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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:15 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Full time Instructor of Arabic Job, Michigan State
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1) Subject: Full time Instructor of Arabic Job, Michigan State

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Wafa Hassan <hassanw at msu.edu>
Subject: Full time Instructor of Arabic Job, Michigan State

Position Description for a Full-Time Instructor of Arabic

 The Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages seeks to fill a fixed term, one-year renewable, full-time position in Arabic at the rank of Instructor (MA and ABD) or Assistant Professor (Ph.D.), beginning August 16, 2010.    Masters degree in Arabic, Language Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, or relevant fields required, Ph.D. preferred.  Applicants must be qualified to teach Arabic language first through fourth years and have proficiency-based teaching experience.  Teaching duties include 3 regular courses per semester, involvement in curriculum/program development and materials development. Additionally, the selected candidate will work with other Arabic faculty to secure funding in support of curriculum and materials development and community outreach efforts.  Send letter of application, vita, 3 letters of recommendation, statement of teaching philosophy, a teaching portfolio or other materials demonstrating teaching effectiveness such as video-taped demonstration of class teaching to: Professor David Prestel, Chair, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, A-615 Wells Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1027.  Review of applications will begin July 12, 2010 and continue until the position is filled.  MSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution.  Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.  Persons with disabilities may request and receive reasonable accommodation.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:10 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Handwritten materials
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies <orders at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Handwritten materials


Manuscripts of the Middle East - 5 Volume Set

Until 9th July we offer the publisher's remaining stock of this journal with 30% discount. The title is already out of print and therefore very difficult to obtain:

Manuscripts of the Middle East - 5 Volume Set
A Journal devoted to the Study of Handwritten Materials of the Middle East
ISSN: 0920-0401
Editor: Prof. Jan Just Witkam
Publisher: Ter Lugt Press, Leiden
Publication date: 1986 - 1991
Former List Price: EUR 250 (title is out of print)
Paperback, 5 Vols, 34 x 24 cm each, b/w illustrations, total 702 pages

Table of contents and cover illustrations can be downloaded from here:
http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/books_offers.php

Short title description:
The journal is devoted to the study of manuscript materials of the Middle East. It contains contributions in a wide range of fields: Paleography, codicology, philology, (historical) bibliography, the history of libraries and archives, techniques and policies concerning the conservation and preservation of manuscript materials, the manuscript trade (both in the past and present), the methods and organizational aspects of the cataloguing of collections, the art of the handwritten book (calligraphy, illuminations, illustrations, bindings etc.), the life and work of authors, copyists, painters, patrons, readers, collectors, bibliographers and librarians. Closely related subjects, such as epigraphy, numismatics and the history of the typography of Middle Eastern languages, receive due attention as well.

Our offer which applies to the publisher's remaining stock:
>>> EUR 175 (instead for EUR 250) for the 5 Volume Set
- plus shipping charges: Germany EUR 6 / Europe EUR 17 / Worldwide EUR 40
- plus 7% European VAT (if applicable only)
- prepayment required
- offer is valid until 9th July 2010 only

Looking forward to your orders. This offer is valid until 9th July 2010 only.

Best regards from Berlin

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:18 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic tutors for expatriates needed in gulf
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1) Subject: Arabic tutors for expatriates needed in gulf

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Jessica Force [mailto:JForce at global-lt.com] 
Subject: Arabic tutors for expatriates needed in gulf

We are currently looking for experienced Arabic tutors for expatriates relocating to Manama, Bahrain, Riyadh & Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, as well as Abu Dhabi & Dubai, UAE.  We are having a difficult time making the right contacts.
 
I’m writing to see if, by any chance, you have any contacts in these locations, or could help refer me to resources in these areas.
 
Thank you very much for your time, consideration, and any possible assistance you may be able to offer.
 
Best regards,
 
Jessica


Jessica Force
Language Training Coordinator
G L O B A L · L T
1871 Woodslee Dr
Troy, MI 48083
Phone +001 (248) 786-0999 ext. 32
Fax +001 (248) 786-0985
jforce at Global-LT.com
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Jul  1 14:46:20 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:20 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CFP Special Issue Language Learning & Technology
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject: CFP Special Issue Language Learning & Technology

Call for Papers for Special Issue of Language Learning & Technology 
(http://llt.msu.edu)

Theme: Hegemonies in CALL

Guest Editors: Marie-Noelle Lamy and Mark Pegrum

An assumption that the technologies, pedagogies, educational and sociocultural 
norms associated with CALL are universal has implicitly permeated much of the 
discipline's research over the past two decades. In this issue we will draw 
together critical perspectives that problematize the workings of hegemonies. By 
"hegemony," we understand a situation where one culture or one form of praxis 
predominates and, deliberately or not, prevents the development or continued 
viability of alternative cultures and forms of praxis. We will assemble a 
provocative collection, from a multicultural, multilingual group of 
contributors, contrasting voices from the Anglosphere with voices from less 
well-served territories/cultures to ensure a rich dialogue between and around 
articles. We particularly welcome proposals for articles that include less 
well-researched languages, student cohorts and teaching contexts.

Please consult the LLT Website for general guidelines on submission 
(http://llt.msu.edu/contrib.html) and research 
(http://llt.msu.edu/resguide.html).

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* CALL & technological hegemonies (including hegemonic implications of the 
Internet and Web, commonly used Web 2.0 tools, and mobile technologies)

* CALL & pedagogical hegemonies (including hegemonic implications of social 
constructivism and associated interactive, collaborative, student-centred 
pedagogies; curriculum and course design; and the design of open access 
materials and digital repositories)

* CALL & educational hegemonies (including hegemonic educational and 
institutional policies, expectations and norms)

* CALL & social hegemonies (including the hegemonic implications of norms and 
practices of online interaction)

* CALL & inter/cultural hegemonies (including hegemonic implications of Western 
cultural norms and Western approaches to tolerance, openness, relativism and 
the skills associated with intercultural competence)

* CALL & sociopolitical hegemonies (including the hegemonic implications of 
democratic structures in education, and resistance to hegemonies)

Please send letter of intent and 250-word abstract by October 1, 2010 to 
llted at hawaii.edu


Publication timeline:
* October 1, 2010: Submission deadline for abstracts
* October 15, 2010: Invitation to authors to submit a manuscript
* March 1, 2011: Submission deadline for manuscripts
* June 1, 2012: Publication of special issue

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:36 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Transcription
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Charles Butterworth <cebworth at gvpt.umd.edu>
Subject: Transcription

Dear Colleagues,

Many thanks to Kurt Vikor for this  full statement about
transliteration systems.  It serves as a perfect complement to my own
very brief message about the IJMES and EI systems.  From my own
experience, I find that scholars in France, Germany, and Italy prefer
the old EI system.  For me, however, it is far too cumbersome.

And to this list should be added the system introduced several years
ago by Isma'il Faruqi and now adopted by the International Institute of
Islamic Thought in all of its many publications.

But two of the acronyms used by Mr. Vikor in his message leave me
puzzled.  Would he or someone else please spell them out.

1.  IPA 

2.  ISO 

Many thanks,

Charles Butterworth


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From: "Knut S. Vikør" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject: Transcription




> But two of the acronyms used by Mr. Vikor in his message leave me
> puzzled.  Would he or someone else please spell them out.
> 
> 1.  IPA 

Internationial Phonetic Alphabet
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipa>

> 
> 2.  ISO 

International Standards Organization, strictly speaking its transliteration standard number 233 for Arabic, so "ISO 233". It was a very complex system that used the "single Latin character for single Arabic character" principle, but with many special characters to impose absolute correspondence Arabic/Latin (ta marbuta was written as a t with diaresis / two dots above, sukun had to be indicated as ° , degree sign, between the consonants, the definite article was written: hamza - small superscript dotless i - a - l, and so on.) Basically it required quite some knowledge of grammar to get its i'rab rules quite right. Because it was an international standard, it was actually "imposed" by our national library catalogue body, until someone had to start input Arabic material and it was quietly dropped for LC. Still, some libraries in continental Europe may still use it (I am not sure how well it survived computerization with its idiosyncratic characters). 
<http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Arabic_2.2.pdf>

As for the old EI system, its main problem was the double characters th, sh, kh, dh, dj, gh which all should be written thus, but underlined. Computerwise, Brill had a special font with these as separate characters, but that was of course non-standard, so users were increasingly forced to use regular underline formatting instead, which was not ideal. More logical, probably, and well used in Europe is to use a systematic "single character" system, where th and dh becomes t/d with line under, gh is g with dot above, etc.; these characters all exist as separate characters in contemporary computer systems and it works. Still, it requires more special characters than the IJMES or LC systems.

Knut S.


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:13 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Maadi area tutor
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: jehan elhakim <jehanelhakim at hotmail.com>
Subject: Maadi area tutor

I would like to tell you that I am starting Private Lessons in Maadi - Cairo as of September 2010. I am a former Instructor Of Arabic at AUC. I teach both ECA and MSA to all levels.and here is my CV for your consideration.
 
Best 
Jehanelhakim

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:30 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:New Online Resource for Sirat Bani Hilal
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: New Online Resource for Sirat Bani Hilal

I am very pleased to announce that the first stage of the <Sirat Bani  
Hilal Digital Archive> is now online at:

                 www.siratbanihilal.ucsb.edu

The <Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archive> is an open access resource for  
the preservation and dissemination of audio recordings, written texts,  
photographic images, and other materials related to the ?Epic of the  
Bani Hilal tribe? (Arabic: S?rat Ban? Hil?l).

All of these materials are available for use by researchers and  
teachers without charge (see section on ?Copyrights & Permissions?).   
We ask only that any use of these texts include an attribution to the  
Archive (and, in the case of the English translations and photographs,  
that Dwight F. Reynolds be cited as translator/photographer).

The Archive will eventually house 50 hours of English translations,  
over 150 hours of Arabic transcriptions, and over 250 hours of audio  
recordings from performances of the Sirat Bani Hilal oral epic poem  
recorded in Egypt in 1986-87.  Of particular note should be the  
?Virtual Performance? section of the Archive where viewers can listen  
to an audio-recording while reading a synchronized line-by-line  
translation of the performance in both Arabic and English.  This is  
meant to be used as both a teaching and research tool.

The site also includes a brief historical introduction, photo  
galleries, an extensive bibliography on SBH, a listing of online  
resources, and passages from my original fieldnotes.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:34 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Paper:Aralex
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Sami Boudelaa <Sami.Boudelaa at mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: MSA Lexical Database

 Hi all- The following has just come out. If interested, let me know I can send you a PDF.

Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2010). Aralex: A lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic. Bhavior Research Methods, 42(2), 481-487.

Sami

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Jul  1 14:46:32 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:32 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:"Dialogue for Peace" college tour
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: "Dialogue for Peace" college tour

I would like to share with colleagues a remarkable event that took  
place at UC Santa Barbara in May and that will be available to  
colleges and universities around the country during the 2010-11  
academic year.

Filmmaker Mark Manning directed and co-produced the very powerful  
documentary ?Road to Fallujah? which attempts to show Americans how  
the Iraq war has been experienced by Iraqis.  Manning has now created  
a non-profit organization that is taking an event titled ?Dialogue for  
Peace? to university campuses.  The event combines a showing of his  
film with a direct video-conference dialogue between American and  
Iraqi university students.

Our ?Dialogue for Peace? was scheduled for 90 minutes starting at 11  
pm (due to the 10-hour time difference between Baghdad and Santa  
Barbara).  One hundred or so UCSB students participated on our side  
and well over 150 students of the Islamic University of Bagdad  
participated on the Iraqi side.  Mark Manning?s stroke of genius, in  
my opinion, it to arrange for Iraqi and American young people to speak  
directly to each other, without the intervention of adults.

The dialogue was at times awkward, at times poignant, at times funny,  
but in the end it was a very, very positive experience.  One of our  
students asked how the war had affected their day-to-day lives, and I  
think many in the audience were practically in tears listening to the  
account that a young man student gave about what his family had gone  
through.  Another student asked that one of the female Iraqi students  
tell us about what it was like to be a woman at university in Baghdad,  
and the response was honest, direct, and very sobering.  An ROTC  
student asked how he could become a better officer and not make the  
mistakes his predecessors had, and the Iraqi student who responded  
started out by saying, ?In order to be a better officer, you have to  
start by being a better human being, you have to recognize that  
cultures are different.?  That exchange got a long applause from both  
sides.

Perhaps the most touching moment was when an American student asked  
who would win the World Cup (which brought laughter from the Iraqis),  
and the Iraqi woman at the microphone quipped, without batting an eye,  
?I only know that the best team is the one sitting behind you? (i.e.  
the American students in the audience).

One student wrote me in an email after the event, ?I would like to say  
that the Dialogue for Peace event was one of the best experiences I've  
had in my college career and I'm glad you told us about it. Not much  
can compare to it. Thank you.?

Perhaps the best indication I can give about the success of this event  
is that when our 90 minutes were up, we asked the American students  
whether they wanted to continue or wrap it.  Everyone shouted out,  
?Continue!?  Eventually we finished after three hours of dialogue  
(i.e. at 2 am).  Students then stood around excitedly discussing what  
they had just experienced for another hour and begged me to arrange  
another event in the coming year, which I indeed plan to do.

One of the major goals of all our programming at the UCSB Center for  
Middle East Studies is to promote understanding between Americans and  
Middle Easterners, as well as to increase the level of cultural  
knowledge about the Middle East among our students and the general  
public.  Of the nearly 70 events that we sponsored or co-sponsored  
last year, this was without doubt the most powerful and also the most  
successful in achieving these goals.

We were very privileged to be the first such event.  I urge you to  
take a look at the ?Dialogue for Peace: The Iraq Peace and  
Reconciliation College Tour? website and if you are interested in  
hosting this event on your campus, contact Mark Manning directly.   
There is a short video clip on the site that shows cuts from a public  
event in Santa Barbara (not the UCSB event) that drew 1500 people.

                      http://www.globalaccessmedia.org/


Sincerely,
Dwight Reynolds, Director
Center for Middle East Studies
UC Santa Barbara


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:24 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ACGE job
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Jennifer McCune <jmccune at acge.org>
Subject: ACGE job

Iraqi Arabic Language Project Employment Opportunities ACGE, Inc.
The Academic Consortium for Global Education (ACGE, Inc.) is a non-profit academic consortium that accesses new knowledge and technological innovations created in America's research universities. One of our current projects is to create an on-line, web-based course to teach Iraqi Arabic to military personnel deployed on humanitarian missions such as building schools, healthcare facilities and infrastructure improvements.
The project team is seeking to add a highly motivated and experienced person who brings interests, skills and several of the following characteristics:
• Knows well (native-level) Arabic, preferably Iraqi Arabic • Has extensive experience teaching Arabic • Enjoys working as part of a demanding and collaborative professional team • Has a strong understanding of second language acquisition theory and teaching • Demonstrates enthusiasm and experience in the use of educational technology • Has experience with the convergence of technology and language teaching • Is able to work independently while contributing explicitly to the goals of the project • Understands task-based language learning • Has experience working in on-line environments and using computer technologies to work remotely • Is able to maintain close contact with members of the team, whether it be electronically or otherwise • Can work independently while contributing explicitly to the goals of the project • Has experience assessing student learning outcomes
Other useful skills may include: • Experience assessing student learning outcomes • Background in parametric, non-parametric, and corpus statistics • Knowledge and experience with the concept of gaming and learning • Knowledge of serious game development and/or intelligent learning environment technologies
Interested persons should mail or email their vita/ resume or letter of interest to:
ACGE ISLET	PO Box 2675 Charlottesville, VA 22902 or jmccune at acge.org Enter only the words Iraqi Arabic Position in the subject line of email.


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:26 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Novel in Iraqi Dialect
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2) Subject: Novel in Iraqi Dialect

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Adel AbdelMoneim <adelabdelmoneim at gmail.com>
Subject: Novel in Iraqi Dialect

رواية أرض السواد لعبد الرحمن منيف كلها أيضا حوار بالعامية العراقية ولكن، مثلها في ذلك مثل رواية الرجع البعيد، السرد فيها بالفصحى. إذا كنت تبحث عن رواية مكتوبة كلها (السرد والحوار بالعامية العراقية: هناك بعض روايات الكاتب اليهودي العراقي، الذي توفي في لندن منذ بضع سنوات سمير نقاش. لقد كتب نقاش روايتان أو ثلاث بالفصحى ومثلهم بالعامية العراقية. للأسف لا أتذكر الآن اسماء هذه الروايات.
 
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: vesna & ronen zeidel <vesnaronen at hotmail.com>
Subject: Novel in Iraqi Dialect


Dear all
 
A partial list of novels making ample use of various Iraqi dialects:
 
غايب طعمة فرمان "النخلة والجيران"
 
فواد التكرلي ال رجع البعيد
 
سنان انطون اعجام
 
علي بدر الطريق الئ تل المطران
 
سلام عبود ذبابة القيامة
 
This is only a partial list from my register. On request, i can give more books as well as explaNATIONS ON THE DIALECTS USED
 
Dr Ronen Zeidel 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:22 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ishmi3na sittiin?
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Jan Juchelka <janjj at getmail.no>
Subject: ishmi3na sittiin?

In arabic the number 60 is used as an intensifier (Like: (la mu’axza) ibn sittiin kalb and rouh fi sittiin dahya).
 
Other numbers seem also to be used like ‘ultillak miit marra and ma3a alf(een) salaama. The use of 100/1000 and even 2000 seems for me somehow logic as an exaggeration. But I wonder why exactly 60, and not any other numbers like foe example 50 or 60 (although it seems 70 is used to intensify 60: sittiin fi sab3iin)has become an intensifier.
 
Is there any special meaning behind the number 60 that could explain why it is used this way?
  
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:15 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Transcription
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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject: Transcription

"Knut S. Vikør" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no> wrote:
> More logical, probably, and well used in Europe is to use a systematic "single character" system,
> where th and dh becomes t/d with line under, gh is g with dot above, etc.; these characters all exist
> as separate characters in contemporary computer systems and it works.

That's the DIN 31635 system, which is the one used in the Hans Wehr dictionary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_31635

The main advantage of this system is that, since each Arabic letter is represented by a single distinct character in transcription, there's no ambiguity, as there can be with the IJMES system (where "yushir" can be يشير or يسهر).  For the same reason, if I write a text using DIN transcription, and I need to change it to any other transcription system to meet a publisher's requirements, I can easily do this with a few search-and-replace operations in the word processor, but the reverse (e.g. going from IJMES to DIN) can't be done automatically.

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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:11 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic SIG at ACTFL 2010
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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: "Ayari, Salah" <ayari-s at tamu.edu>
Subject: Arabic SIG at ACTFL 2010

Dear colleagues,

As Chair of the ACTFL Arabic Special Interest Group, and on behalf of the Arabic SIG officers, I greet you and hope you are enjoying your summer break. The early-bird registration deadline for the 2010 ACTFL Annual Convention is fast approaching (July 14, 2010I), and I thought it is a good time to remind you to keep your Arabic SIG membership active (and to become a member if you are not). I also hope you are planning to attend the ACTFL Convention in Boston (Nov. 19-21). This year, the Arabic SIG is planning to elect new officers (Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary) during its business meeting. As a reminder, the current officers are:



  1. Chair: Salah Ayari

  2. Vice Chair: Shereen Tabrizi

  3. Secretary: Hanada Taha-Thomure

Approximately two years after the inception of the group, membership in the ACTFL Arabic SIG has been quite healthy. Additionally, the number of sessions on Arabic language teaching has noticeably increased thanks to the Arabic SIG. To learn about the Arabic sessions scheduled for ACTFL  2010, view the Online Convention Program at http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=5169.

The purpose of this message is to solicit nominations for candidates for the positions of Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary of the Arabic SIG. All terms are for two (2) years from the date of election, and all candidates must have been a member of ACTFL and the SIG for a least one year. Candidates will be selected based on the following considerations:


a. Background and suitability for the position.

b. Previous leadership experiences.

c. Desire to serve.

Here are the duties of each officer:

1. Chair
   b. Duties: Solicit, organize and select presentations for the annual convention, assist the SIG in articulating and
    disseminating its issues and concerns to ACTFL, chair the SIG's annual business meeting and act as the liaison
    between the SIG and ACTFL headquarters. At the conclusion of service, conduct with ACTFL staff a transition
    meeting/call with successor.

2. Vice-Chair
   a. Term: Two-year.
   b. Duties: Assist the Chair, as appropriate. At the conclusion of service, conduct with ACTFL staff a transition
   meeting/call with successor.

3. Secretary
   a. Term: Two-year.
   b. Duties: Prepare the minutes of the SIG Annual Business meeting, receive the session proposals and manage
  the proposal review process for the SIG. At the conclusion of service, conduct with ACTFL staff a transition
  meeting/call with successor.


If you meet these criteria, I encourage you to submit your candidacy by contacting me at
ayari-s at tamu.edu<mailto:ayari-s at tamu.edu>. Please send an updated resume if you decide to run for the elections.

Candidates will be announced to the membership in October, one month prior to the annual meeting, and the elections will be conducted at the SIG annual meeting during ACTFL's Convention.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best wishes,

Salah Ayari, Chair



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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:07 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALTA Language Services Consulting Job (Iraqi Arabic)
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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: Daniel Echevarria <dechevarria at altalang.com>
Subject: ALTA Language Services Consulting Job (Iraqi Arabic)

Dear Sir or Madam,

ALTA Language Services, Inc. (ALTA) is an independent firm recognized as a leader in language services and language testing in the United States. Currently, ALTA is seeking native to nearly native Iraqi-Arabic linguists, preferably with a strong degree of familiarity with the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scales (http://www.govtilr.org/), to be a part of a two-day teleconference panel determining the passing score for government listening comprehension tests. Passing scores will be set according to the ILR scale for the 0+ - 2 levels.  The teleconference is currently slated to take place in late July and will last two full working days.   If you are interested in obtaining more details regarding participation, including compensation for your participation, in the teleconference panel, please contact Jocelyn McFarlane at jmcfarlane at altalang.com with an attachment of your current curriculum vitae. You may also reach her at 404.920.3826.
 
Please feel free to forward this email to any of your colleagues who meet the language qualifications and might be interested in receiving more information regarding the teleconference panel.

Best wishes,

Daniel
 
Daniel Echevarria
Marketing and Web Content
 
ALTA Language Services, Inc.
3355 Lenox Road, Suite 510
Atlanta, GA 30326
 
Main:	404.920.3800
Fax:	404.920.3801
Web:	www.altalang.com
 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:13 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Why 60?
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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: "Habeeb, Anan" <ahabeeb at indiana.edu>
Subject: Why 60?

Many if not all the exaples that you mentioned are taken from the 
Egyptian dialect, while in other dialects people use other intestifiers 
like 20, 800, 70, 400 and others. I still agree that 60 is one of the 
most popular among all intistifiers. The explanation - as I see it - is 
phonetic; since sit-teeeen differs from 80 (tamaneeen), 90 (tis3eeeen) 
and other numbers because of the stress on the "T" and the stress or 
boubling the letter or as we know it in Arabic as al-Shdda is one way 
different Arabic dialects use to intistify or to exaggerate things.
I hope that helps,
Best,
Anan Habeeb
PhD IUB --- Earlham College

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:09 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)
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1) Subject: Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)

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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: "El-Haj, Mahmoud" <melhaj at essex.ac.uk>
Subject: Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)

--------------------------------------------
The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)
--------------------------------------------
 
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of EASC 1.0, 
Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus, free of charge for research purposes.
 
The EASC is an Arabic natural language resources. It contains 153
Arabic articles and 765 human-generated extractive summaries of those
articles. These summaries were generated using Mechanical Turk
(http://www.mturk.com/).
 
You can directly download a copy of the EASC corpus by visiting the 
following link:
(http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm)
 
Among the major features of EASC are:
* Names and extensions are formatted to be compatible with current
   evaluation systems such as ROUGE and AutoSummENG.
* Available in two encoding formats UTF-8 and ISO-8859-6 (Arabic).
 
The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC) uses copyright material.
Users of the corpus are responsible for ensuring that they comply with
the terms of the copyrights that apply to the source material and the
derived works (summaries) and the terms of relevant copyright law.
 
Any other original data that is distributed with this corpus is
made available under the Creative Commons Attributive/Share Alike
licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).  You must
provide details of the source of the material when using it.
 
EASC Corpus Reference Paper:
M. El-Haj, U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries"
in the Language Resources (LRs) and Human Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages
workshop held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
 (LREC 2010), pages 36-39, Valletta, Malta.
(http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/docs/LREC2010-MTurk-Final_v2.pdf)
 
EASC Corpus Bibtex Reference:
@inproceedings{Elhaj2010,
title={{Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries}},
author={El-Haj, M. and Kruschwitz, U. and Fox, C.},
booktitle={Language Resources (LRs) and Human
 Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages workshop
to be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010).},
year={2010},
publisher={LREC 2010},
pages={36--39},
address = {Valletta, Malta}
}
 
 
--
The EASC was created by Mahmoud El-Haj <melhaj at essex.ac.uk>, under
the supervision of Dr Udo Kruschwitz <udo at essex.ac.uk> and Dr Chris Fox
<foxcj at essex.ac.uk>.
 
Corpus URL: (http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm)
 
 
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of
Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.
 
 
Best wishes,
Mahmoud EL-Haj
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/
School Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Essex University, Wivenhoe Park,
Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:01 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:wants exchange with Arab universities
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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:wants exchange with Arab universities

Dear list members,

We are looking at Middlesex University to establish exchange agreements with universities in the Arab World, especially the Middle East, but also in countries in the Gulf or North Africa. We have a programme where students study Business and Arabic and want to send them on their immersion year to study Arabic or Business Arabic in an Arabic university as part of an exchange programme. Any suggestions, announcements of interest or contact information are welcome. 

Thank you.

Mai Zaki   

Lecturer in Arabic and Translation Studies
Middlesex University
UK
m.zaki at mdx.ac.uk 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:08 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NYU Abu Dhabi Job
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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:Muhamed Al Khalil <oryxius at gmail.com>
Subject:NYU Abu Dhabi Job

The Arabic Studies program at New York University Abu Dhabi has an immediate opening for a fixed-term three-year renewable full-time position in Arabic starting fall 2010. The ideal candidate will have a Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Arabic Language/Literature, Language Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, or related fields, with proficiency-based teaching experience in a Western or Western-model University. The teaching load is six courses per academic year teaching elementary, intermediate, or advanced levels, as well as involvement in curriculum/materials development. Compensation and rank are commensurate with qualifications and experience, but compensation is markedly higher than US benchmarks. Quality housing and a competitive benefits package are also provided.

Send your vita with an email expressing your interest and highlighting your academic background and teaching philosophy to professor Muhamed Osman Al Khalil at  muhamed.alkhalil at nyu.edu . Other documents could be requested later.

Sincerely,

Muhamed Osman Al Khalil, Ph.D.
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:06 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SOAS Teacher Training Programmes
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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:SOAS Teacher Training Programmes

 

Open Evening

Launch of Post-Graduate Teacher Training Programmes

SOAS Language Centre, University of London

5pm, Friday 23 July 2010


You are cordially invited to attend the launch of the new post-graduate certificate and diploma programmes in teaching Arabic and Chinese.

The launch wil take place at SOAS Language Centre, 22 Russell Square. The purpose of this event is to publicise our recently developed graduate programmes in teaching Arabic, Chinese and South Asian languages.

SOAS Language Centre is pleased to offer these new programmes, which will contribute to the professionalisation of language teaching in the UK and elsewhere. These programmes have been specifically designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for trained and qualified teachers of Arabic, Chinese and South Asian languages.

SOAS Language Centre is currently receiving aplications for the Post-graduate Diploma and Certificate courses in teaching Arabic and Chinese. At the Open Evening will have the opportunity to find out how the programme is organised and taught.

The Post-graduate diplomas are pathways to the MA courses in language teaching at SOAS. This will be an informal event with food, drink, poster displays and presentations. Past and current students, as well as SOAS staff and tutors, will be on hand to talk to visitors about the programmes.

If you are interested in attending, please contact SOAS Language Centre to confirm your attendance.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:09 +0300
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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:robert ratcliffe <ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Tokyo University Job

Dear Colleagues,

	I wonder if there is anyone on this list who would be interested in  
teaching Arabic in Japan for a while?

	We have a post opening up in April of 2011. It is a visiting post  
(two years with the possibility of one renewal). The teaching load is  
10 to 12 class hours (7-8 class periods) per week plus maybe one hour  
of graduate supervision. Yearly salary approximately 3,000,000 to  
6,000,000 yen (rough $30K - $60K) depending on qualifications.

	We are looking for a native speaker who can teach FuSHa and a dialect  
(it doesn't matter which one), who has at least a masters in a field  
related to Arabic language, literature, or linguistics. We would  
prefer someone younger, 30-45, who is up to the adventure of Japan and  
is flexible enough to work in our curriculum.  Fluency in any language  
other than Arabic is not required, but some knowledge of Japanese or  
willingness to learn would be good. Experience in more than one Arabic- 
speaking country is a plus.

	If you are interested please send me an e-mail with your name and  
basic background information and I can give you more details.

Best Wishes

Robert Ratcliffe
Arabic and Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Tokyo Japan
ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:04 +0300
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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:Conf on Language Documentation and Conservation

2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation: 
Strategies for Moving Forward.
Honolulu, Hawai'i, February 11-13, 2011
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011

The 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation 
(ICLDC) will be held February 11-13, 2011, at the Hawai‘i Imin International 
Conference Center on the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus. Two days of 
optional technical training workshops will precede the conference (Feb 9-10 - 
see details below). An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai'i) 
to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately 
follow the conference (Feb. 14-15).

The 1st ICLDC, with its theme “Supporting Small Languages Together," 
underscored the need for communities, linguists, and other academics to work in 
close collaboration. The theme of the 2nd ICLDC is “Strategies for Moving 
Forward." We aim to build on the strong momentum created at the 1st ICLDC and 
to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich, accessible 
records which can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech 
communities. We hope you will join us.


TOPICS

We welcome abstracts on best practices for language documentation and 
conservation moving forward, which may include:

- Archiving matters
- Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives
- Data management
- Fieldwork methods
- Ethical issues
- Interdisciplinary fieldwork
- Language planning
- Lexicography
- Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
- Orthography design
- Reference grammar design
- Reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization
  efforts
- Teaching/learning small languages
- Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls
- Topics in areal language documentation
- Training in documentation methods – beyond the university

This is not an exhaustive list, and individual proposals on topics outside 
these areas are warmly welcomed.


ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any 
language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region 
discussed. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint 
(co-authored) proposal.

ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY AUGUST 31, 2010, with notification of acceptance by 
September 30, 2010. We ask for ABSTRACTS OF NO MORE THAN 400 WORDS for online 
publication so that conference participants can have a good idea of the content 
of your paper and a 50-WORD SUMMARY for inclusion in the conference program. 
All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts 
on the topic.

See ICLDC conference website for ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM. We will only 
be accepting proposal submissions for papers or posters.

**Note for students**:  Scholarships for up to $1,500 will be awarded to the 
six best student abstracts submitted to help defray travel expenses to come and 
present at the conference.  (Only U.S.-based students are eligible for this 
scholarship due to funding source regulations, and only one scholarship awarded 
per abstract.)  If you wish to be considered for a scholarship, please select 
the "Yes" button on the proposal submission form.

Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the journal 
Language Documentation & Conservation for publication. (Most presentations from 
the 1st ICLDC were recorded and can be heard as podcasts here: 
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5961.)


PRESENTATION FORMATS

- Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of
  question time.
- Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Poster
  presentations will run during the lunch breaks.


PLENARY SPEAKERS

* Keren D. Rice, University of Toronto
* Wayan Arka, Australian National University
* Larry Kimura, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo


INVITED COLLOQUIA

* The Use of Film in Language Documentation (Organizers: Rozenn Milin and
  Melissa Bisagni)
* Grammaticography (Organizer: Sebastian Nordhoff)
* Colloquium on Dictionaries and Endangered Languages: Technology,
  Revitalization, and Collaboration (Organizer: Sarah Ogilvie)


OPTIONAL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
Pre-conference workshops will be an additional $20/workshop.  The number of 
spaces available per workshop will be limited and can be signed up for via the 
conference registration form, available in September.

Wednesday Feb 9th 9:00-12:00
- Flex (Beth Bryson)
- Elan (Andrea Berez)
- Advanced Toolbox (Albert Bickford)

Wednesday Feb 9th 1:00-4:00
- Psycholinguistic techniques for the assessment of language strength
  (Amy Schafer and William O'Grady)
- Flex (repeat offering) (Beth Bryson)
- Video/film in langdoc 1- use of video for langdoc (TBA)

Thursday Feb 10th, 9:00-12:00
- Video/film in langdoc 2 - use of video for langdoc (TBA)
- Elan (repeat offering) (Andrea Berez)
- LEXUS and VICOS - lexicon and conceptual spaces (Jacquelijn Ringersma)

Thursday Feb 10th, 1:00-4:00
- Archiving challenges and metadata (Paul Trilsbeek)
- Language acquisition for revitalization specialists (William O'Grady
  and Virginia Yip)
- Advanced Toolbox (repeat offering) (Albert Bickford)


ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Helen Aristar-Dry (LinguistList, Eastern Michigan University)
Peter Austin (SOAS, London)
Linda Barwick (University of Sydney)
Steven Bird (University of Melbourne)
Phil Cash Cash (University of Arizona)
Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia)
Arienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)
Margaret Florey (Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity)
Carol Genetti (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Spike Gildea (University of Oregon)
Jeff Good (SUNY Buffalo)
Joseph Grimes (SIL International)
Colette Grinevald (University of Lyon)
Nikolaus Himmelmann (Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
  Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Leanne Hinton (University of California, Berkeley)
Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center)
Will McClatchey (University of Hawai'i)
Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Claire Moyse-Faurie (LACITO, CNRS)
Toshihide Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Keren D. Rice (University of Toronto)
Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:09 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Alif Baa Third Edition
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Alif Baa Third Edition


Title: Alif Baa 
Subtitle: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
	   http://www.press.georgetown.edu
	

Book URL: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=9781589016323 


Author: Kristen Brustad
Author: Mahmoud Al-Batal
Author: Abbas Al-Tonsi

Hardback: ISBN:  9781589016446 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 69.95 Comment: Student's Edition
Paperback: ISBN:  9781589017054 Pages: 304 Price: ----   Comment: Teacher's Edition
Paperback: ISBN:  9781589016323 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 59.95 Comment: Student's Edition


Abstract:

The best-selling Alif Baa  is the first volume of the Al-Kitaab Arabic
language program and is now available in a new third edition. In this new
version of the introduction to Arabic letters and sounds, English-speaking
students will find an innovative integration of colloquial and formal
(spoken and written) Arabic. Together, the book and new online component
provide learners with all the material necessary to learn the sounds of
Arabic, write its letters, and begin speaking Arabic, including
interactive, self-correcting exercises to enhance learning. The online
component also gives instructors additional online grading options.

FEATURES
- Four-color design throughout the book features over 100 illustrations and
photographs

- Gives learners and instructors color-coded options for the variety of
language they wish to activate in speaking: Egyptian, Levantine, or formal
Arabic (MSA)

- Introduces over 200 basic vocabulary words in all three forms of spoken
and written Arabic side by side, including expressions for polite social
interaction, and activates them in interactive homework exercises and
classroom groupwork

- Includes video dialogues in Egyptian and Levantine, filmed in Cairo and
Damascus

- Includes video footage of an Arabic calligrapher, capsules on Arabic
culture, and images of street signs from Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon

- Includes new English-Arabic and Arabic-English glossaries, searchable in
the online companion

New 3rd Edition Textbook Includes
- 18 months of access to the companion website alkitaabtextbook.com that
features a fully integrated set of interactive exercises with all the video
and audio materials and additional online course management and grading
options for teachers

- A convenient DVD with the basic audio and video materials (no interactive
exercises) for offline study that will play in any computer's DVD drive or
transfer to an MP3 player or transfer to an MP3 player

Alif Baa provides the essential first 20-25 contact (classroom) hours of
the Al-Kitaab program, accompanied by 40-50 homework hours. Students who
complete Alif Baa should reach a novice-intermediate to novice-high level
of proficiency.

Companion Website Minimum System Requirements:
Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7
CPU: 233MHz Pentium Based
RAM: 128MB
DISPLAY:1024x768, color display
BROWSER: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, or Firefox version 3.0
or higher
CONNECTION SPEED: A high-speed connection with throughput of 256 Kbps or
more is recommended to use audio and video components.
EQUIPMENT: You will need speakers or a headset to listen to audio and video
components.
PLUG-INS: You must have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

Macintosh
OS: Mac OSX
CPU: 233MHz Power Macintosh
RAM: 128MB
DISPLAY:1024x768, color display
BROWSER: Firefox version 3.0 or higher, or Sarari 3.0 or higher
CONNECTION SPEED: A high-speed connection with throughput of 256 Kbps or
more is recommended to use audio and video components.
EQUIPMENT: You will need speakers or a headset to listen to audio and video
components.
PLUG-INS: You must have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. 

View the companion website at www.alkitaabtextbook.com 


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:06 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Various Jobs from Arabic K-12
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From:  reposted from Arabic K-12
Subject: Various Jobs from Arabic K-12


1) JOB POSTING: Program Manager, Arabic Language and Culture Initiative at Qatar Foundation International

The Qatar Foundation International (QFI - www.qfi.org) is a foundation with an interest in bridging cultures through education exchanges between the Middle East and world, seeks an exceptionally qualified, experienced education professional with not-for-profit experience to develop and oversee its Arabic Language and Culture Initiative as Program Manager. 

Position Summary: 

Type: Full-time 
Reports to: Director of Programs 
Start Date: August 1, 2010 
Location: Washington, D.C. / with move to NYC in Summer 2010 
(with significant domestic and international travel) 

Responsibilities:
- Increase the number and quality of Arabic language programs in secondary schools in the United States
- Support the creation of age-appropriate curricula, learning materials, and assessment mechanisms
- Increase the supply of highly-qualified teachers of Arabic
- Use technology to support new curricula, instructional delivery, and teacher collaboration
- Manage a portfolio of Arabic-related grants and projects, including school partnerships and exchanges and curriculum development projects
- Develop partnerships and maintain relationships with schools and academic institutions, professional associations, the private sector, NGOs, and government agencies
- Coordinate networking events related to the teaching of Arabic language and culture
- Contribute to the development of QFI’s overarching education strategy 

Qualifications: 
- Minimum of 6 years of international education program management experience
- Strong knowledge of the Middle East (familiarity with other regions a plus)
- A network of contacts in education
- Ability to work as part of a team, but with minimal oversight
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Arabic language skills preferred
- Master's degree or equivalent 


To Apply: 
Applicants must submit a cover letter, C.V., three references and a writing sample electronically to the Director of Human Resources at HR at QFI.org 
Application Deadline: July 23, 2010 
Due to the volume of applications expected, only final candidates will be notified.

==========================================

2) JOB POSTING: Translator at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates

The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates is looking for a translator in the DC area to fill a full-time position. The candidate must be in fluent in Arabic and English (speaking, reading and typing). If you are interested, please send an email to Layali Eshqaidef at layali715 at gmail.com.

==========================================

3) JOB POSTING: ALTA Language Services Consulting Job (Iraqi Arabic)

ALTA Language Services, Inc. (ALTA) is an independent firm recognized as a leader in language services and language testing in the United States. Currently, ALTA is seeking native to nearly native Iraqi-Arabic linguists, preferably with a strong degree of familiarity with the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scales (http://www.govtilr.org/), to be a part of a two-day teleconference panel determining the passing score for government listening comprehension tests. Passing scores will be set according to the ILR scale for the 0+ - 2 levels. The teleconference is currently slated to take place in late July and will last two full working days. 

If you are interested in obtaining more details regarding participation, including compensation for your participation, in the teleconference panel, please contact Jocelyn McFarlane at jmcfarlane at altalang.com with an attachment of your current curriculum vitae. You may also reach her at 404.920.3826.

You can learn more about the company at their website, www.altalang.com


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:12 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:query abt Tokyo job post
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: Ahmed A Kraima <aak at uwm.edu>
Subject: query abt Tokyo job post

Hi:

Are not the "native speaker" and the age restriction both illegal criteria to include in a job announcement?


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:30 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:More on Tokyo U. Job
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: robert ratcliffe <ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject: More on Tokyo U. Job

Thank you to every one who responded to my posting about the visiting professorship here
at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 

I was delighted to find there was so much interest in Japan and equally delighted to make
the acquaintance of so many interesting colleagues. 

If I have not responded to you yet, I will shortly. There were many questions I hadn't anticipated
and I am preparing a document to answer them all at once.

In the meantime I will continue accepting inquiries until Friday morning local time (say Thursday midnight
Cairo time, Thursday 5 p.m. U.S. east coast). 

Thanks again to all and Best Regards

Robert Ratcliffe

Arabic and Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Tokyo Japan
ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:19 +0300
Subject: Arabi-L:LIT:Moorish folktales in Spanish query
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: Remy Attig <ryattig at gmail.com>
Subject: Moorish folktales in Spanish query


Hello,

I am a Ph.D. student searching for Moorish folktales that were written in Spanish (or Arabic and translated to Spanish).  I'm familiar with Calila e Dimna that was translated from Arabic by Alfonso X of Spain, but I'm not really sure where else to start.  Can anyone point me in the right direction or to someone else who can help?

Thanks,

Remy Attig
University of Ottawa

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:16 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:exchange with Arab Universities response
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: Jamal Al-Shareef <jamal_1972 at hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: exchange with Arab Universities response

dear  dr. Mai. I would like to get more details about the exchange to discuss it with my officials at al azhar university gaza . I am sure your students will enjoy being there regardless of what you see in the media. I am a graduate of leeds university and i enjoy staying in gaza . Also. You can visit the university website www. alazhar.edu,ps.  Looking forward to hearing from you in the nearest future. 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:14 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT&GEN:seeks literary, critical & audio websites
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject: seeks literary, critical & audio websites

Dear Friends,

Ahlan wa-sahlan.  I trust all is well with you.

My colleagues and I seek your advice on 2 related issues:

1. What are the best websites for short Arabic literary and critical writings?  These could include short stories, essays, social and cultural criticism, and maybe some political and economic analysis.  The main thing is that the writings should be high quality, and the level of difficulty should be at least 3 or 3+ on the ILR scale.

2. And what are the best websites for high-level AUDIO pieces?  No, we are NOT looking for straight news reportage, like BBC-Arabic.  Yes, of course, we can always go to Al-Jazeera and listen to the debates, and yes, some of them are good or even outstanding.  We would like, however, to concentrate on Arabic literary and critical topics.

Thanks very much in advance, and all the best to you always.

Cheers,
Abu Sammy

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:21 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:materials for heritage learners query
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: any Fazza <arabiconline at gmail.com>
Subject: materials for heritage learners query

Dear list members

I would like to inquire if there are any instructional materials or published textbooks made specially for Arabic heritage language learners at university levels. I would like also to inquire if there is any Arabic heritage language program at university level.  


Best Regards,

Hany Fazza

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:23 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting 14
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: "14th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Torino 2011)" <afroasia at unito.it>
Subject: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting 14

14TH ITALIAN MEETING OF AFRO-ASIATIC LINGUISTICS
TURIN, JUNE 15-17, 2011

Call for Papers

After the publication of the proceedings of the 13th
Meeting (CAMSEMUD 2007) we have the pleasure to invite you
to contribute to the 14th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic
Linguistics to be held at the University of Turin on June
15th-17th, 2011. As usual, papers on the synchronic,
diachronic or comparative analysis of any language or
group of languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family
(Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic)
will be accepted. Projects, work in progress or final
results of original research are welcome. PhD students and
young researchers are warmly invited to contribute.

Format:        20 min. papers + 10 min. discussion
Languages:        English and French
Panels:        colleagues interested in organizing panels on
specific topics or languages are kindly advised to contact
prospective participants as soon as possible and to inform
us.
Deadlines:
- please answer to this message expressing your interest
in taking part in the Meeting, and proposing a title –
which can also be tentative – by OCTOBER 31, 2010
- in NOVEMBER 2010 a provisional list of participants and
logistic information will be sent to you and published on
a dedicated web-page
- definitive titles and one-page abstracts are expected
within APRIL 30, 2011
- the deadline for the submission of papers to be included
in the proceedings will be discussed during the Meeting
Conference fee: 50,- Euro / students: 30 Euro
Organizers:
Maurizio Bagatin
Alessandro Mengozzi
Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti
Mauro Tosco

We apologize for multiple posting and kindly ask you to
forward this message to all those you think may be
interested.
Requests of information, (tentative) titles and abstracts
should be e-mailed to: afroasia at unito.it.
With our best wishes and looking forward to meeting you in
Turin,
Alessandro Mengozzi
Mauro Tosco


14ème RENCONTRE ITALIENNE DE LINGUISTIQUE AFRO-ASIATIQUE
TURIN, 15-17 JUIN 2011

Appel à communications

A la suite de la 13ème Rencontre (CAMSEMUD 2007), dont les
actes viennent de paraître, nous vous invitons à
participer à la 14ème Rencontre Italienne de Linguistique
Afro-Asiatique, qui se tiendra à l’Université de Turin du
15 au 17 Juin 2011. Comme d’habitude, on  acceptera des
propositions concernant des analyses synchroniques,
diachroniques ou comparatives de langues ou de groupes de
langues de la famille afro-asiatique (berbère,
couchitique, égyptien, omotique, sémitique, tchadique). La
présentation de projets, de travaux en cours et de
résultats de recherches seront bienvenues. Les doctorants
et les jeunes chercheurs sont particulièrement invités à
participer.

Les communications ne devront pas dépasser 20 minutes et
seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussion.
Langues: anglais et français
Ateliers: Ceux qui souhaiteraient organiser des ateliers
sur des langues ou des sujets particuliers sont invités à
contacter les collègues intéressés et à nous prévenir dans
les plus brefs délais.
– Votre réponse (avec un titre qui peut être provisoire)
devra nous parvenir avant le 31 OCTOBRE 2010.
– En NOVEMBRE 2010 nous créerons une page web dédiée à la
rencontre et vous recevrez une liste provisoire des
participants ainsi que les renseignements pratiques.
– Les titres définitifs et les résumés (une page) devront
nous parvenir avant le 30 AVRIL 2011.
– La soumission des articles pour les actes sera discutée
pendant la Rencontre.

Inscription : 50 euros/étudiants : 30 euros
Comité d’organisation :
Maurizio Bagatin
Alessandro Mengozzi
Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti
Mauro Tosco

Veuillez nous excuser pour les diffusions multiples. Nous
vous prions aussi de nous aider à diffuser ce message.
Pour toute information ainsi que la soumission des titres
et des résumés : afroasia at unito.it.
Dans l’attente d’avoir le plaisir de vous rencontrer à Turin,
Bien cordialement.
Alessandro Mengozzi
Mauro Tosco

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Università degli Studi di Torino
Dipartimento di Orientalistica
via Giulia di Barolo 3/A
I-10124 Torino
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:26 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LDC new Morphological Analyzer (SAMA)
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1) Subject: LDC new Morphological Analyzer (SAMA)

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: Linguistic Data Consortium <ldc at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject: LDC new Morphological Analyzer (SAMA)

(1)  The LDC Standard Arabic Morphological Analyzer (SAMA) Version 3.1 was developed by researchers at LDC. SAMA 3.1 is based on, and updates Tim Buckwalter's Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer (BAMA) 2.0 (LDC2004L02). Since this is the first public release of SAMA, it has been numbered continuously to reflect the continuity between this release and previous BAMA releases.  SAMA 3.1 is a software tool for the morphological analysis of Standard Arabic. SAMA 3.1 considers each Arabic word token in all possible 'prefix-stem-suffix' segmentations, and lists all known/possible annotation solutions, with assignment of all diacritic marks, morpheme boundaries (separating clitics and inflectional morphemes from stems), and all Part-of-Speech (POS) labels and glosses for each morpheme segment. The generated output may then be reviewed by users, and the most appropriate annotation selected from among several choices.

The software layer of SAMA 3.1 relies on a data layer that consists primarily of three Arabic-English lexicon files: prefixes (1328 entries), suffixes (945 entries), and stems (79318 entries representing 40654 lemmas). The lexicons are supplemented by three morphological compatibility tables used for controlling prefix-stem combinations (2497 entries), stem-suffix combinations (1632 entries), and prefix-suffix combinations (1180 entries).

The input format, output format, and data layer of SAMA 3.1 were designed to be backward compatible with BAMA. Incremental changes to the data layer in SAMA have resulted in:

increased lexicon coverage in the dictionary files
important changes and additions to the inventory of POS tags
more possible solutions generated for numerous word forms
The software implementation has been updated to allow more input/output options, installation and configuration options, and smoother incorporation in other Perl tools/services. The structure of the dictionary and morphotactic tables has remained the same (the tables provided with SAMA 3.1 differ from the BAMA 2.0 tables only in size and content, not in format). Logical separation between the software layer and data layer allows the new software tools to be used with previous versions of the tables (instructions are provided with software documentation).  The basic logic that implements the segmentation and analysis look-up for Arabic words is essentially unchanged since BAMA 2.0.

The data layer is now accessed through Berkeley DB, with result-caching enabled by default, leading to improved performance. Various utility scripts have also been added to the software package to facilitate more flexible interaction with tools and data.

As a Members-Only release, LDC Standard Arabic Morphological Analyzer (SAMA) Version 3.1 is not available for non-member licensing.

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:28 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:28 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SAIC Job
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1) Subject: SAIC Job

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: "Destefano, Richard M." <RICHARD.M.DESTEFANO at saic.com>
Subject: SAIC Job

I came across your information on American Association of Teachers of Arabic website.  SAIC www.saic.com  is looking for experienced Arabic instructors for a project that will be starting in September.  The project will be a one year course of intensive study for a small group of students.  Upon graduation we are looking to have the students at a 3/3 level.  The course will continue the next year with another small group going through the course.
 
Instructors must have taught at the college level with at least five years of teaching experience.   This position also requires US Citizenship and you must be willing to move the Northern VA area.  If this is something you are interested in please send me your resume so we can discuss this opportunity in more detail. 
If you know of someone that is has these skills and may be interested in an opportunity please forward this e-mail to them.
Thank you for your time.
 
 
Regards,
Rich
 
 
Rich DeStefano| SAIC
Sr. Technical Recruiter | Mission Integration Business Unit
c: 703.975.2945
e: Richard.M.DeStefano at saic.com
w: www.saic.com
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Jul 27 09:24:03 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:03 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books
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1) Subject: Gerlach Books

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Date: 27 Jul 2010
From: Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies <orders at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Books

Antiquarian Books: Palestine & Israel

Until 6th August we offer 96 single copies of antiquarian books on Palestine & Israel with up to 30% discount. For more information please have a look at the title list which you can download from this site:

http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/books_offers.php

Some of them bear light traces of wear (signature, ex libris). The overall condition of the books is mostly very good or at least good.

Our offer:
- purchase of single antiquarian copies (first come, first serve)
- 10% discount for any single book
- 20% discount when ordering 3 or more books
- 30% discount when ordering 10 and more books
- plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery)
- European VAT included
- prepayment required
- this offer is valid until 6th August 2010 only

Looking forward to your orders. This offer is valid until 6th August 2010 only.

Best regards from Berlin

(Ms) Dagmar Konrad

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Jul 27 09:24:05 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:05 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Literary criticism sites
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1) Subject: Literary criticism sites

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Date: 27 Jul 2010
From: Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject: Literary criticism sites

Aby Sammy,

A few years ago, I had a similar hunger for higher quality literary
criticism on the web, and was disappointed by the more popular
selections.  The website has gone through several reincarnations, but
I really liked the quality and quantity found on Doroob,[1] which also
is modern enough to have RSS feeds so you can focus your interest to
some themes you will like.  Unfortunately, you missed the Beirut
39,[2] which was a blog about the award of the same name with Arabic
interviews and English translations about the works of 39 young Arab
authors who represent the "best" of the new generation of Arabic
literature.  Still, it is up for you to see what remains.

I look forward to other suggestions.

Best,
_AJS

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Jul 27 09:24:01 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:01 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Arizona State one semester On-line Job
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1) Subject: Arizona State one semester On-line Job

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Date: 27 Jul 2010
From: "Souad T. Ali" <Souad.Ali at asu.edu>
Subject: Arizona State one semester On-line Job

Urgent: Arabic Literature/Islamic Studies Instructor Needed

For one semester as a Faculty Associate. This is a part time position for fall 2010 only (August 19 - December 10)  to teach two online classes (based on Blackboard) in Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies. Teaching experience at the college level required. Ph.D. in Arabic, Islamic Studies, or Middle East Studies is required. ABD may be considered.  If interested, please send a C.V. and contact Dr. Souad Ali at taj_1234 at msn.com 
urgently.

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Jul 27 09:24:07 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:07 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic for Heritage Speakers
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1) Subject: Arabic for Heritage Speakers

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Date: 27 Jul 2010
From: Taoufiq Ben Amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject: Arabic for Heritage Speakers

Dear Hany Fazza,

Columbia offers an Arabic for Heritage Speakers series of courses.  
Unfortunately, there is no textbook available at the moment, and we  
are working on something that might bear fruit in two or three years.

Best,

Taoufiq Ben Amor

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jul 28 13:44:32 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:32 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic for Heritage Speakers
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1) Subject: Arabic for Heritage Speakers

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Date: 12 Jul 2010
From: <aa579 at georgetown.edu>
Subject: Arabic for Heritage Speakers

SFS Georgetown Qatar has been offering such courses :2 intermediate&Advanced language courses-3 skill based courses(writing,translation,and formal conversation)-3 content based courses .
By the end of this school year 2010-2011 a draft copy of a textbook will be available to test in different institutes   

Abbas Al-Tonsi

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jul 28 13:44:26 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:26 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2nd Edition of Arabic Through Dialogue 2
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1) Subject: 2nd Edition of Arabic Through Dialogue 2

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Date: 12 Jul 2010
From: Hanada Taha-Thomure <hanada at arabexpertise.com>
Subject: 2nd Edition of Arabic Through Dialogue 2

[moderator's note: Arabic-L doesn't forward attachments, but I'm sure Hanada would send it to you if you asked her directly.]

The 2nd Edition of the Arabic Language through Dialogue 2 is out.  Please feel free to check the attached flyer.
 
Warm regards, hanada
 
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jul 28 13:44:29 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:29 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Dialect Recognition
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1) Subject: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Dialect Recognition

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Date: 12 Jul 2010
From: Elabbas Benmamoun <benmamou at ad.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Dialect Recognition

Position open: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Project Title: Multi-dialect speech recognition and machine translation for Qatari broadcast TV

Position open, effective July 24, 2010 until filled.
Institution: Qatar University
Annual Salary: QAR180,000(about US$50,000)+benefits*Minimum 
Degree Requirement: Ph.D.*Starting: Autumn 2010

The goals of this research are to develop tightly integrated algorithms for Arabic-language speech recognition and machine translation, and to test learning algorithms that share data among multiple Arabic dialects. Lexical forms in Gulf Arabic, Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Maghrebi Arabic are often built from similar roots, but with different morpho-phonological realizations and inflections/clitics. Translation and pronunciation lexicons developed for this research will share data across dialects, and will therefore also learn to share data across the many different derived forms of each semantic root. By applying statistical methods to the interface between semantics and morphology, it is our intention that the person taking this position will prove the utility of an entirely new way of thinking about Arabic natural language processing.

This position is based at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Starting salary is QAR180,000 per year, plus accommodation, education allowance for up to three children, Health insurance, annual air travel, and vacation for the post-doc, spouse, and children (according to QU HR policies). The successful candidate will be part of an international research team including Eiman Mustafawi (Qatar), Rehab Duwairi (Qatar), Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, USA), Elabbas Benmamoun (Illinois), and Roxana Girju (Illinois). Candidate should have a Ph.D. and research publications in speech recognition, machine translation, or a related field, and should have programming, mathematical, and linguistic skills sufficient to conduct independent research in these areas.

For full consideration, send CV, one sample publication, two recommendation letters, and cover letter by August 31, 2010 to Dr. Eiman Mustafawi, Qatar University,eimanmust at qu.edu.qa.

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jul 28 13:44:23 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:23 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Literary Criticism sites (correction)
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1) Subject: Literary Criticism sites (correction)

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Date: 12 Jul 2010
From: Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject: Literary Criticism sites (correction)

[moderator's note: I originally posted this message without the footnotes which contained the URLs that made the message make sense.  Here it is again, with the footnotes.]

Abu Sammy,

A few years ago, I had a similar hunger for higher quality literary
criticism on the web, and was disappointed by the more popular
selections.  The website has gone through several reincarnations, but
I really liked the quality and quantity found on Doroob,[1] which also
is modern enough to have RSS feeds so you can focus your interest to
some themes you will like.  Unfortunately, you missed the Beirut
39,[2] which was a blog about the award of the same name with Arabic
interviews and English translations about the works of 39 young Arab
authors who represent the "best" of the new generation of Arabic
literature.  Still, it is up for you to see what remains.

I look forward to other suggestions.

Best,
_AJS


[1] http://www.doroob.com/
[2] http://beirut39.blogspot.com/


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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Jul  1 14:46:15 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:15 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Full time Instructor of Arabic Job, Michigan State
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1) Subject: Full time Instructor of Arabic Job, Michigan State

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Wafa Hassan <hassanw at msu.edu>
Subject: Full time Instructor of Arabic Job, Michigan State

Position Description for a Full-Time Instructor of Arabic

 The Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages seeks to fill a fixed term, one-year renewable, full-time position in Arabic at the rank of Instructor (MA and ABD) or Assistant Professor (Ph.D.), beginning August 16, 2010.    Masters degree in Arabic, Language Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, or relevant fields required, Ph.D. preferred.  Applicants must be qualified to teach Arabic language first through fourth years and have proficiency-based teaching experience.  Teaching duties include 3 regular courses per semester, involvement in curriculum/program development and materials development. Additionally, the selected candidate will work with other Arabic faculty to secure funding in support of curriculum and materials development and community outreach efforts.  Send letter of application, vita, 3 letters of recommendation, statement of teaching philosophy, a teaching portfolio or other materials demonstrating teaching effectiveness such as video-taped demonstration of class teaching to: Professor David Prestel, Chair, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, A-615 Wells Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1027.  Review of applications will begin July 12, 2010 and continue until the position is filled.  MSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution.  Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.  Persons with disabilities may request and receive reasonable accommodation.

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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:10 +0300
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1) Subject: Gerlach Handwritten materials

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies <orders at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Handwritten materials


Manuscripts of the Middle East - 5 Volume Set

Until 9th July we offer the publisher's remaining stock of this journal with 30% discount. The title is already out of print and therefore very difficult to obtain:

Manuscripts of the Middle East - 5 Volume Set
A Journal devoted to the Study of Handwritten Materials of the Middle East
ISSN: 0920-0401
Editor: Prof. Jan Just Witkam
Publisher: Ter Lugt Press, Leiden
Publication date: 1986 - 1991
Former List Price: EUR 250 (title is out of print)
Paperback, 5 Vols, 34 x 24 cm each, b/w illustrations, total 702 pages

Table of contents and cover illustrations can be downloaded from here:
http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/books_offers.php

Short title description:
The journal is devoted to the study of manuscript materials of the Middle East. It contains contributions in a wide range of fields: Paleography, codicology, philology, (historical) bibliography, the history of libraries and archives, techniques and policies concerning the conservation and preservation of manuscript materials, the manuscript trade (both in the past and present), the methods and organizational aspects of the cataloguing of collections, the art of the handwritten book (calligraphy, illuminations, illustrations, bindings etc.), the life and work of authors, copyists, painters, patrons, readers, collectors, bibliographers and librarians. Closely related subjects, such as epigraphy, numismatics and the history of the typography of Middle Eastern languages, receive due attention as well.

Our offer which applies to the publisher's remaining stock:
>>> EUR 175 (instead for EUR 250) for the 5 Volume Set
- plus shipping charges: Germany EUR 6 / Europe EUR 17 / Worldwide EUR 40
- plus 7% European VAT (if applicable only)
- prepayment required
- offer is valid until 9th July 2010 only

Looking forward to your orders. This offer is valid until 9th July 2010 only.

Best regards from Berlin

(Ms) Dagmar Konrad


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:18 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic tutors for expatriates needed in gulf
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1) Subject: Arabic tutors for expatriates needed in gulf

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Jessica Force [mailto:JForce at global-lt.com] 
Subject: Arabic tutors for expatriates needed in gulf

We are currently looking for experienced Arabic tutors for expatriates relocating to Manama, Bahrain, Riyadh & Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, as well as Abu Dhabi & Dubai, UAE.  We are having a difficult time making the right contacts.
 
I?m writing to see if, by any chance, you have any contacts in these locations, or could help refer me to resources in these areas.
 
Thank you very much for your time, consideration, and any possible assistance you may be able to offer.
 
Best regards,
 
Jessica


Jessica Force
Language Training Coordinator
G L O B A L ? L T
1871 Woodslee Dr
Troy, MI 48083
Phone +001 (248) 786-0999 ext. 32
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:20 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CFP Special Issue Language Learning & Technology
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1) Subject: CFP Special Issue Language Learning & Technology

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject: CFP Special Issue Language Learning & Technology

Call for Papers for Special Issue of Language Learning & Technology 
(http://llt.msu.edu)

Theme: Hegemonies in CALL

Guest Editors: Marie-Noelle Lamy and Mark Pegrum

An assumption that the technologies, pedagogies, educational and sociocultural 
norms associated with CALL are universal has implicitly permeated much of the 
discipline's research over the past two decades. In this issue we will draw 
together critical perspectives that problematize the workings of hegemonies. By 
"hegemony," we understand a situation where one culture or one form of praxis 
predominates and, deliberately or not, prevents the development or continued 
viability of alternative cultures and forms of praxis. We will assemble a 
provocative collection, from a multicultural, multilingual group of 
contributors, contrasting voices from the Anglosphere with voices from less 
well-served territories/cultures to ensure a rich dialogue between and around 
articles. We particularly welcome proposals for articles that include less 
well-researched languages, student cohorts and teaching contexts.

Please consult the LLT Website for general guidelines on submission 
(http://llt.msu.edu/contrib.html) and research 
(http://llt.msu.edu/resguide.html).

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* CALL & technological hegemonies (including hegemonic implications of the 
Internet and Web, commonly used Web 2.0 tools, and mobile technologies)

* CALL & pedagogical hegemonies (including hegemonic implications of social 
constructivism and associated interactive, collaborative, student-centred 
pedagogies; curriculum and course design; and the design of open access 
materials and digital repositories)

* CALL & educational hegemonies (including hegemonic educational and 
institutional policies, expectations and norms)

* CALL & social hegemonies (including the hegemonic implications of norms and 
practices of online interaction)

* CALL & inter/cultural hegemonies (including hegemonic implications of Western 
cultural norms and Western approaches to tolerance, openness, relativism and 
the skills associated with intercultural competence)

* CALL & sociopolitical hegemonies (including the hegemonic implications of 
democratic structures in education, and resistance to hegemonies)

Please send letter of intent and 250-word abstract by October 1, 2010 to 
llted at hawaii.edu


Publication timeline:
* October 1, 2010: Submission deadline for abstracts
* October 15, 2010: Invitation to authors to submit a manuscript
* March 1, 2011: Submission deadline for manuscripts
* June 1, 2012: Publication of special issue

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Charles Butterworth <cebworth at gvpt.umd.edu>
Subject: Transcription

Dear Colleagues,

Many thanks to Kurt Vikor for this  full statement about
transliteration systems.  It serves as a perfect complement to my own
very brief message about the IJMES and EI systems.  From my own
experience, I find that scholars in France, Germany, and Italy prefer
the old EI system.  For me, however, it is far too cumbersome.

And to this list should be added the system introduced several years
ago by Isma'il Faruqi and now adopted by the International Institute of
Islamic Thought in all of its many publications.

But two of the acronyms used by Mr. Vikor in his message leave me
puzzled.  Would he or someone else please spell them out.

1.  IPA 

2.  ISO 

Many thanks,

Charles Butterworth


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From: "Knut S. Vik?r" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject: Transcription




> But two of the acronyms used by Mr. Vikor in his message leave me
> puzzled.  Would he or someone else please spell them out.
> 
> 1.  IPA 

Internationial Phonetic Alphabet
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipa>

> 
> 2.  ISO 

International Standards Organization, strictly speaking its transliteration standard number 233 for Arabic, so "ISO 233". It was a very complex system that used the "single Latin character for single Arabic character" principle, but with many special characters to impose absolute correspondence Arabic/Latin (ta marbuta was written as a t with diaresis / two dots above, sukun had to be indicated as ? , degree sign, between the consonants, the definite article was written: hamza - small superscript dotless i - a - l, and so on.) Basically it required quite some knowledge of grammar to get its i'rab rules quite right. Because it was an international standard, it was actually "imposed" by our national library catalogue body, until someone had to start input Arabic material and it was quietly dropped for LC. Still, some libraries in continental Europe may still use it (I am not sure how well it survived computerization with its idiosyncratic characters). 
<http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Arabic_2.2.pdf>

As for the old EI system, its main problem was the double characters th, sh, kh, dh, dj, gh which all should be written thus, but underlined. Computerwise, Brill had a special font with these as separate characters, but that was of course non-standard, so users were increasingly forced to use regular underline formatting instead, which was not ideal. More logical, probably, and well used in Europe is to use a systematic "single character" system, where th and dh becomes t/d with line under, gh is g with dot above, etc.; these characters all exist as separate characters in contemporary computer systems and it works. Still, it requires more special characters than the IJMES or LC systems.

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From: jehan elhakim <jehanelhakim at hotmail.com>
Subject: Maadi area tutor

I would like to tell you that I am starting Private Lessons in Maadi - Cairo as of September 2010. I am a former Instructor Of Arabic at AUC. I teach both ECA and MSA to all levels.and here is my CV for your consideration.
 
Best 
Jehanelhakim

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: New Online Resource for Sirat Bani Hilal

I am very pleased to announce that the first stage of the <Sirat Bani  
Hilal Digital Archive> is now online at:

                 www.siratbanihilal.ucsb.edu

The <Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archive> is an open access resource for  
the preservation and dissemination of audio recordings, written texts,  
photographic images, and other materials related to the ?Epic of the  
Bani Hilal tribe? (Arabic: S?rat Ban? Hil?l).

All of these materials are available for use by researchers and  
teachers without charge (see section on ?Copyrights & Permissions?).   
We ask only that any use of these texts include an attribution to the  
Archive (and, in the case of the English translations and photographs,  
that Dwight F. Reynolds be cited as translator/photographer).

The Archive will eventually house 50 hours of English translations,  
over 150 hours of Arabic transcriptions, and over 250 hours of audio  
recordings from performances of the Sirat Bani Hilal oral epic poem  
recorded in Egypt in 1986-87.  Of particular note should be the  
?Virtual Performance? section of the Archive where viewers can listen  
to an audio-recording while reading a synchronized line-by-line  
translation of the performance in both Arabic and English.  This is  
meant to be used as both a teaching and research tool.

The site also includes a brief historical introduction, photo  
galleries, an extensive bibliography on SBH, a listing of online  
resources, and passages from my original fieldnotes.

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Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Paper:Aralex
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From: Sami Boudelaa <Sami.Boudelaa at mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: MSA Lexical Database

 Hi all- The following has just come out. If interested, let me know I can send you a PDF.

Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2010). Aralex: A lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic. Bhavior Research Methods, 42(2), 481-487.

Sami

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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:32 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:"Dialogue for Peace" college tour
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: "Dialogue for Peace" college tour

I would like to share with colleagues a remarkable event that took  
place at UC Santa Barbara in May and that will be available to  
colleges and universities around the country during the 2010-11  
academic year.

Filmmaker Mark Manning directed and co-produced the very powerful  
documentary ?Road to Fallujah? which attempts to show Americans how  
the Iraq war has been experienced by Iraqis.  Manning has now created  
a non-profit organization that is taking an event titled ?Dialogue for  
Peace? to university campuses.  The event combines a showing of his  
film with a direct video-conference dialogue between American and  
Iraqi university students.

Our ?Dialogue for Peace? was scheduled for 90 minutes starting at 11  
pm (due to the 10-hour time difference between Baghdad and Santa  
Barbara).  One hundred or so UCSB students participated on our side  
and well over 150 students of the Islamic University of Bagdad  
participated on the Iraqi side.  Mark Manning?s stroke of genius, in  
my opinion, it to arrange for Iraqi and American young people to speak  
directly to each other, without the intervention of adults.

The dialogue was at times awkward, at times poignant, at times funny,  
but in the end it was a very, very positive experience.  One of our  
students asked how the war had affected their day-to-day lives, and I  
think many in the audience were practically in tears listening to the  
account that a young man student gave about what his family had gone  
through.  Another student asked that one of the female Iraqi students  
tell us about what it was like to be a woman at university in Baghdad,  
and the response was honest, direct, and very sobering.  An ROTC  
student asked how he could become a better officer and not make the  
mistakes his predecessors had, and the Iraqi student who responded  
started out by saying, ?In order to be a better officer, you have to  
start by being a better human being, you have to recognize that  
cultures are different.?  That exchange got a long applause from both  
sides.

Perhaps the most touching moment was when an American student asked  
who would win the World Cup (which brought laughter from the Iraqis),  
and the Iraqi woman at the microphone quipped, without batting an eye,  
?I only know that the best team is the one sitting behind you? (i.e.  
the American students in the audience).

One student wrote me in an email after the event, ?I would like to say  
that the Dialogue for Peace event was one of the best experiences I've  
had in my college career and I'm glad you told us about it. Not much  
can compare to it. Thank you.?

Perhaps the best indication I can give about the success of this event  
is that when our 90 minutes were up, we asked the American students  
whether they wanted to continue or wrap it.  Everyone shouted out,  
?Continue!?  Eventually we finished after three hours of dialogue  
(i.e. at 2 am).  Students then stood around excitedly discussing what  
they had just experienced for another hour and begged me to arrange  
another event in the coming year, which I indeed plan to do.

One of the major goals of all our programming at the UCSB Center for  
Middle East Studies is to promote understanding between Americans and  
Middle Easterners, as well as to increase the level of cultural  
knowledge about the Middle East among our students and the general  
public.  Of the nearly 70 events that we sponsored or co-sponsored  
last year, this was without doubt the most powerful and also the most  
successful in achieving these goals.

We were very privileged to be the first such event.  I urge you to  
take a look at the ?Dialogue for Peace: The Iraq Peace and  
Reconciliation College Tour? website and if you are interested in  
hosting this event on your campus, contact Mark Manning directly.   
There is a short video clip on the site that shows cuts from a public  
event in Santa Barbara (not the UCSB event) that drew 1500 people.

                      http://www.globalaccessmedia.org/


Sincerely,
Dwight Reynolds, Director
Center for Middle East Studies
UC Santa Barbara


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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Jennifer McCune <jmccune at acge.org>
Subject: ACGE job

Iraqi Arabic Language Project Employment Opportunities ACGE, Inc.
The Academic Consortium for Global Education (ACGE, Inc.) is a non-profit academic consortium that accesses new knowledge and technological innovations created in America's research universities. One of our current projects is to create an on-line, web-based course to teach Iraqi Arabic to military personnel deployed on humanitarian missions such as building schools, healthcare facilities and infrastructure improvements.
The project team is seeking to add a highly motivated and experienced person who brings interests, skills and several of the following characteristics:
? Knows well (native-level) Arabic, preferably Iraqi Arabic ? Has extensive experience teaching Arabic ? Enjoys working as part of a demanding and collaborative professional team ? Has a strong understanding of second language acquisition theory and teaching ? Demonstrates enthusiasm and experience in the use of educational technology ? Has experience with the convergence of technology and language teaching ? Is able to work independently while contributing explicitly to the goals of the project ? Understands task-based language learning ? Has experience working in on-line environments and using computer technologies to work remotely ? Is able to maintain close contact with members of the team, whether it be electronically or otherwise ? Can work independently while contributing explicitly to the goals of the project ? Has experience assessing student learning outcomes
Other useful skills may include: ? Experience assessing student learning outcomes ? Background in parametric, non-parametric, and corpus statistics ? Knowledge and experience with the concept of gaming and learning ? Knowledge of serious game development and/or intelligent learning environment technologies
Interested persons should mail or email their vita/ resume or letter of interest to:
ACGE ISLET	PO Box 2675 Charlottesville, VA 22902 or jmccune at acge.org Enter only the words Iraqi Arabic Position in the subject line of email.


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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:26 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Novel in Iraqi Dialect
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2) Subject: Novel in Iraqi Dialect

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Adel AbdelMoneim <adelabdelmoneim at gmail.com>
Subject: Novel in Iraqi Dialect

????? ??? ?????? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???????? ???????? ????? ????? ?? ??? ??? ????? ????? ??????? ????? ???? ???????. ??? ??? ???? ?? ????? ?????? ???? (????? ??????? ???????? ????????: ???? ??? ?????? ?????? ??????? ???????? ???? ???? ?? ???? ??? ??? ????? ???? ????. ??? ??? ???? ??????? ?? ???? ??????? ?????? ???????? ????????. ????? ?? ????? ???? ????? ??? ????????.
 
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From: vesna & ronen zeidel <vesnaronen at hotmail.com>
Subject: Novel in Iraqi Dialect


Dear all
 
A partial list of novels making ample use of various Iraqi dialects:
 
???? ???? ????? "?????? ????????"
 
???? ??????? ?? ??? ??????
 
???? ????? ?????
 
??? ??? ?????? ??? ?? ???????
 
???? ???? ????? ???????
 
This is only a partial list from my register. On request, i can give more books as well as explaNATIONS ON THE DIALECTS USED
 
Dr Ronen Zeidel 

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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:46:22 +0300
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From: Jan Juchelka <janjj at getmail.no>
Subject: ishmi3na sittiin?

In arabic the number 60 is used as an intensifier (Like: (la mu?axza) ibn sittiin kalb and rouh fi sittiin dahya).
 
Other numbers seem also to be used like ?ultillak miit marra and ma3a alf(een) salaama. The use of 100/1000 and even 2000 seems for me somehow logic as an exaggeration. But I wonder why exactly 60, and not any other numbers like foe example 50 or 60 (although it seems 70 is used to intensify 60: sittiin fi sab3iin)has become an intensifier.
 
Is there any special meaning behind the number 60 that could explain why it is used this way?
  
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:15 +0300
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From: Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject: Transcription

"Knut S. Vik?r" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no> wrote:
> More logical, probably, and well used in Europe is to use a systematic "single character" system,
> where th and dh becomes t/d with line under, gh is g with dot above, etc.; these characters all exist
> as separate characters in contemporary computer systems and it works.

That's the DIN 31635 system, which is the one used in the Hans Wehr dictionary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_31635

The main advantage of this system is that, since each Arabic letter is represented by a single distinct character in transcription, there's no ambiguity, as there can be with the IJMES system (where "yushir" can be ???? or ????).  For the same reason, if I write a text using DIN transcription, and I need to change it to any other transcription system to meet a publisher's requirements, I can easily do this with a few search-and-replace operations in the word processor, but the reverse (e.g. going from IJMES to DIN) can't be done automatically.

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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:11 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic SIG at ACTFL 2010
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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: "Ayari, Salah" <ayari-s at tamu.edu>
Subject: Arabic SIG at ACTFL 2010

Dear colleagues,

As Chair of the ACTFL Arabic Special Interest Group, and on behalf of the Arabic SIG officers, I greet you and hope you are enjoying your summer break. The early-bird registration deadline for the 2010 ACTFL Annual Convention is fast approaching (July 14, 2010I), and I thought it is a good time to remind you to keep your Arabic SIG membership active (and to become a member if you are not). I also hope you are planning to attend the ACTFL Convention in Boston (Nov. 19-21). This year, the Arabic SIG is planning to elect new officers (Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary) during its business meeting. As a reminder, the current officers are:



  1. Chair: Salah Ayari

  2. Vice Chair: Shereen Tabrizi

  3. Secretary: Hanada Taha-Thomure

Approximately two years after the inception of the group, membership in the ACTFL Arabic SIG has been quite healthy. Additionally, the number of sessions on Arabic language teaching has noticeably increased thanks to the Arabic SIG. To learn about the Arabic sessions scheduled for ACTFL  2010, view the Online Convention Program at http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=5169.

The purpose of this message is to solicit nominations for candidates for the positions of Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary of the Arabic SIG. All terms are for two (2) years from the date of election, and all candidates must have been a member of ACTFL and the SIG for a least one year. Candidates will be selected based on the following considerations:


a. Background and suitability for the position.

b. Previous leadership experiences.

c. Desire to serve.

Here are the duties of each officer:

1. Chair
   b. Duties: Solicit, organize and select presentations for the annual convention, assist the SIG in articulating and
    disseminating its issues and concerns to ACTFL, chair the SIG's annual business meeting and act as the liaison
    between the SIG and ACTFL headquarters. At the conclusion of service, conduct with ACTFL staff a transition
    meeting/call with successor.

2. Vice-Chair
   a. Term: Two-year.
   b. Duties: Assist the Chair, as appropriate. At the conclusion of service, conduct with ACTFL staff a transition
   meeting/call with successor.

3. Secretary
   a. Term: Two-year.
   b. Duties: Prepare the minutes of the SIG Annual Business meeting, receive the session proposals and manage
  the proposal review process for the SIG. At the conclusion of service, conduct with ACTFL staff a transition
  meeting/call with successor.


If you meet these criteria, I encourage you to submit your candidacy by contacting me at
ayari-s at tamu.edu<mailto:ayari-s at tamu.edu>. Please send an updated resume if you decide to run for the elections.

Candidates will be announced to the membership in October, one month prior to the annual meeting, and the elections will be conducted at the SIG annual meeting during ACTFL's Convention.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best wishes,

Salah Ayari, Chair



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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:07 +0300
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1) Subject: ALTA Language Services Consulting Job (Iraqi Arabic)

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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: Daniel Echevarria <dechevarria at altalang.com>
Subject: ALTA Language Services Consulting Job (Iraqi Arabic)

Dear Sir or Madam,

ALTA Language Services, Inc. (ALTA) is an independent firm recognized as a leader in language services and language testing in the United States. Currently, ALTA is seeking native to nearly native Iraqi-Arabic linguists, preferably with a strong degree of familiarity with the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scales (http://www.govtilr.org/), to be a part of a two-day teleconference panel determining the passing score for government listening comprehension tests. Passing scores will be set according to the ILR scale for the 0+ - 2 levels.  The teleconference is currently slated to take place in late July and will last two full working days.   If you are interested in obtaining more details regarding participation, including compensation for your participation, in the teleconference panel, please contact Jocelyn McFarlane at jmcfarlane at altalang.com with an attachment of your current curriculum vitae. You may also reach her at 404.920.3826.
 
Please feel free to forward this email to any of your colleagues who meet the language qualifications and might be interested in receiving more information regarding the teleconference panel.

Best wishes,

Daniel
 
Daniel Echevarria
Marketing and Web Content
 
ALTA Language Services, Inc.
3355 Lenox Road, Suite 510
Atlanta, GA 30326
 
Main:	404.920.3800
Fax:	404.920.3801
Web:	www.altalang.com
 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:13 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Why 60?
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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: "Habeeb, Anan" <ahabeeb at indiana.edu>
Subject: Why 60?

Many if not all the exaples that you mentioned are taken from the 
Egyptian dialect, while in other dialects people use other intestifiers 
like 20, 800, 70, 400 and others. I still agree that 60 is one of the 
most popular among all intistifiers. The explanation - as I see it - is 
phonetic; since sit-teeeen differs from 80 (tamaneeen), 90 (tis3eeeen) 
and other numbers because of the stress on the "T" and the stress or 
boubling the letter or as we know it in Arabic as al-Shdda is one way 
different Arabic dialects use to intistify or to exaggerate things.
I hope that helps,
Best,
Anan Habeeb
PhD IUB --- Earlham College

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:46:09 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)
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1) Subject: Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)

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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: "El-Haj, Mahmoud" <melhaj at essex.ac.uk>
Subject: Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)

--------------------------------------------
The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)
--------------------------------------------
 
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of EASC 1.0, 
Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus, free of charge for research purposes.
 
The EASC is an Arabic natural language resources. It contains 153
Arabic articles and 765 human-generated extractive summaries of those
articles. These summaries were generated using Mechanical Turk
(http://www.mturk.com/).
 
You can directly download a copy of the EASC corpus by visiting the 
following link:
(http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm)
 
Among the major features of EASC are:
* Names and extensions are formatted to be compatible with current
   evaluation systems such as ROUGE and AutoSummENG.
* Available in two encoding formats UTF-8 and ISO-8859-6 (Arabic).
 
The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC) uses copyright material.
Users of the corpus are responsible for ensuring that they comply with
the terms of the copyrights that apply to the source material and the
derived works (summaries) and the terms of relevant copyright law.
 
Any other original data that is distributed with this corpus is
made available under the Creative Commons Attributive/Share Alike
licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).  You must
provide details of the source of the material when using it.
 
EASC Corpus Reference Paper:
M. El-Haj, U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries"
in the Language Resources (LRs) and Human Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages
workshop held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
 (LREC 2010), pages 36-39, Valletta, Malta.
(http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/docs/LREC2010-MTurk-Final_v2.pdf)
 
EASC Corpus Bibtex Reference:
@inproceedings{Elhaj2010,
title={{Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries}},
author={El-Haj, M. and Kruschwitz, U. and Fox, C.},
booktitle={Language Resources (LRs) and Human
 Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages workshop
to be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010).},
year={2010},
publisher={LREC 2010},
pages={36--39},
address = {Valletta, Malta}
}
 
 
--
The EASC was created by Mahmoud El-Haj <melhaj at essex.ac.uk>, under
the supervision of Dr Udo Kruschwitz <udo at essex.ac.uk> and Dr Chris Fox
<foxcj at essex.ac.uk>.
 
Corpus URL: (http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm)
 
 
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of
Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.
 
 
Best wishes,
Mahmoud EL-Haj
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/
School Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Essex University, Wivenhoe Park,
Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:01 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:wants exchange with Arab universities
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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:wants exchange with Arab universities

Dear list members,

We are looking at Middlesex University to establish exchange agreements with universities in the Arab World, especially the Middle East, but also in countries in the Gulf or North Africa. We have a programme where students study Business and Arabic and want to send them on their immersion year to study Arabic or Business Arabic in an Arabic university as part of an exchange programme. Any suggestions, announcements of interest or contact information are welcome. 

Thank you.

Mai Zaki   

Lecturer in Arabic and Translation Studies
Middlesex University
UK
m.zaki at mdx.ac.uk 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:08 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NYU Abu Dhabi Job
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1) Subject: NYU Abu Dhabi Job

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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:Muhamed Al Khalil <oryxius at gmail.com>
Subject:NYU Abu Dhabi Job

The Arabic Studies program at New York University Abu Dhabi has an immediate opening for a fixed-term three-year renewable full-time position in Arabic starting fall 2010. The ideal candidate will have a Master?s or Ph.D. degree in Arabic Language/Literature, Language Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, or related fields, with proficiency-based teaching experience in a Western or Western-model University. The teaching load is six courses per academic year teaching elementary, intermediate, or advanced levels, as well as involvement in curriculum/materials development. Compensation and rank are commensurate with qualifications and experience, but compensation is markedly higher than US benchmarks. Quality housing and a competitive benefits package are also provided.

Send your vita with an email expressing your interest and highlighting your academic background and teaching philosophy to professor Muhamed Osman Al Khalil at  muhamed.alkhalil at nyu.edu . Other documents could be requested later.

Sincerely,

Muhamed Osman Al Khalil, Ph.D.
Director of Arabic Studies
New York University Abu Dhabi


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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:06 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SOAS Teacher Training Programmes
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1) Subject: SOAS Teacher Training Programmes

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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:SOAS Teacher Training Programmes

 

Open Evening

Launch of Post-Graduate Teacher Training Programmes

SOAS Language Centre, University of London

5pm, Friday 23 July 2010


You are cordially invited to attend the launch of the new post-graduate certificate and diploma programmes in teaching Arabic and Chinese.

The launch wil take place at SOAS Language Centre, 22 Russell Square. The purpose of this event is to publicise our recently developed graduate programmes in teaching Arabic, Chinese and South Asian languages.

SOAS Language Centre is pleased to offer these new programmes, which will contribute to the professionalisation of language teaching in the UK and elsewhere. These programmes have been specifically designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for trained and qualified teachers of Arabic, Chinese and South Asian languages.

SOAS Language Centre is currently receiving aplications for the Post-graduate Diploma and Certificate courses in teaching Arabic and Chinese. At the Open Evening will have the opportunity to find out how the programme is organised and taught.

The Post-graduate diplomas are pathways to the MA courses in language teaching at SOAS. This will be an informal event with food, drink, poster displays and presentations. Past and current students, as well as SOAS staff and tutors, will be on hand to talk to visitors about the programmes.

If you are interested in attending, please contact SOAS Language Centre to confirm your attendance.

E-mail: languages at soas.ac.uk Telephone: UK: 020 7898 4888




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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:09 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tokyo University Job
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1) Subject: Tokyo University Job

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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:robert ratcliffe <ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:Tokyo University Job

Dear Colleagues,

	I wonder if there is anyone on this list who would be interested in  
teaching Arabic in Japan for a while?

	We have a post opening up in April of 2011. It is a visiting post  
(two years with the possibility of one renewal). The teaching load is  
10 to 12 class hours (7-8 class periods) per week plus maybe one hour  
of graduate supervision. Yearly salary approximately 3,000,000 to  
6,000,000 yen (rough $30K - $60K) depending on qualifications.

	We are looking for a native speaker who can teach FuSHa and a dialect  
(it doesn't matter which one), who has at least a masters in a field  
related to Arabic language, literature, or linguistics. We would  
prefer someone younger, 30-45, who is up to the adventure of Japan and  
is flexible enough to work in our curriculum.  Fluency in any language  
other than Arabic is not required, but some knowledge of Japanese or  
willingness to learn would be good. Experience in more than one Arabic- 
speaking country is a plus.

	If you are interested please send me an e-mail with your name and  
basic background information and I can give you more details.

Best Wishes

Robert Ratcliffe
Arabic and Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Tokyo Japan
ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:04 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Conf on Language Documentation and Conservation
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1) Subject: Conf on Language Documentation and Conservation

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Date: 21 Jul 2010
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:Conf on Language Documentation and Conservation

2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation: 
Strategies for Moving Forward.
Honolulu, Hawai'i, February 11-13, 2011
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011

The 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation 
(ICLDC) will be held February 11-13, 2011, at the Hawai?i Imin International 
Conference Center on the University of Hawai?i at Manoa campus. Two days of 
optional technical training workshops will precede the conference (Feb 9-10 - 
see details below). An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai'i) 
to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately 
follow the conference (Feb. 14-15).

The 1st ICLDC, with its theme ?Supporting Small Languages Together," 
underscored the need for communities, linguists, and other academics to work in 
close collaboration. The theme of the 2nd ICLDC is ?Strategies for Moving 
Forward." We aim to build on the strong momentum created at the 1st ICLDC and 
to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich, accessible 
records which can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech 
communities. We hope you will join us.


TOPICS

We welcome abstracts on best practices for language documentation and 
conservation moving forward, which may include:

- Archiving matters
- Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives
- Data management
- Fieldwork methods
- Ethical issues
- Interdisciplinary fieldwork
- Language planning
- Lexicography
- Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
- Orthography design
- Reference grammar design
- Reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization
  efforts
- Teaching/learning small languages
- Technology in documentation ? methods and pitfalls
- Topics in areal language documentation
- Training in documentation methods ? beyond the university

This is not an exhaustive list, and individual proposals on topics outside 
these areas are warmly welcomed.


ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any 
language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region 
discussed. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint 
(co-authored) proposal.

ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY AUGUST 31, 2010, with notification of acceptance by 
September 30, 2010. We ask for ABSTRACTS OF NO MORE THAN 400 WORDS for online 
publication so that conference participants can have a good idea of the content 
of your paper and a 50-WORD SUMMARY for inclusion in the conference program. 
All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts 
on the topic.

See ICLDC conference website for ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM. We will only 
be accepting proposal submissions for papers or posters.

**Note for students**:  Scholarships for up to $1,500 will be awarded to the 
six best student abstracts submitted to help defray travel expenses to come and 
present at the conference.  (Only U.S.-based students are eligible for this 
scholarship due to funding source regulations, and only one scholarship awarded 
per abstract.)  If you wish to be considered for a scholarship, please select 
the "Yes" button on the proposal submission form.

Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the journal 
Language Documentation & Conservation for publication. (Most presentations from 
the 1st ICLDC were recorded and can be heard as podcasts here: 
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5961.)


PRESENTATION FORMATS

- Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of
  question time.
- Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Poster
  presentations will run during the lunch breaks.


PLENARY SPEAKERS

* Keren D. Rice, University of Toronto
* Wayan Arka, Australian National University
* Larry Kimura, University of Hawai?i at Hilo


INVITED COLLOQUIA

* The Use of Film in Language Documentation (Organizers: Rozenn Milin and
  Melissa Bisagni)
* Grammaticography (Organizer: Sebastian Nordhoff)
* Colloquium on Dictionaries and Endangered Languages: Technology,
  Revitalization, and Collaboration (Organizer: Sarah Ogilvie)


OPTIONAL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
Pre-conference workshops will be an additional $20/workshop.  The number of 
spaces available per workshop will be limited and can be signed up for via the 
conference registration form, available in September.

Wednesday Feb 9th 9:00-12:00
- Flex (Beth Bryson)
- Elan (Andrea Berez)
- Advanced Toolbox (Albert Bickford)

Wednesday Feb 9th 1:00-4:00
- Psycholinguistic techniques for the assessment of language strength
  (Amy Schafer and William O'Grady)
- Flex (repeat offering) (Beth Bryson)
- Video/film in langdoc 1- use of video for langdoc (TBA)

Thursday Feb 10th, 9:00-12:00
- Video/film in langdoc 2 - use of video for langdoc (TBA)
- Elan (repeat offering) (Andrea Berez)
- LEXUS and VICOS - lexicon and conceptual spaces (Jacquelijn Ringersma)

Thursday Feb 10th, 1:00-4:00
- Archiving challenges and metadata (Paul Trilsbeek)
- Language acquisition for revitalization specialists (William O'Grady
  and Virginia Yip)
- Advanced Toolbox (repeat offering) (Albert Bickford)


ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Helen Aristar-Dry (LinguistList, Eastern Michigan University)
Peter Austin (SOAS, London)
Linda Barwick (University of Sydney)
Steven Bird (University of Melbourne)
Phil Cash Cash (University of Arizona)
Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia)
Arienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)
Margaret Florey (Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity)
Carol Genetti (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Spike Gildea (University of Oregon)
Jeff Good (SUNY Buffalo)
Joseph Grimes (SIL International)
Colette Grinevald (University of Lyon)
Nikolaus Himmelmann (Institut f?r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
  Westf?lische Wilhelms-Universit?t M?nster)
Leanne Hinton (University of California, Berkeley)
Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center)
Will McClatchey (University of Hawai'i)
Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Claire Moyse-Faurie (LACITO, CNRS)
Toshihide Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Keren D. Rice (University of Toronto)
Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:09 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Alif Baa Third Edition
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Alif Baa Third Edition


Title: Alif Baa 
Subtitle: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
	   http://www.press.georgetown.edu
	

Book URL: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=9781589016323 


Author: Kristen Brustad
Author: Mahmoud Al-Batal
Author: Abbas Al-Tonsi

Hardback: ISBN:  9781589016446 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 69.95 Comment: Student's Edition
Paperback: ISBN:  9781589017054 Pages: 304 Price: ----   Comment: Teacher's Edition
Paperback: ISBN:  9781589016323 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 59.95 Comment: Student's Edition


Abstract:

The best-selling Alif Baa  is the first volume of the Al-Kitaab Arabic
language program and is now available in a new third edition. In this new
version of the introduction to Arabic letters and sounds, English-speaking
students will find an innovative integration of colloquial and formal
(spoken and written) Arabic. Together, the book and new online component
provide learners with all the material necessary to learn the sounds of
Arabic, write its letters, and begin speaking Arabic, including
interactive, self-correcting exercises to enhance learning. The online
component also gives instructors additional online grading options.

FEATURES
- Four-color design throughout the book features over 100 illustrations and
photographs

- Gives learners and instructors color-coded options for the variety of
language they wish to activate in speaking: Egyptian, Levantine, or formal
Arabic (MSA)

- Introduces over 200 basic vocabulary words in all three forms of spoken
and written Arabic side by side, including expressions for polite social
interaction, and activates them in interactive homework exercises and
classroom groupwork

- Includes video dialogues in Egyptian and Levantine, filmed in Cairo and
Damascus

- Includes video footage of an Arabic calligrapher, capsules on Arabic
culture, and images of street signs from Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon

- Includes new English-Arabic and Arabic-English glossaries, searchable in
the online companion

New 3rd Edition Textbook Includes
- 18 months of access to the companion website alkitaabtextbook.com that
features a fully integrated set of interactive exercises with all the video
and audio materials and additional online course management and grading
options for teachers

- A convenient DVD with the basic audio and video materials (no interactive
exercises) for offline study that will play in any computer's DVD drive or
transfer to an MP3 player or transfer to an MP3 player

Alif Baa provides the essential first 20-25 contact (classroom) hours of
the Al-Kitaab program, accompanied by 40-50 homework hours. Students who
complete Alif Baa should reach a novice-intermediate to novice-high level
of proficiency.

Companion Website Minimum System Requirements:
Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7
CPU: 233MHz Pentium Based
RAM: 128MB
DISPLAY:1024x768, color display
BROWSER: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, or Firefox version 3.0
or higher
CONNECTION SPEED: A high-speed connection with throughput of 256 Kbps or
more is recommended to use audio and video components.
EQUIPMENT: You will need speakers or a headset to listen to audio and video
components.
PLUG-INS: You must have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

Macintosh
OS: Mac OSX
CPU: 233MHz Power Macintosh
RAM: 128MB
DISPLAY:1024x768, color display
BROWSER: Firefox version 3.0 or higher, or Sarari 3.0 or higher
CONNECTION SPEED: A high-speed connection with throughput of 256 Kbps or
more is recommended to use audio and video components.
EQUIPMENT: You will need speakers or a headset to listen to audio and video
components.
PLUG-INS: You must have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. 

View the companion website at www.alkitaabtextbook.com 


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:06 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Various Jobs from Arabic K-12
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1) Subject: Various Jobs from Arabic K-12

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From:  reposted from Arabic K-12
Subject: Various Jobs from Arabic K-12


1) JOB POSTING: Program Manager, Arabic Language and Culture Initiative at Qatar Foundation International

The Qatar Foundation International (QFI - www.qfi.org) is a foundation with an interest in bridging cultures through education exchanges between the Middle East and world, seeks an exceptionally qualified, experienced education professional with not-for-profit experience to develop and oversee its Arabic Language and Culture Initiative as Program Manager. 

Position Summary: 

Type: Full-time 
Reports to: Director of Programs 
Start Date: August 1, 2010 
Location: Washington, D.C. / with move to NYC in Summer 2010 
(with significant domestic and international travel) 

Responsibilities:
- Increase the number and quality of Arabic language programs in secondary schools in the United States
- Support the creation of age-appropriate curricula, learning materials, and assessment mechanisms
- Increase the supply of highly-qualified teachers of Arabic
- Use technology to support new curricula, instructional delivery, and teacher collaboration
- Manage a portfolio of Arabic-related grants and projects, including school partnerships and exchanges and curriculum development projects
- Develop partnerships and maintain relationships with schools and academic institutions, professional associations, the private sector, NGOs, and government agencies
- Coordinate networking events related to the teaching of Arabic language and culture
- Contribute to the development of QFI?s overarching education strategy 

Qualifications: 
- Minimum of 6 years of international education program management experience
- Strong knowledge of the Middle East (familiarity with other regions a plus)
- A network of contacts in education
- Ability to work as part of a team, but with minimal oversight
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Arabic language skills preferred
- Master's degree or equivalent 


To Apply: 
Applicants must submit a cover letter, C.V., three references and a writing sample electronically to the Director of Human Resources at HR at QFI.org 
Application Deadline: July 23, 2010 
Due to the volume of applications expected, only final candidates will be notified.

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2) JOB POSTING: Translator at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates

The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates is looking for a translator in the DC area to fill a full-time position. The candidate must be in fluent in Arabic and English (speaking, reading and typing). If you are interested, please send an email to Layali Eshqaidef at layali715 at gmail.com.

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3) JOB POSTING: ALTA Language Services Consulting Job (Iraqi Arabic)

ALTA Language Services, Inc. (ALTA) is an independent firm recognized as a leader in language services and language testing in the United States. Currently, ALTA is seeking native to nearly native Iraqi-Arabic linguists, preferably with a strong degree of familiarity with the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scales (http://www.govtilr.org/), to be a part of a two-day teleconference panel determining the passing score for government listening comprehension tests. Passing scores will be set according to the ILR scale for the 0+ - 2 levels. The teleconference is currently slated to take place in late July and will last two full working days. 

If you are interested in obtaining more details regarding participation, including compensation for your participation, in the teleconference panel, please contact Jocelyn McFarlane at jmcfarlane at altalang.com with an attachment of your current curriculum vitae. You may also reach her at 404.920.3826.

You can learn more about the company at their website, www.altalang.com


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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:12 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:12 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:query abt Tokyo job post
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1) Subject: query abt Tokyo job post

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: Ahmed A Kraima <aak at uwm.edu>
Subject: query abt Tokyo job post

Hi:

Are not the "native speaker" and the age restriction both illegal criteria to include in a job announcement?


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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:30 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:30 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:More on Tokyo U. Job
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1) Subject: More on Tokyo U. Job

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: robert ratcliffe <ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject: More on Tokyo U. Job

Thank you to every one who responded to my posting about the visiting professorship here
at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 

I was delighted to find there was so much interest in Japan and equally delighted to make
the acquaintance of so many interesting colleagues. 

If I have not responded to you yet, I will shortly. There were many questions I hadn't anticipated
and I am preparing a document to answer them all at once.

In the meantime I will continue accepting inquiries until Friday morning local time (say Thursday midnight
Cairo time, Thursday 5 p.m. U.S. east coast). 

Thanks again to all and Best Regards

Robert Ratcliffe

Arabic and Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Tokyo Japan
ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:19 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:19 +0300
Subject: Arabi-L:LIT:Moorish folktales in Spanish query
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1) Subject: Moorish folktales in Spanish query

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: Remy Attig <ryattig at gmail.com>
Subject: Moorish folktales in Spanish query


Hello,

I am a Ph.D. student searching for Moorish folktales that were written in Spanish (or Arabic and translated to Spanish).  I'm familiar with Calila e Dimna that was translated from Arabic by Alfonso X of Spain, but I'm not really sure where else to start.  Can anyone point me in the right direction or to someone else who can help?

Thanks,

Remy Attig
University of Ottawa

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:16 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:16 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:exchange with Arab Universities response
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1) Subject: exchange with Arab Universities response

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: Jamal Al-Shareef <jamal_1972 at hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: exchange with Arab Universities response

dear  dr. Mai. I would like to get more details about the exchange to discuss it with my officials at al azhar university gaza . I am sure your students will enjoy being there regardless of what you see in the media. I am a graduate of leeds university and i enjoy staying in gaza . Also. You can visit the university website www. alazhar.edu,ps.  Looking forward to hearing from you in the nearest future. 

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:14 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:14 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT&GEN:seeks literary, critical & audio websites
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1) Subject: seeks literary, critical & audio websites

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject: seeks literary, critical & audio websites

Dear Friends,

Ahlan wa-sahlan.  I trust all is well with you.

My colleagues and I seek your advice on 2 related issues:

1. What are the best websites for short Arabic literary and critical writings?  These could include short stories, essays, social and cultural criticism, and maybe some political and economic analysis.  The main thing is that the writings should be high quality, and the level of difficulty should be at least 3 or 3+ on the ILR scale.

2. And what are the best websites for high-level AUDIO pieces?  No, we are NOT looking for straight news reportage, like BBC-Arabic.  Yes, of course, we can always go to Al-Jazeera and listen to the debates, and yes, some of them are good or even outstanding.  We would like, however, to concentrate on Arabic literary and critical topics.

Thanks very much in advance, and all the best to you always.

Cheers,
Abu Sammy

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:21 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:21 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:materials for heritage learners query
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: any Fazza <arabiconline at gmail.com>
Subject: materials for heritage learners query

Dear list members

I would like to inquire if there are any instructional materials or published textbooks made specially for Arabic heritage language learners at university levels. I would like also to inquire if there is any Arabic heritage language program at university level.  


