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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Inside Higher Ed article on teaching Arabic
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Date: 03 Oct 2008
From:Uri Horesh <uri.horesh at fandm.edu>
Subject:Inside Higher Ed article on teaching Arabic

"Shifting Winds in Arabic Teaching" at insidehighered.com.

Here's a link to the page:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/01/arabic

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Gilman Scholarship deadline extended to Oct 13
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Date: 03 Oct 2008
From:Gilman <Gilman at iie.org>
Subject:Gilman Scholarship deadline extended to Oct 13

The deadline for the Gilman International Scholarship has been  
extended to October 13, 2008!

Students participating in study abroad programs during the Spring 2009  
semester must submit an online application by 11:59 pm central time on  
October 13th.  The online application is available athttps:// 
gilmanapplication.iie.org

This year the Gilman Program will award over 1,200 scholarship to  
students participating in study abroad programs during the 2008-2009  
academic year, which will be the highest number of scholarships  
awarded by the program since its inception in 2001.  There has never  
been a better time to apply!

To review eligibility, deadlines and profiles of past scholarship  
recipients please visit the Gilman website at www.iie.org/gilman

Contact Information
Applicants:
gilman at iie.org
1-888-887-5939 ext 25

Advisors:
gilmanadvisors at iie.org
1-888-887-5939 ext 16

We've moved! Please note our new address.Institute of International  
EducationGilman International Scholarship1800 West Loop South, Suite  
250Houston, TX 77027

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Oct  3 19:15:18 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:18 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:K-12 Arabic Research Meeting in East Lansing
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Date: 03 Oct 2008
From:Wafa Hassan <hassanw at msu.edu>
Subject:K-12 Arabic Research Meeting in East Lansing

Dear Colleagues,

Michigan State University is hosting a day-long meeting for Arabic  
educators and administrators with the goal of building connections  
within the teaching community and stimulating research in K-12 Arabic  
Education.

This meeting will take place on Saturday, November 15th, at Michigan  
State University's Kellogg Center.

Limited funding is available for the travel of out-of-state  
participants.  Please contact us for assistance with airfare and  
accommodations.

Please see the attached announcement for details, and be sure to  
register by October 7th, 2008.

Finally, we would like to collect informal data on your teaching  
background as well as your ideas on the state of Arabic teaching.   
Please take a few minutes to fill our the survey at http://clear.msu.edu/elpa/UCCASSv1.8.1/survey.php?sid=50

Thank you and don't hesitate to contact me with any questions!


Dr. Wafa N. Hassan
Outreach Coordinator & 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  Fri Oct  3 19:15:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Career Fair at U of Edinburgh for Arabists etc.
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Date: 03 Oct 2008
From:Elisabeth Kendall <Elisabeth.Kendall at ed.ac.uk>
Subject:Career Fair at U of Edinburgh for Arabists etc.


The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) is pleased  
to announce the first annual Careers Fair for students of Arabic,  
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies to be held on Friday 24 October  at  
The University of Edinburgh.

We have several high profile organizations lined up to speak and meet  
potential recruits, including private sector enterprises such as top  
management consultancies McKinsey and Bain, as well as public sector  
organizations such as the Ministry of Defence, GCHQ and MI6.

The fair is open to all graduates, postgraduates and final-year  
undergraduates in a relevant field (Arabic/Middle Eastern Studies / 
Islamic Studies). Attendance is free but students must email events at casaw.ac.uk 
  to request a registration form, which should be emailed to CASAW to  
ensure access to the event.

More details are available on our website at: http://www.casaw.ac.uk/index.php/news/more/careers_fair/

Many thanks for your cooperation. We look forward to welcoming  
students to Edinburgh on 24 October.

Best wishes

Elisabeth Kendall

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Dr Elisabeth Kendall
Director, Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
(a UK government initiative funded by the joint research councils)

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

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct  9 20:48:03 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs in Arab World
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:Jerome Bookin-Weiner <jbookinweiner at AMIDEAST.ORG>
Subject:AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs in Arab World

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to tell you about AMIDEAST’s new Education Abroad  
Programs in the Arab World.  The programs were inaugurated last fall  
with a semester program inRabat, Morocco.  Over the past year we have  
been revamping that program, making it into a semester or academic  
year program, depending on the interests of the students.  We also  
will inaugurate a summer intensive Arabic program in Rabat this coming  
May.

In addition, we have also been planning for new semester/academic year  
programs that will begin next fall in Cairo, Amman, and Kuwait, and a  
service learning program for students who have completed one year of  
Modern Standard Arabic in Tunisia this coming summer.

For more information on all of our programs and to read about our  
commitment to Arabic language instruction, our Arabic Language  
Advisory Board and our Academic Consortium, please visit our website at:

http://www.amideast.org/abroad

Most of you will recognize the eight members of our Arabic Language  
Advisory Board as being among the leading members of the Arabic  
language teaching profession in the U.S.  Many may also recognize our  
Arabic Studies Consultant, Dr. Driss Ouaouicha (formerly Vice  
President for Academic Affairs at Al Akhawayn University inMorocco),  
who is spearheading development and implementation of our Arabic  
language curriculum with the advice and assistance of the Advisory  
Board.

We have posters (letter sized) as well as brochures and fliers about  
our programs and will be happy to send them to you if you let me know  
how many you want and the address where we should send them.

During the MESA conference in November we will have a booth in the  
book exhibits and I invite you to stop by to talk with me, Driss and  
representatives of our local partners in Rabat, Cairo, Amman, Kuwait  
and Tunisia.  We also will be holding information sessions twice  
during the conference.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me.  I’ll  
respond as quickly as I can.

Best regards,

Jerry Bookin-Weiner

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Jerome B. Bookin-Weiner, PhD
Director of Study Abroad and Outreach
AMIDEAST
1730 M Street, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:  +1-202-776-9627
Fax:      +1-202-776-7027
Mobile: +1-410-336-0198
Email:  jbookinweiner at amideast.org
Internet:  http://www.amideast.org


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct  9 20:48:08 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Leiden University Job for PhD student
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:"Sijpesteijn, P.M." <p.m.sijpesteijn at hum.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject:Leiden University Job for PhD student

Ph.D. Position, Faculty of Humanities (8-186)Faculty of  
HumanitiesLeiden University , Faculty of Humanities

ONE PHD POSITION (38 hours a week)
Application number:  8-186

Starting between January and September 2009 the Leiden Institute for  
Area Studies and the School of Middle Eastern Studies has a vacancy  
for one PhD student to work on part 3 of the research project “The  
Formation of Islam. The View from Below” (see below).

Project description :
“The Formation of Islam. The View from Below” is a five-year research  
project (January 1 2009 - December 31 2013) funded by the European  
Research Council to write a history of the formation of Islam using  
the vastly important but largely neglected papyri from Egypt. Until  
the introduction of paper in the 10th C., papyrus was the  
Mediterranean world’s primary writing material. Thousands of papyrus  
documents survive, preserving a minutely detailed transcription of  
daily life, as well as the only contemporary records of Islam’s rise  
and first wave of conquests. The prevailing model of Islam’s formation  
is based on sources composed by a literary élite some 150 years after  
the events they describe. The distortions this entails are especially  
problematic since it was in these first two centuries that Islam’s  
institutional, social and religious framework developed and  
stabilised. To form a meaningful understanding of this development  
requires tackling the contemporary documentary record, as preserved in  
the papyri and combining the information they offer with that from  
literary and other primary sources. Yet the technical difficulties  
presented by these mostly unpublished and uncatalogued documents have  
largely barred their use by historians. This project is a systematic  
attempt to address this critical problem. The project has three  
stages: 1) a stocktaking of unedited Arabic, Coptic and Greek papyri;  
2) the editing of a corpus of the most significant papyri; 3) the  
presentation of a synthetic historical analysis through scholarly  
publications. By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of  
those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand  
the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse  
cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character and  
ambition of Muslim state competency at the time of the Islamic  
conquest; the steps – military, administrative and religious – by  
which it extended its reach; and what this tells us about the origins  
and evolution of Muslim ideas of rulership, religion and power.

Tasks:

		• The writing of a PhD dissertation on a topic of the history of  
early Islamic Egypt (CE 600-900);
		• publishing research results in the form of an article;
		• presenting papers at (international) conferences;
		• participation in local research meetings and PhD teaching;
		• organising roundtable meetings and conferences in the framework of  
the research project.
Requirements:

		• an MA, M.Phil or ‘doctoraal’ degree in history, Arabic language,  
Near Eastern Studies or an equivalent education in a comparative field;
		• research knowledge of Arabic;
		• fluent in English (spoken and written) as well as being able to  
use academic literature in other modern European languages;
		• ability to work independently;
		• good organizational and contactual skills;
		• interested in doing interdisciplinary research;
		• willingness to work in a research team.

Conditions of employment

The successful applicant will be appointed for eighteen months and  
after a positive evaluation followed by a fixed- term period. The  
total period will be four years. Gross salary will be € 2000,- per  
month during the first year, gradually rising, also depending upon  
evaluation, to € 2612,- per months in the final year, conform the  
Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities.

Applications
Please send your application (in Dutch or English) by November 15,  
including a cover letter stating your motivation for this position, a  
CV, and two references. Please send the letter, indicating the  
application number on letter and envelope to: De afdeling P&O, t.a.v.  
E.M. Bakker,  Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Postbus 9515 2300 RA  
Leiden
The Netherlands

publicatiedatum: 6-10-2008

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct  9 20:48:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UPenn Lauder Inst. Management Program includes
 Arabic
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:nelliebk at wharton.upenn.edu
Subject:UPenn Lauder Inst. Management Program includes Arabic


The Joseph H. Lauder Institute
of Management & International Studies
Lauder-Fischer Hall, Second Floor
University of Pennsylvania
256 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
(215) 898-1215
(215) 898-2067 Fax

October 3, 2008

Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to announce that the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of  
Management & International Studies is now accepting applications for  
the Class of 2011. We hope that you will inform qualified candidates  
of this opportunity. We encourage you to read through the information  
below for further details.

Program Highlights:
·         Combines  a Wharton MBA, a Master’s in International  
Studies, and extensive language training from the University of  
Pennsylvania
·         Students specialize in one of eight languages: Arabic,  
Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish in  
which they already have advanced knowledge
·         Students participate in a two-month, in-country immersion  
the summer before their first year
·         The Institute’s environment fosters teamwork and sharing  
diverse cultural experiences
The structure of the program is as follows:

First Year:
·         May in Philadelphia: Global Strategic Management course,  
Area History course, and Language & Cultural Perspectives
·         June-July: In-country summer immersion featuring intensive  
daily language classes, corporate visits, cultural visits, and Global  
Knowledge Lab research projects
·         September-April: Two semesters of MA classes including  
International Political Economy of Business Environments, Comparative  
Capitalist Systems and Language & Cultural Perspectives
·         May: In-country Global Knowledge research projects  
undertaken by teams of students
·         June-August: Summer internships in student language of study  
when possible
Second Year:
·         September-April: Two semesters of elective MBA and MA  
classes, and Language & Cultural Perspectives
·         May: Graduation

The Lauder JD/MA in International Studies
The Lauder Institute also offers a unique JD/MA joint-degree program  
in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  
Students fulfill the JD degree requirements over three years,  
combining their studies with the Lauder MA in International Studies  
during the last two years of law school. They participate in the  
language training, in-country summer immersion, and in-country  
research projects together with the MBA/MA students.

We have attached general program information in hopes that you will  
post it in a public area. If you have any questions, please contact us  
at lauderinfo at wharton.upenn.edu or 215.898.1215.

Sincerely,

Nellie Kanjo
Associate Director of Admissions and Student Affairs
The Lauder Institute
Lauder-Fischer Hall, 2nd Fl.
256 South 37th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
(Phone) 215-898-6560
(Fax) 215-898-2067

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants papers from
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:Afaf Nash <afafnash at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:Wants papers from ANLP-ACIT’2008

MarHaba colleagues,
Since I can't make it to this interesting conference, I was wondering  
if there is anyway that we can get copies of the papers presented in  
this conference.
alf shukir.
afaf, ucr

> Arabic Natural Language Processing Session  (ANLP-ACIT’2008)
> at the International Arab Conference on Information Technology
> (ACIT'2008)
> December 16-18, 2008  Hammamet, Tunisia


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants textbooks focussing on Arabic movies and
 cinema
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:Wants textbooks focussing on Arabic movies and cinema

Dear all,
I was wondering if there are textbooks for students who are learning  
Arabic that focus on/ or deal with Arabic movies and cinema.

I am looking for both intermediate and Advanced levels.


thank you,

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, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Questions on Abuu-, abaa' abii'
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Questions on Abuu-, abaa' abii'

Dear Colleagues,
      (A serious linguistic) question:  Our top general in Iraq was  
recently Gen.  Abizeid.  Why is this his name

instead of Abuu-Zayd, or Abaa-Zayd??  {Perhaps someone can contact him  
directly,and ask}.

       And is it true that Sibawayhi reported that one idividual named  
his three sons:  Abdullah, Abdallah, and

Abdilla?

                                                                                                         Mike 
  Schub
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct  9 20:54:56 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:54:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Article
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Article

                        http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Journal Title:  TEXT & TALK
Volume Number:  28
Issue Number:  5
Issue Date:  2008

Body, Text, and Talk in Maroua Fulbe Qur'anic Schooling
Leslie C. Moore
http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/TEXT.2008.033

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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:54:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:IBM LanguageWare Workbench includes Arabic tools
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:IBM LanguageWare Workbench includes Arabic tools

Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:44:36
From: John Judge [johnjudge at ie.ibm.com]
Subject: LanguageWare Resource Workbench
Dear colleagues,

Te IBM® LanguageWare®  team is pleased to announce the availability of  
an
innovative LanguageWare NLP development environment, the 'IBM  
LanguageWare
Resource Workbench'. This Workbench, which will be delivered with a
Demonstrator that contains a comprehensive set of language and domain
models across English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Arabic, and  
Japanese,
brings a new and exciting way of building high-performance text analysis
applications to the market, using LanguageWare's unique example-based
visualization techniques and patented parsing technology. The  
Demonstrator
gives customers a pre-built set of analyzers - spanning healthcare, law
enforcement, finance, legal, and pharma domains - on which they can  
build
their own LanguageWare UIMA Analyzers. Also provided is a set of
instructional videos to help get users up-and-running.

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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Program and reg. for Cambridge Symposium, 18-19 Oct
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From: "HKB Qutbuddin (Univ. of Cambridge)" <hkbq2 at cam.ac.uk>
Subject:Program and reg. for Cambridge Symposium, 18-19 Oct

Dear All,

The program and registration details for the Cambridge Symposium on
Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies, 18-19 October,
University of Cambridge, UK, can be found at:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/543

We have also included a printable poster, if you would like to  
publicize the
event in your university department.

Many thanks,
Husain Qutbuddin

On behalf of the Steering Committee:
Prof. James Montgomery, Prof. Yasir Suleiman, Dr. Lori Allen, Mr.  
Bruno De
Nicola, Mr. Yoni Mendel, and Mr. Husain Qutbuddin

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic cinema refs
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Hamdi Yasin <hamdi.yasin at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic cinema refs


Miss Hilmi,
Here is one I am using as extra references in a proposed course  
dealing with Arab media and the construction of identity in which I  
have a chapter about cinema:

Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity by Viola Shafik
ISBN 9789774160653
Here, you can view the table of contents:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/9774244753/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/102-4054816-4656931?ie=UTF8&p=S00B#reader-link


Hamdi Yasin
English & FL Dept., Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL
YASIN at SXU.EDU
630-865-7909

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Abuu, abaa, abii responses
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3) Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response
4) Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response
5) Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

Dear Mike,

Why Abizeid rather that Abuuzayd or Abaazayd?

