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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Yemeni proverbs
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2) Subject:Yemeni proverbs
3) Subject:Yemeni proverbs

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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:Lutfi Abulhaija <lutfi86 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Yemeni proverbs

There is an MA thesis on Yemeni proverbs at Yarmouk University /Jordan

Dr. Lutfi Abulhaija
Department of English
Yarmouk University
Irbid - Jordan

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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"IBCBOOKS.COM" <ibc at ibcbooks.com>
Subject:Yemeni proverbs

This is in response to your request for yemeni proverbs. From the
International book centre.
The book Yemeni Arabic has a good listing of the proverbs and sayings  
and
proverbial phrases given in English, followed by the literal  
transltion of
the Saani proverbs.  This book can be found on our website at
www.ibcbooks.com

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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"Gerhard Endreß" <gerhard.endress at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject:Yemeni proverbs

See:
S. D. F. Goitein, Jemenica: Sprichwörter und Redensarten aus
Zentral-Jemen.Mit zahlreichen Sach- und Worterläuterungen.
Leipzig 1934; repr. Leiden: Brill, 1970. xxiii, 194 p.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Hayat article on Damascus as Fusha capital
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:Hayat article on Damascus as Fusha capital

There is a very interesting article in today's (Saturday, Dec 29)  
about how Damascus aspires to become the capital city of FuS-Haa and  
the various measures it is taking to achieve that. If you are  
interested in reading it on-line, below is the link:

http://www.daralhayat.com/arab_news/levant_news/12-2007/Item-20071228-225a81d6-c0a8-10ed-0025-b6bf6e092e6b/story.html

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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:56:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Installing Arabic dictionary in phone response
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:christopher.hurtado at linguisticsolutions.com
Subject:Installing Arabic dictionary in phone response

http://guidedways.com/mobile/itemdetails-id-7-ref--affcode-.htm

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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:49 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs info on becoming visiting student in Europe
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"Ismail S. Wekke" <iswekkefpend at yahoo.com.my>
Subject:Needs info on becoming visiting student in Europe

Dear All,

I'm Ismail S. Wekke, nowadays, I'm pursuing my Ph.D in Universiti  
Kebangsaan Malaysia
(UKM, The National University of Malaysia). The faculty of education in
UKM agree to send me to Europe for 6-9 months study abroad program. My
sponsor, will cover
all my expenses.

As you preliminary information, I'm writing my thesis in Bahasa
Melayu (Malay Language). My PhD's topic is Multicultural Based Language
Teaching in Pesantren, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.

I would like to ask information for joining visiting student in any  
Europe University.Below some information:

First, I would like to come for 6-9 months visit.

Second,
the objective of my visiting program are to strengthen my capacity in
academic activities or in another word that I'm pursuing my PhD in
Malaysia that account as in region, therefore, my sponsor encourage me  
to have
visiting program, they called it sandwich program. The visit will give
me broad insight in developing my knowledge and skill internationally.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Best regard

Ismail S. Wekke

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Word Order and Generative Grammar
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Date: 03 Jan 2008
From:Andrew T Freeman <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Word Order and Generative Grammar

Oh --

  I cannot stay out of this.

  1) Suppose the order in the past/perfective tense is VSO.
      a) the question in my mind is: Do we count the subject markers as
          i) "morphology" and therefore part of AGR?
          ii) or nominal case pronouns that are written onto the verbs  
as an
              historical accident to save velum and stone carving  
effort?
   2) if we go with 1)a)i) then we need to do a bunch of INFL & AGR  
magic
   3) if we go with 1)a)ii) then we clash with every Arab speakers  
native
      intuition with regards to the default constituent order in their
      dialects, except for w/ Moroccan, Yemeni dialects (probably  
others)
      where VSO in the main clause for perfective is not unheard of.

   With imperfective the VSO order clashes with the SVO in the embedded
subject pronouns and in subordinate clauses with referent NPs.

   So whatever you do you have more than one word order with a lot of  
contextual determinants forcing one order or the other.

  It turns out in the Newspaper genre that SVO (even in the  
perfective) is a lot more prevalent than what you see in other  
literary genres, but all you have to do is scan the Machine  
Translation errors in Language Weaver or even Sakhr and more than a  
third of these errors involve misidentifying the following NP as the  
verb's object instead of the subject (thereby ruining the verb  
valences for the entire rest of the sentence).  This is strong  
evidence that VSO is the dominant word order for Standard Arabic, ! 
except! in subordinate clauses and with the embedded subject pronouns.

   As far as I am concerned if "native intuition" is your *only*  
source of data, then you are in trouble once you start working with  
Standard Arabic (or High German for a speaker of Swiss German for that  
matter).

   I will say that in order for someone to make a full accounting for  
the facts of the grammar of Standard Arabic that you will find in any  
corpus of post WWII Arabic, you will need to make some allowance for  
the fact that there is more than one unified grammar and lexicon at  
play.  This becomes especially true if you start looking at more  
informal uses of Standard Arabic, such as TV shows in front of live  
audiences or the ever-present "talking heads" show.  Even with chat- 
room data, where the matrix language is usually a dialect, you still  
need to make some accounting for facts from Standard Arabic.  Once you  
step into a cafe or train station in the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria,  
Tunis), you just cannot ignore French either.

  Given these data from the over-whelming majority of all actual uses  
of the language, I don't see how you can explain even the simplest  
facts without having a formalism that allows the researcher to model  
mixed lects. I don't have to look very hard in my corpora to find data  
where there are obvious elements from Standard Arabic and a dialect in  
the same sentence sitting comfortably alongside elements that can  
arguably be from either.

  Given that mixed lect usage is the day-to-day reality for more than  
half of the language users on the planet, what explanatory power can  
any formalism/theory lay claim to if it restricts its theory and  
formalism to the study of "pure" and/or "core" grammars?


Dr. Andrew Freeman
Software Design Engineer microsoft
Masters student University of Washington (Professional Masters in  
Computational Linguistics)

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Date: 03 Jan 2008
From:Ahmed Saleh Elimam <asaleh1111 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Word Order and Generative Grammar

Hello
  "the question is which word order is the unmarked pattern?
As far as i know VSO is the default structure and SVO (as well as  
other variations are marked, some are marked more than others though).  
the thing with word order is its effect on meaning. the item that  
getrs foregrounded gets focused.
  I have writtenan article on this topic with examples of several  
arabic wrd-orders. it will be published in june, 08 inshalah

  Ahmed

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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:New English site for ATIDA
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:newsletter at atida.org
Subject:New English site for ATIDA

بيان إخباري



يسر جمعية الترجمة العربية وحوار  
الثقافات-عتيدة أن تزف إليكم خبر افتتاح  
الموقعين الانجليزي والفرنسي رسميا هذا  
اليوم (1-1-2008):

www.atida.org/english

www.atida.org/french

وستفتتح عشرة مواقع أخرى في الأسابيع  
القادمة باللغات التالية: الإسبانية  
والإندونيسية/الماليزية والألمانية  
والأوردو والإيطالية والبرتغالية  
والتركية والروسية والصينية والفارسية.

وإذ تبلغكم الجمعية هذا الخبر، تتطلع  
إلى مشاركتكم الفعالة في جميع المواقع  
والمنتديات التابعة لها، وذلك لتعزيز  
الحوار بين الشعوب بواسطة الترجمة.

ونغتنم هذه المناسبة لنذكّر بأن رسالة  
جمعية الترجمة العربية وحوار الثقافات  
تتلخص في تعزيز الحوار بين الثقافات  
بواسطة الترجمة. وقد أنشئت في 30 سبتمبر  
2006 بمناسبة يوم الترجمة العالمي ومقرها  
جنيف، بسويسرا. وهي كيان لا يستهدف الربح  
ومستقل عن الحكومات وليس لديها أي  
انتماء سياسي أو ديني محدد. وهي منفتحة  
على الجميع في إطار المعايير المهنية  
والقيم الإنسانية المشتركة والاحترام  
المتبادل.

فمرحبا بكم أحر ترحيب وأهلا وسهلا.

ويسعدنا أن نكون على اتصال دائم بكم،  
فمرحبا بملاحظاتكم واقتراحاتكم  
واستفساراتكم على العنوان التالي:

newsletter at atida.org

مع خالص تحياتنا وسلامنا


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan  3 21:56:00 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:56:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan U's Conf. on Teaching Arabic to Speakers of
 Other Languages
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"Sane Yagi" <saneyagi at gmail.com>
Subject:Jordan U's Conf. on Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other  
Languages

Jordan University's First International Conference on the Teaching of  
Arabic
to Speakers of Other Languages
JU-TASOL 2008

*First Call for Papers*

Jordan University is organizing its first international conference on  
the
Teaching of Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages. It shall be held  
from May
6th to 8th, 2008. It is organized by the Faculty of Arts' Department of
Arabic in collaboration with the Linguistics Department, the  
Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, and the Language Center. This conference  
will be
held in the beautiful city of Amman during the Spring season.

The conference covers a broad spectrum of interest within the teaching  
of
Arabic. Therefore, researchers from the various disciplines in  
Linguistics,
Education, and Information Technology are encouraged to participate.

January 30, 2008

Submission of abstract

February 7, 2008

Notification of abstract acceptance

April 1, 2008

Submission of full paper

April 15, 2008

Notification of paper acceptance

May 1, 2008

Submission of camera-ready paper

May 6-8, 2008

Conference

*Linguistic Areas:***

Syntax and semantics

Phonetics and phonology

Language acquisition

Sociolinguistics

Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics

Computational linguistics

*Educational Areas:***

Curriculum

Pedagogy

Educational psychology

Philosophy of education

Educational technology

*Experiential Knowledge:***

In-class teaching

Program administration

Computer-assisted instruction

Arabic for specific purposes

*General Issues:***

Cultural considerations and attitudes to teaching Arabic to speakers of
other languages

The politics of teaching and researching Arabic



*Abstract requirements:*

Abstracts and papers are written in Arabic. Abstracts must not exceed  
400
words in length, but papers may be of any length. The abstract must  
have the
topic stated clearly, the methodology explained, and the expected
conclusions outlined.

*Submission requirements:*

Submissions must be sent first in SOFT copies as e-mail attachments to *
tasol2008 at gmail.com* and then in print together with a diskette or CD  
to *Dr.
Sameer Qatami, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman 11942,  
Jordan*.
The electronic file format must be either in Microsoft Word, RTF, or  
PDF.

Please state the name(s) of the author(s) in full along with their
individual, affiliation, postal address, and email address. Hard  
copies are
essential only to verify the formatting of electronic versions.

*Document Format:*

   - Margin: vertical = 1 inch; horizontal = 1.25 inches.
   - Font: Times New Roman.
   - Title of the paper: size = 16 font; skip one line before title.
   - Author's information:

*Name(s):* size = 12 font; order = First name, Last name (1st letter
capitalized).
*Affiliation(s):* size = 9 font.
*E-mail address(es):* size = 9 font.

   - "Abstract": size = 14 font; text = 12 font; 1.5 spaced.
   - "Keywords": size = 14 font; text = 12 font.
   - "References": size = 12 font; aligned in the center; text = 9 font.
   - File: DOC, RTF, or PDF



*Amman *

Amman, the modern capital of Jordan, is one of the oldest inhabited  
places
in the world. Recent excavations have uncovered homes and towers  
believed to
have been built during the Stone Age with many references to it in the
Bible. Amman was known as Rabbath -Ammon, the capital of the  
Ammonites. It
was also referred to as "the city of waters".

In the 3rd century BC, the city was renamed Philadelphia after the  
Ptolemaic
ruler Philadelphus. the City later came under Seleucid as well as  
Nabataean
rule, until the Roman General Pompey annexed Syria and made Philadelphia
part of the Decapolis league - a loose alliance of initially ten free  
city
states under over all allegiance to Rome. Under the influence of the  
Roman
culture, Philadelphia was reconstructed in typically grand Roman style  
with
colonnaded streets, baths, a theatre and impressive public buildings.

During the Byzantine period, Philadelphia was the seat of a bishop and
therefore several churches were built. The city declined somewhat  
until the
year 635 AD. As Islam spread northwards from the Arabian Peninsula,  
the land
became part of its domain. Its original Semitic name Ammon or Amman was
returned to it.

Amman 's modern history began in the late 19th century, when the  
Ottomans
resettled a colony of Circassian emigrants in 1878. As the Great Arab  
Revolt
progressed and the state of Transjordan was established, King Abdullah  
I,
founder of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, made Amman his capital in  
1921.
Since then, Amman has grown rapidly into a modern, thriving metropolis  
of
well over a million people.

*Tourist Attractions in Jordan*

*Roman Forum in Amman*

The Roman time Public Square, bordered by the theatre and the Odeon,  
once
was among the largest of the Empire (over 100 * 50 meters). A row of  
columns
in the front of the theatre is what remains of the colonnades which once
flanked it.

*Roman Theatre in Amman*

An imposing monument set into the side of the mountain. Its 33 rows of  
seats
can accommodate almost 6000 spectators. The theatre, which dates back to
approximately the mid 2nd century AD, comes back to life with musical  
and
dance performance held regularly under the moonlit summer.

*Odeon in Amman*

Adjacent to the theatre and set on the east side of the Forum, the Odeon
dates back to the 2nd century AD. The lower seats of this monument,  
which
could accommodate up to 500 spectators, have been restored and the  
Odeon is
used occasionally for concerts.

*Jerash (Gerasa)*

Straddling one of the ancient worlds key trade routes, Jerash offers
extensive and breathtaking ruins of colonnaded streets, arches,  
temples, and
baths in a remarkable state of preservation and completeness. The  
visitor is
free to wander through these sites and observe at close hand the  
intricacy
and sophistication of the workmanship and the artistry of the cravings  
and
decorations. During the summer, the Jerash Festival of culture and arts
brings together the finest talent, both Arab and international, to  
revive
one of the great monuments of civilization.

*Ajlon Castle *

Twenty four kilometers west of Jerash, overlooking the Jordan Valley  
north
of Amman, Ajlon was built in 1184 by the Ayyubid to encounter the  
Crusader
advance in east Jordan and to protect the communications between Cairo  
and
Damascus. The hulking remains of these once powerful citadels await the
eager explorer with their mighty military exteriors, their dark inner
passageways, and their mute testimony to the struggles for power so  
familiar
to this historic land.

*Madaba*

Madaba is an  archaeological park and an ancient city of mosaics. It  
has the
oldest preserved ancient mosaic map of the holy lands.

*Mount Nebo*

Mount Nebo is one of the most revered holy sites of Jordan, located  
just a
short drive west of the Roman Byzantine town of Madaba, for this is  
where
Moses was buried. The sites association with the last days of Moses is
described in moving words in Deuteronomy (43:1-7). The episode of  
Balak and
Balam (2:13-26) also takes place here.

The site's other name is Pisgah: "And Moses went up from the plains of  
Moab
to Mt Nebo, to the top of  Pisgah which is opposite Jerico". From the
mountaintop, you can admire the dazzling view across the Jordan Valley  
and
the Dead Sea, to the rooftops of Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

*Dead Sea*

The Dead Sea eastern coast in Jordan is one of  the most spectacular  
natural
and spiritual landscapes in whole world.

The leading attraction at the Dead Sea is the warm, soothing, super- 
salty
seawater, which is nine times saltier than Mediterranean Sea water. It  
is
rich in chloride salts of Magnesium, sodium and potassium, in bromine,
potash and several other minerals and salts. This unusually salty,  
buoyant
and mineral-rich water has attracted visitors since ancient times, all  
of
whom have floated effortlessly on their backs while soaking up the  
water's
healthy minerals along with the gentler, filtered rays of the  
Jordanian sun.

The Dead Sea's total attraction is due to its unique combination of  
several
factors: the chemical composition of its water, the filtered sun rays  
and
oxygen -rich air, the mineral- rich black mud along the shoreline, and  
the
adjacent fresh water and thermal mineral spring.

*Umm Qays*

This is the most dramatically situated of the Decapolis cities. At Umm  
Qays,
one can explore fascinating ruins -a stunning black basalt theater, a
colonnaded main street, and a city gate, among others -and enjoy  
spectacular
views of the Jordan Valley, the Sea of Galilee, and Golan heights. Umm  
Qais
has a charming museum in a restored Ottoman house in addition to its  
other
attractions.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Cairo Conf. on Arabization
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:mhamalwy at hotmail.com
Subject:Cairo Conf. on Arabization

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
يسعدنا دعوتكم للمشاركة وتقديم بحوث فى  
المؤتمر السنوى الرابع عشر لتعريب  
العلوم المقرر عقده بإذن الله فى  
القاهرة بعنوان:
منظومة اللغة وتعريب العلوم

يومى الأربعاء والخميس الرابع عشر  
والخامس عشر من شهر صفر عام تسعة وعشرين  
وأربعمائة وألف هجرية
(العشرين والحادى والعشرين من شهر  
فبراير عام ثمانية وألفين ميلادية)

لمزيد من المعلومات رجاء زيارة موقع  
الجمعية المصرية لتعريب العلوم
www.taareeb.info
مع خالص التحية والسلام
د. محمد يونس الحملاوى
أستاذ هندسة الحاسبات، كلية الهندسة،  
جامعة الأزهر
أمين الجمعية المصرية لتعريب العلوم
أمين عام المؤتمر السنوى الرابع عشر  
لتعريب العلوم
mhamalwy at hotmail.com


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:57:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Deadline of Arabic Lecturer position at UT extended
 to March 15
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March 15

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Date: 03 Jan 2008
From:"Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:Deadline of Arabic Lecturer position at UT extended to March 15

Arabic Lecturer Position at the University of Texas, Austin

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN invites applications for a full-time,
academic year-long appointment as a lecturer in Arabic, to begin
September 1, 2008 with possibility of annual renewal.  This position is
funded by a Flagship grant to UT and is subject to grant renewal.

To be considered, candidates should have completed a Master's degree or
higher in Arabic Language, Literature, or Culture.  The successful
candidate will have demonstrated teaching excellence at the university
level and be expected to teach three courses per semester during the
academic year 2008-2009 as well as participate in the coordination of
curricular and extracurricular aspects of the program.  Experience in
coordinating multiple sections of Arabic classes is desired.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three
references letters, and evidence of teaching excellence to: Chelsea
Sypher, Program Coordinator, UT Arabic Flagship Language Program,
Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
(WMB 6.102); 1 University Station # F9400, Austin, TX 78712-0527. Phone:
Tel: (512) 471- 3283; Fax: (512) 471-7834.

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies is committed to achieving
diversity in its faculty, students, and curriculum, and welcomes
applicants who would help it achieve this goal.

All application materials must be received by March 15, 2008.

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/
For inquiries please contact Ms. Sypher at utflagship at austin.utexas.edu

Background check conducted on applicant selected
The University of Texas at Austin is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Employer
------------------------------------------
Mahmoud Al-Batal
Associate professor of Arabic
Director, Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA)
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
1 University Station, F9400
West Mall Building, 6.138
The University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX 78712-0527
Tel: (512)471-3463            Fax: (512)471-7834
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Cairo Arabic Lessons
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:A Fayyad <arabic.instructor at yahoo.com>
Subject:Cairo Arabic Lessons

An experienced, trained Arabic language teacher/tutor gives private  
Arabic lessons. I'm a graduate of Cairo University, with extensive  
teaching experience in Arabic institutes, or as a private tutor. I  
have taught Arabic to hundreds of people. I can help you learn or  
improve your Arabic language.
Lessons in Arabic are for academic students, and professionals who are  
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.. All levels of conversation, grammar, reading, writing and business  
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intention is to make good communication with the local population, the  
learner then generally progresses in different directions depending on  
her/his needs.
Private Arabic Group Lessons
This Arabic course is also available for 2 or more people studying  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:New Book:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the publication of a new volume of the
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics series:

Title: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX: Papers from the twentieth
annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Kalamazoo, March 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
ISBN: 9027248052
Date: December 2007

Contents

Jeffrey Heath
Stretching Ablaut: Morphological adaptation of new *CCu and *CCi stems
in Moroccan Arabic

Samira Farwaneh
Hypocoristics Revisited: Challenging the primacy of the consonantal root

Lior Laks
Morphology and Thematic Arity Operations: Evidence from Standard Arabic

Usama Soltan
On the Individual-Property Contrast in Free State Possessive Nominals in
Egyptian Arabic

Nouman Malkawi and Nicolas Guilliot
Reconstruction and Islandhood in Jordanian Arabic

Frederick Hoyt
An Arabic Wackernagel Clitic? The morphosyntax of negation in
Palestinian Arabic

Mohammad T. Alhawary
The Split-INFL Hypothesis: Findings from English and Japanese L2
learners of Arabic

Reem Khamis-Dakwar and Karen Froud
Lexical Processing in Two Language Varieties: An even-related brain
potential study of Arabic native speakers

Amel Khalfaoui
A Cognitive Approach to Analyzing Demonstratives in Tunisian Arabic

Nigel Ward and Yaffa Al Bayyari
A Prosodic Feature That Invites Back-Channels in Egyptian Arabic

Ali Dada and Aarne Ranta
Implementing an Open Source Arabic Resource Grammar in GF

Warren Casbeer, Jon Dehdari and Deryle Lonsdale
A Link Grammar Parser for Arabic

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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic for Special Purposes translation
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:paula santillan <capraia at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

Dear friends,

Lately, I have had to translate the course title of an
Arabic for Specific Purposes (ASP) course into Arabic.
However, my colleagues and I didn’t reach an agreement
on how the Arabic term for ASP should be translated. I
then did a quick search on google using the three
variations that my colleagues and I had come up with
(using the term "'language' for specific purposes"
instead of the more restricted 'Arabic'). Results are
shown below:

Luga li-agraad muHaddada ----- 112,000 tokens
Luga li-agraad khassa --------- 53,400
Luga li-agraad mu3ayyana ----- 141,000
-----
Luga li-ahdaaf muHaddada ----- 49,500
Luga li-ahdaaf khaassa ------- 22,700
Luga li-ahdaaf mu3ayyana ----- 58,000


As it is the case with many other (scientific,
academic, formal) terms, nowadays several Arabic
versions of ‘ASP’ seem to be being used quite broadly
around the Arab world. I thought that perhaps some of
you would like to provide us with your opinion about
this term in particular.

Thanks a lot before hand!

-paula

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Word Order and Generative Grammar
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Word Order and Generative Grammar


>  3) if we go with 1)a)ii) then we clash with every Arab speakers  
> native
>     intuition [...]
> I don't see how you can explain even the simplest facts without
> having a formalism that allows the researcher to model mixed lects.

I agree, but I think there's more to it than that.  Since Standard
Arabic isn't anyone's native language, can you talk about people's
intuitions about it in the same way that you talk about their
intuitions about their native language?

Moreover, if the boundaries between languages are determined by mutual
comprehensibility, surely Standard Arabic counts as a different
language from any of the dialects.  (Westerners who learn Standard
Arabic to an advanced level and travel to Egypt find they can't
understand anything anybody is saying, just like Egyptians who can
speak Standard Arabic and travel to Morocco.)  So are people's
intuitions about their native Arabic dialect any more relevant to
Standard Arabic than a French person's intuitions about Latin?

Also, the way people use Standard Arabic is clearly influenced by
their native dialect, and not only because they tend to mix the two
(my impression from watching Arabic satellite TV is that, except when
people are reading aloud, mixing the two is the norm[1]).  When
Egyptian writers like Tawfiq Al Hakim and Naguib Mahfouz wrote
dialogue in Standard Arabic, sometimes they literally translated
expressions from the Egyptian dialect.  The result is Standard Arabic,
but the meaning might not be clear to someone who doesn't know the
Egyptian dialect.  (In order to understand the meaning, you have to
translate back into Egyptian.)

So it seems to me that Standard Arabic has to be seen as something
like Global English, i.e. the English of non-native speakers, which
varies between different populations, partly under the influence of
their native language.  Yes, people do have intuitions about their
second language, but clearly there's a difference between those
intuitions and their intuitions about their native language.  What
kind of linguistic and/or cognitive theory could account for that
difference?

Ben

[1] I think Walter Armbrust makes a good sociological observation
about the reasons for this mixing in Armbrust, Walter, _Mass Culture
and Modernism in Egypt_, chapter 3 ("The split vernacular", pp.
37-62).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Mafia etymology query
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:ZAKIA DEEB <zakiadeeb at hotmail.com>
Subject:Mafia etymology query

Does any body know whether the word 'Mafia' has any linguistic Arabic  
connection? I was asked this question by French friend. The only  
similar word in sound in Arabic is "ma'ffi" (masculine) or  
"ma'ffia" (feminine) meaning EXEMPTED but this does not necessarily  
mean the words are related.
Many thanks,
Zakia Deeb

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book on Arab American Artists
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:"Fayeq Oweis" <fayeq.oweis at gmail.com>
Subject:New Book on Arab American Artists

Dear family, friends, and colleagues,

Happy New Year

This is a note to let you know that my new book: Encyclopedia of Arab
American Artists, has been released and available from the publisher
at http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR3730.aspx  or from amazon.com or
BarnesandNoble.com.

Below is a brief description of the book and a list of about 100 Arab
American artists that are profiled and included in the book. The book
is about 350 pages and it contains 16 color images and 84 black &
white images including artists' photographs.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you for your help
and support and for making this book a reality. I also appreciate your
support in promoting the book to your friends, libraries, schools, and
galleries.

Best Regards,
Fayeq Oweis
San Francisco
www.oweis.com

_______________________________

Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists
Artists of the American Mosaic

Fayeq S. Oweis

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0-313-33730-6    978-0-313-33730-7

Description: The rich history and culture of the Arab American people
is found in the passionate works of its artists. Whether they be
traditional media such as painting and calligraphy, or more
sophisticated media such as digital work and installation, the pieces
represent the beauty of heritage, the struggles of growing up in
war-torn countries, the identity conflicts of female artists in
male-dominated societies, and the issues surrounding migration to a
Western culture very different from one's own.

Many of the artists included here, though their works appear in
museums and galleries throughout the world, have never before been
featured in a reference book. Interviews conducted by the author
provide a personal look into the experiences and creative processes of
these artists.

Author Information:
FAYEQ S. OWEIS is an Arab American artist and a professor of Arabic
Language and Culture at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara,
California. He has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies with focus on
Arabic and Islamic arts. As an artist, he designed the exterior
entranceway murals and the calligraphy of the interior dome of the
Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He has also
exhibited his Arabic calligraphic compositions through out the United
States, and was an Artist-in-residence at the Art Institute of
Chicago.

Artists included in "Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists":
Etel Adnan, Yasser Aggour, Jocelyn M. Ajami, Abe Ajay, Sabah
Al-Dhaher, Andrea Ali, Rheim Alkadhi, Hend Al-Mansour, Mohammed
Al-Sadoun, Sama Alshaibi, Hashim Al-Tawil, Abderrahim Ambari, Ghada
Amer, Heba Amin, George Halim Awde , Halla Ayla, Nahda Alsalah Balaa,
Lily Bandak, Khalil Bendib, Haifa Bint-Kadi, Doris Bittar, Kamal
Boullata, Huguette Caland, Adnan Charara, Wasmaa Khalid Chorbachi,
Carole Choucair-Oueijan, Rajie "Roger" Cook, Abdelali Dahrouch, Joyce
Dallal, Aissa Deebi, Hanah Diab, Saliba Douaihy, Nihad Dukhan, Mona A.
El-Bayoumi, Dahlia Elsayed, Layla Zarour Elshair, Lalla A. Essaydi,
Hala Faisal, Simone Fattal, Dalah El-Jundi Faytrouni, Chawky Frenn,
Mariam Ghani, Rajaa A. Gharbi, Gibran Khalil (Kahlil) Gibran, Kahlil
George Gibran, Samia Halaby, John Halaka, Nabila Hilmi, Hasan Hourani,
(House of Lebanon (HOL) Artists Group: George Chamaa, Carole
Choucair-Oueijan, Jeanice Deeb, Dalah Faytrouni, Reem Hammad, Joseph
Hawa, John Hajjar, Father Farid Shoucair);  Alya Abdul Razzak
Husseini, Happy/L.A. Hyder, Annemarie Jacir, Emily Jacir, Fay Afaf
Kanafani, Mohammad Omar Khalil, Zahi Khamis, Sari Ibrahim Khoury,
Khalid Kodi, Leila Kubba, Ilham Badreddine Mahfouz, Sam Maloof, Amina
Mansour, Samar Megdadi, Aisha Mershani, Nabil Nahas, Said Nuseibeh,
(OTHER: Arab Artists Collective – Detroit: Radfan Alqirsh, Mohamad
Bazzi, Imad Hassan, Joe Namy, Rola Nashef, Lana Rahme); Walid Raad,
Naziha Rashid, Fawzia A. Reda, Mamoun Sakkal, Jacqueline (Jackie)
Salloum, Adelia Malouf Samaha, Sumayyah Samaha, Linda Dalal Sawaya,
Adnan Shati, Nida Sinnokrot, Katherine Toukhy, Mary Tuma, Madiha Umar,
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From: John Jospeh Colangelo <colangelomutarjim at gmail.com>
Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"

Thank God there are still a few Arabs with dignity and are proud of  
their language ...

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:BeyondBorders needs books for Iraq
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:nanlin at fas.harvard.edu
Subject:BeyondBorders needs books for Iraq

Dear Prof. Parkinson,

I received your contact information via Karin Ryding, whom I emailed
to ask about the American Association of Teachers of Arabic.  She said
to contact you for permission to announce a project on the Arabic-L
discussion list.

The gist of the project is this:  A classmate of mine at Harvard
University is coordinating a non-profit volunteer effort to connect
community needs perceived by American soldiers in Iraq with civilians
who are willing and able to contribute to those needs.  The way it
works is simple: service members in Iraq request items via website,
www.beyondorders.org, and donors try to match them; donors can also
initiate offers.  Over the past year there has been a significant
demand for schoolbooks for Arabic children, as well as basic Arabic
language guides for troops.  Any contribution of said resources would
be of great use to these communities, who often lack very basic school
materials.  It would be really great if some people are able, or know
of others who would be able, to help.

Thanks very much!  Please feel free to forward this email.  Hope you
are having a wonderful new year!

Regards,
Kathy

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Persian Teachers Workshop
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:richarsd at dni.gov
Subject:Persian Teachers Workshop

The Persian Flagship Program at the University of Maryland-College  
Park is hosting a workshop for teachers of Persian (Farsi/Dari/Tadjik)  
from 25-26 Jan 2008; the workshop is free of charge and open to the  
public.  Highlights include:

     --Presentations on curriculum and materials development by  
instructors from the Persian Flagship Program, Foreign Service  
Institute, and Defense Language Institute.

     --Keynote address "What Makes Persian Hard to Learn as a Second  
Language" by Karine Megerdoomian, PhD, Senior Artificial Intelligence  
Engineer, MITRE.

     --Special presentation "Vocabulary Activities in the Classroom:  
More than 30 Methods for Learning and Retaining Persian Words in the  
Classroom" by Mahvash Shahegh, PhD, American Association of Teachers  
of Persian.

     --Showcase of Computer-Assisted Language Learning Programs for  
Teaching Persian developed by the Defense Language Institute, Foreign  
Service Institute, and the Persian Flagship Program.

For more details on the workshop, please see this website:

http://www.languages.umd.edu/workshops/persian

For questions, please contact the event coordinator: Angie Blackwell  
at angielb at dni.gov
or myself.


Richard Dabrowski

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jan  9 17:42:57 2008
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:San Diego State Summer Institutes
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:San Diego State Summer Institutes

  December 15th, 2007

Dear Colleagues:

We are writing to you because we know of your strengths in the fields
of Middle Eastern and Slavic languages and cultures, and we want to  
ask for your
help in recruiting students to our Persian, Arabic, and Russian  
intensive
programs.

The following courses are offered through LARC (the Language  
Acquisition Resource Center) program, the Critical Language Immersion  
Program:

All courses are FLAS eligible (over 150 h. of contact hours)
First Year Intensive Arabic & Persian: June 9-August 1st, 2008(8 units  
each)
First Year Intensive Russian: June 9-August 1st, 2008(10 units)
Second Year Intensive Arabic & Persian: June 9-August 1st, 2008(8  
units each)

In the U.S., the following courses are only offered at LARC/SDSU:
Professional Level Arabic & Persian:   July 7-Aug. 15 (6 units each(.

Credit available for all the courses listed above. Cost: $1500/course

Teams of highly qualified teachers are employed at each level to offer  
a variety of teaching styles and pedagogical strategies. The teams use  
task-based instruction and simulations at the lower levels.  At all  
levels, the master teacher/apprentice teacher model is used to promote  
ongoing and continuous progress toward reaching the course goal.  
Students registering for the Professional level courses are often  
themselves teachers or native speakers of the language who want to  
refresh their skills.  Applicants will need to take an OPI (Oral  
Proficiency Interview), by telephone before being accepted into the  
program. They will also be required to submit a personal statement  
written in the target language (300 words).

Please contact Dr. Atefeh Oliai (Persian), Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure  
(Arabic), or Dr. Veronica Shapovalov (Russian) for further information  
about the programs and application processes,
or see http://larcnet.sdsu.edu/workshops.php for more detailed  
information. LARC's telephone number is 619-594-7887.

We thank you for your help in making this information available to  
qualified students and teachers.

Sincerely,

Dr. Mary Ann Lyman-Hager                         Dr. Bonnie Stewart
LARC Director                                             Project  
Director


Dr. Atefeh Oliai                                       Dr. Hanada Taha- 
Thomure                                 Dr. Veronica  Shapovalov
aoliai at projects.sdsu.edu                       hthomure at projects.sdsu.edu 
                                
veronica.shapovalov at sdsu.edu                                         
619-594-5480                                        
619-594-0371                   619-594-7147

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Jan  9 17:42:45 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic L1 acquisition refs
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:"Andrew Freeman" <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic L1 acquisition refs

Hi,
Can anybody suggest scholarly resources on Arabic L1 acquisition to  
Sanaa Abu Saleh at sanaabo at gmail.com?
Thanx,
Andy

----

From: Sanaa Abu Saleh [mailto:sanaabo at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:00 AM
To: andyf at umich.edu
Subject: the developmental stages of Arabic acquisition as L1

Dear Andy
Masa Elkheir

I am Sana Abu Saleh, a palestinian Arab girl from Israel, learning for  
my MEd at Oranim College. I am working on a research about the  
acquisition of Arabic as L1.I have started studying the developmental  
stages of the Arabic as L1among childrten below three years. till now  
I ccould not find any research about this issue. Actually I read your  
articles about diglossia which I liked and helped me a lot in  
discussing the theoritical background, but i still need the research  
that speaks about the developmental aspects of arabic as L1. please if  
you have any idea, research, site or book, please let me know.

thanks a lot
Sana Abu Saleh
Sakhnin 20173
Israel

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:online survey
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:"research project" <proficiencycontractingsurvey at gmail.com>
Subject:online survey

Arabic language professionals,

Please take a few minutes to respond to the attached online survey.  The
purpose is to gather data on current feelings toward language  
proficiency
among government employees and contractors, as well as impressions of
specific organizations/companies.  The survey does not ask for your
identity, contact information, or current employer.

Feel free to forward the survey to colleagues or students, but please  
limit
your distribution to those who have applicable experience and  
impressions.
The survey does not allow for the same email address to take the survey
more than once.