Best Regards,

Hany Fazza

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:23 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:23 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting 14
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1) Subject: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting 14

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: "14th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Torino 2011)" <afroasia at unito.it>
Subject: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting 14

14TH ITALIAN MEETING OF AFRO-ASIATIC LINGUISTICS
TURIN, JUNE 15-17, 2011

Call for Papers

After the publication of the proceedings of the 13th
Meeting (CAMSEMUD 2007) we have the pleasure to invite you
to contribute to the 14th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic
Linguistics to be held at the University of Turin on June
15th-17th, 2011. As usual, papers on the synchronic,
diachronic or comparative analysis of any language or
group of languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family
(Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic)
will be accepted. Projects, work in progress or final
results of original research are welcome. PhD students and
young researchers are warmly invited to contribute.

Format:        20 min. papers + 10 min. discussion
Languages:        English and French
Panels:        colleagues interested in organizing panels on
specific topics or languages are kindly advised to contact
prospective participants as soon as possible and to inform
us.
Deadlines:
- please answer to this message expressing your interest
in taking part in the Meeting, and proposing a title ?
which can also be tentative ? by OCTOBER 31, 2010
- in NOVEMBER 2010 a provisional list of participants and
logistic information will be sent to you and published on
a dedicated web-page
- definitive titles and one-page abstracts are expected
within APRIL 30, 2011
- the deadline for the submission of papers to be included
in the proceedings will be discussed during the Meeting
Conference fee: 50,- Euro / students: 30 Euro
Organizers:
Maurizio Bagatin
Alessandro Mengozzi
Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti
Mauro Tosco

We apologize for multiple posting and kindly ask you to
forward this message to all those you think may be
interested.
Requests of information, (tentative) titles and abstracts
should be e-mailed to: afroasia at unito.it.
With our best wishes and looking forward to meeting you in
Turin,
Alessandro Mengozzi
Mauro Tosco


14?me RENCONTRE ITALIENNE DE LINGUISTIQUE AFRO-ASIATIQUE
TURIN, 15-17 JUIN 2011

Appel ? communications

A la suite de la 13?me Rencontre (CAMSEMUD 2007), dont les
actes viennent de para?tre, nous vous invitons ?
participer ? la 14?me Rencontre Italienne de Linguistique
Afro-Asiatique, qui se tiendra ? l?Universit? de Turin du
15 au 17 Juin 2011. Comme d?habitude, on  acceptera des
propositions concernant des analyses synchroniques,
diachroniques ou comparatives de langues ou de groupes de
langues de la famille afro-asiatique (berb?re,
couchitique, ?gyptien, omotique, s?mitique, tchadique). La
pr?sentation de projets, de travaux en cours et de
r?sultats de recherches seront bienvenues. Les doctorants
et les jeunes chercheurs sont particuli?rement invit?s ?
participer.

Les communications ne devront pas d?passer 20 minutes et
seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussion.
Langues: anglais et fran?ais
Ateliers: Ceux qui souhaiteraient organiser des ateliers
sur des langues ou des sujets particuliers sont invit?s ?
contacter les coll?gues int?ress?s et ? nous pr?venir dans
les plus brefs d?lais.
? Votre r?ponse (avec un titre qui peut ?tre provisoire)
devra nous parvenir avant le 31 OCTOBRE 2010.
? En NOVEMBRE 2010 nous cr?erons une page web d?di?e ? la
rencontre et vous recevrez une liste provisoire des
participants ainsi que les renseignements pratiques.
? Les titres d?finitifs et les r?sum?s (une page) devront
nous parvenir avant le 30 AVRIL 2011.
? La soumission des articles pour les actes sera discut?e
pendant la Rencontre.

Inscription : 50 euros/?tudiants : 30 euros
Comit? d?organisation :
Maurizio Bagatin
Alessandro Mengozzi
Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti
Mauro Tosco

Veuillez nous excuser pour les diffusions multiples. Nous
vous prions aussi de nous aider ? diffuser ce message.
Pour toute information ainsi que la soumission des titres
et des r?sum?s : afroasia at unito.it.
Dans l?attente d?avoir le plaisir de vous rencontrer ? Turin,
Bien cordialement.
Alessandro Mengozzi
Mauro Tosco

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Universit? degli Studi di Torino
Dipartimento di Orientalistica
via Giulia di Barolo 3/A
I-10124 Torino
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:26 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:26 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LDC new Morphological Analyzer (SAMA)
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1) Subject: LDC new Morphological Analyzer (SAMA)

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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: Linguistic Data Consortium <ldc at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject: LDC new Morphological Analyzer (SAMA)

(1)  The LDC Standard Arabic Morphological Analyzer (SAMA) Version 3.1 was developed by researchers at LDC. SAMA 3.1 is based on, and updates Tim Buckwalter's Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer (BAMA) 2.0 (LDC2004L02). Since this is the first public release of SAMA, it has been numbered continuously to reflect the continuity between this release and previous BAMA releases.  SAMA 3.1 is a software tool for the morphological analysis of Standard Arabic. SAMA 3.1 considers each Arabic word token in all possible 'prefix-stem-suffix' segmentations, and lists all known/possible annotation solutions, with assignment of all diacritic marks, morpheme boundaries (separating clitics and inflectional morphemes from stems), and all Part-of-Speech (POS) labels and glosses for each morpheme segment. The generated output may then be reviewed by users, and the most appropriate annotation selected from among several choices.

The software layer of SAMA 3.1 relies on a data layer that consists primarily of three Arabic-English lexicon files: prefixes (1328 entries), suffixes (945 entries), and stems (79318 entries representing 40654 lemmas). The lexicons are supplemented by three morphological compatibility tables used for controlling prefix-stem combinations (2497 entries), stem-suffix combinations (1632 entries), and prefix-suffix combinations (1180 entries).

The input format, output format, and data layer of SAMA 3.1 were designed to be backward compatible with BAMA. Incremental changes to the data layer in SAMA have resulted in:

increased lexicon coverage in the dictionary files
important changes and additions to the inventory of POS tags
more possible solutions generated for numerous word forms
The software implementation has been updated to allow more input/output options, installation and configuration options, and smoother incorporation in other Perl tools/services. The structure of the dictionary and morphotactic tables has remained the same (the tables provided with SAMA 3.1 differ from the BAMA 2.0 tables only in size and content, not in format). Logical separation between the software layer and data layer allows the new software tools to be used with previous versions of the tables (instructions are provided with software documentation).  The basic logic that implements the segmentation and analysis look-up for Arabic words is essentially unchanged since BAMA 2.0.

The data layer is now accessed through Berkeley DB, with result-caching enabled by default, leading to improved performance. Various utility scripts have also been added to the software package to facilitate more flexible interaction with tools and data.

As a Members-Only release, LDC Standard Arabic Morphological Analyzer (SAMA) Version 3.1 is not available for non-member licensing.

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Jul 26 12:29:28 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:28 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SAIC Job
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Date: 26 Jul 2010
From: "Destefano, Richard M." <RICHARD.M.DESTEFANO at saic.com>
Subject: SAIC Job

I came across your information on American Association of Teachers of Arabic website.  SAIC www.saic.com  is looking for experienced Arabic instructors for a project that will be starting in September.  The project will be a one year course of intensive study for a small group of students.  Upon graduation we are looking to have the students at a 3/3 level.  The course will continue the next year with another small group going through the course.
 
Instructors must have taught at the college level with at least five years of teaching experience.   This position also requires US Citizenship and you must be willing to move the Northern VA area.  If this is something you are interested in please send me your resume so we can discuss this opportunity in more detail. 
If you know of someone that is has these skills and may be interested in an opportunity please forward this e-mail to them.
Thank you for your time.
 
 
Regards,
Rich
 
 
Rich DeStefano| SAIC
Sr. Technical Recruiter | Mission Integration Business Unit
c: 703.975.2945
e: Richard.M.DeStefano at saic.com
w: www.saic.com
SAIC Benefits Overview
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/destefanorm

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Jul 27 09:24:03 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:03 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books
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1) Subject: Gerlach Books

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Date: 27 Jul 2010
From: Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies <orders at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Books

Antiquarian Books: Palestine & Israel

Until 6th August we offer 96 single copies of antiquarian books on Palestine & Israel with up to 30% discount. For more information please have a look at the title list which you can download from this site:

http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/books_offers.php

Some of them bear light traces of wear (signature, ex libris). The overall condition of the books is mostly very good or at least good.

Our offer:
- purchase of single antiquarian copies (first come, first serve)
- 10% discount for any single book
- 20% discount when ordering 3 or more books
- 30% discount when ordering 10 and more books
- plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery)
- European VAT included
- prepayment required
- this offer is valid until 6th August 2010 only

Looking forward to your orders. This offer is valid until 6th August 2010 only.

Best regards from Berlin

(Ms) Dagmar Konrad

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Jul 27 09:24:05 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:05 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Literary criticism sites
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1) Subject: Literary criticism sites

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Date: 27 Jul 2010
From: Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject: Literary criticism sites

Aby Sammy,

A few years ago, I had a similar hunger for higher quality literary
criticism on the web, and was disappointed by the more popular
selections.  The website has gone through several reincarnations, but
I really liked the quality and quantity found on Doroob,[1] which also
is modern enough to have RSS feeds so you can focus your interest to
some themes you will like.  Unfortunately, you missed the Beirut
39,[2] which was a blog about the award of the same name with Arabic
interviews and English translations about the works of 39 young Arab
authors who represent the "best" of the new generation of Arabic
literature.  Still, it is up for you to see what remains.

I look forward to other suggestions.

Best,
_AJS

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Jul 27 09:24:01 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:01 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Arizona State one semester On-line Job
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1) Subject: Arizona State one semester On-line Job

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Date: 27 Jul 2010
From: "Souad T. Ali" <Souad.Ali at asu.edu>
Subject: Arizona State one semester On-line Job

Urgent: Arabic Literature/Islamic Studies Instructor Needed

For one semester as a Faculty Associate. This is a part time position for fall 2010 only (August 19 - December 10)  to teach two online classes (based on Blackboard) in Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies. Teaching experience at the college level required. Ph.D. in Arabic, Islamic Studies, or Middle East Studies is required. ABD may be considered.  If interested, please send a C.V. and contact Dr. Souad Ali at taj_1234 at msn.com 
urgently.

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Jul 27 09:24:07 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:07 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic for Heritage Speakers
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Date: 27 Jul 2010
From: Taoufiq Ben Amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject: Arabic for Heritage Speakers

Dear Hany Fazza,

Columbia offers an Arabic for Heritage Speakers series of courses.  
Unfortunately, there is no textbook available at the moment, and we  
are working on something that might bear fruit in two or three years.

Best,

Taoufiq Ben Amor

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jul 28 13:44:32 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:32 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic for Heritage Speakers
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Date: 12 Jul 2010
From: <aa579 at georgetown.edu>
Subject: Arabic for Heritage Speakers

SFS Georgetown Qatar has been offering such courses :2 intermediate&Advanced language courses-3 skill based courses(writing,translation,and formal conversation)-3 content based courses .
By the end of this school year 2010-2011 a draft copy of a textbook will be available to test in different institutes   

Abbas Al-Tonsi

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jul 28 13:44:26 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:26 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2nd Edition of Arabic Through Dialogue 2
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Date: 12 Jul 2010
From: Hanada Taha-Thomure <hanada at arabexpertise.com>
Subject: 2nd Edition of Arabic Through Dialogue 2

[moderator's note: Arabic-L doesn't forward attachments, but I'm sure Hanada would send it to you if you asked her directly.]

The 2nd Edition of the Arabic Language through Dialogue 2 is out.  Please feel free to check the attached flyer.
 
Warm regards, hanada
 
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jul 28 13:44:29 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:29 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Dialect Recognition
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Date: 12 Jul 2010
From: Elabbas Benmamoun <benmamou at ad.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Dialect Recognition

Position open: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Project Title: Multi-dialect speech recognition and machine translation for Qatari broadcast TV

Position open, effective July 24, 2010 until filled.
Institution: Qatar University
Annual Salary: QAR180,000(about US$50,000)+benefits*Minimum 
Degree Requirement: Ph.D.*Starting: Autumn 2010

The goals of this research are to develop tightly integrated algorithms for Arabic-language speech recognition and machine translation, and to test learning algorithms that share data among multiple Arabic dialects. Lexical forms in Gulf Arabic, Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Maghrebi Arabic are often built from similar roots, but with different morpho-phonological realizations and inflections/clitics. Translation and pronunciation lexicons developed for this research will share data across dialects, and will therefore also learn to share data across the many different derived forms of each semantic root. By applying statistical methods to the interface between semantics and morphology, it is our intention that the person taking this position will prove the utility of an entirely new way of thinking about Arabic natural language processing.

This position is based at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Starting salary is QAR180,000 per year, plus accommodation, education allowance for up to three children, Health insurance, annual air travel, and vacation for the post-doc, spouse, and children (according to QU HR policies). The successful candidate will be part of an international research team including Eiman Mustafawi (Qatar), Rehab Duwairi (Qatar), Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, USA), Elabbas Benmamoun (Illinois), and Roxana Girju (Illinois). Candidate should have a Ph.D. and research publications in speech recognition, machine translation, or a related field, and should have programming, mathematical, and linguistic skills sufficient to conduct independent research in these areas.

For full consideration, send CV, one sample publication, two recommendation letters, and cover letter by August 31, 2010 to Dr. Eiman Mustafawi, Qatar University,eimanmust at qu.edu.qa.

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Jul 28 13:44:23 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:23 +0300
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Literary Criticism sites (correction)
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Date: 12 Jul 2010
From: Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject: Literary Criticism sites (correction)

[moderator's note: I originally posted this message without the footnotes which contained the URLs that made the message make sense.  Here it is again, with the footnotes.]

Abu Sammy,

A few years ago, I had a similar hunger for higher quality literary
criticism on the web, and was disappointed by the more popular
selections.  The website has gone through several reincarnations, but
I really liked the quality and quantity found on Doroob,[1] which also
is modern enough to have RSS feeds so you can focus your interest to
some themes you will like.  Unfortunately, you missed the Beirut
39,[2] which was a blog about the award of the same name with Arabic
interviews and English translations about the works of 39 young Arab
authors who represent the "best" of the new generation of Arabic
literature.  Still, it is up for you to see what remains.

I look forward to other suggestions.

Best,
_AJS


[1] http://www.doroob.com/
[2] http://beirut39.blogspot.com/


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