From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:43:22 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:43:22 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:new textbooks Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:new textbooks -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:austin.lassiter at alucen.com Subject:new textbooks Salaam, My name is Austin Lassiter and I am contacting you regarding Alucen Learning's latest titles for Arabic language and culture classes. Please do take a moment to review these titles and let me know if you have questions or there is any additional information I can provide. I look forward to hearing from you soon. - Colloquial Palestinian Arabic (http://alucen.com/catalog/colloquial-palestinian-arabic): is a rich exploration of language and culture designed to provide students with the tools they need to succeed in learning the spoken dialect of Palestine and the surrounding region. - Perspectives (http://alucen.com/catalog/perspectives): features a content-based, communicative approach to language learning through Arabic cinema. Perspectives encourages the development of foreign language competency in communication, cultures, connections, comparisons and communities. - Popular Proverbs (http://alucen.com/catalog/popular-proverbs): is a collection of over one thousand proverbs from Palestine and across the Arabic-speaking world, providing an informative and entertaining treasure trove of knowledge for anyone with interest in this remarkable culture. Sincerely, Austin Lassiter -- Austin Lassiter Alucen Learning (757) 288.3714 austin.lassiter at alucen.com http://alucen.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 01 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:42:50 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:42:50 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Classical and Middle Arabic corpus Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Classical and Middle Arabic corpus -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Mai Zaki > Subject:Needs Classical and Middle Arabic corpus Dear list members, I would like your advice regarding available corpora of written Classical and Middle Arabic. In my new research, I would like to compare demonstrative forms in Modern Standard Arabic with those in Classical and Middle Arabic. For MSA, I have a half a million corpus from different text categories (news articles, literary essays, fiction, sports, etc.). For Classical Arabic, I intend to use the Quran but need more data as well. And I would appreciate your suggestions for a corpus of Middle Arabic. Thanks a lot in advance. Mai Zaki, PhD. Lecturer in Arabic and Translation Studies Middlesex University -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 01 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:42:47 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:42:47 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic root count Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic root count 2) Subject:Arabic root count 3) Subject:Arabic root count 4) Subject:Arabic root count -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Nizar Habash > Subject:Arabic root count Hi Nesrine - Count of roots according to five resources are listed in section 8.2 in this paper: http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P06/P06-1086.pdf. Regards Nizar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Nancy Dietrich > Subject:Arabic root count Wow--that question is right up there with the "meaning of life." Curious to see the answer(s)! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Dan Parvaz > Subject:Arabic root count Dear Nesrine: It depends. What do you mean by an "Arabic" root. Do borrowings count? If not, how do you define a "native" term? If borrowings do count, is there a cutoff date? Do phonologically identical roots count as two or one? Once you have operationalized your definitions, since most dictionaries are organized by root, it's a matter of picking your reference and counting (manually or electronically, depending on the reference). -Dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Slavomír Čéplö > Subject:Arabic root count Dear Nesrine, try the following references, they may not hold the answer, but they will point you in the right direction: Bachra, Bernard. 2001. The Phonological Structure of the Verbal Roots in Arabic and Hebrew. Brill, Leiden. Greenberg, Joseph. 1950. The patterning of root morphemes in Semitic. Word 6,162-181. Mayer, Thomas, Christian Rohrdantz, Frans Plank, Peter Bak, Miriam Butt, and Daniel A. Keim. 2010. Consonant co-occurrence in stems across languages: Automatic analysis and visualization of a phonotactic constraint. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:43:03 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:43:03 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Alexandria Egypt Study Abroad Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Alexandria Egypt Study Abroad Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Rafah Helal > Subject:Alexandria Egypt Study Abroad Program American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce that the online application for the Arabic Overseas Undergraduate Program in Alexandria, Egypt is live. This program is designed for undergraduate students in the US, at the intermediate level of Arabic. To apply, please visit us at: http://programs.americancouncils.org/AOP Program Dates: May 21, 2012 – July 21, 2012 Program Components: 20 hours a week of MSA, ECA, and Media classes; 4 hours a week of Conversational Partners to improve ECA; 2-3 overnight excursions; Cultural enrichment activities Benefits: Summer Credits from Bryn Mawr College; Pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC; Round-trip International Airfare from Washington, DC Live in the dorms with an Egyptian student Application Deadline: February 19, 2012 Program Cost: $8,700 including pre-departure orientation, airfare, insurance, tuition, room and board For more information, please contact Rafah Helal at: helal at actr.org Rafah Helal Senior Program Officer Arabic Overseas Programs American Councils for International Education 1828 L Street, N.W. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:42:55 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:42:55 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Graded Stories Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Graded Stories -------------------------Messages-----------------------------------1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Ahmed Hassan Khorshid > Subject:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Graded Stories *Dear friends and colleagues,* *I've just published my new book. If not interested, please delete this message.* *It's Sahlawayhi's Graded Stories for Intermediate Students, Level 4.* *It has stories number 13-16 in the series. It has 650 words (550 of levels 1-3 plus 100 new ones).* *The structures it emphasizes are:* *- Haal* *- maf'uul mutlaq* *- delaying the demonstrative pronoun* *- comparison between equals (hence maSDar of the same root as adjectives)* *- adding a vowel to avoid 3 consonants in a row* *In addition to a few others.* *I strongly suggest that this level be read in order, as with previous levels, so that students move smoothly from one story to another. The book can be ordered at:* *www.createspace.com/3707924* *Soon it will also be on Amazon.com. If you have questions or need some excerpts from the 4 stories, please let me know. I hope you and your students enjoy it. salaam. * -- Ahmad Khorshid Arabic Language Instructor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 01 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:34 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:34 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs transliteration input method Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs transliteration input method -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Rasha K. > Subject:Needs transliteration input method Dear list members, I am doing a PhD study in the UK. In my study I need to transcribe recorded Arabic conversations. I need to find an online keyboard with certain phonetics to type the transcribed Arabic. The kind of phonetics I'm looking for is the use of an "s" with a dot underneath for the letter Saad for example, and a dot on top of the "g" for the letter Ghein. I appreciate your help. Rasha Soliman Senior Arabic Tutor and a PhD student -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:28 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:28 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants opinions on best books for MIddle/High School students Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:wants opinions on best curriculum for MIddle/High School students -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From: Subject:wants opinions on best curriculum for MIddle/High School students I am planning a classroom-based, introductory Arabic language course for native English-speaking middle and high school students. What do you consider the best, single curriculum available for students at these grade levels? I am not interested in on-line resources for students at this time. I am aware of resource lists available through NCLRC, AATA and other teacher networks; rather, I’m trying to narrow the list to the texts that are considered “state-of-the-art.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:30 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:30 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic SMS corpus Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Arabic SMS corpus -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Wigdan Mekki > Subject:Needs Arabic SMS corpus hi all, I would like to know if there is a public arabic SMS corpus available, would be grateful for your feedback. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:10 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:10 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lang Situation in Morocco Conference program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Lang Situation in Morocco Conference program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Fouad Brigui > Subject:Lang Situation in Morocco Conference program Dear all, The program of the international conference "The language situation in Morocco: linguistic description and creation of lexicons" is available at URL: https://sites.google.com/site/portaildugrel/home/programme-colloque-fes-taza Download at url: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxwb3J0YWlsZHVncmVsfGd4OjFkYjgwM2IwZDRjMTE0YzE Best wishes, Fouad Brigui GREL's Coordinator -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:25 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:25 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic for Life Textbook Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic for Life Textbook -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Bassam Frangieh > Subject:Arabic for Life Textbook New for Arabic Courses Arabic for Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic Bassam K. Frangieh Arabic for Life takes an intensive, comprehensive approach to beginning Arabic instruction and is specifically tailored to the needs of talented and dedicated students. Unlike the other Arabic textbooks on the market, Arabic for Life is not specifically focused on either grammar or proficiency. Instead, it offers a balanced methodology that combines these goals. Frangieh has created a book that is full of energy and excitement about Arabic language and culture, and it effectively transmits that excitement to students. Arabic for Life offers a dynamic and multidimensional view of the Arab world that incorporates language with Arabic culture and intellectual thought. Arabic for Life also includes a DVD with some eighty videos of native speakers reciting the vocalized texts in the book, with dozens of audio recordings covering vocabulary and expressions, drills on Arabic sounds and letters, and various exercises and activities Bassam Frangieh is professor of Arabic at Claremont McKenna College. He previously taught at Georgetown and Yale. He is the author of Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present, published by Yale University Press. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:22 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:22 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2 2nd Language Acq Jobs at Hawai'i Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:2 2nd Language Acq Jobs at Hawai'i -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:National Foreign Language Resource Center > Subject:2 2nd Language Acq Jobs at Hawai'i Assistant Professor, with specialization in second language acquisition, two positions (position numbers 82418 and 82462), University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, full-time, tenure track. The Department of Second Language Studies offers a BA, an MA and a PhD in Second Language Studies as well as an Advanced Graduate Certificate. The University of Hawai'i is a Carnegie "very high research activity university" with a strong orientation to the Asia-Pacific region. The University supports interdisciplinary initiatives within and across departments and colleges and places high value on extramural funding. Duties and responsibilities: The Department seeks to hire two faculty members at the assistant professor level in the area of second language acquisition to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the area of SLA, with opportunities to teach in other areas of the Department's curriculum as appropriate. Of particular interest are candidates whose research focuses on one or more of the following areas: * acquisition of SL phonology * bilingualism in social and cognitive contexts * cognitive, sociocultural, neurological and ecological perspectives in SL learning * heritage language learners * identity and SLA * individual differences in SLA * instructed SLA * multilingual literacy development * technology and SLA * young learners Minimum qualifications: Doctorate in second language studies, applied linguistics, or closely related field by August 2012. Demonstrated ability to carry out research in the applicant's major areas of specialization, as evidenced by publication. Annual 9-month salary range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience To apply: Send cover letter describing research and teaching interests and experience, a CV, a research statement, a teaching statement (including a list of courses taught), sample publications, and a summary of teaching evaluations. In addition, letters of reference should be submitted directly by three recommenders. All application materials should be sent as email attachments to: slschair at hawaii.edu. Please do not specify position number; application for one implies application for both. E-mail inquiries: Dr. James D. Brown brownj at hawaii.edu Dr. Graham Crookes crookes at hawaii.edu Closing date: December 31, 2011 Conditional on availability of position and of funding. The University of Hawaii is an equal opportunities and affirmative action employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:24 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:24 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2nd Lang Acq Job at Hawai'i Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:2nd Lang Acq Job at Hawai'i -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:National Foreign Language Resource Center > Subject:2nd Lang Acq Job at Hawai'i Assistant Professor, with specialization in second language education (position number 85017) University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, full-time, tenure track. The Department of Second Language Studies offers a BA, an MA and a PhD in Second Language Studies as well as an Advanced Graduate Certificate. The University of Hawai'i is a Carnegie "very high research activity university" with a strong orientation to the Asia-Pacific region. The University supports interdisciplinary initiatives within and across departments and colleges and places high value on extramural funding. Duties and responsibilities: The Department seeks an to hire an assistant professor level in the area of second language education to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the area of SL education, with opportunities to teach in other areas of the Department's curriculum as appropriate. Of particular interest are candidates whose research focuses on one or more of the following areas: * k-16 second language education * language-in-education policies and planning * multilingual/plurilingual/heritage language and literacies development * second language curriculum (e.g., TBLT, inquiry-based approaches, evaluation, critical pedagogy) * second language reading, writing, listening and speaking * sociocognitive, sociocultural, and ecological perspectives * teaching practicum * technology and second language education Minimum qualifications: Doctorate in second language studies, applied linguistics, or closely related field by August 2012. Demonstrated ability to carry out research in the applicant's major areas of specialization, as evidenced by publication; experience in second/foreign language teaching. Annual 9-month salary range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience To apply: Send cover letter describing research and teaching interests and experience, a CV, a research statement, a teaching statement (including a list of courses taught), sample publications, and a summary of teaching evaluations. In addition, letters of reference should be submitted directly by three recommenders. All application materials should be sent as email attachments to: slschair at hawaii.edu. E-mail inquiries: Dr. James D. Brown brownj at hawaii.edu Dr. Graham Crookes crookes at hawaii.edu Closing date: December 31, 2011 Conditional on availability of position and of funding. The University of Hawaii is an equal opportunities and affirmative action employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:33 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:33 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Gerlach Books -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies > Subject:Gerlach Books Arabic Primary Sources in Multi-Volume Editions Until 16th November we offer 25% discount on 32 antiquarian Arabic Primary Sources in Mulit-Volume Editions (378 volumes altogether) of authors like: al-'Asqalani, al-Asbahani, al-Baghdadi, Al-Jahiz, Ibn 'Asakir, Ibn Khaldoun, Ibn Khalikan, Ibn Mandhur, and Yaqut. 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 served) - 25% discount for any purchase - plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery) - plus European VAT - our institutional and regular customers can order on open account - first-time customers: credit card or pre-payment by bank transfer preferred - offer is valid until 16th November 2011 only Looking forward to your orders. Best regards and Eid Mubarak! (Ms) Dagmar Konrad :::::::: FOR YOUR email or fax ORDER (Fax +49 30 3235667) ::::::::: To order please send us an email or a fax. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 12:52:31 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:52:31 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:best books for Middle/High School students Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:best books for Middle/High School students -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Fadia Hamid > Subject:best books for Middle/High School students I have taught Arabic at both Middle & High School (currently I teach at the HS level). The books I like the most is Alif Baa & Al Kitaab. The new edition of Alif Baa (3rd ) is full of great material and you can easily adapt it to your student’s needs at the middle school – and you might not need any other books. For HS , I start with Alif Baa & continue with Al kitaab. Again, I really like many of the new features in the 3rd edition. For all levels, I adapt it to my students’ needs & pace of learning. Another great resource is the Marhaba curriculum by Steven Berbeco. I strongly recommend that you check it out. The beauty of it is that you easily adapt it to your needs & your desired outcomes. I understand that it will be launched at the upcoming ACTFL meeting (Nov 17 – 20). If you google Marhaba you will be able to have all the info you need. I can reassure you that your middle school students would love many of its features. I am sure there are other good books too but the ones above are the ones I have had much success with. As always, you must supplement with other material. Good luck with your search! fadia Fadia Hamid French & Arabic Teacher Chagrin Falls High School 440-247-5500 ext. 4458 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 12 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 12:52:25 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:52:25 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:12th Southwest Graduate Conference at U of Arizona Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:12th Southwest Graduate Conference at U of Arizona -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Keri Miller > Subject:12th Southwest Graduate Conference at U of Arizona The Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Organization at the University of Arizona 12th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies CALL FOR PAPERS Invitation The Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Organization (MENA), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona cordially invite you to participate in the 12th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies to be held from Wednesday, March 28, 2012 to Friday, March 30, 2012 in Tucson, Arizona. Objectives This conference aims to strengthen ties between academic disciplines, provide a platform for graduate students to present their research projects, exchange ideas, and create a network of emerging scholars spanning a variety of fields. For this reason, we encourage abstract submissions not only from students within Middle Eastern Studies programs, but also from disciplines such as Anthropology, Economics, Education, Gender & Women’s Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Religious Studies, etc. Paper Topics Applicants are encouraged to submit pre-organized panel proposals. Proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Select papers may be published in the group’s online journal, Zaytoon. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to: Human Rights Media & Visual Arts Environment Colonialism Art & Architecture Minorities Diasporas Nationalis Peace & Security Studies Social Movements Pedagogy Dance & Performative Arts Submission Guidelines Paper abstract submissions are due Thursday, December 15, 2011 for international students and Thursday, January 19, 2012 for domestic students. Abstracts must be 250 words or less and submitted as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. Non-standard fonts should be embedded in the PDF format. Abstracts must be anonymous aside from paper title and description and emailed to confuamena at gmail.com. In the body of this email, please include author name, school and department affiliation, phone number and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out within three weeks of the abstract submission deadline. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 12:52:22 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:52:22 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Gigaword 5th Edition Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Gigaword 5th Edition -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Linguistic Data Consortium > (reposted from CORPORA) Subject:Arabic Gigaword 5th Edition (2) Arabic Gigaword Fifth Edition is a comprehensive archive of newswire text data that has been acquired from Arabic news sources over several years by LDC. Arabic Gigaword Fifth Edition includes all of the content of the fourth edition of Arabic Gigaword (LDC2009T30) plus new data covering the period from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010. Nine distinct sources of Arabic newswire are represented in this distribution: Asharq Al-Awsat (aaw_arb) Agence France Presse (afp_arb) Al-Ahram (ahr_arb) Assabah (asb_arb) Al Hayat (hyt_arb) An Nahar (nhr_arb) Al-Quds Al-Arabi (qds_arb) Ummah Press (umh_arb) Xinhua News Agency (xin_arb) The seven-character codes shown above represent both the directory names where the data files are found, and the 7-letter prefix that appears at the beginning of every file name. The 7-letter codes consist of the three-character source name IDs and the three-character language code ("arb") separated by an underscore ("_") character. The three-character language code conforms to the ISO 639-3 standard. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 12:52:27 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:52:27 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Project Extension Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Project Extension -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:"Rodgers, Jonathan" > Subject:Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Project Extension Dear Colleagues, The University of Michigan Library’s “Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan” project staff are pleased to announce that our collaborative project to fully catalogue our Islamic Manuscripts Collection has been officially extended through December 2012. This extension will allow us to complete the time-consuming physical examination of those manuscripts that have thus far only been examined in the digital environment by the project cataloguer, Evyn Kropf, and by our generous colleagues around the world. To date, this extensive digital examination - combined with physical examination efforts on the part of the project cataloguer and her cataloguing assistants, has resulted in 810 of the roughly 880 previously uncatalogued manuscripts being fully or near fully catalogued with detailed, data-rich records in our online library catalogue. 136 of these are in fact manuscripts for which digitization is not possible at this time. The extension will also allow us to continue receiving and archiving your contributions to enhance the cataloguing as you interact with the manuscripts and their descriptions via the project website (http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic ). We greatly appreciate your support for the project thus far, and would be especially grateful for any further contributions you could make to the cataloguing of the remaining manuscripts, including review of existing descriptive data where available. These manuscripts still to be catalogued are listed on the project site here: http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/notyetcatalogued Your expertise remains an invaluable complement to our local cataloguing efforts. Treasures from the collection are still being unearthed, and we appreciate your continued participation in the cataloguing endeavors. We look forward to seeing your comments posted to the project site and thank you in advance for your valuable contribution to this project. As always, please feel free to forward any questions, comments and/or suggestions to project staff atislamic.manuscripts at umich.edu -- Jonathan Rodgers Head, Near East Division, University of Michigan Library http://www.lib.umich.edu/area-programs/near-east-division Coordinator, Area Programs http://www.lib.umich.edu/area-programs E-mail: jrodgers at umich.edu Postal address: Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1190 USA Tel: (734) 764-7555; Fax:(734) 763-6743 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 12 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 12:52:29 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:52:29 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:transliteration input method Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:transliteration input method 2) Subject:transliteration input method 3) Subject:transliteration input method 4) Subject:transliteration input method -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Amina Inloes > Subject:transliteration input method Hi, This website includes links to a macro for Word which provides keyboard shortcuts for the Arabic diacritic letters (d-dot, etc) and also a toolbar for inserting them easily http://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/students/arabic_unicode_font/. Maybe if it doesn’t have exactly the right ones you can use one and then find/replace at the end Sincerely, Amina Inloes Programme Leader – MA Islamic Studies The Islamic College / ICAS Press 133 High Road, Willesden London, UK NW10 2SW Tel.: +44 (0)20 8451 9993 ext. 204 http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Dan Parvaz > Subject:transliteration input method Rasha, Have you considered using Buckwalter notation? Each letter corresponds to a orthographic element in Arabic script, and it's easy to enter using a conventional keyboard, which makes it portable. Changing it to a more conventional transcription system with diacritics is a simple matter of search and replace (replacing all instances of 'g' with 'ġ' or '|' with 'ā', for instance). Cheers, -Dan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Seham > Subject:transliteration input method Here is a link http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbols.htm Good luck -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Maxim Romanov > Subject:transliteration input method Dear Rasha, If you are using MS Word, you can use autocorrect function and assign any combination to the symbols you need. Try the attached Word template (made for PC, but the same system works fine with Mac too). In the attached template there are only symbols which are used for transliteration of Classical/Modern Standard Arabic. The autocorrect system is very simple: - all symbols with dots and macrons are entered with " ,symbol, " combinations (comma, needed symbol, comma), for capital letters " ,symbolsymbol, " (comma, needed symbol twice, comma). - combination for 'ayn is " ,`, " - combination for hamza is ",/," You will also need a unicode font, which actually has these symbols; if you have MS Word 7, you can use Cambria (it seems to have all necessary ones), alternatively, you can download and install Gentium font (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Gentium_download), which was designed specifically for linguists. NB: Listserv does not accept attachments, so I can email if to you directly if you are interested. Others are welcome as well. Best regards, Maxim G. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 13:59:44 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:59:44 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:curriculum for Middle/High School Students Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson < dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu ] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:curriculum for Middle/High School Students -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Wafa Hassan Subject:curriculum for Middle/High School Students There are many good books and many other materials are available to choose from to teach Arabic to Middle and High school students. Teachers need a thematically and standards-based curriculum allows them to set clear learning objectives and to be able to plan their lesson from day one to the last day of school. A curriculum that is communicative and foster student-centered activities. With the support of the Arabic Flagship Program, MSU, we developed secondary (Middle/High school) 36 thematic units aligned with ACTFL National Standards and backwards curriculum design. The curriculum is currently being used by many schools in the US and abroad. Next week in Denver (ACTFL conference 2011) we will introduce our curriculum, and the new teaching materials that we developed that goes along with each unit. In addition on how to access the curriculum and the materials online through Atlas Curriculum Mapping. Also the system is open for teachers to share their lesson plans and materials from anywhere in the world. Dr. Wafa Hassan Director of Outreach and K-12 Intiatives Arabic Language Flagship Program Michigan State University hassanw at msu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 12 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:03 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:03 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middle School/High School Arabic textbook YA HALA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Middle School/High School Arabic textbook YA HALA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:hanadi dayyeh Subject:Middle School/High School Arabic textbook YA HALA A book for teaching Arabic as a foreign language for MS is published by Hachette Antoinne publishing house. The title of the book is Ya Hala, it is unit based, thematic and meets AERO+ Standards and CCF learners outcomes. Two levels are out now 1 A and 1B. The book is accompanied by activities for interactive smart boards, audio CD and teacher's guide. If interested please contact: sandra.yazbeck at hachette-antoine.com Hanadi Dayyeh Author of YA HALA N-12 Arabic Coordinator American Community School in Beirut -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:19 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:19 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teachers of Critical Languages Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Teachers of Critical Languages Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Ghassan Husseinali Subject:Teachers of Critical Languages Program Salam, The American Councils for International Education every year sponsors 10 Arabic teachers from Egypt to teach in US public schools. This program is called "Teachers of Critical Languages Program" (TCLP). The program is paid for by the State Department and it costs the hosting school nothing. If anybody is involved K-12 Arabic program or knows somebody who is involved K-12 Arabic, this is a great opportunity for them to have somebody help out with their program. Sponsored teachers are carefully selected with many years of experience and professional training credentials. If you are interested in learning more about the program, please visit: http://www.americancouncils.org/TCLP/ To apply to host an Arabic teacher through this program go to : https://ais.americancouncils.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/AIR If you have any questions about TCLP you can email me at : emailghassan at yahoo.com or talk to me at ACTFL in Denver( Thursday -Saturday) Cell: 203 815 6663 Best, Ghassan Husseinali, PhD Assistant Professor of Arabic -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:17:58 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:17:58 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs UTF-8 unvowelled text file of Quran Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs UTF-8 unvowelled text file of Quran -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:alhowity Subject:Needs UTF-8 unvowelled text file of Quran Dear Sir/Meme I would like to have Holy Quran in txt file UTF-8 non vowelized thank you khaled alhawiti -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:00 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:00 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants MS Curriculum Without Denver Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Wants MS Curriculum Without Denver -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:masoud ali Subject:Wants MS Curriculum Without Denver Salam ya Wafa, I can not make it to Denver , Is there a way by which I can access your curriculum online? I am currently in Germany teaching Arabic at the Marshall Center. Thanks Masoud -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:13 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:13 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CET Resident Director Job, Irbid, Jordan Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:CET Resident Director Job, Irbid, Jordan -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Joseph Essex Subject:CET Resident Director Job, Irbid, Jordan CET Academic Programs is now accepting applications for the Resident Director (RD) position at the Intensive Arabic Language & Culture Studies program in Irbid, Jordan, to begin in January 2012. The RD is responsible for administering all non-academic facets of the program. Ideal candidates will have a MA degree, near fluency in Arabic and English (Jordanian dialect preferred), and at least two years of professional or academic experience in the Middle East (Jordan preferred). Complete job description, responsibilities, requirements, and benefits summary can be found here. CET Academic Programs ~ Innovators in Study Abroad Since 1982 Joseph Essex Middle East Programs Manager 1920 N Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington. D.C. 20036 Phone: 202-349-0676, 800-225-4262, ext.7383 Fax: 202-342-0317 Email: jessex at academic-travel.com Web: www.cetacademicprograms.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:17:53 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:17:53 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Telecommute/Teaching Jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Telecommute/Teaching Jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Arabic Telecommute/Teaching Jobs University or Organization: VL247 Job Location: , ---------------- (Telecommute) Job Rank: Instructor Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics Description: VL247 is hiring qualified native speakers of any language and culture to facilitate language training to a diverse range of students. Languages include but are not limited to: - Arabic - Chinese Mandarin - Dari - Farsi - French - Pashto - Russian - Spanish - Tagalog - Somali - Urdu - Portuguese - and more! Minimum requirements include a Bachelor's degree; native fluency in the language; basic English language skills; and computer/technical proficiency is strongly recommended. Further, it is preferred that applicants possess knowledge and understanding of the ILR proficiency scale (Interagency Language Roundtable). Candidates should also demonstrate knowledge of the respective area's history, culture, politics and economy; possess the ability to use the latest technology; and be open to new teaching techniques. Also desired is experience in teaching language skills to a wide range of students, from beginners to those at a more advanced proficiency level. Instructors for VL247 will be part of a team approach that develops training content that realistically relates to the student's interests and needs. Not only will the instructor's responsibility be to foster an environment that promotes language learning and cultural enrichment but also to demonstrate and incorporate knowledge of the student's interests and needs into every session. Candidates can submit a resume to the application email address below. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: careers at vl247llc.com Contact Information VL247 Recruiting Email: careers at vl247llc.