If you're interested in obtaining the data following survey close date  
(24
January 2008), please email proficiencycontractingsurvey at gmail.com.

Thank you for your time.

Survey link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=HGVeT4A_2fnDPB2J1aN_2bItKw_3d_3d

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Apology
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1) Subject:Apology
2) Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"
3) Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"

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1)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Apology

I have a policy of not posting messages like the one reacted to  
below.  Since I ignored it in this case, I am posting the following  
two reactions, but will not post any further ones.  Sorry for the lapse.
dil

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2)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:Munther Younes <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"

As an Arab (and a linguist) I find Mr. Colangelo's statement arrogant,  
misinformed, and insulting.  Freedom is what the Arabs, especially the  
Syrians, need and want, not more government legislation and heavy- 
handed interference even in determining how people should name their  
children. I would like to think that Arabs can still have dignity  
without believing in these practices.

Munther Younes

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:
Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"

I 100% agree with Mr. John Jospeh Colangelo .
Thank you .

Shukri Abed
Shukri B. Abed, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
CIDCM
UMD

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:26 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan U. Conf. on Teach Arabic to Speakers of
 Other Languages
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1) Subject:Jordan U. Conf. on Teach Arabic to Speakers of Other  
Languages

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Jordan U. Conf. on Teach Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:24:47
From: Sane Yagi [saneyagi at gmail.com]
Subject: JU-Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages 2008

Full Title: JU-Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages 2008
Short Title: JU-TASOL2008

Date: 06-May-2008 - 08-May-2008
Location: Amman, Jordan
Contact Person: Dr. Sameer Qatami
Meeting Email: tasol2008 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

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

Language Family(ies): Semitic

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2008

Meeting Description:

Jordan University is organizing its first international conference on  
the
Teaching of Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages. It shall be held from
May 6th to 8th, 2008. It is organized by the Faculty of Arts'  
Department of
Arabic in collaboration with the Linguistics Department, the  
Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, and the Language Center. This conference  
will
be held in the beautiful city of Amman during the Spring season.
The conference covers a broad spectrum of interest within the teaching  
of
Arabic. Therefore, researchers from the various disciplines in  
Linguistics,
Education, and Information Technology are encouraged to participate.

Jordan University is organizing its first international conference on  
the
Teaching of Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages. It shall be held from
May 6th to 8th, 2008. It is organized by the Faculty of Arts'  
Department of
Arabic in collaboration with the Linguistics Department, the  
Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, and the Language Center. This conference  
will
be held in the beautiful city of Amman during the Spring season.

The conference covers a broad spectrum of interest within the teaching  
of
Arabic. Therefore, researchers from the various disciplines in  
Linguistics,
Education, and Information Technology are encouraged to participate.
January 30, 2008 - Submission of abstract
February 7, 2008 - Notification of abstract acceptance
April 1, 2008 -	Submission of full paper
April 15, 2008 - Notification of paper acceptance
May 1, 2008 - Submission of camera-ready paper
May 6-8, 2008 - Conference

Linguistic Areas:
Syntax and semantics
Phonetics and phonology
Language acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
Computational linguistics

Educational Areas:
Curriculum
Pedagogy
Educational psychology
Philosophy of education
Educational technology

Experiential Knowledge:
In-class teaching
Program administration
Computer-assisted instruction
Arabic for specific purposes

General Issues:
Cultural considerations and attitudes to teaching Arabic to speakers of
other languages
The politics of teaching and researching Arabic

Abstract requirements:
Abstracts and papers are written in Arabic. Abstracts must not exceed  
400
words in length, but papers may be of any length. The abstract must have
the topic stated clearly, the methodology explained, and the expected
conclusions outlined.

Submission requirements:
Submissions must be sent first in SOFT copies as e-mail attachments to
tasol2008 at gmail.com and then in print together with a diskette or CD  
to Dr.
Sameer Qatami, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman 11942,  
Jordan.
The electronic file format must be either in Microsoft Word, RTF, or  
PDF.
Please state the name(s) of the author(s) in full along with their
individual, affiliation, postal address, and email address. Hard  
copies are
essential only to verify the formatting of electronic versions.

Document Format:
-	Margin: vertical = 1 inch; horizontal = 1.25 inches.
-	Font: Times New Roman.
-	Title of the paper: size = 16 font; skip one line before title.
-	Author's information:
Name(s): size = 12 font; order = First name, Last name (1st letter
capitalized).
Affiliation(s): size = 9 font.
E-mail address(es): size = 9 font.
-	''Abstract'': size = 14 font; text = 12 font; 1.5 spaced.
-	''Keywords'': size = 14 font; text = 12 font.
-	''References'': size = 12 font; aligned in the center; text = 9 font.
-	File: DOC, RTF, or PDF

Amman
Amman, the modern capital of Jordan, is one of the oldest inhabited  
places
in the world. Recent excavations have uncovered homes and towers  
believed
to have been built during the Stone Age with many references to it in  
the
Bible. Amman was known as Rabbath -Ammon, the capital of the  
Ammonites. It
was also referred to as ''the city of waters''.

In the 3rd century BC, the city was renamed Philadelphia after the
Ptolemaic ruler Philadelphus. the City later came under Seleucid as  
well as
Nabataean rule, until the Roman General Pompey annexed Syria and made
Philadelphia part of the Decapolis league - a loose alliance of  
initially
ten free city states under over all allegiance to Rome. Under the  
influence
of the Roman culture, Philadelphia was reconstructed in typically grand
Roman style with colonnaded streets, baths, a theatre and impressive  
public
buildings.
During the Byzantine period, Philadelphia was the seat of a bishop and
therefore several churches were built. The city declined somewhat  
until the
year 635 AD. As Islam spread northwards from the Arabian Peninsula, the
land became part of its domain. Its original Semitic name Ammon or Amman
was returned to it.

Amman 's modern history began in the late 19th century, when the  
Ottomans
resettled a colony of Circassian emigrants in 1878. As the Great Arab
Revolt progressed and the state of Transjordan was established, King
Abdullah I, founder of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, made Amman his
capital in 1921. Since then, Amman has grown rapidly into a modern,
thriving metropolis of well over a million people.


Tourist Attractions in Jordan

Roman Forum in Amman
The Roman time Public Square, bordered by the theatre and the Odeon,  
once
was among the largest of the Empire (over 100 * 50 meters). A row of
columns in the front of the theatre is what remains of the colonnades  
which
once flanked it.

Roman Theatre in Amman
An imposing monument set into the side of the mountain. Its 33 rows of
seats can accommodate almost 6000 spectators. The theatre, which dates  
back
to approximately the mid 2nd century AD, comes back to life with musical
and dance performance held regularly under the moonlit summer.

Odeon in Amman
Adjacent to the theatre and set on the east side of the Forum, the Odeon
dates back to the 2nd century AD. The lower seats of this monument,  
which
could accommodate up to 500 spectators, have been restored and the  
Odeon is
used occasionally for concerts.

Jerash (Gerasa)
Straddling one of the ancient worlds key trade routes, Jerash offers
extensive and breathtaking ruins of colonnaded streets, arches, temples,
and baths in a remarkable state of preservation and completeness. The
visitor is free to wander through these sites and observe at close  
hand the
intricacy and sophistication of the workmanship and the artistry of the
cravings and decorations. During the summer, the Jerash Festival of  
culture
and arts brings together the finest talent, both Arab and  
international, to
revive one of the great monuments of civilization.

Ajlon Castle
Twenty four kilometers west of Jerash, overlooking the Jordan Valley  
north
of Amman, Ajlon was built in 1184 by the Ayyubid to encounter the  
Crusader
advance in east Jordan and to protect the communications between Cairo  
and
Damascus. The hulking remains of these once powerful citadels await the
eager explorer with their mighty military exteriors, their dark inner
passageways, and their mute testimony to the struggles for power so
familiar to this historic land.

Madaba
Madaba is an  archaeological park and an ancient city of mosaics. It has
the oldest preserved ancient mosaic map of the holy lands.

Mount Nebo
Mount Nebo is one of the most revered holy sites of Jordan, located  
just a
short drive west of the Roman Byzantine town of Madaba, for this is  
where
Moses was buried. The sites association with the last days of Moses is
described in moving words in Deuteronomy (43:1-7). The episode of  
Balak and
Balam (2:13-26) also takes place here.
The site's other name is Pisgah: ''And Moses went up from the plains of
Moab to Mt Nebo, to the top of  Pisgah which is opposite Jerico''.  
 From the
mountaintop, you can admire the dazzling view across the Jordan Valley  
and
the Dead Sea, to the rooftops of Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Dead Sea
The Dead Sea eastern coast in Jordan is one of  the most spectacular
natural and spiritual landscapes in whole world.
The leading attraction at the Dead Sea is the warm, soothing, super- 
salty
seawater, which is nine times saltier than Mediterranean Sea water. It  
is
rich in chloride salts of Magnesium, sodium and potassium, in bromine,
potash and several other minerals and salts. This unusually salty,  
buoyant
and mineral-rich water has attracted visitors since ancient times, all  
of
whom have floated effortlessly on their backs while soaking up the  
water's
healthy minerals along with the gentler, filtered rays of the  
Jordanian sun.
The Dead Sea's total attraction is due to its unique combination of  
several
factors: the chemical composition of its water, the filtered sun rays  
and
oxygen -rich air, the mineral- rich black mud along the shoreline, and  
the
adjacent fresh water and thermal mineral spring.

Umm Qays
This is the most dramatically situated of the Decapolis cities. At Umm
Qays, one can explore fascinating ruins -a stunning black basalt  
theater, a
colonnaded main street, and a city gate, among others -and enjoy
spectacular views of the Jordan Valley, the Sea of Galilee, and Golan
heights. Umm Qais has a charming museum in a restored Ottoman house in
addition to its other attractions.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jobs at Foreign Service Institute
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1)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Bernhardt, James E" <BernhardtJE at state.gov>
Subject:Jobs at Foreign Service Institute

LANGUAGE JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT THE FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE

The School of Language Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S.
Department of State, seeks potential candidates (undergraduates,
graduates, and working professionals) for full-time, part-time,
intermittent, and/or seasonal work on a contractual basis in Arabic
Language Instruction, Language training and testing, and Arabic Language
curriculum design and development.

Contracts could be for full-time, part-time, full-time summer work, two-
to three-hour blocks of time, on school holidays, and/or during school
breaks (as well as any other working day of the year).  All work takes
place in Arlington, Virginia.

Individuals interested in teaching and testing must be native speakers
of Arabic.  All applicants must be eligible to work in the United
States.  For more information and to obtain the solicitation, please
send your name, address, phone numbers, and e-mail address to:
slsrecruitment at state.gov, or

SLS Recruitment
Dean's Office F-4415
Foreign Service Institute
School of Language Studies
U.S. Department of State
Washington DC 20522-4201
703-302-7517 or 703-302-7391

James E. Bernhardt
Chair, Near East, Central and South Asian Languages
FSI

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic for Special Purposes Translation
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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes Translation

al-Lugha al-'Arabiyya li-'Aghraad  Khaassaa.

Raji Rammuny

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Mafia etymology responses
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1) Subject:Mafia etymology response
2) Subject:Mafia etymology response
3) Subject:Mafia etymology response
4) Subject:Mafia etymology response
5) Subject:Mafia etymology response
6) Subject:Mafia etymology response

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1)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Auchterlonie, Paul" <J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

There is quite a lot of debate about whether mafia is derived from
Arabic. G.B. Pellegrini in Gli arabismi nelle lingue neolatine (Brescia,
1972) covers the various possibilites, including Maffia, mu`afiya,
mahfal, mahyas, etc., but none are picked out as particularly probable.
Interestingly, the word mafia does not appear the "Indice delle forme
siciliane" in Girolamo Caracausi's Arabismi medievali di Sicilia
(Palermo, 1983).

Paul Auchterlonie.

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2)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Elizabeth J. Pyatt" <ejp10 at psu.edu>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

For what it's worth - the etymology below is given in the Oxford  
English Dictionary. The origin seems to be from Sicily (not  
surprising), but is unclear before. Arabic marfud may be one source  
but other sources from Italian are also mentioned.

Key {umac} = long u
    {ddotbl} = d with dot

 From Oxford English Dictionary
[< Italian mafia (1865; also {dag}maffia), prob. back-formation <  
mafiuso, Italian regional (Sicily) mafiusu

Italian regional (Sicily) mafiusu, further etymology uncertain and  
disputed.
  Italian regional (Sicily) mafiusu is perh. a blend of marfusu  
scoundrel and marfiuni, marpiuni cheat (Italian marpione; ult. <  
French morpion MORPION n.); Italian regional (Sicily) marfusu (Italian  
{dag}malfusso rascal; 15th cent.) is < Spanish marfuz renegade,  
traitor (1330) < Arabic marf{umac}{ddotbl} outcast, reprobate, passive  
participle of rafa{ddotbl}a refuse to accept, reject.
-- 
Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D.

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3)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Prof. William Granara" <granara at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

There is a theory that the word 'mafia' is derived from the Arabic  
root ''ayn, fa', waw' with the sense of 'to protect,' or 'restore to  
health,' and that it's an 'ism makaan' meaning 'sanctuary.'  This  
makes sense in that the early Mafia took refuge in the mountainous  
regions of Sicily.

   Bill Granara

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:John.Alcorn at trincoll.edu
Subject:Mafia etymology response

A succinct, comprehensive, authoritative discussion of hypotheses  
about the etymology of the Sicilian words "mafioso" and "mafia" is  
found in:
Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection  
(Harvard U. Press, 1993), Appendix A, pp. 259-61.
Gambetta discusses inter alia six distinct hypotheses that posit  
Arabic origins of "mafioso" and "mafia".
I hope this is helpful.

John Alcorn
Trinity College
Hartford, CT

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

At a time when Arabs are systematically denigrated, right, left  and  
centre,
I feel very awkward to trace today the etymology of _mafia_ and  
previously
of _assassin_ to an assumed Arabic origin!

I take comfort, however, in the fact that good many etymological  
suggestions
are no more credible than tarnished tombstones.

All that notwithstanding, two possible links can be identified between  
the
term  _mafia_  and the Arabs: one of (a) time as the term originated
approximately in mid -10th.century, and of (b) place Sicily  
( صقلية  ), then
an Arab colony.

_Mafia_ (also _maffia_) originally stood for a Sicilian underground
organization developed to conduct warfare against Arab invaders.

How this Sicilian clandestine society acquired its plausibly Arabic  
name, is
not known for certain.  As stated by Dr. Z. Deeb, one explanation goes  
as
far as to suggest that the name comes from the Arabic /_ma'fy_/, the  
form
being either a Sicilian or Maltese Arabic dialect.  (Parenthetically,
/_ معفى_ / _mu'faa_/, i.e., pp. of IV, is the proper morphological  
form.)   The
word means "protected," or "safeguarded,"  hence a place of sanctuary.

Further explanations offered are:

   - /maafya/ = "there is no body."
   - /maehfil/ = "meeting place."
   - /mahiaS ; mahyaS/ = "aggressive, boasting, bragging."
   - /marfuD/ = "rejected."


A more interesting, but far-fetched, story claims that the name is  
derived
from the war cry shouted by a Sicilian as he attacked a Frenchman who  
had
ravished and killed his fiancée.  "Morte alla Francia!"
to which other Sicilians added the words, "Italia anela!" (is Italy's
cry!).  The five initials form the word _mafia_.

*(! والله أعلم* )

-- 
M. Deeb

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"jolanda guardi (jolanda.guardi)" <jolanda.guardi at unimi.it>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

As far as I know there are different suggestions for the etimology of  
the word mafia
1. from ar. mahiàS(boasting)
2. from ar. mu'àfiya and mu'àfa(strongly criticised because the  
meaning "protection" pertains more the sicilian dialect than the  
arabic word))
3. from ar. mahfal(concilium, synodus)

a good reference is
G. B. Pellegrini, Gli arabismi nelle lingue neolatine, Paideia  
Editrice, Brescia1972, 2 volls., vol. I, p. 223

Hope this helps
Jolanda Guardi

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"NEWMAN D.L." <daniel.newman at durham.ac.uk>
Subject:Arabic L1 acquisition refs

Hello,

A good starting point is Margaret Omar's "The Acquisition of Egyptian  
Arabic as a Native Language", which has recently been republished by  
Georgetown University Press.
Best,

D. Newman

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic L1 acquisition refs

Margaret K. Omar, THE ACQUISITION OF EGYPTIAN ARABIC AS A NATIVE  
LANGUAGE (Georgetown University Press, 2007), is a four-month study of  
the acquisition of the acquisition of rural Egyptian dialect by 37  
children aged six months to 15 years.  It deals with phonological,  
morphological and syntactic development.

Ernest McCarus

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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:39:44
From: Barbara Steiner [steiner at svox.com]
Subject: Arabic, Standard & Computational Linguistics: Computer  
Linguist Arabic, SVOX AG, Zurich, Switzerland

University or Organization: SVOX AG
Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Web Address: http://www.svox.com

Job Rank: Computer Linguist Arabic
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
Description:
Position: Computer Linguist Arabic (Egyptian)

SVOX AG is a dynamic technology company specialized in text-to-speech.  
We
are seeking to temporarily (12 months) add to our language development  
team
a computational linguist for Arabic. You will create new language
components for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.

We invite applications from language specialists that natively speak
Egyptian Arabic. SVOX provides a varied position in an international,
fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

Tasks:
-  Development of language-specific components needed to analyse texts
(grammars, rule sets, lexicon evaluation and script-based adaptation)
-  Quality assessment and improvement of phonetic transcriptions
-  Definition of accentuation and phrasing rules
-  Definition of grapheme-to-phoneme rules
-  Preparation of text material for recordings
-  Supervising the recordings
-  Annotating the recordings and creating a speech database
-  Testing and quality assessment of the integrated system

Qualifications and Required Skills
-  Native speaker of Egyptian Arabic
-  Masters degree in linguistics, computer science, or related field
-  1+ years experience in text-to-speech technology is a strong plus
-  Interest in speech synthesis, prosody, and morpho-syntactic  
analysis of text
-  Programming and scripting skills are desirable

Personal Requirements:
-  Working knowledge of English
-  Excellent organization and communication skills
-  Has a positive attitude and enjoys working in a team
-  High quality standards
-  Willingness to relocate to Zurich, Switzerland, for 12 months

Start Date: At earliest availability.

Contact: Please send your application to Ms. Barbara Steiner.


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	
Email Address for Applications: hr at svox.com
Contact Information:
	Barbara Steiner
	Email: steiner at svox.com

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From:ms at cms.mail.virginia.edu
Subject:Needs Maltese word for "hospital"

I would appreciate help from a Maltese speaker, or some one who knows  
Maltese to provide me with the Maltese word for "hospital."  Do  
Maltese use the English word, or the Italian word "0spedale" or a  
variation of this word? Or do they have an indigenous word for this  
institution?  I cannot find help where I am at this  writing, nor can  
I locate a Maltese dictionary in this city (Damascus).  The honorary  
Consul in this city does not speak Maltese !

With much appreciation.

Mohammed Sawaie

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:36 -0700
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Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Dear Colleagues,

I'm wondering whether the AATA, the ALS and/or other professionals in  
the
field have been thinking of advising institutions such as FSI, that  
being a
native speaker is neither a requisite nor a guarantee of a candidate  
being
an effective teacher of a language.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:41 -0700
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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:Maher Awad <awad at rice.edu>
Subject::List of K-16 Arabic Books

I am forwarding the message below, which was posted today on the NCLRC  
list.  I think it's very useful for many Arabic-L members.  Thank you.

Maher


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Subject: 	Compiled List of Books for the teaching of Arabic K-16
Date: 	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:48:31 -0500
From: 	nclrc <nclrc at GWU.EDU>
Reply-To: 	nclrc <nclrc at GWU.EDU>
To: 	NCLRC at HERMES.GWU.EDU


*Dear Friends and Fellow Teachers:*

* *

*We all know there is a great need for appropriate materials for  
teaching Arabic in the schools in the **U.S.** Over the last few  
years, there have been materials that various publishers have made  
available. The **National** **Capital** **Language** ** Resource**  
**Center** plans to post a list of textbooks for teaching Arabic K-12  
recommended by teachers on its website www.arabick12.org <http://www.arabick12.org/ 
 > and we need your help. *

*We have compiled a beginning list of Arabic language textbooks and  
teaching materials that teachers have recommended to us. We would  
greatly appreciate your comments about these materials and we welcome  
suggestions for other books or teaching materials that you have been  
using successfully (or even not so successfully!). *

*Please note that we are seeking materials that can be used in any  
classroom. Internationally published books are welcome, as long as you  
consider them useful to be used in a **U.S.** classroom. If you know  
of a **U.S.** or Canadian-based distributor for the book or materials,  
please tell us.*

*When you send us the information, please provide us with as full  
bibliographic information as possible, as well as a brief description  
regarding age levels, proficiency levels, and what you consider is  
really useful about the textbook. We are seeking information that  
might help another teacher decide whether the book may be useful for  
his or her class. *

*We plan to post this list on the Web site on January 17, 2008. *

*We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for your help. *

*Salima Intidame*



My comments are in yellow.


*Al- Kitab Fii Ta’allum Al-Arabiya:*

Author(s): Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi

Available in three parts.

  1. Alif Baa with DVDs
     Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Second Edition


  2. Al-Kitaab fii Ta^c allum al-^c Arabiyya with DVDs, Part One,
     Second Edition


  3. Al-Kitaab fii Ta^c allum al-^c Arabiyya with DVDs, Part Two,
     Second Edition


  4. Al-Kitaab fii Ta^c allum al-^c Arabiyya with DVD and MP3 CD, Part
     Three

http://www.press.georgetown.edu/arabic.html

Age and Level: Written for college and university, frequently used in  
high schools. Any comments?



*Al **Arabia** Al Sahla* - Easy Method for Learning Arabic: Level 2  
(One Book & CD)

*Author:** *Farha Al-Bitar
*Publisher: *Dar Al Elm Lilmaliyeen (2002)
*Language: *Arabic & English

http://www.noorart.com/s.nl/it.A/id.2811/.f

Is anyone using these books? Any comments?



*Arabic for all*:

It has books for teaching skills of Arabic for beginning level,  
intermediate level and also an exercise for sound & listening skills:  
Advanced book, for teaching skills of the Arabic.

http://arabicforall.net/shoppingcenter/

For beginning and intermediate

A teacher I met in NECTFL 2007 said she is using this textbook with  
success. Any comments? What ages and levels are these books useful for  
with students in the U.S.?



*Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners*  
(Textbook)

Available in different levels: Arabic 101 <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/languages/Arabic101_Syllabus.doc 
 >, Arabic 102 <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/languages/Arabic102_Syllabus.doc 
 >, Arabic 103 <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/languages/Arabic103_Syllabus.doc 
 >

Author: Mahdi Alosh (Feb 21, 2000)

To order, visit: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300058543

Age and Level: Written for college and university, frequently used in  
high schools and we were told that there is now an intermediate level  
book. Any comments?



*Abda Al Arabia ***

*Author:** *Nasef Mustafa Abd-Alaziz
*Publisher: *Al Dar Al Thaqafiya Li Al Nashr
*Language: *Arabic

A series of four integrated books for the youngest students to prepare  
them for 1st and 2nd Levels. The focus of this series is on developing  
reading and writing skills by introducing familiar expressions and  
words along with interesting exercises.

http://www.noorart.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.556/.f

Any comments?



*Arabian Sinbad*

This is an innovative new learning kit designed for both the native  
and non-native speakers of Arabic to teach a wide range of Arabic  
vocabulary through the "Total Immersion Method."
Teachers can use each individual product to supplement their classroom  
instruction. They can introduce videos, activity books, flashcards and  
more as a fun alternative to traditional learning.

Below is the information on how to order this kit:

*Fine Media Group**
**7552 W. 99th Place**
**Bridgeview**, **IL** **60455*

*Phone:* (708) 636-2003
*Fax:* (708) 636-2082
*Toll Free:* 1-800-FMG-2000
info at finemediagroup.com <mailto:info at finemediagroup.com%20>

* *

We have a copy of this kit in our library and it seems interesting and  
fun. It has been out there for quite a while. Have you tried it?



*Iqra’*

Series of workbooks and textbooks designed to teach Arabic to non- 
Arabic speaking students but it is preferable that students have prior  
exposure to the Arabic letters, sounds and writing system. These  
popular books concentrate on the four basic skills of reading,  
writing, listening and speaking.

Series may be purchased through Noorart, www.noorart.com <http://www.noorart.com/ 
 >

Mailing address: 577 Sterling Dr, Richardson, TX 75081

Telephone: 1888-442-5687

Are you one of the teachers I know who are using this series? And what  
would you tell us about your experience?



*Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach*

Student Book, Teacher’s Manual

Author: Lutfi Hussein (September 1993)
http://yalepress.yale.edu/YUPBOOKS/book.asp?isbn=9780300056341

I think this should only be interesting to those who are interested in  
Levantine vernacular.



*Modern Arabic: An introductory course for foreign students *

Textbook and Workbook: Level 1

Textbook and Workbook: Level 2

17 Audiotapes

Author: Samar Attar (1991)
*Language: *Arabic & English

http://www.noorart.com/s.nl/it.A/id.1531/.f?sc=2&category=276 <http://www.noorart.com/s.nl/it.A/id.1531/.f?sc=2&category=276 
 >

Someone suggested this book, but I am not familiar with it. It looks  
as though it was written for high school or college and has been  
published in Lebanon. It is written in English and Arabic. Does anyone  
use this book? Any comments? What ages and levels are these books  
appropriate for in the U.S?



*My Arabic Library*

Designed to encourage reading, the libraries include 30-40 titles.  
They cover fiction and nonfiction subjects and cover a range of  
reading levels within the grade level. Posters and a teacher’s guide  
accompany each grade level collection. Scholastic publishers have  
translated many short books for students translated from English into  
Arabic.

In English the books are appropriate for Grades 1 – 6.

http://www.scholastic.com/myarabiclibrary

Age and Level: Elementary and middle school- various levels.

These books are new. They were developed primarily for use overseas  
but they can be used in U.S. classrooms. Many of the stories are  
familiar to American children.


*New Horizon- *Hayya Natakalamu Maan*__*

The program is based on the techniques and methods of teaching Arabic  
as a foreign language.  It focuses on a communicative approach. The  
program uses age appropriate content and material. It is designed with  
story-telling methods. For more information on this program and how to  
order it, please visit the official website of the Bureau of Islamic  
and Arabic Education at: www.biae.net <http://www.biae.net/>  or call  
818.219.6212**

I wonder how many teachers are using this program at their schools and  
what they think about it. Any ideas?



*Uhibbu Al Arabiyya*

Dr. Mahmood Sini, Nasi Abdul Aziz, and Mukhtar Hussein

Textbook series with teachers’ manuals with 9 levels – K-8

Workbooks and audiotapes

http://www.noorart.com/s.nl?sc=19&category=-101&search=Uhibbu%20al%20Arabia 
  <http://www.noorart.com/s.nl?sc=19&category=-101&search=Uhibbu%20al%20Arabia 
 >

Age and levels: Elementary and middle school, K-8

This is a complete curriculum to teach Arabic to non-native speakers  
of Arabic, and it is used by many private-Islamic schools. Any comments?



Below is a compiled list of Arabic resources someone from Doha was  
very generous to share with us. Feel free to send us your comments on  
these resources.


- *Kilma Kilma*: a leveled series that starts from reading words and  
moves to reading sentences. Comes in three levels accompanied by an  
activity book. Very useful for a beginner reader. Contact Asala  
publishers asala_publishers at yahoo.com  
<mailto:asala_publishers at yahoo.com>.



- *Khutwa Khutwa*: Based on Howard Gardner multiple intelligences, a  
series for KG1 and KG2 composed of 40 children’s stories with ten  
activities for each story. Comes with a a teacher’s guide, posters,  
domino and puzzle. Contact Asala.


- *Discover the fun of **Reading*: a leveled series starts from  
picture books to books with short paragraphs. Accompanied by work  
sheets and big books. Done in collaboration with Heinemann. Go to: www.intkc.com 
  <http://www.intkc.com/>
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:45 -0700
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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"NEWMAN D.L." <daniel.newman at durham.ac.uk>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Hello,
If memory serves, the Maltese word for hospital is 'sptar'.
Best,
D. Newman

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Slavomír Čéplö" <bulbulthegreat at gmail.com>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Dear Mohammed,
the standard Maltese word for "hospital" is "sptar" ("l-isptar" with
the definite article). E.g.: http://www.materdeihospital.org.mt/.
The answer to your question would be that they are indeed using a
borrowing from a Romance, but it's exact history is uknown to me.
Hope it helps :)
bulbul

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:Nizar Habash <habash at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Mohammed,
I found this in an online Maltese-English dictionary:  http://www.aboutmalta.com/language/engmal.htm
HOSPITAL   sptar (m)   [sptar]
Nizar Habash, Ph.D.
Columbia University
www.nizarhabash.com

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

"A Hospital" is "sptar" in Maltese.(masculine)
"Hospitals" is "sptarijet."
Though i am a Japanese, a hospital is sptaR, NOT sptaL in Maltese.
Best,
Haruko

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Although the Maltese dialect is enormously influenced by Arabic, the  
Maltese
for "hospital" is a loanword from English: _Sptar_.  Hope that would  
be of
some assistance.
-- 
M. Deeb
English, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Dear Mohammed,
The Barbera Maltese-Italian dictionary of 1939 and a Maltese-English  
phrase book of 1980 both give sptar (sic), pronounced speetar,and a  
1972 dictionary of Maltese proverbs by Aquilina gives a proverb with  
the word furmarija, translated "Infirmary (Hospital)".
best of luck to you!
Ernest McCarus

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Tressy Arts" <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

As far as my small Maltese dictionary knows, it's sptar, which does  
sound to
me like derived from hospital.
Regards, Tressy Arts

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:mcredi at cloud9.net
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

  hospital in Maltese is ISPTAR

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Mehall, David J." <DAVID.J.MEHALL at saic.com>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Ispitar is Maltese for hospital

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Martin R. Zammit" <martin.r.zammit at um.edu.mt>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Dear Mohammed,
The word for "hospital" in Maltese is sptar (masculine singular),  
pronounced /spta:r/ (i.e. with long /a/) . The plural is sptarijiet  
where the letter /j/ corresponds to English /y/. Should you need more  
info about Maltese, do not hesitate to ask me.
Tahiyyaatii.
Dr Martin R. Zammit
Univ. of Malta

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Y.N." <youchansama at yahoo.co.jp>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Maltese hospital is  "sptar"  pl.="sptarijiet"
Yoichi Nagato

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIN:Arabic NLP workshop
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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:prosso at dsic.upv.es
Subject:Arabic NLP workshop


*HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and *

*local** languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects*

Please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html for  
details.

*_ _*

*_Motivation and Aims_*


This Workshop intends to add value to the issues addressed during the  
main conference
(Human Language Technologies (HLT) & Natural Language Processing  
(NLP)) and enhance the
work carried out at different places to process Arabic language(s) and  
more generally
Semitic languages and other local and foreign languages spoken in the  
region.

It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic  
Written and Spoken
language processing in a mono- or cross/multilingual context, and give  
them an
opportunity to update the community through reports on completed and  
ongoing work as well
as on the availability of LRs, evaluation protocols and campaigns,  
products and core
technologies (in particular open source ones). This should enable the  
participants to
develop a common view on where we stand with respect to these  
particular set of languages
and to foster the discussion of the future of this research area.   
Particular attention
will be paid to activities involving technologies such as Machine  
Translation,
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval/extraction, Summarization, Speech  
to text
transcriptions, etc., and languages such as Arabic varieties, Amazigh,  
Amharic, Hebrew,
Maltese, and other local languages. Evaluation methodologies and  
resources for evaluation
of HLT are also a main focus.

*_Topics of Interest_*

The submissions should address some of the following issues:

·        Issues in the design, the acquisition, creation, management,  
access,
distribution, use of Language Resources (Standard Arabic, Colloquial  
Arabic, other
Semitic languages, Amazigh, Coptic, Maltese, English/French spoken  
locally, etc.)

·        Impact on LR collections/processing and NLP of the crucial  
issues related to
"code switching" between different dialects and languages

·        Specific issues related to the above-mentioned languages such  
as role of
morphology, named entities, corpus alignment, etc.)

·        Multilinguality issues including relationship between  
Colloquial and Standard
Arabic

·        Exploitation of LR in different types of applications  
·        Industrial LR
requirements and community's response;

·        Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for  
benchmarking and evaluation
for written and spoken language processing;

·        Focus on some key technologies such as MT (all approaches  
e.g. Statistical,
Example-Based, etc.), Information Retrieval, Speech Recognition,  
Spoken Documents
Retrieval, CLIR, Question-Answering, Summarization,

·        Local, regional, and international activities and projects;

·        Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and  
international
cooperation.


*_Submission Details (more on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html)_*


Submissions must be in English. Abstracts for workshop contributions  
should not exceed
Four A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should  
state: the title;
author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as  
well as postal
address, telephone and fax numbers.

Submission is to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF  
format, to:
arabic at elda.org <mailto:choukri at elda.org&amp;amp;amp;gt; to arrive  
before *_15 February
2008_*.
Registration to LREC'08 will be required for participation, so  
potential participants are
invited to refer to the main conference website for all details not  
covered in the
present call (http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/)


*_Important Dates_*

Call for papers:                                           3 January  
2008

Deadline for abstract submissions:           15 February 2008

Notification of acceptance:                       14 March 2008

Final version of accepted paper:                11 April 2008

Workshop full-day:                               Saturday 31^st May 2008


*_Workshop chair_*

Khalid Choukri (ELRA/ELDA, France)

*_Workshop Co-chairs_*

Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA

Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica Valencia, Spain

Abdelhadi Soudi ENIM (Morocco)

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA and Monterey Institute of International Studies

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic for Special Purposes translation
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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"paula santillan <capraia at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

i thought perhaps the rest of the list members would
like to recieve these other two reply messages.

-p

---

Dear Paula,

You might consider the term al-'Arabiyyah
al-Mukhtassah, or Lughah
'Arabiyyah Mukhtassah.  It attaches the specificity
to the language not the
purpose, and it perhaps has a more native feel.


Alex

Alex Dalati
Certified Arabic Translator


Greetings.... ahalan wa sahalan.

I refer to your query posted on Arabic-L list.

One alternative expression is "Arabic for Special
Applications," ( العربية للتؕبيقات
الخاصة \ التخصصية ) versus "Arabic
(Language) for special purposes." (hope the Arabic
text for the two frequent variants -- inserted between
the parethses above -- arrives and displays properly,
ISA.)

That expression ("ASA") seemed in common use in the
degree-granting programs in translation and
interpreting offered by major universities in Saudi
Arabia, especially King Saud University and Imam
Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University (both in Riyadh,
where I was until last December).

The BA-level degree program in T&I at KSU includes
options to speciaIize during the last two years of the
program in a range of fields, technologies,
professions and industries so that graduates can get
jobs in the government or private sector.

You might also check the various undergraduate degree
or "professional certificate" programs in T&I
conducted by several government-run and private-sector
universities, colleges, and institutes in UAE ,
especially those conducted by UAE University in
Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi and the multi-campus emirates-wide
network of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT),
plus what may be offered by the American University of
Sharjah (which is somewhat newer in UAE). I have no
information about what may be offered in Qatar or Oman
for programs in T&I.

Hope this helps. Khair, in shaa' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Srpko Lestaric" <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

As I understand, Paula Santillan asked how would we translate "Arabic  
for Specific Purposes course" (or: "Arabic for Special Purposes  
course", as it was written in the Subject line, perhaps for some  
special purpose?) into Arabic. Now, it is irrelevant whether it is a  
course or anything else, at least it is so here. For "course" we have  
one and single equivalent: dawra. By "Arabic" here is meant "the  
Arabic Language", so it should obviously be "al-lugha al-3arabiyya" or  
simply "al-3arabiyya", which often suffices. The other noun is easy to  
translate as well: purposes = 'aghraaD. The alternative 'ahdaaf is not  
as right as that, but is acceptable, either.

So, the only problem Paula had was the one with the adjective, either  
"specific" or "special". Any of the two sets the same problem, for the  
Arabs themselves, I mean in their practice, have not done what they  
should to make this field semantically clear. We see them using the  
word "khaaSS(a)" for "special", and for "specific" and even for  
"private" and "own". On the other hand, the Arabic equivalents for  
"specific" can also be different, from muHaddad and mu3ayyan, till  
daqiiq, waaDiH and mumayyiz. Had it not been so, Paula would never  
think of translating it by words like "muHaddada" or "mu3ayyana",  
which are inadequate here at any rate, for even if it were  
"specific" (as I believe) and not "special", it'd be closer to the  
wanted equivalence if we say "khaSSa". (Having in mind that the  
question is about a language teaching course, we can be quite sure  
that this particular "specific" has to mean "special" and has nothing  
to do eithr with "precise" or "characteristic".)

However, Paula had, according to her own words, "to translate the  
course title of an Arabic for Specific Purposes (ASP) course into  
Arabic". This means that she was obliged to use "al-" (al-mu3arrif)  
and say exactly: dawra fi-l-lugha al-3arabiyya li-l-'aghraaD al- 
khaSSa, not li-'aghraaD khaSSa. These "specific purposes" here are so  
clearly specific, that they require the so called definite article in  
Arabic, even though they do not require it in English. Of course, this  
is not the right moment to analyze the difference between the English  
definite article and what is called the definite article in Arabic.

At the same time, this might be a good place to compare a little these  
two phenomena. For we see our colleague Raji Rammuny says that, in his  
opinion, "Arabic for Special Purposes" would be "al-lugha al-3arabiyya  
li-'aghraaD khaaSSa" [in his somewhat unconvincing transliteration it  
was: al-Lugha al-'Arabiyya li-'Aghraad  Khaassaa]. If one Raji Rammuny  
can say so, then we maybe should open a long and fruitful discussion  
in this very field. Should we start from the beginning?

Best,
Srpko Lestaric

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:20:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Limiting jobs to native speakers
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3) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers
4) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Descrimination against highly qualified non-native speaking language  
teachers is a problem that goes far beyond Arabic. Many TESOL graduate  
programs do not let their own non-native graduate students teach ESL.  
When it comes to Arabic, I take pride in the fact that many of leaders  
in our field are non-native speakers like Kristin Brustad, Karin  
Ryding, Elizabeth Bergman, Dilworth Parkinson, and many many others.

Mustafa Mughazy

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:Chris H <kaix04holmanski77 at hotmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to say that I'm glad that Uri has brought this question  
up in this forum.  Certainly, there is a demand for speakers of Arabic  
that is not easily satisfied in places like the United States where  
Arabic has been, more or less, a LCTL for quite some time.  So, it  
makes some sort of sense that native-speakers of Arabic would be most  
likely to fill teaching positions.  Of course, this is not really  
about whether or not one is a native-speaker of Arabic (it shouldn't  
matter).  There should be something said about anyone who seeks out  
only native-speakers of Arabic, even if it is their prerogative. This  
will continue to become a more urgent issue as programs in the U.S.  
and the world turn out qualified instructors who are non-native  
speakers of Arabic.  On a side note, I imagine that this issue is not  
unique to Arabic either.  Perhaps we could ask our colleagues in other  
languages how they have dealt with this or similar issues?

This also raises another question to me, as a non-native speaking  
instructor of Arabic.  In addition to sending a message to FSI (et  
al.), should we address the role of the non-native speaker in an  
Arabic teaching program?  In my experience, my students have  
appreciated that I know where they are coming from because I was once  
in their position.  In short, while a non-native speaker cannot bring  
important elements like culture and dialect to the table the same way  
native-speakers can--beyond personal anecdotes and experiences abroad  
that is--non-native speakers do have a lot to contribute to the  
thinking that goes into the instruction, curriculum, and other  
elements of a program.  Programs that are devoid of non-native  
speakers are, in my opinion, missing an important link between their  
program and their students.  I can only speak from personal  
experience, but I have had several instructors who could not (or would  
not) attempt to see things from 'our' point of view as students and  
this usually resulted in a lack of progress in the classroom.  There  
is always the push and pull between the instructor and his or her  
students, but surely the incorporation of non-native speaking  
instructors in any language program would help to ameliorate  
situations like I have briefly described here.

Which brings me to...

...Uri's question (thanks again Uri), about Arabic language  
instruction in general and how there seems to be a lack of a unifying  
set of factors across the institutional spectrum.  Each program is and  
should be unique, but perhaps Uri's and other questions that are not  
being asked often enough can lead us to a more pressing discussion on  
where 'we' should be heading as Arabic continues to push itself onto  
the MCTL (More-Commonly-Taught Languages) scene.

Forgive me for neglecting anything in this commentary, for I am merely  
reeling off some thoughts from the top of my head.  I'm not making a  
pointed criticism as much as I am wondering what our thoughts are (or  
have been) on these matters.  Anyone willing to enlighten me, in the  
event that I have missed a lot of the discussion on these issues,  
would be greatly appreciated.  : )

Thanks,

Chris Holman
University of Oregon
chrish at uoregon.edu

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3)
Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Tressy Arts" <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

I agree with Uri Horesh in saying that being a native speaker does not
necessarily make one a good teacher. There are even some disadvantages  
to
being a native speaker; for example, that one does not know the rules of
one's own language, as they are intuitive rather than learned. But
when teaching someone else, this student will need language rules and  
will
ask questions about *why* something is so-and-so, and deserve a better
answer than "that is just the way it is". I teach my own language to
foreigners as well as Arabic to Dutch people, and I can say that the  
former
is often more difficult for me.
Also, not all people make good teachers. Knowing a lot about a subject  
does
not mean that you are good at explaining it to other people. I once was
hired by a native speaker of Arabic to teach his wife and children  
Arabic.
He knew Arabic very well, but was aware that he was not a good teacher  
and
his children were better off with a non-native professional teacher.

Regards,

Tressy Arts
the Netherlands

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

mirabile dictu:  there is not, nor ever was, a 'native speaker' of  
Modern Standard Arabic (better:  Modern Written Arabic).
                                                                      
Mike Schub


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Jan 22 23:21:00 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:U. of Maryland jobs for Algerian and Moroccan
 Arabic speakers
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From: "Lampe, Gerald" <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject:U. of Maryland jobs for Algerian and Moroccan Arabic speakers

National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland
seeks native Algerian Arabic speakers and native Moroccan Arabic
speakers as narrators and lesson content reviewers for a multimedia
project on Arabic Variants Identification. Narrators must be able to
record at our College Park office, which is located one block from the
College Park metro station on the Green line. 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: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Free online Arabic placement test
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Dr Adil El Sheikh" <adil at mediu.edu.my>
Subject:Free online Arabic placement test

This is a free Arabic placement

http://cbe.mediu.edu.my:8080/cbe/

T,Q
Adil

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic for Special Purposes translation
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:Ahmed Farrag <ah_farrag at hotmail.com>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

Dear Pula,

      Arabic for Special Purposes is a linguistic terminology used to  
refer to Arabic Language Courses that approach certain areas such as  
Business Arabic; Arabic for diplomats; Arabic for mass media....etc.
     The equivalent proper translation for this terminology in Arabic  
is "Al 3arabia Lel Magalat Al Khassa".
     Any Arabic course for a special purpose introduces texts that  
affiliated to this domain, and how Arabic language express of lexical  
items.

Ahmed Farrag
AFL, Sr Instructor
Cairo

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Darrat, Suleiman" <sdarrat at uky.edu>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

Salaam,
You may use:

al-'Arabiyyah lit-tarjuma al-mutakhassissah

Suleiman

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Arabic in Globalized World
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:sabed at cidcm.umd.edu
Subject:New Book on Arabic in Globalized World

I  am pleased to announce the publication of my new book:

Arabic Language and Culture Amid the Demands of Globalization

By Shukri Abed, Chairman
Department of Languages and Regional Studies
The Middle East Institute
Washington, DC

The book was published by The Emirates Cnenter For Strategic Studies  
and Research (2007)

I would appreciate posting this information on you list-serve

Kind regards,

Shukri Abed

shukri B. Abed, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
CIDCM
UMD

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Maltese 'hospital' same in other dialects
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3) Subject:origin of Maltese 'hospital'

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:taoufiq ben amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital' same in other dialects

The same word is used in Tunisian Arabic: sbitar-sbitarat, masculine.  
does anyone know anything about its origins? It sounds very much like  
the italian verb for waiting "aspettare".

Best,
Taoufik Ben Amor
Columbia university

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2)
Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:t"Abbassi, Abdelaziz CIV USA TRADOC"  
<abdelaziz.abbassi at us.army.mil>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital' same in other dialects

What should be noted, more importantly, is that Maltese belongs to the
Western (Maghrebi) Arabic dialects, and thus uses common vocabulary,
including borrowings. The universal word for hospital in Morocco and
Tunisia, for example, is "sbitar".

Aziz Abbassi

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3)
Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:t"SLIM BEN SLIMANE BEN SAID" <sbb170 at psu.edu>
Subject:origin of Maltese 'hospital'

As far as I know, it might be more accurate to classify the maltese  
"lispitar"
as a loanword from the italian "l'ospedale" rather than from English ---
Another thing being that the Tunisian word "sbitar" is also a loanword  
from
Italian meaning Hospital and Maltese is almost a sister language to  
Tunisian
Arabic

Salam

Selim Ben Said
The Pennsylvania State University

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Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:connections to Syria query
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject:connections to Syria query

Dear Friends,

3 questions for those who have traveled to Syria in recent years:

- What are the best air connections between the US and Syria?
- Which airlines have the cheapest airfares to Syria?
- Can you recommend an honorable travel agent who who specializes in  
flights to Syria?

Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Some Moroccan phonology and Linux queries
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Andrew Freeman" <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Some Moroccan phonology and Linux queries

Hi,

             One of the things I’m doing with my spare time is I am  
working on a Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics from the  
University of Washington in Seattle.

             The class I am taking this quarter is a grammar  
engineering class with Dr. Emily Bender.

             Part of my next assignment which is due on Friday January  
25th is translate some sentences into the language for which I am  
building a computational grammar.  The language I chose was Moroccan  
Arabic.

             It would help out a lot if I could get some input on my  
translations.  Before I present my sentences I had a couple of general  
questions about urban vernacular Moroccan Arabic.

1)  Abdel-Massih (1982) pages 22-28 talks about a 3 vowel system, plus  
schwa.  The way I understand it the schwa itself is not contrastive,  
but the placement in the word might be contrastive. For instance  
“qelb” is “heart” and “qleb” is “to turn over.”
2)  Harrell (1966) talks about a 6 vowel system.
3)  The question how would I represent the Moroccan vowel phonology  
using Arabic script?
4)  We are mostly on Linux:
a.       What is a reasonable and readily available text editor that  
runs on RedHat WS 3 for Arabic texts?
b.      Is there a stable version of emacs that can handle Right-To- 
Left display and all flavors of unicode, cp-1256 & MAC-Arabic code  
pages?

Thanks.


Here are my sentences.  If you corrections or comments or alternative  
please email them to me at andyf at u.washington.edu or andyf at umich.edu

     1. Dogs sleep.
   الكلب كينعس
l-kelb kayn3as
     2. Dogs chase cars.
الكلب كيجري على الطوموبيل
l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil

     3. I chase you.
كنجري عليك
kanjri 3lik

     4. These dogs sleep.
هاد الكلاب كينعسو
Had l-klab kayn3asu

     5. Dogs eat.
الكلب كياكول
Al-kelb kayakul

     6. I can eat glass.
يمكنلي ناكول الجاج
ymknli nakol j-jaj

     7. It doesn't hurt me.
ما كينضرنيش
ma kaynDerrni$

     8. The dogs chase cars.
     الكلاب كيجريو على الطوموبيل
l-klab kayjriw 3la T-Tomobil

9. I think that you know that dogs chase cars
كنضن كتعرف الكلب كيجري على الطوموبيل
كنضن بلي كتعرف بلي الكلب كيجري على  
الطوموبيل
كنضن بين كتعرف بين الكلب كيجري على  
الطوموبيل
kanDenn kat3ref l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil
kanDenn belli kat3ref belli l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil
kanDenn bin kat3ref bin l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil

    10. I ask whether you know that dogs chase cars.
كنسول واش كتعرف الكلب كيجري على  
الطوموبيل
كنسول واش كتعرف بلي الكلب كيجري على  
الطوموبيل
كنسول واش كتعرف بين الكلب كيجري على  
الطوموبيل
kansuwwel wa$ kat3ref l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil
kansuwwel wa$ kat3ref belli l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil
kansuwwel wa$ kat3ref bin l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil

11. Cats and dogs chase cars.
المش والكلب كيجريو على الطوموبيل
l-me$$ u-l-kelb kayjriw 3ala T-Tomobil

    12. Dogs chase cars and cats chase dogs.
الكلب كيجري على الطوموبيل والمش كيجري  
على الكلب
lkelb kayjri 3ala T-Tomobil u-l-me$$ kayjri 3ala l-kelb

    13. Cats chase dogs and sleep.
المش كيجري على الكلب وكينعس
l-me$$ kayjri 3ala l-kelb u-kayn3as

    14. Do cats chase dogs?
wa$ l-me$$ kayjri 3ala l-kelb?
واش المش كيجري على الكلب؟
    15. Chase the dog!
جري على الكلب
jri 3ala l-kelb

    16. Hungry dogs eat.
الكلب الجوعان كياكول
الكلب به جوع كياكول

l-kelb j-ju3an kayakul
l-kelb bih ju3 kayakul

    17. Hungry dogs eat quickly.
الكلب الجوعان كياكول بالزربة
الكلب به جوع كياكول بالزربة
l-kelb j-ju3an kayakul b-z-zarba
l-kelb bih ju3 kayakul b-z-zarba

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs text suggestions for various Arabic Programs
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:A Mohamed <mohamed_abby at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs suggestions for new Arabic Program

Hello everyone,

  We are in the process of creating an Arabic Program in one of the  
USA universities. I would appreciate it if you can refere Arabic  
textbooks that could be taught at the university level in these areas:

  - Arabic for heritage speakers
  - Arabic for business
  - Arabic for international business
  - Arabic culture
  - Arabic civilization
  - Spoken Arabic (including the most spoken dialects in the Arab World)
  - Introduction to modern Arabic literature

  Your help is needed and highly appreciated.

  Shukran Jaziilan

  A. Hamza

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:List of K-16 Arabic Books
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:List of K-16 Arabic Books

Pleas add to the list:

1. Arabic Sounds and Letters: A Beginning Programmed Course (Textbook
and Manual) by Raji Rammuny

For beginners in public schools or colleges.  Includes 20 lessons aimed
to introduce the sound and writing system to beginning students,
accompanied by DVD.

Contact:  orderentry at cdsbooks.com

2. Hayyaa Natakallamu al-'Arabiyya . Let's Speak Arabic  (Three Parts)
by Mahmoud Saleh Sieny et al, (Textbooks and Cds)

Designed to teach Arabic for Novice High/Intermediate learners in public
schools and colleges. Each part includes 15 lessons  consisting of
situational dialogues, brief grammatical and cultural notes and practice
exercises. Contact:  Arabic at gee-edu.com

3. Arabic for Communication: Interactive Multimedia Program (Computer
and web-based program) by Raji Rammuny

For Novice High/Intermediate learners. Includes 20 lessons focused on
survival needs, each consisting of situational dialogues and exercises,
language function segments supported by grammatical and cultural
explanations, and practice communicative activities. Contact:
flacs at umich.edu

Raji Rammuny

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translation of Arabic for Special Purposes,
 correction
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Translation of Arabic for Special Purposes, correction

The following message was sent out with garbled Arabic.  Paula sends  
the following transliteration so that you can follow the message,  
which I then repeat below:

-------

the transliteration (my own) would be:

al-3arabiyya li-l-taTbiiqaat al-khaaSSa /
al-takhaSSuSSiyya

-----
Greetings.... ahalan wa sahalan.

I refer to your query posted on Arabic-L list.

One alternative expression is "Arabic for Special
Applications," ( العربية للتؕبيقات
الخاصة \ التخصصية ) versus "Arabic
(Language) for special purposes." (hope the Arabic
text for the two frequent variants -- inserted between
the parethses above -- arrives and displays properly,
ISA.)

That expression ("ASA") seemed in common use in the
degree-granting programs in translation and
interpreting offered by major universities in Saudi
Arabia, especially King Saud University and Imam
Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University (both in Riyadh,
where I was until last December).

The BA-level degree program in T&I at KSU includes
options to speciaIize during the last two years of the
program in a range of fields, technologies,
professions and industries so that graduates can get
jobs in the government or private sector.

You might also check the various undergraduate degree
or "professional certificate" programs in T&I
conducted by several government-run and private-sector
universities, colleges, and institutes in UAE ,
especially those conducted by UAE University in
Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi and the multi-campus emirates-wide
network of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT),
plus what may be offered by the American University of
Sharjah (which is somewhat newer in UAE). I have no
information about what may be offered in Qatar or Oman
for programs in T&I.

Hope this helps. Khair, in shaa' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Maltese 'hospital'
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Slavomír Čéplö" <bulbulthegreat at gmail.com>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital'

Dear all,

according to Dionisius Agius's "Siculo Arabic" (Kegan Paul
International, London & New York 1996), p. 321, this is an example of
liquid alternation (shifting by assimilation) attested in Siculo
Arabic (Classical Arabic 'zajala' = 'to bring forth young' > Siculo
Arabic 'zajar'), Arabic borrowings in Spanish (Classical Arabic
'al-saTl' = 'bucket' > Spanish 'acetre') and Maltese (Classical Arabic
'faatir' = 'tepid, lukewarm' > Maltese 'fietel'). Apparently in
Maltese, this shift can also be observed in Romance borrowings, such
as the one in question, i.e. Sicilian 'spedali' > Maltese 'sptar'.
Note that standard Italian word for 'hospital' is 'ospedale'.
It is quite interesting to hear that the same word can also be found
in Tunisian and Moroccan Arabic. Are we talking about borrowings or
common development? And, more interestingly, do you know of any other
examples of this liquid alteration?

bulbul

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Samia Montasser <montasser at un.org>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital'

Dear colleagues,
Among some Egyptians (mainly uneducated older generations) the word
"esbetalia" is used to refer to "hospital" as well.

Samia S. Montasser
Coordinator
Arabic Language
The United Nations

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jobs restricted to native speakers
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:shehade at mappi.helsinki.fi
Subject:Jobs restricted to native speakers

The basic question that needs to be raised is: Should a professor of
Arabic language and Islamic studies master this language both in theory
and practice or not? As far as I know there is no condition in the  
policy
of professorship which says that the candidate has to show a profound
knowledge in Arabic and what counts mainly is publications. Consequently
the phenomenon of finding professors of Arabic who are unable neither to
speak any sort of Arabic nor write MSA is common.
On the other side not every native speaker of a certain language can  
be a
good teacher. Beside this ability of one Arabic dialect and a profound
active knowledge of MSA that most academic Arabs have he needs to know  
the
educational methods of teaching and like this profession.
H. Shehadeh

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Iktômi" <ikto.ness at gmail.com>
Subject:Jobs restricted to native speakers

Hi everybody!!

I was very pleased to read this discussion for it's an issue that  
interests
me personally! I am a teacher of French ( L1 Arabic). I come from a  
country
where Fr is a L2, and spoken by nearly the majority of the population.  
I do
consider myself a native speaker of French, in reality I am bilingual,  
since
I spent 8 years of my life in France, and I was always considered  
French by
the natives. It sounds as if I had no problem with anything related to  
what
you were discussing about, but I am writing because I recently had many
discussions with a friend of mine, same origin, nearly the same  
competences
in French, and gratuated for teaching French as a Foreign language. She
spent 6 months looking for a job, but she was refused at all her
applications (around 70 applications). All of these applications were
highlighting the condition that the teacher had to be a native-speaker,
which, on the official documents, is not her case. She ended up thinking
about conducting a PHD research on these representations native/ non- 
native
language teachers, and we've been talking about the issue a long time.
I totally agree on this idea: a native speaker is not necessarily a good
language teacher and a non-native, one may know how to explain things  
and
teach them for he/she is more sensitive to the learning difficulties. I
would like to add though, something I consider very important: non- 
native
teachers' perceptions towards themselves and their teaching. these can  
also
be problematic, and creates a feeling of insecurity and lack of  
confidence.
Myself, I would't have questioned my language abilities hadn't I been
recruited to teach the language. I was so confident or rather, my  
language
performance was generally natural, until I had to teach and transmit  
it to
my studemnts, I started questionning every language use, every  
expression,
even the most obvious ones. Teaching is a form of knowledge
transmission, It's a responsibility, and when the context points out to
non-native teachers, non-native teachers themselves feel inconfident,  
and
can end up being paralysed by all those social constructions
Thank you

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Linux/Morrocan Arabic responses
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1) Subject:Linux response
2) Subject:Linux response
3) Subject:Writing Moroccan Arabic

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Linux response

On 22/01/2008, "Andrew Freeman" <andyf at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> a.       What is a reasonable and readily available text editor that  
> runs on
> RedHat WS 3 for Arabic texts?

Both gedit (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/) and Katoob
(http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Katoob) work well for plain
text files.

If you want a word processor (i.e. something that lets you control
formatting) rather than just a text editor, OpenOffice
(http://www.openoffice.org/) is the best option for Arabic, in my
experience.  Make sure you enable the Complex Text Layout (CTL) option
in its Language Settings, and install a good Arabic font; I use SIL's
Scheherazade (http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=109 
).

> b.      Is there a stable version of emacs that can handle Right-To- 
> Left display and all flavors of
> unicode, cp-1256 & MAC-Arabic code pages?

Please let me know if you find out; I've given up on Emacs for this  
reason.

Ben

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2)
Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Alexander J. Stein" <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject:Linux response

Andrew,

I am not sure of the status of emacs in particular, but I recommend  
you examine the website for Arabeyes[1], a multinational localization  
team from that focuses on translating popular FOSS titles and creating  
useful packages for Arabs and/or Muslims (since most orthographic  
issues apply to any language with Arabic script). Link [2] gives you  
an introduction. By the way, these people are doing excellent work,  
and I can vouch for the quality of it. I suggest all Arabists on this  
site who are Linux enthusiasts check out the links below. Furthermore,  
they are always in need of more translators to help translate open  
source software. If you want to practice your skill with Arabic  
computer terminology and watch the evolution of the language, I  
recommend volunteering.

Regards,
Alexander Stein

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2)
Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Jan Hoogland" <j.hoogland at let.ru.nl>
Subject:Writing Moroccan Arabic

Hi Andy,

These are some interesting questions.

And how to write Moroccan Arabic in Arabic script is even more  
interesting,
since the Moroccans are struggling with this themselves too.

There is an interesting development going on in Morocco presently: the
Moroccan Arabic dialect is used more and more as a written language
(billboards, quotations in magazines, subtitles on TV).

There is however no general consensus on the orthography of Moroccan  
Arabic.

So people seem to write it the way they like it.

Some even prefer to vocalize it, which to my humble opinion is less
important in Moroccan Arabic.

The way you spelled the Moroccan sentences is quite usual, with some
concessions to MSA orthography. For example, to represent the Moroccan
Arabic article l- does not demand the writing of an alif (like alif  
lam for
‘al-‘ in MSA). However, very few people leave the alif out.

On the other hand you write the demonstrative ‘had’ as it is pronounced,
without any concessions to MSA orthography hâdha.

Some people even write kaf-alif for the durative particle ka-.

I do have some doubts about the correctness of your MA sentences, but  
I’ll
leave that to the native speakers.

Good luck with Moroccan Arabic Darizja (characterised by some Arabs as  
‘non
Arabic’)

Jan

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS 22 Program
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:ALS 22 Program

22 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
University of Maryland, College Park
March 8-9, 2008

Sponsored by
The Arabic Linguistics Society
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,
Center for the Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland, and
National Foreign Language Center

Program
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
9.00–9.30	OPENING REMARKS

9.30–10:00	Phrasal and sentential agreement in the inter-language of  
learners of Arabic
Ghassan Husseinali
Yale University

10.00–10:30   	Linguistic distance and the acquisition of basic  
reading processes in diglossic Arabic
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

10.30–10.45	BREAK

10.45–11.30	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mushira Eid
University of Utah
Arabic or Arabics: The core and the variable

11:30–12:00 	Verb innovation in Palestinian Arabic
Lior Laks
Tel Aviv University, Israel
	
12.00–1.00	BREAK
	
1.00–1.45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Yasser Suleiman
University of Edinburgh
Out of place: Language, dislocation and exile

2.15-2.30	BREAK

2.30–3.15	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jonathan Owens
University of Maryland
The early history of Arabic

3.15 – 3.45 Ingrate or honorable: A re-examination of the word kanuud  
in Qur’an 100 (al-‘Ādiyāt))
Munther Younes
Cornell University

3.45 – 4.15	Genre analysis and Arabic legal discourse
Ahmed Fakhri
West Virginia University

4.15 – 4.30	BREAK

4.30 – 5.00	The feasibility of using the web in building Arabic sense- 
tagged corpora
Khalid Alghamry
Ain Shams University Egypt

5.00 – 5.30	A Unified analysis of Arabic demonstratives in the  
extended nominal projection
Kamel Elsaadany & Salwa Shams
Gulf University for Science and Technology

5.30 – 6.00	The syntactic behavior of Arabic idioms
Ashraf Mohamed
University of Manchester

1.45-2.15     	The effect of language contact and diachrony on
Urban Palestinian phonemics
Uri Horesh
The University of Texas at Austin

6.00-6.30	Patterns of variation in the adoption of Casablancan gender  
concord norms by three ethnolinguistic migrant groups
Atiqa Hachimi
University of Florida

Alternates	
Negative and positive imperatives in young children's Kuwaiti Arabic
Morphosyntactic Development in an Arabic Diglossic Situation

SUNDAY, MARCH 9
9.00 – 9.30	Final devoicing and voicing assimilation in Cairene  
Arabic: An OT analysis
Rawia Kabrah
Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

9.30 – 10.00	The syllable: A perceptual unit in Egyptian Arabic
Rajaa Aquil
University of Utah

10.00 – 10.30 Leading, linking and closing tonal contours in Egyptian  
Arabic
Dina ELzarqa
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

10.30-10.45	BREAK

10.45 – 11.15	Phrasal syncope in Makkan Arabic: An OT account
Mahasen Abu-Mansour
Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

11.15 – 11.45	The OCP as a synchronic constraint in Arabic
Eiman Mustafawi
Qatar University

11.45-1.00	BREAK

1.00 – 1.45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Elabbas Benmamoun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comparative syntax of Arabic varieties: Issues and approaches

1.45 – 2.15	“Heads” of a feather “agree” together: On the  
morpho-syntax of imperatives in MSA
Usama Soltan
Middlebury College	

2.15 – 2.30	BREAK

2.30 – 3.00	The myth of tensed negation: A neo-aspectualist analysis  
of lam and lan in Standard Arabic
Mustafa Mughazy
Western Michigan University

3.00 – 3.30	Negative expressions in Moroccan Arabic: NCI’s or  
NPI’s?
Hamid Ouali
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

3.30 – 4.00	A core syntax of Arabic pronoun and agreement
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
University of Newcastle & University Mohammed V Rabat

4.00 – 4.15	BREAK

4.15 – 5.00	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Manfred Woidich
University of Amsterdam
The Egyptian lexicon and the Arabic World Atlas

5.00-5.30	Mixed agreement in Lebanese Arabic
Heidi Lorimor
University of Mary Washington

5.30 – 6.00	Use of humor in Arabic and English travel literature: A  
socio-pragmatic contrastive study
Samih Salah
University of Alexandria, Egypt

Alternates	
Against the Split-CP Hypothesis: Evidence from	Iraqi Arabic
The MSA – dialect interface: Borrowing vs. codeswitching in the  
context of corpus analysis

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:05 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mandean Conference Last Call
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:aram at aramsociety.org
Subject:Mandean Conference Last Call

Dear Colleague,

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organising its Twenty  
Sixth International Conference on the theme of The Mandaeans, to held  
at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of  
London, 08-10 September 2008.
The conference aims to study Mandaeism and its relationship to Near  
Eastern religions and gnostic movements, and it will start on Monday  
08 September at 9am, finishing on Wednesday 10 September at 6pm. Each  
speaker’s paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10  
minutes for discussion.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please send your answer  
to the above Aram email address before March 2008. If you know of  
colleagues who might like to contribute to the conference, please  
forward this message to them or send us their names and email  
addresses. Yet, we would like to remind our colleagues that only  
academics are allowed to present a paper at an ARAM conference.
	The conference will start on Monday 8 September at 9am, finishing on  
Wednesday 10 September at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 30  
minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers  
given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future  
edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.
If you wish to know more about our ARAM Society and its academic  
activities, please open our website: www.aramsociety.org
If you have any questions or comments at any time, I am always happy  
to receive them.
Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd (Dr.)
Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Society
The Oriental Institute
University of Oxford
Pusey Lane
Oxford OX1 2LE – UKý
Tel: +1865-514041ý
Fax: +1865-516824ý
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:connections to Syria
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:connections to Syria

Abu Sammy,

1.There are only three airlines that travel directly from New York to  
Damascus via Europe: Air France, British Airways, and Austrian Airlines.

2. I have heard that there are some cheaper airlines, such as Egypt  
Air that travels via Cairo, and Jordanian Royal Airlines (Aliyah) that  
travels via Amman.  I have not used any of them, so I do not know  
through what agents one can make a reservation.

Best wishes,
Nimat

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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Textbook for new program query responses
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2) Subject:Textbook for new program query responses
3) Subject:Textbook for new program query responses

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1)
Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Haroon Shirwani <arabictutor at hotmail.com>
Subject:Textbook for new program query responses

Build Your Arabic Vocabulary is a textook which helps students on all  
types of course consolidate their basic vocabulary, through exercises,  
writing assignments and flashcards:

http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0071478760

Best wishes,
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2)
Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Textbook for new program query responses

he Kallimni Arabi series of Egyptian Arabic textbooks by Samia Louis
and Iman Soliman, published by the AUC Press are superb textbooks.
Volumes are planned for the beginner (Kallimni Arabi bišwēsh),
Intermediate (Kallimni Arabi) and Advanced (Kallimni Arabi maẓbūt),
with the Intermediate being the only one in print just now (it was
released last March) and the other two to be released soon. Having
taught out of the intermediate textbook and reviewed the manuscripts
for the other two, I can say that the books in the series altogether
present the best Arabic textbooks available (whether for spoken or
written Arabic). The method followed by the books is intended to
enable students to learn from example and practice rather than through
lengthy explanations of structure and usage. The books are structured
in a way that they almost teach themselves; they could actually be
used for self-instruction. That cannot be said for any other Arabic
textbook I know of (not even Al-Kitāb, which comes close).

The praiseworthy features of the book are many; of those, I'll name my
favourites:  where variants in usage occur in the natural speech of
Egyptians, the book reflects it (for example, the book illustrates
through usage how either feminine singular or plural agreement can be
employed with non-human plural nouns); there is consistent, attractive
artwork throughout (a real novelty in the Arabic textbook trade); and
the audio materials, presented on a CD, actually feature people with
pleasant voices who know how to act (another novelty – mind you, the
Al-Kitāb series employs real actors), and the "from real life"
segments at the end of each module are presented with realistic
ambient noise (a party with people talking in the background; a taxi
ride with Quranic recitation on the radio and Cairo traffic kalaxating
outside).  These may seem like trivial considerations, but they place
these books miles ahead of most other Arabic textbooks.

There are some things that I might have done differently, the most
salient of which is the treatment of vocabulary. There is never a
comprehensive list of vocabulary presented anywhere in the lessons,
either at the beginning or the end (I have seen both in other
textbooks), nor is the glossary in the end materials comprehensive.
The authors have done this of a purpose, intending that students
acquire vocabulary in context (not a bad idea in itself), but students
would appreciate complete lists. This means that the teacher is
obliged to construct lists or to compel students to work with a
dictionary (also not a bad idea). A good beginners dictionary is also
published by the AUC Press: The Spoken Arabic of Cairo, with somewhere
above 6000 entries. In it, the Arabic is presented in transliteration,
while Kallimini Arabi uses the Arabic script throughout – except in
the vocabulary lists.

The AUC Press has a distributor in VA, whose contact info I can get
for you if need be.

There are other Egyptian Arabic textbooks.  A very close second to the
Kallimni Arabi series is Mustafa Mughazi's Dardasha (which also adopts
an acquisition-through-context approach) and is very strong on
embedding cultural discussions into its lessons.

Considering that about a quarter of all native speakers of Arabic are
from Egypt (assuming upwards of 75 million people in Egypt and some
300 million in the entire Arab world) we could say that the most
widely spoken vernaculars are the Egyptian vernaculars.  That of Cairo
is generally the one labelled "Egyptian Arabic", but the other
Egyptian varieties can lay equal claim to the appellation.  Even so,
speakers of the Cairene vernacular are understood throughout Egypt and
to some (perhaps a large) degree throughout the Arab world; anyone who
owns a television set in the Arab world will be exposed to the Cairene
vernacular (they could hardly escape it).

(I am, neverthless, finding in my dealings with Lebanese speakers,
mediating through my Egyptian Arabic, that, even so, there remain some
barriers to comprehension.  There are, by the way, regional
differences in written usage between Lebanese and Egyptian fusha too -
and between those two an other regional dialects of fusha - I use the
word deliberately, reclaiming its original Greek meaning, which
referred in part to regional literary dialects of Greek).

The other vernaculars are not nearly as well represented with engaging
teaching materials as is the Egyptian.

That said, an entire course of Syrian vernacular is available online:
http://www.syrianarabic.com/

It is probably safe to assert that the second most recognizable
vernacular is the Lebanese vernacular of Beirut, owing largely to the
dominance of Lebanese announcers on the satellite TV channels.  Syrian
is fairly close to Lebanese, although the Lebanese can immediately
spot the differences in the speech of speakers of other Levantine
vernaculars, and I would venture to guess that the speakers of those
vernaculars are equally as sensitive.

-- 
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: 26 Jan 2008
From:"IBCBOOKS.COM" <ibc at ibcbooks.com>
Subject:Textbook for new program query responses

this is in response to text suggestions for various arabic programs
The international Book Centre website offer many textbooks for adult
learners. Please check our website at www.ibcbooks.com
for our listings. Of interest to this inquiry .... Lets learn the Arabic
Newspaper, Advanced Arabic Readers in International Affairs
and more. Claudette for International Book Centre

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sat Jan 26 14:52:19 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Books in Computer Assisted Language Learning
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Dr Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed <ibhims20002 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Books in Computer Assisted Language Learning

Greeting dear all,

I have Four books in Computer Assisted  Arabic Language  Learning  
(CAALL)  have been published (2006-2007) by  research Management  
Center at International Islamic University -Malaysia. This link will  
lead you to the books' cover.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ibhims20002/files/

Interested please contact me. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you in anticipation

Dr.Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed Ashmaiq
Center for Languages at
Faculty of Medicine- International Islamic University-Malaysia
25710 Jalan Hospital
P.O.Box 141- Kuantan-Pahang- Malaysia


Dr. Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed  Ashmaiq Ph.D (Curriculum & Methods of  
Teaching Arabic Language)
Center for Languages at
Faculty of Medicine- International Islamic University-Malaysia
25710 Jalan Hospital
P.O.Box 141- Kuantan-Pahang- Malaysia
Tel: 609- 513 2797 ext 3321(office)- H/P-+60-129375845
  Fax: 609- 513 3615
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:AATA Newsletter available
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1)
Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:moderator
Subject:AATA Newsletter available

The electronic copy of the AATA newsletter for January has recently  
been distributed, and is, as usual, full of various job listings and  
other information.  If you did not receive a copy by e-mail, you could  
check it out at aataweb.org.
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Database of Arabic Names expanded
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:dJohnson at cal.org
Subject:Database of Arabic Names expanded

fyi:
Database of Arabic Names expanded
Specializing in the compilation of CJK and Arabic lexical resources,  
The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc. has announced a major expansion of  
its Database of Arabic Names (DAN), which is expected to reach over a  
million entries by March 2008. DAN covers Arabic personal names in  
both the Roman and Arabic scripts and includes numerous orthographic  
variants and other attributes such as web frequency, name type codes  
and normalized forms.

The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc., E-mail: info at cjk.org, Web: http://www.cjk.org

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Arab Academy Specials
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1) Subject:Arab Academy Specials

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:sana at arabacademy.com
Subject:Arab Academy Specials

Arab Academy is happy to announce our new student rewards program for  
2008—because we want to reward students for their diligent and hard  
work!

Study with us online and receive:

• 1 FREE week of classes in Cairo when you study with us online for a  
consecutive 6 months (a $160 value);

• 2 FREE weeks of classes in Cairo when you study with us online for a  
consecutive 12 months (a $325 value); and

• 1 FREE month of classes in Cairo when you study with us online for 2  
consecutive years (a $650 value)!

* Classes in Cairo will run for 4 hours per day, 5 days per week.   
Airfare and accommodation costs are not included.

Take your Arabic to the next level by coming to study in Cairo!
We offer intensive Arabic immersion programs in connection with, or  
separate from our online programs. There is not better way to learn a  
language than to be immersed in it. Please see our study abroad page  
for program details and registration information: http://www.arabacademy.com/studyabroad

Gaurav Khemani, a study abroad student from INSEAD said, "Very good  
experience- great teachers, great material, and great learning!"

Adam Holmes, a study abroad student from the U.S. said, "My experience  
was extremely positive; I would recommend Arab Academy to anyone!"

For more information and to register, please visit:

Courses for Adults:
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Courses for middle to high school students (GCSE/IGCSE - IB Arabic  
students):
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Courses for Children:
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To find the right course for you, fill our advising request form:
http://www.arabacademy.com/advising

Register for our study abroad program in Cairo, Egypt:
http://www.arabacademy.com/studyabroad

For a free demo, visit:
http://www.arabacademy.com/demo

Best regards,
Sanaa Ghanem
President, Arab Academy
3 Alif Al-Nabataat Street, Garden City,
Cairo, Egypt
Cellular: +2 012 218 0305
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:57:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books special and Islamic Architecture Books
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1) Subject:Gerlach Books special and Islamic Architecture Books

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:orders at gerlach-books.de
Subject:Gerlach Books special and Islamic Architecture Books

We are happy to offer 3 beautifully illustrated books on Islamic  
architecture. Benefit from our offer and order 1, 2 or all 3 volumes  
at a special price!

?Dictionary of Islamic Architecture"
Author: Andrew Petersen
Publisher: Routledge
Hardcover
Published: 1996
Publisher's list price: 155 GBP (208 EUR)
Pages: 352
89 architectural drawings/floor plans, 9 maps and 45 b/w illustrations
Size: cm 24.6 x 18.9 cm (9.6 x 7.4 inches)
ISBN: 9780415060844

?Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250"
Authors: Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina
Publisher: Yale University Press
Hardcover
Published: 2002
Publisher's list price: 55 GBP (73 EUR)
Pages: 352
150 colour and 330 b/w illustrations, 6 maps
Size: 29.5 x 22.5 cm (11 x 9 inches)
ISBN: 9780300088670

?Traditional Domestic Architecture of the Arab Region"
Author: Friedrich Ragette
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges / American University of Sharjah
Hardcover
Published: 2003
Publisher's list price: 78 EUR
Pages: 296
c. 200 b/w illustrations
Size: 30 x 25 cm (11.8 x 9.8 inches)
ISBN: 9783932565304

Our offer until 11 February 2008:

(1) Order 1 volume with 10% discount
- Add 15 EUR for worldwide surface mail delivery (airmail on request)
- Prepayment by credit card is required
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Test for Cultural or Pragmatic competence in Arabic
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:jeremy.palmer at gmail.com
Subject:Test for Cultural or Pragmatic competence in Arabic query

Is there a standardized test for cultural or pragmatic competence in  
Arabic in existence that you know about?

Thanks,
Jeremy

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Maltese 'hospital'
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at if.uib.no>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital'

Sorry. It's just like Egyptian "yaa reet" for "yaa layta" in SA: all  
the influence of a single Chinese or Japanese merchant circulating in  
the Mediterranean area in the later Middle Ages. JB

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Limiting jobs to native speakers
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2) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers and Orange Books
3) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers and Orange Books

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"abdel khila" <akhila at hotmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers
This issue of native speakers is not unique to Arabic. I am a native  
speaker of Moroccan Arabic, I also speak other languages (French,  
Spanish, Arabic, etc). I currently teach French and although I am not  
a native speaker contrary to what some of my colleague think, I do  
speak it fluently. I am certified in ESL. Now the issue here is  
whether that native speaker is qualified to teach period. Just because  
you are a native English speaker, it does not mean you can teach  
English. I have a masters degree in Teaching Foreign languages in  
addition to a certification to teach ESL, yet some find it odd that I  
could teach English in the U.S where there are many native speakers!  
Even though I share a lot in common with any potential ESL students I  
might teach...I have experience learning English as a FL, I am  
qualified and versed in FL methodology and approaches, and I am what  
we call in the profession a sympathetic listener (some native speakers  
tend to take things for granted which leads to a lack of  
comprehensible input for their students). Native speakers of any  
language bring a lot to the table as long as they are qualified to  
teach and as long as they would have followed a training/degree  
program in FL education. In the public schools where I teach, a  
certification is a requirement. To be certified, you would have had to  
complete a degree program in addition to taking the proficiency and  
written tests. Certain universities require the candidate to take the  
ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language) OPI (Oral  
proficiency Test) and the WPT (Written Proficiency Test). Both tests  
are rigorous and test the candidate ability to both write and speak at  
different levels, the highest being Superior. The OPI for example is a  
45 minute interview via the phone where the candidate is pushed to his/ 
her limits through a series of questions in the context of what might  
seem as an informal conversation with a person on the other line you  
have never met who is rating and recording every single utterance. I  
took the OPI and WPT for both Arabic and French and I could testify  
that it was a stressful experience even for someone who speaks, reads  
and write both languages fluently. Which leads me to the issue of some  
non-native speakers, I must premise by saying that I had the pleasure  
of working and meeting some wonderful non-native French and Spanish  
speakers, however, it saddens me to say that there are people in the  
profession teaching either French or Spanish who have no business  
doing it. The end result is a poor quality of instruction, students  
who can not speak the language after years and years of instruction,  
teachers who resolve to Speaking English in a foreign language class  
sometimes 80% of the time!!! (How can you learn a language like that?)  
and a slew of other consequences among which the dissatisfaction of  
the community with the FL programs in their neighborhood schools.  
There always this sense that FL in this country are relegated to a sub- 
standard role. I am not saying that the poor quality of instructors is  
the only reason for that, but in programs and districts where hiring  
quality instructors is a priority (there are not many unfortunately) ,  
FL is a big part of the educational system ( Fairfax County, Virginia  
with its immersion schools comes to mind). I think some university  
programs and some states dropped the ball by lowering their standards  
by allowing candidates to get certified even if their ACTFL scores are  
Advanced-low or Intermediate-Hig or by  still requiring the Praxis  
test ( one of the stupidest tests ever created for FL) to be good  
enough. How can you teach a language to a high school student when  
your proficiency    score is Intermediate-high and the student’s score  
is Intermediate- mid?( yes some school have proficiency test for their  
students that follow the ACTFL guidelines).

On the other hand, one issue with native speakers or in this case  
Arabic native speakers if we can call them that is that most of them  
are oblivious to what it takes to teach a FL language. They look at it  
from their point of view and through their own experiences when they  
were learning it as kids in their respective native countries, they  
bring their cultural luggage and own learning background and try to   
implement it or make it as their road map of teaching in a completely  
different culture and different set of  circumstances. They do not  
look at the learning experience form the point of view of the student  
who may have never heard Arabic, but from their own. They end up  
teaching the alphabet for example as they would have learned  
themselves 20 or 30 years ago back home where the teacher centered  
class is the norm. They don’t realize that something as common for  
them as Ahmed is incomprehensible to students.  The proof here is the  
slew of ridiculously written books for the learning of Arabic where  
grammar and grammar and grammar is driving the instruction, nothing is  
taught in context and rote memorization is the key to success or is it?
Someone mention rules and that native speakers don’t know the rules. I  
wish it was as simple as that. Rules you can read about in a book and  
just follow the book. The problem with some native speakers is that  
they follow too many rules. Try teaching a foreign language to a  
middle schooler and talk incessantly about rules
your school year would be a long one.

Abdelkader Khila

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Jonathan Lange <jonathanlange at yahoo.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers and Orange Books

Hi there, just to put my two cents in on a few
subjects running around the list:

First, does anyone doubt that a foreign speaker can be
an excellent teacher of Arabic (or any other language,
for that matter)?  I'm a plain, old, raised-here
American and at university my Arabic teacher for the
first two years was Chinese (I believe he is on this
list - and bravo professor! :) ).  I had a fabulous
learning experience.  Why?  Quite possibly becasue the
professor knew very well himself what the difficulties
of learning Arabic as a foreigner were.  And there's
the point - if you had to go through it, you can
better explain it.

Second concern:

What ever happenned to the good old Orange Book(s)?
Everyone is listing recommended Arabic resources for
this and that, but this is still the only resource
that gives you a straight-forward, no-run-around
grammar of Arabic.  I know that when I was in CASA
there was a big dispute over whether the Orange Book
people or the Al-Kitab people were better.  Well, the
answwer was that the OB folks knew their grammar
inside and out, and the AK people spoke better, but
both were lacking what the other had.  So...when are
Arabic professors (you know who you are :) ) going to
get together and make a happy medium between the two?
I would also suggest a decent workbook, with fun
exercises and cultural references (like I learned
French) to go along with this.  I know Al-Kitab takes
a shot at that, but some fine-tuning is in order.

Anyway, just my two cents on both the
foreigner-as-teacher and textbook issues.

-Jonathan Lange

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Moulay Ali Bouanani" <bouanani.idrissi at gmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers and Orange Books

In the best of worlds, yes. However, when it comes to teaching English  
in
this country and others. It is tacitly agreed upon to be a native  
speaker if
one is applying for a position in an English department. I have had to
experience discrimination (never overtly) in securing a job compatible  
with
my training as a teacher/professor of English here in the US. I suspect
English hiring committees in many institutions of simply discarding
applications just by looking at the names of applicants and not paying
attention to their credentials. The only position I got teaching  
English in
the US was offered to me because (according to the chair of that  
particular
department) they had more than enough of a particular ethnic group at  
that
school!

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants Arabic comp ling summer internship
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:ibrahim saleh <imazied at yahoo.com>
Subject:Wants Arabic comp ling summer internship

Dear All,

I am a Fulbright student at Georgetown University, doing my masters in  
computational linguistics. My native language is Arabic. I am  
interested in getting an internship for the next Summer (even for  
free). I got offers from two places, but not confirmed yet.

Could you help me find an opening?


Regards,
Ibrahim Saleh
is94 at georgetown.edu

Dept. of Computational Linguistics,
Georgetown University
37th and O Street, NW
Washington, DC 20057

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Linux Arabic
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From: "David Schulz" <David.Schulz at wlc.edu>
Subject:Linux Arabic

Years ago I installed emacs-bidi (bidirectional) on my Linux box.  It  
has worked well for me for Arabic and it also works with Hebrew.    
(The newer versions of vim also handle Arabic quite nicely.  I also  
use mlterm which is a bi-directional terminal emulator.  You can hunt  
these things down with google)

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Jan 28 15:58:01 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:JAIS, newly posted articles
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at if.uib.no>
Subject:JAIS, newly posted articles

The following articles have been posted at www.uib.no/jais:

1. Vol. 6: Ahmed Sokarno Abdel-Hafez. The Development of Future  
Markers in Arabic and the Nile Nubian Languages. (Adobe Acrobat 7.0  
PDF file, 169 kB, pp. 64-79). HTML Unicode version.

Abstract: This paper deals with the rise of the grammatical elements  
of simple future in the Nile Nubian languages (i.e. Kenzi and Fadicca)  
and Arabic (i.e. Stan dard Arabic and Cairene Colloquial Arabic).  
Using grammaticalization as a frame of reference, I attempt to  
determine the sources, the mechanisms and processes involved in the  
development of the grammatical elements in these languages. In  
addition, the study sheds light on the points of similarity and  
difference between these languages as far as the rise of future  
expression is concerned.

2. Vol. 7:
Zoltan Szombathy. Freedom of Expression and Censorship in Medieval  
Arabic Literature. (Adobe Acrobat 6.0 PDF file, 262 kB, pp. 1-24).  
HTML Unicode version (to be posted later).

Abstract: This article explores the restraints placed upon literary  
production in medieval Arabic literature (particularly poetry) and the  
ways in which such control was effected. After surveying the various  
ways of controlling the production of texts, which ranged from mild  
self-censorship to the actual execution of authors by state  
authorities, we will try to find general patterns in the data, with a  
special emphasis on the different treatment of lèse-religion and lèse- 
majesté respectively.

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs examples of assessment plan and evaluation plan
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From: "Mahmoud Elsayess" <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Needs examples of assessment plan and evaluation plan

As you know I submitted a request for $250,000 grants and the initial  
reply from the grants office is positive.  I received an email  
requesting supplying two pieces of information and they are as follows:

1_ Assessment plan
2_ Evaluation plan

I would like to know if you or your colleagues have samples that I can  
use as a guide to fulfill the plan requirements.

Thank you.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:AATA Newsletter query
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Michael Toler <matoler at gmail.com>
Subject:AATA Newsletter query

[moderator's note: can an AATA person respond to this?]

Hello,
I couldn't find a link on the website.  Only through December 2007.   
Am I missing something?  Is it possible to provide the direct link?
Thank you.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:connections to Syria
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1) Subject:connections to Syria
2) Subject:connections to Syria

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:connections to Syria

RJ reservations can be made through the Alia office in New York.  The
website is slow and quirky, so it is better to make reservations by
phone.  I expect the same would be true on both counts for Egypt Air.
Alia has more or less normal seating configurations (i.e., somewhat
cramped but not dreadfully awful like US carriers - whose cabins also
harbour unpleasant smells - I used to work servicing US commercial
carriers when in grad school, so I know where those smells come
from!); Alia is famous for the quality of its meals (it wins awards
for it).  Egypt Air reserves its best aircraft for its cross-Atlantic
and European flights; they are newer and more spacious than Alia's.
Meals are ho-hum.

David Wilmsen

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"Alex Magidow" <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:mirabile dictu amusing

Having recently travelled to Damascus via Chicago and Amman on the
Royal Jordanian flight, I can say that it was definitely one of the
least expensive tickets I found, but that the flight to Chicago from
Amman was delayed upwards of 12 hours. However, this was during
December, when the weather was particularly bad, so it is
understandable. Also, RJ provided us with transit visas and hotel
rooms in Amman during the delay.

I will note that a plane flight of that length is somewhat unpleasant,
so if price is not an object it might be more comfortable for you to
take a flight which has a closer connection point, i.e. the flights
through Europe.

I purchased my tickets online via Expedia I believe, or some similar
website, so I cannot recommend a particular travel agent. However, I
had no trouble with my electronic tickets, either leaving Syria or
returning from the US. I have heard some reports of problems, however,
obtaining a boarding pass from an electronic ticket at the Damascus
Airport.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Jan 28 15:58:09 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:09 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Interactive Arabic Multimedia Program available
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Interactive Arabic Multimedia Program available

A web-based/computer version of the Arabic for Communication:
Interactive Multimedia Program is available now for experimentation.
The program consists  of 20 units focused on survival needs.  Arabic
programs interested in using the multimedia program and providing us
with feedback are welcome to receive the URL code for the program for
temporary use. Please contact Raji Rammuny at raram at umich.edu

Raji Rammuny
University of Michigan
Department of Near Eastern Studies

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Jan 28 15:58:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Intensive Arabic Program in Zarqa Jordan
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"Alhawary, Mohammad T." <malhawary at ou.edu>
Subject:Summer Intensive Arabic Program in Zarqa Jordan

Summer Intensive Arabic Program
in Zarqa, Jordan at
The Hashemite University

6 weeks in Jordan
May 20 - June 30 2008

The Hashemite University is on the outskirts of the city of Zarqa, the
second largest city after the capital city Amman, with a population of
about 1.000.000 inhabitants.  Zarqa is located in the north of Jordan
about 20 miles (25 km) north east of Amman.   With its unique location
and small size compared to other over-crowded cities in the region, the
city of Zarqa is a great choice for an Arabic study abroad program. The
program will begin on Sunday, July 3, 2005. Students must arrive in
Zarqa on July 2nd.

The Summer Arabic program at the Hashemite University (HU) is part of
an exchange agreement between The University of Oklahoma (OU) and The
Hashemite University a (HU) nd is open for non-OU students as well.
The program provides:

- Intensive Arabic language instruction of 150 hours: 125 of Modern
Standard Arabic and 25 hours in survival colloquial Jordanian.

- Small classrooms with individual attention (maximum of 12 students in
each class) to develop their Arabic language skills at the Intermediate
and advanced levels and beyond.  The Summer 2008 program will be
limited to instruction at the Intermediate (equivalent to 2nd year
Arabic at OU) and advanced (equivalent to 3rd  year Arabic at OU)
levels.

- Basic orientation on the country and culture upon arrival

- At least three field trips to historical sites & cultural programs
arranged by HU

- Off-campus housing in Amman, arranged by HU

The deadline for application is March 15, 2008.

Textbooks used: Al-Kitaab: Part Two & Three

For further information, please contact the program directors:

Professor Mohammad T. Alhawary (in the US)
malhawary at ou.edu

Professor  Yaser Al-Tamimi (in Jordan)
ytamimi at hu.edu.jo

or visit the program website:
http://www.hu.edu.jo/Inside/Admissions/Announcements/docs/16.doc

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:05 -0700
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:mirabile dictu amusing

I am highly amused by the "mirabile dictu" that there is no native  
speaker
of Arabic.

An Arab and native speaker of Arabic

-- 
M. Deeb
English, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:02:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:MA in World Languages with Secondary Teaching
 Licensure
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1) Subject:MA in World Languages with Secondary Teaching Licensure

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:mnnassif at byu.edu
Subject:MA in World Languages with Secondary Teaching Licensure

Please forward to all interested educators

ANNOUNCING A NEW

Master of Arts in World Languages

with Secondary Teaching Licensure

Department of Languages & Literature

Department of Linguistics

College of Education

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

The Degree
       The Master of Arts with an Emphasis in World Languages combines  
a graduate master’s degree with licensure to teach in the public  
schools. Students with the requisite background will be able to teach  
one or two foreign languages at the secondary level, or a foreign  
language and another high school subject such as History, Geography,  
or Math. The program actively seeks to license teachers for the  
critical languages language (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Japanese,  
Korean, Persian/Farsi, and Russian). Students in the program, and in  
particular those seeking certification in a critical language, will be  
strongly encouraged to participate in an intensive language study  
abroad program.

Purpose
       The purpose of the MA program is two-fold: first, to offer a  
graduate degree in foreign language teaching that equips candidates  
with excellent foreign language and pedagogy skills, and with solid  
subject matter knowledge; and second, to produce public school  
teachers who are able to teach one or two foreign languages, and in  
particular critical languages, or a foreign language and a high school  
subject.

Entry Requirements
The MA with an Emphasis in World Languages with Secondary Teaching  
Licensure is designed for students who have:
• a BA in a foreign language: Classics, Chinese, French, German,  
Japanese, Russian, or Spanish
• a BA in area studies: Asian, International, Latin American, Middle  
Eastern
• a BA in a subject taught in Utah secondary schools, and proficiency  
in a foreign language
• a BA in ESL/TESOL, and proficiency in a foreign language
• an MA in Languages & Literature or Linguistics, and are interested  
in teaching in the public schools

For further information, please contact the Department of Languages &  
Literature or Johanna Watzinger-Tharp at j.tharp at utah.edu.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:14 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic
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1) Subject:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic

'm afraid my short rejoinder is hastily misconstrued.  The Arabic I've  
been
using since my mid-teens has been properly structured, grammatically  
correct
Arabic.

I've also been for years exposed to such dialects as Bahraini,  
Lebanese and
Egyptian, but I fail to express myself properly in either.

Now, whether the Arabic I speak is qualified as MSA, is quite  
irrelevant,
for the term is at once elastic and often violates the norms of  
structure,
grammar and morphology.

I admit it has not been socially easy.  My lot was and still is much  
worse
than that of one of my late English professors who was met with muffled
ridicule when he used classical Arabic at the Cairo airport.

An Arab and Native Speaker of Arabic

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic K-12 Research Assistant Job at NCLRC
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1) Subject:Arabic K-12 Research Assistant Job at NCLRC

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:salima1 at gwu.edu
Subject:Arabic K-12 Research Assistant Job at NCLRC

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Research Assistant

The National Capital Language Resource Center is looking to fill a  
position to assist in the management of our Arabic K-12 research,  
development and teacher training project. The NCLRC is located in  
downtown Washington DC and is affiliated with the Georgetown  
University, the George Washington University and the Center for  
Applied Linguistics and is funded by a Title VI grant from the  
Department of Education.

About us:

The Arabic K-12 Network is for teachers, administrators, foreign  
language professionals, researchers, parents and anyone interested in  
the teaching of Arabic K-12 in the U.S. We are part of the National  
Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), which is a joint project of  
Georgetown University, The George Washington University, and the  
Center for Applied Linguistics. We are located in Washington, DC, and  
are one of fifteen Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S.  
Department of Education.

Job Description:

We are seeking a part-time Research Assistant to manage teacher  
training and development programs for Arabic K-12 teachers through  
August 2008, with the possibility of further employment.

Responsibilities include:

	• Assist and/or manage with the translation of materials for the  
ArabicK12.org website and newsletter from Arabic to English and  
English to Arabic.
	• Conduct research on resources for teachers of Arabic K-12 to  
develop content for website, format content for webmaster.
	• Engage in daily e-mail/ telephone correspondence with the public.
	• Organize and assist in teacher training seminars and summer  
institutes for Arabic teachers.
	• Assist in conducting a nation-wide survey of schools that teach  
Arabic at the K-12 level.
	• Assist in designing and producing organization’s informational  
material for regional and national conferences and represent the  
Arabic K-12 Project at them.
	• Delegate tasks to undergraduate interns and supervise performance.
Qualifications Include:
	• Fluency in either Arabic or English, including writing and typing  
skills in the language, and minimum intermediate level in the other  
language, with some ability to read, write, and type.
	• Good organizational skills
	• Good interpersonal skills and ability to interact with the public
	• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, e-mail  
and the Internet; some experience writing in Arabic on a computer
	• Foreign language teaching and/or international travel experience
	• Positive outlook and sense of humor-ability to work in a close,  
collaborative atmosphere
	• Graduate students are encouraged to apply
Salary and Benefits:

	• Salary is $15 per hour
	• Opportunities to publish articles or other materials and to  
organize and participate in national presentations and conferences
For more information or to apply please send your resume to arabick12 at gmail.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:04 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs scholar to evaluate system for NEH grant
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1) Subject:Needs scholar to evaluate system for NEH grant

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Mahmoud Elsayess" <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Needs scholar to evaluate system for NEH grant

Greetings,

Subject: a quailed scholar who can evaluate our system

As you may know, we submitted request for grants to US National  
Endowment for Humanities and we need an evaluator who is not part of  
our team.

This is the recommendation we received from the grant office:

"It is generally recommended that a qualified scholar who is not part  
of the grant team serve as the evaluator.  This evaluator can receive  
a stipend for his/her services, paid from funds in the grant.

Can you help us for finding a quailed scholar who can evaluate our  
system after getting grants? Please visit:  http://www.lessondesigner.com/

We are adding a lot of new features like:

1_Postnote* that will have 11 languages including Arabic

2_ Forum* that will have 11 languages including Arabic

3_ School administration

4_ Abacus list that will have 11 languages including Arabic.

Teachers and students can communicate in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew  
and other language without the need to install any software on their  
machines.

Thank you

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:another AATA query
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1) Subject:another AATA query

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1)
Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Laila H\. Familiar" <lailafam at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:another AATA query

Hello,
I tried to subscribe to Al-Arabiyya trough the AATA website, but it
was impossible. At a certain step of the process, it went back to the
starting point.
Any help?
Thanks.
Laila H. Familiar

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Call for MCA Abstract Writers
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1) Subject:Call for MCA Abstract Writers

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Karena.Avedissian" <Karena.Avedissian at aku.edu>
Subject:Call for MCA Abstract Writers

Call for Abstract Writers

The MCA project (Muslim Civilisations Abstracts) was conceived as a  
means of furthering the study of Muslim societies and civilisations by  
accessing scholarly literature in various languages. The aim is to  
strengthen and share such knowledge across linguistic and cultural  
divides.

The MCA will provide systematic bibliographic indices and abstracts of  
works concerning Muslim civilisations, published in most of the  
languages and countries of the world. These will be selected works of  
scholarship, involving original research and analysis, advances in  
relevant methodology and/or creative contributions to the  
understanding of intellectual and social problems affecting Muslims.  
The abstracts, written in English by scholars, expert in the relevant  
subjects, will be provided in time in six other languages: Arabic,  
Bengali, Malay/Indonesian, Persian, Turkish and Urdu. The first phase  
(2006-08) is a substantial and comprehensive annotated bibliography of  
modern encyclopædias on and from the Muslim world.

Further details of the project can be found on the Institute's website  
at http://www.aku.edu/ismc/abp-d.shtml.

Key Responsibilities

Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations  
(AKU-ISMC) in London requires immediately, free-lance abstractors for  
the Muslim Civilisations Abstract Project. The incumbents are required  
to survey and write brief abstracts of encyclopaedias and other  
academic documents selected by the Institute.

Requirements

*	PhD and research experience in Middle Eastern, Indian, Oriental or  
Islamic Studies. PhD candidates who have completed an MA/MPhil and who  
are well advanced in their doctoral research will be considered;
*	Excellent proficiency in English and at least one of the following  
languages: Arabic, Malay/Indonesian, Persian, Turkish, Urdu. Knowledge  
of additional European and Asian languages, particularly Central Asian  
languages and Russian, will be an asset;
*	Good computer skills are required;

To Apply
Candidates should send a brief letter and curriculum vitae by April  
21, 2008 to:

Ms Karena Avedissian
Administrative Assistant (MCA)

Aga Khan University
4 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3RA
Tel: 020 7907 1053
Fax: 020 7907 1030
Email: ismc.mca at aku.edu

Disclaimer
AKU-ISMC is part of Aga Khan University (AKU), an international  
university with operations in ten countries. By submitting an  
application to AKU-ISMC you agree to revoke your rights under the Data  
Protection Act 1998 thereby permitting ISMC to share the contents of  
your application with relevant colleagues at our headquarters  
institution AKU Karachi, and with its nominated agents for the purpose  
of completing this recruitment exercise. AKU-ISMC does not communicate  
with candidates unless they are to be short-listed for interview.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:01 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Arabic play suggestion for student performance
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1) Subject:Needs Arabic play suggestion for student performance

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Haroon Shirwani" <arabictutor at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs Arabic play suggestion for student performance

Can anyone suggest a play that could be performed by a group of keen  
intermediate level Arabic students? I am happy to edit and simplify  
the text, but I am also concerned that the play itself be an enjoyable  
and/or stimulating experience for the audience, who will be their  
friends, family and teachers, most of whom do not know any Arabic.  
(The play would be performed with surtitles.) At present, I am  
considering (a heavily edited version of) Al-fil ya malik al-zaman.  
Any other suggestions would be very welcome.

By the way, many thanks to all those who suggested poems for our  
Arabic declamation contest. They went down a treat, and I have  
uploaded video presentations of some of them onto the videos section  
the Facebook Arabic Language Q&A group. You might like to forward this  
link to colleagues and students who are on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6271120617

If they go to the videos section, they will find short presentations  
of texts with audio, accompanied by transliteration and translation.

Best wishes,
Haroon

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:15 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Survey on TA workload
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1) Subject:Survey on TA workload

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From: Farwaneh <farwaneh at email.arizona.edu>
Subject:Survey on TA workload

[moderator's note: please respond directly to Samira, and she will  
post a summary to the list.]

Dear Colleagues,

AS the Chair of the Language Committee, and at the request of our  
Department Head, I am writing to you in the hopes of obtaining  
information on how you distribute and utilize your resources,  
particularly, human resources, i.e., TAs, graders, adjuncts, etc. As  
an interdisciplinary department, we hire TAs for both general  
education content courses as well as beginning (and sometimes  
intermediate, Arabic, Persian and Turkish courses. In the hopes of  
mainstreaming TAs’ workload by ensuring balance between content (e.g.,  
introductory History and Islamic Studies) TAs and language TAs on the  
one hand, and Middle Eastern language TAs vs. non-ME TAs on the other,  
we are in the process of gathering information about TAs’ workload and  
responsibilities in other language departments in other institutions  
for comparison. For this purpose, we hope that you could help us by  
filling out this short questionnaire, with many thanks and much  
appreciation for your time and input. And sincere thanks to those who  
already sent us feedback as a response to my personal requests. I will  
send a summary unless you choose to respond directly to the list.

1. Do TAs serve as instructors of record with full responsibility for  
a language course?

2. If yes, what type and degree of supervision is exercised, and by  
whom (language committee, coordinator, department head, etc)?

3. If TAs are not instructors of record, do they participate in the  
teaching of a language course or are their responsibilities limited to  
grading?

4. What is the regular weekly load for a TA and how many weekly hours  
go into grading? ( I realize that the number varies from week to week,  
so an approximate average would suffice)

5. Are all language TAs assigned similar responsibilities regardless  
of their level of proficiency and experience?

6. To what extent are TAs granted independence in designing syllabi,  
lesson plans and exams?

7. What assessment measures do you use to evaluate TAs performance,  
class observations, student evaluation, individual conferences, other?

With many thanks for your cooperation,

Samira Farwaneh

Chair, Language Committee

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:08 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Limiting jobs to native speakers
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1) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers
2) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers: Other side of the coin

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1)
Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Shoaib Memon" <majnoonx at gmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Hi,
Related to this current discussion, I would like to know if University
Departments hiring people to teach Arabic courses give any weight to
proficiency exams(assuming the candidate meets other reqs such as Ph.d
in relevant matter etc).  If so, which proficiency tests are
considered "good."  I'm thinking of taking the ACTFL test for Arabic
and would like to know if it will help me out in the distant future if
I'm applying for such posts.  Any thoughts on this matter, plus arabic
proficiency tests will be appreciated.

Long time Arabic student- first-time caller,
Shoaib

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2)
Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Muhamed Al Khalil" <oryxius at gmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers: Other side of the coin

It is certainly unfair, let alone unproductive, not to grant non-native
teachers of Arabic the same opportunity as their native colleagues. As
several posts made it clear, non-native professionals of Arabic bring so
much knowledge and experience to language instruction. But in this  
post, I
would like to highlight the flip side of this: the unfair and biased
attitudes towards native professionals of Arabic in certain countries  
in the
Arab world.

Like many on the list, I am a U.S. educated professional of Arab  
background.
I have worked for several years in the Arab/Persian Gulf and can speak  
from
experience. There, if you come from an Arab background, regardless of
whether or not you were educated in the West, you are looked upon as  
some
kind of inferior creature. You face much more difficulty in hiring,  
and if
hired, you will not receive the same recognition and pay as your
Anglo-American colleagues. To be sure, this discriminatory treatment  
also
applies to professionals from other parts of the world, as India or  
Africa.
But this discriminatory practice is becoming more serious as several  
leading
American universities have opened or are opening up campuses in the  
Gulf,
quietly adopting and thus sanctioning the same practice.

To give an example, yesterday I looked at an announcement for a  
variety of
jobs, including Arabic studies, by a Saudi university. The ad stressed  
that
the applicant must visit the university's website and fill out their
APPLICATION FORM (which they wrote like this in capital letters for
emphasis). I went to their website and downloaded the form. In  
addition to
the customary information requested on such forms, the form asks for a
"recent photograph." They really want to see how you look. They ask  
for the
name of your father and your spouse's father. They ask all sorts of  
things
about your degrees, but one important detail they inquire about is "the
medium of instruction." They ask about your mental and physical health  
and
whether or not you were convicted for "political" reasons. They ask  
for the
email address of your present employer. They ask about your religion and
your spouse's religion. But most importantly they ask about your, your
spouse's, and your children's nationalities: now and at birth. Their  
ad says
"An applicant should hold an earned doctorate from any of the accredited
North American, European or Australian universities." But even if you  
are an
American citizen now with a Ph.D. from the U.S, it would matter to  
them to
know that you were born, say, in Egypt.

To give this Saudi university some credit, at least it is doing it in  
your
face. Other institutions are careful not to disclose their prejudice,  
opting
to practice it more insidiously.

There is a need for us professionals, native and non-native speakers of
Arabic, to come together in solidarity and take a position against
institutions that practice any kind of racist bias. The question is  
what's
the best way to confront this?

Muhamed Osman Al Khalil

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:09 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:yaa leeta/ yaa reet query
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1) Subject:yaa leeta/ yaa reet query

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:suhel2 at tin.it" <suhel2 at tin.it>
Subject:yaa leeta/ yaa reet query

Mr. Bell where can I find a reference for this?
Thx,
Suhel Jaber

>
> Sorry. It's just like Egyptian "yaa
> reet" for "yaa layta" in SA: all
> the influence of a single Chinese
> or Japanese merchant circulating in
> the Mediterranean area in the
> later Middle Ages. JB

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs good dictionary of Levantine Arabic
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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs good dictionary of Levantine Arabic

Is there a good dictionary of Levantine Arabic?  I know Egyptian
Arabic, I have the excellent Hinds and Badawi _Dictionary of Egyptian
Arabic_, and now I want to learn Lebanese Arabic; can anyone recommend
an Arabic-English or Arabic-French dictionary for any Levantine
dialect?

Ben

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:13 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Comp Ling MA Student needs PT employment/internship
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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Andrew Freeman" <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Comp Ling MA Student needs PT employment/internship

Mar7aba –

I am currently working on a Masters degree in Computational Linguistics.

            I’m in search of

1)       Part-time employment as a computational linguist and/or  
software developer until the UofWashington spring quarter ends in June

2)       And then a summer internship, doing the same would be very  
sweet.

I would like to work on something:

1)  where I can gain experience at doing Natural Processing tasks

2)  and where there is enough of a software engineering component that  
my programming skills won’t become too out of date.

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated and at the very least  
gratefully acknowledged.

Thanks,
Andy

http://www.innerbrat.org/resume/new_resume_010807WA.htm

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan  3 21:55:45 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Yemeni proverbs
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3) Subject:Yemeni proverbs

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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:Lutfi Abulhaija <lutfi86 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Yemeni proverbs

There is an MA thesis on Yemeni proverbs at Yarmouk University /Jordan

Dr. Lutfi Abulhaija
Department of English
Yarmouk University
Irbid - Jordan

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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"IBCBOOKS.COM" <ibc at ibcbooks.com>
Subject:Yemeni proverbs

This is in response to your request for yemeni proverbs. From the
International book centre.
The book Yemeni Arabic has a good listing of the proverbs and sayings  
and
proverbial phrases given in English, followed by the literal  
transltion of
the Saani proverbs.  This book can be found on our website at
www.ibcbooks.com

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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"Gerhard Endre?" <gerhard.endress at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject:Yemeni proverbs

See:
S. D. F. Goitein, Jemenica: Sprichw?rter und Redensarten aus
Zentral-Jemen.Mit zahlreichen Sach- und Worterl?uterungen.
Leipzig 1934; repr. Leiden: Brill, 1970. xxiii, 194 p.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Hayat article on Damascus as Fusha capital
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:Hayat article on Damascus as Fusha capital

There is a very interesting article in today's (Saturday, Dec 29)  
about how Damascus aspires to become the capital city of FuS-Haa and  
the various measures it is taking to achieve that. If you are  
interested in reading it on-line, below is the link:

http://www.daralhayat.com/arab_news/levant_news/12-2007/Item-20071228-225a81d6-c0a8-10ed-0025-b6bf6e092e6b/story.html

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:56:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Installing Arabic dictionary in phone response
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:christopher.hurtado at linguisticsolutions.com
Subject:Installing Arabic dictionary in phone response

http://guidedways.com/mobile/itemdetails-id-7-ref--affcode-.htm

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:49 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs info on becoming visiting student in Europe
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"Ismail S. Wekke" <iswekkefpend at yahoo.com.my>
Subject:Needs info on becoming visiting student in Europe

Dear All,

I'm Ismail S. Wekke, nowadays, I'm pursuing my Ph.D in Universiti  
Kebangsaan Malaysia
(UKM, The National University of Malaysia). The faculty of education in
UKM agree to send me to Europe for 6-9 months study abroad program. My
sponsor, will cover
all my expenses.

As you preliminary information, I'm writing my thesis in Bahasa
Melayu (Malay Language). My PhD's topic is Multicultural Based Language
Teaching in Pesantren, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.

I would like to ask information for joining visiting student in any  
Europe University.Below some information:

First, I would like to come for 6-9 months visit.

Second,
the objective of my visiting program are to strengthen my capacity in
academic activities or in another word that I'm pursuing my PhD in
Malaysia that account as in region, therefore, my sponsor encourage me  
to have
visiting program, they called it sandwich program. The visit will give
me broad insight in developing my knowledge and skill internationally.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Best regard

Ismail S. Wekke

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Word Order and Generative Grammar
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Date: 03 Jan 2008
From:Andrew T Freeman <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Word Order and Generative Grammar

Oh --

  I cannot stay out of this.

  1) Suppose the order in the past/perfective tense is VSO.
      a) the question in my mind is: Do we count the subject markers as
          i) "morphology" and therefore part of AGR?
          ii) or nominal case pronouns that are written onto the verbs  
as an
              historical accident to save velum and stone carving  
effort?
   2) if we go with 1)a)i) then we need to do a bunch of INFL & AGR  
magic
   3) if we go with 1)a)ii) then we clash with every Arab speakers  
native
      intuition with regards to the default constituent order in their
      dialects, except for w/ Moroccan, Yemeni dialects (probably  
others)
      where VSO in the main clause for perfective is not unheard of.

   With imperfective the VSO order clashes with the SVO in the embedded
subject pronouns and in subordinate clauses with referent NPs.

   So whatever you do you have more than one word order with a lot of  
contextual determinants forcing one order or the other.

  It turns out in the Newspaper genre that SVO (even in the  
perfective) is a lot more prevalent than what you see in other  
literary genres, but all you have to do is scan the Machine  
Translation errors in Language Weaver or even Sakhr and more than a  
third of these errors involve misidentifying the following NP as the  
verb's object instead of the subject (thereby ruining the verb  
valences for the entire rest of the sentence).  This is strong  
evidence that VSO is the dominant word order for Standard Arabic, ! 
except! in subordinate clauses and with the embedded subject pronouns.

   As far as I am concerned if "native intuition" is your *only*  
source of data, then you are in trouble once you start working with  
Standard Arabic (or High German for a speaker of Swiss German for that  
matter).

   I will say that in order for someone to make a full accounting for  
the facts of the grammar of Standard Arabic that you will find in any  
corpus of post WWII Arabic, you will need to make some allowance for  
the fact that there is more than one unified grammar and lexicon at  
play.  This becomes especially true if you start looking at more  
informal uses of Standard Arabic, such as TV shows in front of live  
audiences or the ever-present "talking heads" show.  Even with chat- 
room data, where the matrix language is usually a dialect, you still  
need to make some accounting for facts from Standard Arabic.  Once you  
step into a cafe or train station in the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria,  
Tunis), you just cannot ignore French either.

  Given these data from the over-whelming majority of all actual uses  
of the language, I don't see how you can explain even the simplest  
facts without having a formalism that allows the researcher to model  
mixed lects. I don't have to look very hard in my corpora to find data  
where there are obvious elements from Standard Arabic and a dialect in  
the same sentence sitting comfortably alongside elements that can  
arguably be from either.

  Given that mixed lect usage is the day-to-day reality for more than  
half of the language users on the planet, what explanatory power can  
any formalism/theory lay claim to if it restricts its theory and  
formalism to the study of "pure" and/or "core" grammars?


Dr. Andrew Freeman
Software Design Engineer microsoft
Masters student University of Washington (Professional Masters in  
Computational Linguistics)

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Date: 03 Jan 2008
From:Ahmed Saleh Elimam <asaleh1111 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Word Order and Generative Grammar

Hello
  "the question is which word order is the unmarked pattern?
As far as i know VSO is the default structure and SVO (as well as  
other variations are marked, some are marked more than others though).  
the thing with word order is its effect on meaning. the item that  
getrs foregrounded gets focused.
  I have writtenan article on this topic with examples of several  
arabic wrd-orders. it will be published in june, 08 inshalah

  Ahmed

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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:New English site for ATIDA
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:newsletter at atida.org
Subject:New English site for ATIDA

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:56:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan U's Conf. on Teaching Arabic to Speakers of
 Other Languages
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:"Sane Yagi" <saneyagi at gmail.com>
Subject:Jordan U's Conf. on Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other  
Languages

Jordan University's First International Conference on the Teaching of  
Arabic
to Speakers of Other Languages
JU-TASOL 2008

*First Call for Papers*

Jordan University is organizing its first international conference on  
the
Teaching of Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages. It shall be held  
from May
6th to 8th, 2008. It is organized by the Faculty of Arts' Department of
Arabic in collaboration with the Linguistics Department, the  
Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, and the Language Center. This conference  
will be
held in the beautiful city of Amman during the Spring season.

The conference covers a broad spectrum of interest within the teaching  
of
Arabic. Therefore, researchers from the various disciplines in  
Linguistics,
Education, and Information Technology are encouraged to participate.

January 30, 2008

Submission of abstract

February 7, 2008

Notification of abstract acceptance

April 1, 2008

Submission of full paper

April 15, 2008

Notification of paper acceptance

May 1, 2008

Submission of camera-ready paper

May 6-8, 2008

Conference

*Linguistic Areas:***

Syntax and semantics

Phonetics and phonology

Language acquisition

Sociolinguistics

Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics

Computational linguistics

*Educational Areas:***

Curriculum

Pedagogy

Educational psychology

Philosophy of education

Educational technology

*Experiential Knowledge:***

In-class teaching

Program administration

Computer-assisted instruction

Arabic for specific purposes

*General Issues:***

Cultural considerations and attitudes to teaching Arabic to speakers of
other languages

The politics of teaching and researching Arabic



*Abstract requirements:*

Abstracts and papers are written in Arabic. Abstracts must not exceed  
400
words in length, but papers may be of any length. The abstract must  
have the
topic stated clearly, the methodology explained, and the expected
conclusions outlined.

*Submission requirements:*

Submissions must be sent first in SOFT copies as e-mail attachments to *
tasol2008 at gmail.com* and then in print together with a diskette or CD  
to *Dr.
Sameer Qatami, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman 11942,  
Jordan*.
The electronic file format must be either in Microsoft Word, RTF, or  
PDF.

Please state the name(s) of the author(s) in full along with their
individual, affiliation, postal address, and email address. Hard  
copies are
essential only to verify the formatting of electronic versions.

*Document Format:*

   - Margin: vertical = 1 inch; horizontal = 1.25 inches.
   - Font: Times New Roman.
   - Title of the paper: size = 16 font; skip one line before title.
   - Author's information:

*Name(s):* size = 12 font; order = First name, Last name (1st letter
capitalized).
*Affiliation(s):* size = 9 font.
*E-mail address(es):* size = 9 font.

   - "Abstract": size = 14 font; text = 12 font; 1.5 spaced.
   - "Keywords": size = 14 font; text = 12 font.
   - "References": size = 12 font; aligned in the center; text = 9 font.
   - File: DOC, RTF, or PDF



*Amman *

Amman, the modern capital of Jordan, is one of the oldest inhabited  
places
in the world. Recent excavations have uncovered homes and towers  
believed to
have been built during the Stone Age with many references to it in the
Bible. Amman was known as Rabbath -Ammon, the capital of the  
Ammonites. It
was also referred to as "the city of waters".

In the 3rd century BC, the city was renamed Philadelphia after the  
Ptolemaic
ruler Philadelphus. the City later came under Seleucid as well as  
Nabataean
rule, until the Roman General Pompey annexed Syria and made Philadelphia
part of the Decapolis league - a loose alliance of initially ten free  
city
states under over all allegiance to Rome. Under the influence of the  
Roman
culture, Philadelphia was reconstructed in typically grand Roman style  
with
colonnaded streets, baths, a theatre and impressive public buildings.

During the Byzantine period, Philadelphia was the seat of a bishop and
therefore several churches were built. The city declined somewhat  
until the
year 635 AD. As Islam spread northwards from the Arabian Peninsula,  
the land
became part of its domain. Its original Semitic name Ammon or Amman was
returned to it.

Amman 's modern history began in the late 19th century, when the  
Ottomans
resettled a colony of Circassian emigrants in 1878. As the Great Arab  
Revolt
progressed and the state of Transjordan was established, King Abdullah  
I,
founder of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, made Amman his capital in  
1921.
Since then, Amman has grown rapidly into a modern, thriving metropolis  
of
well over a million people.

*Tourist Attractions in Jordan*

*Roman Forum in Amman*

The Roman time Public Square, bordered by the theatre and the Odeon,  
once
was among the largest of the Empire (over 100 * 50 meters). A row of  
columns
in the front of the theatre is what remains of the colonnades which once
flanked it.

*Roman Theatre in Amman*

An imposing monument set into the side of the mountain. Its 33 rows of  
seats
can accommodate almost 6000 spectators. The theatre, which dates back to
approximately the mid 2nd century AD, comes back to life with musical  
and
dance performance held regularly under the moonlit summer.

*Odeon in Amman*

Adjacent to the theatre and set on the east side of the Forum, the Odeon
dates back to the 2nd century AD. The lower seats of this monument,  
which
could accommodate up to 500 spectators, have been restored and the  
Odeon is
used occasionally for concerts.

*Jerash (Gerasa)*

Straddling one of the ancient worlds key trade routes, Jerash offers
extensive and breathtaking ruins of colonnaded streets, arches,  
temples, and
baths in a remarkable state of preservation and completeness. The  
visitor is
free to wander through these sites and observe at close hand the  
intricacy
and sophistication of the workmanship and the artistry of the cravings  
and
decorations. During the summer, the Jerash Festival of culture and arts
brings together the finest talent, both Arab and international, to  
revive
one of the great monuments of civilization.

*Ajlon Castle *

Twenty four kilometers west of Jerash, overlooking the Jordan Valley  
north
of Amman, Ajlon was built in 1184 by the Ayyubid to encounter the  
Crusader
advance in east Jordan and to protect the communications between Cairo  
and
Damascus. The hulking remains of these once powerful citadels await the
eager explorer with their mighty military exteriors, their dark inner
passageways, and their mute testimony to the struggles for power so  
familiar
to this historic land.

*Madaba*

Madaba is an  archaeological park and an ancient city of mosaics. It  
has the
oldest preserved ancient mosaic map of the holy lands.

*Mount Nebo*

Mount Nebo is one of the most revered holy sites of Jordan, located  
just a
short drive west of the Roman Byzantine town of Madaba, for this is  
where
Moses was buried. The sites association with the last days of Moses is
described in moving words in Deuteronomy (43:1-7). The episode of  
Balak and
Balam (2:13-26) also takes place here.

The site's other name is Pisgah: "And Moses went up from the plains of  
Moab
to Mt Nebo, to the top of  Pisgah which is opposite Jerico". From the
mountaintop, you can admire the dazzling view across the Jordan Valley  
and
the Dead Sea, to the rooftops of Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

*Dead Sea*

The Dead Sea eastern coast in Jordan is one of  the most spectacular  
natural
and spiritual landscapes in whole world.

The leading attraction at the Dead Sea is the warm, soothing, super- 
salty
seawater, which is nine times saltier than Mediterranean Sea water. It  
is
rich in chloride salts of Magnesium, sodium and potassium, in bromine,
potash and several other minerals and salts. This unusually salty,  
buoyant
and mineral-rich water has attracted visitors since ancient times, all  
of
whom have floated effortlessly on their backs while soaking up the  
water's
healthy minerals along with the gentler, filtered rays of the  
Jordanian sun.

The Dead Sea's total attraction is due to its unique combination of  
several
factors: the chemical composition of its water, the filtered sun rays  
and
oxygen -rich air, the mineral- rich black mud along the shoreline, and  
the
adjacent fresh water and thermal mineral spring.

*Umm Qays*

This is the most dramatically situated of the Decapolis cities. At Umm  
Qays,
one can explore fascinating ruins -a stunning black basalt theater, a
colonnaded main street, and a city gate, among others -and enjoy  
spectacular
views of the Jordan Valley, the Sea of Galilee, and Golan heights. Umm  
Qais
has a charming museum in a restored Ottoman house in addition to its  
other
attractions.

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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Cairo Conf. on Arabization
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:57:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Deadline of Arabic Lecturer position at UT extended
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Date: 03 Jan 2008
From:"Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:Deadline of Arabic Lecturer position at UT extended to March 15

Arabic Lecturer Position at the University of Texas, Austin

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN invites applications for a full-time,
academic year-long appointment as a lecturer in Arabic, to begin
September 1, 2008 with possibility of annual renewal.  This position is
funded by a Flagship grant to UT and is subject to grant renewal.

To be considered, candidates should have completed a Master's degree or
higher in Arabic Language, Literature, or Culture.  The successful
candidate will have demonstrated teaching excellence at the university
level and be expected to teach three courses per semester during the
academic year 2008-2009 as well as participate in the coordination of
curricular and extracurricular aspects of the program.  Experience in
coordinating multiple sections of Arabic classes is desired.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three
references letters, and evidence of teaching excellence to: Chelsea
Sypher, Program Coordinator, UT Arabic Flagship Language Program,
Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
(WMB 6.102); 1 University Station # F9400, Austin, TX 78712-0527. Phone:
Tel: (512) 471- 3283; Fax: (512) 471-7834.

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies is committed to achieving
diversity in its faculty, students, and curriculum, and welcomes
applicants who would help it achieve this goal.

All application materials must be received by March 15, 2008.

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/
For inquiries please contact Ms. Sypher at utflagship at austin.utexas.edu

Background check conducted on applicant selected
The University of Texas at Austin is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Employer
------------------------------------------
Mahmoud Al-Batal
Associate professor of Arabic
Director, Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA)
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
1 University Station, F9400
West Mall Building, 6.138
The University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX 78712-0527
Tel: (512)471-3463            Fax: (512)471-7834
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:55:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Cairo Arabic Lessons
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Date: 003 Jan 2008
From:A Fayyad <arabic.instructor at yahoo.com>
Subject:Cairo Arabic Lessons

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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:New Book:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the publication of a new volume of the
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics series:

Title: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX: Papers from the twentieth
annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Kalamazoo, March 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
ISBN: 9027248052
Date: December 2007

Contents

Jeffrey Heath
Stretching Ablaut: Morphological adaptation of new *CCu and *CCi stems
in Moroccan Arabic

Samira Farwaneh
Hypocoristics Revisited: Challenging the primacy of the consonantal root

Lior Laks
Morphology and Thematic Arity Operations: Evidence from Standard Arabic

Usama Soltan
On the Individual-Property Contrast in Free State Possessive Nominals in
Egyptian Arabic

Nouman Malkawi and Nicolas Guilliot
Reconstruction and Islandhood in Jordanian Arabic

Frederick Hoyt
An Arabic Wackernagel Clitic? The morphosyntax of negation in
Palestinian Arabic

Mohammad T. Alhawary
The Split-INFL Hypothesis: Findings from English and Japanese L2
learners of Arabic

Reem Khamis-Dakwar and Karen Froud
Lexical Processing in Two Language Varieties: An even-related brain
potential study of Arabic native speakers

Amel Khalfaoui
A Cognitive Approach to Analyzing Demonstratives in Tunisian Arabic

Nigel Ward and Yaffa Al Bayyari
A Prosodic Feature That Invites Back-Channels in Egyptian Arabic

Ali Dada and Aarne Ranta
Implementing an Open Source Arabic Resource Grammar in GF

Warren Casbeer, Jon Dehdari and Deryle Lonsdale
A Link Grammar Parser for Arabic

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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic for Special Purposes translation
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:paula santillan <capraia at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

Dear friends,

Lately, I have had to translate the course title of an
Arabic for Specific Purposes (ASP) course into Arabic.
However, my colleagues and I didn?t reach an agreement
on how the Arabic term for ASP should be translated. I
then did a quick search on google using the three
variations that my colleagues and I had come up with
(using the term "'language' for specific purposes"
instead of the more restricted 'Arabic'). Results are
shown below:

Luga li-agraad muHaddada ----- 112,000 tokens
Luga li-agraad khassa --------- 53,400
Luga li-agraad mu3ayyana ----- 141,000
-----
Luga li-ahdaaf muHaddada ----- 49,500
Luga li-ahdaaf khaassa ------- 22,700
Luga li-ahdaaf mu3ayyana ----- 58,000


As it is the case with many other (scientific,
academic, formal) terms, nowadays several Arabic
versions of ?ASP? seem to be being used quite broadly
around the Arab world. I thought that perhaps some of
you would like to provide us with your opinion about
this term in particular.

Thanks a lot before hand!

-paula

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Word Order and Generative Grammar
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Word Order and Generative Grammar


>  3) if we go with 1)a)ii) then we clash with every Arab speakers  
> native
>     intuition [...]
> I don't see how you can explain even the simplest facts without
> having a formalism that allows the researcher to model mixed lects.

I agree, but I think there's more to it than that.  Since Standard
Arabic isn't anyone's native language, can you talk about people's
intuitions about it in the same way that you talk about their
intuitions about their native language?

Moreover, if the boundaries between languages are determined by mutual
comprehensibility, surely Standard Arabic counts as a different
language from any of the dialects.  (Westerners who learn Standard
Arabic to an advanced level and travel to Egypt find they can't
understand anything anybody is saying, just like Egyptians who can
speak Standard Arabic and travel to Morocco.)  So are people's
intuitions about their native Arabic dialect any more relevant to
Standard Arabic than a French person's intuitions about Latin?

Also, the way people use Standard Arabic is clearly influenced by
their native dialect, and not only because they tend to mix the two
(my impression from watching Arabic satellite TV is that, except when
people are reading aloud, mixing the two is the norm[1]).  When
Egyptian writers like Tawfiq Al Hakim and Naguib Mahfouz wrote
dialogue in Standard Arabic, sometimes they literally translated
expressions from the Egyptian dialect.  The result is Standard Arabic,
but the meaning might not be clear to someone who doesn't know the
Egyptian dialect.  (In order to understand the meaning, you have to
translate back into Egyptian.)

So it seems to me that Standard Arabic has to be seen as something
like Global English, i.e. the English of non-native speakers, which
varies between different populations, partly under the influence of
their native language.  Yes, people do have intuitions about their
second language, but clearly there's a difference between those
intuitions and their intuitions about their native language.  What
kind of linguistic and/or cognitive theory could account for that
difference?

Ben

[1] I think Walter Armbrust makes a good sociological observation
about the reasons for this mixing in Armbrust, Walter, _Mass Culture
and Modernism in Egypt_, chapter 3 ("The split vernacular", pp.
37-62).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Mafia etymology query
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:ZAKIA DEEB <zakiadeeb at hotmail.com>
Subject:Mafia etymology query

Does any body know whether the word 'Mafia' has any linguistic Arabic  
connection? I was asked this question by French friend. The only  
similar word in sound in Arabic is "ma'ffi" (masculine) or  
"ma'ffia" (feminine) meaning EXEMPTED but this does not necessarily  
mean the words are related.
Many thanks,
Zakia Deeb

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book on Arab American Artists
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:"Fayeq Oweis" <fayeq.oweis at gmail.com>
Subject:New Book on Arab American Artists

Dear family, friends, and colleagues,

Happy New Year

This is a note to let you know that my new book: Encyclopedia of Arab
American Artists, has been released and available from the publisher
at http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR3730.aspx  or from amazon.com or
BarnesandNoble.com.

Below is a brief description of the book and a list of about 100 Arab
American artists that are profiled and included in the book. The book
is about 350 pages and it contains 16 color images and 84 black &
white images including artists' photographs.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you for your help
and support and for making this book a reality. I also appreciate your
support in promoting the book to your friends, libraries, schools, and
galleries.

Best Regards,
Fayeq Oweis
San Francisco
www.oweis.com

_______________________________

Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists
Artists of the American Mosaic

Fayeq S. Oweis

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0-313-33730-6    978-0-313-33730-7

Description: The rich history and culture of the Arab American people
is found in the passionate works of its artists. Whether they be
traditional media such as painting and calligraphy, or more
sophisticated media such as digital work and installation, the pieces
represent the beauty of heritage, the struggles of growing up in
war-torn countries, the identity conflicts of female artists in
male-dominated societies, and the issues surrounding migration to a
Western culture very different from one's own.

Many of the artists included here, though their works appear in
museums and galleries throughout the world, have never before been
featured in a reference book. Interviews conducted by the author
provide a personal look into the experiences and creative processes of
these artists.

Author Information:
FAYEQ S. OWEIS is an Arab American artist and a professor of Arabic
Language and Culture at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara,
California. He has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies with focus on
Arabic and Islamic arts. As an artist, he designed the exterior
entranceway murals and the calligraphy of the interior dome of the
Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He has also
exhibited his Arabic calligraphic compositions through out the United
States, and was an Artist-in-residence at the Art Institute of
Chicago.

Artists included in "Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists":
Etel Adnan, Yasser Aggour, Jocelyn M. Ajami, Abe Ajay, Sabah
Al-Dhaher, Andrea Ali, Rheim Alkadhi, Hend Al-Mansour, Mohammed
Al-Sadoun, Sama Alshaibi, Hashim Al-Tawil, Abderrahim Ambari, Ghada
Amer, Heba Amin, George Halim Awde , Halla Ayla, Nahda Alsalah Balaa,
Lily Bandak, Khalil Bendib, Haifa Bint-Kadi, Doris Bittar, Kamal
Boullata, Huguette Caland, Adnan Charara, Wasmaa Khalid Chorbachi,
Carole Choucair-Oueijan, Rajie "Roger" Cook, Abdelali Dahrouch, Joyce
Dallal, Aissa Deebi, Hanah Diab, Saliba Douaihy, Nihad Dukhan, Mona A.
El-Bayoumi, Dahlia Elsayed, Layla Zarour Elshair, Lalla A. Essaydi,
Hala Faisal, Simone Fattal, Dalah El-Jundi Faytrouni, Chawky Frenn,
Mariam Ghani, Rajaa A. Gharbi, Gibran Khalil (Kahlil) Gibran, Kahlil
George Gibran, Samia Halaby, John Halaka, Nabila Hilmi, Hasan Hourani,
(House of Lebanon (HOL) Artists Group: George Chamaa, Carole
Choucair-Oueijan, Jeanice Deeb, Dalah Faytrouni, Reem Hammad, Joseph
Hawa, John Hajjar, Father Farid Shoucair);  Alya Abdul Razzak
Husseini, Happy/L.A. Hyder, Annemarie Jacir, Emily Jacir, Fay Afaf
Kanafani, Mohammad Omar Khalil, Zahi Khamis, Sari Ibrahim Khoury,
Khalid Kodi, Leila Kubba, Ilham Badreddine Mahfouz, Sam Maloof, Amina
Mansour, Samar Megdadi, Aisha Mershani, Nabil Nahas, Said Nuseibeh,
(OTHER: Arab Artists Collective ? Detroit: Radfan Alqirsh, Mohamad
Bazzi, Imad Hassan, Joe Namy, Rola Nashef, Lana Rahme); Walid Raad,
Naziha Rashid, Fawzia A. Reda, Mamoun Sakkal, Jacqueline (Jackie)
Salloum, Adelia Malouf Samaha, Sumayyah Samaha, Linda Dalal Sawaya,
Adnan Shati, Nida Sinnokrot, Katherine Toukhy, Mary Tuma, Madiha Umar,
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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From: John Jospeh Colangelo <colangelomutarjim at gmail.com>
Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"

Thank God there are still a few Arabs with dignity and are proud of  
their language ...

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:BeyondBorders needs books for Iraq
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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:nanlin at fas.harvard.edu
Subject:BeyondBorders needs books for Iraq

Dear Prof. Parkinson,

I received your contact information via Karin Ryding, whom I emailed
to ask about the American Association of Teachers of Arabic.  She said
to contact you for permission to announce a project on the Arabic-L
discussion list.

The gist of the project is this:  A classmate of mine at Harvard
University is coordinating a non-profit volunteer effort to connect
community needs perceived by American soldiers in Iraq with civilians
who are willing and able to contribute to those needs.  The way it
works is simple: service members in Iraq request items via website,
www.beyondorders.org, and donors try to match them; donors can also
initiate offers.  Over the past year there has been a significant
demand for schoolbooks for Arabic children, as well as basic Arabic
language guides for troops.  Any contribution of said resources would
be of great use to these communities, who often lack very basic school
materials.  It would be really great if some people are able, or know
of others who would be able, to help.

Thanks very much!  Please feel free to forward this email.  Hope you
are having a wonderful new year!

Regards,
Kathy

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Persian Teachers Workshop
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1) Subject:Persian Teachers Workshop

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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:richarsd at dni.gov
Subject:Persian Teachers Workshop

The Persian Flagship Program at the University of Maryland-College  
Park is hosting a workshop for teachers of Persian (Farsi/Dari/Tadjik)  
from 25-26 Jan 2008; the workshop is free of charge and open to the  
public.  Highlights include:

     --Presentations on curriculum and materials development by  
instructors from the Persian Flagship Program, Foreign Service  
Institute, and Defense Language Institute.

     --Keynote address "What Makes Persian Hard to Learn as a Second  
Language" by Karine Megerdoomian, PhD, Senior Artificial Intelligence  
Engineer, MITRE.

     --Special presentation "Vocabulary Activities in the Classroom:  
More than 30 Methods for Learning and Retaining Persian Words in the  
Classroom" by Mahvash Shahegh, PhD, American Association of Teachers  
of Persian.

     --Showcase of Computer-Assisted Language Learning Programs for  
Teaching Persian developed by the Defense Language Institute, Foreign  
Service Institute, and the Persian Flagship Program.

For more details on the workshop, please see this website:

http://www.languages.umd.edu/workshops/persian

For questions, please contact the event coordinator: Angie Blackwell  
at angielb at dni.gov
or myself.


Richard Dabrowski

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jan  9 17:42:57 2008
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:San Diego State Summer Institutes
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1) Subject:San Diego State Summer Institutes

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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:San Diego State Summer Institutes

  December 15th, 2007

Dear Colleagues:

We are writing to you because we know of your strengths in the fields
of Middle Eastern and Slavic languages and cultures, and we want to  
ask for your
help in recruiting students to our Persian, Arabic, and Russian  
intensive
programs.

The following courses are offered through LARC (the Language  
Acquisition Resource Center) program, the Critical Language Immersion  
Program:

All courses are FLAS eligible (over 150 h. of contact hours)
First Year Intensive Arabic & Persian: June 9-August 1st, 2008(8 units  
each)
First Year Intensive Russian: June 9-August 1st, 2008(10 units)
Second Year Intensive Arabic & Persian: June 9-August 1st, 2008(8  
units each)

In the U.S., the following courses are only offered at LARC/SDSU:
Professional Level Arabic & Persian:   July 7-Aug. 15 (6 units each(.

Credit available for all the courses listed above. Cost: $1500/course

Teams of highly qualified teachers are employed at each level to offer  
a variety of teaching styles and pedagogical strategies. The teams use  
task-based instruction and simulations at the lower levels.  At all  
levels, the master teacher/apprentice teacher model is used to promote  
ongoing and continuous progress toward reaching the course goal.  
Students registering for the Professional level courses are often  
themselves teachers or native speakers of the language who want to  
refresh their skills.  Applicants will need to take an OPI (Oral  
Proficiency Interview), by telephone before being accepted into the  
program. They will also be required to submit a personal statement  
written in the target language (300 words).

Please contact Dr. Atefeh Oliai (Persian), Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure  
(Arabic), or Dr. Veronica Shapovalov (Russian) for further information  
about the programs and application processes,
or see http://larcnet.sdsu.edu/workshops.php for more detailed  
information. LARC's telephone number is 619-594-7887.

We thank you for your help in making this information available to  
qualified students and teachers.

Sincerely,

Dr. Mary Ann Lyman-Hager                         Dr. Bonnie Stewart
LARC Director                                             Project  
Director


Dr. Atefeh Oliai                                       Dr. Hanada Taha- 
Thomure                                 Dr. Veronica  Shapovalov
aoliai at projects.sdsu.edu                       hthomure at projects.sdsu.edu 
                                
veronica.shapovalov at sdsu.edu                                         
619-594-5480                                        
619-594-0371                   619-594-7147

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Jan  9 17:42:45 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic L1 acquisition refs
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1) Subject:Needs Arabic L1 acquisition refs

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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:"Andrew Freeman" <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Needs Arabic L1 acquisition refs

Hi,
Can anybody suggest scholarly resources on Arabic L1 acquisition to  
Sanaa Abu Saleh at sanaabo at gmail.com?
Thanx,
Andy

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From: Sanaa Abu Saleh [mailto:sanaabo at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:00 AM
To: andyf at umich.edu
Subject: the developmental stages of Arabic acquisition as L1

Dear Andy
Masa Elkheir

I am Sana Abu Saleh, a palestinian Arab girl from Israel, learning for  
my MEd at Oranim College. I am working on a research about the  
acquisition of Arabic as L1.I have started studying the developmental  
stages of the Arabic as L1among childrten below three years. till now  
I ccould not find any research about this issue. Actually I read your  
articles about diglossia which I liked and helped me a lot in  
discussing the theoritical background, but i still need the research  
that speaks about the developmental aspects of arabic as L1. please if  
you have any idea, research, site or book, please let me know.

thanks a lot
Sana Abu Saleh
Sakhnin 20173
Israel

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:42:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:online survey
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1) Subject:online survey

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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:"research project" <proficiencycontractingsurvey at gmail.com>
Subject:online survey

Arabic language professionals,

Please take a few minutes to respond to the attached online survey.  The
purpose is to gather data on current feelings toward language  
proficiency
among government employees and contractors, as well as impressions of
specific organizations/companies.  The survey does not ask for your
identity, contact information, or current employer.

Feel free to forward the survey to colleagues or students, but please  
limit
your distribution to those who have applicable experience and  
impressions.
The survey does not allow for the same email address to take the survey
more than once.

If you're interested in obtaining the data following survey close date  
(24
January 2008), please email proficiencycontractingsurvey at gmail.com.

Thank you for your time.

Survey link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=HGVeT4A_2fnDPB2J1aN_2bItKw_3d_3d

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Jan 11 15:54:23 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Apology
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1) Subject:Apology
2) Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"
3) Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"

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1)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Apology

I have a policy of not posting messages like the one reacted to  
below.  Since I ignored it in this case, I am posting the following  
two reactions, but will not post any further ones.  Sorry for the lapse.
dil

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2)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:Munther Younes <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"

As an Arab (and a linguist) I find Mr. Colangelo's statement arrogant,  
misinformed, and insulting.  Freedom is what the Arabs, especially the  
Syrians, need and want, not more government legislation and heavy- 
handed interference even in determining how people should name their  
children. I would like to think that Arabs can still have dignity  
without believing in these practices.

Munther Younes

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:
Subject:reaction to "Damascus as Fusha Capital"

I 100% agree with Mr. John Jospeh Colangelo .
Thank you .

Shukri Abed
Shukri B. Abed, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
CIDCM
UMD

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:26 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan U. Conf. on Teach Arabic to Speakers of
 Other Languages
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1) Subject:Jordan U. Conf. on Teach Arabic to Speakers of Other  
Languages

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Jordan U. Conf. on Teach Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:24:47
From: Sane Yagi [saneyagi at gmail.com]
Subject: JU-Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages 2008

Full Title: JU-Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages 2008
Short Title: JU-TASOL2008

Date: 06-May-2008 - 08-May-2008
Location: Amman, Jordan
Contact Person: Dr. Sameer Qatami
Meeting Email: tasol2008 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

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

Language Family(ies): Semitic

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2008

Meeting Description:

Jordan University is organizing its first international conference on  
the
Teaching of Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages. It shall be held from
May 6th to 8th, 2008. It is organized by the Faculty of Arts'  
Department of
Arabic in collaboration with the Linguistics Department, the  
Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, and the Language Center. This conference  
will
be held in the beautiful city of Amman during the Spring season.
The conference covers a broad spectrum of interest within the teaching  
of
Arabic. Therefore, researchers from the various disciplines in  
Linguistics,
Education, and Information Technology are encouraged to participate.

Jordan University is organizing its first international conference on  
the
Teaching of Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages. It shall be held from
May 6th to 8th, 2008. It is organized by the Faculty of Arts'  
Department of
Arabic in collaboration with the Linguistics Department, the  
Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, and the Language Center. This conference  
will
be held in the beautiful city of Amman during the Spring season.

The conference covers a broad spectrum of interest within the teaching  
of
Arabic. Therefore, researchers from the various disciplines in  
Linguistics,
Education, and Information Technology are encouraged to participate.
January 30, 2008 - Submission of abstract
February 7, 2008 - Notification of abstract acceptance
April 1, 2008 -	Submission of full paper
April 15, 2008 - Notification of paper acceptance
May 1, 2008 - Submission of camera-ready paper
May 6-8, 2008 - Conference

Linguistic Areas:
Syntax and semantics
Phonetics and phonology
Language acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
Computational linguistics

Educational Areas:
Curriculum
Pedagogy
Educational psychology
Philosophy of education
Educational technology

Experiential Knowledge:
In-class teaching
Program administration
Computer-assisted instruction
Arabic for specific purposes

General Issues:
Cultural considerations and attitudes to teaching Arabic to speakers of
other languages
The politics of teaching and researching Arabic

Abstract requirements:
Abstracts and papers are written in Arabic. Abstracts must not exceed  
400
words in length, but papers may be of any length. The abstract must have
the topic stated clearly, the methodology explained, and the expected
conclusions outlined.

Submission requirements:
Submissions must be sent first in SOFT copies as e-mail attachments to
tasol2008 at gmail.com and then in print together with a diskette or CD  
to Dr.
Sameer Qatami, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman 11942,  
Jordan.
The electronic file format must be either in Microsoft Word, RTF, or  
PDF.
Please state the name(s) of the author(s) in full along with their
individual, affiliation, postal address, and email address. Hard  
copies are
essential only to verify the formatting of electronic versions.

Document Format:
-	Margin: vertical = 1 inch; horizontal = 1.25 inches.
-	Font: Times New Roman.
-	Title of the paper: size = 16 font; skip one line before title.
-	Author's information:
Name(s): size = 12 font; order = First name, Last name (1st letter
capitalized).
Affiliation(s): size = 9 font.
E-mail address(es): size = 9 font.
-	''Abstract'': size = 14 font; text = 12 font; 1.5 spaced.
-	''Keywords'': size = 14 font; text = 12 font.
-	''References'': size = 12 font; aligned in the center; text = 9 font.
-	File: DOC, RTF, or PDF

Amman
Amman, the modern capital of Jordan, is one of the oldest inhabited  
places
in the world. Recent excavations have uncovered homes and towers  
believed
to have been built during the Stone Age with many references to it in  
the
Bible. Amman was known as Rabbath -Ammon, the capital of the  
Ammonites. It
was also referred to as ''the city of waters''.

In the 3rd century BC, the city was renamed Philadelphia after the
Ptolemaic ruler Philadelphus. the City later came under Seleucid as  
well as
Nabataean rule, until the Roman General Pompey annexed Syria and made
Philadelphia part of the Decapolis league - a loose alliance of  
initially
ten free city states under over all allegiance to Rome. Under the  
influence
of the Roman culture, Philadelphia was reconstructed in typically grand
Roman style with colonnaded streets, baths, a theatre and impressive  
public
buildings.
During the Byzantine period, Philadelphia was the seat of a bishop and
therefore several churches were built. The city declined somewhat  
until the
year 635 AD. As Islam spread northwards from the Arabian Peninsula, the
land became part of its domain. Its original Semitic name Ammon or Amman
was returned to it.

Amman 's modern history began in the late 19th century, when the  
Ottomans
resettled a colony of Circassian emigrants in 1878. As the Great Arab
Revolt progressed and the state of Transjordan was established, King
Abdullah I, founder of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, made Amman his
capital in 1921. Since then, Amman has grown rapidly into a modern,
thriving metropolis of well over a million people.


Tourist Attractions in Jordan

Roman Forum in Amman
The Roman time Public Square, bordered by the theatre and the Odeon,  
once
was among the largest of the Empire (over 100 * 50 meters). A row of
columns in the front of the theatre is what remains of the colonnades  
which
once flanked it.

Roman Theatre in Amman
An imposing monument set into the side of the mountain. Its 33 rows of
seats can accommodate almost 6000 spectators. The theatre, which dates  
back
to approximately the mid 2nd century AD, comes back to life with musical
and dance performance held regularly under the moonlit summer.

Odeon in Amman
Adjacent to the theatre and set on the east side of the Forum, the Odeon
dates back to the 2nd century AD. The lower seats of this monument,  
which
could accommodate up to 500 spectators, have been restored and the  
Odeon is
used occasionally for concerts.

Jerash (Gerasa)
Straddling one of the ancient worlds key trade routes, Jerash offers
extensive and breathtaking ruins of colonnaded streets, arches, temples,
and baths in a remarkable state of preservation and completeness. The
visitor is free to wander through these sites and observe at close  
hand the
intricacy and sophistication of the workmanship and the artistry of the
cravings and decorations. During the summer, the Jerash Festival of  
culture
and arts brings together the finest talent, both Arab and  
international, to
revive one of the great monuments of civilization.

Ajlon Castle
Twenty four kilometers west of Jerash, overlooking the Jordan Valley  
north
of Amman, Ajlon was built in 1184 by the Ayyubid to encounter the  
Crusader
advance in east Jordan and to protect the communications between Cairo  
and
Damascus. The hulking remains of these once powerful citadels await the
eager explorer with their mighty military exteriors, their dark inner
passageways, and their mute testimony to the struggles for power so
familiar to this historic land.

Madaba
Madaba is an  archaeological park and an ancient city of mosaics. It has
the oldest preserved ancient mosaic map of the holy lands.

Mount Nebo
Mount Nebo is one of the most revered holy sites of Jordan, located  
just a
short drive west of the Roman Byzantine town of Madaba, for this is  
where
Moses was buried. The sites association with the last days of Moses is
described in moving words in Deuteronomy (43:1-7). The episode of  
Balak and
Balam (2:13-26) also takes place here.
The site's other name is Pisgah: ''And Moses went up from the plains of
Moab to Mt Nebo, to the top of  Pisgah which is opposite Jerico''.  
 From the
mountaintop, you can admire the dazzling view across the Jordan Valley  
and
the Dead Sea, to the rooftops of Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Dead Sea
The Dead Sea eastern coast in Jordan is one of  the most spectacular
natural and spiritual landscapes in whole world.
The leading attraction at the Dead Sea is the warm, soothing, super- 
salty
seawater, which is nine times saltier than Mediterranean Sea water. It  
is
rich in chloride salts of Magnesium, sodium and potassium, in bromine,
potash and several other minerals and salts. This unusually salty,  
buoyant
and mineral-rich water has attracted visitors since ancient times, all  
of
whom have floated effortlessly on their backs while soaking up the  
water's
healthy minerals along with the gentler, filtered rays of the  
Jordanian sun.
The Dead Sea's total attraction is due to its unique combination of  
several
factors: the chemical composition of its water, the filtered sun rays  
and
oxygen -rich air, the mineral- rich black mud along the shoreline, and  
the
adjacent fresh water and thermal mineral spring.

Umm Qays
This is the most dramatically situated of the Decapolis cities. At Umm
Qays, one can explore fascinating ruins -a stunning black basalt  
theater, a
colonnaded main street, and a city gate, among others -and enjoy
spectacular views of the Jordan Valley, the Sea of Galilee, and Golan
heights. Umm Qais has a charming museum in a restored Ottoman house in
addition to its other attractions.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jobs at Foreign Service Institute
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1) Subject:Jobs at Foreign Service Institute

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Bernhardt, James E" <BernhardtJE at state.gov>
Subject:Jobs at Foreign Service Institute

LANGUAGE JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT THE FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE

The School of Language Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S.
Department of State, seeks potential candidates (undergraduates,
graduates, and working professionals) for full-time, part-time,
intermittent, and/or seasonal work on a contractual basis in Arabic
Language Instruction, Language training and testing, and Arabic Language
curriculum design and development.

Contracts could be for full-time, part-time, full-time summer work, two-
to three-hour blocks of time, on school holidays, and/or during school
breaks (as well as any other working day of the year).  All work takes
place in Arlington, Virginia.

Individuals interested in teaching and testing must be native speakers
of Arabic.  All applicants must be eligible to work in the United
States.  For more information and to obtain the solicitation, please
send your name, address, phone numbers, and e-mail address to:
slsrecruitment at state.gov, or

SLS Recruitment
Dean's Office F-4415
Foreign Service Institute
School of Language Studies
U.S. Department of State
Washington DC 20522-4201
703-302-7517 or 703-302-7391

James E. Bernhardt
Chair, Near East, Central and South Asian Languages
FSI

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic for Special Purposes Translation
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1) Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes Translation

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes Translation

al-Lugha al-'Arabiyya li-'Aghraad  Khaassaa.

Raji Rammuny

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Jan 11 15:54:36 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Mafia etymology responses
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1) Subject:Mafia etymology response
2) Subject:Mafia etymology response
3) Subject:Mafia etymology response
4) Subject:Mafia etymology response
5) Subject:Mafia etymology response
6) Subject:Mafia etymology response

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1)
Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Auchterlonie, Paul" <J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

There is quite a lot of debate about whether mafia is derived from
Arabic. G.B. Pellegrini in Gli arabismi nelle lingue neolatine (Brescia,
1972) covers the various possibilites, including Maffia, mu`afiya,
mahfal, mahyas, etc., but none are picked out as particularly probable.
Interestingly, the word mafia does not appear the "Indice delle forme
siciliane" in Girolamo Caracausi's Arabismi medievali di Sicilia
(Palermo, 1983).

Paul Auchterlonie.

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Elizabeth J. Pyatt" <ejp10 at psu.edu>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

For what it's worth - the etymology below is given in the Oxford  
English Dictionary. The origin seems to be from Sicily (not  
surprising), but is unclear before. Arabic marfud may be one source  
but other sources from Italian are also mentioned.

Key {umac} = long u
    {ddotbl} = d with dot

 From Oxford English Dictionary
[< Italian mafia (1865; also {dag}maffia), prob. back-formation <  
mafiuso, Italian regional (Sicily) mafiusu

Italian regional (Sicily) mafiusu, further etymology uncertain and  
disputed.
  Italian regional (Sicily) mafiusu is perh. a blend of marfusu  
scoundrel and marfiuni, marpiuni cheat (Italian marpione; ult. <  
French morpion MORPION n.); Italian regional (Sicily) marfusu (Italian  
{dag}malfusso rascal; 15th cent.) is < Spanish marfuz renegade,  
traitor (1330) < Arabic marf{umac}{ddotbl} outcast, reprobate, passive  
participle of rafa{ddotbl}a refuse to accept, reject.
-- 
Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D.

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Prof. William Granara" <granara at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

There is a theory that the word 'mafia' is derived from the Arabic  
root ''ayn, fa', waw' with the sense of 'to protect,' or 'restore to  
health,' and that it's an 'ism makaan' meaning 'sanctuary.'  This  
makes sense in that the early Mafia took refuge in the mountainous  
regions of Sicily.

   Bill Granara

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:John.Alcorn at trincoll.edu
Subject:Mafia etymology response

A succinct, comprehensive, authoritative discussion of hypotheses  
about the etymology of the Sicilian words "mafioso" and "mafia" is  
found in:
Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection  
(Harvard U. Press, 1993), Appendix A, pp. 259-61.
Gambetta discusses inter alia six distinct hypotheses that posit  
Arabic origins of "mafioso" and "mafia".
I hope this is helpful.

John Alcorn
Trinity College
Hartford, CT

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

At a time when Arabs are systematically denigrated, right, left  and  
centre,
I feel very awkward to trace today the etymology of _mafia_ and  
previously
of _assassin_ to an assumed Arabic origin!

I take comfort, however, in the fact that good many etymological  
suggestions
are no more credible than tarnished tombstones.

All that notwithstanding, two possible links can be identified between  
the
term  _mafia_  and the Arabs: one of (a) time as the term originated
approximately in mid -10th.century, and of (b) place Sicily  
( ?????  ), then
an Arab colony.

_Mafia_ (also _maffia_) originally stood for a Sicilian underground
organization developed to conduct warfare against Arab invaders.

How this Sicilian clandestine society acquired its plausibly Arabic  
name, is
not known for certain.  As stated by Dr. Z. Deeb, one explanation goes  
as
far as to suggest that the name comes from the Arabic /_ma'fy_/, the  
form
being either a Sicilian or Maltese Arabic dialect.  (Parenthetically,
/_ ????_ / _mu'faa_/, i.e., pp. of IV, is the proper morphological  
form.)   The
word means "protected," or "safeguarded,"  hence a place of sanctuary.

Further explanations offered are:

   - /maafya/ = "there is no body."
   - /maehfil/ = "meeting place."
   - /mahiaS ; mahyaS/ = "aggressive, boasting, bragging."
   - /marfuD/ = "rejected."


A more interesting, but far-fetched, story claims that the name is  
derived
from the war cry shouted by a Sicilian as he attacked a Frenchman who  
had
ravished and killed his fianc?e.  "Morte alla Francia!"
to which other Sicilians added the words, "Italia anela!" (is Italy's
cry!).  The five initials form the word _mafia_.

*(! ????? ????* )

-- 
M. Deeb

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"jolanda guardi (jolanda.guardi)" <jolanda.guardi at unimi.it>
Subject:Mafia etymology response

As far as I know there are different suggestions for the etimology of  
the word mafia
1. from ar. mahi?S(boasting)
2. from ar. mu'?fiya and mu'?fa(strongly criticised because the  
meaning "protection" pertains more the sicilian dialect than the  
arabic word))
3. from ar. mahfal(concilium, synodus)

a good reference is
G. B. Pellegrini, Gli arabismi nelle lingue neolatine, Paideia  
Editrice, Brescia1972, 2 volls., vol. I, p. 223

Hope this helps
Jolanda Guardi

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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:32 -0700
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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"NEWMAN D.L." <daniel.newman at durham.ac.uk>
Subject:Arabic L1 acquisition refs

Hello,

A good starting point is Margaret Omar's "The Acquisition of Egyptian  
Arabic as a Native Language", which has recently been republished by  
Georgetown University Press.
Best,

D. Newman

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Date: 11 Jan 2008
From:"Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic L1 acquisition refs

Margaret K. Omar, THE ACQUISITION OF EGYPTIAN ARABIC AS A NATIVE  
LANGUAGE (Georgetown University Press, 2007), is a four-month study of  
the acquisition of the acquisition of rural Egyptian dialect by 37  
children aged six months to 15 years.  It deals with phonological,  
morphological and syntactic development.

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Subject:Arabic Computational Linguistics Job

Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:39:44
From: Barbara Steiner [steiner at svox.com]
Subject: Arabic, Standard & Computational Linguistics: Computer  
Linguist Arabic, SVOX AG, Zurich, Switzerland

University or Organization: SVOX AG
Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Web Address: http://www.svox.com

Job Rank: Computer Linguist Arabic
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
Description:
Position: Computer Linguist Arabic (Egyptian)

SVOX AG is a dynamic technology company specialized in text-to-speech.  
We
are seeking to temporarily (12 months) add to our language development  
team
a computational linguist for Arabic. You will create new language
components for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.

We invite applications from language specialists that natively speak
Egyptian Arabic. SVOX provides a varied position in an international,
fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

Tasks:
-  Development of language-specific components needed to analyse texts
(grammars, rule sets, lexicon evaluation and script-based adaptation)
-  Quality assessment and improvement of phonetic transcriptions
-  Definition of accentuation and phrasing rules
-  Definition of grapheme-to-phoneme rules
-  Preparation of text material for recordings
-  Supervising the recordings
-  Annotating the recordings and creating a speech database
-  Testing and quality assessment of the integrated system

Qualifications and Required Skills
-  Native speaker of Egyptian Arabic
-  Masters degree in linguistics, computer science, or related field
-  1+ years experience in text-to-speech technology is a strong plus
-  Interest in speech synthesis, prosody, and morpho-syntactic  
analysis of text
-  Programming and scripting skills are desirable

Personal Requirements:
-  Working knowledge of English
-  Excellent organization and communication skills
-  Has a positive attitude and enjoys working in a team
-  High quality standards
-  Willingness to relocate to Zurich, Switzerland, for 12 months

Start Date: At earliest availability.

Contact: Please send your application to Ms. Barbara Steiner.


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	
Email Address for Applications: hr at svox.com
Contact Information:
	Barbara Steiner
	Email: steiner at svox.com

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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:26:54 -0700
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From:ms at cms.mail.virginia.edu
Subject:Needs Maltese word for "hospital"

I would appreciate help from a Maltese speaker, or some one who knows  
Maltese to provide me with the Maltese word for "hospital."  Do  
Maltese use the English word, or the Italian word "0spedale" or a  
variation of this word? Or do they have an indigenous word for this  
institution?  I cannot find help where I am at this  writing, nor can  
I locate a Maltese dictionary in this city (Damascus).  The honorary  
Consul in this city does not speak Maltese !

With much appreciation.

Mohammed Sawaie

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:36 -0700
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Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Dear Colleagues,

I'm wondering whether the AATA, the ALS and/or other professionals in  
the
field have been thinking of advising institutions such as FSI, that  
being a
native speaker is neither a requisite nor a guarantee of a candidate  
being
an effective teacher of a language.

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:Maher Awad <awad at rice.edu>
Subject::List of K-16 Arabic Books

I am forwarding the message below, which was posted today on the NCLRC  
list.  I think it's very useful for many Arabic-L members.  Thank you.

Maher


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Subject: 	Compiled List of Books for the teaching of Arabic K-16
Date: 	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:48:31 -0500
From: 	nclrc <nclrc at GWU.EDU>
Reply-To: 	nclrc <nclrc at GWU.EDU>
To: 	NCLRC at HERMES.GWU.EDU


*Dear Friends and Fellow Teachers:*

* *

*We all know there is a great need for appropriate materials for  
teaching Arabic in the schools in the **U.S.** Over the last few  
years, there have been materials that various publishers have made  
available. The **National** **Capital** **Language** ** Resource**  
**Center** plans to post a list of textbooks for teaching Arabic K-12  
recommended by teachers on its website www.arabick12.org <http://www.arabick12.org/ 
 > and we need your help. *

*We have compiled a beginning list of Arabic language textbooks and  
teaching materials that teachers have recommended to us. We would  
greatly appreciate your comments about these materials and we welcome  
suggestions for other books or teaching materials that you have been  
using successfully (or even not so successfully!). *

*Please note that we are seeking materials that can be used in any  
classroom. Internationally published books are welcome, as long as you  
consider them useful to be used in a **U.S.** classroom. If you know  
of a **U.S.** or Canadian-based distributor for the book or materials,  
please tell us.*

*When you send us the information, please provide us with as full  
bibliographic information as possible, as well as a brief description  
regarding age levels, proficiency levels, and what you consider is  
really useful about the textbook. We are seeking information that  
might help another teacher decide whether the book may be useful for  
his or her class. *

*We plan to post this list on the Web site on January 17, 2008. *

*We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for your help. *

*Salima Intidame*



My comments are in yellow.


*Al- Kitab Fii Ta?allum Al-Arabiya:*

Author(s): Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi

Available in three parts.

  1. Alif Baa with DVDs
     Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Second Edition


  2. Al-Kitaab fii Ta^c allum al-^c Arabiyya with DVDs, Part One,
     Second Edition


  3. Al-Kitaab fii Ta^c allum al-^c Arabiyya with DVDs, Part Two,
     Second Edition


  4. Al-Kitaab fii Ta^c allum al-^c Arabiyya with DVD and MP3 CD, Part
     Three

http://www.press.georgetown.edu/arabic.html

Age and Level: Written for college and university, frequently used in  
high schools. Any comments?



*Al **Arabia** Al Sahla* - Easy Method for Learning Arabic: Level 2  
(One Book & CD)

*Author:** *Farha Al-Bitar
*Publisher: *Dar Al Elm Lilmaliyeen (2002)
*Language: *Arabic & English

http://www.noorart.com/s.nl/it.A/id.2811/.f

Is anyone using these books? Any comments?



*Arabic for all*:

It has books for teaching skills of Arabic for beginning level,  
intermediate level and also an exercise for sound & listening skills:  
Advanced book, for teaching skills of the Arabic.

http://arabicforall.net/shoppingcenter/

For beginning and intermediate

A teacher I met in NECTFL 2007 said she is using this textbook with  
success. Any comments? What ages and levels are these books useful for  
with students in the U.S.?



*Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners*  
(Textbook)

Available in different levels: Arabic 101 <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/languages/Arabic101_Syllabus.doc 
 >, Arabic 102 <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/languages/Arabic102_Syllabus.doc 
 >, Arabic 103 <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/languages/Arabic103_Syllabus.doc 
 >

Author: Mahdi Alosh (Feb 21, 2000)

To order, visit: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300058543

Age and Level: Written for college and university, frequently used in  
high schools and we were told that there is now an intermediate level  
book. Any comments?



*Abda Al Arabia ***

*Author:** *Nasef Mustafa Abd-Alaziz
*Publisher: *Al Dar Al Thaqafiya Li Al Nashr
*Language: *Arabic

A series of four integrated books for the youngest students to prepare  
them for 1st and 2nd Levels. The focus of this series is on developing  
reading and writing skills by introducing familiar expressions and  
words along with interesting exercises.

http://www.noorart.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.556/.f

Any comments?



*Arabian Sinbad*

This is an innovative new learning kit designed for both the native  
and non-native speakers of Arabic to teach a wide range of Arabic  
vocabulary through the "Total Immersion Method."
Teachers can use each individual product to supplement their classroom  
instruction. They can introduce videos, activity books, flashcards and  
more as a fun alternative to traditional learning.

Below is the information on how to order this kit:

*Fine Media Group**
**7552 W. 99th Place**
**Bridgeview**, **IL** **60455*

*Phone:* (708) 636-2003
*Fax:* (708) 636-2082
*Toll Free:* 1-800-FMG-2000
info at finemediagroup.com <mailto:info at finemediagroup.com%20>

* *

We have a copy of this kit in our library and it seems interesting and  
fun. It has been out there for quite a while. Have you tried it?



*Iqra?*

Series of workbooks and textbooks designed to teach Arabic to non- 
Arabic speaking students but it is preferable that students have prior  
exposure to the Arabic letters, sounds and writing system. These  
popular books concentrate on the four basic skills of reading,  
writing, listening and speaking.

Series may be purchased through Noorart, www.noorart.com <http://www.noorart.com/ 
 >

Mailing address: 577 Sterling Dr, Richardson, TX 75081

Telephone: 1888-442-5687

Are you one of the teachers I know who are using this series? And what  
would you tell us about your experience?



*Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach*

Student Book, Teacher?s Manual

Author: Lutfi Hussein (September 1993)
http://yalepress.yale.edu/YUPBOOKS/book.asp?isbn=9780300056341

I think this should only be interesting to those who are interested in  
Levantine vernacular.



*Modern Arabic: An introductory course for foreign students *

Textbook and Workbook: Level 1

Textbook and Workbook: Level 2

17 Audiotapes

Author: Samar Attar (1991)
*Language: *Arabic & English

http://www.noorart.com/s.nl/it.A/id.1531/.f?sc=2&category=276 <http://www.noorart.com/s.nl/it.A/id.1531/.f?sc=2&category=276 
 >

Someone suggested this book, but I am not familiar with it. It looks  
as though it was written for high school or college and has been  
published in Lebanon. It is written in English and Arabic. Does anyone  
use this book? Any comments? What ages and levels are these books  
appropriate for in the U.S?



*My Arabic Library*

Designed to encourage reading, the libraries include 30-40 titles.  
They cover fiction and nonfiction subjects and cover a range of  
reading levels within the grade level. Posters and a teacher?s guide  
accompany each grade level collection. Scholastic publishers have  
translated many short books for students translated from English into  
Arabic.

In English the books are appropriate for Grades 1 ? 6.

http://www.scholastic.com/myarabiclibrary

Age and Level: Elementary and middle school- various levels.

These books are new. They were developed primarily for use overseas  
but they can be used in U.S. classrooms. Many of the stories are  
familiar to American children.


*New Horizon- *Hayya Natakalamu Maan*__*

The program is based on the techniques and methods of teaching Arabic  
as a foreign language.  It focuses on a communicative approach. The  
program uses age appropriate content and material. It is designed with  
story-telling methods. For more information on this program and how to  
order it, please visit the official website of the Bureau of Islamic  
and Arabic Education at: www.biae.net <http://www.biae.net/>  or call  
818.219.6212**

I wonder how many teachers are using this program at their schools and  
what they think about it. Any ideas?



*Uhibbu Al Arabiyya*

Dr. Mahmood Sini, Nasi Abdul Aziz, and Mukhtar Hussein

Textbook series with teachers? manuals with 9 levels ? K-8

Workbooks and audiotapes

http://www.noorart.com/s.nl?sc=19&category=-101&search=Uhibbu%20al%20Arabia 
  <http://www.noorart.com/s.nl?sc=19&category=-101&search=Uhibbu%20al%20Arabia 
 >

Age and levels: Elementary and middle school, K-8

This is a complete curriculum to teach Arabic to non-native speakers  
of Arabic, and it is used by many private-Islamic schools. Any comments?



Below is a compiled list of Arabic resources someone from Doha was  
very generous to share with us. Feel free to send us your comments on  
these resources.


- *Kilma Kilma*: a leveled series that starts from reading words and  
moves to reading sentences. Comes in three levels accompanied by an  
activity book. Very useful for a beginner reader. Contact Asala  
publishers asala_publishers at yahoo.com  
<mailto:asala_publishers at yahoo.com>.



- *Khutwa Khutwa*: Based on Howard Gardner multiple intelligences, a  
series for KG1 and KG2 composed of 40 children?s stories with ten  
activities for each story. Comes with a a teacher?s guide, posters,  
domino and puzzle. Contact Asala.


- *Discover the fun of **Reading*: a leveled series starts from  
picture books to books with short paragraphs. Accompanied by work  
sheets and big books. Done in collaboration with Heinemann. Go to: www.intkc.com 
  <http://www.intkc.com/>
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:45 -0700
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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"NEWMAN D.L." <daniel.newman at durham.ac.uk>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Hello,
If memory serves, the Maltese word for hospital is 'sptar'.
Best,
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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Slavom?r ??pl?" <bulbulthegreat at gmail.com>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Dear Mohammed,
the standard Maltese word for "hospital" is "sptar" ("l-isptar" with
the definite article). E.g.: http://www.materdeihospital.org.mt/.
The answer to your question would be that they are indeed using a
borrowing from a Romance, but it's exact history is uknown to me.
Hope it helps :)
bulbul

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:Nizar Habash <habash at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Mohammed,
I found this in an online Maltese-English dictionary:  http://www.aboutmalta.com/language/engmal.htm
HOSPITAL   sptar (m)   [sptar]
Nizar Habash, Ph.D.
Columbia University
www.nizarhabash.com

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Haruko SAKAEDANI" <harukos at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

"A Hospital" is "sptar" in Maltese.(masculine)
"Hospitals" is "sptarijet."
Though i am a Japanese, a hospital is sptaR, NOT sptaL in Maltese.
Best,
Haruko

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Although the Maltese dialect is enormously influenced by Arabic, the  
Maltese
for "hospital" is a loanword from English: _Sptar_.  Hope that would  
be of
some assistance.
-- 
M. Deeb
English, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Dear Mohammed,
The Barbera Maltese-Italian dictionary of 1939 and a Maltese-English  
phrase book of 1980 both give sptar (sic), pronounced speetar,and a  
1972 dictionary of Maltese proverbs by Aquilina gives a proverb with  
the word furmarija, translated "Infirmary (Hospital)".
best of luck to you!
Ernest McCarus

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7)
Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Tressy Arts" <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

As far as my small Maltese dictionary knows, it's sptar, which does  
sound to
me like derived from hospital.
Regards, Tressy Arts

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8)
Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:mcredi at cloud9.net
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

  hospital in Maltese is ISPTAR

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9)
Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Mehall, David J." <DAVID.J.MEHALL at saic.com>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Ispitar is Maltese for hospital

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10)
Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Martin R. Zammit" <martin.r.zammit at um.edu.mt>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Dear Mohammed,
The word for "hospital" in Maltese is sptar (masculine singular),  
pronounced /spta:r/ (i.e. with long /a/) . The plural is sptarijiet  
where the letter /j/ corresponds to English /y/. Should you need more  
info about Maltese, do not hesitate to ask me.
Tahiyyaatii.
Dr Martin R. Zammit
Univ. of Malta

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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Y.N." <youchansama at yahoo.co.jp>
Subject:Maltese word for hospital

Maltese hospital is  "sptar"  pl.="sptarijiet"
Yoichi Nagato

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIN:Arabic NLP workshop
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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:prosso at dsic.upv.es
Subject:Arabic NLP workshop


*HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and *

*local** languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects*

Please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html for  
details.

*_ _*

*_Motivation and Aims_*


This Workshop intends to add value to the issues addressed during the  
main conference
(Human Language Technologies (HLT) & Natural Language Processing  
(NLP)) and enhance the
work carried out at different places to process Arabic language(s) and  
more generally
Semitic languages and other local and foreign languages spoken in the  
region.

It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic  
Written and Spoken
language processing in a mono- or cross/multilingual context, and give  
them an
opportunity to update the community through reports on completed and  
ongoing work as well
as on the availability of LRs, evaluation protocols and campaigns,  
products and core
technologies (in particular open source ones). This should enable the  
participants to
develop a common view on where we stand with respect to these  
particular set of languages
and to foster the discussion of the future of this research area.   
Particular attention
will be paid to activities involving technologies such as Machine  
Translation,
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval/extraction, Summarization, Speech  
to text
transcriptions, etc., and languages such as Arabic varieties, Amazigh,  
Amharic, Hebrew,
Maltese, and other local languages. Evaluation methodologies and  
resources for evaluation
of HLT are also a main focus.

*_Topics of Interest_*

The submissions should address some of the following issues:

?        Issues in the design, the acquisition, creation, management,  
access,
distribution, use of Language Resources (Standard Arabic, Colloquial  
Arabic, other
Semitic languages, Amazigh, Coptic, Maltese, English/French spoken  
locally, etc.)

?        Impact on LR collections/processing and NLP of the crucial  
issues related to
"code switching" between different dialects and languages

?        Specific issues related to the above-mentioned languages such  
as role of
morphology, named entities, corpus alignment, etc.)

?        Multilinguality issues including relationship between  
Colloquial and Standard
Arabic

?        Exploitation of LR in different types of applications  
?        Industrial LR
requirements and community's response;

?        Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for  
benchmarking and evaluation
for written and spoken language processing;

?        Focus on some key technologies such as MT (all approaches  
e.g. Statistical,
Example-Based, etc.), Information Retrieval, Speech Recognition,  
Spoken Documents
Retrieval, CLIR, Question-Answering, Summarization,

?        Local, regional, and international activities and projects;

?        Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and  
international
cooperation.


*_Submission Details (more on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html)_*


Submissions must be in English. Abstracts for workshop contributions  
should not exceed
Four A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should  
state: the title;
author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as  
well as postal
address, telephone and fax numbers.

Submission is to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF  
format, to:
arabic at elda.org <mailto:choukri at elda.org&amp;amp;amp;gt; to arrive  
before *_15 February
2008_*.
Registration to LREC'08 will be required for participation, so  
potential participants are
invited to refer to the main conference website for all details not  
covered in the
present call (http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/)


*_Important Dates_*

Call for papers:                                           3 January  
2008

Deadline for abstract submissions:           15 February 2008

Notification of acceptance:                       14 March 2008

Final version of accepted paper:                11 April 2008

Workshop full-day:                               Saturday 31^st May 2008


*_Workshop chair_*

Khalid Choukri (ELRA/ELDA, France)

*_Workshop Co-chairs_*

Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA

Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Paolo Rosso, Universidad Polit?cnica Valencia, Spain

Abdelhadi Soudi ENIM (Morocco)

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA and Monterey Institute of International Studies

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic for Special Purposes translation
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Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"paula santillan <capraia at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

i thought perhaps the rest of the list members would
like to recieve these other two reply messages.

-p

---

Dear Paula,

You might consider the term al-'Arabiyyah
al-Mukhtassah, or Lughah
'Arabiyyah Mukhtassah.  It attaches the specificity
to the language not the
purpose, and it perhaps has a more native feel.


Alex

Alex Dalati
Certified Arabic Translator


Greetings.... ahalan wa sahalan.

I refer to your query posted on Arabic-L list.

One alternative expression is "Arabic for Special
Applications," ( ?????????????? ??????????????????
???????????? \ ???????????????? ) versus "Arabic
(Language) for special purposes." (hope the Arabic
text for the two frequent variants -- inserted between
the parethses above -- arrives and displays properly,
ISA.)

That expression ("ASA") seemed in common use in the
degree-granting programs in translation and
interpreting offered by major universities in Saudi
Arabia, especially King Saud University and Imam
Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University (both in Riyadh,
where I was until last December).

The BA-level degree program in T&I at KSU includes
options to speciaIize during the last two years of the
program in a range of fields, technologies,
professions and industries so that graduates can get
jobs in the government or private sector.

You might also check the various undergraduate degree
or "professional certificate" programs in T&I
conducted by several government-run and private-sector
universities, colleges, and institutes in UAE ,
especially those conducted by UAE University in
Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi and the multi-campus emirates-wide
network of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT),
plus what may be offered by the American University of
Sharjah (which is somewhat newer in UAE). I have no
information about what may be offered in Qatar or Oman
for programs in T&I.

Hope this helps. Khair, in shaa' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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2)
Date: 17 Jan 2008
From:"Srpko Lestaric" <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

As I understand, Paula Santillan asked how would we translate "Arabic  
for Specific Purposes course" (or: "Arabic for Special Purposes  
course", as it was written in the Subject line, perhaps for some  
special purpose?) into Arabic. Now, it is irrelevant whether it is a  
course or anything else, at least it is so here. For "course" we have  
one and single equivalent: dawra. By "Arabic" here is meant "the  
Arabic Language", so it should obviously be "al-lugha al-3arabiyya" or  
simply "al-3arabiyya", which often suffices. The other noun is easy to  
translate as well: purposes = 'aghraaD. The alternative 'ahdaaf is not  
as right as that, but is acceptable, either.

So, the only problem Paula had was the one with the adjective, either  
"specific" or "special". Any of the two sets the same problem, for the  
Arabs themselves, I mean in their practice, have not done what they  
should to make this field semantically clear. We see them using the  
word "khaaSS(a)" for "special", and for "specific" and even for  
"private" and "own". On the other hand, the Arabic equivalents for  
"specific" can also be different, from muHaddad and mu3ayyan, till  
daqiiq, waaDiH and mumayyiz. Had it not been so, Paula would never  
think of translating it by words like "muHaddada" or "mu3ayyana",  
which are inadequate here at any rate, for even if it were  
"specific" (as I believe) and not "special", it'd be closer to the  
wanted equivalence if we say "khaSSa". (Having in mind that the  
question is about a language teaching course, we can be quite sure  
that this particular "specific" has to mean "special" and has nothing  
to do eithr with "precise" or "characteristic".)

However, Paula had, according to her own words, "to translate the  
course title of an Arabic for Specific Purposes (ASP) course into  
Arabic". This means that she was obliged to use "al-" (al-mu3arrif)  
and say exactly: dawra fi-l-lugha al-3arabiyya li-l-'aghraaD al- 
khaSSa, not li-'aghraaD khaSSa. These "specific purposes" here are so  
clearly specific, that they require the so called definite article in  
Arabic, even though they do not require it in English. Of course, this  
is not the right moment to analyze the difference between the English  
definite article and what is called the definite article in Arabic.

At the same time, this might be a good place to compare a little these  
two phenomena. For we see our colleague Raji Rammuny says that, in his  
opinion, "Arabic for Special Purposes" would be "al-lugha al-3arabiyya  
li-'aghraaD khaaSSa" [in his somewhat unconvincing transliteration it  
was: al-Lugha al-'Arabiyya li-'Aghraad  Khaassaa]. If one Raji Rammuny  
can say so, then we maybe should open a long and fruitful discussion  
in this very field. Should we start from the beginning?

Best,
Srpko Lestaric

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:20:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Limiting jobs to native speakers
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3) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers
4) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Descrimination against highly qualified non-native speaking language  
teachers is a problem that goes far beyond Arabic. Many TESOL graduate  
programs do not let their own non-native graduate students teach ESL.  
When it comes to Arabic, I take pride in the fact that many of leaders  
in our field are non-native speakers like Kristin Brustad, Karin  
Ryding, Elizabeth Bergman, Dilworth Parkinson, and many many others.

Mustafa Mughazy

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:Chris H <kaix04holmanski77 at hotmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to say that I'm glad that Uri has brought this question  
up in this forum.  Certainly, there is a demand for speakers of Arabic  
that is not easily satisfied in places like the United States where  
Arabic has been, more or less, a LCTL for quite some time.  So, it  
makes some sort of sense that native-speakers of Arabic would be most  
likely to fill teaching positions.  Of course, this is not really  
about whether or not one is a native-speaker of Arabic (it shouldn't  
matter).  There should be something said about anyone who seeks out  
only native-speakers of Arabic, even if it is their prerogative. This  
will continue to become a more urgent issue as programs in the U.S.  
and the world turn out qualified instructors who are non-native  
speakers of Arabic.  On a side note, I imagine that this issue is not  
unique to Arabic either.  Perhaps we could ask our colleagues in other  
languages how they have dealt with this or similar issues?

This also raises another question to me, as a non-native speaking  
instructor of Arabic.  In addition to sending a message to FSI (et  
al.), should we address the role of the non-native speaker in an  
Arabic teaching program?  In my experience, my students have  
appreciated that I know where they are coming from because I was once  
in their position.  In short, while a non-native speaker cannot bring  
important elements like culture and dialect to the table the same way  
native-speakers can--beyond personal anecdotes and experiences abroad  
that is--non-native speakers do have a lot to contribute to the  
thinking that goes into the instruction, curriculum, and other  
elements of a program.  Programs that are devoid of non-native  
speakers are, in my opinion, missing an important link between their  
program and their students.  I can only speak from personal  
experience, but I have had several instructors who could not (or would  
not) attempt to see things from 'our' point of view as students and  
this usually resulted in a lack of progress in the classroom.  There  
is always the push and pull between the instructor and his or her  
students, but surely the incorporation of non-native speaking  
instructors in any language program would help to ameliorate  
situations like I have briefly described here.

Which brings me to...

...Uri's question (thanks again Uri), about Arabic language  
instruction in general and how there seems to be a lack of a unifying  
set of factors across the institutional spectrum.  Each program is and  
should be unique, but perhaps Uri's and other questions that are not  
being asked often enough can lead us to a more pressing discussion on  
where 'we' should be heading as Arabic continues to push itself onto  
the MCTL (More-Commonly-Taught Languages) scene.

Forgive me for neglecting anything in this commentary, for I am merely  
reeling off some thoughts from the top of my head.  I'm not making a  
pointed criticism as much as I am wondering what our thoughts are (or  
have been) on these matters.  Anyone willing to enlighten me, in the  
event that I have missed a lot of the discussion on these issues,  
would be greatly appreciated.  : )

Thanks,

Chris Holman
University of Oregon
chrish at uoregon.edu

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3)
Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Tressy Arts" <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

I agree with Uri Horesh in saying that being a native speaker does not
necessarily make one a good teacher. There are even some disadvantages  
to
being a native speaker; for example, that one does not know the rules of
one's own language, as they are intuitive rather than learned. But
when teaching someone else, this student will need language rules and  
will
ask questions about *why* something is so-and-so, and deserve a better
answer than "that is just the way it is". I teach my own language to
foreigners as well as Arabic to Dutch people, and I can say that the  
former
is often more difficult for me.
Also, not all people make good teachers. Knowing a lot about a subject  
does
not mean that you are good at explaining it to other people. I once was
hired by a native speaker of Arabic to teach his wife and children  
Arabic.
He knew Arabic very well, but was aware that he was not a good teacher  
and
his children were better off with a non-native professional teacher.

Regards,

Tressy Arts
the Netherlands

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

mirabile dictu:  there is not, nor ever was, a 'native speaker' of  
Modern Standard Arabic (better:  Modern Written Arabic).
                                                                      
Mike Schub


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Jan 22 23:21:00 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:U. of Maryland jobs for Algerian and Moroccan
 Arabic speakers
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From: "Lampe, Gerald" <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject:U. of Maryland jobs for Algerian and Moroccan Arabic speakers

National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland
seeks native Algerian Arabic speakers and native Moroccan Arabic
speakers as narrators and lesson content reviewers for a multimedia
project on Arabic Variants Identification. Narrators must be able to
record at our College Park office, which is located one block from the
College Park metro station on the Green line. 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: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Free online Arabic placement test
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Dr Adil El Sheikh" <adil at mediu.edu.my>
Subject:Free online Arabic placement test

This is a free Arabic placement

http://cbe.mediu.edu.my:8080/cbe/

T,Q
Adil

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic for Special Purposes translation
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:Ahmed Farrag <ah_farrag at hotmail.com>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

Dear Pula,

      Arabic for Special Purposes is a linguistic terminology used to  
refer to Arabic Language Courses that approach certain areas such as  
Business Arabic; Arabic for diplomats; Arabic for mass media....etc.
     The equivalent proper translation for this terminology in Arabic  
is "Al 3arabia Lel Magalat Al Khassa".
     Any Arabic course for a special purpose introduces texts that  
affiliated to this domain, and how Arabic language express of lexical  
items.

Ahmed Farrag
AFL, Sr Instructor
Cairo

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2)
Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Darrat, Suleiman" <sdarrat at uky.edu>
Subject:Arabic for Special Purposes translation

Salaam,
You may use:

al-'Arabiyyah lit-tarjuma al-mutakhassissah

Suleiman

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Arabic in Globalized World
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:sabed at cidcm.umd.edu
Subject:New Book on Arabic in Globalized World

I  am pleased to announce the publication of my new book:

Arabic Language and Culture Amid the Demands of Globalization

By Shukri Abed, Chairman
Department of Languages and Regional Studies
The Middle East Institute
Washington, DC

The book was published by The Emirates Cnenter For Strategic Studies  
and Research (2007)

I would appreciate posting this information on you list-serve

Kind regards,

Shukri Abed

shukri B. Abed, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
CIDCM
UMD

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Maltese 'hospital' same in other dialects
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3) Subject:origin of Maltese 'hospital'

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:taoufiq ben amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital' same in other dialects

The same word is used in Tunisian Arabic: sbitar-sbitarat, masculine.  
does anyone know anything about its origins? It sounds very much like  
the italian verb for waiting "aspettare".

Best,
Taoufik Ben Amor
Columbia university

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:t"Abbassi, Abdelaziz CIV USA TRADOC"  
<abdelaziz.abbassi at us.army.mil>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital' same in other dialects

What should be noted, more importantly, is that Maltese belongs to the
Western (Maghrebi) Arabic dialects, and thus uses common vocabulary,
including borrowings. The universal word for hospital in Morocco and
Tunisia, for example, is "sbitar".

Aziz Abbassi

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3)
Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:t"SLIM BEN SLIMANE BEN SAID" <sbb170 at psu.edu>
Subject:origin of Maltese 'hospital'

As far as I know, it might be more accurate to classify the maltese  
"lispitar"
as a loanword from the italian "l'ospedale" rather than from English ---
Another thing being that the Tunisian word "sbitar" is also a loanword  
from
Italian meaning Hospital and Maltese is almost a sister language to  
Tunisian
Arabic

Salam

Selim Ben Said
The Pennsylvania State University

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:connections to Syria query
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject:connections to Syria query

Dear Friends,

3 questions for those who have traveled to Syria in recent years:

- What are the best air connections between the US and Syria?
- Which airlines have the cheapest airfares to Syria?
- Can you recommend an honorable travel agent who who specializes in  
flights to Syria?

Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Some Moroccan phonology and Linux queries
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"Andrew Freeman" <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Some Moroccan phonology and Linux queries

Hi,

             One of the things I?m doing with my spare time is I am  
working on a Master?s degree in Computational Linguistics from the  
University of Washington in Seattle.

             The class I am taking this quarter is a grammar  
engineering class with Dr. Emily Bender.

             Part of my next assignment which is due on Friday January  
25th is translate some sentences into the language for which I am  
building a computational grammar.  The language I chose was Moroccan  
Arabic.

             It would help out a lot if I could get some input on my  
translations.  Before I present my sentences I had a couple of general  
questions about urban vernacular Moroccan Arabic.

1)  Abdel-Massih (1982) pages 22-28 talks about a 3 vowel system, plus  
schwa.  The way I understand it the schwa itself is not contrastive,  
but the placement in the word might be contrastive. For instance  
?qelb? is ?heart? and ?qleb? is ?to turn over.?
2)  Harrell (1966) talks about a 6 vowel system.
3)  The question how would I represent the Moroccan vowel phonology  
using Arabic script?
4)  We are mostly on Linux:
a.       What is a reasonable and readily available text editor that  
runs on RedHat WS 3 for Arabic texts?
b.      Is there a stable version of emacs that can handle Right-To- 
Left display and all flavors of unicode, cp-1256 & MAC-Arabic code  
pages?

Thanks.


Here are my sentences.  If you corrections or comments or alternative  
please email them to me at andyf at u.washington.edu or andyf at umich.edu

     1. Dogs sleep.
   ????? ?????
l-kelb kayn3as
     2. Dogs chase cars.
????? ????? ??? ?????????
l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil

     3. I chase you.
????? ????
kanjri 3lik

     4. These dogs sleep.
??? ?????? ??????
Had l-klab kayn3asu

     5. Dogs eat.
????? ??????
Al-kelb kayakul

     6. I can eat glass.
?????? ????? ?????
ymknli nakol j-jaj

     7. It doesn't hurt me.
?? ????????
ma kaynDerrni$

     8. The dogs chase cars.
     ?????? ?????? ??? ?????????
l-klab kayjriw 3la T-Tomobil

9. I think that you know that dogs chase cars
???? ????? ????? ????? ??? ?????????
???? ??? ????? ??? ????? ????? ???  
?????????
???? ??? ????? ??? ????? ????? ???  
?????????
kanDenn kat3ref l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil
kanDenn belli kat3ref belli l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil
kanDenn bin kat3ref bin l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil

    10. I ask whether you know that dogs chase cars.
????? ??? ????? ????? ????? ???  
?????????
????? ??? ????? ??? ????? ????? ???  
?????????
????? ??? ????? ??? ????? ????? ???  
?????????
kansuwwel wa$ kat3ref l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil
kansuwwel wa$ kat3ref belli l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil
kansuwwel wa$ kat3ref bin l-kelb kayjri 3la T-Tomobil

11. Cats and dogs chase cars.
???? ?????? ?????? ??? ?????????
l-me$$ u-l-kelb kayjriw 3ala T-Tomobil

    12. Dogs chase cars and cats chase dogs.
????? ????? ??? ????????? ????? ?????  
??? ?????
lkelb kayjri 3ala T-Tomobil u-l-me$$ kayjri 3ala l-kelb

    13. Cats chase dogs and sleep.
???? ????? ??? ????? ??????
l-me$$ kayjri 3ala l-kelb u-kayn3as

    14. Do cats chase dogs?
wa$ l-me$$ kayjri 3ala l-kelb?
??? ???? ????? ??? ??????
    15. Chase the dog!
??? ??? ?????
jri 3ala l-kelb

    16. Hungry dogs eat.
????? ??????? ??????
????? ?? ??? ??????

l-kelb j-ju3an kayakul
l-kelb bih ju3 kayakul

    17. Hungry dogs eat quickly.
????? ??????? ?????? ???????
????? ?? ??? ?????? ???????
l-kelb j-ju3an kayakul b-z-zarba
l-kelb bih ju3 kayakul b-z-zarba

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs text suggestions for various Arabic Programs
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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:A Mohamed <mohamed_abby at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs suggestions for new Arabic Program

Hello everyone,

  We are in the process of creating an Arabic Program in one of the  
USA universities. I would appreciate it if you can refere Arabic  
textbooks that could be taught at the university level in these areas:

  - Arabic for heritage speakers
  - Arabic for business
  - Arabic for international business
  - Arabic culture
  - Arabic civilization
  - Spoken Arabic (including the most spoken dialects in the Arab World)
  - Introduction to modern Arabic literature

  Your help is needed and highly appreciated.

  Shukran Jaziilan

  A. Hamza

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:List of K-16 Arabic Books
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1) Subject:List of K-16 Arabic Books

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Date: 22 Jan 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:List of K-16 Arabic Books

Pleas add to the list:

1. Arabic Sounds and Letters: A Beginning Programmed Course (Textbook
and Manual) by Raji Rammuny

For beginners in public schools or colleges.  Includes 20 lessons aimed
to introduce the sound and writing system to beginning students,
accompanied by DVD.

Contact:  orderentry at cdsbooks.com

2. Hayyaa Natakallamu al-'Arabiyya . Let's Speak Arabic  (Three Parts)
by Mahmoud Saleh Sieny et al, (Textbooks and Cds)

Designed to teach Arabic for Novice High/Intermediate learners in public
schools and colleges. Each part includes 15 lessons  consisting of
situational dialogues, brief grammatical and cultural notes and practice
exercises. Contact:  Arabic at gee-edu.com

3. Arabic for Communication: Interactive Multimedia Program (Computer
and web-based program) by Raji Rammuny

For Novice High/Intermediate learners. Includes 20 lessons focused on
survival needs, each consisting of situational dialogues and exercises,
language function segments supported by grammatical and cultural
explanations, and practice communicative activities. Contact:
flacs at umich.edu

Raji Rammuny

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translation of Arabic for Special Purposes,
 correction
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1) Subject:Translation of Arabic for Special Purposes, correction

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Translation of Arabic for Special Purposes, correction

The following message was sent out with garbled Arabic.  Paula sends  
the following transliteration so that you can follow the message,  
which I then repeat below:

-------

the transliteration (my own) would be:

al-3arabiyya li-l-taTbiiqaat al-khaaSSa /
al-takhaSSuSSiyya

-----
Greetings.... ahalan wa sahalan.

I refer to your query posted on Arabic-L list.

One alternative expression is "Arabic for Special
Applications," ( ?????????????? ??????????????????
???????????? \ ???????????????? ) versus "Arabic
(Language) for special purposes." (hope the Arabic
text for the two frequent variants -- inserted between
the parethses above -- arrives and displays properly,
ISA.)

That expression ("ASA") seemed in common use in the
degree-granting programs in translation and
interpreting offered by major universities in Saudi
Arabia, especially King Saud University and Imam
Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University (both in Riyadh,
where I was until last December).

The BA-level degree program in T&I at KSU includes
options to speciaIize during the last two years of the
program in a range of fields, technologies,
professions and industries so that graduates can get
jobs in the government or private sector.

You might also check the various undergraduate degree
or "professional certificate" programs in T&I
conducted by several government-run and private-sector
universities, colleges, and institutes in UAE ,
especially those conducted by UAE University in
Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi and the multi-campus emirates-wide
network of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT),
plus what may be offered by the American University of
Sharjah (which is somewhat newer in UAE). I have no
information about what may be offered in Qatar or Oman
for programs in T&I.

Hope this helps. Khair, in shaa' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Maltese 'hospital'
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Slavom?r ??pl?" <bulbulthegreat at gmail.com>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital'

Dear all,

according to Dionisius Agius's "Siculo Arabic" (Kegan Paul
International, London & New York 1996), p. 321, this is an example of
liquid alternation (shifting by assimilation) attested in Siculo
Arabic (Classical Arabic 'zajala' = 'to bring forth young' > Siculo
Arabic 'zajar'), Arabic borrowings in Spanish (Classical Arabic
'al-saTl' = 'bucket' > Spanish 'acetre') and Maltese (Classical Arabic
'faatir' = 'tepid, lukewarm' > Maltese 'fietel'). Apparently in
Maltese, this shift can also be observed in Romance borrowings, such
as the one in question, i.e. Sicilian 'spedali' > Maltese 'sptar'.
Note that standard Italian word for 'hospital' is 'ospedale'.
It is quite interesting to hear that the same word can also be found
in Tunisian and Moroccan Arabic. Are we talking about borrowings or
common development? And, more interestingly, do you know of any other
examples of this liquid alteration?

bulbul

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Samia Montasser <montasser at un.org>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital'

Dear colleagues,
Among some Egyptians (mainly uneducated older generations) the word
"esbetalia" is used to refer to "hospital" as well.

Samia S. Montasser
Coordinator
Arabic Language
The United Nations

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jobs restricted to native speakers
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2) Subject:Jobs restricted to native speakers

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:shehade at mappi.helsinki.fi
Subject:Jobs restricted to native speakers

The basic question that needs to be raised is: Should a professor of
Arabic language and Islamic studies master this language both in theory
and practice or not? As far as I know there is no condition in the  
policy
of professorship which says that the candidate has to show a profound
knowledge in Arabic and what counts mainly is publications. Consequently
the phenomenon of finding professors of Arabic who are unable neither to
speak any sort of Arabic nor write MSA is common.
On the other side not every native speaker of a certain language can  
be a
good teacher. Beside this ability of one Arabic dialect and a profound
active knowledge of MSA that most academic Arabs have he needs to know  
the
educational methods of teaching and like this profession.
H. Shehadeh

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Ikt?mi" <ikto.ness at gmail.com>
Subject:Jobs restricted to native speakers

Hi everybody!!

I was very pleased to read this discussion for it's an issue that  
interests
me personally! I am a teacher of French ( L1 Arabic). I come from a  
country
where Fr is a L2, and spoken by nearly the majority of the population.  
I do
consider myself a native speaker of French, in reality I am bilingual,  
since
I spent 8 years of my life in France, and I was always considered  
French by
the natives. It sounds as if I had no problem with anything related to  
what
you were discussing about, but I am writing because I recently had many
discussions with a friend of mine, same origin, nearly the same  
competences
in French, and gratuated for teaching French as a Foreign language. She
spent 6 months looking for a job, but she was refused at all her
applications (around 70 applications). All of these applications were
highlighting the condition that the teacher had to be a native-speaker,
which, on the official documents, is not her case. She ended up thinking
about conducting a PHD research on these representations native/ non- 
native
language teachers, and we've been talking about the issue a long time.
I totally agree on this idea: a native speaker is not necessarily a good
language teacher and a non-native, one may know how to explain things  
and
teach them for he/she is more sensitive to the learning difficulties. I
would like to add though, something I consider very important: non- 
native
teachers' perceptions towards themselves and their teaching. these can  
also
be problematic, and creates a feeling of insecurity and lack of  
confidence.
Myself, I would't have questioned my language abilities hadn't I been
recruited to teach the language. I was so confident or rather, my  
language
performance was generally natural, until I had to teach and transmit  
it to
my studemnts, I started questionning every language use, every  
expression,
even the most obvious ones. Teaching is a form of knowledge
transmission, It's a responsibility, and when the context points out to
non-native teachers, non-native teachers themselves feel inconfident,  
and
can end up being paralysed by all those social constructions
Thank you

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Linux/Morrocan Arabic responses
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1) Subject:Linux response
2) Subject:Linux response
3) Subject:Writing Moroccan Arabic

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Linux response

On 22/01/2008, "Andrew Freeman" <andyf at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> a.       What is a reasonable and readily available text editor that  
> runs on
> RedHat WS 3 for Arabic texts?

Both gedit (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/) and Katoob
(http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Katoob) work well for plain
text files.

If you want a word processor (i.e. something that lets you control
formatting) rather than just a text editor, OpenOffice
(http://www.openoffice.org/) is the best option for Arabic, in my
experience.  Make sure you enable the Complex Text Layout (CTL) option
in its Language Settings, and install a good Arabic font; I use SIL's
Scheherazade (http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=109 
).

> b.      Is there a stable version of emacs that can handle Right-To- 
> Left display and all flavors of
> unicode, cp-1256 & MAC-Arabic code pages?

Please let me know if you find out; I've given up on Emacs for this  
reason.

Ben

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2)
Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Alexander J. Stein" <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject:Linux response

Andrew,

I am not sure of the status of emacs in particular, but I recommend  
you examine the website for Arabeyes[1], a multinational localization  
team from that focuses on translating popular FOSS titles and creating  
useful packages for Arabs and/or Muslims (since most orthographic  
issues apply to any language with Arabic script). Link [2] gives you  
an introduction. By the way, these people are doing excellent work,  
and I can vouch for the quality of it. I suggest all Arabists on this  
site who are Linux enthusiasts check out the links below. Furthermore,  
they are always in need of more translators to help translate open  
source software. If you want to practice your skill with Arabic  
computer terminology and watch the evolution of the language, I  
recommend volunteering.

Regards,
Alexander Stein

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2)
Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:"Jan Hoogland" <j.hoogland at let.ru.nl>
Subject:Writing Moroccan Arabic

Hi Andy,

These are some interesting questions.

And how to write Moroccan Arabic in Arabic script is even more  
interesting,
since the Moroccans are struggling with this themselves too.

There is an interesting development going on in Morocco presently: the
Moroccan Arabic dialect is used more and more as a written language
(billboards, quotations in magazines, subtitles on TV).

There is however no general consensus on the orthography of Moroccan  
Arabic.

So people seem to write it the way they like it.

Some even prefer to vocalize it, which to my humble opinion is less
important in Moroccan Arabic.

The way you spelled the Moroccan sentences is quite usual, with some
concessions to MSA orthography. For example, to represent the Moroccan
Arabic article l- does not demand the writing of an alif (like alif  
lam for
?al-? in MSA). However, very few people leave the alif out.

On the other hand you write the demonstrative ?had? as it is pronounced,
without any concessions to MSA orthography h?dha.

Some people even write kaf-alif for the durative particle ka-.

I do have some doubts about the correctness of your MA sentences, but  
I?ll
leave that to the native speakers.

Good luck with Moroccan Arabic Darizja (characterised by some Arabs as  
?non
Arabic?)

Jan

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:14 -0700
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:ALS 22 Program

22 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
University of Maryland, College Park
March 8-9, 2008

Sponsored by
The Arabic Linguistics Society
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,
Center for the Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland, and
National Foreign Language Center

Program
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
9.00?9.30	OPENING REMARKS

9.30?10:00	Phrasal and sentential agreement in the inter-language of  
learners of Arabic
Ghassan Husseinali
Yale University

10.00?10:30   	Linguistic distance and the acquisition of basic  
reading processes in diglossic Arabic
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

10.30?10.45	BREAK

10.45?11.30	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mushira Eid
University of Utah
Arabic or Arabics: The core and the variable

11:30?12:00 	Verb innovation in Palestinian Arabic
Lior Laks
Tel Aviv University, Israel
	
12.00?1.00	BREAK
	
1.00?1.45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Yasser Suleiman
University of Edinburgh
Out of place: Language, dislocation and exile

2.15-2.30	BREAK

2.30?3.15	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jonathan Owens
University of Maryland
The early history of Arabic

3.15 ? 3.45 Ingrate or honorable: A re-examination of the word kanuud  
in Qur?an 100 (al-??diya?t))
Munther Younes
Cornell University

3.45 ? 4.15	Genre analysis and Arabic legal discourse
Ahmed Fakhri
West Virginia University

4.15 ? 4.30	BREAK

4.30 ? 5.00	The feasibility of using the web in building Arabic sense- 
tagged corpora
Khalid Alghamry
Ain Shams University Egypt

5.00 ? 5.30	A Unified analysis of Arabic demonstratives in the  
extended nominal projection
Kamel Elsaadany & Salwa Shams
Gulf University for Science and Technology

5.30 ? 6.00	The syntactic behavior of Arabic idioms
Ashraf Mohamed
University of Manchester

1.45-2.15     	The effect of language contact and diachrony on
Urban Palestinian phonemics
Uri Horesh
The University of Texas at Austin

6.00-6.30	Patterns of variation in the adoption of Casablancan gender  
concord norms by three ethnolinguistic migrant groups
Atiqa Hachimi
University of Florida

Alternates	
Negative and positive imperatives in young children's Kuwaiti Arabic
Morphosyntactic Development in an Arabic Diglossic Situation

SUNDAY, MARCH 9
9.00 ? 9.30	Final devoicing and voicing assimilation in Cairene  
Arabic: An OT analysis
Rawia Kabrah
Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

9.30 ? 10.00	The syllable: A perceptual unit in Egyptian Arabic
Rajaa Aquil
University of Utah

10.00 ? 10.30 Leading, linking and closing tonal contours in Egyptian  
Arabic
Dina ELzarqa
Karl-Franzens-Universit?t Graz

10.30-10.45	BREAK

10.45 ? 11.15	Phrasal syncope in Makkan Arabic: An OT account
Mahasen Abu-Mansour
Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

11.15 ? 11.45	The OCP as a synchronic constraint in Arabic
Eiman Mustafawi
Qatar University

11.45-1.00	BREAK

1.00 ? 1.45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Elabbas Benmamoun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comparative syntax of Arabic varieties: Issues and approaches

1.45 ? 2.15	?Heads? of a feather ?agree? together: On the  
morpho-syntax of imperatives in MSA
Usama Soltan
Middlebury College	

2.15 ? 2.30	BREAK

2.30 ? 3.00	The myth of tensed negation: A neo-aspectualist analysis  
of lam and lan in Standard Arabic
Mustafa Mughazy
Western Michigan University

3.00 ? 3.30	Negative expressions in Moroccan Arabic: NCI?s or  
NPI?s?
Hamid Ouali
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

3.30 ? 4.00	A core syntax of Arabic pronoun and agreement
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
University of Newcastle & University Mohammed V Rabat

4.00 ? 4.15	BREAK

4.15 ? 5.00	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Manfred Woidich
University of Amsterdam
The Egyptian lexicon and the Arabic World Atlas

5.00-5.30	Mixed agreement in Lebanese Arabic
Heidi Lorimor
University of Mary Washington

5.30 ? 6.00	Use of humor in Arabic and English travel literature: A  
socio-pragmatic contrastive study
Samih Salah
University of Alexandria, Egypt

Alternates	
Against the Split-CP Hypothesis: Evidence from	Iraqi Arabic
The MSA ? dialect interface: Borrowing vs. codeswitching in the  
context of corpus analysis

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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:05 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mandean Conference Last Call
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1) Subject:Mandean Conference Last Call

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:aram at aramsociety.org
Subject:Mandean Conference Last Call

Dear Colleague,

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organising its Twenty  
Sixth International Conference on the theme of The Mandaeans, to held  
at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of  
London, 08-10 September 2008.
The conference aims to study Mandaeism and its relationship to Near  
Eastern religions and gnostic movements, and it will start on Monday  
08 September at 9am, finishing on Wednesday 10 September at 6pm. Each  
speaker?s paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10  
minutes for discussion.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please send your answer  
to the above Aram email address before March 2008. If you know of  
colleagues who might like to contribute to the conference, please  
forward this message to them or send us their names and email  
addresses. Yet, we would like to remind our colleagues that only  
academics are allowed to present a paper at an ARAM conference.
	The conference will start on Monday 8 September at 9am, finishing on  
Wednesday 10 September at 6pm. Each speaker?s paper is limited to 30  
minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers  
given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future  
edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.
If you wish to know more about our ARAM Society and its academic  
activities, please open our website: www.aramsociety.org
If you have any questions or comments at any time, I am always happy  
to receive them.
Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd (Dr.)
Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Society
The Oriental Institute
University of Oxford
Pusey Lane
Oxford OX1 2LE ? UK?
Tel: +1865-514041?
Fax: +1865-516824?
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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:connections to Syria
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1) Subject:connections to Syria

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:connections to Syria

Abu Sammy,

1.There are only three airlines that travel directly from New York to  
Damascus via Europe: Air France, British Airways, and Austrian Airlines.

2. I have heard that there are some cheaper airlines, such as Egypt  
Air that travels via Cairo, and Jordanian Royal Airlines (Aliyah) that  
travels via Amman.  I have not used any of them, so I do not know  
through what agents one can make a reservation.

Best wishes,
Nimat

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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Textbook for new program query responses
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1) Subject:Textbook for new program query responses
2) Subject:Textbook for new program query responses
3) Subject:Textbook for new program query responses

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Haroon Shirwani <arabictutor at hotmail.com>
Subject:Textbook for new program query responses

Build Your Arabic Vocabulary is a textook which helps students on all  
types of course consolidate their basic vocabulary, through exercises,  
writing assignments and flashcards:

http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0071478760

Best wishes,
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Textbook for new program query responses

he Kallimni Arabi series of Egyptian Arabic textbooks by Samia Louis
and Iman Soliman, published by the AUC Press are superb textbooks.
Volumes are planned for the beginner (Kallimni Arabi bi?w?sh),
Intermediate (Kallimni Arabi) and Advanced (Kallimni Arabi ma?b?t),
with the Intermediate being the only one in print just now (it was
released last March) and the other two to be released soon. Having
taught out of the intermediate textbook and reviewed the manuscripts
for the other two, I can say that the books in the series altogether
present the best Arabic textbooks available (whether for spoken or
written Arabic). The method followed by the books is intended to
enable students to learn from example and practice rather than through
lengthy explanations of structure and usage. The books are structured
in a way that they almost teach themselves; they could actually be
used for self-instruction. That cannot be said for any other Arabic
textbook I know of (not even Al-Kit?b, which comes close).

The praiseworthy features of the book are many; of those, I'll name my
favourites:  where variants in usage occur in the natural speech of
Egyptians, the book reflects it (for example, the book illustrates
through usage how either feminine singular or plural agreement can be
employed with non-human plural nouns); there is consistent, attractive
artwork throughout (a real novelty in the Arabic textbook trade); and
the audio materials, presented on a CD, actually feature people with
pleasant voices who know how to act (another novelty ? mind you, the
Al-Kit?b series employs real actors), and the "from real life"
segments at the end of each module are presented with realistic
ambient noise (a party with people talking in the background; a taxi
ride with Quranic recitation on the radio and Cairo traffic kalaxating
outside).  These may seem like trivial considerations, but they place
these books miles ahead of most other Arabic textbooks.

There are some things that I might have done differently, the most
salient of which is the treatment of vocabulary. There is never a
comprehensive list of vocabulary presented anywhere in the lessons,
either at the beginning or the end (I have seen both in other
textbooks), nor is the glossary in the end materials comprehensive.
The authors have done this of a purpose, intending that students
acquire vocabulary in context (not a bad idea in itself), but students
would appreciate complete lists. This means that the teacher is
obliged to construct lists or to compel students to work with a
dictionary (also not a bad idea). A good beginners dictionary is also
published by the AUC Press: The Spoken Arabic of Cairo, with somewhere
above 6000 entries. In it, the Arabic is presented in transliteration,
while Kallimini Arabi uses the Arabic script throughout ? except in
the vocabulary lists.

The AUC Press has a distributor in VA, whose contact info I can get
for you if need be.

There are other Egyptian Arabic textbooks.  A very close second to the
Kallimni Arabi series is Mustafa Mughazi's Dardasha (which also adopts
an acquisition-through-context approach) and is very strong on
embedding cultural discussions into its lessons.

Considering that about a quarter of all native speakers of Arabic are
from Egypt (assuming upwards of 75 million people in Egypt and some
300 million in the entire Arab world) we could say that the most
widely spoken vernaculars are the Egyptian vernaculars.  That of Cairo
is generally the one labelled "Egyptian Arabic", but the other
Egyptian varieties can lay equal claim to the appellation.  Even so,
speakers of the Cairene vernacular are understood throughout Egypt and
to some (perhaps a large) degree throughout the Arab world; anyone who
owns a television set in the Arab world will be exposed to the Cairene
vernacular (they could hardly escape it).

(I am, neverthless, finding in my dealings with Lebanese speakers,
mediating through my Egyptian Arabic, that, even so, there remain some
barriers to comprehension.  There are, by the way, regional
differences in written usage between Lebanese and Egyptian fusha too -
and between those two an other regional dialects of fusha - I use the
word deliberately, reclaiming its original Greek meaning, which
referred in part to regional literary dialects of Greek).

The other vernaculars are not nearly as well represented with engaging
teaching materials as is the Egyptian.

That said, an entire course of Syrian vernacular is available online:
http://www.syrianarabic.com/

It is probably safe to assert that the second most recognizable
vernacular is the Lebanese vernacular of Beirut, owing largely to the
dominance of Lebanese announcers on the satellite TV channels.  Syrian
is fairly close to Lebanese, although the Lebanese can immediately
spot the differences in the speech of speakers of other Levantine
vernaculars, and I would venture to guess that the speakers of those
vernaculars are equally as sensitive.

-- 
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: 26 Jan 2008
From:"IBCBOOKS.COM" <ibc at ibcbooks.com>
Subject:Textbook for new program query responses

this is in response to text suggestions for various arabic programs
The international Book Centre website offer many textbooks for adult
learners. Please check our website at www.ibcbooks.com
for our listings. Of interest to this inquiry .... Lets learn the Arabic
Newspaper, Advanced Arabic Readers in International Affairs
and more. Claudette for International Book Centre

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sat Jan 26 14:52:19 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Books in Computer Assisted Language Learning
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Dr Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed <ibhims20002 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Books in Computer Assisted Language Learning

Greeting dear all,

I have Four books in Computer Assisted  Arabic Language  Learning  
(CAALL)  have been published (2006-2007) by  research Management  
Center at International Islamic University -Malaysia. This link will  
lead you to the books' cover.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ibhims20002/files/

Interested please contact me. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you in anticipation

Dr.Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed Ashmaiq
Center for Languages at
Faculty of Medicine- International Islamic University-Malaysia
25710 Jalan Hospital
P.O.Box 141- Kuantan-Pahang- Malaysia


Dr. Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed  Ashmaiq Ph.D (Curriculum & Methods of  
Teaching Arabic Language)
Center for Languages at
Faculty of Medicine- International Islamic University-Malaysia
25710 Jalan Hospital
P.O.Box 141- Kuantan-Pahang- Malaysia
Tel: 609- 513 2797 ext 3321(office)- H/P-+60-129375845
  Fax: 609- 513 3615
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:AATA Newsletter available
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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:moderator
Subject:AATA Newsletter available

The electronic copy of the AATA newsletter for January has recently  
been distributed, and is, as usual, full of various job listings and  
other information.  If you did not receive a copy by e-mail, you could  
check it out at aataweb.org.
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Database of Arabic Names expanded
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1) Subject:Database of Arabic Names expanded

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:dJohnson at cal.org
Subject:Database of Arabic Names expanded

fyi:
Database of Arabic Names expanded
Specializing in the compilation of CJK and Arabic lexical resources,  
The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc. has announced a major expansion of  
its Database of Arabic Names (DAN), which is expected to reach over a  
million entries by March 2008. DAN covers Arabic personal names in  
both the Roman and Arabic scripts and includes numerous orthographic  
variants and other attributes such as web frequency, name type codes  
and normalized forms.

The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc., E-mail: info at cjk.org, Web: http://www.cjk.org

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:52:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Arab Academy Specials
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1) Subject:Arab Academy Specials

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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:sana at arabacademy.com
Subject:Arab Academy Specials

Arab Academy is happy to announce our new student rewards program for  
2008?because we want to reward students for their diligent and hard  
work!

Study with us online and receive:

? 1 FREE week of classes in Cairo when you study with us online for a  
consecutive 6 months (a $160 value);

? 2 FREE weeks of classes in Cairo when you study with us online for a  
consecutive 12 months (a $325 value); and

? 1 FREE month of classes in Cairo when you study with us online for 2  
consecutive years (a $650 value)!

* Classes in Cairo will run for 4 hours per day, 5 days per week.   
Airfare and accommodation costs are not included.

Take your Arabic to the next level by coming to study in Cairo!
We offer intensive Arabic immersion programs in connection with, or  
separate from our online programs. There is not better way to learn a  
language than to be immersed in it. Please see our study abroad page  
for program details and registration information: http://www.arabacademy.com/studyabroad

Gaurav Khemani, a study abroad student from INSEAD said, "Very good  
experience- great teachers, great material, and great learning!"

Adam Holmes, a study abroad student from the U.S. said, "My experience  
was extremely positive; I would recommend Arab Academy to anyone!"

For more information and to register, please visit:

Courses for Adults:
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Courses for middle to high school students (GCSE/IGCSE - IB Arabic  
students):
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Courses for Children:
http://www.arabacademy.com/register/as

To find the right course for you, fill our advising request form:
http://www.arabacademy.com/advising

Register for our study abroad program in Cairo, Egypt:
http://www.arabacademy.com/studyabroad

For a free demo, visit:
http://www.arabacademy.com/demo

Best regards,
Sanaa Ghanem
President, Arab Academy
3 Alif Al-Nabataat Street, Garden City,
Cairo, Egypt
Cellular: +2 012 218 0305
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:57:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books special and Islamic Architecture Books
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1) Subject:Gerlach Books special and Islamic Architecture Books

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:orders at gerlach-books.de
Subject:Gerlach Books special and Islamic Architecture Books

We are happy to offer 3 beautifully illustrated books on Islamic  
architecture. Benefit from our offer and order 1, 2 or all 3 volumes  
at a special price!

?Dictionary of Islamic Architecture"
Author: Andrew Petersen
Publisher: Routledge
Hardcover
Published: 1996
Publisher's list price: 155 GBP (208 EUR)
Pages: 352
89 architectural drawings/floor plans, 9 maps and 45 b/w illustrations
Size: cm 24.6 x 18.9 cm (9.6 x 7.4 inches)
ISBN: 9780415060844

?Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250"
Authors: Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina
Publisher: Yale University Press
Hardcover
Published: 2002
Publisher's list price: 55 GBP (73 EUR)
Pages: 352
150 colour and 330 b/w illustrations, 6 maps
Size: 29.5 x 22.5 cm (11 x 9 inches)
ISBN: 9780300088670

?Traditional Domestic Architecture of the Arab Region"
Author: Friedrich Ragette
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges / American University of Sharjah
Hardcover
Published: 2003
Publisher's list price: 78 EUR
Pages: 296
c. 200 b/w illustrations
Size: 30 x 25 cm (11.8 x 9.8 inches)
ISBN: 9783932565304

Our offer until 11 February 2008:

(1) Order 1 volume with 10% discount
- Add 15 EUR for worldwide surface mail delivery (airmail on request)
- Prepayment by credit card is required
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Test for Cultural or Pragmatic competence in Arabic
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:jeremy.palmer at gmail.com
Subject:Test for Cultural or Pragmatic competence in Arabic query

Is there a standardized test for cultural or pragmatic competence in  
Arabic in existence that you know about?

Thanks,
Jeremy

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Maltese 'hospital'
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at if.uib.no>
Subject:Maltese 'hospital'

Sorry. It's just like Egyptian "yaa reet" for "yaa layta" in SA: all  
the influence of a single Chinese or Japanese merchant circulating in  
the Mediterranean area in the later Middle Ages. JB

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Limiting jobs to native speakers
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2) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers and Orange Books
3) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers and Orange Books

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"abdel khila" <akhila at hotmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers
This issue of native speakers is not unique to Arabic. I am a native  
speaker of Moroccan Arabic, I also speak other languages (French,  
Spanish, Arabic, etc). I currently teach French and although I am not  
a native speaker contrary to what some of my colleague think, I do  
speak it fluently. I am certified in ESL. Now the issue here is  
whether that native speaker is qualified to teach period. Just because  
you are a native English speaker, it does not mean you can teach  
English. I have a masters degree in Teaching Foreign languages in  
addition to a certification to teach ESL, yet some find it odd that I  
could teach English in the U.S where there are many native speakers!  
Even though I share a lot in common with any potential ESL students I  
might teach...I have experience learning English as a FL, I am  
qualified and versed in FL methodology and approaches, and I am what  
we call in the profession a sympathetic listener (some native speakers  
tend to take things for granted which leads to a lack of  
comprehensible input for their students). Native speakers of any  
language bring a lot to the table as long as they are qualified to  
teach and as long as they would have followed a training/degree  
program in FL education. In the public schools where I teach, a  
certification is a requirement. To be certified, you would have had to  
complete a degree program in addition to taking the proficiency and  
written tests. Certain universities require the candidate to take the  
ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language) OPI (Oral  
proficiency Test) and the WPT (Written Proficiency Test). Both tests  
are rigorous and test the candidate ability to both write and speak at  
different levels, the highest being Superior. The OPI for example is a  
45 minute interview via the phone where the candidate is pushed to his/ 
her limits through a series of questions in the context of what might  
seem as an informal conversation with a person on the other line you  
have never met who is rating and recording every single utterance. I  
took the OPI and WPT for both Arabic and French and I could testify  
that it was a stressful experience even for someone who speaks, reads  
and write both languages fluently. Which leads me to the issue of some  
non-native speakers, I must premise by saying that I had the pleasure  
of working and meeting some wonderful non-native French and Spanish  
speakers, however, it saddens me to say that there are people in the  
profession teaching either French or Spanish who have no business  
doing it. The end result is a poor quality of instruction, students  
who can not speak the language after years and years of instruction,  
teachers who resolve to Speaking English in a foreign language class  
sometimes 80% of the time!!! (How can you learn a language like that?)  
and a slew of other consequences among which the dissatisfaction of  
the community with the FL programs in their neighborhood schools.  
There always this sense that FL in this country are relegated to a sub- 
standard role. I am not saying that the poor quality of instructors is  
the only reason for that, but in programs and districts where hiring  
quality instructors is a priority (there are not many unfortunately) ,  
FL is a big part of the educational system ( Fairfax County, Virginia  
with its immersion schools comes to mind). I think some university  
programs and some states dropped the ball by lowering their standards  
by allowing candidates to get certified even if their ACTFL scores are  
Advanced-low or Intermediate-Hig or by  still requiring the Praxis  
test ( one of the stupidest tests ever created for FL) to be good  
enough. How can you teach a language to a high school student when  
your proficiency    score is Intermediate-high and the student?s score  
is Intermediate- mid?( yes some school have proficiency test for their  
students that follow the ACTFL guidelines).

On the other hand, one issue with native speakers or in this case  
Arabic native speakers if we can call them that is that most of them  
are oblivious to what it takes to teach a FL language. They look at it  
from their point of view and through their own experiences when they  
were learning it as kids in their respective native countries, they  
bring their cultural luggage and own learning background and try to   
implement it or make it as their road map of teaching in a completely  
different culture and different set of  circumstances. They do not  
look at the learning experience form the point of view of the student  
who may have never heard Arabic, but from their own. They end up  
teaching the alphabet for example as they would have learned  
themselves 20 or 30 years ago back home where the teacher centered  
class is the norm. They don?t realize that something as common for  
them as Ahmed is incomprehensible to students.  The proof here is the  
slew of ridiculously written books for the learning of Arabic where  
grammar and grammar and grammar is driving the instruction, nothing is  
taught in context and rote memorization is the key to success or is it?
Someone mention rules and that native speakers don?t know the rules. I  
wish it was as simple as that. Rules you can read about in a book and  
just follow the book. The problem with some native speakers is that  
they follow too many rules. Try teaching a foreign language to a  
middle schooler and talk incessantly about rules
your school year would be a long one.

Abdelkader Khila

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Jonathan Lange <jonathanlange at yahoo.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers and Orange Books

Hi there, just to put my two cents in on a few
subjects running around the list:

First, does anyone doubt that a foreign speaker can be
an excellent teacher of Arabic (or any other language,
for that matter)?  I'm a plain, old, raised-here
American and at university my Arabic teacher for the
first two years was Chinese (I believe he is on this
list - and bravo professor! :) ).  I had a fabulous
learning experience.  Why?  Quite possibly becasue the
professor knew very well himself what the difficulties
of learning Arabic as a foreigner were.  And there's
the point - if you had to go through it, you can
better explain it.

Second concern:

What ever happenned to the good old Orange Book(s)?
Everyone is listing recommended Arabic resources for
this and that, but this is still the only resource
that gives you a straight-forward, no-run-around
grammar of Arabic.  I know that when I was in CASA
there was a big dispute over whether the Orange Book
people or the Al-Kitab people were better.  Well, the
answwer was that the OB folks knew their grammar
inside and out, and the AK people spoke better, but
both were lacking what the other had.  So...when are
Arabic professors (you know who you are :) ) going to
get together and make a happy medium between the two?
I would also suggest a decent workbook, with fun
exercises and cultural references (like I learned
French) to go along with this.  I know Al-Kitab takes
a shot at that, but some fine-tuning is in order.

Anyway, just my two cents on both the
foreigner-as-teacher and textbook issues.

-Jonathan Lange

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Moulay Ali Bouanani" <bouanani.idrissi at gmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers and Orange Books

In the best of worlds, yes. However, when it comes to teaching English  
in
this country and others. It is tacitly agreed upon to be a native  
speaker if
one is applying for a position in an English department. I have had to
experience discrimination (never overtly) in securing a job compatible  
with
my training as a teacher/professor of English here in the US. I suspect
English hiring committees in many institutions of simply discarding
applications just by looking at the names of applicants and not paying
attention to their credentials. The only position I got teaching  
English in
the US was offered to me because (according to the chair of that  
particular
department) they had more than enough of a particular ethnic group at  
that
school!

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants Arabic comp ling summer internship
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:ibrahim saleh <imazied at yahoo.com>
Subject:Wants Arabic comp ling summer internship

Dear All,

I am a Fulbright student at Georgetown University, doing my masters in  
computational linguistics. My native language is Arabic. I am  
interested in getting an internship for the next Summer (even for  
free). I got offers from two places, but not confirmed yet.

Could you help me find an opening?


Regards,
Ibrahim Saleh
is94 at georgetown.edu

Dept. of Computational Linguistics,
Georgetown University
37th and O Street, NW
Washington, DC 20057

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Linux Arabic
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From: "David Schulz" <David.Schulz at wlc.edu>
Subject:Linux Arabic

Years ago I installed emacs-bidi (bidirectional) on my Linux box.  It  
has worked well for me for Arabic and it also works with Hebrew.    
(The newer versions of vim also handle Arabic quite nicely.  I also  
use mlterm which is a bi-directional terminal emulator.  You can hunt  
these things down with google)

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:JAIS, newly posted articles
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at if.uib.no>
Subject:JAIS, newly posted articles

The following articles have been posted at www.uib.no/jais:

1. Vol. 6: Ahmed Sokarno Abdel-Hafez. The Development of Future  
Markers in Arabic and the Nile Nubian Languages. (Adobe Acrobat 7.0  
PDF file, 169 kB, pp. 64-79). HTML Unicode version.

Abstract: This paper deals with the rise of the grammatical elements  
of simple future in the Nile Nubian languages (i.e. Kenzi and Fadicca)  
and Arabic (i.e. Stan dard Arabic and Cairene Colloquial Arabic).  
Using grammaticalization as a frame of reference, I attempt to  
determine the sources, the mechanisms and processes involved in the  
development of the grammatical elements in these languages. In  
addition, the study sheds light on the points of similarity and  
difference between these languages as far as the rise of future  
expression is concerned.

2. Vol. 7:
Zoltan Szombathy. Freedom of Expression and Censorship in Medieval  
Arabic Literature. (Adobe Acrobat 6.0 PDF file, 262 kB, pp. 1-24).  
HTML Unicode version (to be posted later).

Abstract: This article explores the restraints placed upon literary  
production in medieval Arabic literature (particularly poetry) and the  
ways in which such control was effected. After surveying the various  
ways of controlling the production of texts, which ranged from mild  
self-censorship to the actual execution of authors by state  
authorities, we will try to find general patterns in the data, with a  
special emphasis on the different treatment of l?se-religion and l?se- 
majest? respectively.

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs examples of assessment plan and evaluation plan
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From: "Mahmoud Elsayess" <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Needs examples of assessment plan and evaluation plan

As you know I submitted a request for $250,000 grants and the initial  
reply from the grants office is positive.  I received an email  
requesting supplying two pieces of information and they are as follows:

1_ Assessment plan
2_ Evaluation plan

I would like to know if you or your colleagues have samples that I can  
use as a guide to fulfill the plan requirements.

Thank you.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:AATA Newsletter query
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:Michael Toler <matoler at gmail.com>
Subject:AATA Newsletter query

[moderator's note: can an AATA person respond to this?]

Hello,
I couldn't find a link on the website.  Only through December 2007.   
Am I missing something?  Is it possible to provide the direct link?
Thank you.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:connections to Syria
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1) Subject:connections to Syria
2) Subject:connections to Syria

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:connections to Syria

RJ reservations can be made through the Alia office in New York.  The
website is slow and quirky, so it is better to make reservations by
phone.  I expect the same would be true on both counts for Egypt Air.
Alia has more or less normal seating configurations (i.e., somewhat
cramped but not dreadfully awful like US carriers - whose cabins also
harbour unpleasant smells - I used to work servicing US commercial
carriers when in grad school, so I know where those smells come
from!); Alia is famous for the quality of its meals (it wins awards
for it).  Egypt Air reserves its best aircraft for its cross-Atlantic
and European flights; they are newer and more spacious than Alia's.
Meals are ho-hum.

David Wilmsen

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"Alex Magidow" <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:mirabile dictu amusing

Having recently travelled to Damascus via Chicago and Amman on the
Royal Jordanian flight, I can say that it was definitely one of the
least expensive tickets I found, but that the flight to Chicago from
Amman was delayed upwards of 12 hours. However, this was during
December, when the weather was particularly bad, so it is
understandable. Also, RJ provided us with transit visas and hotel
rooms in Amman during the delay.

I will note that a plane flight of that length is somewhat unpleasant,
so if price is not an object it might be more comfortable for you to
take a flight which has a closer connection point, i.e. the flights
through Europe.

I purchased my tickets online via Expedia I believe, or some similar
website, so I cannot recommend a particular travel agent. However, I
had no trouble with my electronic tickets, either leaving Syria or
returning from the US. I have heard some reports of problems, however,
obtaining a boarding pass from an electronic ticket at the Damascus
Airport.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Jan 28 15:58:09 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:09 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Interactive Arabic Multimedia Program available
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Interactive Arabic Multimedia Program available

A web-based/computer version of the Arabic for Communication:
Interactive Multimedia Program is available now for experimentation.
The program consists  of 20 units focused on survival needs.  Arabic
programs interested in using the multimedia program and providing us
with feedback are welcome to receive the URL code for the program for
temporary use. Please contact Raji Rammuny at raram at umich.edu

Raji Rammuny
University of Michigan
Department of Near Eastern Studies

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Jan 28 15:58:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Intensive Arabic Program in Zarqa Jordan
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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"Alhawary, Mohammad T." <malhawary at ou.edu>
Subject:Summer Intensive Arabic Program in Zarqa Jordan

Summer Intensive Arabic Program
in Zarqa, Jordan at
The Hashemite University

6 weeks in Jordan
May 20 - June 30 2008

The Hashemite University is on the outskirts of the city of Zarqa, the
second largest city after the capital city Amman, with a population of
about 1.000.000 inhabitants.  Zarqa is located in the north of Jordan
about 20 miles (25 km) north east of Amman.   With its unique location
and small size compared to other over-crowded cities in the region, the
city of Zarqa is a great choice for an Arabic study abroad program. The
program will begin on Sunday, July 3, 2005. Students must arrive in
Zarqa on July 2nd.

The Summer Arabic program at the Hashemite University (HU) is part of
an exchange agreement between The University of Oklahoma (OU) and The
Hashemite University a (HU) nd is open for non-OU students as well.
The program provides:

- Intensive Arabic language instruction of 150 hours: 125 of Modern
Standard Arabic and 25 hours in survival colloquial Jordanian.

- Small classrooms with individual attention (maximum of 12 students in
each class) to develop their Arabic language skills at the Intermediate
and advanced levels and beyond.  The Summer 2008 program will be
limited to instruction at the Intermediate (equivalent to 2nd year
Arabic at OU) and advanced (equivalent to 3rd  year Arabic at OU)
levels.

- Basic orientation on the country and culture upon arrival

- At least three field trips to historical sites & cultural programs
arranged by HU

- Off-campus housing in Amman, arranged by HU

The deadline for application is March 15, 2008.

Textbooks used: Al-Kitaab: Part Two & Three

For further information, please contact the program directors:

Professor Mohammad T. Alhawary (in the US)
malhawary at ou.edu

Professor  Yaser Al-Tamimi (in Jordan)
ytamimi at hu.edu.jo

or visit the program website:
http://www.hu.edu.jo/Inside/Admissions/Announcements/docs/16.doc

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:05 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:mirabile dictu amusing
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1) Subject:mirabile dictu amusing

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Date: 28 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:mirabile dictu amusing

I am highly amused by the "mirabile dictu" that there is no native  
speaker
of Arabic.

An Arab and native speaker of Arabic

-- 
M. Deeb
English, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:02:57 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:02:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:MA in World Languages with Secondary Teaching
 Licensure
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1) Subject:MA in World Languages with Secondary Teaching Licensure

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:mnnassif at byu.edu
Subject:MA in World Languages with Secondary Teaching Licensure

Please forward to all interested educators

ANNOUNCING A NEW

Master of Arts in World Languages

with Secondary Teaching Licensure

Department of Languages & Literature

Department of Linguistics

College of Education

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

The Degree
       The Master of Arts with an Emphasis in World Languages combines  
a graduate master?s degree with licensure to teach in the public  
schools. Students with the requisite background will be able to teach  
one or two foreign languages at the secondary level, or a foreign  
language and another high school subject such as History, Geography,  
or Math. The program actively seeks to license teachers for the  
critical languages language (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Japanese,  
Korean, Persian/Farsi, and Russian). Students in the program, and in  
particular those seeking certification in a critical language, will be  
strongly encouraged to participate in an intensive language study  
abroad program.

Purpose
       The purpose of the MA program is two-fold: first, to offer a  
graduate degree in foreign language teaching that equips candidates  
with excellent foreign language and pedagogy skills, and with solid  
subject matter knowledge; and second, to produce public school  
teachers who are able to teach one or two foreign languages, and in  
particular critical languages, or a foreign language and a high school  
subject.

Entry Requirements
The MA with an Emphasis in World Languages with Secondary Teaching  
Licensure is designed for students who have:
? a BA in a foreign language: Classics, Chinese, French, German,  
Japanese, Russian, or Spanish
? a BA in area studies: Asian, International, Latin American, Middle  
Eastern
? a BA in a subject taught in Utah secondary schools, and proficiency  
in a foreign language
? a BA in ESL/TESOL, and proficiency in a foreign language
? an MA in Languages & Literature or Linguistics, and are interested  
in teaching in the public schools

For further information, please contact the Department of Languages &  
Literature or Johanna Watzinger-Tharp at j.tharp at utah.edu.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:14 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic
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1) Subject:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic

'm afraid my short rejoinder is hastily misconstrued.  The Arabic I've  
been
using since my mid-teens has been properly structured, grammatically  
correct
Arabic.

I've also been for years exposed to such dialects as Bahraini,  
Lebanese and
Egyptian, but I fail to express myself properly in either.

Now, whether the Arabic I speak is qualified as MSA, is quite  
irrelevant,
for the term is at once elastic and often violates the norms of  
structure,
grammar and morphology.

I admit it has not been socially easy.  My lot was and still is much  
worse
than that of one of my late English professors who was met with muffled
ridicule when he used classical Arabic at the Cairo airport.

An Arab and Native Speaker of Arabic

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:07 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic K-12 Research Assistant Job at NCLRC
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1) Subject:Arabic K-12 Research Assistant Job at NCLRC

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:salima1 at gwu.edu
Subject:Arabic K-12 Research Assistant Job at NCLRC

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Research Assistant

The National Capital Language Resource Center is looking to fill a  
position to assist in the management of our Arabic K-12 research,  
development and teacher training project. The NCLRC is located in  
downtown Washington DC and is affiliated with the Georgetown  
University, the George Washington University and the Center for  
Applied Linguistics and is funded by a Title VI grant from the  
Department of Education.

About us:

The Arabic K-12 Network is for teachers, administrators, foreign  
language professionals, researchers, parents and anyone interested in  
the teaching of Arabic K-12 in the U.S. We are part of the National  
Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), which is a joint project of  
Georgetown University, The George Washington University, and the  
Center for Applied Linguistics. We are located in Washington, DC, and  
are one of fifteen Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S.  
Department of Education.

Job Description:

We are seeking a part-time Research Assistant to manage teacher  
training and development programs for Arabic K-12 teachers through  
August 2008, with the possibility of further employment.

Responsibilities include:

	? Assist and/or manage with the translation of materials for the  
ArabicK12.org website and newsletter from Arabic to English and  
English to Arabic.
	? Conduct research on resources for teachers of Arabic K-12 to  
develop content for website, format content for webmaster.
	? Engage in daily e-mail/ telephone correspondence with the public.
	? Organize and assist in teacher training seminars and summer  
institutes for Arabic teachers.
	? Assist in conducting a nation-wide survey of schools that teach  
Arabic at the K-12 level.
	? Assist in designing and producing organization?s informational  
material for regional and national conferences and represent the  
Arabic K-12 Project at them.
	? Delegate tasks to undergraduate interns and supervise performance.
Qualifications Include:
	? Fluency in either Arabic or English, including writing and typing  
skills in the language, and minimum intermediate level in the other  
language, with some ability to read, write, and type.
	? Good organizational skills
	? Good interpersonal skills and ability to interact with the public
	? Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, e-mail  
and the Internet; some experience writing in Arabic on a computer
	? Foreign language teaching and/or international travel experience
	? Positive outlook and sense of humor-ability to work in a close,  
collaborative atmosphere
	? Graduate students are encouraged to apply
Salary and Benefits:

	? Salary is $15 per hour
	? Opportunities to publish articles or other materials and to  
organize and participate in national presentations and conferences
For more information or to apply please send your resume to arabick12 at gmail.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:04 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs scholar to evaluate system for NEH grant
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1) Subject:Needs scholar to evaluate system for NEH grant

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Mahmoud Elsayess" <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Needs scholar to evaluate system for NEH grant

Greetings,

Subject: a quailed scholar who can evaluate our system

As you may know, we submitted request for grants to US National  
Endowment for Humanities and we need an evaluator who is not part of  
our team.

This is the recommendation we received from the grant office:

"It is generally recommended that a qualified scholar who is not part  
of the grant team serve as the evaluator.  This evaluator can receive  
a stipend for his/her services, paid from funds in the grant.

Can you help us for finding a quailed scholar who can evaluate our  
system after getting grants? Please visit:  http://www.lessondesigner.com/

We are adding a lot of new features like:

1_Postnote* that will have 11 languages including Arabic

2_ Forum* that will have 11 languages including Arabic

3_ School administration

4_ Abacus list that will have 11 languages including Arabic.

Teachers and students can communicate in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew  
and other language without the need to install any software on their  
machines.

Thank you

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:another AATA query
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1) Subject:another AATA query

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Laila H\. Familiar" <lailafam at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:another AATA query

Hello,
I tried to subscribe to Al-Arabiyya trough the AATA website, but it
was impossible. At a certain step of the process, it went back to the
starting point.
Any help?
Thanks.
Laila H. Familiar

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Call for MCA Abstract Writers
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1) Subject:Call for MCA Abstract Writers

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Karena.Avedissian" <Karena.Avedissian at aku.edu>
Subject:Call for MCA Abstract Writers

Call for Abstract Writers

The MCA project (Muslim Civilisations Abstracts) was conceived as a  
means of furthering the study of Muslim societies and civilisations by  
accessing scholarly literature in various languages. The aim is to  
strengthen and share such knowledge across linguistic and cultural  
divides.

The MCA will provide systematic bibliographic indices and abstracts of  
works concerning Muslim civilisations, published in most of the  
languages and countries of the world. These will be selected works of  
scholarship, involving original research and analysis, advances in  
relevant methodology and/or creative contributions to the  
understanding of intellectual and social problems affecting Muslims.  
The abstracts, written in English by scholars, expert in the relevant  
subjects, will be provided in time in six other languages: Arabic,  
Bengali, Malay/Indonesian, Persian, Turkish and Urdu. The first phase  
(2006-08) is a substantial and comprehensive annotated bibliography of  
modern encyclop?dias on and from the Muslim world.

Further details of the project can be found on the Institute's website  
at http://www.aku.edu/ismc/abp-d.shtml.

Key Responsibilities

Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations  
(AKU-ISMC) in London requires immediately, free-lance abstractors for  
the Muslim Civilisations Abstract Project. The incumbents are required  
to survey and write brief abstracts of encyclopaedias and other  
academic documents selected by the Institute.

Requirements

*	PhD and research experience in Middle Eastern, Indian, Oriental or  
Islamic Studies. PhD candidates who have completed an MA/MPhil and who  
are well advanced in their doctoral research will be considered;
*	Excellent proficiency in English and at least one of the following  
languages: Arabic, Malay/Indonesian, Persian, Turkish, Urdu. Knowledge  
of additional European and Asian languages, particularly Central Asian  
languages and Russian, will be an asset;
*	Good computer skills are required;

To Apply
Candidates should send a brief letter and curriculum vitae by April  
21, 2008 to:

Ms Karena Avedissian
Administrative Assistant (MCA)

Aga Khan University
4 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3RA
Tel: 020 7907 1053
Fax: 020 7907 1030
Email: ismc.mca at aku.edu

Disclaimer
AKU-ISMC is part of Aga Khan University (AKU), an international  
university with operations in ten countries. By submitting an  
application to AKU-ISMC you agree to revoke your rights under the Data  
Protection Act 1998 thereby permitting ISMC to share the contents of  
your application with relevant colleagues at our headquarters  
institution AKU Karachi, and with its nominated agents for the purpose  
of completing this recruitment exercise. AKU-ISMC does not communicate  
with candidates unless they are to be short-listed for interview.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:01 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Arabic play suggestion for student performance
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1) Subject:Needs Arabic play suggestion for student performance

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Haroon Shirwani" <arabictutor at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs Arabic play suggestion for student performance

Can anyone suggest a play that could be performed by a group of keen  
intermediate level Arabic students? I am happy to edit and simplify  
the text, but I am also concerned that the play itself be an enjoyable  
and/or stimulating experience for the audience, who will be their  
friends, family and teachers, most of whom do not know any Arabic.  
(The play would be performed with surtitles.) At present, I am  
considering (a heavily edited version of) Al-fil ya malik al-zaman.  
Any other suggestions would be very welcome.

By the way, many thanks to all those who suggested poems for our  
Arabic declamation contest. They went down a treat, and I have  
uploaded video presentations of some of them onto the videos section  
the Facebook Arabic Language Q&A group. You might like to forward this  
link to colleagues and students who are on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6271120617

If they go to the videos section, they will find short presentations  
of texts with audio, accompanied by transliteration and translation.

Best wishes,
Haroon

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:15 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Survey on TA workload
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1) Subject:Survey on TA workload

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From: Farwaneh <farwaneh at email.arizona.edu>
Subject:Survey on TA workload

[moderator's note: please respond directly to Samira, and she will  
post a summary to the list.]

Dear Colleagues,

AS the Chair of the Language Committee, and at the request of our  
Department Head, I am writing to you in the hopes of obtaining  
information on how you distribute and utilize your resources,  
particularly, human resources, i.e., TAs, graders, adjuncts, etc. As  
an interdisciplinary department, we hire TAs for both general  
education content courses as well as beginning (and sometimes  
intermediate, Arabic, Persian and Turkish courses. In the hopes of  
mainstreaming TAs? workload by ensuring balance between content (e.g.,  
introductory History and Islamic Studies) TAs and language TAs on the  
one hand, and Middle Eastern language TAs vs. non-ME TAs on the other,  
we are in the process of gathering information about TAs? workload and  
responsibilities in other language departments in other institutions  
for comparison. For this purpose, we hope that you could help us by  
filling out this short questionnaire, with many thanks and much  
appreciation for your time and input. And sincere thanks to those who  
already sent us feedback as a response to my personal requests. I will  
send a summary unless you choose to respond directly to the list.

1. Do TAs serve as instructors of record with full responsibility for  
a language course?

2. If yes, what type and degree of supervision is exercised, and by  
whom (language committee, coordinator, department head, etc)?

3. If TAs are not instructors of record, do they participate in the  
teaching of a language course or are their responsibilities limited to  
grading?

4. What is the regular weekly load for a TA and how many weekly hours  
go into grading? ( I realize that the number varies from week to week,  
so an approximate average would suffice)

5. Are all language TAs assigned similar responsibilities regardless  
of their level of proficiency and experience?

6. To what extent are TAs granted independence in designing syllabi,  
lesson plans and exams?

7. What assessment measures do you use to evaluate TAs performance,  
class observations, student evaluation, individual conferences, other?

With many thanks for your cooperation,

Samira Farwaneh

Chair, Language Committee

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Limiting jobs to native speakers
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1) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers
2) Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers: Other side of the coin

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Shoaib Memon" <majnoonx at gmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers

Hi,
Related to this current discussion, I would like to know if University
Departments hiring people to teach Arabic courses give any weight to
proficiency exams(assuming the candidate meets other reqs such as Ph.d
in relevant matter etc).  If so, which proficiency tests are
considered "good."  I'm thinking of taking the ACTFL test for Arabic
and would like to know if it will help me out in the distant future if
I'm applying for such posts.  Any thoughts on this matter, plus arabic
proficiency tests will be appreciated.

Long time Arabic student- first-time caller,
Shoaib

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2)
Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Muhamed Al Khalil" <oryxius at gmail.com>
Subject:Limiting jobs to native speakers: Other side of the coin

It is certainly unfair, let alone unproductive, not to grant non-native
teachers of Arabic the same opportunity as their native colleagues. As
several posts made it clear, non-native professionals of Arabic bring so
much knowledge and experience to language instruction. But in this  
post, I
would like to highlight the flip side of this: the unfair and biased
attitudes towards native professionals of Arabic in certain countries  
in the
Arab world.

Like many on the list, I am a U.S. educated professional of Arab  
background.
I have worked for several years in the Arab/Persian Gulf and can speak  
from
experience. There, if you come from an Arab background, regardless of
whether or not you were educated in the West, you are looked upon as  
some
kind of inferior creature. You face much more difficulty in hiring,  
and if
hired, you will not receive the same recognition and pay as your
Anglo-American colleagues. To be sure, this discriminatory treatment  
also
applies to professionals from other parts of the world, as India or  
Africa.
But this discriminatory practice is becoming more serious as several  
leading
American universities have opened or are opening up campuses in the  
Gulf,
quietly adopting and thus sanctioning the same practice.

To give an example, yesterday I looked at an announcement for a  
variety of
jobs, including Arabic studies, by a Saudi university. The ad stressed  
that
the applicant must visit the university's website and fill out their
APPLICATION FORM (which they wrote like this in capital letters for
emphasis). I went to their website and downloaded the form. In  
addition to
the customary information requested on such forms, the form asks for a
"recent photograph." They really want to see how you look. They ask  
for the
name of your father and your spouse's father. They ask all sorts of  
things
about your degrees, but one important detail they inquire about is "the
medium of instruction." They ask about your mental and physical health  
and
whether or not you were convicted for "political" reasons. They ask  
for the
email address of your present employer. They ask about your religion and
your spouse's religion. But most importantly they ask about your, your
spouse's, and your children's nationalities: now and at birth. Their  
ad says
"An applicant should hold an earned doctorate from any of the accredited
North American, European or Australian universities." But even if you  
are an
American citizen now with a Ph.D. from the U.S, it would matter to  
them to
know that you were born, say, in Egypt.

To give this Saudi university some credit, at least it is doing it in  
your
face. Other institutions are careful not to disclose their prejudice,  
opting
to practice it more insidiously.

There is a need for us professionals, native and non-native speakers of
Arabic, to come together in solidarity and take a position against
institutions that practice any kind of racist bias. The question is  
what's
the best way to confront this?

Muhamed Osman Al Khalil

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:09 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:yaa leeta/ yaa reet query
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1) Subject:yaa leeta/ yaa reet query

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:suhel2 at tin.it" <suhel2 at tin.it>
Subject:yaa leeta/ yaa reet query

Mr. Bell where can I find a reference for this?
Thx,
Suhel Jaber

>
> Sorry. It's just like Egyptian "yaa
> reet" for "yaa layta" in SA: all
> the influence of a single Chinese
> or Japanese merchant circulating in
> the Mediterranean area in the
> later Middle Ages. JB

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs good dictionary of Levantine Arabic
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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs good dictionary of Levantine Arabic

Is there a good dictionary of Levantine Arabic?  I know Egyptian
Arabic, I have the excellent Hinds and Badawi _Dictionary of Egyptian
Arabic_, and now I want to learn Lebanese Arabic; can anyone recommend
an Arabic-English or Arabic-French dictionary for any Levantine
dialect?

Ben

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Jan 31 17:03:13 2008
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Comp Ling MA Student needs PT employment/internship
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From:"Andrew Freeman" <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Comp Ling MA Student needs PT employment/internship

Mar7aba ?

I am currently working on a Masters degree in Computational Linguistics.

            I?m in search of

1)       Part-time employment as a computational linguist and/or  
software developer until the UofWashington spring quarter ends in June

2)       And then a summer internship, doing the same would be very  
sweet.

I would like to work on something:

1)  where I can gain experience at doing Natural Processing tasks

2)  and where there is enough of a software engineering component that  
my programming skills won?t become too out of date.

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated and at the very least  
gratefully acknowledged.

Thanks,
Andy

http://www.innerbrat.org/resume/new_resume_010807WA.htm

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