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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Arabic worksheets, etc. online
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:oxyi i <oxyii at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs Arabic worksheets, etc. online

hello ı am an arabic teacher.this is my first year in the field.so ı  
need some forum adresses whıch ı can ask my questıons about  
arabic.but forum's language should be eglısh.do you know any?
and ı need onlıne documents such as arabic worksheets,powerpoint  
shows.etc..
where ı can such materials?

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Upcoming ARAM conferences
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:aram at aramsociety.org
Subject:Upcoming ARAM conferences

Dear Colleague & friend,

I am writing to update you on the Aram forthcoming conferences:

1-	The Aram Twenty Fifth International Conference, which will be held  
at The Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1  
2LE, 7-10 July 2008, on the theme of the “Decapolis”. (See attachment 1)
2-	The Aram Twenty Sixth International Conference, which will be held  
at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of  
London, 08-10 September 200, on the theme of the “Mandaeans”. (See  
attachment 2)
3-	If you wish to participate in the conference, please send your  
answer to the above Aram email address before April 2008.

Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Role of MSA in educated Moroccan speech
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:Miller Catherine" <Miller at mmsh.univ-aix.fr>
Subject:Role of MSA in educated Moroccan speech

For the role of MSA in educated Morrocan arabic you have Jefrey  
Heath's classic book of 1984 about borrowings in Moroccan arabic for  
MSA in youth code switching you have many more recent réferences than  
Bentahila.  see in particular the thesis of Karima Ziamari and one of  
her recent paper just published in a collective book Arabic in the  
City, Routledge-Taylor..
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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:La Jolla Country Day School Job
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:"Mark Rosenblum" <mrosenblum2110 at gmail.com>
Subject:La Jolla Country Day School Job

La Jolla Country Day School, an independent (private) non-religious
affiliated N-12 school in San Diego, seeks an experienced and qualified
full-time Middle and Upper School Teacher of Arabic for the 2008-2009
academic year and beyond to implement a dynamic Arabic program with
innovative curriculum.

The position will have primary responsibility for teaching four to five
sections of Arabic (and/or French and/or History electives in Middle  
Eastern
Studies, as necessary and commensurate with the skill set of the  
candidate).
Essential duties will include: (1) comprehensive and dynamic new  
curriculum
and program development for a grade 7-12 Arabic sequence; (2) classroom
instruction; (3) conferences with students and colleagues; (4) active
participation in the work of the department with on-going and
cross-curricular development and pedagogy; (5) assuming at least one
additional duty as a faculty member (coaching a sport, advising a  
student
club, joining a standing committee, and the like); and (6) working  
closely
with the Department Chair, Deans, Division Directors, and Public  
Relations
team to actively encourage enrollment in Arabic courses and effectively
educate the community about Arabic language, Arabic culture and  
history, and
our Arabic program goals.

The ideal candidate will be a native Arabic speaker with near-native  
command
of English, and have a Bachelor's degree in Arabic Language and/or
Literature, Linguistics/SLA Pedagogy, and/or Teaching/Education. We
encourage English mother tongue candidates with near-native Arabic
abilities, so long as the candidate is experienced and has a proven  
track
record of teaching excellence in a middle school setting, high school
setting, and/or with freshman/sophomore level college students.  
Candidates
with advanced degrees in the areas outlined above, plus near-native  
French
fluency and experience teaching French are preferred. Familiarity with
computers and with the use of technology in Second Language  
Instruction is
also preferred (PC/Windows platform and Sanako(R) language lab).

La Jolla Country Day School Values Diversity

To learn more about the school, visit www.ljcds.org or write to
mrosenblum at ljcds.org

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar  4 00:17:26 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:26 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Startalk
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:"startalk" <startalk at nflc.org>
Subject:Startalk

The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland is
happy to announce the 2008 STARTALK Programs.  Launched in 2007,
STARTALK is part of the president's National Security Language
Initiative, jointly funded by the Director of National Intelligence and
the Department of Defense to promote the teaching of less commonly
taught critical languages.  Participating institutions and organizations
offer intensive language programs for middle school and high school
students and professional development programs for teachers. This summer
there will be a total of 81 programs in 32 states and the District of
Columbia offered in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian and Urdu.  The 2008
programs can be found at the following web site:
http://www.startalk.umd.edu/program-info/2008/ .  Please direct
questions to the individual programs in which you may be interested.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS this week
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2) Subject:ALS this week

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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject:ALS this week

Dear Friends,

Ahlan wa-sahlan.

Have you got any information about the Arabic linguistics conference  
to be held 08 and 09 March?  I recall it will take place at the  
University of Maryland, but which building?  Which room?  And what  
time does it start?

Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy

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From:moderator
Subject:ALS this week

I am pasting in the info I received.  In this you will find the place  
and the time, I believe.
dil

Event:
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


Venue:
Benjamin Banneker Auditorium, Adele Stamp Student Union

For directions, parking, transportation to and from the Adele H. Stamp  
Union, please click on the following link:


http://www.union.umd.edu/visitorInfo/directions.shtml


Accommodation:
Marriot’s Inn & Conference Center University of Maryland University  
College
3501 University Blvd E
Adelphi, Maryland 20783
Tel. 1-301-985-7300


http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasum-the-inn-and-conference-center-university-of-maryland-university-college/?ppc=eastern_google_wasum&vpckey=inn-and-conference-center-college-park&vpccat=leisure

Other nearby Hotels are listed in the following link:

http://www.uga.umd.edu/admissions/visit/accommodations.asp


Nearest airports:
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport – BWI
Hotel direction: 30 miles South
Bus service: $35 (one way)
Estimated Taxi fare: $60

Ronald Reagan Washington National - DCA
Hotel direction: 20 miles East
Estimated Taxi fare: $50 (one way)

Washington, DC/Dulles – IAD
Hotel direction: 35 miles East
Estimated Taxi fare: $80 (one way)




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

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


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: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:51:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs funding info for European student
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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs funding for European students

Does anyone know of funding opportunities for European students of  
Arabic?
I have a German student who wishes to do a summer intensive Arabic  
program
who would like to find funding support.

-- 
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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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:51:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic/English Translation MA At Monterey Institute
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Date: 05 Mar 2008
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Monterey Institute of International Studies
An affiliate of Middlebury College


New Arabic Program
Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation


Announcing New Master's Degrees in Arabic/English
http://translate.miis.edu/arabic
Translation - Interpretation - Localization
Starting in Fall 2008, the Monterey Institute will offer master's  
degrees in Translation and Interpretation for Arabic/English.  
Applications are available now - priority deadline March 15

Click here for
New Arabic Master's Degrees  How to Apply  Video "A Day in the Life of  
a Translator/Interpreter"
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:51:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL 36 program
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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:"C.G. Häberl" <mustashriq at gmail.com>
Subject:NACAL 36 program

Dear Colleagues:

I would like to alert you to the program of the 36th annual meeting of
the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 36),
which will take place from March 14-16, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Mart
Plaza, Chicago, IL, USA, in conjunction with the 218th meeting of the
American Oriental Society.  We are holding a joint session with the
latter conference in memory of the late Alan Kaye.

Friday, March 14th - Friday Morning

Language Contact and Survival (8:00-9:00)
1. 	Awod, Sulus Beyed, Central Cushitic: Languages, People and the
Influence on Some Semitic Languages.
2. 	Hamde, Kiflemariam (Umea University), The Situation of Blin
Language: Revitalizing, Maintained or Threatened?

Morphology and Morpho-Syntax I (9:00-10:30)
1.  	Gibbs, Tara Leigh (University of Minnesota), Somali as a Pro-Drop  
Language.
2. 	Hudson, Grover (Michigan State University), Ethiopian Semitic
Independent Pronoun Archaic Heterogeneity.
3. 	Beachy, Marvin (SIL Ethiopia), Linguistic and Orthographic
Implications of Analyzing Dizin Possessive Prefixes and Verbal
Agreement Proclitics as just one Set of Proclitic Personal Pronouns.

Break 10:30-11:00	
					
Morphology and Morpho-syntax II (11:00-1:00)

1.  	Soltan, Usama (Middlebury College), Free State Nominals in  
Egyptian Arabic.
2.	Alfadly, Hassan Obeid (Hadramout University), New Information on
Future and Nominal Plural Forms of Eastern Mehri in Oman.
3. 	Nishiguchi, Sumiyo (Osaka University), Correction by Polarity
Reversing Focus in Dhaasanac.
4. 	Henderson, Brent (University of Florida), Differential Object
Marking in Tigre and Tigrinya.

Lunch Break (1:00-2:00)

Friday Afternoon

Joint session (2:00-5:00): Ancient Near East I: AOS-NACAL:
Linguistics—In Memory of Alan S. Kaye

1. 	Hasselbach, Rebecca (University of Chicago) Early Semitic and
Language Typology
2. 	Fu, Janling (Harvard University) A Case for Markedness in Amarna
Canaanite? Distinctions between qtl/yqtl in the Byblian Corpus
3. 	Bar-Asher, Elitzur Avraham (Harvard University) Synchronic and
Diachronic Analysis of the Tenses of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
4. 	Pat-El, Na´ama (Harvard University) The Proleptic Genitive in
Aramaic: A Re-Evaluation

Break

5. 	Rubin, Aaron (Pennsylvania State University) The Development of
the Amharic Definite Article
6. 	Karahashi, Fumi (Chuo University, Japan) Some Notes on the
Sumerian Interrogative Pronoun a na
7. 	Johnson, J. Cale (University of California, Los Angeles)
Mirativity in Sumerian
8. 	Daniels, Peter T. (New York) H.C. Rawlinson's Contributions to
Persian and Assyrian Studies

Saturday, March 15th - Saturday Morning

Phonology I: Root/Word Formation and Syllable Structure (8:00-9:30)
	
1. 	Spencer, Bradley (Harvard University), Contingent Extrasyllabicity
in the Proto-Semitic Imperative.
2. 	Faust, Noam (Université de Paris VII), Meaningful Vowels: The
syntactic structure of Vocalic Patterns in Hebrew.
3.	Laks, Lior (Tel-Aviv University), Verb Innovation in Palestinian
Arabic.
Break  9:30-10:00				

Phonology II (10:00-12:00)								
1. 	Lowenstamm, Jean (Université de Paris VII), Chaha Palatalization  
Revisited.	
2. 	Rose, Sharon and Shosted, Ryan (Universities of California, San
Diego and Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),	Tigrinya ejective fricatives –
are they really fricatives?
3.	Unseth, Peter (Graduate Inst. of Applied Linguistics), The
Psycholinguistic Reality of Co-occurrence Restrictions on Labialized
Consonants in Amharic.
4. 	Rosenhouse, Judith (Sound Waves Analysis and Technologies, Ltd.),
Duration Features in Male Bedouin Narratives.


Lunch Break 12:00-1:00

Saturday Afternoon

Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics (1:00-3:00)

1. 	McClelland, Clive W. (Liberty University), Prosody vs. Grammar in
Two VSO Languages.
2.	Bach Baoueb, Lamia (Université de Jendouba), Language Use and Code
Switching in Tunisian Business Concersations.
3. 	Henkin, Roni (Ben-Gurion University), Bilingual Humor in Written
Negev Arabic.
4. 	Khalfaoui, Amel (University of Minnesota), Demonstratives in
Tunisian Arabic: Beyond Spacial Distance.

Break 3:00-3:30

Tense / Mood / Aspect and Voice (3:30-5:30)
1. 	Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader (University of  Newcastle upon Tyne),
Finiteness, Logophors, and Double Access Construal in Arabic
varieties.
2. 	Teeple, David (University of California, Santa Cruz), Arabic
Impersonal Passives in OT.
3. 	Rucart, Pierre (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle), Aspect,
Tense and Modality in the Verbal System of Qafar.
4. 	Hatav, Galia (University of Florida), Absolute and Relative Tense  
in Hebrew.

In Memoriam, M. Lionel Bender: (6:00-7:00)

NACAL Annual Dinner: Reza's Restaurant, 432 West Ontario St., Chicago,
IL (7:30-9:30)

Sunday, March 16th - Sunday Morning

Afro-Asiatic Reconstruction (8:00-9:00)
1. 	Militarev, Alexander (Russian State University For the
Humanities), Toward a Complete Afro-Asiatic Etymological Database,
Genealogical Classification and Chronology of Branching: Preliminary
Results.
2. 	Takács, Gábor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Aspects of
Comparison of Semitic and Egyptian.
3.	Zaborski, Andzrej (University of Warsaw), The position of Afar-Saho
in Cushitic and of Cushitic within Afroasiatic.

Break 9:00-9:30

Typology and Classification (9:30-11:30)
1. 	Owens, Jonathan (University of Maryland), Three Sources for the
Study of Arabic Language History and their Role in Defining the Place
of Arabic in Semitic.
2. 	Avanzini, Alessandra (Università degli Studi di Pisa), Origin and
Classification of the Ancient South Arabian Languages.
3. 	Testen, David (Catholic University of America), Errant Isoglosses
of Aramaic.
4. 	Kapeliuk, Olga (Hebrew University), Some Common Innovations in
Peripheral Neo-Semitic.

Lunch Break 11:30-12:30

Sunday Afternoon

Philology and Historical Linguistics (12:30-3:00)
1. 	Waltisberg, Michael (University of Marburg), The Case System of
Amorite – A Re-Evaluation.
2. 	Pat-El, Na'ama (Harvard University), The Origin of the Official
Aramaic Quotative l'mr.
3. 	Al-Jallad, Ahmad (Harvard University), A Syntactic Account of the
Development of the Negative Adverb mā in Central Semitic.
4. 	Schluter, Kevin T. (University of Minnesota), Middle Stems,
Pronouns, and Reflexivity in Biblical Hebrew.
5. 	Calabro, David (University of Chicago), Rolling out the Etymology
of Northwest-Semitic sglt.
NACAL Business Meeting 3:00-3:30

Adjournment 3:30


-- 
Charles G. Häberl, PhD
Instructor in Middle Eastern Studies
Assistant Director, Development and Communication
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-329, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8045
Phone: (732) 445-8444 Ext. 17 / Fax: (732) 445-8446 / Mobile: (917)  
301-6531

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:52:02 -0700
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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic worksheets only response

Hello oxyi i
Try this link.http://www.thinkfree.com/myoffice/main.tfo?method=main&signinNdxYn=Y
If you find it useful and need more specific material and can mention  
the age group you are teaching may be I can upload more stuff for you.
  Best Wishes
  Iman A. Soliman
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:52:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Need Belnap's Avoidance behavior paper
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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:"Alex Magidow" <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:Need Belnap's Avoidance behavior paper

Hello everyone,

Is there any way to obtain a copy of the following paper:
Belnap, R. Kirk (1998). Avoidance behavior in writing Arabic: an
exploratory study of
L1 linguistic insecurity. Paper presented at the Twelfth Annual
Symposium on Arabic
Linguistics, Champaign, Illinois, March 7.

Thank you very much,
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:51:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NYU Summer Arabic program
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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:lea.ellison at nyu.edu
Subject:NYU Summer Arabic program

Intensive Summer Arabic
at New York University
Summer 2008

In the heart of downtown Manhattan, New York University is offering  
intensive Modern Standard Arabic (Mondays through Fridays) this  
summer. Accommodation in NYU dorms for those who register in summer  
courses costs from $75 and higher per week.

First Year Arabic:
Session One (May 19 - June 27):  Elementary Arabic I
Session Two (June 30  - Aug 8):   Elementary Arabic II

Second Year Arabic:
Session One (May 19 - June 27): Intermediate Arabic I
Session Two (June 30  - August 8):  Intermediate Arabic II

Each session covers the equivalent of one semester of 4 credits.  
Credits are transferable. The focus will be on developing all the four  
language skills:  listening, speaking, reading and writing.

There will be tours of the Arab neighborhood in Brooklyn, where ethnic  
Arab restaurants, bakeries, book and record stores abound along with  
their billboards in Arabic.

For registration and pertinent info, please contact: NYU Center for  
Study Abroad and Special Sessions
110 East 14th Street
New York, NY, 10003
Phone: (212) 998-2292
Counselor available Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5pm, except during <http://www.nyu.edu/registrar/06calendar.shtml 
 >University Holidays.
FAX: (212) 995-4642 Available 24 hours
or visit:
<http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2008/summerny/enroll-eligibility.html>http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2008/summerny/enroll-eligibility.html

For Summer Housing visit:
<http://www.nyu.edu/summer/housing/applicants_overviewofprogram_introduction.php 
 >http://www.nyu.edu/summer/housing/applicants_overviewofprogram_introduction.php

Accommodation in NYU dorms for those who register in summer courses  
costs as low as $75 per week.

SUMMER HOUSING - ALL INQUIRIES
Office of Summer Housing
14A Washington Place
New York, NY 10003 USA
Phone: (212) 998-4621
Staff available Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm, except during <http://www.nyu.edu/registrar/calendars/ 
 >University Holidays. Recorded information available 24 hours.
FAX: (212) 995-4097 Available 24 hours

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy Jobs
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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From: "Davidson, Virginia" <vdavidso at middlebury.edu>
Subject:Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy Jobs

Teach with Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy and help create all the
fun of summer camp...in a second language!

The Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy (www.mmla.middlebury.edu
<http://www.mmla.middlebury.edu/> ) seeks faculty to teach Arabic in our
four-week summer immersion camp for middle and high school students.
Faculty and students adopt a language pledge, modified as needed for the
age group and language level, so that a full immersion environment is
created.