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:14 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:14 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Wisconsin Summer Institute Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:U of Wisconsin Summer Institute -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Arabic Persian Turkish Language Immersion Institute Subject:U of Wisconsin Summer Institute Application materials for Summer 2012 are now available! * *LIVE* alongside your classmates and faculty on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. * *BREATHE* the culture and beauty of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in an environment that stresses mastery through total immersion. * *LEARN* in the classroom, at meals, and during other weeknight and weekend activities. The Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Language Immersion Institute (APTLII) is an eight-week intensive summer language immersion program for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. Outside of the classroom, students commit to using their target language at all times - in their shared living space on campus, at meals, and at co-curricular activities that combine to create a language immersion experience. Courses are offered at levels ranging from Beginner to Advanced (depending on sufficient enrollment), and provide two semesters of academic credit. Instruction is given in small groups taught by native speakers and experienced language teachers. The classes are intensive, involving a minimum of 4.5 hours contact hours Mondays through Fridays, with a packed schedule of afternoon and evening activities and workshops. APTLII meets the requirements for Title VI Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships. $6,750 covers tuition, room, board, and fees Rolling admissions until classes filled or May 15, 2012 aptlii.global.wisc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:17:53 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:17:53 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lexicography Jobs (South Levantine) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Lexicography Jobs (South Levantine) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Lexicography Jobs (South Levantine) University or Organization: AECOM Department: Language Research Center Job Location: Maryland, USA Web Address: http://www.aecom.com Job Rank: Linguists Specialty Areas: Lexicography Required Language(s): Arabic, South Levantine (ajp) Aramaic, Old (oar) Russian (rus) Somali (som) Urdu (urd) Description: Linguist Positions Avaliable The Language Research Center, a division of AECOM, has openings for full- time temporary and full-time permanent Urdu, Abanto, Somali, Jordanian, Syrian, and Russian linguists to join our staff to prepare language-training materials such as bilingual dictionaries, readers, grammars, and textbooks. The ideal candidates will be native speakers and have near native fluency in English; Ph.D is preferred; BA or BS degree or equivalent experience with language and/or literature will be considered. Must be a U.S. citizen or eligible to work in the United States. Potential candidates will be given a low level security check. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: cybil.harris at aecom.com Contact Information: Program Manager Cybil Harris Email: charr871 at netscape.net Phone: 301-864-1410 Fax: 301-864-8956 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:05 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:05 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Input method Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Transliteration Input method 1) Subject:Transliteration Input method -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:"Knut S. Vikør" Subject:Transliteration Input method You can find some more info about the issue at http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/diacs.html For PCs, there is useful info, with a link to a layout, at the Univ. of Chicago site http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/encyclopedia/unicode.html (Apparently, WIndows 7 has some problems with keyboard layout installers, I am not sure if that has been resolved yet for Alt-Latin). For Macs, apart from the MiddleEast-oriented site at the top, you have built in a keyboard for writing diarcritics, US Extended, which can also be used (check under the "International" setting). Knut -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Bo Isaksson Subject:Transliteration Input method Dear Rasha Soliman You ask for an easy way to write transcription signs for Arabic dialect texts. It was just this need to write transcription signs for Arabic dialects, and do it with ease, that made me develop LingfilSemitica in co-operation with Tavultesoft and its world-leading technology Keyman. In addition to all possible transcription signs you can also write IPA symbols with LingfilSemitica. Since August 2011 their is a complete version for the English keyboard. You may test it for free in 30 days. Just click www.lingfilsemitica.com or www.tavultesoft.com/buy/. Bo Isaksson Prof. of Semitic Languages Uppsala University Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:17 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:17 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tareq wa Shireen Apps Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Tareq wa Shireen Apps -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Hanada Taha-Thomure Subject:Tareq wa Shireen Apps My company, Rubicon Group Holding (RGH), is a global entertainment organization with four locations - Jordan (Amman), the U.S. (Los Angeles), the Philippines (Manila) and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) - devoted to the development and production of digital CGI & traditional 2D and 3D animated television, film, Web-based and mobile content; the realization of themed entertainment experiences; the production of digital education and professional development resources; the creation of video games and Web-based applications; and the merchandising of entertainment brands through licensed consumer products.**** RGH has just introduced an innovative series of apps for Arab-speaking children ages 3-8 starring the characters of our animated ”Tareq wa Shireen” (TwS) property in fun activities that help them learn concepts and words in their native language. The first three *Tareq wa Shireen* apps, “Discover Colors & Shapes,” “Discover Numbers” and “Discover Animals” are now available for iPad, and will soon be available for iPhones and Android. A fourth app, “Discover the Alphabet” is available beginning today. Lite versions of all four app are available free. Full versions are $1.99 each. Here’s a link to see more about the apps: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discover-numbers-tareq-wa/id415926932?mt=8. Very much appreciate your assistance in getting the word out for us. Please let me know if I could provide any additional insight in the product or RGH. Best, BARRY STAGG Global Communications Director Rubicon Group Holding barry.stagg at rubiconstudiosla.com (818) 715-7179 x 227 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:17:56 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:17:56 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Early Arabic Poetry Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Early Arabic Poetry -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Ithaca Press Subject:Early Arabic Poetry Early Arabic Poetry: Select Poems By Dr Alan Jones Hardback 580 pp 235 x 155 Ithaca Press ISBN: 978-0-86372-387-2 November 2011 Read More and Order Here Ithaca Press is pleased to announce the publication of Early Arabic Poetry: Select Poems by Professor Alan Jones. This new edition of Early Arabic Poetry combines the two volumes first published in 1992 and 1996, bringing them together with a new foreword and introduction by Professor Jones, which covers the major background problems faced by students of early Arabic poetry. The book will appeal to academics and students in the fields of Middle East Studies, Arabic, literature and poetry. The book is divided into two main sections: the first section contains a study of fifteen poems from two of the more vivid genres: laments and poems by the outlaws. The second section focuses on famous odes. The poems are analysed in minute detail, providing the student with all the information needed to understand the texts and to consider each poem’s overall thrust and purpose. The study of early Arabic poetry is a difficult one for a number of reasons; it is the work of people of a very alien milieu – the great composers were camel-dependant nomads; its grammar has many complications that do not survive in the later language; its texts were transmitted orally for up to two-and-a-half centuries; and there are serious problems about authenticity. It is nevertheless a fascinating and rewarding area of study, from which all later Arabic poetry stems. This book provides unique insights into ideas prevalent in the region at the rise of Islam. In his introduction, Professor Jones describes how ‘Poetry had a number of facets that took it into the realms of magic’. As well as the inspiration of the poet by his own spirit, and the magic of the sound of poetry recitation, poetic utterances were believed to contain magical forces, particularly when the poem was intended to denigrate or curse. Thus the book transcends mere analysis of poetry to provide a rich critique of the complexities of the subject and the era. Alan Jones taught Arabic, Turkish and Islamic Studies at Oxford from 1957 to 2000, when he retired from his post as Professor of Classical Arabic. Amongst his special interests are pre-Islamic poetry, the Qur’an, and the early growth of Islamic studies. He has also published key works on the poetry of Muslim Spain. His translation of the Qur’an was published in 2007. Kind regards, Arash Hejazi Publisher Ithaca Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:21 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:21 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACIE Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:ACIE Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:ISLI Staff Subject:ACIE Programs Dear ARABIC-L Members: My name is Alena Palevitz and I work for American Councils for International Education in Washington, DC. We implement three fully-funded programs for teachers and administrators that I believe might be of interest to you and to your listserv membership. I would appreciate your assistance distributing these announcements to anyone who you think is interested, and I am happy to answer any questions you have about these programs. My contact information can be found at the bottom of this email. Thank you in advance for your help! BRING THE WORLD TO YOUR SCHOOL! Explore these fully funded programs that are supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and implemented by American Councils for International Education! CONNECT INTERNATIONALLY The Educational Seminars Program provides short-term professional development opportunities to teachers and administrators from around the world, for 2-3 week reciprocal exchange programs and one-way professional development programs. Participating countries include Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, and Uruguay for reciprocal exchanges and Greece, India, and Italy for one-way programs. All Educational Seminars provide airfare, training, travel health care, and living costs. For more information, please visit www.americancouncils.org/es or email edseminars at americancouncils.org. Upcoming Program Application Deadlines: January 6 and March 30, 2012 HOST A GUEST TEACHER The Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) places EFL teachers from China and Egypt in U.S. K-12 host schools for an academic year where they teach Mandarin or Arabic language and culture. TCLP provides teachers’ salaries, healthcare, roundtrip airfare, training, professional development funds, and ongoing program support. To increase the number of Americans teaching and learning these critical languages, selected host schools also receive access to grant opportunities to support language learning projects. For more information, please visit www.tclprogram.org or email tclp at americancouncils.org. Program Application Deadline: January 9, 2012 STUDY LANGUAGE IN EGYPT AND CHINA Intensive Summer Language Institutes (ISLI) provides fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic in Alexandria, Egypt, and Chinese in Changchun, China. Current K-12 teachers, community college instructors of Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, and students enrolled in education programs who intend to teach these languages can apply. Participants earn ten hours of graduate credit through Bryn Mawr College, and are provided with peer tutors and roundtrip airfare. All travel and study-related costs are fully covered. For more information, please visit www.americancouncils.org/isli or email isli at americancouncils.org. Program Application Deadline: March 2, 2012 Sincerely, Alena Palevitz Program Officer, Teacher Programs, Arabic and Chinese Intensive Summer Language Institutes American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1828 L Street, NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20036 Tel: 202.833.7522 Fax: 202.833.7523 Web: www.americancouncils.org/isli -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:11 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:11 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:V Int Conf on Moroccan Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:V Int Conf on Moroccan Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Paula Santillán Subject:V Int Conf on Moroccan Arabic · CALL FOR PAPERS · Event: V International Congress on Moroccan Arabic: From Orality towards Teaching Dates: April, 27 and 28 2012 Location: Casa Árabe, Madrid (Spain) (www.casaarabe.es) Registration deadline: December, 15 2011 (early bird) & April, 20 2012 Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2011 Email: VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d9a867b Organization: Autonomous University of Madrid and Casa Arabe 1. About the Congress Nowadays the Moroccan population in Spain surpasses 750,000 people. This situation poses a challenge in terms of the language that this social group communicates in as well as several other social matters related to them. In Spain, during the last few years the demand for learning Moroccan Arabic has increased markedly in a number of areas of the society. In Morocco, meanwhile, university professors, public school teachers, pedagogues, and other professionals related to the field of education have expressed the need for an instruction –at least at the primary school level- in the mother tongue, i. e., Moroccan Arabic or Berber. This situation is being tackled in two ways. On the one hand, huge efforts are being made in order to standardize the language with reference to both the writing system and its structure. This process of standardization is based on texts that are compilations, translations from foreign languages, or originally authored texts. On the other hand, in Spain the experts in the field have published a number of teaching materials for learning Moroccan Arabic in attendance of the demands of the Spanish citizens who, motivated by job, personal or other goals, feel the need to learn this language. 2. Main Topics - Teaching and learning Moroccan Arabic. - Linguistic studies from a dialectal or sociolinguistic perspective. - The standardization and normalization of Moroccan Arabic. - The schooling of Moroccan children in Spain. - Cross-culturality. - Language policy-making. - Ethnography of communication. - Literary translation and edition. 3. Keynote Speakers - Prof. Abderrahim Youssi - Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. Lecture: Either the camel dies, or the teacher, or the Sultan: The equation of literacy, ideology, and politics in the Maghreb. - Prof. Jan Hoogland – Director of the Dutch Institute in Morocco and professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Holland. Lecture: Towards a standardized orthography of Moroccan Arabic based on best practices and common ground among a selection of authors. - Prof. Francisco Moscoso - Autonomous University of Madrid Lecture: El árabe de Ceuta. Argumentos para su cooficialidad. The comlpete program will be posted one month before the congress. 4. Registration Before December 15, 2011 (early bird): Regular fee 40€ / Reduced fee 20€. >From December 16, 2011 until April 20, 2012: Regular fee 50€ / Reduced fee 25€. Students and unemployed people are elegible to pay the reduced fee provided that they submit the required documentation (students: official registration form from an academic institution; unemployed: unemployment card). Candidates selected to present a paper are also eligible for the reduced fee. The registration fees should be transfered to the following bank account (Barclays Bank): National transfer: 0065 0104 11 0001057323 International transfer: IBAN: ES23 0065 0104 11 0001057323 BIC/SWIFT: BARCESMM The following data must be specified on the bank receipt or transfer order: ‘V CIAM + first name + last name’. The receipt will then be emailed (in pdf format) to the following address: VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es. A certificate of attendance will be given to those who attend at least 80% of the event. The organizing committe is trying to reach an agreement with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in order for the students to be able to obtain a one-credit recognition for attending the congress. There will be no refund of the regsitration fees. 5. Abstract guidelines Applicants must submit abstracts of no more than 350 words (not including references) in pdf format. The name of the applicant should not be written on the abstract but on the body of the email to which s/he will attach the pdf. Asbtracts must be submitted in two languages: Spanish and English or French. The scientific committee will evaluate them and will select those that will be presented at the congress. The deadling for submitting an abstract is February 1, 2012. The email address to which aplicants must send the abstract is: VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es. The organizing committee will notify the candidates of the selection of their papers maximum 15 days after the abstract submission deadline. The selected candidates should pay the reduced registration fee (25€) and will have to email a copy of the bank transfer (pdf format) maximum 15 days after the announcement of having being selected to participate at the congress. 6. Organizing committee Francisco Moscoso García, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Paula Santillán Grimm, Casa Árabe, Spain 7. Scientific committee: Victoria Aguilar, University of Murcia, Spain Abdellah Chekayri, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco Jan Hoogland, Director of the Dutch Institute in Morocco and profesor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Holland Francisco Moscoso García, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Paula Santillán Grimm, Casa Árabe, Spain For further information about the congress please visit our facebook page at: http://tinyurl.com/d9a867b -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:15 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:15 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Cheng & Tsui New Arabic Materials Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Cheng & Tsui New Arabic Materials -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Cindy Su Subject:Cheng & Tsui New Arabic Materials JUST PUBLISHED! Marhaba! !مرحبا An Invitation to Arabic By Steven Berbeco Small Wonders عجائب صغيرة Large Strides in Reading Arabic_ By Mahmoud Gaafar & Jane Wightwick See samples of these exciting new publications at ACTFL--Cheng & Tsui Booth 7026. Receive a Special 20% Introductory Discount When You Order Before December 20th, 2011 With Coupon Code L101 _________________________________________________________________ About Marhaba! "Students shine as their diverse learning styles are taken into consideration and they are given flexibility that helps them build knowledge and develop language learning skills." – Dora Johnson and Nancy Rhodes, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC Marhaba!, an innovative student-centered and standards-based Arabic curriculum, brings this rich and challenging language to life. Lesson and activity guides allow educators to help students create personalized textbooks called Daftars, a process that encourages them to take ownership of their own learning. Links: http://www.cheng-tsui.com/store/products/marhaba ABOUT SMALL WONDERS Small Wonders is a new series of graded readers created by professionals especially for learners of Arabic. Beautifully illustrated in full color, the series is particularly appropriate for learners in grades 3-9 and heritage environments. Older learners can also find these readers useful and attractive. Links: http://www.cheng-tsui.com/store/products/small_wonders The vocabulary and grammar are very carefully controlled to suit the level of the learner, starting with short simple sentences and the most common words in Level 1, and introducing more sophisticated language and content in Levels 2 and 3. The vocabulary is cumulative at each level and listed in a glossary. Each book includes cultural information and interesting facts, with stunning images to provide context and visual stimulation. In addition, the content of Small Wonders is aligned with US National Science Education Standards. This correlation allows students to connect the material with content from other classes, reinforcing both their Arabic reading comprehension skills and their knowledge of the subject matter On the companion website www.arabicsmallwonders.com, series users will also find full-text audio recordings for each book, as well as many other downloadable resources for students, teachers, and parents. Published by Cheng & Tsui Company, 25 West Street, Boston, MA 02111 USA Cindy Su Marketing Assistant & Event Coordinator Cheng & Tsui 25 West Street Boston, MA 02111 P: 1-800-554-1963 ext.121 F: 1-617-426-3669 cindy at cheng-tsui.com www.cheng-tsui.