabi < atourabi at hotmail.com >
Subject:IERA Rabat Morocco Summer Arabic program

The Institute for the Studies and Researches on Arabization (IERA) in
Rabat-Morocco, launches the registration for the Arabic to speakers of
other languages intensive summer course. The session is scheduled July  
1st
through July 30th, 2008, IERA, Rabat, Morocco.
For information, please visit our website, fill in and send the
registration form, at:
www.iera.ac.ma/iera/uela/index.htm

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:27 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:'already' in fusha query
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1) Subject:'already' in fusha query

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:'already' in fusha query

n Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, the verb ???  [liHiq] can be used to  
mean
"already", as in:

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

'inta liHi't tinsa?

("Have you forgotten already?")

Does anyone know of a fusha verb that means the same thing?

Ben

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:29 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Kitaab Al'-Asaasi
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1) Subject:Al-Kitaab Al'-Asaasi

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:a elsherif <alarish5 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:Al-Kitaab Al'-Asaasi

Hi i just came back from Cairo where i asked all the book shop about  
ALKITAAB ALASSASI the answer was not yet printed ????

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:24 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs North American Arabic dictionary source
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1) Subject:Needs North American Arabic dictionary source

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:<mbooth at uiuc.edu>
Subject:Needs North American Arabic dictionary source

Dear colleagues,

I'm wondering if anyone can recommend North America-based sites  
(electronic or otherwise) for purchasing (quickly) a good selection of  
Arabic dictionaries, both Arabic-Arabic and Arabic/English?

thanks,
Marilyn Booth
mbooth at uiuc.edu
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Illinois

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:32 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Arabic at Tufts
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1) Subject:Summer Arabic at Tufts

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:Valerie Anishchenkova <valerie.anishchenkova at tufts.edu>
Subject:Summer Arabic at Tufts

Summer Arabic Courses at Tufts University

(1) Elementary Arabic: ARB 01/2A

Description:
The course begins with an introduction to Modern Standard Arabic. We
start with pronunciation, script, basic grammar, and reading skills
using a communicative approach for the first half of the course to later
developing the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and
speaking. No previous knowledge of Arabic language or script is
required. No prerequisite.

Material covered:
"Alif Baa" and 12 chapters of "Al-Kitaab Part I", plus supplementary
materials.

Offered in : First session (May 21 ? June 27)
Day(s) : MTWThF
Times : 9:30 am ? 2:15 pm (with 1-hr lunch break)
Instructor : Rana Abdul-Aziz


(2) Intermediate Arabic: ARB 03/4A

Description:
A continuation of Elementary Modern Standard Arabic. Communicative
approach with particular emphasis on active control of Arabic grammar
and vocabulary, conversation, reading, translation, and discussion of
selected texts. The course includes oral presentations and short papers
in Arabic. Prerequisite: ARB 0002 or equivalent.

Material covered:
Chapters 13-20 of "Al-Kitaab Part I" and 2 chapters of "Al-Kitaab Part
II", plus supplementary materials.

Offered in : First session (May 21 ? June 27)
Day(s) : MTWThF
Times : 9:30 am ? 2:15 pm (with 1-hr lunch break)
Instructor : Valerie Anishchenkova

To register please visit: ase.tufts.edu/summer

For more information about courses contact:
Rana Abdul-Aziz (elementary Arabic): rana.abdulaziz at gmail.com
Valerie Anishchenkova (intermediate Arabic):
valerie.anishchenkova at tufts.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:35 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf programs
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1) Subject:Gulf programs

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Gulf programs

The Arabic Language Program of the pre-academic unit of the UAE   
University
(UAEU) in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, offered (still offers?) a three-month   
special
interdepartmental course, conducted only during its the fall   
semester, on Gulf
Arabic (Emirati dialect) and regional orientation (escorted  tours of  
UAE and
Oman).