Working with Language Directors and a carefully planned curriculum,
Arabic faculty will be responsible for leadership of the formal academic
and informal social and recreational activities. In addition to
classroom instruction, we use Arabic in all other camp activities -
sports, drama, music, field trips, games, arts and crafts, etc

Required Skills:

Applicants should have native or near-native fluency in Arabic as well
as direct teaching experience with middle and/or high school students.
Summer camp experience is preferred. Evidence of leadership among peers,
ability to relate well to students and the capacity to adapt quickly to
changing situations is required. Faculty will be housed in the same
dormitories as students, or in nearby campus accommodation.
Accommodation for families may be possible. Competitive salary, and room
and board. Camp dates are June 28-July 26. Faculty will need to arrive
on June 23rd for training and orientation.

To apply, visit the Middlebury College website
(http://www.middlebury.edu/jobseekers). MMLA positions are listed under
Staff Employment Opportunities at Middlebury College.

Please direct questions to mmla.info at middlebury.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS Public Transportaion info
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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:Uri Horesh <urih at mail.utexas.edu>
Subject:ALS Public Transportaion info

Please note that in addition to the obscenely expensive cab fares  
mentioned
in the ALS 22 information sheet, there are cheap, convenient public
transportation options from all three Washington metro area airports:

1. From BWI Airport: Metro bus B30 to Greenbelt, then Metro rail Green  
Line
to College Park. From there one can take the free Shuttle UM to the  
Stamp
Union. Cost: $4.45

2. From DCA (Reagan National Airport): Metro rail Yellow Line to  
L'Enfant
Plaza (or any other stop thereafter) then Green Line to College Park.  
Then
free Shuttle UM to Stamp Union. Cost: $2.35

3. From IAD (Dulles Airport): Metro bus 5A to L'Enfant Plaza, then Green
Line to College Park, then free shuttle to Stamp Union. Cost: $4.95.


For those arriving by train to Union Station, you may take the Red  
Line from
Union Station to Fort Totten, then the Green Line to College Park, then
shuttle. Cost: $1.85.

The costs above are approximate, as Metro has peak and off-peak fares.  
Also,
senior citizens may receive a discount.

Detailed planning tools are available at http://metroopensdoors.com

Safe travels,
Uri

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:56 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Belnap's Avoidance Behavior paper
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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:Kirk Belnap <belnap at byu.edu>
Subject:Belnap's Avoidance Behavior paper

The final version of:

Avoidance Behavior in Writing Arabic: An exploratory study of L1  
linguistic insecurity. Twelfth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics,  
Champaign, Illinois, March 7, 1998.

was published as:

Belnap, R. Kirk & Brian Bishop. Arabic Personal Correspondence: A  
Window on Change in Progress? International Journal of the Sociology  
of Language 163:9-25, 2003.

Best wishes!

Kirk

R. Kirk Belnap, Director
National Middle East Language Resource Center
3056 JFSB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
belnap at byu.edu
http://nmelrc.org/

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:59 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic volunteer teaching opportunities for
 students?
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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:khigbaria at hotmail.com
Subject:Arabic volunteer teaching opportunities for students?

It's will be helpful if anyone provide inf relating opportunities of  
Arabic volunteer teaching in next summer for non-native speakers  
students.

Best Regards,
Khaled Igbaria

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:OWL Software Promotions
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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:Greg Russak <GRussak at owlts.com>
Subject:OWL Software Promotions

OWL Testing Software Announces Promotions in Support of National Foreign
Language Week

PITTSBURGH, PA – March 3, 2008 – OWL Testing Software, the proven  
solution
for creating, administering, and rating large scale oral proficiency  
tests
for academia, business and government announced today promotions on its
products and services as a demonstration of support for National Foreign
Language Week.

“We’ve been helping teachers and students to more effectively teach and
learn language skills for eight years,” said OWL Testing Software
president and CEO, Chris Dalessandri, “and we’re eager to show our  
support
for the National Foreign Language Week with these month-long  
promotions.”

National Foreign Language Week is March 3-8, 2008.  It was begun in 1957
by Alpha Mu Gamma, the National Collegiate Foreign Language Honor  
Society,
and received its first presidential endorsement on December 12, 1956, by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

“As an organization and as individuals, everyone at OWL Testing Software
is committed to helping to improve the language teaching and learning
experience by providing a web-based tool that makes the creation,
administration, and rating of language skills easy,” said Greg Russak,
vice president of sales for OWL Testing Software.

Russak went on to say, “It’s our hope that month-long promotions in
support of National Foreign Language Week will encourage new customers  
to
contact us, share their language education goals with us, and request  
a no-
obligation demonstration of our unique and powerful test creator, OWL.”

The promotions are available on all of OWL’s products and services, and
include special incentives on OWL’s new hosted service offering.  More
information is available at www.owlts.com or by calling 412-436-0559.

###

About OWL Testing Software
OWL Testing Software is the leading solutions provider of language test
building software to academia, business, and government markets.   
Built as
a web-based solution for test creation, administration, and management,
OWL Testing Software is unique in its ability to create tests for all  
four
communication skills – oral, aural, reading and writing.  OWL is  
available
as licensed software and as a hosted solution to meet the needs of the
largest and smallest schools, businesses, and government agencies
concerned with enhancing the language learning process and outcomes.
Please visit www.owlts.com or call 412-436-0559 for more information.

OWL Testing Software Contact
Michelle Belan
412-606-3600
mbelan at owlts.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:54 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:PDAs in language acquisition environment query
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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:jtsmith at mi.army.mil
Subject:PDAs in language acquisition environment query

My name is Tim Smith and I am a teacher of Arabic at a Department of
Defense language facility. We are trying to contact any universities
that may be utilizing PDAs in a language classroom environment. We would
like to see how they are being used so that we can develop our program
to include the use of PDAs for our students. We are interested in using
this technology in the teaching of less commonly taught languages
(Arabic, to include all dialects, Persian-Farsi, Pashto and Dari).

If you utilize this technology, I would be very interested in hearing
how it is being implemented, to include any software and procedures
utilized. Also if you aren't using PDAs, could point me in the direction
of any institutions that are using them? We are in our infancy when it
comes to utilizing this technology and would very much appreciate any
help you could provide.

Thank you in advance for your time and I look forward to hearing from
you.


Regards,

Tim Smith
Georgia Center for Language

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Culture in ME Language Programs Seminar program
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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:kassem_wahba at yahoo.com
Subject:Culture in ME Language Programs Seminar program

Towards Understanding Culture in Middle Eastern Language Programs

Teaching/Learning Culture in the Foreign Language Curriculum
Critical Issues and Future Directions

A  One-Day Seminar

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Georgetown University

April 4th, 2008

ICC 141 (CCAS Boardroom)


8:00-8:30                  Registration and Breakfast
8:30-8:40                  Opening Remarks:
Judith Tucker

                            Kassem Wahba
Panel I         Overview

8:40-9:20         Chair: Peter C. Pfeiffer

                             Definition of Culture in Foreign Language  
Education and Middle East Culture Studies

Speaker: Karin Ryding


Panel II                  Language and the Culture of Islam
9:20-10:00                  Chair: Shukri Abed

                            Islamic Culture in the Language Classroom
Speaker: Felicitas Opwis

10:00-10:15         Coffee Break

Panel III                  Language and Culture: Gender and Discourse
10:15-11:35         Chair: Cristina Sanz

     10:15-10:55         Gender through the Prism of Language and Islam
Speaker: Reem Bassiouney

                            Speaker: Sylvia Onder

     10:55-11:35         Operationalizing Culture in the Language  
Classroom
Speaker: Waheed Samy


Panel IV                  Cultural Assessment
11:35-2:10                  Chair: Dora Johnson

     11:35-12:15         Assessment of Culture
Mahdi Alosh

     12:15-12:30         With Professor Irfan Shahid:  Hafiz Ibrahim:  
His Ode on the Arabic Language

  12:30-1:30         Lunch Break

1:30-2:10         Culture Proficiency Guidelines, Testing, and Training

                            Gerald E. Lampe


Panel V                  Teaching/Learning Culture in the Foreign  
Language 2:10-4:10                  Curriculum
Chair: Elizabeth M. Bergman

     2:10-2:40             Culture in the Turkish Language Classroom:
Examples from Georgetown University

Sylvia W. Onder

     2:40-3:10         Culture in the Persian Classroom

                            Farima Mostowfi
     3:10-3:40         Cultural Aspects in Hebrew Language  
Instruction, Georgetown University

                            Yoel Wachtel

        3:40-4:10         The Problematic Issue of Integrating Culture  
into the Teaching of Arabic

Margaret Nydell & Amin Bonnah

    4:10-5:00         Summary and Recommendations for Future Research

Lucy E. Thiboutot & Sean P. Braniff

                            Kassem Wahba
Chairs of Panels:

1.         Shukri Abed                            Department of  
Languages and Regional,

Studies, the Middle East Institute, Panel II

2.      Elizabeth M. Bergman       American Association of Teachers

of Arabic, Panel V

3.  Dora Johnson         Center for Applied Linguistics, Panel IV

4.  Peter C. Pfeiffer         Georgetown University, Panel I

5.  Cristina Sanz         Georgetown University, Panel III

Irfan Shahid         Oman Prof of Arabic & Islamic Literature,  
Georgetown University
Lucy E. Thiboutot &          Center of Contemporary Arab studies,

Sean P. Braniff,                   Georgetown University

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 14 17:16:48 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs corpus for Q/A systems
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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn
Subject:Needs corpus for Q/A systems

Dear all,

Does anyone know about any FREE arabic corpus that could be used
for Question Answering systems?

Many thanks for your help.

Lamia

Dr. Lamia Hadrich Belguith
PhD  Computer Science

LARIS- MIRACL Laboratory
Assistant professor at
Faculty of Economic Sciences
and management of Sfax- TUNISIA

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lexicographer sought
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1) Subject:Lexicographer sought

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:Andrew Petusky <petusky at gmail.com>
Subject:Lexicographer sought

I am putting together a grant proposal, under the Dept. of Education's  
International Research and Studies program, to develop a digitized,  
bidirectional dictionary of Egyptian Arabic and English.  I seek a  
lexicographer to assist me on the project.

The proposed project will begin with digitization of Bedawi & Hinds "A  
Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic," a 900+ page dictionary of the Egyptian  
Arabic of Cairo (one way, Arabic-English).  The digitization involves  
significant computer programming and data entry, which will be done by  
other team members.

The method of digitization used will facilitate creating `reverse  
entries,' by which I mean entries created from the English-term  
definitions in the source dictionary, with the corresponding Arabic- 
term entries from the source dictionary now serving as definitions.    
I recognize that this raw database of English terms is far from a  
finished English-Egyptian Arabic dictionary.  I need help from a  
lexicographer, who can help me organize headwords and other related  
tasks on the English-Arabic side.

My need to find someone is time sensitive, as the grant proposal is  
due in early April.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Andy Petusky

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:George Mason Job
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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:George Mason Job

Hi,
We have a non-Tenure position at George Mason for Arabic Professors.  
Please contact me if you have any questions,

take care,
Sana Hilmi

Position description

Position description for assistant professor of Arabic

The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason  
University seeks a non-tenure Term Assistant Professor of Arabic (one- 
year renewable) beginning August 2008.

Doctorate degree in Arabic linguistics or Literature is required at  
the time of the appointment; with special expertise in the teaching of  
Arabic as a foreign language.

Other requirements: at least one year of college teaching experience  
in the U.S., ability to teach an upper level dialect course, native or  
near native proficiency in English and Modern Standard Arabic (written  
and spoken), knowledge of the Arabic geography and culture,  
familiarity with Arabic and English software and keyboard, and ability  
to use technology in the classroom. Availability to participate in  
study abroad programs a plus.  Candidates should provide evidence of  
commitment to excellent teaching.

The successful candidate will teach content-oriented Arabic courses at  
the elementary, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate levels.   
Additional responsibilities include advising students, helping to  
develop curriculum in Arabic, handling placement exams, and other  
departmental service.

Applicants must apply online at:  jobs.gmu.edu

Please submit a cover letter, CV, statement of teaching philosophy,  
and the names and contact information for three individuals who can  
later be contacted for letters of recommendation.  Review of the  
applications will begin March 3rd, 2008, and will continue until the  
position is filled.

George Mason is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Penn State Job
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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:"INAS MESSIHA" <ium2 at psu.edu>
Subject:Penn State Job

PENN STATE, Lecturer in Arabic

The Department of Comparative Literature seeks a Lecturer in Arabic  
starting
Fall 2008.  Full-time, fixed-term appointment, three-year contract, with
benefits, with possibility of renewal.  Responsibilities include  
teaching
Arabic language courses, and perhaps some culture courses, from  
introductory
through advanced; and participation in programmatic support such as  
supervision
of graduate assistants or other instructors and curriculum  
development.  We
prefer candidates who are interested in further developing our
technology-enhanced instructional environment and in collaborating with
colleagues who teach other languages, for example through  
participation in our
Summer Intensive Language Institute.  Minimum requirements:  Master’s  
in a
relevant discipline; near-native ability in both Arabic and English;
appropriate teaching experience; and evidence of high quality in  
teaching.
Salary competitive.  To apply, send letter, c.v., and the names of 3  
referees
to: Arabic Lecturer Search, c/o Ms. Cindy Bierly, Department of  
Comparative
Literature,  School of Languages and Literatures, The Pennsylvania State
University, Box B, 427 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA  16802.
Applications can also be sent by Fax to:  814-863-8882, ATTN:  Cindy  
Bierly; or
by e-mail to: <mailto:rxn6 at psu.edu>.  Review of applications will begin
immediately but all applications will be considered until the search is
concluded.  Penn State is committed to Affirmative Action, Equal  
Opportunity,
and the diversity of its workforce.

Inas Messiha, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Comparative Literature
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Coordinator of Arabic Language
Co-Director of Summer Intensive Language Institute
314 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
ium2 at psu.edu

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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:46 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING&PEDA:SLRF Forum
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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:SLRF Forum

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

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

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

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

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

Theme:  EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES

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


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


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

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

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


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

Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.

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


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New issue of Languages and Linguistics
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1) Subject:New issue of Languages and Linguistics

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New issue of Languages and Linguistics

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:08:31
From: Moha Ennaji [estry at iam.net.ma]
Subject: Languages and Linguistics No 20 (2008)
E-mail this message to a friend:
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Publisher:	Langues et Linguistique
			http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ 			
			
Journal Title:  Languages and Linguistics
Volume Number:
Issue Number:  20
Issue Date:  2008

Main Text:

Languages and Linguistics (See: http://www.lang-ling.on.ma/)
Issue 20 on Aspects of Berber Linguistics
Table of Contents

Introduction                                           i
Moha Ennaji

Les Activités du Larynx en Berbère
     1
Rachid Ridouane


A Comparative Study of Spirantisation in  
Berber                            29
Khalid Ansar

La Strucutre Morphologique du Causatif en  
Amazigh                       55
Moha Ennaji


Les Formes Réciproques en  
Amazigh                                              65
Fatima Sadiqi

The Syntax of Accusative and Dative Clitics in Moroccan Arabic  and  
Tamazight
Berber.                                                   73
Taoufik El Ayachi

Dealing with Word Order by Bilingual Children:
The Dilemma of Choice in a Language with Variable  
Orders                       103
Yahya Er-rramdani

De Quelques Aspects de Convergence entre le Berbère et l'Arabe
Dialectal
                                121
Moussa Imarazene

Arabic-Amazigh Code Switching in Nador (Morocco)
     129
Mahmoud El Salman

For more information, please contact
Prof Moha Ennaji
Mennaji2002 at yahoo.fr

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:51:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Thanks for a great ALS!
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1) Subject:Thanks for a great ALS!

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy  <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Thanks for a great ALS!

On behalf of the Arabic Linguistics Society, I would like to thank the
hosts and participants of the 22nd Annual Symposium on Arabic
Linguistics, held at the University of Maryland, College Park, March
8-9, 2008. The hospitality and assiduousness of Professor Alaa Elgibali,
Local Coordinator, created the perfect atmosphere for exchanging ideas
and disseminating research. Thanks to Professor Elgibali, the program
included twenty papers with five distinguished keynote speakers: Elabbas
Benmamoun, Mushira Eid, Jonathan Owens, Yassir Suleiman, and Manfred
Woidich. Special thanks to Dr. Saleh Nusairat and Ridha Krizi for their
diligent work on the conference program and logistics. The conference
would not have been possible without their hard work.

The conference was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistics Society.
Additional support was provided by the School of Languages, Literatures,
and Cultures, the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, and the
National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. The
conference owes its success to this support.

I would like to thank the conference participants for their papers,
comments, and questions. Your research has made a significant
contribution to the field, and your active participation has enriched
our academic community.

I look forward to seeing you and many more other participants at our
next annual meeting at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in March
2009. Professor Hamid Ouali will be our host and local coordinator.

Thank you,
Mustafa Mugahzy

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:19:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:HS Student Summer Immersion Program in Amherst
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1) Subject:HS Student Summer Immersion Program in Amherst

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:kkidd at jhu.edu
Subject:HS Student Summer Immersion Program in Amherst

The Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins and the Middlebury- 
Monterey Language Academy (MMLA) are offering a program for students  
who have completed grades 6-9 to study Arabic in an immersion setting  
for six weeks at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.  We are  
also teaching Chinese, French and Spanish at that site.  MMLA has a  
similar program for high school age students in Atherton, California.