The general's name is in a colloquial dialect rather than MSA. The
three-case system of Standard Arabic is reduced to a single-case  
system in
the dialects, the most frequently-used vowel replacing the others.  Thus
you hear names like Abi-Abdalla, priests addressed as 'abiinaa rather  
than
'abaanaa, masculine sound plurals in -iin for all syntactic functions,  
etc.

As for the Sibawayhi story, I only hope it is not true.

Best,
Ernest

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Tressy Arts <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

On a related note, I have long wondered why the Islamic primary school  
in Nijmegen was called Abi Bakr. I thought it may have been short for  
madrasat Abi Bakr, but that would not apply to the general.

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:rizwanur rahman <rahman_r at yahoo.com>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

Dear Schub
Such words really has not valid grammatical ground but such names are  
there among Mulsims. Zisha'n is a very common name of Muslims at  
various places. Gen. John Abizaid (born to Labanese father) is a  
retired general of US army and perhaps his name has infleunec of some  
Labanese dilect. Egyptians also do the same when saying 20, 30,  
40 ................... ('aishreen, thalaatheen, arna'aeen in place of  
'aishroon, thalaathoon, arba'oon...... in nominative case).

Rizwanur Rahman, Ph.D.
Centre of Arabic and African Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi - 110067 INDIA

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:sattar izwaini <sattarumist at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

Dear All,

Abizeid is a family name from Lebanon that goes back to many, many  
generations. It is already established beyond grammatical correctness.  
It seems that the spoken variety freezed it in this version.

Regards
Sattar Izwaini

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

I would not expect to find abaa in names (or at least not very often),  
it being the vocative form: viz. yaa abaa l-qaasim.

On the other hand Abou in nominative and Abi in genitive could both  
work; think of Ali bin Abi Talib. That it might appear in surnames  
such as Abizaid must have its origins in truncations of names of the  
form "ibn abi fulaan".

The modern survival of the genitive Abi in surnames seems to be a  
Lebanese phenomenon. Or at least I am much more aware of it in Lebanon  
than I was while I was in Egypt.

So...

A search of the names of students, faculty, and staff at AUB reveals  
that names with Abou (or Abu) are much more common (n= 289) than those  
with Abi (n= 98 including 4 Abiad, which might be Abi Aad, of which  
there are 2, or Abyad).

A similar search of the website at AUC can only be made of faculty  
members and staff, but not students.

Comparing  faculty and staff members at AUC and AUB with names  
beginning with Abou or Abu and Abi, then, we find

At AUC
faculty and staff members with surnames beginning
with Abi = 0
with Abou = 24
with Abu = 5
with Aba = 1 (Abadir, which may be a false hit even though it is  
spelled ابادير which could mean something like "of the monestary"  
- it is a Christian name)

At AUB
faculty and staff members with surnames beginning
with Abi = 30
with Abou = 58
with Abu = 45
with Aba = 0

The reason why the numbers are smaller at AUC might be explained for a  
variety of reasons, which we do not need to go into here.   
Incidentally, names with Bou seem to be more common here than in Egypt  
too (I have seen for example Abou Jaudeh, Abi Jaudeh, and Bou Jaudeh,  
with various spellings).

This may not mean that surnames with Abi do not exist in Egypt and  
elsewhere. With all of the moving around that has occurred in the Arab  
world since, say, AD 711, people with Abi in their names might be  
expected to be found in many places throughout the Arab Middle East  
(and beyond). But it does seem that they are much more common in  
Lebanon.

I would not expect that General Abizaid would necessarily know why his  
name is Abi Zaid and not Abou Zaid, or even be aware that they are  
effectively the same name.

I do believe, however, that he is of Lebanese descent.

-- 
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: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:52 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Franklin & Marshall College Job
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Uri Horesh <uri.horesh at fandm.edu>
Subject:Franklin & Marshall College Job

Franklin & Marshall College invites applications for its Arabic
Language Fellow position, beginning Fall 2009.  M.A. (or equivalent),
teaching experience, and excellent command of Arabic are required,
including Modern Standard Arabic and at least one spoken dialect. The
yearly teaching load includes two lower-level language courses and a
number of drill sections. The successful candidate will assist the
Director of the Arabic Language Program in a variety of curricular and
co-curricular activities. The Language Fellow receives a competitive
salary and fringe benefits as well as opportunities for training and
professional development. Send a letter of application, curriculum
vitae, graduate school transcripts, and three letters of
recommendation (at least one of which addresses the candidate’s
proficiency in Arabic) to Uri Horesh, Director of the Arabic Language
Program, Franklin & Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA
17604-3003, or via e-mail AS PDF FILES ONLY to uri.horesh at fandm.edu.
Deadline for applications is November 1, 2008.  Initial interviews
will be held at the MESA meeting in Washington, DC, November 22-25,
2008. Please indicate your availability during those days.

Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective liberal arts college
with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism.  EOE

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:15:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP:Special Issue on Arabic NLP
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Prof_Khaled Shaalan <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject:CFP:Special Issue on Arabic NLP


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

               * * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

(Fellow) School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:What happened to On-Line Lane
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Peter Verkinderen <peter.verkinderen at ugent.be>
Subject:What happened to On-Line Lane

Salam,

Does anyone know what happened to the great online version of Lane's
dictionary at tabs-online.com/TABS/Lane? Has it moved to another
location, or has it simply been discontinued?
Does anyone know of an alternative to the rather less practical
studyquran.org version?

Thanks,

Peter Verkinderen

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants 'beginning' refs on Arabic NLP
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Rashid Hasan <richardhasan at gmail.com>
Subject:Wants 'beginning' refs on Arabic NLP

Hello Everyone,

THis is in the context of NLP, so I thought I will splash it out here...

Could anyone enlighten me on NLP as a field of research and how can I  
plunge into it as a beginner.  I have been interested in objective  
linguistic research, and I already have a PhD on variation and changes  
in Modern Standard Arabic.

Any clues and directions would be highly appreciated!

Thanks all!

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on ditransitive verbs in Arabic
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From:moderator
Subject:Needs refs on ditransitive verbs in Arabic

A grad student has asked me if there has been work (in Arabic or  
English) on ditransitive verbs in Arabic.  Some of the references she  
has already checked mainly just has lists of them.  If you know of  
more extensive work in this area, send me the refs and I will make  
them available to her and to the list.
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on Information Structure in Arabic
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Dina El Zarka <dina.elzarka at uni-graz.at>
Subject:Needs refs on Information Structure in Arabic

Dear all,
I am currently working on information structure in Egyptian Arabic,  
but I am still looking for more references on information structure in  
Arabic in general and would appreciate your help in gathering them.
I suggest that emails should be sent to my personal address in order  
not to overload the list. I will be happy to provide with the whole  
reference list whoever would like to have it or disseminate it through  
this mailing list.

email: dina.elzarka at uni-graz.at

Thank you!
Kind regards,
Dina El Zarka

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs article on Phonetics & CO2 pollution
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Amin Almuhanna <amin_umist at gawab.com>
Subject:Needs article on Phonetics & CO2 pollution

[moderator's note: I can't find this message if it existed.  If you  
have it or remember it, respond. dil]
Dear all

A while ago I came across an email from Arabic-L regarding an article  
discussing phonetics/phonology and CO2 emission and global pollution.  
I seem to have misplaced/lost it before reading it. Could you be so  
kind as to send me the link to that article

Many thanx

Amin

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 16 21:53:50 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:53:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Call:Workshop on Pharyngeals and Pharyngealisation
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Ghada Khattab <Ghada.Khattab at newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject:Workshop on Pharyngeals and Pharyngealisation

International Workshop on Pharyngeals & Pharyngealisation: 26-27  
March, 2009

Co-organised by the Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language  
Science (CRiLLS), Newcastle University and Praxiling Centre National  
de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier III

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/news/events/item/international-workshop-on-pharyngeals-pharyngealisation


Workshop Aims:

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from  
around the world who have worked on pharyngeal and pharyngealised  
sounds in the different areas mentioned above in order to share  
expertise in different methodologies and theoretical approaches to the  
study of these sounds and attempt to answer various outstanding  
questions regarding:

1. Language universals: why are pharyngeal sounds present in only 1%  
of languages surveyed in the UPSID data base when they are present in  
children's early vocalisations? How have these sounds evolved in  
languages that have lost the pharyngeal distinctions? Is there a  
relationship between a dense consonantal system and the existence of  
pharyngeal/pharyngealised sounds in a language?

2. Production and perception: what are the acoustic, articulatory, and  
perceptual correlates of pharyngeal and pharyngealised sounds? What  
role do visual cues (e.g. lip rounding) play in processing pharyngeal  
articulations?

3. The sociolinguistic indices of pharyngeal/pharyngealised  
articulations: How does pharyngealisation manifest itself in different  
languages/dialects? Is the gender-correlated patterning that has been  
documented in urban areas in the Arab world with respect to de- 
emphasis found in other varieties/languages with pharyngeal/ 
pharyngealised articulations? How are pharyngeal articulations  
affected in language contact situations?

4. Acquisition: at what age are pharyngeal and pharyngealised sounds  
acquired and what are the developmental manifestations across  
languages and/or dialects?


Organization committee:

Jalal Al-Tamimi, CRiLLS, Newcastle University (UK)
Mohamed Embarki, Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS-Montpellier III (France)
Ghada Khattab, CRiLLS, Newcastle University (UK)
Hussain Kriba, CRiLLS, Newcastle University (UK)

Workshop style:
The workshop consists of invited oral presentations and a poster  
session. Click here for a programme: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/assets/documents/Programme.pdf


Abstract submission:
Abstracts on any of the workshop sub-themes are invited for the poster  
session. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages including  
illustrations and references. Please submit your abstract  
electronically to Crills at ncl.ac.uk by November 30, 2008. Abstracts  
will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and applicants will be  
notified of their acceptance by December the 15th, 2008.

Important dates:
Abstract submission for the poster session:     November 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance:                             December 15,  
2008
Workshop Dates:                                                 March  
26-27, 2009


Ghada Khattab and the Organising Committee.

----------------------
Ghada Khattab
Speech and Language Sciences Section
King George VI bldg
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
UK
Tel: +44.191.222.6583
Fax: +44.191.222.6518
e-mail: ghada.khattab at ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/ghada.khattab

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Article

Journal Title:  Word Structure
Volume Number:  1
Issue Number:  2
Issue Date:  2008

Pseudometathesis in Three Standard Arabic Broken-Plural Templates
Youssef A. Haddad

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Abu, Aba, Abi
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Moulay Ali Bouanani <bouanani.idrissi at gmail.com>
Subject:Abu, Aba, Abi

the response that addresses the issue of Abuu, abaa, and abii and  
makes sense grammatically is the one offered by Dr. Wilmsen. Only my  
Arabic teachers would use the classical or MSA form of my last name  
when calling upon me in class. Ya Abaa 'Inan, li Abii 'Inan. Most  
Arabic last names beginning with Abou have been "fossilicized" in  
'Ammyia  with the forms that are easily recognized by the people. In  
the Maghreb we have done away with A of Abou and there are hardly any  
names that begin with Abii or Abaa. As for the Lebanese origin of the  
name Abizaid, should we not mention Bilaad ash Sahaam as since most of  
the Arabs who immigrated to N. America were Shaami rather than this or  
that country? Most writings in U.S.about those early immigrants refer  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Needs word for Al-Ighraab
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From:Marco de Pinto <depintouk at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs word for Al-Ighraab

Dear friends,

I just could not find a suitable translation to Ibn Al-Anbari's work  
entitled "Al-Ighraab fii Jadal", with a special focus on "Ighraab".  
What would be an appropriate English translation?

All the best,

Marco de Pinto
PhD student
University of São Paulo - Brazil

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Phonetics and CO2 article
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From:Tressy Arts <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Phonetics and CO2 article

I remember it, unfortunately cannot find it. It was rather tongue-in- 
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:53:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Wants info on Teymour story translation
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From:oxyi i <oxyii at hotmail.com>
Subject:Wants info on Teymour story translation

  hello
ı want to know if the story named  " the daughter of satan :بنت  
الشيطان"was translated into englısh? and where can ı find it  
on web?

writer of ıt: mahmoud Teymour, widely regarded as the father of the  
Arabic short story;
and the second story ı am looking the translatıon of it is:"the  
return of soul - عودة الروح was thıs story translated from  
arabic into englısh? where can ı find it on web?

thanks for your help

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs
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1) Subject:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs
1) Subject:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs

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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Manfred Woidich <m.a.woidich at uva.nl>
Subject:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs

Maybe the following study would help:
Werner Diem, Translokative Verben im Arabischen. Eine diachronische
Studie. 2002. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,
There is a chapter on ditransitive verbs in my Cairo grammar p.255–258
(M. Woidich, Das Kairenisch-Arabische. 2006. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
Verlag).
Best,
Manfred Woidich

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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs

        In one of my early articles in Al-Arabiyya I deal with
ditransitivity in the context of dative-movement.  The ref is:
Karin R. Lentzner (former name): "Semantic Motivation for Arabic
Dative-Movement" in Al-Arabiyya 14(1981):19-23.
Best, Karin

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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:basma <basmabouziri at yahoo.fr>
Subject:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs

I know about one article:

Lentzner, K. R. (1981). “Semantic Motivation for Arabic Dative- 
Movement.” Al-‘Arabiyya 14: 19-23.

A related link to the journal is http://web.aall.ufl.edu/arabiyya/
Basma

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:refs on Arabic cinema
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:refs on Arabic cinema

Some useful texts on Egyptian film:

Walter Armbrust, Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt, Cambridge  
Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Cambridge: Cambridge  
University Press, 1996).

Walter Armbrust, "The Rise and Fall of Nationalism in the Egyptian  
Cinema," in Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East,  
ed. Fatma Müge Göçek, SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies  
(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002), 217-250.

Joel Gordon, Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity  
in Nasser's Egypt (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2002).

Viola Shafik. Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation  
(Cairo: American University
in Cairo Press, 2007).

Ben

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 16 21:53:53 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:53:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Maryland Job  Deadline in 2 weeks
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:myen at umd.edu
Subject:U of Maryland Job  Deadline in 2 weeks

Assistant or Associate Professor of Arabic: Deadline in 2 Weeks

The Arabic Program in the School of Languages, Literatures, and  
Cultures (SLLC) at the University of Maryland seeks applicants for a  
tenure-track Assistant Professor or a tenured Associate Professor  
position of Arabic language and literature/culture.  Candidates will  
be evaluated on their record of scholarship and teaching, and their  
interest and expertise in language learning and teaching.  Native or  
near-native command of Modern Standard Arabic, of one major dialect  
variety of Arabic, and of English are highly desirable. The successful  
candidate will join a rapidly expanding Arabic program within the  
School, and will contribute to the School’s Arabic Flagship program.

For best consideration, applicants should specify the rank for which  
they are applying, and submit a letter of application, including a  
short description of their current research plans, a CV, and contact  
information (only) for three referees, by October 31, 2008.  Please  
indicate whether you plan to attend the MESA conference. The position  
will be open until filled. Applications should be submitted to:

Arabic Search Committee, School of Languages, Literatures, and  
Cultures, c/o Weinberg, Rm. 1401 Marie Mount Hall, University of  
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action  
employer. Applications from women and Minority candidates are  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:53:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
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Subject:New Book

Title: The X?X?yyuC Family of Moroccan Secret Languages
Subtitle: Moroccan Arabic Secret Languages 10
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 27

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

Author: Nasser Berjaoui

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895861307 Pages: 182 Price: Europe EURO 58.00


Abstract:

This book, which is the tenth of a series of works on Moroccan Arabic
secret languages, proposes an extremely detailed account of the "?u?", a
secret language of one region in the south-east of Morocco, the  
Tafilalet.
The language in question contains a rich number of varieties. This work,
which addresses linguistic areas of main concern to graduate and
post-graduate students, linguists, phonologists, morphologists,
sociolinguists, dialectologists, arabicists and sociologists, focuses on
the secretising of a multitude of words, prepositions, verbs, phrases,
clauses and sentences, for instance. For descriptive convenience, this
study proposes eight chapters and a detailed bibliography. Chapter one  
is
concerned with major previous works related to secret languages  
worldwide,
for instance. Chapter two introduces major sociolinguistic notions of  
the
"?u?". Chapter three investigates the encoding of prefixless words.  
Chapter
four analyses the encoding of prefixed items. Chapter five scrutinizes  
the
secretising of prepositions. Chapter six aims at a description of the
encoding of syntactic structures. Chapter seven illustrates the use of  
the
"?u?" in everyday-like conversations. Chapter eight presents a detailed
account of the rules governing all the varieties of the x?x?yyuC family
with reference to all MA words, phrases, clauses and sentences and a
detailed account of the data. In one variety of the x?.x?yyuC "?u?" a
consonant of the word is substituted by the consonant of the operating
variety (x). Then the new word is followed by the disguise element
"x?yyuC", that is another copy of the substituting consonant (x), the
disyllabic "?yyu" and the substituted consonant of the word (C). In this
respect, the word "kla" (eat), for instance, is encoded in one variety  
of
the x?.x?yyuC "?u?" as "sla s?yyuk".

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From andyf at UMICH.EDU  Sun Oct 19 20:58:10 2008
From: andyf at UMICH.EDU (Andrew Freeman)
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:58:10 -0700
Subject: request for suggestions/direction for Masters project
Message-ID: <SUN.19.OCT.2008.135810.0700.>

Hi,

 

                I'm in my 2nd year of the Professional Masters in
Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington here in Seattle.
I'm attending classes at 2/3 time and will probably be working on a Master's
thesis/project/internship by July 2009.

 

                I am floundering on picking a project.  

 

                So, I'm hoping that maybe the community of Arabic Linguists
might be able to give me some direction on what I could work on that would
be most useful and well-received.

 

I, of course, have my own pet projects which include:    

1)      Developing a tool for and then automatically annotating my corpus of
Yemeni TV & radio shows with POS-tags and eventually Syntax tags

a.       Automatically identify/extract the segments that are in
San'aani/Dhamari

b.      Automatically identify/extract the segments that are in the southern
oriented dialects (Adeni & Ta'izzi)

c.       Say something empirically informed about the structure of the
various varieties

d.      Say something smart about the social distribution and meaning or
lack thereof

e.      Use this as a seed for a machine-learning tool to learning to
identify different varieties in other mixed lect corpora

 
i.      Chat rooms

 
ii.      Moroccan TV, radio and recording of "authentic" speech

 
iii.      Code-switched Spanish-English; English-Swahili

 

2)      Annotating some literary texts 

a.       from the Levant

b.      from the Maghreb

c.       See if I can identify features that uniquely identify the
difference between the categories

 
i.      (I suspect that the incidence & complexity of the Idaafa
construction might be one)

d.      Say something empirically informed about the structure of literary
Arabic as a function of the writer's native vernacular variety

 

3)      Developing some automatic annotation tools that can be used to
produce Rich Internet Application documents so that an Intermediate mid to
Advanced Low Standard Arabic learner can use "bio-feedback" loops to learn
and self-test for the following skills.

a.       Identifying the dictionary stem and maybe the root

b.      Recovering the short-vowels

c.       Segmenting the words into the constituent parts

 
i.      Nouns

1.       Optional Conjunction

2.       Optional Preposition

3.       Optional article

4.       Stem

5.       Optional dual or plural

6.       Possessive pronouns

 
ii.      Imperfect Verbs

1.       Optional Conjunction

2.       Optional modal marker

3.       Subject pronoun marker

4.       Stem

5.       Optional feminine, dual or plural marker

6.       Optional object pronouns

 
iii.      Perfect Verbs

1.       Optional Conjunction

2.       Stem

3.       Subject pronoun marker

4.       Optional object pronouns

 
iv.      Prepositions

1.       Optional Conjunction

2.       Stem

3.       Optional object pronouns

d.      Identifying the word gloss 

e.      As this project develops maybe even introduce 

 
i.      some Automatic Speech Recognition for pronunciation training

 
ii.      mood & case vowel recovery

f.         

 

4)      Develop a reasonable search engine for Arabic (and by analogy
Hebrew) that will try to locate all instances of a stem regardless of all of
the attached affixes.

a.       Currently Google returns a different set of documents for kTAb than
it does for AlktAb.

 

5)      Work on ways to improve  performance of Statistically based Machine
Translation between Arabic and various source-target by improving word
alignment with word-segmentation segmentation and vowel recovery.

 

 

                So: Does anybody have any suggestions on what I could do in
about 480 staff-hours? 

 

Here is my motivating force:

I am trying to find a niche where: 

1)      I can be a software developer, without giving up on my experience
and training as a linguist and an Arabist. 

1)      I can access my training & make a contribution as a sociolinguist
without completely giving up on being a SW developer or Arabist

2)      I can continue to make a contribution as an Anglophone with serious
knowledge of Arabic and Arab culture without abandoning any and all roles as
a SW developer or Linguist.

 

                

Best regards,

Andy

 

Andrew Freeman, PhD (Linguistics & Near Eastern Studies)

BS Computer Science

 

PS

 

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA III Announcement
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From:"Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:CASA III Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD (CASA)


CASA III
2009-2010 Refresher Course for Professors in Humanities and Social  
Sciences

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), offers fellowships for  
professors of the humanities and social sciences whose specialties  
focus on any aspect of the Arab World/Middle East.  The CASA III  
fellowships are funded by the Fulbright Binational Committee in Egypt  
and the US Department of Education and are intended for professors who  
are interested in further advancing their proficiency in Arabic and  
for those who wish to undertake research in Arabic materials under the  
supervision of a specialist.

The program is designed to offer flexibility in terms of the timeframe  
of the individual's program.  CASA provides funding for CASA III  
fellows ranging from two to four months, with each CASA III fellow  
choosing the months in which they wish to participate (these months  
need to be compatible with the AUC academic calendar).  The CASA III  
program can be undertaken in Summer 2009, Fall 2009, or Spring 2010.   
The specific program of study for each applicant will be designed by  
the applicant and the CASA Executive Director.

Applicants must have a level of competence in Arabic of Advanced or  
above according to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (equivalent to at  
least three years of study at the college level).  An oral proficiency  
phone interview in Arabic will be conducted with each applicant to  
determine her/his level of proficiency.  Applicants must be U.S.  
citizens.  Non-U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply to  
participate in this program on a Pay-Your-Own Way basis.

The CASA III fellowship award covers round-trip airfare, tuition, and  
a maintenance allowance of the Egyptian equivalent of approximately  
$1,250 per month, plus an educational supplies allowance. A non- 
refundable program fee is required of each CASA III fellow once an  
award has been accepted.  (See website for details on programs fees)

For a detailed description of the CASA III program, or to download  
application forms, please visit the CASA web site at:  www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa

*Application deadline for 2009-2010 programs is January 9, 2009*


All questions and applications should be addressed to:
Selina Keilani
Center for Arabic Study Abroad
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX  78712-0527
Telephone: 512.471.3513
Email: utcasa at austin.utexas.edu


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:46 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dartmouth Job
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Gerard.F.Bohlen at Dartmouth.EDU
Subject:Dartmouth Job

"Arabic Lecturer at Dartmouth College

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures  
invites applications for a full-time Arabic Language Lecturer position  
to begin 7/1/2009. Initial appointment will be for a term of one year  
with the possibility of renewal and a multi-year contract.

Applicants must have native or near-native fluency in modern standard  
Arabic. Minimum qualifications are M.A. in some area of linguistics,  
literature, Middle Eastern Studies, or related field.  Preference will  
be given to applicants with experience teaching at all levels of  
Arabic language instruction.

Send letter of application, vita, evidence of teaching excellence,  
along with three letters of recommendation, to:

Chair of Arabic Lecturer Search Committee
6191 Bartlett Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3530

Applications may be sent via email to:
Gerard.F.Bohlen at Dartmouth.EDU

Search will continue until the position has been filled.

Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action  
employer, and encourages applications from women and minorities."

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:word for Al-Ighraab
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1) Subject:word for Al-Ighraab
2) Subject:word for Al-Ighraab
3) Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:ferah abdula <ferah_abdula at yahoo.com>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

hi,
the best translation for the word  "Al-Ighraab" is "the strangers" in  
Jadal"argument"or"discussions"

all the best
bushra

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Muhammad Aziz <muhammad.aziz at yale.edu>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

The closest meaning that I thought of would be " The Exaggeration in
Debates".
Muhammad

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Sahar Abdel Gawwad <saharmhy at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

it depends on the books content it might be, strangers or weird people

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:30:02 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Books on Cinema
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:Books on Cinema

Dear all,
I want to thank every one who had responded to me or the list  
regarding my question on books on Cinema.
I did notice, from some responses that my question was not clear,  
sorry about that. I did ask for texts in Arabic (intermediate or  
advanced).

thanks again, and I will look into the books soon,

Sana

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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Ditransitive verb refs
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Almog <almogk at gmail.com>
Subject:Ditransitive verb refs


Yishai Peled, Di-Transitivized and Pseudo-Dative Constructions in  
Literary Arabic, Israel Oriental Studies 13 (1993), pp. 199-211.

Best,
Almog Kasher

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Abi forms
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:david.wilmsen at GMAIL.COM
Subject:

I stand corrected. Of course we should regard names fossilized into  
their
Abii forms as Shamy names and not Lebanese as such. They must predate  
the
political entity of Lebanon by several millennia.

-- 
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: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Antoine El-Dahdah's Arabic Grammar Organization
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1) Subject:Antoine El-Dahdah's Arabic Grammar Organization

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:abufares at inco.com.lb
Subject:Antoine El-Dahdah's Arabic Grammar Organization

ARABIC GRAMMAR ORGANIZATION

aims to spread Arabic culture through globalization.

You are invited to visit the website:

www.arabic-grammar.com

and discover how well ordered Arabic grammar really is.

We will be pleased to provide you with further information.

Antoine El-Dahdah

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:29:45 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA I Announcement
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:"Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:CASA I Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD (CASA)


2009 Summer and 2009-2010 Full Year Programs

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) is pleased to announce that  
it will offer a number of fellowships for advanced Arabic language  
study at the American University in Cairo and Damascus University for  
the 2009-2010 academic year.

Two types of CASA fellowships are available:

1) Summer-Only Fellowships: (Cairo: June 4, 2009-July 26, 2009;  
Damascus: June 14, 2009-August 13, 2009)
These fellowships allow students to participate in an intensive seven- 
week summer language and culture program that includes 10 weekly hours  
of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and 8 hours of Modern Standard Arabic  
plus a weekly tour in Arabic.

2) Full-Year Fellowships: (Cairo: June 4, 2009-May 21, 2010; Damascus:  
June 14, 2009-May 20, 2010)
These fellowships provide intensive language and culture training in  
Egyptian Colloquial or Syrian Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic  
(reading, listening and writing) for three semesters (summer, fall and  
spring) and allow students in the spring semester to take courses in  
Arabic in their respective areas of specialization.

In 2008-2009, CASA offered 6 Summer-Only Fellowships, 25 Full-Year  
fellowships in Cairo, and 13 Full-Year fellowships in Damascus, and we  
expect to offer similar numbers in 2009-2010.

Successful applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents;  
enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program or in between their  
undergraduate and graduate study; committed to a career in Middle  
Eastern Studies; have had a minimum of two to three years of college- 
level Arabic language study, and pass the CASA Selection exam which  
will be administered to all applicants at a school in their locality  
on Friday, February 6, 2009.  Please note that non-U.S. citizens are  
also welcome to apply to CASA, and if accepted, may participate on a  
Pay-Your-Own-Way basis.

Those interested in applying to CASA may also wish to apply for a  
Fulbright fellowship that would provide them with funding to  
participate in CASA. A Fulbright fellowship would enable the student  
to participate in CASA and provide a higher level of funding.  
Fulbright fellowships have October deadlines; thus students must  
submit their Fulbright fellowships well before they submit the CASA  
application.

The CASA fellowship award covers round-trip airfare, tuition and a  
maintenance allowance of 2,100 Egyptian pounds per month.  A non- 
refundable program fee is required of each CASA fellow once an award  
has been accepted. (See website for details on program fees)

For detailed descriptions of the CASA programs, or to download  
application forms, please visit the CASA web site at:  www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa

*Application deadline for 2009-2010 programs is January 9, 2009*

All questions and applications should be addressed to:
Selina Keilani
Center for Arabic Study Abroad
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX  78712-0527
Telephone: 512.471.3513
Email: utcasa at austin.utexas.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:00 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:OPI interview recordings from Duke
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:mbayelo at duke.edu
Subject:OPI interview recordings from Duke

Dear colleagues,

Below is a link to the al-lisaan al-arabi playlist at Duke University.
It is a collection of oral proficiency interviews conducted in Arabic,  
and based
on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Proficiency
Guidelines.

I will be adding new interviews into the site regularly.

Cordially,

Dr. Lo,

http://www.youtube.com/user/DukeAMES

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Oklahoma Job
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Alhawary, Mohammad T." <malhawary at ou.edu>
Subject:U. of Oklahoma Job

Assistant Professor of Arabic—Tenure Track
The University of Oklahoma announces a tenure-track position in Arabic  
at the level of Assistant Professor beginning August 2009 as part of  
its Language Flagship program. The position is a joint appointment in  
the University’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and  
Linguistics and the School of International and Area Studies.  
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Arabic language and literature in hand  
at the time of appointment, native or near-native proficiency in  
Arabic (MSA), and a demonstrable commitment to both teaching and  
research.  Research focus on Arabic literature and/or culture is  
preferred. The teaching load is four courses per year and includes  
courses in Arabic language, literature, and culture at the  
undergraduate level.  Salary is competitive.  Send applications to  
include cover letter, CV, three letters of recommendation,  
transcripts, and sample publications to the Chair of Arabic Search  
Committee, School of International and Area Studies, University of  
Oklahoma, 729 Elm Avenue, Hester Hall Room 105, Norman Oklahoma,  
73019.  Review of applications will begin January 15, 2009.  Women and  
minorities are encouraged to apply.  The University of Oklahoma is an  
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:32:54 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:32:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Private Book Collection from Gerlach
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1) Subject:Private Book Collection from Gerlach

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:collections at gerlach-books.de
Subject:Private Book Collection from Gerlach

We are proud to offer around 1300 books collected during the working  
life of the British diplomat and scholar, Paul Bergne, who spent most  
of his professional life working on the Middle East and Central Asia.

This unique collection of books is accompanied by approximately 1300  
learned articles by various authors which add to the depth and range  
of this exceptional collection as a whole. As the collector was a  
polyglot the languages range from Arabic to Chinese. The four  
predominant languages are English, Arabic, Persian, and Russian. There  
are more than 400 books dealing specifically with Central Asia  
published in the former Soviet Union which are unobtainable.

The price for this exceptional Middle East & Central Asia collection  
(approx. 2,600 items altogether) is EURO 125,000.00 (plus European VAT  
- if applicable only). Our offer is valid until 31 December 2008.

Please contact us for a complete list of titles or a price quote.

We look forward to hearing from you.

With best regards from Berlin

Kai Gerlach

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:32:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Nuance Communications Job
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1) Subject:Nuance Communications Job

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:from LINGUIST
Subject:Nuance Communications Job

University or Organization: Nuance Communications
Department: TTS R&D
Job Location: Merelbeke, Belgium
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com

Job Rank: Arabic Language Specialist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing

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

Description:

Nuance Communications, Inc., a world-wide leader in speech technology,  
is
seeking full-time temporary language specialist to develop our newest  
TTS
technology into various languages.

Positions are available for the following languages:

Arabic x 3 positions, starting in October 2008 and January 2009.

Responsibilities:
-  Helping in development of the linguistic processing components
-  Design of text corpora for recording and testing
-  Processing speech data
-  Creating and tuning the TTS voice
-  Testing and productization of the TTS voice

Requirements:
-  Native or near native speaker of one of them above-mentioned  
languages
-  Speak English fluently (working language)
-  Have some experience working in speech/NLP/linguistics either in
academia or in industry
-  Have some computational ability - no programming is required, but you
should be comfortable working with MS Windows
-  If you know some AWK or Perl, it would be an advantage
-  Willing to work in Merelbeke (near Ghent in Belgium) for the  
duration of
the contract


Offer:
-  A 3-9 months contract
-  Training in all aspects of the job, and you will be working with a
talented and committed team
-  An exciting job with an innovative and performing international  
company
-  The opportunity to work in an enthusiastic, supportive team
-  Competitive remuneration package
-  Relocation, travel and accommodation assistance

To apply, please submit your resume or CV and a brief statement  
describing
your experience and abilities to the application email listed below. We
will consider only electronic submissions.

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

The experience speaks for itself (TM)


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: deanna.roe at nuance.com
Contact Information:
        Deanna Roe
        Email: deanna.roe at nuance.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:34:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Michigan State Job
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:abdall15 at msu.edu
Subject:Michigan State Job

Position Description to be Posted:

Michigan State University seeks to fill a tenure-track position in  
Arabic language learning and teaching, especially to support and  
provide leadership to its Arabic language program in the Department of  
Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages in the  
College of Arts & Letters beginning August 16, 2009. This position  
will be at the rank of assistant professor (Ph.D. in hand by August  
16, 2009). We seek candidates with primary interests in the teaching  
and learning of Arabic language and culture. It is anticipated that  
the successful candidate will become part of a growing research  
community in second language studies (www.msu.edu/user/sls) and will  
take advantage of research opportunities through the Center for  
Language Education and Research (CLEAR, http://clear.msu.edu) and  
related Centers and initiatives. Central to this position will be  
working on the new Arabic Flagship Program housed at Michigan State  
University.

We welcome applicants whose research would especially benefit from  
collaborative opportunities in an interdisciplinary work environment.

Applicants should submit:

*                updated CV,

*                statement of interest with specific mention of which  
of these research areas is appropriate for the applicant's own  
background and future direction,
*                writing sample,

*                statement of research interests,

*                statement of teaching philosophy,

*                three letters of-reference.

Review of applications will begin on October 31, 2008 and will  
continue until the position is filled.

Please have all materials sent to: David Prestel, Arabic Language  
Teaching Position, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic,  
Asian & African Languages, A-614 Wells Hall, Michigan State  
University, E. Lansing, MI 48824-1027.
MSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution. Persons  
with disabilities may request and receive reasonable accommodation.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:30:07 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Phonetics and CO2 article
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Safa A-C Jubran <safajubran at terra.com.br>
Subject:Phonetics and CO2 article

[moderator's note: so it wasn't on Arabic-L after all.  It's pretty  
funny, though.]


http://specgram.com/CLIII.1/03.wire.emissions.html

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:52 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Summer School in Maltese Linguistics
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:sandra.vella at PT.LU
Subject:Summer School in Maltese Linguistics

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I am writing on behalf of the Foundation for International Studies  
through which the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Malta,  
in collaboration with the Department of Maltese, is hoping to organize  
its first Summer School in Maltese Linguistics to be held in Malta in  
June 2009. The Summer School should provide linguists and students of  
linguistics in particular, but also others working in, through or with  
Maltese such as translators and language teachers, with a unique  
opportunity to become better acquainted with different aspects of the  
linguistics structure of Maltese. The option of sessions in Maltese  
for Foreigners will also be available if enough interest is expressed

We would appreciate your reading the information below and replying to  
the Market Research Questionnaire below. Please email your response  
either to me at  <mailto:alexandra.vella at um.edu.mt> alexandra.vella at um.edu.mt 
  or to  <mailto:programmes at com.mt> programmes at com.mt as soon as  
possible.

Best wishes,

sandra
(Dr. Alexandra Vella)

P.S. Please forward this email to others you think may be interested  
in this.


Summer School in Maltese Linguistics

The Institute of Linguistics, in collaboration with the Department of  
Maltese, Faculty of Arts of the University of Malta and the Foundation  
for International Studies, will be organizing its first Summer School  
in Maltese Linguistics, to be held in Malta from June 15 to 26, 2009.

The Summer School is aimed mainly at those interested in the  
linguistics of Maltese rather than at those interested in learning  
Maltese.  Specialists in different aspects of Maltese linguistics will  
lecture on the following areas within more general topics such as:
*	The Sound System of Maltese (e.g. the phonemic inventory and  
allophonic variation, Maltese phonotactics, syllable structure,  
stress, intonation);
*	The Maltese Lexicon (e.g. the provenance of Maltese words, word- 
formation processes);
*	The Grammar and Semantics of Maltese (tense and aspect,  
topicalisation, subordination, word order, referring expressions);
·        Maltese in Context (e.g. the historical development of  
Maltese, language use in the Maltese context, the Maltese media,  
language planning in the Maltese context, Maltese in the context of  
the EU, computational resources for Maltese, Maltese Sign Language).

No knowledge of Maltese is required although an interest in the  
language is a pre-requisite.  All lectures on the linguistics of  
Maltese will be given in English although the Maltese for adults/ 
foreigners course/s will be held in Maltese.

Questionnaire

Please tick the appropriate boxes, indicating whether you would be  
able to participate in the first Summer School in Maltese Linguistics  
to be held in Malta from June 15 to 26 2009. The Summer School will  
consist of two parts:

1.      the Linguistics of Maltese part of the Summer School; and/ 
or                               
2.      the Maltese Language for adults/foreigners part of the Summer  
School at –
a.      beginner  
level 
;                                                                                               
b.      intermediate  
level 
.                                                                                         

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:29:53 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Rutgers University Job
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:C.G. Häberl <mustashriq at gmail.com>
Subject:Rutgers University Job

Assistant Professor
MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE

The newly established Department of African, Middle Eastern and South
Asian Languages and Literatures at the School of Arts and Sciences on
the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University, invites applications
for a TENURE-TRACK Assistant Professor in the field of MODERN ARABIC
LITERATURE. Native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic
required. The ideal candidate will have a record of publication on
modern literatures written in Arabic, with secondary fields of
research in other literatures of the modern Middle East, and/or
Medieval/Early Modern Arabic Literatures, and/or Comparative
Literature. The position will involve teaching courses of literature
in translation, as well as advanced language or literature courses
taught in Modern Standard Arabic. PhD in hand preferred, but the
exceptional ABD candidate will be considered. The completed
application, including a c.v., three letters of recommendation, and a
writing sample of 20 pages, should arrive at the office of Dr. Richard
Serrano no later than November 3, 2008. Rutgers is an Affirmative
Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

Please mail your application to:

Professor Richard Serrano,
Chair, Modern Arabic Search Committee,
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,
Department of African, Middle Eastern, and
South Asian Languages and Literature,
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue,
Lucy Stone Hall B301
Piscataway NJ 08854

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA II Announcement
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:CASA II Announcement

CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD (CASA)

CASA II

2009-2010 Program for Post-CASA Language Study and Arabic-Based  
Research in Cairo, Egypt

The CASA II program aims to provide further opportunities for CASA  
fellows, who have completed the CASA Full-Year program within the past  
five years, to continue to enhance their language skills and advance  
their Arabic-based research in Egypt.

The CASA II program offers the opportunity to study for one or two  
semesters (Fall or Spring or both) at the American University in  
Cairo.  The program is meant to be flexible so as to cater to the  
individual linguistic and research needs of each CASA II fellow.   
Individual academic programs for each CASA fellow will be designed in  
close consultation between the fellow and the CASA Executive Director  
in Cairo.

Each CASA II fellow is expected to enroll in three tutorials per  
semester.  These tutorials can be in any of the language skills or in  
the fellow's own field of specialization.  In addition, CASA II  
fellows are welcome to enroll in any of the regular CASA classes that  
are offered during the fall and spring semesters as part of their CASA  
II program.  CASA II fellows are also expected to participate in and  
contribute to the full range of activities of the CASA program.

Requirements:
To qualify for a CASA II fellowship, the successful applicant must  
have completed the CASA Full-Year program within the past five years  
and must be enrolled in a graduate program in Arabic/Middle Eastern  
Studies.  Former CASA fellows who graduated more than five years ago  
may apply for a CASA II fellowship but they must take the CASA  
Entrance Exam to assess their current level of proficiency in Arabic.

Each applicant must complete the CASA II application form and provide  
all supporting documents.


Similar to other CASA programs, applicants to CASA II have the option  
of applying on a Pay-Your-Own-Way basis if they have other sources of  
funding.

Benefits:
A CASA II fellowship award covers tuition for one or two semesters  
based on the fellow's choice, round trip airfare and a monthly stipend  
of 3,000 Egyptian pounds.

For detailed descriptions of the CASA programs, or to download  
application forms, please visit the CASA web site at:  www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa

*Application deadline for 2009-2010 programs is January 9, 2009*

All questions and applications should be addressed to:
Selina Keilani
Center for Arabic Study Abroad
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX  78712-0527
Email: utcasa at austin.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512.471.3513
Fax: 512.471.0739

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wayne State Job
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:Amanda S. Donigian [mailto:ad1129 at wayne.edu]
Subject:Wayne State Job

Arabic Language and Linguistics TT position

The CMLLC Department at Wayne State University invites applications  
for a
tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professorship in Arabic Language and
Linguistics, starting 8/19/09. Duties: teaching undergraduate and  
graduate
courses in Arabic language and linguistics, supervising Master's  
research in
relevant fields, advising Arabic majors, basic course coordination in
Arabic, and taking the lead in language curriculum development for the
Arabic/Near Eastern Studies program. Qualifications: native or near  
native
fluency in Modern Standard Arabic and English, PhD by date of  
appointment,
and active engagement in teaching, research, and publication. Apply  
online
at http://jobs.wayne.edu, position number 035742 with a letter and CV.
References and a writing sample are to be sent to Dr. Margaret Winters  
as
indicated on-line.  For full consideration, materials must be received  
by
November 15, 2008.  Please indicate availability for interview at the  
MESA
meeting.

Wayne State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action  
employer;
we encourage applications from those in underrepresented categories
including minorities and women.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs technical term for hamza changes
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:Alexander Elinson <alexander.elinson at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs technical term for hamza changes

Dear Colleagues,

I am wondering if there is a technical term for, or way of referring
to when a hamza in a word in fuSHaa changes to a yaa' in colloquial,
for example raa'iH/raayiH or ji'tu/jiit or faa'ida/faayida. Also, the
dropping of a hamza at the ends of words, e.g. alibbaa'/alibbaa,
ghadhaa'/ghadhaa, waraa'/waraa, etc. I am looking at a medieval text
where this occurs, and would like to know how to talk about it. I
would also be grateful to hear of other examples of this in medieval
texts that are mainly literary, but do include these
'colloquializations' peppered throughout.

You can either respond to the list or to me off list at
aelinson at hunter.cuny.edu.

Many thanks,

Alexander Elinson
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Hunter College of the City University of New York

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Books on Cinema in Arabic
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:nmisleem at duke.edu
Subject:Books on Cinema in Arabic

Dear all,

Regarding books on cinema with texts in Arabic for intermediate and  
advanced
levels, please check the following publishing company's website:
www.alucen.com
Best,

Nasser M. Isleem

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Oct 27 18:56:57 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UC Davis Job
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:Jocelyn Sharlet <jcsharlet at ucdavis.edu>
Subject:UC Davis Job

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, the Humanities, Arts, and Cultural
Studies division of the College of Letters and Science, seeks a scholar
to fill a tenure-track assistant professorial or tenured associate
professorial position in Modern Arabic language, literature and culture.

Candidates must have a PhD or equivalent in Arabic and/or Middle Eastern
Studies, and/or Comparative Literature, native or near-native fluency in
Arabic, and working knowledge of at least one other language and
literature, Candidates must have strong comparative scholarly and
pedagogical interests. The ability to teach upper-division Arabic
language, literature and culture, to train graduate students and to
supervise language instruction in Arabic is essential.

The appointment, beginning July 1, 2009, is likely to be in the
Comparative Literature Program, but a joint appointment is possible,
depending on the qualifications and interests of the candidate.

Send letter of application, current CV, and 3 letters of reference to:
Professor Brenda Deen Schildgen, Committee Chair, Comparative Literature
Program, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis CA
95616-8601. The University of California, Davis, is an affirmative
action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment
to the achievement of diversity among its faculty and staff. Application
deadline: November 1, 2008.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Oct 27 18:56:56 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:response to El-Dahdah post
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1) Subject:response to El-Dahdah post

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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:bilal at romandie.com
Subject:response to El-Dahdah post

hello everybody,

I use this book, it is just excellent !

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Oct 27 18:56:51 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:word for Al-Ighraab
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1) Subject:word for Al-Ighraab
2) Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:baudouin joseph <legrandbosra at yahoo.fr>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

we can say "singular or peculiar",
See you.
JGB.

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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:Abbas Al-Tonsi <tons at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

I think al-lghraab comes from aghraab which means gurabaa' ..ghariib  
is used as opposite of qariib"relative" or aHbaab (lovers) it is  
commonly used in this meaning in folk poetry
alighraab means defamliariztion ,using unfamilar language

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Oct  3 19:15:12 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Inside Higher Ed article on teaching Arabic
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Date: 03 Oct 2008
From:Uri Horesh <uri.horesh at fandm.edu>
Subject:Inside Higher Ed article on teaching Arabic

"Shifting Winds in Arabic Teaching" at insidehighered.com.

Here's a link to the page:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/01/arabic

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Oct  3 19:15:20 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Gilman Scholarship deadline extended to Oct 13
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Date: 03 Oct 2008
From:Gilman <Gilman at iie.org>
Subject:Gilman Scholarship deadline extended to Oct 13

The deadline for the Gilman International Scholarship has been  
extended to October 13, 2008!

Students participating in study abroad programs during the Spring 2009  
semester must submit an online application by 11:59 pm central time on  
October 13th.  The online application is available athttps:// 
gilmanapplication.iie.org

This year the Gilman Program will award over 1,200 scholarship to  
students participating in study abroad programs during the 2008-2009  
academic year, which will be the highest number of scholarships  
awarded by the program since its inception in 2001.  There has never  
been a better time to apply!

To review eligibility, deadlines and profiles of past scholarship  
recipients please visit the Gilman website at www.iie.org/gilman

Contact Information
Applicants:
gilman at iie.org
1-888-887-5939 ext 25

Advisors:
gilmanadvisors at iie.org
1-888-887-5939 ext 16

We've moved! Please note our new address.Institute of International  
EducationGilman International Scholarship1800 West Loop South, Suite  
250Houston, TX 77027

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Oct  3 19:15:18 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:18 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:K-12 Arabic Research Meeting in East Lansing
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Date: 03 Oct 2008
From:Wafa Hassan <hassanw at msu.edu>
Subject:K-12 Arabic Research Meeting in East Lansing

Dear Colleagues,

Michigan State University is hosting a day-long meeting for Arabic  
educators and administrators with the goal of building connections  
within the teaching community and stimulating research in K-12 Arabic  
Education.

This meeting will take place on Saturday, November 15th, at Michigan  
State University's Kellogg Center.

Limited funding is available for the travel of out-of-state  
participants.  Please contact us for assistance with airfare and  
accommodations.

Please see the attached announcement for details, and be sure to  
register by October 7th, 2008.

Finally, we would like to collect informal data on your teaching  
background as well as your ideas on the state of Arabic teaching.   
Please take a few minutes to fill our the survey at http://clear.msu.edu/elpa/UCCASSv1.8.1/survey.php?sid=50

Thank you and don't hesitate to contact me with any questions!


Dr. Wafa N. Hassan
Outreach Coordinator & 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  Fri Oct  3 19:15:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Career Fair at U of Edinburgh for Arabists etc.
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1) Subject:Career Fair at U of Edinburgh for Arabists etc.

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Date: 03 Oct 2008
From:Elisabeth Kendall <Elisabeth.Kendall at ed.ac.uk>
Subject:Career Fair at U of Edinburgh for Arabists etc.


The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) is pleased  
to announce the first annual Careers Fair for students of Arabic,  
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies to be held on Friday 24 October  at  
The University of Edinburgh.

We have several high profile organizations lined up to speak and meet  
potential recruits, including private sector enterprises such as top  
management consultancies McKinsey and Bain, as well as public sector  
organizations such as the Ministry of Defence, GCHQ and MI6.

The fair is open to all graduates, postgraduates and final-year  
undergraduates in a relevant field (Arabic/Middle Eastern Studies / 
Islamic Studies). Attendance is free but students must email events at casaw.ac.uk 
  to request a registration form, which should be emailed to CASAW to  
ensure access to the event.

More details are available on our website at: http://www.casaw.ac.uk/index.php/news/more/careers_fair/

Many thanks for your cooperation. We look forward to welcoming  
students to Edinburgh on 24 October.

Best wishes

Elisabeth Kendall

---
Dr Elisabeth Kendall
Director, Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
(a UK government initiative funded by the joint research councils)

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

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct  9 20:48:03 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs in Arab World
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1) Subject:AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs in Arab World

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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:Jerome Bookin-Weiner <jbookinweiner at AMIDEAST.ORG>
Subject:AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs in Arab World

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to tell you about AMIDEAST?s new Education Abroad  
Programs in the Arab World.  The programs were inaugurated last fall  
with a semester program inRabat, Morocco.  Over the past year we have  
been revamping that program, making it into a semester or academic  
year program, depending on the interests of the students.  We also  
will inaugurate a summer intensive Arabic program in Rabat this coming  
May.

In addition, we have also been planning for new semester/academic year  
programs that will begin next fall in Cairo, Amman, and Kuwait, and a  
service learning program for students who have completed one year of  
Modern Standard Arabic in Tunisia this coming summer.

For more information on all of our programs and to read about our  
commitment to Arabic language instruction, our Arabic Language  
Advisory Board and our Academic Consortium, please visit our website at:

http://www.amideast.org/abroad

Most of you will recognize the eight members of our Arabic Language  
Advisory Board as being among the leading members of the Arabic  
language teaching profession in the U.S.  Many may also recognize our  
Arabic Studies Consultant, Dr. Driss Ouaouicha (formerly Vice  
President for Academic Affairs at Al Akhawayn University inMorocco),  
who is spearheading development and implementation of our Arabic  
language curriculum with the advice and assistance of the Advisory  
Board.

We have posters (letter sized) as well as brochures and fliers about  
our programs and will be happy to send them to you if you let me know  
how many you want and the address where we should send them.

During the MESA conference in November we will have a booth in the  
book exhibits and I invite you to stop by to talk with me, Driss and  
representatives of our local partners in Rabat, Cairo, Amman, Kuwait  
and Tunisia.  We also will be holding information sessions twice  
during the conference.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me.  I?ll  
respond as quickly as I can.

Best regards,

Jerry Bookin-Weiner

---
Jerome B. Bookin-Weiner, PhD
Director of Study Abroad and Outreach
AMIDEAST
1730 M Street, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:  +1-202-776-9627
Fax:      +1-202-776-7027
Mobile: +1-410-336-0198
Email:  jbookinweiner at amideast.org
Internet:  http://www.amideast.org


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct  9 20:48:08 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Leiden University Job for PhD student
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:"Sijpesteijn, P.M." <p.m.sijpesteijn at hum.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject:Leiden University Job for PhD student

Ph.D. Position, Faculty of Humanities (8-186)Faculty of  
HumanitiesLeiden University , Faculty of Humanities

ONE PHD POSITION (38 hours a week)
Application number:  8-186

Starting between January and September 2009 the Leiden Institute for  
Area Studies and the School of Middle Eastern Studies has a vacancy  
for one PhD student to work on part 3 of the research project ?The  
Formation of Islam. The View from Below? (see below).

Project description :
?The Formation of Islam. The View from Below? is a five-year research  
project (January 1 2009 - December 31 2013) funded by the European  
Research Council to write a history of the formation of Islam using  
the vastly important but largely neglected papyri from Egypt. Until  
the introduction of paper in the 10th C., papyrus was the  
Mediterranean world?s primary writing material. Thousands of papyrus  
documents survive, preserving a minutely detailed transcription of  
daily life, as well as the only contemporary records of Islam?s rise  
and first wave of conquests. The prevailing model of Islam?s formation  
is based on sources composed by a literary ?lite some 150 years after  
the events they describe. The distortions this entails are especially  
problematic since it was in these first two centuries that Islam?s  
institutional, social and religious framework developed and  
stabilised. To form a meaningful understanding of this development  
requires tackling the contemporary documentary record, as preserved in  
the papyri and combining the information they offer with that from  
literary and other primary sources. Yet the technical difficulties  
presented by these mostly unpublished and uncatalogued documents have  
largely barred their use by historians. This project is a systematic  
attempt to address this critical problem. The project has three  
stages: 1) a stocktaking of unedited Arabic, Coptic and Greek papyri;  
2) the editing of a corpus of the most significant papyri; 3) the  
presentation of a synthetic historical analysis through scholarly  
publications. By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of  
those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand  
the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse  
cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character and  
ambition of Muslim state competency at the time of the Islamic  
conquest; the steps ? military, administrative and religious ? by  
which it extended its reach; and what this tells us about the origins  
and evolution of Muslim ideas of rulership, religion and power.

Tasks:

		? The writing of a PhD dissertation on a topic of the history of  
early Islamic Egypt (CE 600-900);
		? publishing research results in the form of an article;
		? presenting papers at (international) conferences;
		? participation in local research meetings and PhD teaching;
		? organising roundtable meetings and conferences in the framework of  
the research project.
Requirements:

		? an MA, M.Phil or ?doctoraal? degree in history, Arabic language,  
Near Eastern Studies or an equivalent education in a comparative field;
		? research knowledge of Arabic;
		? fluent in English (spoken and written) as well as being able to  
use academic literature in other modern European languages;
		? ability to work independently;
		? good organizational and contactual skills;
		? interested in doing interdisciplinary research;
		? willingness to work in a research team.

Conditions of employment

The successful applicant will be appointed for eighteen months and  
after a positive evaluation followed by a fixed- term period. The  
total period will be four years. Gross salary will be ? 2000,- per  
month during the first year, gradually rising, also depending upon  
evaluation, to ? 2612,- per months in the final year, conform the  
Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities.

Applications
Please send your application (in Dutch or English) by November 15,  
including a cover letter stating your motivation for this position, a  
CV, and two references. Please send the letter, indicating the  
application number on letter and envelope to: De afdeling P&O, t.a.v.  
E.M. Bakker,  Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Postbus 9515 2300 RA  
Leiden
The Netherlands

publicatiedatum: 6-10-2008

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UPenn Lauder Inst. Management Program includes
 Arabic
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:nelliebk at wharton.upenn.edu
Subject:UPenn Lauder Inst. Management Program includes Arabic


The Joseph H. Lauder Institute
of Management & International Studies
Lauder-Fischer Hall, Second Floor
University of Pennsylvania
256 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
(215) 898-1215
(215) 898-2067 Fax

October 3, 2008

Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to announce that the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of  
Management & International Studies is now accepting applications for  
the Class of 2011. We hope that you will inform qualified candidates  
of this opportunity. We encourage you to read through the information  
below for further details.

Program Highlights:
?         Combines  a Wharton MBA, a Master?s in International  
Studies, and extensive language training from the University of  
Pennsylvania
?         Students specialize in one of eight languages: Arabic,  
Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish in  
which they already have advanced knowledge
?         Students participate in a two-month, in-country immersion  
the summer before their first year
?         The Institute?s environment fosters teamwork and sharing  
diverse cultural experiences
The structure of the program is as follows:

First Year:
?         May in Philadelphia: Global Strategic Management course,  
Area History course, and Language & Cultural Perspectives
?         June-July: In-country summer immersion featuring intensive  
daily language classes, corporate visits, cultural visits, and Global  
Knowledge Lab research projects
?         September-April: Two semesters of MA classes including  
International Political Economy of Business Environments, Comparative  
Capitalist Systems and Language & Cultural Perspectives
?         May: In-country Global Knowledge research projects  
undertaken by teams of students
?         June-August: Summer internships in student language of study  
when possible
Second Year:
?         September-April: Two semesters of elective MBA and MA  
classes, and Language & Cultural Perspectives
?         May: Graduation

The Lauder JD/MA in International Studies
The Lauder Institute also offers a unique JD/MA joint-degree program  
in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  
Students fulfill the JD degree requirements over three years,  
combining their studies with the Lauder MA in International Studies  
during the last two years of law school. They participate in the  
language training, in-country summer immersion, and in-country  
research projects together with the MBA/MA students.

We have attached general program information in hopes that you will  
post it in a public area. If you have any questions, please contact us  
at lauderinfo at wharton.upenn.edu or 215.898.1215.

Sincerely,

Nellie Kanjo
Associate Director of Admissions and Student Affairs
The Lauder Institute
Lauder-Fischer Hall, 2nd Fl.
256 South 37th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
(Phone) 215-898-6560
(Fax) 215-898-2067

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants papers from
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:Afaf Nash <afafnash at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:Wants papers from ANLP-ACIT?2008

MarHaba colleagues,
Since I can't make it to this interesting conference, I was wondering  
if there is anyway that we can get copies of the papers presented in  
this conference.
alf shukir.
afaf, ucr

> Arabic Natural Language Processing Session  (ANLP-ACIT?2008)
> at the International Arab Conference on Information Technology
> (ACIT'2008)
> December 16-18, 2008  Hammamet, Tunisia


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants textbooks focussing on Arabic movies and
 cinema
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:Wants textbooks focussing on Arabic movies and cinema

Dear all,
I was wondering if there are textbooks for students who are learning  
Arabic that focus on/ or deal with Arabic movies and cinema.

I am looking for both intermediate and Advanced levels.


thank you,

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, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Questions on Abuu-, abaa' abii'
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Questions on Abuu-, abaa' abii'

Dear Colleagues,
      (A serious linguistic) question:  Our top general in Iraq was  
recently Gen.  Abizeid.  Why is this his name

instead of Abuu-Zayd, or Abaa-Zayd??  {Perhaps someone can contact him  
directly,and ask}.

       And is it true that Sibawayhi reported that one idividual named  
his three sons:  Abdullah, Abdallah, and

Abdilla?

                                                                                                         Mike 
  Schub
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct  9 20:54:56 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:54:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Article
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Article

                        http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Journal Title:  TEXT & TALK
Volume Number:  28
Issue Number:  5
Issue Date:  2008

Body, Text, and Talk in Maroua Fulbe Qur'anic Schooling
Leslie C. Moore
http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/TEXT.2008.033

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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:54:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:IBM LanguageWare Workbench includes Arabic tools
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:IBM LanguageWare Workbench includes Arabic tools

Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:44:36
From: John Judge [johnjudge at ie.ibm.com]
Subject: LanguageWare Resource Workbench
Dear colleagues,

Te IBM? LanguageWare?  team is pleased to announce the availability of  
an
innovative LanguageWare NLP development environment, the 'IBM  
LanguageWare
Resource Workbench'. This Workbench, which will be delivered with a
Demonstrator that contains a comprehensive set of language and domain
models across English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Arabic, and  
Japanese,
brings a new and exciting way of building high-performance text analysis
applications to the market, using LanguageWare's unique example-based
visualization techniques and patented parsing technology. The  
Demonstrator
gives customers a pre-built set of analyzers - spanning healthcare, law
enforcement, finance, legal, and pharma domains - on which they can  
build
their own LanguageWare UIMA Analyzers. Also provided is a set of
instructional videos to help get users up-and-running.

LanguageWare Resource Workbench runs on Windows? and Linux?. (The core
LanguageWare libraries support many more platforms.)

All this is now available at no charge for research, evaluation and
prototyping purposes, under the terms and conditions of the IBM
International License Agreement for Early Release of Programs, on IBM
alphaWorks at: http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/lrw.
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:48:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Program and reg. for Cambridge Symposium, 18-19 Oct
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Date: 09 Oct 2008
From: "HKB Qutbuddin (Univ. of Cambridge)" <hkbq2 at cam.ac.uk>
Subject:Program and reg. for Cambridge Symposium, 18-19 Oct

Dear All,

The program and registration details for the Cambridge Symposium on
Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies, 18-19 October,
University of Cambridge, UK, can be found at:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/543

We have also included a printable poster, if you would like to  
publicize the
event in your university department.

Many thanks,
Husain Qutbuddin

On behalf of the Steering Committee:
Prof. James Montgomery, Prof. Yasir Suleiman, Dr. Lori Allen, Mr.  
Bruno De
Nicola, Mr. Yoni Mendel, and Mr. Husain Qutbuddin

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Tue Oct 14 22:14:51 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic cinema refs
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Hamdi Yasin <hamdi.yasin at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic cinema refs


Miss Hilmi,
Here is one I am using as extra references in a proposed course  
dealing with Arab media and the construction of identity in which I  
have a chapter about cinema:

Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity by Viola Shafik
ISBN 9789774160653
Here, you can view the table of contents:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/9774244753/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/102-4054816-4656931?ie=UTF8&p=S00B#reader-link


Hamdi Yasin
English & FL Dept., Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL
YASIN at SXU.EDU
630-865-7909

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Abuu, abaa, abii responses
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3) Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response
4) Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response
5) Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

Dear Mike,

Why Abizeid rather that Abuuzayd or Abaazayd?

The general's name is in a colloquial dialect rather than MSA. The
three-case system of Standard Arabic is reduced to a single-case  
system in
the dialects, the most frequently-used vowel replacing the others.  Thus
you hear names like Abi-Abdalla, priests addressed as 'abiinaa rather  
than
'abaanaa, masculine sound plurals in -iin for all syntactic functions,  
etc.

As for the Sibawayhi story, I only hope it is not true.

Best,
Ernest

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Tressy Arts <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

On a related note, I have long wondered why the Islamic primary school  
in Nijmegen was called Abi Bakr. I thought it may have been short for  
madrasat Abi Bakr, but that would not apply to the general.

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:rizwanur rahman <rahman_r at yahoo.com>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

Dear Schub
Such words really has not valid grammatical ground but such names are  
there among Mulsims. Zisha'n is a very common name of Muslims at  
various places. Gen. John Abizaid (born to Labanese father) is a  
retired general of US army and perhaps his name has infleunec of some  
Labanese dilect. Egyptians also do the same when saying 20, 30,  
40 ................... ('aishreen, thalaatheen, arna'aeen in place of  
'aishroon, thalaathoon, arba'oon...... in nominative case).

Rizwanur Rahman, Ph.D.
Centre of Arabic and African Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi - 110067 INDIA

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:sattar izwaini <sattarumist at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

Dear All,

Abizeid is a family name from Lebanon that goes back to many, many  
generations. It is already established beyond grammatical correctness.  
It seems that the spoken variety freezed it in this version.

Regards
Sattar Izwaini

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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Abuu, abaa, abii response

I would not expect to find abaa in names (or at least not very often),  
it being the vocative form: viz. yaa abaa l-qaasim.

On the other hand Abou in nominative and Abi in genitive could both  
work; think of Ali bin Abi Talib. That it might appear in surnames  
such as Abizaid must have its origins in truncations of names of the  
form "ibn abi fulaan".

The modern survival of the genitive Abi in surnames seems to be a  
Lebanese phenomenon. Or at least I am much more aware of it in Lebanon  
than I was while I was in Egypt.

So...

A search of the names of students, faculty, and staff at AUB reveals  
that names with Abou (or Abu) are much more common (n= 289) than those  
with Abi (n= 98 including 4 Abiad, which might be Abi Aad, of which  
there are 2, or Abyad).

A similar search of the website at AUC can only be made of faculty  
members and staff, but not students.

Comparing  faculty and staff members at AUC and AUB with names  
beginning with Abou or Abu and Abi, then, we find

At AUC
faculty and staff members with surnames beginning
with Abi = 0
with Abou = 24
with Abu = 5
with Aba = 1 (Abadir, which may be a false hit even though it is  
spelled ?????? which could mean something like "of the monestary"  
- it is a Christian name)

At AUB
faculty and staff members with surnames beginning
with Abi = 30
with Abou = 58
with Abu = 45
with Aba = 0

The reason why the numbers are smaller at AUC might be explained for a  
variety of reasons, which we do not need to go into here.   
Incidentally, names with Bou seem to be more common here than in Egypt  
too (I have seen for example Abou Jaudeh, Abi Jaudeh, and Bou Jaudeh,  
with various spellings).

This may not mean that surnames with Abi do not exist in Egypt and  
elsewhere. With all of the moving around that has occurred in the Arab  
world since, say, AD 711, people with Abi in their names might be  
expected to be found in many places throughout the Arab Middle East  
(and beyond). But it does seem that they are much more common in  
Lebanon.

I would not expect that General Abizaid would necessarily know why his  
name is Abi Zaid and not Abou Zaid, or even be aware that they are  
effectively the same name.

I do believe, however, that he is of Lebanese descent.

-- 
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: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:52 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Franklin & Marshall College Job
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Uri Horesh <uri.horesh at fandm.edu>
Subject:Franklin & Marshall College Job

Franklin & Marshall College invites applications for its Arabic
Language Fellow position, beginning Fall 2009.  M.A. (or equivalent),
teaching experience, and excellent command of Arabic are required,
including Modern Standard Arabic and at least one spoken dialect. The
yearly teaching load includes two lower-level language courses and a
number of drill sections. The successful candidate will assist the
Director of the Arabic Language Program in a variety of curricular and
co-curricular activities. The Language Fellow receives a competitive
salary and fringe benefits as well as opportunities for training and
professional development. Send a letter of application, curriculum
vitae, graduate school transcripts, and three letters of
recommendation (at least one of which addresses the candidate?s
proficiency in Arabic) to Uri Horesh, Director of the Arabic Language
Program, Franklin & Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA
17604-3003, or via e-mail AS PDF FILES ONLY to uri.horesh at fandm.edu.
Deadline for applications is November 1, 2008.  Initial interviews
will be held at the MESA meeting in Washington, DC, November 22-25,
2008. Please indicate your availability during those days.

Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective liberal arts college
with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism.  EOE

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:15:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP:Special Issue on Arabic NLP
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Prof_Khaled Shaalan <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject:CFP:Special Issue on Arabic NLP


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

               * * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

(Fellow) School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:What happened to On-Line Lane
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Peter Verkinderen <peter.verkinderen at ugent.be>
Subject:What happened to On-Line Lane

Salam,

Does anyone know what happened to the great online version of Lane's
dictionary at tabs-online.com/TABS/Lane? Has it moved to another
location, or has it simply been discontinued?
Does anyone know of an alternative to the rather less practical
studyquran.org version?

Thanks,

Peter Verkinderen

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants 'beginning' refs on Arabic NLP
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Rashid Hasan <richardhasan at gmail.com>
Subject:Wants 'beginning' refs on Arabic NLP

Hello Everyone,

THis is in the context of NLP, so I thought I will splash it out here...

Could anyone enlighten me on NLP as a field of research and how can I  
plunge into it as a beginner.  I have been interested in objective  
linguistic research, and I already have a PhD on variation and changes  
in Modern Standard Arabic.

Any clues and directions would be highly appreciated!

Thanks all!

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on ditransitive verbs in Arabic
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Needs refs on ditransitive verbs in Arabic

A grad student has asked me if there has been work (in Arabic or  
English) on ditransitive verbs in Arabic.  Some of the references she  
has already checked mainly just has lists of them.  If you know of  
more extensive work in this area, send me the refs and I will make  
them available to her and to the list.
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on Information Structure in Arabic
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Dina El Zarka <dina.elzarka at uni-graz.at>
Subject:Needs refs on Information Structure in Arabic

Dear all,
I am currently working on information structure in Egyptian Arabic,  
but I am still looking for more references on information structure in  
Arabic in general and would appreciate your help in gathering them.
I suggest that emails should be sent to my personal address in order  
not to overload the list. I will be happy to provide with the whole  
reference list whoever would like to have it or disseminate it through  
this mailing list.

email: dina.elzarka at uni-graz.at

Thank you!
Kind regards,
Dina El Zarka

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs article on Phonetics & CO2 pollution
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Date: 14 Oct 2008
From:Amin Almuhanna <amin_umist at gawab.com>
Subject:Needs article on Phonetics & CO2 pollution

[moderator's note: I can't find this message if it existed.  If you  
have it or remember it, respond. dil]
Dear all

A while ago I came across an email from Arabic-L regarding an article  
discussing phonetics/phonology and CO2 emission and global pollution.  
I seem to have misplaced/lost it before reading it. Could you be so  
kind as to send me the link to that article

Many thanx

Amin

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:53:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Call:Workshop on Pharyngeals and Pharyngealisation
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Ghada Khattab <Ghada.Khattab at newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject:Workshop on Pharyngeals and Pharyngealisation

International Workshop on Pharyngeals & Pharyngealisation: 26-27  
March, 2009

Co-organised by the Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language  
Science (CRiLLS), Newcastle University and Praxiling Centre National  
de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universit? Montpellier III

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/news/events/item/international-workshop-on-pharyngeals-pharyngealisation


Workshop Aims:

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from  
around the world who have worked on pharyngeal and pharyngealised  
sounds in the different areas mentioned above in order to share  
expertise in different methodologies and theoretical approaches to the  
study of these sounds and attempt to answer various outstanding  
questions regarding:

1. Language universals: why are pharyngeal sounds present in only 1%  
of languages surveyed in the UPSID data base when they are present in  
children's early vocalisations? How have these sounds evolved in  
languages that have lost the pharyngeal distinctions? Is there a  
relationship between a dense consonantal system and the existence of  
pharyngeal/pharyngealised sounds in a language?

2. Production and perception: what are the acoustic, articulatory, and  
perceptual correlates of pharyngeal and pharyngealised sounds? What  
role do visual cues (e.g. lip rounding) play in processing pharyngeal  
articulations?

3. The sociolinguistic indices of pharyngeal/pharyngealised  
articulations: How does pharyngealisation manifest itself in different  
languages/dialects? Is the gender-correlated patterning that has been  
documented in urban areas in the Arab world with respect to de- 
emphasis found in other varieties/languages with pharyngeal/ 
pharyngealised articulations? How are pharyngeal articulations  
affected in language contact situations?

4. Acquisition: at what age are pharyngeal and pharyngealised sounds  
acquired and what are the developmental manifestations across  
languages and/or dialects?


Organization committee:

Jalal Al-Tamimi, CRiLLS, Newcastle University (UK)
Mohamed Embarki, Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS-Montpellier III (France)
Ghada Khattab, CRiLLS, Newcastle University (UK)
Hussain Kriba, CRiLLS, Newcastle University (UK)

Workshop style:
The workshop consists of invited oral presentations and a poster  
session. Click here for a programme: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/assets/documents/Programme.pdf


Abstract submission:
Abstracts on any of the workshop sub-themes are invited for the poster  
session. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages including  
illustrations and references. Please submit your abstract  
electronically to Crills at ncl.ac.uk by November 30, 2008. Abstracts  
will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and applicants will be  
notified of their acceptance by December the 15th, 2008.

Important dates:
Abstract submission for the poster session:     November 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance:                             December 15,  
2008
Workshop Dates:                                                 March  
26-27, 2009


Ghada Khattab and the Organising Committee.

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Ghada Khattab
Speech and Language Sciences Section
King George VI bldg
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
UK
Tel: +44.191.222.6583
Fax: +44.191.222.6518
e-mail: ghada.khattab at ncl.ac.uk
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
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Subject:New Article

Journal Title:  Word Structure
Volume Number:  1
Issue Number:  2
Issue Date:  2008

Pseudometathesis in Three Standard Arabic Broken-Plural Templates
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Abu, Aba, Abi
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From:Moulay Ali Bouanani <bouanani.idrissi at gmail.com>
Subject:Abu, Aba, Abi

the response that addresses the issue of Abuu, abaa, and abii and  
makes sense grammatically is the one offered by Dr. Wilmsen. Only my  
Arabic teachers would use the classical or MSA form of my last name  
when calling upon me in class. Ya Abaa 'Inan, li Abii 'Inan. Most  
Arabic last names beginning with Abou have been "fossilicized" in  
'Ammyia  with the forms that are easily recognized by the people. In  
the Maghreb we have done away with A of Abou and there are hardly any  
names that begin with Abii or Abaa. As for the Lebanese origin of the  
name Abizaid, should we not mention Bilaad ash Sahaam as since most of  
the Arabs who immigrated to N. America were Shaami rather than this or  
that country? Most writings in U.S.about those early immigrants refer  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Needs word for Al-Ighraab
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Marco de Pinto <depintouk at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs word for Al-Ighraab

Dear friends,

I just could not find a suitable translation to Ibn Al-Anbari's work  
entitled "Al-Ighraab fii Jadal", with a special focus on "Ighraab".  
What would be an appropriate English translation?

All the best,

Marco de Pinto
PhD student
University of S?o Paulo - Brazil

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 16 21:54:01 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Phonetics and CO2 article
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Tressy Arts <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Phonetics and CO2 article

I remember it, unfortunately cannot find it. It was rather tongue-in- 
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:53:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Wants info on Teymour story translation
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:oxyi i <oxyii at hotmail.com>
Subject:Wants info on Teymour story translation

  hello
? want to know if the story named  " the daughter of satan :???  
???????"was translated into engl?sh? and where can ? find it  
on web?

writer of ?t: mahmoud Teymour, widely regarded as the father of the  
Arabic short story;
and the second story ? am looking the translat?on of it is:"the  
return of soul - ???? ????? was th?s story translated from  
arabic into engl?sh? where can ? find it on web?

thanks for your help

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Manfred Woidich <m.a.woidich at uva.nl>
Subject:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs

Maybe the following study would help:
Werner Diem, Translokative Verben im Arabischen. Eine diachronische
Studie. 2002. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,
There is a chapter on ditransitive verbs in my Cairo grammar p.255?258
(M. Woidich, Das Kairenisch-Arabische. 2006. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
Verlag).
Best,
Manfred Woidich

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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs

        In one of my early articles in Al-Arabiyya I deal with
ditransitivity in the context of dative-movement.  The ref is:
Karin R. Lentzner (former name): "Semantic Motivation for Arabic
Dative-Movement" in Al-Arabiyya 14(1981):19-23.
Best, Karin

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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:basma <basmabouziri at yahoo.fr>
Subject:Ditransitive Arabic verbs refs

I know about one article:

Lentzner, K. R. (1981). ?Semantic Motivation for Arabic Dative- 
Movement.? Al-?Arabiyya 14: 19-23.

A related link to the journal is http://web.aall.ufl.edu/arabiyya/
Basma

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:refs on Arabic cinema
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:refs on Arabic cinema

Some useful texts on Egyptian film:

Walter Armbrust, Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt, Cambridge  
Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Cambridge: Cambridge  
University Press, 1996).

Walter Armbrust, "The Rise and Fall of Nationalism in the Egyptian  
Cinema," in Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East,  
ed. Fatma M?ge G??ek, SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies  
(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002), 217-250.

Joel Gordon, Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity  
in Nasser's Egypt (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2002).

Viola Shafik. Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation  
(Cairo: American University
in Cairo Press, 2007).

Ben

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 16 21:53:53 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:53:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Maryland Job  Deadline in 2 weeks
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:myen at umd.edu
Subject:U of Maryland Job  Deadline in 2 weeks

Assistant or Associate Professor of Arabic: Deadline in 2 Weeks

The Arabic Program in the School of Languages, Literatures, and  
Cultures (SLLC) at the University of Maryland seeks applicants for a  
tenure-track Assistant Professor or a tenured Associate Professor  
position of Arabic language and literature/culture.  Candidates will  
be evaluated on their record of scholarship and teaching, and their  
interest and expertise in language learning and teaching.  Native or  
near-native command of Modern Standard Arabic, of one major dialect  
variety of Arabic, and of English are highly desirable. The successful  
candidate will join a rapidly expanding Arabic program within the  
School, and will contribute to the School?s Arabic Flagship program.

For best consideration, applicants should specify the rank for which  
they are applying, and submit a letter of application, including a  
short description of their current research plans, a CV, and contact  
information (only) for three referees, by October 31, 2008.  Please  
indicate whether you plan to attend the MESA conference. The position  
will be open until filled. Applications should be submitted to:

Arabic Search Committee, School of Languages, Literatures, and  
Cultures, c/o Weinberg, Rm. 1401 Marie Mount Hall, University of  
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:53:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book
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Date: 16 Oct 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Book

Title: The X?X?yyuC Family of Moroccan Secret Languages
Subtitle: Moroccan Arabic Secret Languages 10
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 27

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

Author: Nasser Berjaoui

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895861307 Pages: 182 Price: Europe EURO 58.00


Abstract:

This book, which is the tenth of a series of works on Moroccan Arabic
secret languages, proposes an extremely detailed account of the "?u?", a
secret language of one region in the south-east of Morocco, the  
Tafilalet.
The language in question contains a rich number of varieties. This work,
which addresses linguistic areas of main concern to graduate and
post-graduate students, linguists, phonologists, morphologists,
sociolinguists, dialectologists, arabicists and sociologists, focuses on
the secretising of a multitude of words, prepositions, verbs, phrases,
clauses and sentences, for instance. For descriptive convenience, this
study proposes eight chapters and a detailed bibliography. Chapter one  
is
concerned with major previous works related to secret languages  
worldwide,
for instance. Chapter two introduces major sociolinguistic notions of  
the
"?u?". Chapter three investigates the encoding of prefixless words.  
Chapter
four analyses the encoding of prefixed items. Chapter five scrutinizes  
the
secretising of prepositions. Chapter six aims at a description of the
encoding of syntactic structures. Chapter seven illustrates the use of  
the
"?u?" in everyday-like conversations. Chapter eight presents a detailed
account of the rules governing all the varieties of the x?x?yyuC family
with reference to all MA words, phrases, clauses and sentences and a
detailed account of the data. In one variety of the x?.x?yyuC "?u?" a
consonant of the word is substituted by the consonant of the operating
variety (x). Then the new word is followed by the disguise element
"x?yyuC", that is another copy of the substituting consonant (x), the
disyllabic "?yyu" and the substituted consonant of the word (C). In this
respect, the word "kla" (eat), for instance, is encoded in one variety  
of
the x?.x?yyuC "?u?" as "sla s?yyuk".

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From andyf at UMICH.EDU  Sun Oct 19 20:58:10 2008
From: andyf at UMICH.EDU (Andrew Freeman)
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:58:10 -0700
Subject: request for suggestions/direction for Masters project
Message-ID: <SUN.19.OCT.2008.135810.0700.>

Hi,

 

                I'm in my 2nd year of the Professional Masters in
Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington here in Seattle.
I'm attending classes at 2/3 time and will probably be working on a Master's
thesis/project/internship by July 2009.

 

                I am floundering on picking a project.  

 

                So, I'm hoping that maybe the community of Arabic Linguists
might be able to give me some direction on what I could work on that would
be most useful and well-received.

 

I, of course, have my own pet projects which include:    

1)      Developing a tool for and then automatically annotating my corpus of
Yemeni TV & radio shows with POS-tags and eventually Syntax tags

a.       Automatically identify/extract the segments that are in
San'aani/Dhamari

b.      Automatically identify/extract the segments that are in the southern
oriented dialects (Adeni & Ta'izzi)

c.       Say something empirically informed about the structure of the
various varieties

d.      Say something smart about the social distribution and meaning or
lack thereof

e.      Use this as a seed for a machine-learning tool to learning to
identify different varieties in other mixed lect corpora

 
i.      Chat rooms

 
ii.      Moroccan TV, radio and recording of "authentic" speech

 
iii.      Code-switched Spanish-English; English-Swahili

 

2)      Annotating some literary texts 

a.       from the Levant

b.      from the Maghreb

c.       See if I can identify features that uniquely identify the
difference between the categories

 
i.      (I suspect that the incidence & complexity of the Idaafa
construction might be one)

d.      Say something empirically informed about the structure of literary
Arabic as a function of the writer's native vernacular variety

 

3)      Developing some automatic annotation tools that can be used to
produce Rich Internet Application documents so that an Intermediate mid to
Advanced Low Standard Arabic learner can use "bio-feedback" loops to learn
and self-test for the following skills.

a.       Identifying the dictionary stem and maybe the root

b.      Recovering the short-vowels

c.       Segmenting the words into the constituent parts

 
i.      Nouns

1.       Optional Conjunction

2.       Optional Preposition

3.       Optional article

4.       Stem

5.       Optional dual or plural

6.       Possessive pronouns

 
ii.      Imperfect Verbs

1.       Optional Conjunction

2.       Optional modal marker

3.       Subject pronoun marker

4.       Stem

5.       Optional feminine, dual or plural marker

6.       Optional object pronouns

 
iii.      Perfect Verbs

1.       Optional Conjunction

2.       Stem

3.       Subject pronoun marker

4.       Optional object pronouns

 
iv.      Prepositions

1.       Optional Conjunction

2.       Stem

3.       Optional object pronouns

d.      Identifying the word gloss 

e.      As this project develops maybe even introduce 

 
i.      some Automatic Speech Recognition for pronunciation training

 
ii.      mood & case vowel recovery

f.         

 

4)      Develop a reasonable search engine for Arabic (and by analogy
Hebrew) that will try to locate all instances of a stem regardless of all of
the attached affixes.

a.       Currently Google returns a different set of documents for kTAb than
it does for AlktAb.

 

5)      Work on ways to improve  performance of Statistically based Machine
Translation between Arabic and various source-target by improving word
alignment with word-segmentation segmentation and vowel recovery.

 

 

                So: Does anybody have any suggestions on what I could do in
about 480 staff-hours? 

 

Here is my motivating force:

I am trying to find a niche where: 

1)      I can be a software developer, without giving up on my experience
and training as a linguist and an Arabist. 

1)      I can access my training & make a contribution as a sociolinguist
without completely giving up on being a SW developer or Arabist

2)      I can continue to make a contribution as an Anglophone with serious
knowledge of Arabic and Arab culture without abandoning any and all roles as
a SW developer or Linguist.

 

                

Best regards,

Andy

 

Andrew Freeman, PhD (Linguistics & Near Eastern Studies)

BS Computer Science

 

PS

 

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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA III Announcement
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From:"Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:CASA III Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD (CASA)


CASA III
2009-2010 Refresher Course for Professors in Humanities and Social  
Sciences

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), offers fellowships for  
professors of the humanities and social sciences whose specialties  
focus on any aspect of the Arab World/Middle East.  The CASA III  
fellowships are funded by the Fulbright Binational Committee in Egypt  
and the US Department of Education and are intended for professors who  
are interested in further advancing their proficiency in Arabic and  
for those who wish to undertake research in Arabic materials under the  
supervision of a specialist.

The program is designed to offer flexibility in terms of the timeframe  
of the individual's program.  CASA provides funding for CASA III  
fellows ranging from two to four months, with each CASA III fellow  
choosing the months in which they wish to participate (these months  
need to be compatible with the AUC academic calendar).  The CASA III  
program can be undertaken in Summer 2009, Fall 2009, or Spring 2010.   
The specific program of study for each applicant will be designed by  
the applicant and the CASA Executive Director.

Applicants must have a level of competence in Arabic of Advanced or  
above according to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (equivalent to at  
least three years of study at the college level).  An oral proficiency  
phone interview in Arabic will be conducted with each applicant to  
determine her/his level of proficiency.  Applicants must be U.S.  
citizens.  Non-U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply to  
participate in this program on a Pay-Your-Own Way basis.

The CASA III fellowship award covers round-trip airfare, tuition, and  
a maintenance allowance of the Egyptian equivalent of approximately  
$1,250 per month, plus an educational supplies allowance. A non- 
refundable program fee is required of each CASA III fellow once an  
award has been accepted.  (See website for details on programs fees)

For a detailed description of the CASA III program, or to download  
application forms, please visit the CASA web site at:  www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa

*Application deadline for 2009-2010 programs is January 9, 2009*


All questions and applications should be addressed to:
Selina Keilani
Center for Arabic Study Abroad
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX  78712-0527
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:46 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dartmouth Job
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Gerard.F.Bohlen at Dartmouth.EDU
Subject:Dartmouth Job

"Arabic Lecturer at Dartmouth College

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures  
invites applications for a full-time Arabic Language Lecturer position  
to begin 7/1/2009. Initial appointment will be for a term of one year  
with the possibility of renewal and a multi-year contract.

Applicants must have native or near-native fluency in modern standard  
Arabic. Minimum qualifications are M.A. in some area of linguistics,  
literature, Middle Eastern Studies, or related field.  Preference will  
be given to applicants with experience teaching at all levels of  
Arabic language instruction.

Send letter of application, vita, evidence of teaching excellence,  
along with three letters of recommendation, to:

Chair of Arabic Lecturer Search Committee
6191 Bartlett Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3530

Applications may be sent via email to:
Gerard.F.Bohlen at Dartmouth.EDU

Search will continue until the position has been filled.

Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:word for Al-Ighraab
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:ferah abdula <ferah_abdula at yahoo.com>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

hi,
the best translation for the word  "Al-Ighraab" is "the strangers" in  
Jadal"argument"or"discussions"

all the best
bushra

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Muhammad Aziz <muhammad.aziz at yale.edu>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

The closest meaning that I thought of would be " The Exaggeration in
Debates".
Muhammad

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Sahar Abdel Gawwad <saharmhy at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

it depends on the books content it might be, strangers or weird people

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:30:02 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Books on Cinema
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:Books on Cinema

Dear all,
I want to thank every one who had responded to me or the list  
regarding my question on books on Cinema.
I did notice, from some responses that my question was not clear,  
sorry about that. I did ask for texts in Arabic (intermediate or  
advanced).

thanks again, and I will look into the books soon,

Sana

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Ditransitive verb refs
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Almog <almogk at gmail.com>
Subject:Ditransitive verb refs


Yishai Peled, Di-Transitivized and Pseudo-Dative Constructions in  
Literary Arabic, Israel Oriental Studies 13 (1993), pp. 199-211.

Best,
Almog Kasher

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Abi forms
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:david.wilmsen at GMAIL.COM
Subject:

I stand corrected. Of course we should regard names fossilized into  
their
Abii forms as Shamy names and not Lebanese as such. They must predate  
the
political entity of Lebanon by several millennia.

-- 
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: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Antoine El-Dahdah's Arabic Grammar Organization
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1) Subject:Antoine El-Dahdah's Arabic Grammar Organization

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:abufares at inco.com.lb
Subject:Antoine El-Dahdah's Arabic Grammar Organization

ARABIC GRAMMAR ORGANIZATION

aims to spread Arabic culture through globalization.

You are invited to visit the website:

www.arabic-grammar.com

and discover how well ordered Arabic grammar really is.

We will be pleased to provide you with further information.

Antoine El-Dahdah

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:29:45 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA I Announcement
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1) Subject:CASA I Announcement

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:"Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:CASA I Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD (CASA)


2009 Summer and 2009-2010 Full Year Programs

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) is pleased to announce that  
it will offer a number of fellowships for advanced Arabic language  
study at the American University in Cairo and Damascus University for  
the 2009-2010 academic year.

Two types of CASA fellowships are available:

1) Summer-Only Fellowships: (Cairo: June 4, 2009-July 26, 2009;  
Damascus: June 14, 2009-August 13, 2009)
These fellowships allow students to participate in an intensive seven- 
week summer language and culture program that includes 10 weekly hours  
of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and 8 hours of Modern Standard Arabic  
plus a weekly tour in Arabic.

2) Full-Year Fellowships: (Cairo: June 4, 2009-May 21, 2010; Damascus:  
June 14, 2009-May 20, 2010)
These fellowships provide intensive language and culture training in  
Egyptian Colloquial or Syrian Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic  
(reading, listening and writing) for three semesters (summer, fall and  
spring) and allow students in the spring semester to take courses in  
Arabic in their respective areas of specialization.

In 2008-2009, CASA offered 6 Summer-Only Fellowships, 25 Full-Year  
fellowships in Cairo, and 13 Full-Year fellowships in Damascus, and we  
expect to offer similar numbers in 2009-2010.

Successful applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents;  
enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program or in between their  
undergraduate and graduate study; committed to a career in Middle  
Eastern Studies; have had a minimum of two to three years of college- 
level Arabic language study, and pass the CASA Selection exam which  
will be administered to all applicants at a school in their locality  
on Friday, February 6, 2009.  Please note that non-U.S. citizens are  
also welcome to apply to CASA, and if accepted, may participate on a  
Pay-Your-Own-Way basis.

Those interested in applying to CASA may also wish to apply for a  
Fulbright fellowship that would provide them with funding to  
participate in CASA. A Fulbright fellowship would enable the student  
to participate in CASA and provide a higher level of funding.  
Fulbright fellowships have October deadlines; thus students must  
submit their Fulbright fellowships well before they submit the CASA  
application.

The CASA fellowship award covers round-trip airfare, tuition and a  
maintenance allowance of 2,100 Egyptian pounds per month.  A non- 
refundable program fee is required of each CASA fellow once an award  
has been accepted. (See website for details on program fees)

For detailed descriptions of the CASA programs, or to download  
application forms, please visit the CASA web site at:  www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa

*Application deadline for 2009-2010 programs is January 9, 2009*

All questions and applications should be addressed to:
Selina Keilani
Center for Arabic Study Abroad
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX  78712-0527
Telephone: 512.471.3513
Email: utcasa at austin.utexas.edu

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:00 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:OPI interview recordings from Duke
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:mbayelo at duke.edu
Subject:OPI interview recordings from Duke

Dear colleagues,

Below is a link to the al-lisaan al-arabi playlist at Duke University.
It is a collection of oral proficiency interviews conducted in Arabic,  
and based
on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Proficiency
Guidelines.

I will be adding new interviews into the site regularly.

Cordially,

Dr. Lo,

http://www.youtube.com/user/DukeAMES

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Oklahoma Job
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1) Subject:U. of Oklahoma Job

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Alhawary, Mohammad T." <malhawary at ou.edu>
Subject:U. of Oklahoma Job

Assistant Professor of Arabic?Tenure Track
The University of Oklahoma announces a tenure-track position in Arabic  
at the level of Assistant Professor beginning August 2009 as part of  
its Language Flagship program. The position is a joint appointment in  
the University?s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and  
Linguistics and the School of International and Area Studies.  
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Arabic language and literature in hand  
at the time of appointment, native or near-native proficiency in  
Arabic (MSA), and a demonstrable commitment to both teaching and  
research.  Research focus on Arabic literature and/or culture is  
preferred. The teaching load is four courses per year and includes  
courses in Arabic language, literature, and culture at the  
undergraduate level.  Salary is competitive.  Send applications to  
include cover letter, CV, three letters of recommendation,  
transcripts, and sample publications to the Chair of Arabic Search  
Committee, School of International and Area Studies, University of  
Oklahoma, 729 Elm Avenue, Hester Hall Room 105, Norman Oklahoma,  
73019.  Review of applications will begin January 15, 2009.  Women and  
minorities are encouraged to apply.  The University of Oklahoma is an  
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:32:54 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:32:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Private Book Collection from Gerlach
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1) Subject:Private Book Collection from Gerlach

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:collections at gerlach-books.de
Subject:Private Book Collection from Gerlach

We are proud to offer around 1300 books collected during the working  
life of the British diplomat and scholar, Paul Bergne, who spent most  
of his professional life working on the Middle East and Central Asia.

This unique collection of books is accompanied by approximately 1300  
learned articles by various authors which add to the depth and range  
of this exceptional collection as a whole. As the collector was a  
polyglot the languages range from Arabic to Chinese. The four  
predominant languages are English, Arabic, Persian, and Russian. There  
are more than 400 books dealing specifically with Central Asia  
published in the former Soviet Union which are unobtainable.

The price for this exceptional Middle East & Central Asia collection  
(approx. 2,600 items altogether) is EURO 125,000.00 (plus European VAT  
- if applicable only). Our offer is valid until 31 December 2008.

Please contact us for a complete list of titles or a price quote.

We look forward to hearing from you.

With best regards from Berlin

Kai Gerlach

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:32:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Nuance Communications Job
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1) Subject:Nuance Communications Job

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:from LINGUIST
Subject:Nuance Communications Job

University or Organization: Nuance Communications
Department: TTS R&D
Job Location: Merelbeke, Belgium
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com

Job Rank: Arabic Language Specialist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing

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

Description:

Nuance Communications, Inc., a world-wide leader in speech technology,  
is
seeking full-time temporary language specialist to develop our newest  
TTS
technology into various languages.

Positions are available for the following languages:

Arabic x 3 positions, starting in October 2008 and January 2009.

Responsibilities:
-  Helping in development of the linguistic processing components
-  Design of text corpora for recording and testing
-  Processing speech data
-  Creating and tuning the TTS voice
-  Testing and productization of the TTS voice

Requirements:
-  Native or near native speaker of one of them above-mentioned  
languages
-  Speak English fluently (working language)
-  Have some experience working in speech/NLP/linguistics either in
academia or in industry
-  Have some computational ability - no programming is required, but you
should be comfortable working with MS Windows
-  If you know some AWK or Perl, it would be an advantage
-  Willing to work in Merelbeke (near Ghent in Belgium) for the  
duration of
the contract


Offer:
-  A 3-9 months contract
-  Training in all aspects of the job, and you will be working with a
talented and committed team
-  An exciting job with an innovative and performing international  
company
-  The opportunity to work in an enthusiastic, supportive team
-  Competitive remuneration package
-  Relocation, travel and accommodation assistance

To apply, please submit your resume or CV and a brief statement  
describing
your experience and abilities to the application email listed below. We
will consider only electronic submissions.

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

The experience speaks for itself (TM)


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: deanna.roe at nuance.com
Contact Information:
        Deanna Roe
        Email: deanna.roe at nuance.com

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:34:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Michigan State Job
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1) Subject:Michigan State Job

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:abdall15 at msu.edu
Subject:Michigan State Job

Position Description to be Posted:

Michigan State University seeks to fill a tenure-track position in  
Arabic language learning and teaching, especially to support and  
provide leadership to its Arabic language program in the Department of  
Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages in the  
College of Arts & Letters beginning August 16, 2009. This position  
will be at the rank of assistant professor (Ph.D. in hand by August  
16, 2009). We seek candidates with primary interests in the teaching  
and learning of Arabic language and culture. It is anticipated that  
the successful candidate will become part of a growing research  
community in second language studies (www.msu.edu/user/sls) and will  
take advantage of research opportunities through the Center for  
Language Education and Research (CLEAR, http://clear.msu.edu) and  
related Centers and initiatives. Central to this position will be  
working on the new Arabic Flagship Program housed at Michigan State  
University.

We welcome applicants whose research would especially benefit from  
collaborative opportunities in an interdisciplinary work environment.

Applicants should submit:

*                updated CV,

*                statement of interest with specific mention of which  
of these research areas is appropriate for the applicant's own  
background and future direction,
*                writing sample,

*                statement of research interests,

*                statement of teaching philosophy,

*                three letters of-reference.

Review of applications will begin on October 31, 2008 and will  
continue until the position is filled.

Please have all materials sent to: David Prestel, Arabic Language  
Teaching Position, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic,  
Asian & African Languages, A-614 Wells Hall, Michigan State  
University, E. Lansing, MI 48824-1027.
MSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution. Persons  
with disabilities may request and receive reasonable accommodation.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Thu Oct 23 22:30:07 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Phonetics and CO2 article
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1) Subject:Phonetics and CO2 article

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Safa A-C Jubran <safajubran at terra.com.br>
Subject:Phonetics and CO2 article

[moderator's note: so it wasn't on Arabic-L after all.  It's pretty  
funny, though.]


http://specgram.com/CLIII.1/03.wire.emissions.html

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:52 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Summer School in Maltese Linguistics
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1) Subject:Summer School in Maltese Linguistics

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:sandra.vella at PT.LU
Subject:Summer School in Maltese Linguistics

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I am writing on behalf of the Foundation for International Studies  
through which the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Malta,  
in collaboration with the Department of Maltese, is hoping to organize  
its first Summer School in Maltese Linguistics to be held in Malta in  
June 2009. The Summer School should provide linguists and students of  
linguistics in particular, but also others working in, through or with  
Maltese such as translators and language teachers, with a unique  
opportunity to become better acquainted with different aspects of the  
linguistics structure of Maltese. The option of sessions in Maltese  
for Foreigners will also be available if enough interest is expressed

We would appreciate your reading the information below and replying to  
the Market Research Questionnaire below. Please email your response  
either to me at  <mailto:alexandra.vella at um.edu.mt> alexandra.vella at um.edu.mt 
  or to  <mailto:programmes at com.mt> programmes at com.mt as soon as  
possible.

Best wishes,

sandra
(Dr. Alexandra Vella)

P.S. Please forward this email to others you think may be interested  
in this.


Summer School in Maltese Linguistics

The Institute of Linguistics, in collaboration with the Department of  
Maltese, Faculty of Arts of the University of Malta and the Foundation  
for International Studies, will be organizing its first Summer School  
in Maltese Linguistics, to be held in Malta from June 15 to 26, 2009.

The Summer School is aimed mainly at those interested in the  
linguistics of Maltese rather than at those interested in learning  
Maltese.  Specialists in different aspects of Maltese linguistics will  
lecture on the following areas within more general topics such as:
*	The Sound System of Maltese (e.g. the phonemic inventory and  
allophonic variation, Maltese phonotactics, syllable structure,  
stress, intonation);
*	The Maltese Lexicon (e.g. the provenance of Maltese words, word- 
formation processes);
*	The Grammar and Semantics of Maltese (tense and aspect,  
topicalisation, subordination, word order, referring expressions);
?        Maltese in Context (e.g. the historical development of  
Maltese, language use in the Maltese context, the Maltese media,  
language planning in the Maltese context, Maltese in the context of  
the EU, computational resources for Maltese, Maltese Sign Language).

No knowledge of Maltese is required although an interest in the  
language is a pre-requisite.  All lectures on the linguistics of  
Maltese will be given in English although the Maltese for adults/ 
foreigners course/s will be held in Maltese.

Questionnaire

Please tick the appropriate boxes, indicating whether you would be  
able to participate in the first Summer School in Maltese Linguistics  
to be held in Malta from June 15 to 26 2009. The Summer School will  
consist of two parts:

1.      the Linguistics of Maltese part of the Summer School; and/ 
or                               ?
2.      the Maltese Language for adults/foreigners part of the Summer  
School at ?
a.      beginner  
level 
;                                                                                               ?
b.      intermediate  
level 
.                                                                                         ?

Please send your reply by email to the addresses listed above.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Rutgers University Job
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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:C.G. H?berl <mustashriq at gmail.com>
Subject:Rutgers University Job

Assistant Professor
MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE

The newly established Department of African, Middle Eastern and South
Asian Languages and Literatures at the School of Arts and Sciences on
the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University, invites applications
for a TENURE-TRACK Assistant Professor in the field of MODERN ARABIC
LITERATURE. Native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic
required. The ideal candidate will have a record of publication on
modern literatures written in Arabic, with secondary fields of
research in other literatures of the modern Middle East, and/or
Medieval/Early Modern Arabic Literatures, and/or Comparative
Literature. The position will involve teaching courses of literature
in translation, as well as advanced language or literature courses
taught in Modern Standard Arabic. PhD in hand preferred, but the
exceptional ABD candidate will be considered. The completed
application, including a c.v., three letters of recommendation, and a
writing sample of 20 pages, should arrive at the office of Dr. Richard
Serrano no later than November 3, 2008. Rutgers is an Affirmative
Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

Please mail your application to:

Professor Richard Serrano,
Chair, Modern Arabic Search Committee,
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,
Department of African, Middle Eastern, and
South Asian Languages and Literature,
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue,
Lucy Stone Hall B301
Piscataway NJ 08854

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA II Announcement
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1) Subject:CASA II Announcement

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Date: 23 Oct 2008
From:Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:CASA II Announcement

CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD (CASA)

CASA II

2009-2010 Program for Post-CASA Language Study and Arabic-Based  
Research in Cairo, Egypt

The CASA II program aims to provide further opportunities for CASA  
fellows, who have completed the CASA Full-Year program within the past  
five years, to continue to enhance their language skills and advance  
their Arabic-based research in Egypt.

The CASA II program offers the opportunity to study for one or two  
semesters (Fall or Spring or both) at the American University in  
Cairo.  The program is meant to be flexible so as to cater to the  
individual linguistic and research needs of each CASA II fellow.   
Individual academic programs for each CASA fellow will be designed in  
close consultation between the fellow and the CASA Executive Director  
in Cairo.

Each CASA II fellow is expected to enroll in three tutorials per  
semester.  These tutorials can be in any of the language skills or in  
the fellow's own field of specialization.  In addition, CASA II  
fellows are welcome to enroll in any of the regular CASA classes that  
are offered during the fall and spring semesters as part of their CASA  
II program.  CASA II fellows are also expected to participate in and  
contribute to the full range of activities of the CASA program.

Requirements:
To qualify for a CASA II fellowship, the successful applicant must  
have completed the CASA Full-Year program within the past five years  
and must be enrolled in a graduate program in Arabic/Middle Eastern  
Studies.  Former CASA fellows who graduated more than five years ago  
may apply for a CASA II fellowship but they must take the CASA  
Entrance Exam to assess their current level of proficiency in Arabic.

Each applicant must complete the CASA II application form and provide  
all supporting documents.


Similar to other CASA programs, applicants to CASA II have the option  
of applying on a Pay-Your-Own-Way basis if they have other sources of  
funding.

Benefits:
A CASA II fellowship award covers tuition for one or two semesters  
based on the fellow's choice, round trip airfare and a monthly stipend  
of 3,000 Egyptian pounds.

For detailed descriptions of the CASA programs, or to download  
application forms, please visit the CASA web site at:  www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa

*Application deadline for 2009-2010 programs is January 9, 2009*

All questions and applications should be addressed to:
Selina Keilani
Center for Arabic Study Abroad
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX  78712-0527
Email: utcasa at austin.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512.471.3513
Fax: 512.471.0739

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wayne State Job
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:Amanda S. Donigian [mailto:ad1129 at wayne.edu]
Subject:Wayne State Job

Arabic Language and Linguistics TT position

The CMLLC Department at Wayne State University invites applications  
for a
tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professorship in Arabic Language and
Linguistics, starting 8/19/09. Duties: teaching undergraduate and  
graduate
courses in Arabic language and linguistics, supervising Master's  
research in
relevant fields, advising Arabic majors, basic course coordination in
Arabic, and taking the lead in language curriculum development for the
Arabic/Near Eastern Studies program. Qualifications: native or near  
native
fluency in Modern Standard Arabic and English, PhD by date of  
appointment,
and active engagement in teaching, research, and publication. Apply  
online
at http://jobs.wayne.edu, position number 035742 with a letter and CV.
References and a writing sample are to be sent to Dr. Margaret Winters  
as
indicated on-line.  For full consideration, materials must be received  
by
November 15, 2008.  Please indicate availability for interview at the  
MESA
meeting.

Wayne State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action  
employer;
we encourage applications from those in underrepresented categories
including minorities and women.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Oct 27 18:56:54 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs technical term for hamza changes
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:Alexander Elinson <alexander.elinson at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs technical term for hamza changes

Dear Colleagues,

I am wondering if there is a technical term for, or way of referring
to when a hamza in a word in fuSHaa changes to a yaa' in colloquial,
for example raa'iH/raayiH or ji'tu/jiit or faa'ida/faayida. Also, the
dropping of a hamza at the ends of words, e.g. alibbaa'/alibbaa,
ghadhaa'/ghadhaa, waraa'/waraa, etc. I am looking at a medieval text
where this occurs, and would like to know how to talk about it. I
would also be grateful to hear of other examples of this in medieval
texts that are mainly literary, but do include these
'colloquializations' peppered throughout.

You can either respond to the list or to me off list at
aelinson at hunter.cuny.edu.

Many thanks,

Alexander Elinson
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Hunter College of the City University of New York

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Oct 27 18:56:59 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Books on Cinema in Arabic
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:nmisleem at duke.edu
Subject:Books on Cinema in Arabic

Dear all,

Regarding books on cinema with texts in Arabic for intermediate and  
advanced
levels, please check the following publishing company's website:
www.alucen.com
Best,

Nasser M. Isleem

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Oct 27 18:56:57 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UC Davis Job
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:Jocelyn Sharlet <jcsharlet at ucdavis.edu>
Subject:UC Davis Job

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, the Humanities, Arts, and Cultural
Studies division of the College of Letters and Science, seeks a scholar
to fill a tenure-track assistant professorial or tenured associate
professorial position in Modern Arabic language, literature and culture.

Candidates must have a PhD or equivalent in Arabic and/or Middle Eastern
Studies, and/or Comparative Literature, native or near-native fluency in
Arabic, and working knowledge of at least one other language and
literature, Candidates must have strong comparative scholarly and
pedagogical interests. The ability to teach upper-division Arabic
language, literature and culture, to train graduate students and to
supervise language instruction in Arabic is essential.

The appointment, beginning July 1, 2009, is likely to be in the
Comparative Literature Program, but a joint appointment is possible,
depending on the qualifications and interests of the candidate.

Send letter of application, current CV, and 3 letters of reference to:
Professor Brenda Deen Schildgen, Committee Chair, Comparative Literature
Program, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis CA
95616-8601. The University of California, Davis, is an affirmative
action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment
to the achievement of diversity among its faculty and staff. Application
deadline: November 1, 2008.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Oct 27 18:56:56 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:response to El-Dahdah post
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:bilal at romandie.com
Subject:response to El-Dahdah post

hello everybody,

I use this book, it is just excellent !

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Mon Oct 27 18:56:51 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:word for Al-Ighraab
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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:baudouin joseph <legrandbosra at yahoo.fr>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

we can say "singular or peculiar",
See you.
JGB.

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Date: 27 Oct 2008
From:Abbas Al-Tonsi <tons at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:word for Al-Ighraab

I think al-lghraab comes from aghraab which means gurabaa' ..ghariib  
is used as opposite of qariib"relative" or aHbaab (lovers) it is  
commonly used in this meaning in folk poetry
alighraab means defamliariztion ,using unfamilar language

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