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:37 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:37 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:PEDA:University of Michigan Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:University of Michigan Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:"Mohammad T. Alhawary" > Subject:University of Michigan Job Arabic Language (Lecturer III) University of Michigan, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, seeks applicants with a MA or PhD, PhD is strongly preferred, for a full time Lecturer III position to begin September 1, 2012 pending authorization. This is a non-tenure track position with a university year appointment. Terms and conditions of employment for this Lecturer III position may be subject to the provisions of a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the University of Michigan and the Lecturers? Employee Organization. Duties and responsibilities for this Lecturer III position are expected to include thorough familiarity with the proficiency-communicative approach, experience in Arabic curriculum development and proficiency testing, and willingness to participate in the Arabic Flagship Program. He/she must be able to teach language and content courses at the intermediate and advanced levels as well as an Arabic dialect, preferably Egyptian colloquial. A typical full-time (100% effort) load for a Lecturer III in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is three courses per semester, or the equivalent in other duties. Qualified candidates will have a MA or PhD in a related field and have extensive background in Arabic language, literature, linguistics or a related field and have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English. Excellence in teaching and instructional service will be the principal criteria used to select the successful candidate. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence, and three (3) letters of reference to Arabic Lecturer Search Committee, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 202 S. Thayer, Suite 4111, Ann Arbor MI 48104-1608, lsa-nes-search at umich.edu. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. We will begin reviewing applications on November 20, 2011, with the aim of interviewing top candidates at MESA in December, and will continue until the position is filled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:31 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:31 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Quran in utf-8 format Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Quran in utf-8 format -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:Abdul-Baqi Sharaf > Subject:Quran in utf-8 format the following page: http://tanzil.net/download/ allows you to download the text in various formats.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:32 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:32 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic/Spanish Spanish/Arabic On-line Dictionary Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic/Spanish Spanish/Arabic On-line Dictionary -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:Paula Santillán > Subject:Arabic/Spanish Spanish/Arabic On-line Dictionary The Spanish research group ARABELE is glad to launch the Arabic-Spanish/Spanish-Arabic on-line dictionary Al-Qatra, which is addressed to students of Arabic whose mother language is Spanish. Its main features are: * It has been devised with a main pedagogical goal: apart from providing the user with word definitions, it tries to help him/her find the way to express specific ideas. * It reflects a contemporary use of the language. * It includes contextual information (syntactic, morphological, pragmatic explanations, etc.) * It presents lexical combinations beyond the word. * Most of the entries are accompanied by a voice recorded example of the lema. * It is free of charge. Please, if you want to know more about the project click on the link below: http://www.um.es/arabele/diccionario/index.php -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:35 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:35 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UC Berkeley Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:UC Berkeley Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:Erik Nelson > Subject:UC Berkeley Job University of California, Berkeley Arabic Coordinator (Non-Tenure Track) The Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a non-tenure track position as lecturer to serve as coordinator of the Arabic language program. The appointment, which is renewable, will be effective July 1, 2012. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. The successful candidate must have a M.A. or Ph.D. in Arabic language, linguistics, or related field, and experience teaching Arabic at the college level. S/he must possess native or near-native competence in speaking, writing, and reading Arabic, and must have the capacity to employ up-to-date and effective methods of language pedagogy and testing. The ability to teach a colloquial dialect will be a plus. Responsibilities include teaching first- and second-year Arabic language courses; coordinating and supervising Graduate Student Instructors and temporary lecturers; cooperating with the department¹s other language coordinators in planning and teaching the department¹s Language Pedagogy course for teachers of Near Eastern languages, and providing preparatory guidance and materials for Graduate Students Instructors and lecturers teaching Arabic during the summer session. The following materials, postmarked on or before January 2nd, 2012, should be sent to Arabic Language Coordinator Search, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 250 Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Ca. 94720-1940: an application letter, an up-to-date curriculum vitae, three confidential letters of recommendation, a video tape or digital video via either DVD or web link of not more than twenty minutes of a recent class taught by the applicant. The demonstration video may be from an elementary or intermediate Arabic class, but should not be from the very early first-year Arabic lessons. Electronic submission will not be accepted. Kindly refer potential referees to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality found at http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html. The University of California is an equal opportunity employer. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Application Deadline: January 2nd, 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:29 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:29 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Tunisian Female Novelists (writing French) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Tunisian Female Novelists (writing French) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Tunisian Female Novelists (writing French) Title: L'idéolecte des romancières tunisiennes de graphie française Subtitle: Stratégies linguistiques et stylistiques au service de l'expression identitaire Publication Year: 2011 Publisher: Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?21762 Author: Rossana Curreri Paperback: ISBN: 9789052017624 Pages: 179 Price: U.S. $ 41.95 Paperback: ISBN: 9789052017624 Pages: 179 Price: U.K. £ 25.00 Paperback: ISBN: 9789052017624 Pages: 179 Price: Europe EURO 27.50 Comment: for Germany EURO 29.40, for Austria EURO 30.30 (inc. VAT) Abstract: Pour suppléer à la tendance dominante de faire de la littérature maghrébine francophone un réceptacle unitaire, l'auteure se propose de saisir des traits ou des traces récurrentes dans un espace national défini. Contribution originale au confluent des études linguistiques et des études littéraires, cet ouvrage cerne le discours collectif des romancières tunisiennes musulmanes de graphie française dès 1975 à nos jours par une méthode d'analyse (trans)textuelle. La nouveauté de la démarche proposée consiste à décrire l'idéolecte de ces écrivaines en prenant à témoins les modèles discursifs de l'oralité et de l'écriture, les figures de rhétorique récurrentes telles que l'allégorie, l'antonomase et l'oxymore, les lieux les plus fortement marqués idéologiquement, que ce soit le politique ou le religieux, et le réceptacle naturel où l'idéologie du texte est synthétisée, voire le titre. Contenu : Positionnement énonciatif des romancières tunisiennes - Incorporation de la tunisianité - Plurilinguisme - Code mixing et code switching - Allégorie de la Femme-Nation - Shahrazad - Discours monologique et discours dialogique - Corporalité de la langue - Titrologie - Stylistique. Docteur de recherche en études françaises, Rossana Curreri a discuté une thèse sur « Les romans féminins tunisiens de graphie française des origines à nos jours ». Elle s'intéresse à la francophonie, à la traduction/traductologie et aux variétés diastratiques, diaphasiques et diamésiques du français. Elle a traduit en italien le roman Les Jardins du Nord de Souâd Guellouz et les pièces Le Masque de Sika et Parabole de José Pliya. Elle enseigne la langue française à l'Université de Catane. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:43 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:43 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teachers needed for Short Term Courses Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Teachers needed for Short Term Courses -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:Jaime Ortiz > Subject:Teachers needed for Short Term Courses An Austin-based non-profit educational organization is seeking qualified individuals to develop and deliver occasional short courses in Arabic, Pashtu, Farsi, and Urdu. Assignments would be on-call and require travel within the U.S. Interested persons should submit a CV or resume to cvsubmit at tiec.org. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:35 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:35 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Translation of Jurji Zaidan's The Conquest of Andalusia Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Translation of Jurji Zaidan's The Conquest of Andalusia -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:GCZaidan at aol.com Subject:Translation of Jurji Zaidan's The Conquest of Andalusia Friends, I am pleased to inform you that the translation into English of The Conquest of Andalusia a romantic historical novel by Jurji Zaidan has just been completed by Professor Roger Allen of the University of Pennsylvania. It is available on-line at createspace or amazon which also has a digital version on Kindle as follows: www.createspace.com/3597663 www.amazon.com This work has been sponsored by the Zaidan Foundation. See more details about the novel in the attached Newsletter and flyer. For a description of the activities of the Foundation visit its website: www.zaidanfoundation.org Feel free to distribute attached Press Release and Flyer to your friends and other interested parties and/or forward this email to them. Thanks! George -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:41 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:41 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Sahlawayhi Level 4 -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:Ahmed Hassan Khorshid > Subject:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Dear colleagues, 1. Sahlawayhi's Stories level 4 is the first level for intermediate students. The first three levels are for beginners. 2. Three of the four stories in this level are on the Egyptian revolution. So, it can be extra material for intermediate media classes as well. salaam. -- Ahmad Khorshid Arabic Language Instructor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:46 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:46 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Kitaab Workshop Thursday Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Al-Kitaab Workshop Thursday -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:Jacqueline Beilhart > Subject:Al-Kitaab Workshop Thursday Dear Arabic Teachers, One of the Al-Kitaab authors, Mahmoud Al-Batal, will be doing a workshop in Washington, DC on Thursday, December 1st in conjunction with the annual MESA conference. The workshop will go from 9am-1pm at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Wilson A (M). Dr. Al-Batal will discuss how to use the new third editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab, Part One. Coffee and bagels will be provided. If you haven't already, please RSVP to Jackie Beilhart at jb594 at georgetown.edu. Attendees do not have to be registered for the MESA conference. Should you be planning to attend the MESA conference, we encourage you to stop by the Georgetown University Press booth, number 58, on Saturday, December 3rd at 10:30am for a meet and greet with Mahmoud Al-Batal,one of the authors of the Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program, and a light in-booth breakfast reception. My thanks and best, Jackie -- Jacqueline Beilhart Publicist & Exhibits Coordinator Georgetown University Press 3240 Prospect St, NW Washington, DC 20007 jb594 at georgetown.edu (p) 202-687-9298 (f) 202-625-0239 www.press.georgetown.edu georgetownup.wordpress.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:32 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:32 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Post-doc in Arabic CompLing at Cambridge Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Post-doc in Arabic CompLing at Cambridge -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Post-doc in Arabic CompLing at Cambridge University or Organization: University of Cambridge Department: Department of Engineering Job Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Statistical Machine Translation Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) Description: A position is expected to become available for a Research Associate to work on statistical machine translation. The project, funded by the DARPA Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) programme, will involve collaboration with IBM TJ Watson Research Center and other leading machine translation researcher groups in Europe and the USA. The aim of the project is to dramatically improve statistical machine translation relative to the current state of the art. The successful candidate will have a very good first degree in a relevant discipline and preferably have a higher degree in Engineering or Computer Science. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in large-scale syntax-based statistical machine translation, weighted finite state transducers, and machine learning and statistical pattern processing techniques. As two of the languages of interest are Arabic and Mandarin, fluency in either of these languages would be an advantage. Further details may be obtained from Dr Bill Byrne, email address below. To apply complete form CHRIS /6 (cover sheet for CV) available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/ and send with your CV and covering letter to Dr Bill Byrne at the application address or email address below. Quote Reference: NA10372,Closing Date: 30 December 2011 Interview Date(s): Interviews will be held with selected candidates as soon as possible after the closing date. Application Deadline: 30-Dec-2011 Mailing Address for Applications: Dr Bill Byrne Department of Engineering Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ United Kingdom Email Address for Applications: bill.byrne at eng.cam.ac.uk Web Address for Applications: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/-10372/ Contact Information: Dr Bill Byrne Email: bill.byrne at eng.cam.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:34 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:34 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING,PEDA,LIT:Various Jobs Qatar University Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Various Jobs Qatar University -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Various Jobs Qatar University [note: I am pasting here a series of jobs for Qatar University that appeared on LINGUIST. If you are interested, keep looking down the list, since the fields are varied.] Job 1 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Associate Professor Specialty Areas: Discourse Analysis Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for Associate Professor of Discourse Analysis, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantive research, academic and teaching experience in discourse analysis. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the Master students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-052 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa Job 2 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Associate Professor Specialty Areas: Literary Theory Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for Associate Professor in Literary Theory, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantial research, academic and teaching experience in Literary Theory. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the Master students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-050 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa Job 3 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha,, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Full Professor Specialty Areas: Modern Linguistic Theory Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for the position of Full Professor in Modern Linguistic Theory, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantial research, academic and teaching experience in Modern Linguistic Theory. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the Master students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-051 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa Job 4 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Associate Professor Specialty Areas: General Linguistics Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic Language at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for the position of Associate Professor of Linguistics, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantial research, academic and teaching experience in Linguistics. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the undergraduate students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-057 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa Job 5 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Assistant Professor Specialty Areas: Ling & Literature Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic Language at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for Assistant Professor in Arabic Language & Literature, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantial research, academic and teaching experience in Arabic Language & Literature. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the undergraduate students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-056 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:43:22 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:43:22 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:new textbooks Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:new textbooks -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:austin.lassiter at alucen.com Subject:new textbooks Salaam, My name is Austin Lassiter and I am contacting you regarding Alucen Learning's latest titles for Arabic language and culture classes. Please do take a moment to review these titles and let me know if you have questions or there is any additional information I can provide. I look forward to hearing from you soon. - Colloquial Palestinian Arabic (http://alucen.com/catalog/colloquial-palestinian-arabic): is a rich exploration of language and culture designed to provide students with the tools they need to succeed in learning the spoken dialect of Palestine and the surrounding region. - Perspectives (http://alucen.com/catalog/perspectives): features a content-based, communicative approach to language learning through Arabic cinema. Perspectives encourages the development of foreign language competency in communication, cultures, connections, comparisons and communities. - Popular Proverbs (http://alucen.com/catalog/popular-proverbs): is a collection of over one thousand proverbs from Palestine and across the Arabic-speaking world, providing an informative and entertaining treasure trove of knowledge for anyone with interest in this remarkable culture. Sincerely, Austin Lassiter -- Austin Lassiter Alucen Learning (757) 288.3714 austin.lassiter at alucen.com http://alucen.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 01 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:42:50 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:42:50 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Classical and Middle Arabic corpus Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Classical and Middle Arabic corpus -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Mai Zaki > Subject:Needs Classical and Middle Arabic corpus Dear list members, I would like your advice regarding available corpora of written Classical and Middle Arabic. In my new research, I would like to compare demonstrative forms in Modern Standard Arabic with those in Classical and Middle Arabic. For MSA, I have a half a million corpus from different text categories (news articles, literary essays, fiction, sports, etc.). For Classical Arabic, I intend to use the Quran but need more data as well. And I would appreciate your suggestions for a corpus of Middle Arabic. Thanks a lot in advance. Mai Zaki, PhD. Lecturer in Arabic and Translation Studies Middlesex University -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 01 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:42:47 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:42:47 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic root count Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic root count 2) Subject:Arabic root count 3) Subject:Arabic root count 4) Subject:Arabic root count -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Nizar Habash > Subject:Arabic root count Hi Nesrine - Count of roots according to five resources are listed in section 8.2 in this paper: http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P06/P06-1086.pdf. Regards Nizar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Nancy Dietrich > Subject:Arabic root count Wow--that question is right up there with the "meaning of life." Curious to see the answer(s)! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Dan Parvaz > Subject:Arabic root count Dear Nesrine: It depends. What do you mean by an "Arabic" root. Do borrowings count? If not, how do you define a "native" term? If borrowings do count, is there a cutoff date? Do phonologically identical roots count as two or one? Once you have operationalized your definitions, since most dictionaries are organized by root, it's a matter of picking your reference and counting (manually or electronically, depending on the reference). -Dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Slavom?r ??pl? > Subject:Arabic root count Dear Nesrine, try the following references, they may not hold the answer, but they will point you in the right direction: Bachra, Bernard. 2001. The Phonological Structure of the Verbal Roots in Arabic and Hebrew. Brill, Leiden. Greenberg, Joseph. 1950. The patterning of root morphemes in Semitic. Word 6,162-181. Mayer, Thomas, Christian Rohrdantz, Frans Plank, Peter Bak, Miriam Butt, and Daniel A. Keim. 2010. Consonant co-occurrence in stems across languages: Automatic analysis and visualization of a phonotactic constraint. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:43:03 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:43:03 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Alexandria Egypt Study Abroad Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Alexandria Egypt Study Abroad Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Rafah Helal > Subject:Alexandria Egypt Study Abroad Program American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce that the online application for the Arabic Overseas Undergraduate Program in Alexandria, Egypt is live. This program is designed for undergraduate students in the US, at the intermediate level of Arabic. To apply, please visit us at: http://programs.americancouncils.org/AOP Program Dates: May 21, 2012 ? July 21, 2012 Program Components: 20 hours a week of MSA, ECA, and Media classes; 4 hours a week of Conversational Partners to improve ECA; 2-3 overnight excursions; Cultural enrichment activities Benefits: Summer Credits from Bryn Mawr College; Pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC; Round-trip International Airfare from Washington, DC Live in the dorms with an Egyptian student Application Deadline: February 19, 2012 Program Cost: $8,700 including pre-departure orientation, airfare, insurance, tuition, room and board For more information, please contact Rafah Helal at: helal at actr.org Rafah Helal Senior Program Officer Arabic Overseas Programs American Councils for International Education 1828 L Street, N.W. Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20036 202-833-7522 Office 202-833-7523 Fax http://flagship.americancouncils.org www.americancouncils.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 01 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Tue Nov 1 18:42:55 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:42:55 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Graded Stories Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 01 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Graded Stories -------------------------Messages-----------------------------------1) Date: 01 Nov 2011 From:Ahmed Hassan Khorshid > Subject:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Graded Stories *Dear friends and colleagues,* *I've just published my new book. If not interested, please delete this message.* *It's Sahlawayhi's Graded Stories for Intermediate Students, Level 4.* *It has stories number 13-16 in the series. It has 650 words (550 of levels 1-3 plus 100 new ones).* *The structures it emphasizes are:* *- Haal* *- maf'uul mutlaq* *- delaying the demonstrative pronoun* *- comparison between equals (hence maSDar of the same root as adjectives)* *- adding a vowel to avoid 3 consonants in a row* *In addition to a few others.* *I strongly suggest that this level be read in order, as with previous levels, so that students move smoothly from one story to another. The book can be ordered at:* *www.createspace.com/3707924* *Soon it will also be on Amazon.com. If you have questions or need some excerpts from the 4 stories, please let me know. I hope you and your students enjoy it. salaam. * -- Ahmad Khorshid Arabic Language Instructor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 01 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:34 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:34 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs transliteration input method Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs transliteration input method -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Rasha K. > Subject:Needs transliteration input method Dear list members, I am doing a PhD study in the UK. In my study I need to transcribe recorded Arabic conversations. I need to find an online keyboard with certain phonetics to type the transcribed Arabic. The kind of phonetics I'm looking for is the use of an "s" with a dot underneath for the letter Saad for example, and a dot on top of the "g" for the letter Ghein. I appreciate your help. Rasha Soliman Senior Arabic Tutor and a PhD student -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:28 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:28 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants opinions on best books for MIddle/High School students Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:wants opinions on best curriculum for MIddle/High School students -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From: Subject:wants opinions on best curriculum for MIddle/High School students I am planning a classroom-based, introductory Arabic language course for native English-speaking middle and high school students. What do you consider the best, single curriculum available for students at these grade levels? I am not interested in on-line resources for students at this time. I am aware of resource lists available through NCLRC, AATA and other teacher networks; rather, I?m trying to narrow the list to the texts that are considered ?state-of-the-art.? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:30 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:30 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic SMS corpus Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Arabic SMS corpus -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Wigdan Mekki > Subject:Needs Arabic SMS corpus hi all, I would like to know if there is a public arabic SMS corpus available, would be grateful for your feedback. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:10 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:10 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lang Situation in Morocco Conference program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Lang Situation in Morocco Conference program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Fouad Brigui > Subject:Lang Situation in Morocco Conference program Dear all, The program of the international conference "The language situation in Morocco: linguistic description and creation of lexicons" is available at URL: https://sites.google.com/site/portaildugrel/home/programme-colloque-fes-taza Download at url: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxwb3J0YWlsZHVncmVsfGd4OjFkYjgwM2IwZDRjMTE0YzE Best wishes, Fouad Brigui GREL's Coordinator -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:25 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:25 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic for Life Textbook Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic for Life Textbook -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Bassam Frangieh > Subject:Arabic for Life Textbook New for Arabic Courses Arabic for Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic Bassam K. Frangieh Arabic for Life takes an intensive, comprehensive approach to beginning Arabic instruction and is specifically tailored to the needs of talented and dedicated students. Unlike the other Arabic textbooks on the market, Arabic for Life is not specifically focused on either grammar or proficiency. Instead, it offers a balanced methodology that combines these goals. Frangieh has created a book that is full of energy and excitement about Arabic language and culture, and it effectively transmits that excitement to students. Arabic for Life offers a dynamic and multidimensional view of the Arab world that incorporates language with Arabic culture and intellectual thought. Arabic for Life also includes a DVD with some eighty videos of native speakers reciting the vocalized texts in the book, with dozens of audio recordings covering vocabulary and expressions, drills on Arabic sounds and letters, and various exercises and activities Bassam Frangieh is professor of Arabic at Claremont McKenna College. He previously taught at Georgetown and Yale. He is the author of Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present, published by Yale University Press. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:22 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:22 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2 2nd Language Acq Jobs at Hawai'i Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:2 2nd Language Acq Jobs at Hawai'i -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:National Foreign Language Resource Center > Subject:2 2nd Language Acq Jobs at Hawai'i Assistant Professor, with specialization in second language acquisition, two positions (position numbers 82418 and 82462), University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, full-time, tenure track. The Department of Second Language Studies offers a BA, an MA and a PhD in Second Language Studies as well as an Advanced Graduate Certificate. The University of Hawai'i is a Carnegie "very high research activity university" with a strong orientation to the Asia-Pacific region. The University supports interdisciplinary initiatives within and across departments and colleges and places high value on extramural funding. Duties and responsibilities: The Department seeks to hire two faculty members at the assistant professor level in the area of second language acquisition to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the area of SLA, with opportunities to teach in other areas of the Department's curriculum as appropriate. Of particular interest are candidates whose research focuses on one or more of the following areas: * acquisition of SL phonology * bilingualism in social and cognitive contexts * cognitive, sociocultural, neurological and ecological perspectives in SL learning * heritage language learners * identity and SLA * individual differences in SLA * instructed SLA * multilingual literacy development * technology and SLA * young learners Minimum qualifications: Doctorate in second language studies, applied linguistics, or closely related field by August 2012. Demonstrated ability to carry out research in the applicant's major areas of specialization, as evidenced by publication. Annual 9-month salary range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience To apply: Send cover letter describing research and teaching interests and experience, a CV, a research statement, a teaching statement (including a list of courses taught), sample publications, and a summary of teaching evaluations. In addition, letters of reference should be submitted directly by three recommenders. All application materials should be sent as email attachments to: slschair at hawaii.edu. Please do not specify position number; application for one implies application for both. E-mail inquiries: Dr. James D. Brown brownj at hawaii.edu Dr. Graham Crookes crookes at hawaii.edu Closing date: December 31, 2011 Conditional on availability of position and of funding. The University of Hawaii is an equal opportunities and affirmative action employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:24 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:24 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:2nd Lang Acq Job at Hawai'i Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:2nd Lang Acq Job at Hawai'i -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:National Foreign Language Resource Center > Subject:2nd Lang Acq Job at Hawai'i Assistant Professor, with specialization in second language education (position number 85017) University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, full-time, tenure track. The Department of Second Language Studies offers a BA, an MA and a PhD in Second Language Studies as well as an Advanced Graduate Certificate. The University of Hawai'i is a Carnegie "very high research activity university" with a strong orientation to the Asia-Pacific region. The University supports interdisciplinary initiatives within and across departments and colleges and places high value on extramural funding. Duties and responsibilities: The Department seeks an to hire an assistant professor level in the area of second language education to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the area of SL education, with opportunities to teach in other areas of the Department's curriculum as appropriate. Of particular interest are candidates whose research focuses on one or more of the following areas: * k-16 second language education * language-in-education policies and planning * multilingual/plurilingual/heritage language and literacies development * second language curriculum (e.g., TBLT, inquiry-based approaches, evaluation, critical pedagogy) * second language reading, writing, listening and speaking * sociocognitive, sociocultural, and ecological perspectives * teaching practicum * technology and second language education Minimum qualifications: Doctorate in second language studies, applied linguistics, or closely related field by August 2012. Demonstrated ability to carry out research in the applicant's major areas of specialization, as evidenced by publication; experience in second/foreign language teaching. Annual 9-month salary range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience To apply: Send cover letter describing research and teaching interests and experience, a CV, a research statement, a teaching statement (including a list of courses taught), sample publications, and a summary of teaching evaluations. In addition, letters of reference should be submitted directly by three recommenders. All application materials should be sent as email attachments to: slschair at hawaii.edu. E-mail inquiries: Dr. James D. Brown brownj at hawaii.edu Dr. Graham Crookes crookes at hawaii.edu Closing date: December 31, 2011 Conditional on availability of position and of funding. The University of Hawaii is an equal opportunities and affirmative action employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 11 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Fri Nov 11 10:44:33 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:33 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 11 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Gerlach Books -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 11 Nov 2011 From:Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies > Subject:Gerlach Books Arabic Primary Sources in Multi-Volume Editions Until 16th November we offer 25% discount on 32 antiquarian Arabic Primary Sources in Mulit-Volume Editions (378 volumes altogether) of authors like: al-'Asqalani, al-Asbahani, al-Baghdadi, Al-Jahiz, Ibn 'Asakir, Ibn Khaldoun, Ibn Khalikan, Ibn Mandhur, and Yaqut. 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The new edition of Alif Baa (3rd ) is full of great material and you can easily adapt it to your student?s needs at the middle school ? and you might not need any other books. For HS , I start with Alif Baa & continue with Al kitaab. Again, I really like many of the new features in the 3rd edition. For all levels, I adapt it to my students? needs & pace of learning. Another great resource is the Marhaba curriculum by Steven Berbeco. I strongly recommend that you check it out. The beauty of it is that you easily adapt it to your needs & your desired outcomes. I understand that it will be launched at the upcoming ACTFL meeting (Nov 17 ? 20). If you google Marhaba you will be able to have all the info you need. I can reassure you that your middle school students would love many of its features. I am sure there are other good books too but the ones above are the ones I have had much success with. As always, you must supplement with other material. 