That UAEU program might be an option if that interesting ten-month   
program
in Qatar is inconvenient or filled.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:20 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:IJCPOL special issue on Arabic Natural Language
 Processing CFP
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1) Subject:IJCPOL special issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing  
CFP

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From: "Prof_Khaled Shaalan" <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject:IJCPOL special issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing CFP


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL For Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages  
(IJCPOL)
World Scientific http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by over 250 million people, in an  
area
extending from the Arabian Gulf in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the
west. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.  
It is
also the language in which some of the world's greatest works of  
literature,
science, and history have been written.

Arabic is a strongly structured and highly derivational language. Arabic
language processing requires the treatment of the language  
constituents at
all levels. Each level requires extensive study and exploitation of the
associated linguistic characteristics. Over the last few years, Arabic
natural language processing (ANLP) has been gaining increasing  
importance,
and has found a wide range of applications including: machine  
translation,
information extraction, and tutoring systems. These applications require
developing innovative approaches and techniques for natural language
analysis, natural language generation, and linguistic resources.

Various forums have been dedicated to ANLP:
? Special track on Natural Language Processing, The  International
Conference on Informatics and Systems (NLP-INFOS 2008), Cairo Univ.,  
Egypt.
? Workshop on HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and  
local
languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects, LREC, 2008
? Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, workshop  
series
(04, 07).
? International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools  
(NEMLAR
2004), Cairo Egypt,

This special issue of the International Journal of Computer Processing  
of
Oriental Languages is intended to present the state-of-the-art in  
research
on Arabic natural language processing, Arabic computational linguistics,
applied Arabic linguistics and related areas. This call is intended to  
be as
broad as possible. We solicit original research papers on topics  
including,
but not limited to:
? Linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks,  
etc.)
? Transliteration, transcription and diacritization
? Part of speech tagging
? Morphological analysis and generation
? Shallow and deep parsing
? Machine translation
? Word sense and syntactic disambiguation
? Semantic analysis
? Information extraction and retrieval
? Question answering
? Text clustering, and classification
? Text summarization
? Text and web content  mining
? Named entity recognition
? Colloquial-based language processing

>>>> Important Dates <<<<<
? Submissions due for review: 15 Jan 2009
? Notification of 1st decision: 30 April 2009
? Revisions due: 30 May 2009
? Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2009
? Final version submitted: 15 July 2009
? Issue publication: 2010

>>>>> Submission Guidelines <<<<<
Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure  
or
table as 200 words) and should follow the journal's style and  
presentation
guidelines (see http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/mkt/guidelines.shtml).
References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript,  
access
the Journal online submission system at
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/editorial/submitpaper.shtml.  In the
message to editors, please state clearly that the paper is submitted  
to the
special issue on Arabic NLP.  An electronic version of the paper  
should also
be submitted directly to the Guest Editor by e-mail at the same time.

               * * * * *

For further information, contact Guest Editor  Prof. Khaled Shaalan
- (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, UK
- Faculty of Informatics, British Univ. in Dubai
- Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University:
k.shaalan_AT_fci-cu.edu.eg.

For a PDF version of this Call for papers upload
http://www.buid.ac.ae/shaalan/arabnlpcfp.pdf

-- 

Regards,
Khaled
________________________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Khaled Shaalan
Computer Science Dept.
Faculty of Computers & Information
Cairo Univ.

5 Ahmed Zewel St.,
Orman, Dokki,
Giza
12613 Egypt

Email: k.shaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg
Personal Email: khaled.shaalan at gmail.com

Honorary Fellow
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 29 15:16:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:response to Dr. Kaye's new book
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1) Subject:response to Dr. Kaye's new book

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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From:Afaf Nash <afafnash at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:response to Dr. Kaye's new book

Greetings,
  It is great to read dear Dr. Kaye's name after his sudden and tragic  
death. Dr. Kaye was my graduate studies professor and I am sure this  
book will be a bible to everybody interested in the morphology of  the  
Semitic and Afroasiatic languages.
  Afaf

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