Unfortunately, enrollment for Arabic has been very slow at both  
sites.  We are trying to identify additional students who might be  
interested in the program.  Dr. Ferhadi suggested that you might be  
able to assist us in identifying interested students and potentially  
staff.

If you would be willing to talk with me about how to identify and  
contact students who might be interested in either program, I would  
appreciate speaking with you as soon as possible.  We must make a  
decision about whether to cancel the program at Hampshire by late  
March.  To learn more about the two sites, you can visit the CTY web  
site atwww.cty.jhu.edu/summer/immersion  or the MMLA site at www.mmla.middlebury.edu
I hope to hear from you.

With best regards,

Katherine Kidd

Katherine M. Kidd, Ph.D.
Senior Program Manager
Johns Hopkins University-Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
McAuley Hall
5801 Smith Ave, Ste 400
Baltimore, MD 21209

410-735-6255
410-735-6187 fax
http://cty.jhu.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo NLP Conference (INFOS 2008)
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1) Subject:Cairo NLP Conference

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Prof_Khaled Shaalan" <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject:Cairo NLP Conference

INFOS 2008

The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems
                           27 – 29 March, 2008
                                 Cairo, EGYPT

                                 Special Track
                                         On
                       Natural Language Processing

                               Program Schedule

March 27th: 3:30 – 5:30
+++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> NLP 1: Text Summarization and Learning Techniques <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France
Co-Chair: Dr Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Faculty of Economic Sciences and
Management of Sfax, Tunisia

Data Normalization for Variation in Document Length in Exploratory
Multivariate Analysis of Text Corpora
Hermann Moisl

News Aggregating System with Automatic Summarization Based on Local
Multiple Alignment
Takaharu Takeda, Atsuhiro Takasu

A Learning Technique to Determine Criteria for Multiple Document  
Summarization
Fatma Kallel Jaoua, Maher Jaoua, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Abdelmajid  
Ben Hamadou

SDRT based CSP problem planning approach for merging predefined
messages in human-machine interaction

systems
Pierre Hankach, Laurence Danlos, Franck Panaget

What can NLP techniques do for eLearning?
Paola Monachesi, Eline Westerhout

ASKME: Adaptive and Self-evolving Knowledge-base for Mobile Environments
Hassan Artail,	Jad El Hage, Reda Aouad, Kassem Fawaz

March 28th:9:30 -11:10
++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> NLP 2:  Arabic Natural Language Processing (I) <<<<<<<<

Chair: Dr Hermann Moisl, University of Newcastle, UK
Co-Chair: Dr Hanady Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt

Estimating phone lengths for a diphone-based text-to-speech system for  
Arabic
Allan Ramsay, Hanady Mansour

Combined Classifier Based Arabic Speech Recognition
Ehab Eissa, Ahmed Tolba, Samir El Mougy

AraConc, an Arabic Concordance software
Ramzi Abbès, Joseph Dichy

A Web-Based Approach for Arabic PP Attachment
Rania Al-Sabbagh, Khaled Elghamry



March 28th: 3:30 - 5:30
++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> NLP 3: Arabic Natural Language Processing (II) <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA
Co-Chair: Doaa Samy, Cairo University, Egypt

Enhanced Annotation and Parsing of the Arabic Treebank
Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick

Using the Web in Building A Corpus-Based Hypernymy-Hyponymy Lexicon
with Hierarchical Structure for Arabic
Khaled Elghamry

A Hybrid Approach for Converting Written Egyptian Colloquial Dialect
into Diacritized Arabic
Hitham M. Abo Bakr, Khaled Shaalan, Ibrahim Ziedan

Naïve Bayes Classifier for Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation
Samir Elmougy, Taher Hamza, and Hatem M. Noaman

Improving KNN Arabic Text Classification With N-Grams Based Document  
Indexing
Riyad Al-Shalabi, Rasha Obeidat

Holistic Approach for Classifying and Retrieving Personal Arabic
Handwritten Documents
Salama Brook, Zaher Al Aghbari

March 29th:9:30 -11:30
++++++++++++++++++

>>>>>>>> NLP 4: Information Extraction <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Mohamed Maamouri, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC),
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Co-Chair: Dr Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France

Hybrid, Three-stage Named Entity Recognizer for Tamil
S. Lakshmana Pandian, Krishnan Aravind Pavithra, T.V. Geetha

Chatbots are natural web interface to information portals
Bayan Abu Shawar

Ontology Learning from Textual Web Documents
Maryam Hazman, Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Ahmed Rafea

Enhancing English/Arabic CLIR Using Word Collocations and Statistical
Translation and Transliteration Resources
Tarek A. Elghazaly, Aly A. Fahmy

Recognizing semi-automatically author's intentions from scientific  
documents
Hassan Kanso, Ali Elhore, Chantal Soulé-Dupuy, Saïd Tazi


March 29th:9:30 -11:30
++++++++++++++++++

>>>>>>>> NLP 5: Persian Natural Language Processing <<<<<<<<

Chair: Dr Kareem Darwish, Cairo Univ., Egypt
Co-Chair: Dr. Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University, NL

A Romanized Transcription for Persian
Jalal Maleki

Automatic term extraction for cross-language information retrieval
using a bilingual parallel corpus
Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah

Using Heuristic Rules to Improve Persian Part of Speech Tagging Accuracy
Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian, Masoud Rahgozar

Tuning Lambda Parameter for Language Modeling Based Persian Retrieval
Hadi Amiri, Ashkan Zarnani, Mahbod.Tavallaee, Sadra Abedinzadeh,
Masoud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian

Local Cluster Analysis as a Basis for High-Precision Information  
Retrieval
Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Hadi Amiri



-- 
Join INFOS2008 conference (Natural Language Processing Track)
http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/infos2008/htmlPapers/NLP_Track.html

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

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

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

Honorary Fellow
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs books on Muwashshahat and the Kharja
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1) Subject:Needs books on Muwashshahat and the Kharja

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:Needs books on Muwashshahat and the Kharja

Dear all,
I would like to know if there are good books about history of  
Muwashshahat and the Kharja in particular.

Also, how could I get these articles?

The Kharja of the Muwashashah in New Light
Author: Abu-Haidar, Jareer
Source: Journal of Arabic lit, Vol 9,  Number 1, 1978, pp. 1-13,
Publisher: Brill.

Kharjas and Villanicos
Author: Armistead S. G.
Source: Journal of Arabic Lit, Vol 34, Numbers 1-2, 2003, pp.3-19
Publishers Brill

thanks,
Sana

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

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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:09 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:MLI updated link
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:Maher Bahloul <mbahloul at aus.edu>
Subject:MLI updated link

It is my pleasure to send you the recent updates.
http://www.maher-language-institute.com/mli/
Please feel free to forward the link to whoever you think might be  
interested.
Thank you,
Maher

Maher Bahloul, PhD
Assistant Professor of English & Linguistics
Department of English
American University of Sharjah
Phone: 0097165152714
Mobile:00971506462113
Fax: 0097165152570
Email: mbahloul at aus.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gaza dialect reference
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:Uri Horesh <urih at mail.utexas.edu>
Subject:Gaza dialect reference

Dear Nedal et al.,

The only reference that comes to mind re: Gaza Arabic is the following:

Barnea, Aharon. 1975. Reference to Time, Space and Other Types of
Quantification in the City Dialect of Gaza. Afroasiatic Linguistics,  
1975,
2, 3, May, 1-10. (ISSN 0362-3637)

Abstract (from LLBA):

Some common references to concepts of time, space, & other types of
quantification used in the city dialect of Gaza are sociolinguistically
analyzed. Time & space concepts do not depend as much upon any one  
system
within the grammar, as they do upon the ways of analyzing & reporting
experiences which have become fixed in the language as integrated  
"fashions
of speaking;" for example, those that relate to major events of the  
past,
such as Muhammad's time & the 1948 War. Time & place references are
obliquely made concepts, through loose adverbial constructions;  
references
to time of day are approximated; places have a social reference; money,
however, is quantified exactly. There are definite connections between
cultural norms & linguistic patterns which differ from those of Standard
American English.

It's old, but it's better than nothing. If anyone knows of newer  
references,
I'd be glad to learn about them too.

Uri

-- 
Uri Horesh
Lecturer of Arabic
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX 78712-0527
Tel : 512-475-6644
Cell: 267-475-5594
Fax : 512-471-7834
urih at mail.utexas.edu   http://ling.upenn.edu/~urih

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Arabic at SDSU
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:Summer Arabic at SDSU

Courses Offered this summer at the LARC, San Diego State University:

Do you want to learn Arabic while spending the summer in beautiful San  
Diego.

Arabic 101, 102/201, 202: Intensive Elementary and Intermediate Arabic
Course Description:
Arabic courses offered by LARC and the Linguistics Department at San  
Diego State University. First semester, first year Arabic intensive  
(101, 102) and second year Arabic intensive (201, 202) are designed to  
teach practical language skills. Students shall learn four skills of  
speaking, listening, reading and writing of the Arabic language  
through conversations, games and written homework. Arabic movies are  
scheduled throughout the course to help students gain a better  
understanding of the Arabic culture. Undergraduate and graduate  
students, working professionals, and others may apply. No prior  
knowledge of Arabic is required. This is an eight credit course. For  
further questions please contact Dr. Hanada Taha Thomure Arabic  
Language director at LARC SDSU: hthomure at projects.sdsu.edu
Arabic 550: Intensive Superior and Distinguished Arabic
Course Description:
"This intensive course emphasizes the development of skills in  
speaking, listening, reading and writing through the use of authentic  
materials and participation of guest speakers; the students will be  
expose to a wide variety of topics for content, terminology and  
culture to function effectively in a professional setting. On site  
instruction will be supplemented by filed trips and other cultural  
activities. Under the oversight and guidance of instructional team,  
students shall work independently on a project of their own selection  
relevant to their work and shall present it on the last day of the  
program. Undergraduate and graduate students working professionals,  
and others may apply.
Acceptance to the program is contingent upon a successful OPI  
interview rating 2+ or higher. The test shall be conducted by LARC at  
SDSU.
This is a six credit course and students may transfer their credits to  
satisfy their General Studies and/or language requirement.
For further questions please contact Dr. Hanada Taha Thomure. Arabic  
Language director at LARC, SDSU: hthomure at projects.sdsu.edu

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

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Startalk Teacher Training Program
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Startalk Teacher Training Program

[This message came as a pdf attachment which I cannot post, but here  
is the URL for infomation about the program:]

Startalk Teacher Training Program
http://www.hadi.org/startalk/

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic support on Mac
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:wasamy at umich.edu
Subject:Arabic support on Mac

I'd hoped the latest release of MSOffice for Mac would work with  
Arabic.  I went to an Apple store and found out that it still does  
not. It is most annoying that neither Apple nor MS are stepping up to  
make sure their work works.

For people doing Arabic on a Mac, it is possible to get a free  
NeoOffice suite, which does work well with Arabic, and allows for  
document exchange between MSOffice and NeoOffice.  The site is at: www.neooffice.org 
.

Waheed Samy

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar 20 20:20:14 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Apposition (badal?) query
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Apposition (badal?) query

[note from dil: see p. 224-227 of Ryding's reference grammar]

      The Wehr dictionary defines  /al-lughah  al-umm/  as "the mother  
tongue."  I have recently come across

the expression  /al-QaDiyyah  al-asaas/  (sic)  "the fundamental  
question."

       Is the second expression 'built on' the first?  Is this a new  
syntactic construction that is spreading?

Has it ever been treated grammatically?  Many thanks,
                                                                                              Mike 
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:11 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L;LING:New LDC resources
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:New LDC resources

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

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

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

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

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

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

All final data are in Tab Delimited Format (TDF). TDF is compatible  
with other transcription formats, such as the Transcriber format and  
AG format, and it is easy to process.  Each line of a TDF file  
corresponds to a speech segment and contains 13 tab delimited field.A  
source TDF file and its translation are the same except that the  
transcript in the source TDF is replaced by its English translation.   
GALE Phase 1 Arabic Blog Parallel Text is distributed via web download.

2008 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of  
this corpus on disc. 2008 Standard Members may request a copy as part  
of their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data  
for US$1500

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Linguists Group Seminar-Ali Farghaly
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:madihadoss at yahoo.com
Subject:Cairo Linguists Group Seminar-Ali Farghaly


جماعة اللغويين في القاهرة
   و مركز البحوث العربية و الإفريقية

  نتشرف بدعوتكم لحضور محاضرة:

" تحديد الكيانات في النصوص  
العربية:منظور لساني"
(باللغة الانجليزية و عربية و مرفق  
الملخص)

  علي صبري فرغلي
(اوراكل ومعهد مونتري للدراسات الدولية)

في المقر لمركز البحوث العربية  
والأفريقية
5شارع المهندس حسن برادة- متفرع من شارع  
قرة بن شريك - الجيزة
الدور الأرضي شقة 5   تليفون: 37744644

يوم السبت 29 مارس 2008  الساعة السادسة  
مساءً
رجاء الحضور في الموعد المحدد


CAIRO LINGUISTS GROUP
and the Arab African Research Center

are inviting you to a lecture by

Ali Farghaly
(Oracle USA &
Monterey Institute of International Studies)

“Arabic Entity Recognition: Linguistic Perspective”
(in English / Arabic, abstract attached)

at the headquarters of the Arab & African Research Center:
5 Hassan Barada Street, Giza, (side street off the previous address  
Qura Ibn Shureik Street), ground floor, Apt. 5. Tel. 37744644

Saturday, 29th March 2008, at 6 p.m.

PLEASE COME ON TIME


ملخص
نبدأ بتعريف مهمة تحديد الكيانات في  
النصوص ونوضح الأهمية المتزايدة لهذه  
المهمة في استخراج المعلومات وتصنيف  
الوثائق والتحليل الدلالي للنصوص.

نعطي نماذج من الحلول المستخدمة لتحقيق  
هذه المهمة في النصوص الانجليزية ، ثم  
نوضح التحديات التي نواجهها  لتنفيذ نفس  
المهمة في النصوص العربية.

وننهي الورقة ببعض المؤشرات لحول تحديات  
المعالجة في اللغة العربية

Abstract
The Entity Recognition task has become  extremely important in the  
last few years (Farghaly, 2007; Shaalan, 2007; Zitouni, 2008). The  
task involves identifying and extracting entities such as dates,  
person names, addresses, phone numbers,  urls from unstructured texts.

In this presentation a description of the task is given with examples  
from  modules developed for the English language. We will illustrate  
the technology used. Then we will discuss the challenges of performing  
the same task on unstructured Arabic texts. We end with some pointers  
to how to meet such challenges.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New CIEE Study Center in Rabat
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Lauren Chaney" <lchaney at ciee.org>
Subject:New CIEE Study Center in Rabat

Dear Colleagues,

CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange is pleased to  
announce a new Study Center in Rabat, Morocco opening this summer,  
offering summer, semester, and academic year programs for  
undergraduate students at U.S. universities. The program will help  
students to develop an understanding of contemporary Morocco, gain  
insight into Morocco's role in the Arab world and its ties to Europe,  
and to improve their Arabic language skills at the beginning through  
advanced levels. The CIEE Study Center is hosted by the Ecole  
Superieure de Direction et de Gestion (ESDG-LangCom), with additional  
access to professors and facilities of two neighboring universities of  
high academic regard, Université Mohammed V and the Institut  
Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II.

Semester and Academic Year Programs
On the CIEE semester and academic year programs, students take an  
intensive Moroccan Colloquial Arabic course for the first two weeks of  
the program, preparing them to comfortably access the community around  
them during the semester. Students then take Modern Standard Arabic at  
their level, contemporary Moroccan culture, and two area studies  
electives. Area studies courses, offered in English and French,  
examine various aspects of Moroccan society, literature, religion,  
business, and history. The core course, Contemporary Moroccan Society  
and Culture, includes a unique one-week academic module in either Fez  
or Marrakech. The program will also appeal to students who speak  
French or are interested in studying in a Francophone location while  
gaining new language skills in Arabic. For those students with a  
strong background in French, enrolling directly in one ESDG course  
alongside local students may be possible.  Students also have the  
opportunity to engage in a for-credit internship during their time in  
Rabat.

Summer Program
This program combines intensive Arabic Language training with an  
introduction to Moroccan society and culture. Over six weeks, all  
students take Arabic language appropriate to their level in addition  
to an elective course. If they wish to focus on language study, they  
will take Colloquial Moroccan Arabic; others may choose Contemporary  
Moroccan Culture and Society.

In addition to coursework, the CIEE Rabat programs provide  
opportunities for cultural immersion through community engagement  
activities, homestays, and CIEE local excursions. CIEE also provides a  
comprehensive orientation which focuses on cross-cultural adjustment  
and adaptation to life in Morocco. For all programs, students must  
have two semesters of either French or Arabic to apply.

CIEE Study Center in Amman, Jordan
CIEE also offers two semester and academic year programs at the  
University of Jordan in Amman. The Arabic Language program is designed  
for students who already have a solid foundation in Modern Standard  
Arabic and seek to attain proficiency in the language. All language  
and area studies courses in this program are taught in Arabic. The  
Language and Culture program is designed for students who have an  
interest in Jordan and the Middle East, and offers beginning to  
advanced level Arabic language in addition to courses in anthropology,  
history, economics, literature, religion, archaeology, environment,  
political science, and the media.

CIEE Contact Information
For more information about our new programs in Rabat, Morocco, and  
other CIEE programs around the world, please visit our website at www.ciee.org/participant.aspx 
. Brochures are available from our on-line Publication Center, or  
alternatively, contact us by e-mail at studyinfo at ciee.org or by phone  
at 1.800.40.STUDY at any time.

Sincerely,

Adam Rubin
Program Director, Africa, Middle East, and Northern, Central, and  
Eastern Europe
E: arubin at ciee.org
T: 207-553-4051

Catherine Menyhart
Manager, Institutional Relationships, Africa and Middle East
E: cmenyhart at ciee.org
T: 207-553-4041

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Meedan.net job
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:Loren Siebert <loren at siebert.org>
Subject:Meedan.net job

A colleague of mine sent me this job posting from Meedan.net, which is  
a non-profit aiming to create an online community for dialogue between  
the West and the Arabic-speaking world:

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce that Meedan is in the process of searching  
for a talented Product Manager. Please find our position description  
below. Feel free to forward to any networks or persons that you feel  
would be a good fit for this position. We appreciate your support and  
thank you for your assistance!

Product Manager for Meedan

Meedan (pronounced "mee-DAN")-- www.meedan.net -- is a nonprofit  
social technology company. Our mission is to forward global  
understanding and tolerance by providing people and communities with  
advanced technologies to enable dialogue and the sharing of knowledge.

Enabling a global and linguistically diverse community of users to  
communicate and collaborate, Meedan is innovating social networking,  
social translation, and social media technologies. We are fortunate to  
have the support of IBM and their development team and a strong  
community of foundation funders.  With an initial focus on Arabic and  
English speaking communities, Meedan will be opening a public beta in  
mid-April.

Meedan is looking for a Product Manager who is talented, motivated,  
and eager to participate in a  'live' Web 2.0 project. This is a  
unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial spirit to join a great team  
with a start up vibe and a vision for changing the world through 'code  
and community.'

Location: San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

Product Management:

    * Work with program staff and tech staff to understand our user  
community or "market" and their needs, mapping to requirements.
    * Maintains Product Requirements Doc (PRD) and Market Requirements  
Doc (MRD)
    * Assists with technical architecture
    * Assists with usability and user interface design
    * Own and manage product schedule.
    * Works closely with the distributed development teams from IBM  
(New York/UK), Carrot Search (Poland), and Meedan (Portland/San  
Francisco).
    * Takes ownership and ensures proactive closure for problem  
reports that fall within or appear to fall within area of  
responsibility; works closely with internal customers to quickly and  
successfully closeout
problem reports.


Project Management:

    * Create, Communicate and Manage product deliverables and timeline.
    * Support and monitor schedule of iteration.
    * Manage bug tracking.  Address and assign new issues as they arise.
    * Works closely and actively with other team members to ensure  
that interdependent deliverables are accomplished according to schedule.

Ability to work with global/virtual team:

    * Works as a strong team player within the team, and where  
possible improves the knowledge and capabilities of all team members.
    * Assists other team members with their tasks when necessary to  
make sure the team's success.
    * Actively works with external teams to guide them in their  
adoption of Applications and ensure their success.  (IBM, Contactors  
and distributed programming team)
    * Other major areas of participation, dependent upon the  
candidate's experience and interests

Key Qualifications:
We are a fast-paced, small, nonprofit start-up that relies heavily on  
the unique skills of each team member.  Our team-members are able to  
work flexibly and respond to challenges across a range of project areas.

We are looking for an individual who possesses the following:
    * Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    * Proven Project Management and Product Management skills
    * Enjoys working in a entrepreneurial, collaborative environment  
and is a team player
    * Experience working with a distributed team (We are an  
international organization with teams in the US, Europe and MENA)

Minimum Position Requirements:
    * Bachelors Degree in a related area
    * 3 to 5 years experience in software development in Product or  
Project Management
    * 3 to 5 years experience in roles requiring excellent  
communication skills

Knowledge of the following technologies:
    * PHP
    * Ruby
    * Flash
    * JAVA
    * XML
    * Database design

Please send a cover letter and resume with salary requirements to afaur at meedan.net
For more information about our organization you can visit http://meedan.net

Meedan is a 501 c 3 Charitable Organization

-- 
Amber Faur
Operations Director, Meedan.net
1255 Post St. Suite 540, San Francisco 94109
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mobile. 707.364.4037
fax. 800.868.0069
email. afaur at meedan.net
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Connect With Your World
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:00 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Michigan State Arabic
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Wafa Hassan" <hassanw at msu.edu>
Subject:Michigan State Arabic

We would like to share an exciting new Arabic language program for
undergraduate students at Michigan State University.

In 2007, Michigan State University was awarded a language flagship grant
from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) to establish a K-16
Arabic language program in partnership with Dearborn Public Schools. The
program goal is to develop a group of highly proficient Arabic  
speakers who
can function professionally in the Arabic language, as part of an  
increasing
recognition that our nation needs more citizens who speak the Arabic
language and understand the culture.

Undergraduate students are selected for our program based on their  
academic
potential, demonstrated interest in advancing their Arabic skills, and
desire to share their understanding of this language and culture  
within the
larger community. In addition to their disciplinary studies, students
participate in advanced-level Arabic studies, including content-based
classes delivered in Arabic, advanced Arabic language classes, and study
abroad.

Our program website is available at http:// 
www.arabicflagship.msu.edu/.  If
you or any students, teachers, or administrators who you know would like
more information, please contact me at hassanw at msu.edu. Thank you!

Wafa N. Hassan, Ed.D.
Outreach Academic Specialist
Arabic Language Instruction Flagship
Michigan State University
Department of Linguistics and Languages
A644 Wells Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
Phone: (517) 353-7870
Fax:   (517) 432-2736

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gaza dialect ref
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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Manfred Woidich <m.a.woidich at uva.nl>
Subject:Gaza dialect ref

Dear colleagues,
Another reference for Gaza Arabic (in German):
Erkki Salonen, Zum arabischen Dialeket von Gaza. Studia Orientalia ed.  
by the Finnish Oriental Society 51:10, Part I Helsinki 1979. Part II:  
Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Tom. 213. Helsinki 1980

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:16 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayat Institute Summer Programs 2008
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1) Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Programs 2008

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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:nhedayet at yahoo.com
Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Programs 2008

Dear Colleagues and Students Hedayet Institute for Arabic Studies  
(HIAS) is pleased to announce its total immersion Summer Programs of  
2008.
HIAS Summer Programs are intensive total immersion Arabic language and  
cultural programs where both Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial  
Egyptian Arabic are combined. Elective courses (3 hours per week) are  
offered in Arabic literature, oriental music ('ud, nayy etc.), Arab/ 
Islamic History, Women in Islam, tajweed al Qur'an and Media Arabic.  
The institute provides the syllabi, assessment criteria, and the  
professors' CVs for its content-based area courses.
Programs Times:
1-Summer I, Seven Week Session from Jun.15th to Jul. 31st, 08
2- Summer II, Seven Week Session from Aug.3rd to Sept. 15th, 08
3- Long Summer III, 12 week Session from Jun. 15th to Sept. 4th, 08
4- UNO Three Week summer intensive program conducted for the personnel  
of the UN headquarter in New York, as well as of other UN agencies in  
the world from Jul. 13th to Jul 31st, 08 ( Pls. check the costs with  
the administration at: nhedayet at hedayetinstitute.com  )
Cultural Activities: Throughout all summer programs there are cultural  
activities including tours in Cairo, seminars, lectures, meetings and  
discussions with Egyptian youth, films etc. Our old students met with  
Orhan Pomak and Egyptian literatuers live, Mufti of Egypt, listened  
live to Nassir Shamma, Arab world first 'ud player  and attended  
several other exciting events.
Credits Transfer: Several American and few British universities  
transfer the credits and study hours of their students studying at  
HIAS. Some of them have special arrangements with HIAS for their  
students' study abroad programs. We may provide you with the list of  
these institutions if you send for it to info at hedayetinstitute.com .
Venue: HIAS is located 5 minutes walk away from Hadaayeq El Maadi  
metro station and 20 minutes far from the center of Cairo by metro.  
The institute has a fascinating Arab ambiance, all air conditioned in  
summer, 10 mints away from Rd.9, the shopping center of Maadi.  
Students' housing places are in a walking distance from the institute.
The deadline for application to the Summer Programs is April 30th, 08.

Tuition fees: The summer intensive seven week course (140 hours) will  
be for $2100 per student whether alone or coming in a group. For the  
12 week program it is: $3200 per student. Students coming to us from  
universities and institutes that have Coordinated Study Abroad  
Programs with us will have 10% discount of the above rates.
How to Apply:
	• Fill an application on line on: www.hedayetinstitute.com
	• Pay a deposit of $500 fee to reserve your place before the deadline  
(Pls. ask about details at: info at hedayetinstitute.com )
	• Indicate if you need assistance in finding a suitable accommodation- 
apartment or 3 star hotel room-during the period of your study;  
sharing a furnished apartment will cut down your housing expenses as  
low as $250 per month.

For more information please have a look at our web site at: www.hedayetinstitute.com 
   or write to: info at hedayetinstitute.com
Or call: (202)25272190/ (2012)2261308
Vonage No.: (646)2168-308

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar 25 18:01:22 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac
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1) Subject:Arabic on Mac
2) Subject:Arabic on Mac
3) Subject:Arabic on Mac
4) Subject:Arabic on Mac
5) Subject:Arabic on Mac

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1)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Chris H <kaix04holmanski77 at hotmail.com>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

Hello,
I am only passing it along because it has been such a great help for  
me, but the program Mellel is a word processor that flawlessly handles  
Arabic and is available for Mac's.  I highly recommend it myself, but  
again, I am not trying to market it.  : )
Just FYI,
Chris Holman
University of Oregon

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3)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

SALAMAAT:
Do I need to add  the NeoOffice suite to my new Mac? Thanks,
Raji

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3)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Rahawi, Mohammed A" <RahawiMA at state.gov>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

Who needs M$ Office?!

I have been using NeoOffice for the last 3 or 4 years. It's as good as
M$ Office and is fully compatible with all versions of M$ Office
including 2007. Best of all, it's free.

Best,
Mohammed Rahawi

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4)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:"Alexander J. Stein" <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

Waheed,
I use NeoOffice to write Arabic for my papers. It works very well. You  
will have to enable BiDi (BiDirectional writing) properties. If you  
need any help. Send me an email.
Regards,
_AJS

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5)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

I was also highly annoyed that MS seems intent on destroying Arabic on  
the Mac.  They know how to do it, but they simply refuse to port it to  
the Mac version of MS word.

For those not yet initiated and who are struggling to use basic Arabic  
capabilities on the mac, here are some hints:

1. Go to International under system preferences and choose an arabic  
key layout or two.  Click the box to show the key layouts on the  
menubar.

2. Open textedit, and under format choose 'wrap to page'.  (This is an  
important step if you want textedit to print and wrap on the screen as  
it does on the printed page.)

3. Choose Format->Text->Writing Direction->Right To Left
The last step is what fixes the parentheses and punctuation, allowing  
them to appear in the correct places.

4. Chose Format->Font->Show Fonts
which will allow you to choose the Arabic font you want.

5. Choose the arabic key layout you want to use (It should be under  
the American Flag in the key layout menu, if you checked that box I  
mentioned above)

You are ready to type basic Arabic documents.

The same principles are going to apply to other Apple programs that  
are Arabic-enabled (like Mail).  You sometimes need to search around a  
bit, but you need to find that Right To Left command to make things  
work properly.

Some of you may not be aware that although MS Word documents that were  
prepared on a PC and that include Arabic in them will not show up  
correctly when read into MS Word on a Mac, you can drag the document  
onto the textedit icon, and even though it may not be perfect, it will  
be more or less a readable version of the file, including the Arabic,  
that you can deal with.

I use Textedit for making basic Arabic documents, and for creating  
Arabic text for other documents.

Mellel and Nisus are both acceptable alternatives.  They have much  
higher capabilities than Textedit, but also a much steeper learning  
curve.

NeoOffice is also a good alternative.

For more complicated documents, if you have the money, the Middle East  
version of Indesign is really a very wonderful program which I have  
become very attached to.  Again, a fairly steep learning curve, but it  
is a program of amazing power and beauty.

dil

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar 25 18:01:15 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Illinois Outreach Job
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1) Subject:U. of Illinois Outreach Job

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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Marilyn Booth <mbooth at uiuc.edu>
Subject:U. of Illinois Outreach Job

**Fulltime Academic Professional Outreach Position, University of  
Illinois**

The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) at the  
University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign seeks an *Outreach  
Coordinator* to organize the planning, development and implementation  
of its outreach activities. CSAMES is a newly designated US Dept of  
Education, Title VI National Resource Center for the Middle East.  
Focusing largely on K-12 educational outreach and working with other  
area study centers, the center is planning to widen the scope of its  
outreach efforts at both K-16 and community levels working  
increasingly throughout the state with various constituencies.

*Duties and Responsibilities*: Supporting the Center in its outreach  
activities, organizing events, conferences, teacher workshops, working  
with local schools on outreach projects, and assisting with the  
routine work of the Program. The Outreach Coordinator would also be  
instrumental in developing curriculum materials for the website and  
enhancing the Center’s acquisitions for an outreach library. The  
position would involve working with 75% Middle Eastern Studies and 25%  
South Asian Studies content.

*Qualifications:* Required: Bachelors degree, (preferably a Masters  
degree in social sciences or the humanities, preferably in Middle  
East, South Asian or Islamic studies). Superior organizational  
ability, interpersonal skills, and facility in oral and written  
communication.

Preferred: Experience in working with diverse groups of teachers or  
community groups and a creative interdisciplinary orientation.  
Familiarity with handling databases and writing reports. Knowledge of  
a Middle Eastern language or South Asian language.

This is a regular, full time academic professional position (non- 
tenured), salary will be commensurate with qualifications and  
experience and reports to the Associate Director, CSAMES. Starting  
date is as soon as possible after the search closes. Interested  
individuals must submit an application letter, a resume, short writing  
sample, and three letters of reference to: Ritu Saksena, Associate  
Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,  
University of Illinois, 221 International Studies Building, 910 S  
Fifth St, Champaign, IL 61820. Tel: 217-244-7331. Email csames at uiuc.edu

To ensure full consideration, applications, including an email  
address, must be received by April 7, 2008. Applicants may be  
interviewed before the closing date; however no hiring decision will  
be made until after that date. The University of Illinois is an  
Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

-- 
*********************************************************************
Marilyn Booth, D.Phil.

Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Associate  
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
                    Program in Gender and Women's Studies Book Review  
Editor, The Journal of Women's History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Passage Rating Seminar at SDSU
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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:Passage Rating Seminar at SDSU

Salam Dear All,

The Language Acquisition Resource Center at the San Diego State  
University will be hosting a Passage Rating workshop this summer June  
2nd to June 4th.  Presenters from the U.S. Government who have worked  
with James Child's model of text typology will be offering this  
special workshop on passage rating.  The workshop is free of charge.
To register and for any questions that you may have please go to http://larcnet.sdsu.edu/workshops.php

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

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:18 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Colloquial in website name?
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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial in website name?

I don't see the rationale of using colloquial instead of standard  
Arabic in
the name of the website Meedan.net.  Maydan / ميْدان  / (with a  
diphthong,
rather than a long vowel) is just as accessible and easy to  
pronounce.  Do
websites like the one in question promote the unfortunate trend of
colloquialisation?

*MD

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Apposition
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2) Subject:Apposition

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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From: "Francesco Leggio" <f.leggio at email.it>
Subject:Apposition

There is another very common occurrence of asas in this position: al- 
Hajar al-asas. It is quite similar to the use of wasaT in some cases  
as in : al-Hall al-wasat , or the coranic verse:

وكذلك جعلناكم أمة وسطاً
[wkvlk jclnAkm LmQ wsTA]

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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:BearMeiser at aol.com
Subject:Apposition

In classical Arabic grammar, it is OK to use a noun as an adjective if  
its
underlying meaning is actually adjectival, or is the nisba version of  
that noun.
Sibawayh did not like this type of construction, and called it "ugly and
weak", and Abbas Hasan says to stay away from it wherever possible.  
Examples given
in grammar references include "rajulun fir'aun al-'adhab" in which  
"fir'aun"
can be reinterpreted as "qaasi," and "sharibtu dawaa'an 'asalan" in  
which
'asalan can be reinterpreted as "ladhidhan" or "sukriyyan" or  
"'asaliyyan"

I remember seeing years ago a Batman comic book in Arabic in which  
"Batman"
was translated as "al-Rajul al-WaTwaaT." This would be a perfectly  
legitimate
Arabic construction, according to the grammarians, since it can be  
construed as
meaning in its underlying form "al-rajul al-waTwaaTi" ("the  
chiropteran man")

Thus, many of these types of constructions are not really badals but a  
type
of adjective. That is certainly the case with "al-qaDiyya al-asaas,"  
which can
be thought of as "al-qaDiyya al-asaasiyya." "al-Lugha al-Umm" is a bit
tougher, and it might be better to call that one a badal.

In the pages Prof. Parkinson references, Ryding includes a similar  
phrase
"al-sharika al-umm" as an example of "apposition," and pretty much all  
of the
examples of apposition she gives are what Arab grammarians would call  
badal.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar  4 00:17:20 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Arabic worksheets, etc. online
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:oxyi i <oxyii at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs Arabic worksheets, etc. online

hello ? am an arabic teacher.this is my first year in the field.so ?  
need some forum adresses wh?ch ? can ask my quest?ons about  
arabic.but forum's language should be egl?sh.do you know any?
and ? need onl?ne documents such as arabic worksheets,powerpoint  
shows.etc..
where ? can such materials?

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar  4 00:17:25 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Upcoming ARAM conferences
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1) Subject:Upcoming ARAM conferences

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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:aram at aramsociety.org
Subject:Upcoming ARAM conferences

Dear Colleague & friend,

I am writing to update you on the Aram forthcoming conferences:

1-	The Aram Twenty Fifth International Conference, which will be held  
at The Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1  
2LE, 7-10 July 2008, on the theme of the ?Decapolis?. (See attachment 1)
2-	The Aram Twenty Sixth International Conference, which will be held  
at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of  
London, 08-10 September 200, on the theme of the ?Mandaeans?. (See  
attachment 2)
3-	If you wish to participate in the conference, please send your  
answer to the above Aram email address before April 2008.

Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Role of MSA in educated Moroccan speech
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:Miller Catherine" <Miller at mmsh.univ-aix.fr>
Subject:Role of MSA in educated Moroccan speech

For the role of MSA in educated Morrocan arabic you have Jefrey  
Heath's classic book of 1984 about borrowings in Moroccan arabic for  
MSA in youth code switching you have many more recent r?ferences than  
Bentahila.  see in particular the thesis of Karima Ziamari and one of  
her recent paper just published in a collective book Arabic in the  
City, Routledge-Taylor..
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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:La Jolla Country Day School Job
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:"Mark Rosenblum" <mrosenblum2110 at gmail.com>
Subject:La Jolla Country Day School Job

La Jolla Country Day School, an independent (private) non-religious
affiliated N-12 school in San Diego, seeks an experienced and qualified
full-time Middle and Upper School Teacher of Arabic for the 2008-2009
academic year and beyond to implement a dynamic Arabic program with
innovative curriculum.

The position will have primary responsibility for teaching four to five
sections of Arabic (and/or French and/or History electives in Middle  
Eastern
Studies, as necessary and commensurate with the skill set of the  
candidate).
Essential duties will include: (1) comprehensive and dynamic new  
curriculum
and program development for a grade 7-12 Arabic sequence; (2) classroom
instruction; (3) conferences with students and colleagues; (4) active
participation in the work of the department with on-going and
cross-curricular development and pedagogy; (5) assuming at least one
additional duty as a faculty member (coaching a sport, advising a  
student
club, joining a standing committee, and the like); and (6) working  
closely
with the Department Chair, Deans, Division Directors, and Public  
Relations
team to actively encourage enrollment in Arabic courses and effectively
educate the community about Arabic language, Arabic culture and  
history, and
our Arabic program goals.

The ideal candidate will be a native Arabic speaker with near-native  
command
of English, and have a Bachelor's degree in Arabic Language and/or
Literature, Linguistics/SLA Pedagogy, and/or Teaching/Education. We
encourage English mother tongue candidates with near-native Arabic
abilities, so long as the candidate is experienced and has a proven  
track
record of teaching excellence in a middle school setting, high school
setting, and/or with freshman/sophomore level college students.  
Candidates
with advanced degrees in the areas outlined above, plus near-native  
French
fluency and experience teaching French are preferred. Familiarity with
computers and with the use of technology in Second Language  
Instruction is
also preferred (PC/Windows platform and Sanako(R) language lab).

La Jolla Country Day School Values Diversity

To learn more about the school, visit www.ljcds.org or write to
mrosenblum at ljcds.org

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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:26 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Startalk
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
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Subject:Startalk

The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland is
happy to announce the 2008 STARTALK Programs.  Launched in 2007,
STARTALK is part of the president's National Security Language
Initiative, jointly funded by the Director of National Intelligence and
the Department of Defense to promote the teaching of less commonly
taught critical languages.  Participating institutions and organizations
offer intensive language programs for middle school and high school
students and professional development programs for teachers. This summer
there will be a total of 81 programs in 32 states and the District of
Columbia offered in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian and Urdu.  The 2008
programs can be found at the following web site:
http://www.startalk.umd.edu/program-info/2008/ .  Please direct
questions to the individual programs in which you may be interested.

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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:17:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS this week
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2) Subject:ALS this week

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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject:ALS this week

Dear Friends,

Ahlan wa-sahlan.

Have you got any information about the Arabic linguistics conference  
to be held 08 and 09 March?  I recall it will take place at the  
University of Maryland, but which building?  Which room?  And what  
time does it start?

Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy

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From:moderator
Subject:ALS this week

I am pasting in the info I received.  In this you will find the place  
and the time, I believe.
dil

Event:
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


Venue:
Benjamin Banneker Auditorium, Adele Stamp Student Union

For directions, parking, transportation to and from the Adele H. Stamp  
Union, please click on the following link:


http://www.union.umd.edu/visitorInfo/directions.shtml


Accommodation:
Marriot?s Inn & Conference Center University of Maryland University  
College
3501 University Blvd E
Adelphi, Maryland 20783
Tel. 1-301-985-7300


http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasum-the-inn-and-conference-center-university-of-maryland-university-college/?ppc=eastern_google_wasum&vpckey=inn-and-conference-center-college-park&vpccat=leisure

Other nearby Hotels are listed in the following link:

http://www.uga.umd.edu/admissions/visit/accommodations.asp


Nearest airports:
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport ? BWI
Hotel direction: 30 miles South
Bus service: $35 (one way)
Estimated Taxi fare: $60

Ronald Reagan Washington National - DCA
Hotel direction: 20 miles East
Estimated Taxi fare: $50 (one way)

Washington, DC/Dulles ? IAD
Hotel direction: 35 miles East
Estimated Taxi fare: $80 (one way)




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

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


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: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:51:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs funding info for European student
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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:"David Wilmsen" <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs funding for European students

Does anyone know of funding opportunities for European students of  
Arabic?
I have a German student who wishes to do a summer intensive Arabic  
program
who would like to find funding support.

-- 
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: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:51:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic/English Translation MA At Monterey Institute
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Monterey Institute of International Studies
An affiliate of Middlebury College


New Arabic Program
Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation


Announcing New Master's Degrees in Arabic/English
http://translate.miis.edu/arabic
Translation - Interpretation - Localization
Starting in Fall 2008, the Monterey Institute will offer master's  
degrees in Translation and Interpretation for Arabic/English.  
Applications are available now - priority deadline March 15

Click here for
New Arabic Master's Degrees  How to Apply  Video "A Day in the Life of  
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:51:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL 36 program
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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:"C.G. H?berl" <mustashriq at gmail.com>
Subject:NACAL 36 program

Dear Colleagues:

I would like to alert you to the program of the 36th annual meeting of
the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 36),
which will take place from March 14-16, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Mart
Plaza, Chicago, IL, USA, in conjunction with the 218th meeting of the
American Oriental Society.  We are holding a joint session with the
latter conference in memory of the late Alan Kaye.

Friday, March 14th - Friday Morning

Language Contact and Survival (8:00-9:00)
1. 	Awod, Sulus Beyed, Central Cushitic: Languages, People and the
Influence on Some Semitic Languages.
2. 	Hamde, Kiflemariam (Umea University), The Situation of Blin
Language: Revitalizing, Maintained or Threatened?

Morphology and Morpho-Syntax I (9:00-10:30)
1.  	Gibbs, Tara Leigh (University of Minnesota), Somali as a Pro-Drop  
Language.
2. 	Hudson, Grover (Michigan State University), Ethiopian Semitic
Independent Pronoun Archaic Heterogeneity.
3. 	Beachy, Marvin (SIL Ethiopia), Linguistic and Orthographic
Implications of Analyzing Dizin Possessive Prefixes and Verbal
Agreement Proclitics as just one Set of Proclitic Personal Pronouns.

Break 10:30-11:00	
					
Morphology and Morpho-syntax II (11:00-1:00)

1.  	Soltan, Usama (Middlebury College), Free State Nominals in  
Egyptian Arabic.
2.	Alfadly, Hassan Obeid (Hadramout University), New Information on
Future and Nominal Plural Forms of Eastern Mehri in Oman.
3. 	Nishiguchi, Sumiyo (Osaka University), Correction by Polarity
Reversing Focus in Dhaasanac.
4. 	Henderson, Brent (University of Florida), Differential Object
Marking in Tigre and Tigrinya.

Lunch Break (1:00-2:00)

Friday Afternoon

Joint session (2:00-5:00): Ancient Near East I: AOS-NACAL:
Linguistics?In Memory of Alan S. Kaye

1. 	Hasselbach, Rebecca (University of Chicago) Early Semitic and
Language Typology
2. 	Fu, Janling (Harvard University) A Case for Markedness in Amarna
Canaanite? Distinctions between qtl/yqtl in the Byblian Corpus
3. 	Bar-Asher, Elitzur Avraham (Harvard University) Synchronic and
Diachronic Analysis of the Tenses of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
4. 	Pat-El, Na?ama (Harvard University) The Proleptic Genitive in
Aramaic: A Re-Evaluation

Break

5. 	Rubin, Aaron (Pennsylvania State University) The Development of
the Amharic Definite Article
6. 	Karahashi, Fumi (Chuo University, Japan) Some Notes on the
Sumerian Interrogative Pronoun a na
7. 	Johnson, J. Cale (University of California, Los Angeles)
Mirativity in Sumerian
8. 	Daniels, Peter T. (New York) H.C. Rawlinson's Contributions to
Persian and Assyrian Studies

Saturday, March 15th - Saturday Morning

Phonology I: Root/Word Formation and Syllable Structure (8:00-9:30)
	
1. 	Spencer, Bradley (Harvard University), Contingent Extrasyllabicity
in the Proto-Semitic Imperative.
2. 	Faust, Noam (Universit? de Paris VII), Meaningful Vowels: The
syntactic structure of Vocalic Patterns in Hebrew.
3.	Laks, Lior (Tel-Aviv University), Verb Innovation in Palestinian
Arabic.
Break  9:30-10:00				

Phonology II (10:00-12:00)								
1. 	Lowenstamm, Jean (Universit? de Paris VII), Chaha Palatalization  
Revisited.	
2. 	Rose, Sharon and Shosted, Ryan (Universities of California, San
Diego and Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),	Tigrinya ejective fricatives ?
are they really fricatives?
3.	Unseth, Peter (Graduate Inst. of Applied Linguistics), The
Psycholinguistic Reality of Co-occurrence Restrictions on Labialized
Consonants in Amharic.
4. 	Rosenhouse, Judith (Sound Waves Analysis and Technologies, Ltd.),
Duration Features in Male Bedouin Narratives.


Lunch Break 12:00-1:00

Saturday Afternoon

Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics (1:00-3:00)

1. 	McClelland, Clive W. (Liberty University), Prosody vs. Grammar in
Two VSO Languages.
2.	Bach Baoueb, Lamia (Universit? de Jendouba), Language Use and Code
Switching in Tunisian Business Concersations.
3. 	Henkin, Roni (Ben-Gurion University), Bilingual Humor in Written
Negev Arabic.
4. 	Khalfaoui, Amel (University of Minnesota), Demonstratives in
Tunisian Arabic: Beyond Spacial Distance.

Break 3:00-3:30

Tense / Mood / Aspect and Voice (3:30-5:30)
1. 	Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader (University of  Newcastle upon Tyne),
Finiteness, Logophors, and Double Access Construal in Arabic
varieties.
2. 	Teeple, David (University of California, Santa Cruz), Arabic
Impersonal Passives in OT.
3. 	Rucart, Pierre (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle), Aspect,
Tense and Modality in the Verbal System of Qafar.
4. 	Hatav, Galia (University of Florida), Absolute and Relative Tense  
in Hebrew.

In Memoriam, M. Lionel Bender: (6:00-7:00)

NACAL Annual Dinner: Reza's Restaurant, 432 West Ontario St., Chicago,
IL (7:30-9:30)

Sunday, March 16th - Sunday Morning

Afro-Asiatic Reconstruction (8:00-9:00)
1. 	Militarev, Alexander (Russian State University For the
Humanities), Toward a Complete Afro-Asiatic Etymological Database,
Genealogical Classification and Chronology of Branching: Preliminary
Results.
2. 	Tak?cs, G?bor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Aspects of
Comparison of Semitic and Egyptian.
3.	Zaborski, Andzrej (University of Warsaw), The position of Afar-Saho
in Cushitic and of Cushitic within Afroasiatic.

Break 9:00-9:30

Typology and Classification (9:30-11:30)
1. 	Owens, Jonathan (University of Maryland), Three Sources for the
Study of Arabic Language History and their Role in Defining the Place
of Arabic in Semitic.
2. 	Avanzini, Alessandra (Universit? degli Studi di Pisa), Origin and
Classification of the Ancient South Arabian Languages.
3. 	Testen, David (Catholic University of America), Errant Isoglosses
of Aramaic.
4. 	Kapeliuk, Olga (Hebrew University), Some Common Innovations in
Peripheral Neo-Semitic.

Lunch Break 11:30-12:30

Sunday Afternoon

Philology and Historical Linguistics (12:30-3:00)
1. 	Waltisberg, Michael (University of Marburg), The Case System of
Amorite ? A Re-Evaluation.
2. 	Pat-El, Na'ama (Harvard University), The Origin of the Official
Aramaic Quotative l'mr.
3. 	Al-Jallad, Ahmad (Harvard University), A Syntactic Account of the
Development of the Negative Adverb m? in Central Semitic.
4. 	Schluter, Kevin T. (University of Minnesota), Middle Stems,
Pronouns, and Reflexivity in Biblical Hebrew.
5. 	Calabro, David (University of Chicago), Rolling out the Etymology
of Northwest-Semitic sglt.
NACAL Business Meeting 3:00-3:30

Adjournment 3:30


-- 
Charles G. H?berl, PhD
Instructor in Middle Eastern Studies
Assistant Director, Development and Communication
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-329, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8045
Phone: (732) 445-8444 Ext. 17 / Fax: (732) 445-8446 / Mobile: (917)  
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From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic worksheets only response

Hello oxyi i
Try this link.http://www.thinkfree.com/myoffice/main.tfo?method=main&signinNdxYn=Y
If you find it useful and need more specific material and can mention  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:52:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Need Belnap's Avoidance behavior paper
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1) Subject:Need Belnap's Avoidance behavior paper

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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:"Alex Magidow" <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:Need Belnap's Avoidance behavior paper

Hello everyone,

Is there any way to obtain a copy of the following paper:
Belnap, R. Kirk (1998). Avoidance behavior in writing Arabic: an
exploratory study of
L1 linguistic insecurity. Paper presented at the Twelfth Annual
Symposium on Arabic
Linguistics, Champaign, Illinois, March 7.

Thank you very much,
Alex

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Mar  5 15:51:57 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:51:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NYU Summer Arabic program
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1) Subject:NYU Summer Arabic program

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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:lea.ellison at nyu.edu
Subject:NYU Summer Arabic program

Intensive Summer Arabic
at New York University
Summer 2008

In the heart of downtown Manhattan, New York University is offering  
intensive Modern Standard Arabic (Mondays through Fridays) this  
summer. Accommodation in NYU dorms for those who register in summer  
courses costs from $75 and higher per week.

First Year Arabic:
Session One (May 19 - June 27):  Elementary Arabic I
Session Two (June 30  - Aug 8):   Elementary Arabic II

Second Year Arabic:
Session One (May 19 - June 27): Intermediate Arabic I
Session Two (June 30  - August 8):  Intermediate Arabic II

Each session covers the equivalent of one semester of 4 credits.  
Credits are transferable. The focus will be on developing all the four  
language skills:  listening, speaking, reading and writing.

There will be tours of the Arab neighborhood in Brooklyn, where ethnic  
Arab restaurants, bakeries, book and record stores abound along with  
their billboards in Arabic.

For registration and pertinent info, please contact: NYU Center for  
Study Abroad and Special Sessions
110 East 14th Street
New York, NY, 10003
Phone: (212) 998-2292
Counselor available Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5pm, except during <http://www.nyu.edu/registrar/06calendar.shtml 
 >University Holidays.
FAX: (212) 995-4642 Available 24 hours
or visit:
<http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2008/summerny/enroll-eligibility.html>http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2008/summerny/enroll-eligibility.html

For Summer Housing visit:
<http://www.nyu.edu/summer/housing/applicants_overviewofprogram_introduction.php 
 >http://www.nyu.edu/summer/housing/applicants_overviewofprogram_introduction.php

Accommodation in NYU dorms for those who register in summer courses  
costs as low as $75 per week.

SUMMER HOUSING - ALL INQUIRIES
Office of Summer Housing
14A Washington Place
New York, NY 10003 USA
Phone: (212) 998-4621
Staff available Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm, except during <http://www.nyu.edu/registrar/calendars/ 
 >University Holidays. Recorded information available 24 hours.
FAX: (212) 995-4097 Available 24 hours

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:48 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:48 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy Jobs
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1) Subject:Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy Jobs

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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From: "Davidson, Virginia" <vdavidso at middlebury.edu>
Subject:Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy Jobs

Teach with Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy and help create all the
fun of summer camp...in a second language!

The Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy (www.mmla.middlebury.edu
<http://www.mmla.middlebury.edu/> ) seeks faculty to teach Arabic in our
four-week summer immersion camp for middle and high school students.
Faculty and students adopt a language pledge, modified as needed for the
age group and language level, so that a full immersion environment is
created.

Working with Language Directors and a carefully planned curriculum,
Arabic faculty will be responsible for leadership of the formal academic
and informal social and recreational activities. In addition to
classroom instruction, we use Arabic in all other camp activities -
sports, drama, music, field trips, games, arts and crafts, etc

Required Skills:

Applicants should have native or near-native fluency in Arabic as well
as direct teaching experience with middle and/or high school students.
Summer camp experience is preferred. Evidence of leadership among peers,
ability to relate well to students and the capacity to adapt quickly to
changing situations is required. Faculty will be housed in the same
dormitories as students, or in nearby campus accommodation.
Accommodation for families may be possible. Competitive salary, and room
and board. Camp dates are June 28-July 26. Faculty will need to arrive
on June 23rd for training and orientation.

To apply, visit the Middlebury College website
(http://www.middlebury.edu/jobseekers). MMLA positions are listed under
Staff Employment Opportunities at Middlebury College.

Please direct questions to mmla.info at middlebury.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:50 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:50 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS Public Transportaion info
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1) Subject:ALS Public Transportaion info

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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:Uri Horesh <urih at mail.utexas.edu>
Subject:ALS Public Transportaion info

Please note that in addition to the obscenely expensive cab fares  
mentioned
in the ALS 22 information sheet, there are cheap, convenient public
transportation options from all three Washington metro area airports:

1. From BWI Airport: Metro bus B30 to Greenbelt, then Metro rail Green  
Line
to College Park. From there one can take the free Shuttle UM to the  
Stamp
Union. Cost: $4.45

2. From DCA (Reagan National Airport): Metro rail Yellow Line to  
L'Enfant
Plaza (or any other stop thereafter) then Green Line to College Park.  
Then
free Shuttle UM to Stamp Union. Cost: $2.35

3. From IAD (Dulles Airport): Metro bus 5A to L'Enfant Plaza, then Green
Line to College Park, then free shuttle to Stamp Union. Cost: $4.95.


For those arriving by train to Union Station, you may take the Red  
Line from
Union Station to Fort Totten, then the Green Line to College Park, then
shuttle. Cost: $1.85.

The costs above are approximate, as Metro has peak and off-peak fares.  
Also,
senior citizens may receive a discount.

Detailed planning tools are available at http://metroopensdoors.com

Safe travels,
Uri

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:56 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Belnap's Avoidance Behavior paper
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1) Subject:Belnap's Avoidance Behavior paper

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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:Kirk Belnap <belnap at byu.edu>
Subject:Belnap's Avoidance Behavior paper

The final version of:

Avoidance Behavior in Writing Arabic: An exploratory study of L1  
linguistic insecurity. Twelfth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics,  
Champaign, Illinois, March 7, 1998.

was published as:

Belnap, R. Kirk & Brian Bishop. Arabic Personal Correspondence: A  
Window on Change in Progress? International Journal of the Sociology  
of Language 163:9-25, 2003.

Best wishes!

Kirk

R. Kirk Belnap, Director
National Middle East Language Resource Center
3056 JFSB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
belnap at byu.edu
http://nmelrc.org/

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:59 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic volunteer teaching opportunities for
 students?
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1) Subject:Arabic volunteer teaching opportunities for students?

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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:khigbaria at hotmail.com
Subject:Arabic volunteer teaching opportunities for students?

It's will be helpful if anyone provide inf relating opportunities of  
Arabic volunteer teaching in next summer for non-native speakers  
students.

Best Regards,
Khaled Igbaria

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:52 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:OWL Software Promotions
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1) Subject:OWL Software Promotions

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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:Greg Russak <GRussak at owlts.com>
Subject:OWL Software Promotions

OWL Testing Software Announces Promotions in Support of National Foreign
Language Week

PITTSBURGH, PA ? March 3, 2008 ? OWL Testing Software, the proven  
solution
for creating, administering, and rating large scale oral proficiency  
tests
for academia, business and government announced today promotions on its
products and services as a demonstration of support for National Foreign
Language Week.

?We?ve been helping teachers and students to more effectively teach and
learn language skills for eight years,? said OWL Testing Software
president and CEO, Chris Dalessandri, ?and we?re eager to show our  
support
for the National Foreign Language Week with these month-long  
promotions.?

National Foreign Language Week is March 3-8, 2008.  It was begun in 1957
by Alpha Mu Gamma, the National Collegiate Foreign Language Honor  
Society,
and received its first presidential endorsement on December 12, 1956, by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

?As an organization and as individuals, everyone at OWL Testing Software
is committed to helping to improve the language teaching and learning
experience by providing a web-based tool that makes the creation,
administration, and rating of language skills easy,? said Greg Russak,
vice president of sales for OWL Testing Software.

Russak went on to say, ?It?s our hope that month-long promotions in
support of National Foreign Language Week will encourage new customers  
to
contact us, share their language education goals with us, and request  
a no-
obligation demonstration of our unique and powerful test creator, OWL.?

The promotions are available on all of OWL?s products and services, and
include special incentives on OWL?s new hosted service offering.  More
information is available at www.owlts.com or by calling 412-436-0559.

###

About OWL Testing Software
OWL Testing Software is the leading solutions provider of language test
building software to academia, business, and government markets.   
Built as
a web-based solution for test creation, administration, and management,
OWL Testing Software is unique in its ability to create tests for all  
four
communication skills ? oral, aural, reading and writing.  OWL is  
available
as licensed software and as a hosted solution to meet the needs of the
largest and smallest schools, businesses, and government agencies
concerned with enhancing the language learning process and outcomes.
Please visit www.owlts.com or call 412-436-0559 for more information.

OWL Testing Software Contact
Michelle Belan
412-606-3600
mbelan at owlts.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar  7 02:30:54 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:30:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:PDAs in language acquisition environment query
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Date: 06 Mar 2008
From:jtsmith at mi.army.mil
Subject:PDAs in language acquisition environment query

My name is Tim Smith and I am a teacher of Arabic at a Department of
Defense language facility. We are trying to contact any universities
that may be utilizing PDAs in a language classroom environment. We would
like to see how they are being used so that we can develop our program
to include the use of PDAs for our students. We are interested in using
this technology in the teaching of less commonly taught languages
(Arabic, to include all dialects, Persian-Farsi, Pashto and Dari).

If you utilize this technology, I would be very interested in hearing
how it is being implemented, to include any software and procedures
utilized. Also if you aren't using PDAs, could point me in the direction
of any institutions that are using them? We are in our infancy when it
comes to utilizing this technology and would very much appreciate any
help you could provide.

Thank you in advance for your time and I look forward to hearing from
you.


Regards,

Tim Smith
Georgia Center for Language

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 14 17:16:39 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Culture in ME Language Programs Seminar program
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1) Subject:Culture in ME Language Programs Seminar program

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:kassem_wahba at yahoo.com
Subject:Culture in ME Language Programs Seminar program

Towards Understanding Culture in Middle Eastern Language Programs

Teaching/Learning Culture in the Foreign Language Curriculum
Critical Issues and Future Directions

A  One-Day Seminar

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Georgetown University

April 4th, 2008

ICC 141 (CCAS Boardroom)


8:00-8:30                  Registration and Breakfast
8:30-8:40                  Opening Remarks:
Judith Tucker

                            Kassem Wahba
Panel I         Overview

8:40-9:20         Chair: Peter C. Pfeiffer

                             Definition of Culture in Foreign Language  
Education and Middle East Culture Studies

Speaker: Karin Ryding


Panel II                  Language and the Culture of Islam
9:20-10:00                  Chair: Shukri Abed

                            Islamic Culture in the Language Classroom
Speaker: Felicitas Opwis

10:00-10:15         Coffee Break

Panel III                  Language and Culture: Gender and Discourse
10:15-11:35         Chair: Cristina Sanz

     10:15-10:55         Gender through the Prism of Language and Islam
Speaker: Reem Bassiouney

                            Speaker: Sylvia Onder

     10:55-11:35         Operationalizing Culture in the Language  
Classroom
Speaker: Waheed Samy


Panel IV                  Cultural Assessment
11:35-2:10                  Chair: Dora Johnson

     11:35-12:15         Assessment of Culture
Mahdi Alosh

     12:15-12:30         With Professor Irfan Shahid:  Hafiz Ibrahim:  
His Ode on the Arabic Language

  12:30-1:30         Lunch Break

1:30-2:10         Culture Proficiency Guidelines, Testing, and Training

                            Gerald E. Lampe


Panel V                  Teaching/Learning Culture in the Foreign  
Language 2:10-4:10                  Curriculum
Chair: Elizabeth M. Bergman

     2:10-2:40             Culture in the Turkish Language Classroom:
Examples from Georgetown University

Sylvia W. Onder

     2:40-3:10         Culture in the Persian Classroom

                            Farima Mostowfi
     3:10-3:40         Cultural Aspects in Hebrew Language  
Instruction, Georgetown University

                            Yoel Wachtel

        3:40-4:10         The Problematic Issue of Integrating Culture  
into the Teaching of Arabic

Margaret Nydell & Amin Bonnah

    4:10-5:00         Summary and Recommendations for Future Research

Lucy E. Thiboutot & Sean P. Braniff

                            Kassem Wahba
Chairs of Panels:

1.         Shukri Abed                            Department of  
Languages and Regional,

Studies, the Middle East Institute, Panel II

2.      Elizabeth M. Bergman       American Association of Teachers

of Arabic, Panel V

3.  Dora Johnson         Center for Applied Linguistics, Panel IV

4.  Peter C. Pfeiffer         Georgetown University, Panel I

5.  Cristina Sanz         Georgetown University, Panel III

Irfan Shahid         Oman Prof of Arabic & Islamic Literature,  
Georgetown University
Lucy E. Thiboutot &          Center of Contemporary Arab studies,

Sean P. Braniff,                   Georgetown University

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 14 17:16:48 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs corpus for Q/A systems
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1) Subject:Needs corpus for Q/A systems

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn
Subject:Needs corpus for Q/A systems

Dear all,

Does anyone know about any FREE arabic corpus that could be used
for Question Answering systems?

Many thanks for your help.

Lamia

Dr. Lamia Hadrich Belguith
PhD  Computer Science

LARIS- MIRACL Laboratory
Assistant professor at
Faculty of Economic Sciences
and management of Sfax- TUNISIA

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 14 17:16:45 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lexicographer sought
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1) Subject:Lexicographer sought

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:Andrew Petusky <petusky at gmail.com>
Subject:Lexicographer sought

I am putting together a grant proposal, under the Dept. of Education's  
International Research and Studies program, to develop a digitized,  
bidirectional dictionary of Egyptian Arabic and English.  I seek a  
lexicographer to assist me on the project.

The proposed project will begin with digitization of Bedawi & Hinds "A  
Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic," a 900+ page dictionary of the Egyptian  
Arabic of Cairo (one way, Arabic-English).  The digitization involves  
significant computer programming and data entry, which will be done by  
other team members.

The method of digitization used will facilitate creating `reverse  
entries,' by which I mean entries created from the English-term  
definitions in the source dictionary, with the corresponding Arabic- 
term entries from the source dictionary now serving as definitions.    
I recognize that this raw database of English terms is far from a  
finished English-Egyptian Arabic dictionary.  I need help from a  
lexicographer, who can help me organize headwords and other related  
tasks on the English-Arabic side.

My need to find someone is time sensitive, as the grant proposal is  
due in early April.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Andy Petusky

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Mar 14 17:16:49 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:George Mason Job
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1) Subject:George Mason Job

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:George Mason Job

Hi,
We have a non-Tenure position at George Mason for Arabic Professors.  
Please contact me if you have any questions,

take care,
Sana Hilmi

Position description

Position description for assistant professor of Arabic

The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason  
University seeks a non-tenure Term Assistant Professor of Arabic (one- 
year renewable) beginning August 2008.

Doctorate degree in Arabic linguistics or Literature is required at  
the time of the appointment; with special expertise in the teaching of  
Arabic as a foreign language.

Other requirements: at least one year of college teaching experience  
in the U.S., ability to teach an upper level dialect course, native or  
near native proficiency in English and Modern Standard Arabic (written  
and spoken), knowledge of the Arabic geography and culture,  
familiarity with Arabic and English software and keyboard, and ability  
to use technology in the classroom. Availability to participate in  
study abroad programs a plus.  Candidates should provide evidence of  
commitment to excellent teaching.

The successful candidate will teach content-oriented Arabic courses at  
the elementary, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate levels.   
Additional responsibilities include advising students, helping to  
develop curriculum in Arabic, handling placement exams, and other  
departmental service.

Applicants must apply online at:  jobs.gmu.edu

Please submit a cover letter, CV, statement of teaching philosophy,  
and the names and contact information for three individuals who can  
later be contacted for letters of recommendation.  Review of the  
applications will begin March 3rd, 2008, and will continue until the  
position is filled.

George Mason is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Penn State Job
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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:"INAS MESSIHA" <ium2 at psu.edu>
Subject:Penn State Job

PENN STATE, Lecturer in Arabic

The Department of Comparative Literature seeks a Lecturer in Arabic  
starting
Fall 2008.  Full-time, fixed-term appointment, three-year contract, with
benefits, with possibility of renewal.  Responsibilities include  
teaching
Arabic language courses, and perhaps some culture courses, from  
introductory
through advanced; and participation in programmatic support such as  
supervision
of graduate assistants or other instructors and curriculum  
development.  We
prefer candidates who are interested in further developing our
technology-enhanced instructional environment and in collaborating with
colleagues who teach other languages, for example through  
participation in our
Summer Intensive Language Institute.  Minimum requirements:  Master?s  
in a
relevant discipline; near-native ability in both Arabic and English;
appropriate teaching experience; and evidence of high quality in  
teaching.
Salary competitive.  To apply, send letter, c.v., and the names of 3  
referees
to: Arabic Lecturer Search, c/o Ms. Cindy Bierly, Department of  
Comparative
Literature,  School of Languages and Literatures, The Pennsylvania State
University, Box B, 427 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA  16802.
Applications can also be sent by Fax to:  814-863-8882, ATTN:  Cindy  
Bierly; or
by e-mail to: <mailto:rxn6 at psu.edu>.  Review of applications will begin
immediately but all applications will be considered until the search is
concluded.  Penn State is committed to Affirmative Action, Equal  
Opportunity,
and the diversity of its workforce.

Inas Messiha, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Comparative Literature
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Coordinator of Arabic Language
Co-Director of Summer Intensive Language Institute
314 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
ium2 at psu.edu

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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:46 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING&PEDA:SLRF Forum
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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:SLRF Forum

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

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

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

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

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

Theme:  EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES

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


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


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

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

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


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

Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.

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


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New issue of Languages and Linguistics
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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New issue of Languages and Linguistics

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:08:31
From: Moha Ennaji [estry at iam.net.ma]
Subject: Languages and Linguistics No 20 (2008)
E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=19-844.html&submissionid=171961&topicid=11&msgnumber=1


Publisher:	Langues et Linguistique
			http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ 			
			
Journal Title:  Languages and Linguistics
Volume Number:
Issue Number:  20
Issue Date:  2008

Main Text:

Languages and Linguistics (See: http://www.lang-ling.on.ma/)
Issue 20 on Aspects of Berber Linguistics
Table of Contents

Introduction                                           i
Moha Ennaji

Les Activit?s du Larynx en Berb?re
     1
Rachid Ridouane


A Comparative Study of Spirantisation in  
Berber                            29
Khalid Ansar

La Strucutre Morphologique du Causatif en  
Amazigh                       55
Moha Ennaji


Les Formes R?ciproques en  
Amazigh                                              65
Fatima Sadiqi

The Syntax of Accusative and Dative Clitics in Moroccan Arabic  and  
Tamazight
Berber.                                                   73
Taoufik El Ayachi

Dealing with Word Order by Bilingual Children:
The Dilemma of Choice in a Language with Variable  
Orders                       103
Yahya Er-rramdani

De Quelques Aspects de Convergence entre le Berb?re et l'Arabe
Dialectal
                                121
Moussa Imarazene

Arabic-Amazigh Code Switching in Nador (Morocco)
     129
Mahmoud El Salman

For more information, please contact
Prof Moha Ennaji
Mennaji2002 at yahoo.fr

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:51:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Thanks for a great ALS!
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1) Subject:Thanks for a great ALS!

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy  <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Thanks for a great ALS!

On behalf of the Arabic Linguistics Society, I would like to thank the
hosts and participants of the 22nd Annual Symposium on Arabic
Linguistics, held at the University of Maryland, College Park, March
8-9, 2008. The hospitality and assiduousness of Professor Alaa Elgibali,
Local Coordinator, created the perfect atmosphere for exchanging ideas
and disseminating research. Thanks to Professor Elgibali, the program
included twenty papers with five distinguished keynote speakers: Elabbas
Benmamoun, Mushira Eid, Jonathan Owens, Yassir Suleiman, and Manfred
Woidich. Special thanks to Dr. Saleh Nusairat and Ridha Krizi for their
diligent work on the conference program and logistics. The conference
would not have been possible without their hard work.

The conference was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistics Society.
Additional support was provided by the School of Languages, Literatures,
and Cultures, the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, and the
National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. The
conference owes its success to this support.

I would like to thank the conference participants for their papers,
comments, and questions. Your research has made a significant
contribution to the field, and your active participation has enriched
our academic community.

I look forward to seeing you and many more other participants at our
next annual meeting at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in March
2009. Professor Hamid Ouali will be our host and local coordinator.

Thank you,
Mustafa Mugahzy

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:19:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:HS Student Summer Immersion Program in Amherst
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:kkidd at jhu.edu
Subject:HS Student Summer Immersion Program in Amherst

The Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins and the Middlebury- 
Monterey Language Academy (MMLA) are offering a program for students  
who have completed grades 6-9 to study Arabic in an immersion setting  
for six weeks at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.  We are  
also teaching Chinese, French and Spanish at that site.  MMLA has a  
similar program for high school age students in Atherton, California.

Unfortunately, enrollment for Arabic has been very slow at both  
sites.  We are trying to identify additional students who might be  
interested in the program.  Dr. Ferhadi suggested that you might be  
able to assist us in identifying interested students and potentially  
staff.

If you would be willing to talk with me about how to identify and  
contact students who might be interested in either program, I would  
appreciate speaking with you as soon as possible.  We must make a  
decision about whether to cancel the program at Hampshire by late  
March.  To learn more about the two sites, you can visit the CTY web  
site atwww.cty.jhu.edu/summer/immersion  or the MMLA site at www.mmla.middlebury.edu
I hope to hear from you.

With best regards,

Katherine Kidd

Katherine M. Kidd, Ph.D.
Senior Program Manager
Johns Hopkins University-Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
McAuley Hall
5801 Smith Ave, Ste 400
Baltimore, MD 21209

410-735-6255
410-735-6187 fax
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo NLP Conference (INFOS 2008)
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1) Subject:Cairo NLP Conference

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Prof_Khaled Shaalan" <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject:Cairo NLP Conference

INFOS 2008

The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems
                           27 ? 29 March, 2008
                                 Cairo, EGYPT

                                 Special Track
                                         On
                       Natural Language Processing

                               Program Schedule

March 27th: 3:30 ? 5:30
+++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> NLP 1: Text Summarization and Learning Techniques <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France
Co-Chair: Dr Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Faculty of Economic Sciences and
Management of Sfax, Tunisia

Data Normalization for Variation in Document Length in Exploratory
Multivariate Analysis of Text Corpora
Hermann Moisl

News Aggregating System with Automatic Summarization Based on Local
Multiple Alignment
Takaharu Takeda, Atsuhiro Takasu

A Learning Technique to Determine Criteria for Multiple Document  
Summarization
Fatma Kallel Jaoua, Maher Jaoua, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Abdelmajid  
Ben Hamadou

SDRT based CSP problem planning approach for merging predefined
messages in human-machine interaction

systems
Pierre Hankach, Laurence Danlos, Franck Panaget

What can NLP techniques do for eLearning?
Paola Monachesi, Eline Westerhout

ASKME: Adaptive and Self-evolving Knowledge-base for Mobile Environments
Hassan Artail,	Jad El Hage, Reda Aouad, Kassem Fawaz

March 28th:9:30 -11:10
++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> NLP 2:  Arabic Natural Language Processing (I) <<<<<<<<

Chair: Dr Hermann Moisl, University of Newcastle, UK
Co-Chair: Dr Hanady Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt

Estimating phone lengths for a diphone-based text-to-speech system for  
Arabic
Allan Ramsay, Hanady Mansour

Combined Classifier Based Arabic Speech Recognition
Ehab Eissa, Ahmed Tolba, Samir El Mougy

AraConc, an Arabic Concordance software
Ramzi Abb?s, Joseph Dichy

A Web-Based Approach for Arabic PP Attachment
Rania Al-Sabbagh, Khaled Elghamry



March 28th: 3:30 - 5:30
++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> NLP 3: Arabic Natural Language Processing (II) <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA
Co-Chair: Doaa Samy, Cairo University, Egypt

Enhanced Annotation and Parsing of the Arabic Treebank
Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick

Using the Web in Building A Corpus-Based Hypernymy-Hyponymy Lexicon
with Hierarchical Structure for Arabic
Khaled Elghamry

A Hybrid Approach for Converting Written Egyptian Colloquial Dialect
into Diacritized Arabic
Hitham M. Abo Bakr, Khaled Shaalan, Ibrahim Ziedan

Na?ve Bayes Classifier for Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation
Samir Elmougy, Taher Hamza, and Hatem M. Noaman

Improving KNN Arabic Text Classification With N-Grams Based Document  
Indexing
Riyad Al-Shalabi, Rasha Obeidat

Holistic Approach for Classifying and Retrieving Personal Arabic
Handwritten Documents
Salama Brook, Zaher Al Aghbari

March 29th:9:30 -11:30
++++++++++++++++++

>>>>>>>> NLP 4: Information Extraction <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Mohamed Maamouri, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC),
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Co-Chair: Dr Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France

Hybrid, Three-stage Named Entity Recognizer for Tamil
S. Lakshmana Pandian, Krishnan Aravind Pavithra, T.V. Geetha

Chatbots are natural web interface to information portals
Bayan Abu Shawar

Ontology Learning from Textual Web Documents
Maryam Hazman, Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Ahmed Rafea

Enhancing English/Arabic CLIR Using Word Collocations and Statistical
Translation and Transliteration Resources
Tarek A. Elghazaly, Aly A. Fahmy

Recognizing semi-automatically author's intentions from scientific  
documents
Hassan Kanso, Ali Elhore, Chantal Soul?-Dupuy, Sa?d Tazi


March 29th:9:30 -11:30
++++++++++++++++++

>>>>>>>> NLP 5: Persian Natural Language Processing <<<<<<<<

Chair: Dr Kareem Darwish, Cairo Univ., Egypt
Co-Chair: Dr. Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University, NL

A Romanized Transcription for Persian
Jalal Maleki

Automatic term extraction for cross-language information retrieval
using a bilingual parallel corpus
Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah

Using Heuristic Rules to Improve Persian Part of Speech Tagging Accuracy
Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian, Masoud Rahgozar

Tuning Lambda Parameter for Language Modeling Based Persian Retrieval
Hadi Amiri, Ashkan Zarnani, Mahbod.Tavallaee, Sadra Abedinzadeh,
Masoud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian

Local Cluster Analysis as a Basis for High-Precision Information  
Retrieval
Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Hadi Amiri



-- 
Join INFOS2008 conference (Natural Language Processing Track)
http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/infos2008/htmlPapers/NLP_Track.html

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

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

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

Honorary Fellow
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs books on Muwashshahat and the Kharja
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1) Subject:Needs books on Muwashshahat and the Kharja

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:Needs books on Muwashshahat and the Kharja

Dear all,
I would like to know if there are good books about history of  
Muwashshahat and the Kharja in particular.

Also, how could I get these articles?

The Kharja of the Muwashashah in New Light
Author: Abu-Haidar, Jareer
Source: Journal of Arabic lit, Vol 9,  Number 1, 1978, pp. 1-13,
Publisher: Brill.

Kharjas and Villanicos
Author: Armistead S. G.
Source: Journal of Arabic Lit, Vol 34, Numbers 1-2, 2003, pp.3-19
Publishers Brill

thanks,
Sana

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

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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:09 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:MLI updated link
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:Maher Bahloul <mbahloul at aus.edu>
Subject:MLI updated link

It is my pleasure to send you the recent updates.
http://www.maher-language-institute.com/mli/
Please feel free to forward the link to whoever you think might be  
interested.
Thank you,
Maher

Maher Bahloul, PhD
Assistant Professor of English & Linguistics
Department of English
American University of Sharjah
Phone: 0097165152714
Mobile:00971506462113
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gaza dialect reference
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:Uri Horesh <urih at mail.utexas.edu>
Subject:Gaza dialect reference

Dear Nedal et al.,

The only reference that comes to mind re: Gaza Arabic is the following:

Barnea, Aharon. 1975. Reference to Time, Space and Other Types of
Quantification in the City Dialect of Gaza. Afroasiatic Linguistics,  
1975,
2, 3, May, 1-10. (ISSN 0362-3637)

Abstract (from LLBA):

Some common references to concepts of time, space, & other types of
quantification used in the city dialect of Gaza are sociolinguistically
analyzed. Time & space concepts do not depend as much upon any one  
system
within the grammar, as they do upon the ways of analyzing & reporting
experiences which have become fixed in the language as integrated  
"fashions
of speaking;" for example, those that relate to major events of the  
past,
such as Muhammad's time & the 1948 War. Time & place references are
obliquely made concepts, through loose adverbial constructions;  
references
to time of day are approximated; places have a social reference; money,
however, is quantified exactly. There are definite connections between
cultural norms & linguistic patterns which differ from those of Standard
American English.

It's old, but it's better than nothing. If anyone knows of newer  
references,
I'd be glad to learn about them too.

Uri

-- 
Uri Horesh
Lecturer of Arabic
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX 78712-0527
Tel : 512-475-6644
Cell: 267-475-5594
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Arabic at SDSU
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1) Subject:Summer Arabic at SDSU

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:Summer Arabic at SDSU

Courses Offered this summer at the LARC, San Diego State University:

Do you want to learn Arabic while spending the summer in beautiful San  
Diego.

Arabic 101, 102/201, 202: Intensive Elementary and Intermediate Arabic
Course Description:
Arabic courses offered by LARC and the Linguistics Department at San  
Diego State University. First semester, first year Arabic intensive  
(101, 102) and second year Arabic intensive (201, 202) are designed to  
teach practical language skills. Students shall learn four skills of  
speaking, listening, reading and writing of the Arabic language  
through conversations, games and written homework. Arabic movies are  
scheduled throughout the course to help students gain a better  
understanding of the Arabic culture. Undergraduate and graduate  
students, working professionals, and others may apply. No prior  
knowledge of Arabic is required. This is an eight credit course. For  
further questions please contact Dr. Hanada Taha Thomure Arabic  
Language director at LARC SDSU: hthomure at projects.sdsu.edu
Arabic 550: Intensive Superior and Distinguished Arabic
Course Description:
"This intensive course emphasizes the development of skills in  
speaking, listening, reading and writing through the use of authentic  
materials and participation of guest speakers; the students will be  
expose to a wide variety of topics for content, terminology and  
culture to function effectively in a professional setting. On site  
instruction will be supplemented by filed trips and other cultural  
activities. Under the oversight and guidance of instructional team,  
students shall work independently on a project of their own selection  
relevant to their work and shall present it on the last day of the  
program. Undergraduate and graduate students working professionals,  
and others may apply.
Acceptance to the program is contingent upon a successful OPI  
interview rating 2+ or higher. The test shall be conducted by LARC at  
SDSU.
This is a six credit course and students may transfer their credits to  
satisfy their General Studies and/or language requirement.
For further questions please contact Dr. Hanada Taha Thomure. Arabic  
Language director at LARC, SDSU: hthomure at projects.sdsu.edu

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

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Startalk Teacher Training Program
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1) Subject:Startalk Teacher Training Program

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Startalk Teacher Training Program

[This message came as a pdf attachment which I cannot post, but here  
is the URL for infomation about the program:]

Startalk Teacher Training Program
http://www.hadi.org/startalk/

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar 20 20:20:04 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic support on Mac
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1) Subject:Arabic support on Mac

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:wasamy at umich.edu
Subject:Arabic support on Mac

I'd hoped the latest release of MSOffice for Mac would work with  
Arabic.  I went to an Apple store and found out that it still does  
not. It is most annoying that neither Apple nor MS are stepping up to  
make sure their work works.

For people doing Arabic on a Mac, it is possible to get a free  
NeoOffice suite, which does work well with Arabic, and allows for  
document exchange between MSOffice and NeoOffice.  The site is at: www.neooffice.org 
.

Waheed Samy

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar 20 20:20:14 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Apposition (badal?) query
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1) Subject:Apposition (badal?) query

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Apposition (badal?) query

[note from dil: see p. 224-227 of Ryding's reference grammar]

      The Wehr dictionary defines  /al-lughah  al-umm/  as "the mother  
tongue."  I have recently come across

the expression  /al-QaDiyyah  al-asaas/  (sic)  "the fundamental  
question."

       Is the second expression 'built on' the first?  Is this a new  
syntactic construction that is spreading?

Has it ever been treated grammatically?  Many thanks,
                                                                                              Mike 
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar 20 20:20:11 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:11 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L;LING:New LDC resources
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1) Subject:New LDC resources

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:New LDC resources

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

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

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

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

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

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

All final data are in Tab Delimited Format (TDF). TDF is compatible  
with other transcription formats, such as the Transcriber format and  
AG format, and it is easy to process.  Each line of a TDF file  
corresponds to a speech segment and contains 13 tab delimited field.A  
source TDF file and its translation are the same except that the  
transcript in the source TDF is replaced by its English translation.   
GALE Phase 1 Arabic Blog Parallel Text is distributed via web download.

2008 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of  
this corpus on disc. 2008 Standard Members may request a copy as part  
of their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data  
for US$1500

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar 20 20:20:19 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Linguists Group Seminar-Ali Farghaly
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1) Subject:Cairo Linguists Group Seminar-Ali Farghaly

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:madihadoss at yahoo.com
Subject:Cairo Linguists Group Seminar-Ali Farghaly


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CAIRO LINGUISTS GROUP
and the Arab African Research Center

are inviting you to a lecture by

Ali Farghaly
(Oracle USA &
Monterey Institute of International Studies)

?Arabic Entity Recognition: Linguistic Perspective?
(in English / Arabic, abstract attached)

at the headquarters of the Arab & African Research Center:
5 Hassan Barada Street, Giza, (side street off the previous address  
Qura Ibn Shureik Street), ground floor, Apt. 5. Tel. 37744644

Saturday, 29th March 2008, at 6 p.m.

PLEASE COME ON TIME


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Abstract
The Entity Recognition task has become  extremely important in the  
last few years (Farghaly, 2007; Shaalan, 2007; Zitouni, 2008). The  
task involves identifying and extracting entities such as dates,  
person names, addresses, phone numbers,  urls from unstructured texts.

In this presentation a description of the task is given with examples  
from  modules developed for the English language. We will illustrate  
the technology used. Then we will discuss the challenges of performing  
the same task on unstructured Arabic texts. We end with some pointers  
to how to meet such challenges.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Mar 20 20:20:12 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New CIEE Study Center in Rabat
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1) Subject:New CIEE Study Center in Rabat

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Lauren Chaney" <lchaney at ciee.org>
Subject:New CIEE Study Center in Rabat

Dear Colleagues,

CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange is pleased to  
announce a new Study Center in Rabat, Morocco opening this summer,  
offering summer, semester, and academic year programs for  
undergraduate students at U.S. universities. The program will help  
students to develop an understanding of contemporary Morocco, gain  
insight into Morocco's role in the Arab world and its ties to Europe,  
and to improve their Arabic language skills at the beginning through  
advanced levels. The CIEE Study Center is hosted by the Ecole  
Superieure de Direction et de Gestion (ESDG-LangCom), with additional  
access to professors and facilities of two neighboring universities of  
high academic regard, Universit? Mohammed V and the Institut  
Agronomique et V?t?rinaire Hassan II.

Semester and Academic Year Programs
On the CIEE semester and academic year programs, students take an  
intensive Moroccan Colloquial Arabic course for the first two weeks of  
the program, preparing them to comfortably access the community around  
them during the semester. Students then take Modern Standard Arabic at  
their level, contemporary Moroccan culture, and two area studies  
electives. Area studies courses, offered in English and French,  
examine various aspects of Moroccan society, literature, religion,  
business, and history. The core course, Contemporary Moroccan Society  
and Culture, includes a unique one-week academic module in either Fez  
or Marrakech. The program will also appeal to students who speak  
French or are interested in studying in a Francophone location while  
gaining new language skills in Arabic. For those students with a  
strong background in French, enrolling directly in one ESDG course  
alongside local students may be possible.  Students also have the  
opportunity to engage in a for-credit internship during their time in  
Rabat.

Summer Program
This program combines intensive Arabic Language training with an  
introduction to Moroccan society and culture. Over six weeks, all  
students take Arabic language appropriate to their level in addition  
to an elective course. If they wish to focus on language study, they  
will take Colloquial Moroccan Arabic; others may choose Contemporary  
Moroccan Culture and Society.

In addition to coursework, the CIEE Rabat programs provide  
opportunities for cultural immersion through community engagement  
activities, homestays, and CIEE local excursions. CIEE also provides a  
comprehensive orientation which focuses on cross-cultural adjustment  
and adaptation to life in Morocco. For all programs, students must  
have two semesters of either French or Arabic to apply.

CIEE Study Center in Amman, Jordan
CIEE also offers two semester and academic year programs at the  
University of Jordan in Amman. The Arabic Language program is designed  
for students who already have a solid foundation in Modern Standard  
Arabic and seek to attain proficiency in the language. All language  
and area studies courses in this program are taught in Arabic. The  
Language and Culture program is designed for students who have an  
interest in Jordan and the Middle East, and offers beginning to  
advanced level Arabic language in addition to courses in anthropology,  
history, economics, literature, religion, archaeology, environment,  
political science, and the media.

CIEE Contact Information
For more information about our new programs in Rabat, Morocco, and  
other CIEE programs around the world, please visit our website at www.ciee.org/participant.aspx 
. Brochures are available from our on-line Publication Center, or  
alternatively, contact us by e-mail at studyinfo at ciee.org or by phone  
at 1.800.40.STUDY at any time.

Sincerely,

Adam Rubin
Program Director, Africa, Middle East, and Northern, Central, and  
Eastern Europe
E: arubin at ciee.org
T: 207-553-4051

Catherine Menyhart
Manager, Institutional Relationships, Africa and Middle East
E: cmenyhart at ciee.org
T: 207-553-4041

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Meedan.net job
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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:Loren Siebert <loren at siebert.org>
Subject:Meedan.net job

A colleague of mine sent me this job posting from Meedan.net, which is  
a non-profit aiming to create an online community for dialogue between  
the West and the Arabic-speaking world:

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Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce that Meedan is in the process of searching  
for a talented Product Manager. Please find our position description  
below. Feel free to forward to any networks or persons that you feel  
would be a good fit for this position. We appreciate your support and  
thank you for your assistance!

Product Manager for Meedan

Meedan (pronounced "mee-DAN")-- www.meedan.net -- is a nonprofit  
social technology company. Our mission is to forward global  
understanding and tolerance by providing people and communities with  
advanced technologies to enable dialogue and the sharing of knowledge.

Enabling a global and linguistically diverse community of users to  
communicate and collaborate, Meedan is innovating social networking,  
social translation, and social media technologies. We are fortunate to  
have the support of IBM and their development team and a strong  
community of foundation funders.  With an initial focus on Arabic and  
English speaking communities, Meedan will be opening a public beta in  
mid-April.

Meedan is looking for a Product Manager who is talented, motivated,  
and eager to participate in a  'live' Web 2.0 project. This is a  
unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial spirit to join a great team  
with a start up vibe and a vision for changing the world through 'code  
and community.'

Location: San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

Product Management:

    * Work with program staff and tech staff to understand our user  
community or "market" and their needs, mapping to requirements.
    * Maintains Product Requirements Doc (PRD) and Market Requirements  
Doc (MRD)
    * Assists with technical architecture
    * Assists with usability and user interface design
    * Own and manage product schedule.
    * Works closely with the distributed development teams from IBM  
(New York/UK), Carrot Search (Poland), and Meedan (Portland/San  
Francisco).
    * Takes ownership and ensures proactive closure for problem  
reports that fall within or appear to fall within area of  
responsibility; works closely with internal customers to quickly and  
successfully closeout
problem reports.


Project Management:

    * Create, Communicate and Manage product deliverables and timeline.
    * Support and monitor schedule of iteration.
    * Manage bug tracking.  Address and assign new issues as they arise.
    * Works closely and actively with other team members to ensure  
that interdependent deliverables are accomplished according to schedule.

Ability to work with global/virtual team:

    * Works as a strong team player within the team, and where  
possible improves the knowledge and capabilities of all team members.
    * Assists other team members with their tasks when necessary to  
make sure the team's success.
    * Actively works with external teams to guide them in their  
adoption of Applications and ensure their success.  (IBM, Contactors  
and distributed programming team)
    * Other major areas of participation, dependent upon the  
candidate's experience and interests

Key Qualifications:
We are a fast-paced, small, nonprofit start-up that relies heavily on  
the unique skills of each team member.  Our team-members are able to  
work flexibly and respond to challenges across a range of project areas.

We are looking for an individual who possesses the following:
    * Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    * Proven Project Management and Product Management skills
    * Enjoys working in a entrepreneurial, collaborative environment  
and is a team player
    * Experience working with a distributed team (We are an  
international organization with teams in the US, Europe and MENA)

Minimum Position Requirements:
    * Bachelors Degree in a related area
    * 3 to 5 years experience in software development in Product or  
Project Management
    * 3 to 5 years experience in roles requiring excellent  
communication skills

Knowledge of the following technologies:
    * PHP
    * Ruby
    * Flash
    * JAVA
    * XML
    * Database design

Please send a cover letter and resume with salary requirements to afaur at meedan.net
For more information about our organization you can visit http://meedan.net

Meedan is a 501 c 3 Charitable Organization

-- 
Amber Faur
Operations Director, Meedan.net
1255 Post St. Suite 540, San Francisco 94109
phone.  415.885.9000
mobile. 707.364.4037
fax. 800.868.0069
email. afaur at meedan.net
skype. amber.faur

Connect With Your World
www.meedan.net
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Loren Siebert
LinguaStep
http://www.linguastep.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:00 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Michigan State Arabic
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1) Subject:Michigan State Arabic

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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Wafa Hassan" <hassanw at msu.edu>
Subject:Michigan State Arabic

We would like to share an exciting new Arabic language program for
undergraduate students at Michigan State University.

In 2007, Michigan State University was awarded a language flagship grant
from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) to establish a K-16
Arabic language program in partnership with Dearborn Public Schools. The
program goal is to develop a group of highly proficient Arabic  
speakers who
can function professionally in the Arabic language, as part of an  
increasing
recognition that our nation needs more citizens who speak the Arabic
language and understand the culture.

Undergraduate students are selected for our program based on their  
academic
potential, demonstrated interest in advancing their Arabic skills, and
desire to share their understanding of this language and culture  
within the
larger community. In addition to their disciplinary studies, students
participate in advanced-level Arabic studies, including content-based
classes delivered in Arabic, advanced Arabic language classes, and study
abroad.

Our program website is available at http:// 
www.arabicflagship.msu.edu/.  If
you or any students, teachers, or administrators who you know would like
more information, please contact me at hassanw at msu.edu. Thank you!

Wafa N. Hassan, Ed.D.
Outreach Academic Specialist
Arabic Language Instruction Flagship
Michigan State University
Department of Linguistics and Languages
A644 Wells Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
Phone: (517) 353-7870
Fax:   (517) 432-2736

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:21 -0600
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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Manfred Woidich <m.a.woidich at uva.nl>
Subject:Gaza dialect ref

Dear colleagues,
Another reference for Gaza Arabic (in German):
Erkki Salonen, Zum arabischen Dialeket von Gaza. Studia Orientalia ed.  
by the Finnish Oriental Society 51:10, Part I Helsinki 1979. Part II:  
Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Tom. 213. Helsinki 1980

Manfred Woidich

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:16 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayat Institute Summer Programs 2008
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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:nhedayet at yahoo.com
Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Programs 2008

Dear Colleagues and Students Hedayet Institute for Arabic Studies  
(HIAS) is pleased to announce its total immersion Summer Programs of  
2008.
HIAS Summer Programs are intensive total immersion Arabic language and  
cultural programs where both Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial  
Egyptian Arabic are combined. Elective courses (3 hours per week) are  
offered in Arabic literature, oriental music ('ud, nayy etc.), Arab/ 
Islamic History, Women in Islam, tajweed al Qur'an and Media Arabic.  
The institute provides the syllabi, assessment criteria, and the  
professors' CVs for its content-based area courses.
Programs Times:
1-Summer I, Seven Week Session from Jun.15th to Jul. 31st, 08
2- Summer II, Seven Week Session from Aug.3rd to Sept. 15th, 08
3- Long Summer III, 12 week Session from Jun. 15th to Sept. 4th, 08
4- UNO Three Week summer intensive program conducted for the personnel  
of the UN headquarter in New York, as well as of other UN agencies in  
the world from Jul. 13th to Jul 31st, 08 ( Pls. check the costs with  
the administration at: nhedayet at hedayetinstitute.com  )
Cultural Activities: Throughout all summer programs there are cultural  
activities including tours in Cairo, seminars, lectures, meetings and  
discussions with Egyptian youth, films etc. Our old students met with  
Orhan Pomak and Egyptian literatuers live, Mufti of Egypt, listened  
live to Nassir Shamma, Arab world first 'ud player  and attended  
several other exciting events.
Credits Transfer: Several American and few British universities  
transfer the credits and study hours of their students studying at  
HIAS. Some of them have special arrangements with HIAS for their  
students' study abroad programs. We may provide you with the list of  
these institutions if you send for it to info at hedayetinstitute.com .
Venue: HIAS is located 5 minutes walk away from Hadaayeq El Maadi  
metro station and 20 minutes far from the center of Cairo by metro.  
The institute has a fascinating Arab ambiance, all air conditioned in  
summer, 10 mints away from Rd.9, the shopping center of Maadi.  
Students' housing places are in a walking distance from the institute.
The deadline for application to the Summer Programs is April 30th, 08.

Tuition fees: The summer intensive seven week course (140 hours) will  
be for $2100 per student whether alone or coming in a group. For the  
12 week program it is: $3200 per student. Students coming to us from  
universities and institutes that have Coordinated Study Abroad  
Programs with us will have 10% discount of the above rates.
How to Apply:
	? Fill an application on line on: www.hedayetinstitute.com
	? Pay a deposit of $500 fee to reserve your place before the deadline  
(Pls. ask about details at: info at hedayetinstitute.com )
	? Indicate if you need assistance in finding a suitable accommodation- 
apartment or 3 star hotel room-during the period of your study;  
sharing a furnished apartment will cut down your housing expenses as  
low as $250 per month.

For more information please have a look at our web site at: www.hedayetinstitute.com 
   or write to: info at hedayetinstitute.com
Or call: (202)25272190/ (2012)2261308
Vonage No.: (646)2168-308

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar 25 18:01:22 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac
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2) Subject:Arabic on Mac
3) Subject:Arabic on Mac
4) Subject:Arabic on Mac
5) Subject:Arabic on Mac

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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Chris H <kaix04holmanski77 at hotmail.com>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

Hello,
I am only passing it along because it has been such a great help for  
me, but the program Mellel is a word processor that flawlessly handles  
Arabic and is available for Mac's.  I highly recommend it myself, but  
again, I am not trying to market it.  : )
Just FYI,
Chris Holman
University of Oregon

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3)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:"raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

SALAMAAT:
Do I need to add  the NeoOffice suite to my new Mac? Thanks,
Raji

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3)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Rahawi, Mohammed A" <RahawiMA at state.gov>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

Who needs M$ Office?!

I have been using NeoOffice for the last 3 or 4 years. It's as good as
M$ Office and is fully compatible with all versions of M$ Office
including 2007. Best of all, it's free.

Best,
Mohammed Rahawi

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4)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:"Alexander J. Stein" <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

Waheed,
I use NeoOffice to write Arabic for my papers. It works very well. You  
will have to enable BiDi (BiDirectional writing) properties. If you  
need any help. Send me an email.
Regards,
_AJS

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5)
Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Mac

I was also highly annoyed that MS seems intent on destroying Arabic on  
the Mac.  They know how to do it, but they simply refuse to port it to  
the Mac version of MS word.

For those not yet initiated and who are struggling to use basic Arabic  
capabilities on the mac, here are some hints:

1. Go to International under system preferences and choose an arabic  
key layout or two.  Click the box to show the key layouts on the  
menubar.

2. Open textedit, and under format choose 'wrap to page'.  (This is an  
important step if you want textedit to print and wrap on the screen as  
it does on the printed page.)

3. Choose Format->Text->Writing Direction->Right To Left
The last step is what fixes the parentheses and punctuation, allowing  
them to appear in the correct places.

4. Chose Format->Font->Show Fonts
which will allow you to choose the Arabic font you want.

5. Choose the arabic key layout you want to use (It should be under  
the American Flag in the key layout menu, if you checked that box I  
mentioned above)

You are ready to type basic Arabic documents.

The same principles are going to apply to other Apple programs that  
are Arabic-enabled (like Mail).  You sometimes need to search around a  
bit, but you need to find that Right To Left command to make things  
work properly.

Some of you may not be aware that although MS Word documents that were  
prepared on a PC and that include Arabic in them will not show up  
correctly when read into MS Word on a Mac, you can drag the document  
onto the textedit icon, and even though it may not be perfect, it will  
be more or less a readable version of the file, including the Arabic,  
that you can deal with.

I use Textedit for making basic Arabic documents, and for creating  
Arabic text for other documents.

Mellel and Nisus are both acceptable alternatives.  They have much  
higher capabilities than Textedit, but also a much steeper learning  
curve.

NeoOffice is also a good alternative.

For more complicated documents, if you have the money, the Middle East  
version of Indesign is really a very wonderful program which I have  
become very attached to.  Again, a fairly steep learning curve, but it  
is a program of amazing power and beauty.

dil

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar 25 18:01:15 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Illinois Outreach Job
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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:Marilyn Booth <mbooth at uiuc.edu>
Subject:U. of Illinois Outreach Job

**Fulltime Academic Professional Outreach Position, University of  
Illinois**

The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) at the  
University of Illinois, Urbana ? Champaign seeks an *Outreach  
Coordinator* to organize the planning, development and implementation  
of its outreach activities. CSAMES is a newly designated US Dept of  
Education, Title VI National Resource Center for the Middle East.  
Focusing largely on K-12 educational outreach and working with other  
area study centers, the center is planning to widen the scope of its  
outreach efforts at both K-16 and community levels working  
increasingly throughout the state with various constituencies.

*Duties and Responsibilities*: Supporting the Center in its outreach  
activities, organizing events, conferences, teacher workshops, working  
with local schools on outreach projects, and assisting with the  
routine work of the Program. The Outreach Coordinator would also be  
instrumental in developing curriculum materials for the website and  
enhancing the Center?s acquisitions for an outreach library. The  
position would involve working with 75% Middle Eastern Studies and 25%  
South Asian Studies content.

*Qualifications:* Required: Bachelors degree, (preferably a Masters  
degree in social sciences or the humanities, preferably in Middle  
East, South Asian or Islamic studies). Superior organizational  
ability, interpersonal skills, and facility in oral and written  
communication.

Preferred: Experience in working with diverse groups of teachers or  
community groups and a creative interdisciplinary orientation.  
Familiarity with handling databases and writing reports. Knowledge of  
a Middle Eastern language or South Asian language.

This is a regular, full time academic professional position (non- 
tenured), salary will be commensurate with qualifications and  
experience and reports to the Associate Director, CSAMES. Starting  
date is as soon as possible after the search closes. Interested  
individuals must submit an application letter, a resume, short writing  
sample, and three letters of reference to: Ritu Saksena, Associate  
Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,  
University of Illinois, 221 International Studies Building, 910 S  
Fifth St, Champaign, IL 61820. Tel: 217-244-7331. Email csames at uiuc.edu

To ensure full consideration, applications, including an email  
address, must be received by April 7, 2008. Applicants may be  
interviewed before the closing date; however no hiring decision will  
be made until after that date. The University of Illinois is an  
Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

-- 
*********************************************************************
Marilyn Booth, D.Phil.

Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Associate  
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
                    Program in Gender and Women's Studies Book Review  
Editor, The Journal of Women's History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar 25 18:01:13 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Passage Rating Seminar at SDSU
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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:Passage Rating Seminar at SDSU

Salam Dear All,

The Language Acquisition Resource Center at the San Diego State  
University will be hosting a Passage Rating workshop this summer June  
2nd to June 4th.  Presenters from the U.S. Government who have worked  
with James Child's model of text typology will be offering this  
special workshop on passage rating.  The workshop is free of charge.
To register and for any questions that you may have please go to http://larcnet.sdsu.edu/workshops.php

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

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar 25 18:01:18 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:18 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Colloquial in website name?
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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Colloquial in website name?

I don't see the rationale of using colloquial instead of standard  
Arabic in
the name of the website Meedan.net.  Maydan / ??????  / (with a  
diphthong,
rather than a long vowel) is just as accessible and easy to  
pronounce.  Do
websites like the one in question promote the unfortunate trend of
colloquialisation?

*MD

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Mar 25 18:01:19 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:01:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Apposition
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2) Subject:Apposition

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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From: "Francesco Leggio" <f.leggio at email.it>
Subject:Apposition

There is another very common occurrence of asas in this position: al- 
Hajar al-asas. It is quite similar to the use of wasaT in some cases  
as in : al-Hall al-wasat , or the coranic verse:

????? ??????? ??? ?????
[wkvlk jclnAkm LmQ wsTA]

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Date: 25 Mar 2008
From:BearMeiser at aol.com
Subject:Apposition

In classical Arabic grammar, it is OK to use a noun as an adjective if  
its
underlying meaning is actually adjectival, or is the nisba version of  
that noun.
Sibawayh did not like this type of construction, and called it "ugly and
weak", and Abbas Hasan says to stay away from it wherever possible.  
Examples given
in grammar references include "rajulun fir'aun al-'adhab" in which  
"fir'aun"
can be reinterpreted as "qaasi," and "sharibtu dawaa'an 'asalan" in  
which
'asalan can be reinterpreted as "ladhidhan" or "sukriyyan" or  
"'asaliyyan"

I remember seeing years ago a Batman comic book in Arabic in which  
"Batman"
was translated as "al-Rajul al-WaTwaaT." This would be a perfectly  
legitimate
Arabic construction, according to the grammarians, since it can be  
construed as
meaning in its underlying form "al-rajul al-waTwaaTi" ("the  
chiropteran man")

Thus, many of these types of constructions are not really badals but a  
type
of adjective. That is certainly the case with "al-qaDiyya al-asaas,"  
which can
be thought of as "al-qaDiyya al-asaasiyya." "al-Lugha al-Umm" is a bit
tougher, and it might be better to call that one a badal.

In the pages Prof. Parkinson references, Ryding includes a similar  
phrase
"al-sharika al-umm" as an example of "apposition," and pretty much all  
of the
examples of apposition she gives are what Arab grammarians would call  
badal.

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