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Objectives This conference aims to strengthen ties between academic disciplines, provide a platform for graduate students to present their research projects, exchange ideas, and create a network of emerging scholars spanning a variety of fields. For this reason, we encourage abstract submissions not only from students within Middle Eastern Studies programs, but also from disciplines such as Anthropology, Economics, Education, Gender & Women?s Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Religious Studies, etc. Paper Topics Applicants are encouraged to submit pre-organized panel proposals. Proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Select papers may be published in the group?s online journal, Zaytoon. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to: Human Rights Media & Visual Arts Environment Colonialism Art & Architecture Minorities Diasporas Nationalis Peace & Security Studies Social Movements Pedagogy Dance & Performative Arts Submission Guidelines Paper abstract submissions are due Thursday, December 15, 2011 for international students and Thursday, January 19, 2012 for domestic students. Abstracts must be 250 words or less and submitted as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. Non-standard fonts should be embedded in the PDF format. Abstracts must be anonymous aside from paper title and description and emailed to confuamena at gmail.com. In the body of this email, please include author name, school and department affiliation, phone number and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out within three weeks of the abstract submission deadline. 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Arabic Gigaword Fifth Edition includes all of the content of the fourth edition of Arabic Gigaword (LDC2009T30) plus new data covering the period from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010. Nine distinct sources of Arabic newswire are represented in this distribution: Asharq Al-Awsat (aaw_arb) Agence France Presse (afp_arb) Al-Ahram (ahr_arb) Assabah (asb_arb) Al Hayat (hyt_arb) An Nahar (nhr_arb) Al-Quds Al-Arabi (qds_arb) Ummah Press (umh_arb) Xinhua News Agency (xin_arb) The seven-character codes shown above represent both the directory names where the data files are found, and the 7-letter prefix that appears at the beginning of every file name. The 7-letter codes consist of the three-character source name IDs and the three-character language code ("arb") separated by an underscore ("_") character. The three-character language code conforms to the ISO 639-3 standard. In addition to adding new data, the following updates were made: Repeated documents in Asharq Al-Awsat data from 2008 were removed. Document formatting and docid duplication problems were corrected in Agence France Presse data. Significant duplication of content in 2007-2008 An Nahar data was detected, and the duplicated documents were removed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 12 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 12:52:27 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:52:27 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Project Extension Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Project Extension -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:"Rodgers, Jonathan" > Subject:Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Project Extension Dear Colleagues, The University of Michigan Library?s ?Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan? project staff are pleased to announce that our collaborative project to fully catalogue our Islamic Manuscripts Collection has been officially extended through December 2012. This extension will allow us to complete the time-consuming physical examination of those manuscripts that have thus far only been examined in the digital environment by the project cataloguer, Evyn Kropf, and by our generous colleagues around the world. To date, this extensive digital examination - combined with physical examination efforts on the part of the project cataloguer and her cataloguing assistants, has resulted in 810 of the roughly 880 previously uncatalogued manuscripts being fully or near fully catalogued with detailed, data-rich records in our online library catalogue. 136 of these are in fact manuscripts for which digitization is not possible at this time. The extension will also allow us to continue receiving and archiving your contributions to enhance the cataloguing as you interact with the manuscripts and their descriptions via the project website (http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic ). We greatly appreciate your support for the project thus far, and would be especially grateful for any further contributions you could make to the cataloguing of the remaining manuscripts, including review of existing descriptive data where available. These manuscripts still to be catalogued are listed on the project site here: http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/notyetcatalogued Your expertise remains an invaluable complement to our local cataloguing efforts. Treasures from the collection are still being unearthed, and we appreciate your continued participation in the cataloguing endeavors. We look forward to seeing your comments posted to the project site and thank you in advance for your valuable contribution to this project. As always, please feel free to forward any questions, comments and/or suggestions to project staff atislamic.manuscripts at umich.edu -- Jonathan Rodgers Head, Near East Division, University of Michigan Library http://www.lib.umich.edu/area-programs/near-east-division Coordinator, Area Programs http://www.lib.umich.edu/area-programs E-mail: jrodgers at umich.edu Postal address: Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1190 USA Tel: (734) 764-7555; Fax:(734) 763-6743 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 12 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 12:52:29 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:52:29 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:transliteration input method Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:transliteration input method 2) Subject:transliteration input method 3) Subject:transliteration input method 4) Subject:transliteration input method -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Amina Inloes > Subject:transliteration input method Hi, This website includes links to a macro for Word which provides keyboard shortcuts for the Arabic diacritic letters (d-dot, etc) and also a toolbar for inserting them easily http://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/students/arabic_unicode_font/. Maybe if it doesn?t have exactly the right ones you can use one and then find/replace at the end Sincerely, Amina Inloes Programme Leader ? MA Islamic Studies The Islamic College / ICAS Press 133 High Road, Willesden London, UK NW10 2SW Tel.: +44 (0)20 8451 9993 ext. 204 http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Dan Parvaz > Subject:transliteration input method Rasha, Have you considered using Buckwalter notation? Each letter corresponds to a orthographic element in Arabic script, and it's easy to enter using a conventional keyboard, which makes it portable. Changing it to a more conventional transcription system with diacritics is a simple matter of search and replace (replacing all instances of 'g' with '?' or '|' with '?', for instance). Cheers, -Dan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Seham > Subject:transliteration input method Here is a link http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbols.htm Good luck -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Maxim Romanov > Subject:transliteration input method Dear Rasha, If you are using MS Word, you can use autocorrect function and assign any combination to the symbols you need. Try the attached Word template (made for PC, but the same system works fine with Mac too). In the attached template there are only symbols which are used for transliteration of Classical/Modern Standard Arabic. The autocorrect system is very simple: - all symbols with dots and macrons are entered with " ,symbol, " combinations (comma, needed symbol, comma), for capital letters " ,symbolsymbol, " (comma, needed symbol twice, comma). - combination for 'ayn is " ,`, " - combination for hamza is ",/," You will also need a unicode font, which actually has these symbols; if you have MS Word 7, you can use Cambria (it seems to have all necessary ones), alternatively, you can download and install Gentium font (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Gentium_download), which was designed specifically for linguists. NB: Listserv does not accept attachments, so I can email if to you directly if you are interested. Others are welcome as well. Best regards, Maxim G. 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URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 12 13:59:44 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:59:44 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:curriculum for Middle/High School Students Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 12 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson < dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu ] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:curriculum for Middle/High School Students -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Nov 2011 From:Wafa Hassan Subject:curriculum for Middle/High School Students There are many good books and many other materials are available to choose from to teach Arabic to Middle and High school students. Teachers need a thematically and standards-based curriculum allows them to set clear learning objectives and to be able to plan their lesson from day one to the last day of school. A curriculum that is communicative and foster student-centered activities. With the support of the Arabic Flagship Program, MSU, we developed secondary (Middle/High school) 36 thematic units aligned with ACTFL National Standards and backwards curriculum design. The curriculum is currently being used by many schools in the US and abroad. Next week in Denver (ACTFL conference 2011) we will introduce our curriculum, and the new teaching materials that we developed that goes along with each unit. In addition on how to access the curriculum and the materials online through Atlas Curriculum Mapping. Also the system is open for teachers to share their lesson plans and materials from anywhere in the world. Dr. Wafa Hassan Director of Outreach and K-12 Intiatives Arabic Language Flagship Program Michigan State University hassanw at msu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 12 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:03 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:03 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middle School/High School Arabic textbook YA HALA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Middle School/High School Arabic textbook YA HALA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:hanadi dayyeh Subject:Middle School/High School Arabic textbook YA HALA A book for teaching Arabic as a foreign language for MS is published by Hachette Antoinne publishing house. The title of the book is Ya Hala, it is unit based, thematic and meets AERO+ Standards and CCF learners outcomes. Two levels are out now 1 A and 1B. The book is accompanied by activities for interactive smart boards, audio CD and teacher's guide. If interested please contact: sandra.yazbeck at hachette-antoine.com Hanadi Dayyeh Author of YA HALA N-12 Arabic Coordinator American Community School in Beirut -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:19 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:19 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teachers of Critical Languages Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Teachers of Critical Languages Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Ghassan Husseinali Subject:Teachers of Critical Languages Program Salam, The American Councils for International Education every year sponsors 10 Arabic teachers from Egypt to teach in US public schools. This program is called "Teachers of Critical Languages Program" (TCLP). The program is paid for by the State Department and it costs the hosting school nothing. If anybody is involved K-12 Arabic program or knows somebody who is involved K-12 Arabic, this is a great opportunity for them to have somebody help out with their program. Sponsored teachers are carefully selected with many years of experience and professional training credentials. If you are interested in learning more about the program, please visit: http://www.americancouncils.org/TCLP/ To apply to host an Arabic teacher through this program go to : https://ais.americancouncils.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/AIR If you have any questions about TCLP you can email me at : emailghassan at yahoo.com or talk to me at ACTFL in Denver( Thursday -Saturday) Cell: 203 815 6663 Best, Ghassan Husseinali, PhD Assistant Professor of Arabic -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:17:58 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:17:58 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs UTF-8 unvowelled text file of Quran Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs UTF-8 unvowelled text file of Quran -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:alhowity Subject:Needs UTF-8 unvowelled text file of Quran Dear Sir/Meme I would like to have Holy Quran in txt file UTF-8 non vowelized thank you khaled alhawiti -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:00 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:00 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants MS Curriculum Without Denver Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Wants MS Curriculum Without Denver -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:masoud ali Subject:Wants MS Curriculum Without Denver Salam ya Wafa, I can not make it to Denver , Is there a way by which I can access your curriculum online? I am currently in Germany teaching Arabic at the Marshall Center. Thanks Masoud -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:13 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:13 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CET Resident Director Job, Irbid, Jordan Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:CET Resident Director Job, Irbid, Jordan -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Joseph Essex Subject:CET Resident Director Job, Irbid, Jordan CET Academic Programs is now accepting applications for the Resident Director (RD) position at the Intensive Arabic Language & Culture Studies program in Irbid, Jordan, to begin in January 2012. The RD is responsible for administering all non-academic facets of the program. Ideal candidates will have a MA degree, near fluency in Arabic and English (Jordanian dialect preferred), and at least two years of professional or academic experience in the Middle East (Jordan preferred). Complete job description, responsibilities, requirements, and benefits summary can be found here. CET Academic Programs ~ Innovators in Study Abroad Since 1982 Joseph Essex Middle East Programs Manager 1920 N Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington. D.C. 20036 Phone: 202-349-0676, 800-225-4262, ext.7383 Fax: 202-342-0317 Email: jessex at academic-travel.com Web: www.cetacademicprograms.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:17:53 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:17:53 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Telecommute/Teaching Jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic Telecommute/Teaching Jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Arabic Telecommute/Teaching Jobs University or Organization: VL247 Job Location: , ---------------- (Telecommute) Job Rank: Instructor Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics Description: VL247 is hiring qualified native speakers of any language and culture to facilitate language training to a diverse range of students. Languages include but are not limited to: - Arabic - Chinese Mandarin - Dari - Farsi - French - Pashto - Russian - Spanish - Tagalog - Somali - Urdu - Portuguese - and more! Minimum requirements include a Bachelor's degree; native fluency in the language; basic English language skills; and computer/technical proficiency is strongly recommended. Further, it is preferred that applicants possess knowledge and understanding of the ILR proficiency scale (Interagency Language Roundtable). Candidates should also demonstrate knowledge of the respective area's history, culture, politics and economy; possess the ability to use the latest technology; and be open to new teaching techniques. Also desired is experience in teaching language skills to a wide range of students, from beginners to those at a more advanced proficiency level. Instructors for VL247 will be part of a team approach that develops training content that realistically relates to the student's interests and needs. Not only will the instructor's responsibility be to foster an environment that promotes language learning and cultural enrichment but also to demonstrate and incorporate knowledge of the student's interests and needs into every session. Candidates can submit a resume to the application email address below. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: careers at vl247llc.com Contact Information VL247 Recruiting Email: careers at vl247llc.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:14 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:14 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Wisconsin Summer Institute Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:U of Wisconsin Summer Institute -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Arabic Persian Turkish Language Immersion Institute Subject:U of Wisconsin Summer Institute Application materials for Summer 2012 are now available! * *LIVE* alongside your classmates and faculty on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. * *BREATHE* the culture and beauty of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in an environment that stresses mastery through total immersion. * *LEARN* in the classroom, at meals, and during other weeknight and weekend activities. The Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Language Immersion Institute (APTLII) is an eight-week intensive summer language immersion program for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. Outside of the classroom, students commit to using their target language at all times - in their shared living space on campus, at meals, and at co-curricular activities that combine to create a language immersion experience. Courses are offered at levels ranging from Beginner to Advanced (depending on sufficient enrollment), and provide two semesters of academic credit. Instruction is given in small groups taught by native speakers and experienced language teachers. The classes are intensive, involving a minimum of 4.5 hours contact hours Mondays through Fridays, with a packed schedule of afternoon and evening activities and workshops. APTLII meets the requirements for Title VI Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships. $6,750 covers tuition, room, board, and fees Rolling admissions until classes filled or May 15, 2012 aptlii.global.wisc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:17:53 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:17:53 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Lexicography Jobs (South Levantine) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Lexicography Jobs (South Levantine) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Lexicography Jobs (South Levantine) University or Organization: AECOM Department: Language Research Center Job Location: Maryland, USA Web Address: http://www.aecom.com Job Rank: Linguists Specialty Areas: Lexicography Required Language(s): Arabic, South Levantine (ajp) Aramaic, Old (oar) Russian (rus) Somali (som) Urdu (urd) Description: Linguist Positions Avaliable The Language Research Center, a division of AECOM, has openings for full- time temporary and full-time permanent Urdu, Abanto, Somali, Jordanian, Syrian, and Russian linguists to join our staff to prepare language-training materials such as bilingual dictionaries, readers, grammars, and textbooks. The ideal candidates will be native speakers and have near native fluency in English; Ph.D is preferred; BA or BS degree or equivalent experience with language and/or literature will be considered. Must be a U.S. citizen or eligible to work in the United States. Potential candidates will be given a low level security check. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: cybil.harris at aecom.com Contact Information: Program Manager Cybil Harris Email: charr871 at netscape.net Phone: 301-864-1410 Fax: 301-864-8956 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:05 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:05 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Input method Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Transliteration Input method 1) Subject:Transliteration Input method -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:"Knut S. Vik?r" Subject:Transliteration Input method You can find some more info about the issue at http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/diacs.html For PCs, there is useful info, with a link to a layout, at the Univ. of Chicago site http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/encyclopedia/unicode.html (Apparently, WIndows 7 has some problems with keyboard layout installers, I am not sure if that has been resolved yet for Alt-Latin). For Macs, apart from the MiddleEast-oriented site at the top, you have built in a keyboard for writing diarcritics, US Extended, which can also be used (check under the "International" setting). Knut -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Bo Isaksson Subject:Transliteration Input method Dear Rasha Soliman You ask for an easy way to write transcription signs for Arabic dialect texts. It was just this need to write transcription signs for Arabic dialects, and do it with ease, that made me develop LingfilSemitica in co-operation with Tavultesoft and its world-leading technology Keyman. In addition to all possible transcription signs you can also write IPA symbols with LingfilSemitica. Since August 2011 their is a complete version for the English keyboard. You may test it for free in 30 days. Just click www.lingfilsemitica.com or www.tavultesoft.com/buy/. Bo Isaksson Prof. of Semitic Languages Uppsala University Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:17 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:17 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tareq wa Shireen Apps Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Tareq wa Shireen Apps -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Hanada Taha-Thomure Subject:Tareq wa Shireen Apps My company, Rubicon Group Holding (RGH), is a global entertainment organization with four locations - Jordan (Amman), the U.S. (Los Angeles), the Philippines (Manila) and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) - devoted to the development and production of digital CGI & traditional 2D and 3D animated television, film, Web-based and mobile content; the realization of themed entertainment experiences; the production of digital education and professional development resources; the creation of video games and Web-based applications; and the merchandising of entertainment brands through licensed consumer products.**** RGH has just introduced an innovative series of apps for Arab-speaking children ages 3-8 starring the characters of our animated ?Tareq wa Shireen? (TwS) property in fun activities that help them learn concepts and words in their native language. The first three *Tareq wa Shireen* apps, ?Discover Colors & Shapes,? ?Discover Numbers? and ?Discover Animals? are now available for iPad, and will soon be available for iPhones and Android. A fourth app, ?Discover the Alphabet? is available beginning today. Lite versions of all four app are available free. Full versions are $1.99 each. Here?s a link to see more about the apps: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discover-numbers-tareq-wa/id415926932?mt=8. Very much appreciate your assistance in getting the word out for us. Please let me know if I could provide any additional insight in the product or RGH. Best, BARRY STAGG Global Communications Director Rubicon Group Holding barry.stagg at rubiconstudiosla.com (818) 715-7179 x 227 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:17:56 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:17:56 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Early Arabic Poetry Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Early Arabic Poetry -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Ithaca Press Subject:Early Arabic Poetry Early Arabic Poetry: Select Poems By Dr Alan Jones Hardback 580 pp 235 x 155 Ithaca Press ISBN: 978-0-86372-387-2 November 2011 Read More and Order Here Ithaca Press is pleased to announce the publication of Early Arabic Poetry: Select Poems by Professor Alan Jones. This new edition of Early Arabic Poetry combines the two volumes first published in 1992 and 1996, bringing them together with a new foreword and introduction by Professor Jones, which covers the major background problems faced by students of early Arabic poetry. The book will appeal to academics and students in the fields of Middle East Studies, Arabic, literature and poetry. The book is divided into two main sections: the first section contains a study of fifteen poems from two of the more vivid genres: laments and poems by the outlaws. The second section focuses on famous odes. The poems are analysed in minute detail, providing the student with all the information needed to understand the texts and to consider each poem?s overall thrust and purpose. The study of early Arabic poetry is a difficult one for a number of reasons; it is the work of people of a very alien milieu ? the great composers were camel-dependant nomads; its grammar has many complications that do not survive in the later language; its texts were transmitted orally for up to two-and-a-half centuries; and there are serious problems about authenticity. It is nevertheless a fascinating and rewarding area of study, from which all later Arabic poetry stems. This book provides unique insights into ideas prevalent in the region at the rise of Islam. In his introduction, Professor Jones describes how ?Poetry had a number of facets that took it into the realms of magic?. As well as the inspiration of the poet by his own spirit, and the magic of the sound of poetry recitation, poetic utterances were believed to contain magical forces, particularly when the poem was intended to denigrate or curse. Thus the book transcends mere analysis of poetry to provide a rich critique of the complexities of the subject and the era. Alan Jones taught Arabic, Turkish and Islamic Studies at Oxford from 1957 to 2000, when he retired from his post as Professor of Classical Arabic. Amongst his special interests are pre-Islamic poetry, the Qur?an, and the early growth of Islamic studies. He has also published key works on the poetry of Muslim Spain. His translation of the Qur?an was published in 2007. Kind regards, Arash Hejazi Publisher Ithaca Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:21 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:21 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACIE Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:ACIE Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:ISLI Staff Subject:ACIE Programs Dear ARABIC-L Members: My name is Alena Palevitz and I work for American Councils for International Education in Washington, DC. We implement three fully-funded programs for teachers and administrators that I believe might be of interest to you and to your listserv membership. I would appreciate your assistance distributing these announcements to anyone who you think is interested, and I am happy to answer any questions you have about these programs. My contact information can be found at the bottom of this email. Thank you in advance for your help! BRING THE WORLD TO YOUR SCHOOL! Explore these fully funded programs that are supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and implemented by American Councils for International Education! CONNECT INTERNATIONALLY The Educational Seminars Program provides short-term professional development opportunities to teachers and administrators from around the world, for 2-3 week reciprocal exchange programs and one-way professional development programs. Participating countries include Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, and Uruguay for reciprocal exchanges and Greece, India, and Italy for one-way programs. All Educational Seminars provide airfare, training, travel health care, and living costs. For more information, please visit www.americancouncils.org/es or email edseminars at americancouncils.org. Upcoming Program Application Deadlines: January 6 and March 30, 2012 HOST A GUEST TEACHER The Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) places EFL teachers from China and Egypt in U.S. K-12 host schools for an academic year where they teach Mandarin or Arabic language and culture. TCLP provides teachers? salaries, healthcare, roundtrip airfare, training, professional development funds, and ongoing program support. To increase the number of Americans teaching and learning these critical languages, selected host schools also receive access to grant opportunities to support language learning projects. For more information, please visit www.tclprogram.org or email tclp at americancouncils.org. Program Application Deadline: January 9, 2012 STUDY LANGUAGE IN EGYPT AND CHINA Intensive Summer Language Institutes (ISLI) provides fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic in Alexandria, Egypt, and Chinese in Changchun, China. Current K-12 teachers, community college instructors of Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, and students enrolled in education programs who intend to teach these languages can apply. Participants earn ten hours of graduate credit through Bryn Mawr College, and are provided with peer tutors and roundtrip airfare. All travel and study-related costs are fully covered. For more information, please visit www.americancouncils.org/isli or email isli at americancouncils.org. Program Application Deadline: March 2, 2012 Sincerely, Alena Palevitz Program Officer, Teacher Programs, Arabic and Chinese Intensive Summer Language Institutes American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1828 L Street, NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20036 Tel: 202.833.7522 Fax: 202.833.7523 Web: www.americancouncils.org/isli -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:11 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:11 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:V Int Conf on Moroccan Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:V Int Conf on Moroccan Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Paula Santill?n Subject:V Int Conf on Moroccan Arabic ? CALL FOR PAPERS ? Event: V International Congress on Moroccan Arabic: From Orality towards Teaching Dates: April, 27 and 28 2012 Location: Casa ?rabe, Madrid (Spain) (www.casaarabe.es) Registration deadline: December, 15 2011 (early bird) & April, 20 2012 Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2011 Email: VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d9a867b Organization: Autonomous University of Madrid and Casa Arabe 1. About the Congress Nowadays the Moroccan population in Spain surpasses 750,000 people. This situation poses a challenge in terms of the language that this social group communicates in as well as several other social matters related to them. In Spain, during the last few years the demand for learning Moroccan Arabic has increased markedly in a number of areas of the society. In Morocco, meanwhile, university professors, public school teachers, pedagogues, and other professionals related to the field of education have expressed the need for an instruction ?at least at the primary school level- in the mother tongue, i. e., Moroccan Arabic or Berber. This situation is being tackled in two ways. On the one hand, huge efforts are being made in order to standardize the language with reference to both the writing system and its structure. This process of standardization is based on texts that are compilations, translations from foreign languages, or originally authored texts. On the other hand, in Spain the experts in the field have published a number of teaching materials for learning Moroccan Arabic in attendance of the demands of the Spanish citizens who, motivated by job, personal or other goals, feel the need to learn this language. 2. Main Topics - Teaching and learning Moroccan Arabic. - Linguistic studies from a dialectal or sociolinguistic perspective. - The standardization and normalization of Moroccan Arabic. - The schooling of Moroccan children in Spain. - Cross-culturality. - Language policy-making. - Ethnography of communication. - Literary translation and edition. 3. Keynote Speakers - Prof. Abderrahim Youssi - Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. Lecture: Either the camel dies, or the teacher, or the Sultan: The equation of literacy, ideology, and politics in the Maghreb. - Prof. Jan Hoogland ? Director of the Dutch Institute in Morocco and professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Holland. Lecture: Towards a standardized orthography of Moroccan Arabic based on best practices and common ground among a selection of authors. - Prof. Francisco Moscoso - Autonomous University of Madrid Lecture: El ?rabe de Ceuta. Argumentos para su cooficialidad. The comlpete program will be posted one month before the congress. 4. Registration Before December 15, 2011 (early bird): Regular fee 40? / Reduced fee 20?. >From December 16, 2011 until April 20, 2012: Regular fee 50? / Reduced fee 25?. Students and unemployed people are elegible to pay the reduced fee provided that they submit the required documentation (students: official registration form from an academic institution; unemployed: unemployment card). Candidates selected to present a paper are also eligible for the reduced fee. The registration fees should be transfered to the following bank account (Barclays Bank): National transfer: 0065 0104 11 0001057323 International transfer: IBAN: ES23 0065 0104 11 0001057323 BIC/SWIFT: BARCESMM The following data must be specified on the bank receipt or transfer order: ?V CIAM + first name + last name?. The receipt will then be emailed (in pdf format) to the following address: VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es. A certificate of attendance will be given to those who attend at least 80% of the event. The organizing committe is trying to reach an agreement with the Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in order for the students to be able to obtain a one-credit recognition for attending the congress. There will be no refund of the regsitration fees. 5. Abstract guidelines Applicants must submit abstracts of no more than 350 words (not including references) in pdf format. The name of the applicant should not be written on the abstract but on the body of the email to which s/he will attach the pdf. Asbtracts must be submitted in two languages: Spanish and English or French. The scientific committee will evaluate them and will select those that will be presented at the congress. The deadling for submitting an abstract is February 1, 2012. The email address to which aplicants must send the abstract is: VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es. The organizing committee will notify the candidates of the selection of their papers maximum 15 days after the abstract submission deadline. The selected candidates should pay the reduced registration fee (25?) and will have to email a copy of the bank transfer (pdf format) maximum 15 days after the announcement of having being selected to participate at the congress. 6. Organizing committee Francisco Moscoso Garc?a, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Paula Santill?n Grimm, Casa ?rabe, Spain 7. Scientific committee: Victoria Aguilar, University of Murcia, Spain Abdellah Chekayri, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco Jan Hoogland, Director of the Dutch Institute in Morocco and profesor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Holland Francisco Moscoso Garc?a, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Paula Santill?n Grimm, Casa ?rabe, Spain For further information about the congress please visit our facebook page at: http://tinyurl.com/d9a867b -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Sat Nov 19 16:18:15 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:15 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Cheng & Tsui New Arabic Materials Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 19 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Cheng & Tsui New Arabic Materials -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 19 Nov 2011 From:Cindy Su Subject:Cheng & Tsui New Arabic Materials JUST PUBLISHED! Marhaba! !????? An Invitation to Arabic By Steven Berbeco Small Wonders ????? ????? Large Strides in Reading Arabic_ By Mahmoud Gaafar & Jane Wightwick See samples of these exciting new publications at ACTFL--Cheng & Tsui Booth 7026. Receive a Special 20% Introductory Discount When You Order Before December 20th, 2011 With Coupon Code L101 _________________________________________________________________ About Marhaba! "Students shine as their diverse learning styles are taken into consideration and they are given flexibility that helps them build knowledge and develop language learning skills." ? Dora Johnson and Nancy Rhodes, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC Marhaba!, an innovative student-centered and standards-based Arabic curriculum, brings this rich and challenging language to life. Lesson and activity guides allow educators to help students create personalized textbooks called Daftars, a process that encourages them to take ownership of their own learning. Links: http://www.cheng-tsui.com/store/products/marhaba ABOUT SMALL WONDERS Small Wonders is a new series of graded readers created by professionals especially for learners of Arabic. Beautifully illustrated in full color, the series is particularly appropriate for learners in grades 3-9 and heritage environments. Older learners can also find these readers useful and attractive. Links: http://www.cheng-tsui.com/store/products/small_wonders The vocabulary and grammar are very carefully controlled to suit the level of the learner, starting with short simple sentences and the most common words in Level 1, and introducing more sophisticated language and content in Levels 2 and 3. The vocabulary is cumulative at each level and listed in a glossary. Each book includes cultural information and interesting facts, with stunning images to provide context and visual stimulation. In addition, the content of Small Wonders is aligned with US National Science Education Standards. This correlation allows students to connect the material with content from other classes, reinforcing both their Arabic reading comprehension skills and their knowledge of the subject matter On the companion website www.arabicsmallwonders.com, series users will also find full-text audio recordings for each book, as well as many other downloadable resources for students, teachers, and parents. Published by Cheng & Tsui Company, 25 West Street, Boston, MA 02111 USA Cindy Su Marketing Assistant & Event Coordinator Cheng & Tsui 25 West Street Boston, MA 02111 P: 1-800-554-1963 ext.121 F: 1-617-426-3669 cindy at cheng-tsui.com www.cheng-tsui.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 19 Nov 2011 From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:37 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:37 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:PEDA:University of Michigan Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:University of Michigan Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:"Mohammad T. Alhawary" > Subject:University of Michigan Job Arabic Language (Lecturer III) University of Michigan, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, seeks applicants with a MA or PhD, PhD is strongly preferred, for a full time Lecturer III position to begin September 1, 2012 pending authorization. This is a non-tenure track position with a university year appointment. Terms and conditions of employment for this Lecturer III position may be subject to the provisions of a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the University of Michigan and the Lecturers? Employee Organization. Duties and responsibilities for this Lecturer III position are expected to include thorough familiarity with the proficiency-communicative approach, experience in Arabic curriculum development and proficiency testing, and willingness to participate in the Arabic Flagship Program. He/she must be able to teach language and content courses at the intermediate and advanced levels as well as an Arabic dialect, preferably Egyptian colloquial. A typical full-time (100% effort) load for a Lecturer III in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is three courses per semester, or the equivalent in other duties. Qualified candidates will have a MA or PhD in a related field and have extensive background in Arabic language, literature, linguistics or a related field and have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English. Excellence in teaching and instructional service will be the principal criteria used to select the successful candidate. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence, and three (3) letters of reference to Arabic Lecturer Search Committee, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 202 S. Thayer, Suite 4111, Ann Arbor MI 48104-1608, lsa-nes-search at umich.edu. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. We will begin reviewing applications on November 20, 2011, with the aim of interviewing top candidates at MESA in December, and will continue until the position is filled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:31 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:31 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Quran in utf-8 format Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Quran in utf-8 format -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:Abdul-Baqi Sharaf > Subject:Quran in utf-8 format the following page: http://tanzil.net/download/ allows you to download the text in various formats.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:32 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:32 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic/Spanish Spanish/Arabic On-line Dictionary Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Arabic/Spanish Spanish/Arabic On-line Dictionary -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:Paula Santill?n > Subject:Arabic/Spanish Spanish/Arabic On-line Dictionary The Spanish research group ARABELE is glad to launch the Arabic-Spanish/Spanish-Arabic on-line dictionary Al-Qatra, which is addressed to students of Arabic whose mother language is Spanish. Its main features are: * It has been devised with a main pedagogical goal: apart from providing the user with word definitions, it tries to help him/her find the way to express specific ideas. * It reflects a contemporary use of the language. * It includes contextual information (syntactic, morphological, pragmatic explanations, etc.) * It presents lexical combinations beyond the word. * Most of the entries are accompanied by a voice recorded example of the lema. * It is free of charge. Please, if you want to know more about the project click on the link below: http://www.um.es/arabele/diccionario/index.php -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:35 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:35 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UC Berkeley Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:UC Berkeley Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:Erik Nelson > Subject:UC Berkeley Job University of California, Berkeley Arabic Coordinator (Non-Tenure Track) The Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a non-tenure track position as lecturer to serve as coordinator of the Arabic language program. The appointment, which is renewable, will be effective July 1, 2012. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. The successful candidate must have a M.A. or Ph.D. in Arabic language, linguistics, or related field, and experience teaching Arabic at the college level. S/he must possess native or near-native competence in speaking, writing, and reading Arabic, and must have the capacity to employ up-to-date and effective methods of language pedagogy and testing. The ability to teach a colloquial dialect will be a plus. Responsibilities include teaching first- and second-year Arabic language courses; coordinating and supervising Graduate Student Instructors and temporary lecturers; cooperating with the department?s other language coordinators in planning and teaching the department?s Language Pedagogy course for teachers of Near Eastern languages, and providing preparatory guidance and materials for Graduate Students Instructors and lecturers teaching Arabic during the summer session. The following materials, postmarked on or before January 2nd, 2012, should be sent to Arabic Language Coordinator Search, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 250 Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Ca. 94720-1940: an application letter, an up-to-date curriculum vitae, three confidential letters of recommendation, a video tape or digital video via either DVD or web link of not more than twenty minutes of a recent class taught by the applicant. The demonstration video may be from an elementary or intermediate Arabic class, but should not be from the very early first-year Arabic lessons. Electronic submission will not be accepted. Kindly refer potential referees to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality found at http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html. The University of California is an equal opportunity employer. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Application Deadline: January 2nd, 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Thu Nov 24 13:27:29 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:29 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Tunisian Female Novelists (writing French) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Tunisian Female Novelists (writing French) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Tunisian Female Novelists (writing French) Title: L'id?olecte des romanci?res tunisiennes de graphie fran?aise Subtitle: Strat?gies linguistiques et stylistiques au service de l'expression identitaire Publication Year: 2011 Publisher: Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?21762 Author: Rossana Curreri Paperback: ISBN: 9789052017624 Pages: 179 Price: U.S. $ 41.95 Paperback: ISBN: 9789052017624 Pages: 179 Price: U.K. ? 25.00 Paperback: ISBN: 9789052017624 Pages: 179 Price: Europe EURO 27.50 Comment: for Germany EURO 29.40, for Austria EURO 30.30 (inc. VAT) Abstract: Pour suppl?er ? la tendance dominante de faire de la litt?rature maghr?bine francophone un r?ceptacle unitaire, l'auteure se propose de saisir des traits ou des traces r?currentes dans un espace national d?fini. Contribution originale au confluent des ?tudes linguistiques et des ?tudes litt?raires, cet ouvrage cerne le discours collectif des romanci?res tunisiennes musulmanes de graphie fran?aise d?s 1975 ? nos jours par une m?thode d'analyse (trans)textuelle. La nouveaut? de la d?marche propos?e consiste ? d?crire l'id?olecte de ces ?crivaines en prenant ? t?moins les mod?les discursifs de l'oralit? et de l'?criture, les figures de rh?torique r?currentes telles que l'all?gorie, l'antonomase et l'oxymore, les lieux les plus fortement marqu?s id?ologiquement, que ce soit le politique ou le religieux, et le r?ceptacle naturel o? l'id?ologie du texte est synth?tis?e, voire le titre. Contenu : Positionnement ?nonciatif des romanci?res tunisiennes - Incorporation de la tunisianit? - Plurilinguisme - Code mixing et code switching - All?gorie de la Femme-Nation - Shahrazad - Discours monologique et discours dialogique - Corporalit? de la langue - Titrologie - Stylistique. Docteur de recherche en ?tudes fran?aises, Rossana Curreri a discut? une th?se sur ? Les romans f?minins tunisiens de graphie fran?aise des origines ? nos jours ?. Elle s'int?resse ? la francophonie, ? la traduction/traductologie et aux vari?t?s diastratiques, diaphasiques et diam?siques du fran?ais. Elle a traduit en italien le roman Les Jardins du Nord de Sou?d Guellouz et les pi?ces Le Masque de Sika et Parabole de Jos? Pliya. Elle enseigne la langue fran?aise ? l'Universit? de Catane. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:43 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:43 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teachers needed for Short Term Courses Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Teachers needed for Short Term Courses -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:Jaime Ortiz > Subject:Teachers needed for Short Term Courses An Austin-based non-profit educational organization is seeking qualified individuals to develop and deliver occasional short courses in Arabic, Pashtu, Farsi, and Urdu. Assignments would be on-call and require travel within the U.S. Interested persons should submit a CV or resume to cvsubmit at tiec.org. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:35 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:35 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Translation of Jurji Zaidan's The Conquest of Andalusia Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Translation of Jurji Zaidan's The Conquest of Andalusia -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:GCZaidan at aol.com Subject:Translation of Jurji Zaidan's The Conquest of Andalusia Friends, I am pleased to inform you that the translation into English of The Conquest of Andalusia a romantic historical novel by Jurji Zaidan has just been completed by Professor Roger Allen of the University of Pennsylvania. It is available on-line at createspace or amazon which also has a digital version on Kindle as follows: www.createspace.com/3597663 www.amazon.com This work has been sponsored by the Zaidan Foundation. See more details about the novel in the attached Newsletter and flyer. For a description of the activities of the Foundation visit its website: www.zaidanfoundation.org Feel free to distribute attached Press Release and Flyer to your friends and other interested parties and/or forward this email to them. Thanks! George -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:41 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:41 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Sahlawayhi Level 4 -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:Ahmed Hassan Khorshid > Subject:Sahlawayhi Level 4 Dear colleagues, 1. Sahlawayhi's Stories level 4 is the first level for intermediate students. The first three levels are for beginners. 2. Three of the four stories in this level are on the Egyptian revolution. So, it can be extra material for intermediate media classes as well. salaam. -- Ahmad Khorshid Arabic Language Instructor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:46 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:46 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Kitaab Workshop Thursday Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Al-Kitaab Workshop Thursday -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:Jacqueline Beilhart > Subject:Al-Kitaab Workshop Thursday Dear Arabic Teachers, One of the Al-Kitaab authors, Mahmoud Al-Batal, will be doing a workshop in Washington, DC on Thursday, December 1st in conjunction with the annual MESA conference. The workshop will go from 9am-1pm at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Wilson A (M). Dr. Al-Batal will discuss how to use the new third editions of Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab, Part One. Coffee and bagels will be provided. If you haven't already, please RSVP to Jackie Beilhart at jb594 at georgetown.edu. Attendees do not have to be registered for the MESA conference. Should you be planning to attend the MESA conference, we encourage you to stop by the Georgetown University Press booth, number 58, on Saturday, December 3rd at 10:30am for a meet and greet with Mahmoud Al-Batal,one of the authors of the Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program, and a light in-booth breakfast reception. My thanks and best, Jackie -- Jacqueline Beilhart Publicist & Exhibits Coordinator Georgetown University Press 3240 Prospect St, NW Washington, DC 20007 jb594 at georgetown.edu (p) 202-687-9298 (f) 202-625-0239 www.press.georgetown.edu georgetownup.wordpress.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:32 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:32 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Post-doc in Arabic CompLing at Cambridge Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Post-doc in Arabic CompLing at Cambridge -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Post-doc in Arabic CompLing at Cambridge University or Organization: University of Cambridge Department: Department of Engineering Job Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Statistical Machine Translation Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) Description: A position is expected to become available for a Research Associate to work on statistical machine translation. The project, funded by the DARPA Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) programme, will involve collaboration with IBM TJ Watson Research Center and other leading machine translation researcher groups in Europe and the USA. The aim of the project is to dramatically improve statistical machine translation relative to the current state of the art. The successful candidate will have a very good first degree in a relevant discipline and preferably have a higher degree in Engineering or Computer Science. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in large-scale syntax-based statistical machine translation, weighted finite state transducers, and machine learning and statistical pattern processing techniques. As two of the languages of interest are Arabic and Mandarin, fluency in either of these languages would be an advantage. Further details may be obtained from Dr Bill Byrne, email address below. To apply complete form CHRIS /6 (cover sheet for CV) available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/ and send with your CV and covering letter to Dr Bill Byrne at the application address or email address below. Quote Reference: NA10372,Closing Date: 30 December 2011 Interview Date(s): Interviews will be held with selected candidates as soon as possible after the closing date. Application Deadline: 30-Dec-2011 Mailing Address for Applications: Dr Bill Byrne Department of Engineering Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ United Kingdom Email Address for Applications: bill.byrne at eng.cam.ac.uk Web Address for Applications: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/-10372/ Contact Information: Dr Bill Byrne Email: bill.byrne at eng.cam.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dil at BYU.EDU Wed Nov 30 09:25:34 2011 From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:34 +0000 Subject: Arabic-L:LING,PEDA,LIT:Various Jobs Qatar University Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 30 Nov 2011 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson > [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Various Jobs Qatar University -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 2011 From:reposted from LINGUIST Subject:Various Jobs Qatar University [note: I am pasting here a series of jobs for Qatar University that appeared on LINGUIST. If you are interested, keep looking down the list, since the fields are varied.] Job 1 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Associate Professor Specialty Areas: Discourse Analysis Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for Associate Professor of Discourse Analysis, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantive research, academic and teaching experience in discourse analysis. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the Master students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-052 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa Job 2 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Associate Professor Specialty Areas: Literary Theory Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for Associate Professor in Literary Theory, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantial research, academic and teaching experience in Literary Theory. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the Master students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-050 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa Job 3 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha,, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Full Professor Specialty Areas: Modern Linguistic Theory Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for the position of Full Professor in Modern Linguistic Theory, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantial research, academic and teaching experience in Modern Linguistic Theory. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the Master students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-051 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa Job 4 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Associate Professor Specialty Areas: General Linguistics Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic Language at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for the position of Associate Professor of Linguistics, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantial research, academic and teaching experience in Linguistics. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the undergraduate students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-057 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa Job 5 University or Organization: Qatar University Department: Department of Arabic Language Job Location: Doha, Qatar Web Address: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/arabic/ Job Rank: Assistant Professor Specialty Areas: Ling & Literature Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: The Department of Arabic Language at Qatar University, Doha, invites applications for Assistant Professor in Arabic Language & Literature, to begin in the Fall of 2012. The position is three years renewable. Application to this position is open to scholars with substantial research, academic and teaching experience in Arabic Language & Literature. Fluency in Arabic and proficiency in English or another European language is required. The candidate must use effective teaching methods that utilize modern technological innovations to ensure the creation of an environment most conducive to learning for the undergraduate students joining the program. The Department of Arabic is committed to familiarizing students with a wide range of texts, theories and perspectives, and to helping create an inclusive intellectual community at Qatar University. Applications should be submitted via Qatar University's online application service by January 31st, 2012. To obtain a more complete description of the position as well as to submit applications, candidates should visit the application URL below. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://recruit.qu.edu.qa/pls/recruitment/print_job_detail?p_adv_job_no=0100-11-056 Contact Information: Dr. Ali AlKubaisi Email: alialkbc at qu.edu.qa -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 30 Nov 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: