From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:32 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:32 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Jazeera Learning Arabic Website Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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-Jazeera Learning Arabic Website -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: A Zouhir Subject: Al-Jazeera Learning Arabic Website Thought learners of Arabic might find this interesting: http://learning.aljazeera.net/arabic Abderrahman Zouhir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:52:00 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:52:00 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article:Subject Expression in Emirati Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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 Article:Subject Expression in Emirati Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: New Article:Subject Expression in Emirati Arabic Journal Title: Language Variation and Change Volume Number: 25 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2013 Main Text: Subject expression and discourse embeddedness in Emirati Arabic Jonathan Owens, Robin Dodsworth, Mary Kohn -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:27 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:27 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Seeks videos on how to roll 'r' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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: Seeks videos on how to roll 'r' -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: "Horesh, Uri" Subject: Seeks videos on how to roll 'r' I'm teaching an intro Arabic class, and one of my students, who has studied some cognitive science and linguistics, and claims to know about brain plasticity and realizes that as a 20 year-old his brain is not as prone to learning a new phonemic inventory than when he was 3, has asked me whether I knew of any good videos for teaching how to roll one's /r/s. Our textbook (Alif Baa) does have videos illustrating how to pronounce *all* Arabic phonemes, but this is inadequate for him. He has searched YouTube, but so far to no avail. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, Uri -- Uri Horesh, Lecturer in Arabic Program in Middle East and North African Studies Northwestern University -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:24 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:24 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mapping Arabic Heritage Conf. CFP Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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: Mapping Arabic Heritage Conf. CFP -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: Jeremy Palmer Subject: Mapping Arabic Heritage Conf. CFP Call for papers Mapping Arabic Heritage: Language, Literature and Culture, Past and Present A joint AUS- BRISMES conference Date: 14-16 April-2014 Location: The American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE. Contact Person: Dr. Imed Nsiri, Dr. Mai Zaki Conference Email: atsbrismes at aus.edu Conference web Site: www.atsbrismesconf.com The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies (ATS) at the American University of Sharjah, with the support of the Center of Gulf Studies (CGS), and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) invite submissions for paper presentations for this event which covers all areas related to Arabic heritage, including Arabic language and linguistics, literature, culture, translation and Islamic studies. Abstracts of original research in the following fields are welcomed: 1. Theoretical and applied issues in Arabic language and linguistics, including linguistic analysis, Arabic language teaching, Arabic dialectology, and the history of Arabic and its contact with other languages. 2. Arabic literature studies covering any period from pre-Islamic era to the present. 3. Islamic studies and studies on the history and culture of Arab society in any time period. 4. Theoretical and applied issues in Arabic translation and interpretation. These topics should only be considered as general guidelines and are not exhaustive. Any paper dealing with Arabic in its linguistic, cultural, literary or translation context will be considered. Anonymous abstracts, not exceeding 300 words, should be sent by email before 31st December 2013 to atsbrismes at aus.edu, with the name and affiliation written in the body of the email. Notification of paper acceptance will be sent via email by end of January 2014. Each presentation will be allowed 15 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Beyond the Colloquium Participants will be asked to develop their papers further for inclusion in a peer-reviewed conference proceeding. It is intended that selected high-quality papers are to be published by BRISMES in a special issue under the title of the conference. The papers accepted can be presented in English or Arabic. Venue This conference will be hosted by the American University of Sharjah. Participants must register in order to take part in the conference. Early bird registration fee is $100, starting on 15th February 2014. Registration on the first day of the conference is $125. This includes refreshments and lunch throughout the conference days and cultural trips in Sharjah, in addition to the conference dinner on April 14th. Please direct any inquiries to Dr. Imed Nsiri at insiri at aus.edu or Dr. Mai Zaki at mzaki at aus.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:29 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:29 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:American U of Beirut Job in Classical Islamic Thought Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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: American U of Beirut Job in Classical Islamic Thought -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: Nadine Rizk Subject: American U of Beirut Job in Classical Islamic Thought The American University of Beirut The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages seeks applicants for a faculty position in the field of Classical Islamic Thought to begin September 1, 2014. Candidates should be able to design and teach advanced courses in Qur'anic Studies and in one or more of the following areas: Islamic theology and its Greco-Arabic background, as well as courses in other fields of classical Islamic thought such as heresiography and classical literary theory. The language of instruction in this department (and only in this department) is Modern Standard Arabic, but mastery of English is an essential requirement. A reading knowledge of French and/or German is desirable. Applicants must be able to teach, in Arabic, service courses in Arabic grammar, Islamic theology and philosophy to native speakers of Arabic. Solid knowledge of the Arabic language and heritage and training in modern Western methodologies are essential. Applicants must have a PhD by the time of appointment. Rank will normally at the assistant professor level; usual contracts are initially for four years. Visiting scholars will be considered. Interested candidates should send a letter of application, a CV, and should arrange for three letters of reference to be directly sent to: Patrick McGreevy Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences American University of Beirut c/o 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 8th Floor New York, NY 10017-2303 Or Patrick McGreevy Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences American University of Beirut P.O. Box 11-0236 Riad El-Solh Beirut 1107 2020 Lebanon Electronic submissions are highly encouraged; please send to: as_dean at aub.edu.lb Review of applications will begin as of November 8, 2013. Interested applicants who will be attending MESA meetings in October are requested, if possible, to submit their materials early, so that preliminary meetings may be arranged. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For more information, please visit http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/pages/academic-employment.aspx The American University of Beirut is an Equal Opportunity Employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013cara -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:22 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:22 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:AIMA IV Program (at Emory U) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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: AIMA IV Program (at Emory U) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: "Horesh, Uri" Subject: AIMA IV Program (at Emory U) Sent on behalf of Benjamin Hary: bhary at emory.edu We are very pleased to invite you to take part in the Fourth International Symposium on Middle and Mixed Arabic, which will be held from Saturday 12 to Tuesday 15 October 2013 at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. After the successful first symposium in Louvain-la-Neuve (2004), the second symposium in Amsterdam (2007), and the third symposium in Florence (2010)1, our university has taken over the task to convene the fourth symposium on the same topic of Middle/Mixed Arabic. The objectives of the fourth symposium are the same as those of the three preceding ones: To study written varieties of Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic (MMA) and varieties, particularly oral, of contemporary Mixed Arabic. The main topic of the conference is The Role of Middle/Mixed Arabic in the Standardization of Modern Arabic in its Actual Written/Spoken Use. The conference theme will deal with questions such as, How is MMA used in contemporary forms of written Arabic? What was the role of MMA in the 'invention' of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)? How are mixed Arabic forms used in contemporary Arabic? How is the Arabic continuum used? How is MMA used in literary classical and modern texts? AIMA IV Emory University The Role of Middle/Mixed Arabic in the Standardization of Modern Arabic in Its Actual Written/Spoken Use All sessions will be held in the Oak Amphitheater, Emory Conference Center Registration is $60 for faculty and $30 for students Saturday, October 12, 2013 Chair: Benjamin Hary, Emory University 7pm Opening Ceremony and Dinner 8:30 Keynote Speaker, Devin Stewart, Emory University “Middle Arabic and Speech Genres” Sunday, October 13, 2013 Breakfast Chair: Vincent Cornell, Emory University 9:00 Opening Remarks 9:30 Liesbeth Zack, The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands “Middle Arabic in Legal Documents from the Dakhla Oasis (Egypt)” 10:00 Johannes den Heijer and Perrine Pilette, Université Catholoique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Nueve, Belgium “Dilemmas in Editing Middle Arabic Texts: The History of the Patriachs of Alexandria as a Case Study” 10:30 Lucia Avallone, Università degli Studi Bergamo, Italy “Mixed Arabic: Stylistic and Sociolinguistic Choices in Contemporary Egyptian Literature” Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: Sam Cherribi, Emory University 11:30 Jérôme Lentin, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France “From Ancient Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic through Middle Arabic: The case of the prepositional phrase min qibal” 12:00 Arik Sadan, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel “Semantic and Syntactic Influences of Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic on Modern Standard Arabic” 12:30 Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel “Mixed Arabic as an Essential Element in Literary and Semi-Literary Writing in Contemporary Egypt” Lunch Chair: Gehane Shehata, Emory University 2:00 Elise Franssen, Université de Liège, Belgium “La langue des manuscrits de la recension égyptienne des Mille et une Nuits” 2:30 Miloud Gharrafi, Université de Toulouse, France “Le moyen arabe dans les documents administratifs au Maroc” 3:00 Kheira Benlachen, Université d'Oran, Algerie “Le parcours de l’arabe moyen dans l’enseignement des sciences biologiques en Algérie (1962–2012)” Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: Allal El-Hajjam, Emory University 4:30 Francesco Sinatora, Georgetown University, USA “The Role of Mixed Arabic on Syrian Political Facebook Pages: A Rhetorical Conflict?” 5:00 Abedlfattah Nissabouri, Université Rennes II, France “Notes sur le moyen arabe à partir de corpus marocains” 5:30 Maria Angeles Gallego, CSIC, Madrid, Spain “The Arabic of Andalusi Jews in Grammatical Literature” Dinner Monday, October 14, 2013 Breakfast Chair: Gordon Newby, Emory University 9:00 Gunvor Mejdell, University of Oslo, Norway “Mixed Arabic of the Written Media” 9:30 Anna Belikova, Russia Today TV and Abeer Heider, American University in Cairo, Egypt “Arabic Language on TV: Fuṣḥā and Dialect Mixture? Or Something Else?” 10:00 Moises Garduño Garcia, School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico “The Language(s) of the So-Called Arab Spring” 10:30 Shuki Cohen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA “The socio-linguistics of Arabic Variants in a Corpus of Palestinian Suicide Bombers Last Wills” Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: Marjorie Pak, Emory University 11:30 Roni Henkin-Roitfarb, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel “Complex Code Switching in Negev Bedouin Students’ Interview Register” 12:00 Uri Horesh, Northwestern University, USA “Phonological Consequences of Contact with Modern Hebrew on the Palestinian Arabic Dialect of Jaffa: A Variationist Study” 12:30 Tsivia Tobi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel “The Italian Component in the Colloquial Judeo-Arabic in Tunisia” Lunch Chair: Rkia Cornell, Emory University 2:00 Andreas Hallberg, Lund University, Sweden “Case Markers in Spoken MSA” 2:30 Yosef Tobi, University of Haifa, Israel “The Influence of the Muslim-Yemeni Ḥumaynī Poetry on Shalom Shabazī's Judeo-Arabic Poetry (17th Century)” 3:00 Mohamed El Ferrane, Université Mohamed V Souissi, Rabat, Morocco “Le moyen arabe au Maroc, histoire et controverse” Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: TBA 4:30 Ofra Tirosh-Becker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel “Linguistic Characteristics of a 20th Century Algerian Judeo-Arabic Journal” 5:00 Tania María García Arévalo, University of Granada, Spain “The Mixture of Elements in Modern Tunisian Judeo-Arabic: The Case of Ma‘aseh Sadiqim” 5:30 Marie Robache, Université Rennes II, France “The Complicated Standardization of the Synonymy between the Second and the Fourth Verbal Forms in Modern Arabic of the Press Through the Study of Some Mixed Forms” Dinner Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Breakfast Chair: Scott Kugel, Emory University 9:00 Joseph Dichy, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France “Polyglossia and Middle Varieties in Arabic and Other Natural Languages” 9:30 Yonatan Belinkov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “arTenTen: A Web Corpus for Arabic Varieties” Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: TBA 10:30 Keynote Speaker, Jacques Grand’Henry, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium “Some Lexical Connections between Middle and Modern Standard Arabic” 11:30 Association Business Meeting Lunch 1:00–5:00 Tour of Atlanta Dinner Local Organizing Committee: Benjamin Hary, Director of the Program in Linguistics Darinishia Bolden, Program Administrative Assistant Rebecca Liebeskind, Conference Coordinator -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:09 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:09 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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 Book:Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: "Prof. Jonathan Owens" Subject: New Book:Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics Oxford University Press is thrilled to announce the publication of *The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics *edited by Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, Jonathan Owens. A comprehensive, one-volume guide that deals with all major research domains which have been developed within Arabic linguistics, chapters in the*Handbook *are written by leading experts in the field, who both present state-of-the-art overviews and develop their own critical perspectives. An essential reference work for anyone working within Arabic linguistics, the book brings together different approaches and scholarly traditions, and provides analysis of current trends and directions for future research. * *To view the complete Table of Contents with contributors please click here . For more information or to order, please see Oxford University Press , Amazon.com , www.bn.com, or your local bookstore. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:03 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:03 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Video to help with trilled 'r' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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: Video to help with trilled 'r' 2) Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' 3) Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' 4) Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Kevin Burnham Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' Hey Uri, The University of Iowa phonetics website ( http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#) might have what he is looking for. The Spanish [r] is, I believe, identical to the Arabic one. K -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Seham Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ghuo1rv_e8&desktop_uri=%2fwatch%3fv%3d_ghuo1rv_e8 I think IT is a good video -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Paul Roochnik Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' Regarding Uri's interest in a video about rolling the /r/ : Many American students of Arabic struggle to master the raa', the 'ayn, the ghayn, the qaaf, the *h*aa', the khaa', etc. Their instructors are not necessarily the most qualified people to teach them... regardless of whether the instructor is a native speaker or not. Professional speech therapists, on the other hand, are uniquely qualified to help people with their pronunciation problems. This is their field of expertise. Bringing an Arab speech therapist into the Arabic-101 classroom for a few hours would be a wise investment at the start of the semester. The expert would train the strugglers to master the "exotic" sounds of Arabic, from the vantage point of articulatory physiology. And as the old proverb says, "Well begun is half-done." Give the students the right start and they will take such pride in their ability to produce those cool Arabic phonemes, it might even inspire them to stick with the language... thus reducing attrition in our Arabic programs... and keeping us -- the teachers -- employed! Cheers, Abu Sammy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Haseeb Shehadeh Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' Dear Uri, There are a plenty of YouTubes concerning the pronunciation of raa’ especially in reading the Qur’an, see for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyQkr31IqY Best, Haseeb Shehadeh -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:10 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:10 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book:Translation of Familiar Strangers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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 Book:Translation of Familiar Strangers -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Mohammed Jiyad Subject: :New Book:Translation of Familiar Strangers Dear Colleagues, My translation of Jonathan Lipman’s book Familiar Strangers has been published in Beirut by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiya. Author John Voll says of the book, “No published study comes close to providing this kind of study of the history of Islam and Muslims in China. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:05 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:05 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:New MA Program in Arabic Translation, Kent State Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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 MA Program in Arabic Translation, Kent State -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Bilal Sayaheen Subject: New MA Program in Arabic Translation, Kent State The Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL) at Kent State University introduces a new MA Degree Program in Arabic Translation starting Fall 2014. For more info, please visit: http://appling.kent.edu Regards, Bilal Sayaheen -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:58:47 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:58:47 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Job:Carnagie Melon University Tenure Track Message-ID: --------------------------------------- Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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: Job:Carnagie Melon University Tenure Track -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Maria Del Mar Rosa Rodriguez [mailto:mrosarod at andrew.cmu.edu] Subject: Job:Carnagie Melon University Tenure Track JOB POSTING · The Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon UNiversity in Pittsburgh PA, invites applications for a tenure track position in Arabic beginning in August 2014. Of particular interest are candidates at the rank of assistant professor whose research focuses on one or more of following areas: literary and cultural studies, second language acquisition and literacy, bilingual studies, technology enhanced learning. · -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- · Applications will be accepted online through Interfolio and should arrive not later than October, 31, 2013. Applicants should use the Interfolio link to submit a letter of application (indicating, among other things, any professional conferences they plan to attend between October 2013 and January 2014, including the MESA meeting in New Orleans, the ACTFL meeting in Orlando and the MLA meeting in Chicago), resume, statements of teaching, research, and curricular interests, and three (3) letters of recommendation. Representative publications, not to be returned, may also be included. · -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qualifications Successful candidates must have an earned Ph.D., strong evidence of research productivity, excellence in teaching, potential for securing extramural funding, native or near-native proficiency in Arabic, and interest in teaching courses across the range of the curriculum. Teaching load is 2+2. · · -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Application Instructions Please submit all documents no later than October, 31, 2013 through Interfolio. https://apply.interfolio.com/21745 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:16 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:16 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Michigan Job Revised announcement Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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 Michigan Job Revised announcement -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Nancy Neill Subject: U of Michigan Job Revised announcement The University of Michigan Department of Near Eastern Studies Revised Announcement of Tenure-Track Position The Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan is seeking to fill a position in Arabic Studies at the rank of tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor, beginning September 2014. This is a university-year (nine-month) appointment. Candidates must already hold the PhD and are expected to have native or near-native proficiency in both Arabic and English. Candidates must produce evidence of substantial, innovative research in their fields of specialization. Those candidates whose teaching and research focus on religious and cultural movements and trends in the contemporary Arab world, and on Islamic law in particular, are especially encouraged to apply, as are those with an active interest in areas pertaining to Arabic language study and curriculum. Of particular interest to our department at this time is a candidate who, in addition to teaching courses in English in these fields, would also regularly offer advanced courses in Arabic on these topics, and would be involved in these and other ways in contributing to the Arabic language curriculum. Salary will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s training and experience. Please send a cover letter with a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, a statement of current and future research plans, evidence of teaching excellence, samples of syllabi and publications, and a curriculum vitae to: Arabic and Islamic studies Search Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan, 4111 Thayer building, 202 South Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608. Candidates at the level of assistant professor should send three letters of recommendation; those at the associate level should send a list of references. Letters may be forwarded to the above address or to lsa-nes-search at umich.edu. The University of Michigan is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply. The University is supportive of the needs of dual career couples. Review of applications will begin right away and will continue until the position is filled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:06 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:06 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arab-American Conference, Dearborn Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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: Arab-American Conference, Dearborn -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: KateC Wilson Subject: Arab-American Conference, Dearborn Beyond the Label: Arab American Faces, Places, and Traces (Organized by the Arab American Studies Association) April 4-6, 2014 The Arab American NationalMuseum Dearborn, Michigan The label “Arab American” is imbued with layered meanings within both academic settings and public arenas. Variously embraced, sometimes contested, often redefined, Arab American identity constructions have been influenced by historical factors, discourses of self-identification, and normative processes of data collection. We invite papers that address Arab American formations or contestations from a variety of disciplines, and we especially welcome works that explore the impact of historical research on interdisciplinary and comparative analyses or methodological approaches to the study of Arab Americans. At this conference, we aim to explore questions such as: How are Arab Americans constructed differently in various discourses and in different historical periods? How do familial, local, ethnic, transnational, class and/or religious affiliations influence Arab American identity formations? How are such formations shaped through sexual, ideological, or political orientations? Who is excluded and who is included in various spaces and designations, and how do such inclusions or exclusions shape various narratives about Arab American history and identity formations? How has Naff’s work impacted Arab American Studies? Abstracts of 300 words in length, along with brief bios, should be sent as MS-Word attachments to conference at arabamericanstudies.orgby September 30, 2013. Papers submitted will be considered for publication after the conference. Final drafts should be ready and submitted by January 15, 2014. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CASA I Fellowships: (June 2014-May 2015) The CASA I fellowships provide intensive language and culture training in Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic (reading, listening and writing) for three semesters (summer, fall and spring) and allow students in the spring semester to take courses in Arabic in their respective areas of specialization. In 2013-2014, CASA offered 29 CASA I fellowships in Cairo; however, due to political unrest in Egypt, the CASA fellows were evacuated and the program relocated to the Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, Jordan. For 2014-2015, CASA expects to offer up to 23 fellowships for the full-year program. CASA hopes to return to Cairo in June 2014 but will keep contingency plans in place to meet any emergencies. Requirements: To qualify for a CASA I fellowship, the successful applicant must: 1) be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; 2) be enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program or in between their undergraduate and graduate study; 3) be committed to a career in Middle Eastern Studies; and 4) pass the CASA Selection exam, which usually requires a minimum of 3-4 years of college-level language study. The exam will be administered to all stateside applicants at a school in their locality on Friday, February 7, 2014 and for all international applicants the exam will be administered on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Each applicant must complete and submit the CASA I application form and provide all supporting documents by the designated deadline. For those applicants awarded a fellowship, a 20-30 minute Oral Proficiency Interview in Arabic will be coordinated with a certified oral proficiency tester. This interview takes place in April once an applicant's enrollment in CASA is confirmed. Each CASA I applicant is required to pay a non-refundable program fee once an award has been accepted. Fees for 2014-2015 will be posted on the CASA web site soon. Please note that only applicants affiliated with a CASA Consortium university, at the time program fees are due, are eligible for the Consortium rate. Applicants for CASA I have the option of participating on a Pay-Your-Own-Way basis, if they have other sources of funding. Applicants are encouraged to seek funding from other private and government sources, such as the Fulbright Hays Student Scholarships, for their CASA studies. The deadline for Fulbright Hays Scholarships is October 15, 2013. Please visit the website for more information: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/program_country.html?id=32 Please note that non-U.S. citizens are also welcome to apply to CASA, and if accepted, may participate on a Pay-Your-Own-Way basis only. Benefits: A CASA I fellowship award covers tuition, round-trip airfare and a monthly stipend. For detailed descriptions of the CASA programs, a list of Consortium members, or to download application forms, please visit the CASA website at: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa/ *The application deadline for the 2014-2015 CASA I program is Monday, January 6, 2014* All questions and applications should be addressed to: ATTN: Marissa Canales, Stateside Program Coordinator Center for Arabic Study Abroad/University of Texas at Austin 204 W. 21st Street, F9400, CAL 510A Austin, TX 78712 Email: casaprogram1967 at gmail.com Phone: (512) 471-3513 / Fax: (512) 471-7834 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:41 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:41 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants MA in Linguistics Online Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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 MA in Linguistics Online -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Khadija Hamdi Khalifa Subject: Wants MA in Linguistics Online Subject: Asking for MA in linguistics.My name is Khadija. I am Egyptian. I live in Kuwait. I graduated from Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, English Department. *I ranked the fourth one*. I was studying *Translation Diploma* in the American University in Cairo .Ihave *a contract* to work in Kuwait as a teacher of English For one year. This contract can be renewed for more years .Iam so interested in studying English Linguistics. I want to get *MA andPHD* in Linguistics. I want to get into MA as soon as possible. I am askingabout the system of study. Also, Is there any kind of *scholarships*? If there is not any scholarships, I want to know the *fees.* it is important for me to join part time or online study because I am working in Kuwait. Moreover, I want to know the conditions to join MA. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013c -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:38 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:38 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Noor Majan Training Institute, Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: "Gregory J. Bell" Subject: "Gregory J. Bell" Dear Fellow Arabic Teachers, Several of my Omani colleagues, all excellent Arabic teachers, opened an institute in Oman in 2012 that I would like to bring to the attention of teachers and students. The Noor Majan Training Institute (NMTI) provides accelerated and intensive Arabic study at the novice through superior levels. The staff have considerable experience coordinating programs and teaching Arabic as a foreign language. In addition to hosting individual students from various countries and universities, NMTI hosted one of the State Department's CLS programs in 2013. For information about dates, prices, housing options, curriculum, etc., see http://www.noormajan-institute.com< http://www.noormajan-institute.com/>. Greg Bell Department of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:15:30 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:15:30 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AATA Meeting and Panel at MESA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: AATA Meeting and Panel at MESA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: moderator (forwarding AATA message) Subject: AATA Meeting and Panel at MESA Dear Colleague: I look forward to seeing you at the 2013 American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting will take place next week, on Thursday, 10 October in New Orleans. The AATA Panel, "Content Based Instruction in the Arabic Language Classroom" is 1.00 - 3.30 p.m. The panel line-up is as follows: Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University, "Challenges to Teaching Writing in Advanced Arabic Courses" Laila H. Familiar, University of Texas at Austin, "Approaches to Teaching Literature in a Content-Based Model" Muhammad Habib, Duke University, "New Approaches to Content-Based Learning: Teaching Media Arabic in a Flipped Classroom" Mouna Mana-Hannouchi, National Foreign Language Center, "Pedagogical Needs of Arabic Teachers in Implementing Content-Based Instruction" The AATA Business Meeting, when the Lifetime Achievement Award will be made to Professor Emeritus Farhat Ziadeh, University of Washington, is 3.30 - 4.30 p.m. Both events will take place in the Nottoway Room of the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. Please remember that AATA events are free and open to the public. If you plan to attend other events at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, you must register. For registration information, please see: http://mesa.arizona.edu/annual-meeting/registration.html. Finally, if you should misplace this message, you can find the details on the MESA website and in the printed program. AATA events appear on the "Meetings in Conjunction" page. See you in New Orleans! Elizabeth M. Bergman, Ph.D. Executive Director American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) 3416 Primm Lane Birmingham, Alabama 35216 USA Phone 205-822-6800 Fax 205-823-2760 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:50 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:50 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Routledge Sponsored Panel at MESA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Routledge Sponsored Panel at MESA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Routledge Language Learning < mail.kqdrdcekarlnjzewci at tandf.msgfocus.com> Subject: Routledge Sponsored Panel at MESA October 12th, 2013 Middle East Studies Association Dear Colleague, Routledge Language Learning would like to invite you to a session on Integrating the Colloquial and MSA in the Arabic Classroom with Munther Younes, author of the brand-new textbook series 'Arabiyyat al-Naas. Professor Younes, Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Director of the Arabic Program at Cornell University, will discuss the benefits of integrating the colloquial alongside MSA starting in the first year of Arabic instruction, an approach he has tested over a number of years in his classes at Cornell. He will address the ways this approach benefits students as well as how instructors who are not currently incorporating a colloquial dialect can switch over to doing so. The session will be held on Saturday, October 12th from 11 am to 12 noon, in the Oakley room on the 4th floor. Coffee and New Orleans-style beignets will be served. We look forward to seeing you there, Routledge Language Learning Get your 20% conference DISCOUNT! 20 percent offMake sure to visit the Routledge booth and receive a special 20% discount on all Middle East Studies and Language Learning titles. And be sure to pick up your complimentary exam copy of 'Arabiyyat al-Naas, available to qualified professors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:30 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:30 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:JOBS:Carnagie Mellon University Tenure Track Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:Carnagie Mellon University Tenure Track -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Vera Lampley Subject: JOBS:Carnagie Mellon University Tenure Track Carnegie Mellon University Tenure Track Position in Arabic The Department of Modern Languages (http://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/modlang/) invites applications for a tenure track position in Arabic beginning in August 2014. Of particular interest are candidates at the rank of assistant professor whose research focuses on one or more of following areas: literary and cultural studies, second language acquisition and literacy, bilingual studies, technology enhanced learning. Successful candidates must have an earned Ph.D., strong evidence of research productivity, excellence in teaching, potential for securing extramural funding, native or near-native proficiency in Arabic, and interest in teaching courses across the range of the curriculum. Teaching load is 2+2. Applications will be accepted online through Interfolio and should arrive not later than October, 31, 2013. Applicants should use the link below to submit a letter of application (indicating, among other things, any professional conferences they plan to attend between October 2013 and January 2014, (including the MESA meeting in New Orleans, the ACTFL meeting in Orlando and the MLA meeting in Chicago), resume, statements of teaching, research, and curricular interests, and three (3) letters of recommendation. Representative publications, not to be returned, may also be included. https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/21745 Carnegie Mellon University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:19:06 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:19:06 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Programs Fall Winter Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Programs Fall Winter -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: jameslatta at arabeya.org Subject: Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Programs Fall Winter Hello, my name is James Latta and I am from the Arabeya Arabic Language Institute, an Arabic language school located in Cairo. I just thought I would let you know about our school, programs, and how we can help your students in improving their Arabic proficiency. At Arabeya, we offer a wide range of courses for those wishing to learn or improve their Arabic, whether it be in Modern Standard Arabic or in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. We have classes and courses for every level in proficiency, as well as programs for specific areas of interest, such as media, diplomacy, business communications, literature, and calligraphy. We also offer online spoken Arabic classes via Skype with Northeastern students as a practical part of their semester studies at University. Over the years, we have had the pleasure of hosting students from Universities all over the world including Hunter, Northeastern, Boston, Maryland, Harvard, and Cambridge as a part of Summer and winter Study Abroad Programs that was designed to introduce students to the language, culture, and history of Egypt and also host students from the ROTC. There are a number of seasonal programs that we run throughout the year with discount prices, ideal for strapped for cash university students looking for options over the semester break. These courses are intensive, enriching the student with a great wealth of knowledge for minimal cost and time expenditure. Now is the best time to take advantage of our intensive and effective Winter and Christmas Program 2013-2014 If you have any queries please feel free to contact us directly at: info at arabeya.org Or you can visit our website at: www.arabeya.org Best regards, James Latta Director of Intercultural Communications and Marketing Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Main Office: Address: 13 Tahrir Sq. Downtown, Cairo, Egypt Tel: (+202) 257 897 32 Second branch: Address: 19 Mansurra st, from Omar Tosson, Ahmed Orabi Mohandesin Giza, Egypt Tel: (+202) 330 224 79 Email: info at arabeya.org Web: www.arabeya.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:36 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:36 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayet Institute 2013-2014 Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Hedayet Institute 2013-2014 Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Nagwa Hedayet info at hedayetinstitute.com Subject: Hedayet Institute 2013-2014 Programs Hedayet Institute is pleased to announce to students and colleagues: *1-* Arabic Total Immersion Study Abroad Programs and, *2-* Islamic Studies Program: With al-Azhar Instructors’ Collaboration - *Fall Term II, *both 7 week programs above: Program commences *Nov. 3rd and ends Dec.19th, 2013 * We still have few slots for next Fall Term *II,* therefore, we have extended the deadline instead of Oct. 3rd to Oct. 12th, 13. This is an unprecedented time in Egypt and the ME, so hurry up! * *Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours - *Winter Short Term*: Duration 4 weeks of 20 hours./wk Program Program commences Jan.8th and ends Feb.4th, 2014 Application deadline is Dec.8th, 2013 Cost: $1584 USD for a total of 88 hours ‘*Living Egypt’ short tourist, historic, archaeological, political etc. language programs that are coordinated with different universities arrangements during or after Christmas Vacation in 1, 2 or 3 week duration are available. Deadline is Nov. 27th, 13.* ** - *Spring Term I:* 7 week Program Program commences Feb. 9th and ends March 27th, 2014 Application deadline is Jan.9th, 2014 Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours - *Spring Term II:* 7 week Program Program commences March30th and ends May 22nd, 2014 Application deadline is Feb. 30th, 2014 Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours *Combine two terms and get 10 % discount in the second term tuition fees. Come in a small group of at least three students and each will get 15% discount. * Hedayet’s New Language Trainings: . - Islamic Studies Program: Fusha, Tajweed Al Qura’n, Sira, ‘Maqaasid al Shari’a’, Islamic Philosophy, jurisprudence and ‘Tafsir’ or interpretation of al Qur’an using CBI taught by filed scholars at prices as low as $7 per class hour. Heritage as well as interested non Muslim students, junior scholars and scholars are welcome. Professional instruction is provided to each level. - TAFL Short Training Workshop in the last week of Oct.2013 *Prices are as low as $10 USD per hour in all above programs for groups of 6 students and above affiliated with a specific university or organization.* Because Hedayet Institute is situated in Maadi, south of downtown Cairo proper & Tahrir Square, by more than 12 kms, it has been a very calm district even during past events. It can be reached by metro from the center in 20 mints. Watch Islam & Politics on ground interaction in Egypt like nowhere and never before. Please apply online on our web site at: http://www.hedayetinstitute.com For more information on pls. contact administration at: info at hedayetinstitute.com USA Vonage Telephone no.: +1646-2168-308 UK Vonage Telephone no.: +4420337-10141 Cairo Telefax: +12025270518 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:47 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:47 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Two New Articles:Subject Expression and Intrusive -n Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Two New Articles:Subject Expression and Intrusive -n -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: "jonathan owens" Subject: Two New Articles:Subject Expression and Intrusive -n "Subject expression and discourse embeddedness in Emirati Arabic" Language Variation and Change, 25/3: 255-85, 2013 JONATHAN OWENS, ROBIN DODSWORTH, MARY KOHN Since Prince (1981) and Givón (1983), studies on discourse reference have explained the grammatical realization of referents in terms of general concepts such as “assumed familiarity” or “discourse coherence.” In this paper, we develop a complementary approach based on a detailed statistical tracking of subjects in Emirati Arabic, from which two major categories of subject expression emerge. On the one hand, null subjects are opposed to overt ones; on the other, subject-verb (SV) is opposed to verb-subject (VS). Although null subjects strongly correlate with coreferentiality with the subject of the previous clause, they can also index more distant referents within a single episode. With respect to SV vs. VS, morpholexical classes are found to be biased toward one or the other: nouns are typically VS, pronouns SV. We conclude that the null subject variant is the norm in Emirati Arabic, and when an overt subject is appropriate, lexical identity biases the subject into SV or VS order, generating word order as a discourse-relevant parameter. Overall, our approach attempts to understand Arabic discourse from a microlevel perspective. "The Historical Linguistics of the Intrusive *-n in Arabic and West Semitic" Journal of the American Oriental Society 133.2: 217-47, 2013. Jonathan Owens A much discussed morpheme in Semitic historical linguistics is the suffix *-n. Its reflexes include the energic in Classical Arabic, the ventive in Akkadian, and many languages with a [V – n – object pronoun] reflex. Explanations of its origins fall broadly into two camps. One sees it originally as a proto-Semitic verbal suffix, while the other derives it from a grammaticalization of an originally independent [deictic/presentative + object pronoun] element. This paper argues for the correctness of the second explanation, to which end a general reconstruction of the historical development of the morpheme in West Semitic is developed, with particular attention given to Arabic. Although a modest and unobtrusive morpheme, it is argued that the linguistics of *-n is of considerable significance for conceptualizations of Arabic and Semitic historical linguistics. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:44 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:44 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Marhaba! Level 2 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Marhaba! Level 2 -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Cindy Su Subject: Marhaba! Level 2 Marhaba! Level 2 Curriculum Guide Available November 1 By Steven Berbeco Ed D “This is an excellent interactive approach that allows students to explore their creativity while learning the language. It gives students the opportunity to engage in more meaningful activities that cater to their own way of learning.” —Nada Shaath, Bell High School, California Building on the innovative and student-centered Marhaba! Level 1 Curriculum Guide, this brand new Level 2 Guide (http://bit.ly/18K3yKL) offers more support and guidance for teachers of second-year Arabic. It includes • More detailed instruction on choosing what Arabic grammar and vocabulary to teach students • How to plan curricula around the student daftar with more detailed Sample Curriculum Maps • Pedagogical support on designing assessments. • New activities and daftar pages • Explanation on how to adapt activities from Level 1 to teach the more advanced grammar, vocabulary, and cultural exploration of Level 2 • Additional resources on the companion website www.marhabaproject.org. Read Steven Berbeco’s The Effects of Non-Linear Curriculum Design on Arabic Proficiency(http://bit.ly/17g3ej9) to learn more about the theory and practice behind this successful teaching approach, where students create personalized textbooks called Daftars and take ownership of their own learning. Pre-Publication Offer: Get a coupon for 20% off these three titles and the daftars when you sign up for Cheng & Tsui’s product announcements and special offers at http://bit.ly/GIzSUy! To speak with a Publisher’s Representative about our Arabic publications , please e-mail inquiries at cheng-tsui.com or call 1-800-554-1963 x5. Product Information: Publication Date: November 1, 2013 Marhaba! Level 2 Curriculum Guide ISBN: 9780887279546 Marhaba! Level 2 Student Daftars Term 1 Daftars ISBN: 9780887279553 Term 2 Daftars ISBN: 9780887279560 Term 3 Daftars ISBN: 9780887279577 Term 4 Daftars ISBN: 9780887279584 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:26 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:26 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New AMIDEAST Arabic Program in Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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 AMIDEAST Arabic Program in Oman -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Jerome Bookin-Weiner Subject: New AMIDEAST Arabic Program in Oman Earlier today, AMIDEAST (America Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc.), a US-based non-profit that has been meeting education and training needs in the Arab world since 1951 announced the addition of a new education abroad program in Oman. Here is the text of the press release announcing the program: AMIDEAST Launches Education Abroad Program in Oman New Program Offers Semester, Full Year, and Summer Course Options Washington, DC, October 3, 2013 -AMIDEAST is launching a new education abroad program for American undergraduate students in the Sultanate of Oman, beginning in spring 2014. The new program will be part of AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs in the Arab World, which began in 2007 and over the years has offered semester/academic year study opportunities in Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, and Morocco, combining language study with coursework and cultural enrichment opportunities designed to deepen students' Arabic language proficiency and understanding of the Arab world. In addition, AMIDEAST has assisted U.S. universities with a variety of customized programs in these countries and in Oman, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. The AMIDEAST Semester Abroad program in Oman features language study in both Modern Standard Arabic and the Omani dialect. Like other AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs, it combines language studies with opportunities to learn about the culture, society, and history of the country and region through coursework, excursions, and other activities. Students in AMIDEAST's programs earn college credit either through AMIDEAST directly or through its Institution of Record, Northeastern University in Boston. Oman has emerged as a popular destination for American students seeking a study abroad experience in the region. As a result, prospective American and other foreign students can choose from a number of opportunities in the Sultanate, including programs at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultan Qaboos College, and the University of Nizwa, among others. "We welcome your American students," the Ministry of Education recently told AMIDEAST, which works closely with the ministry in implementing a variety of education and training programs in the Sultanate, including its first education abroad program that began in 2009. "AMIDEAST is excited to be able to add Oman to our Education Abroad Programs. The new program expands our ability to offer choices that represent the breadth of the Arab World, from North Africa to the Gulf," said Ambassador Theodore H. Kattouf, AMIDEAST's President and CEO. "In Oman, moreover, students have a chance to become familiar with Oman's uniqueness among the Gulf countries and see close-up the Sultanate's dedication to preserving its cultural heritage while undergoing rapid modernization since 1970." AMIDEAST's new program in Oman builds on the success of several exchange initiatives for American students that AMIDEAST has administered in the Sultanate, including programs currently underway. These summer and academic year initiatives make it possible for young Americans to develop Arabic language skills and first-hand familiarity with the region while still in high school and college. AMIDEAST has also organized short-term visits for university students, professors and presidents seeking to gain insights into the region and to exchange experiences in higher education. Oman offers a rich and unique vantage point for learning about the Gulf and about Arab society, as former AMIDEAST student Richard Gima discovered. "My outlook on the world has dramatically changed," said Gima, who fell in love with the region because of his experience in Oman. "The relationships that I made there really mean a lot. The Omanis are very, very open and very hospitable. They put your needs before their own. They're the nicest people I've ever met." * * * END * * * About AMIDEAST America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc., or AMIDEAST ( www.amideast.org), is a private, nonprofit organization that provides programs and services to improve educational opportunities and quality, strengthen local institutions and develop language and professional skills for success in the global economy. Founded in 1951, AMIDEAST is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has a network of field offices in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen. --- Jerome B. Bookin-Weiner, PhD Director of Education Abroad America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. 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As you may know, Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide funding for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in world regions critical to U.S. interests, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year. The applications are now available.**** ** ** It would be greatly appreciated it if you distributed the announcement(below). Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions and, if you are able to share the announcement, please let us know. **** ** ** Best Regards,**** ** ** *Boren Scholarships and Fellowships* Institute of International Education (IIE)**** 1400 K Street NW, 7th Floor**** Washington, DC 20005**** Phone 1-800-618-NSEP (6737)**** Boren at iie.org* *| www.iie.org**** Twitter @IIEGlobal | Facebook IIEGlobal | Blog Opening Minds **** ** ** *Opening Minds to the World®***** **** Boren Scholarships and Fellowships, Initiatives of the National Security Education Program**** Twitter @BorenAwards | Facebook BorenAwards | YouTube BorenAwards |borenawards.org ** * ** * *Boren Scholarships and Fellowships* The applications for the 2014-2015 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available at www.borenawards.org. Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.**** ** ** Boren Scholars and Fellows represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in studying less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. As part of the African Languages Initiative, Boren Award applicants have the opportunity to further their study of Akan/Twi, French, Hausa, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, or Zulu. For a complete list of languages, visit our website. **** ** ** Undergraduate students can receive up to $20,000 for an academic year’s study abroad and graduate students up to $30,000 for language study and international research. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year.**** ** ** *National Application Deadlines* Boren Fellowship: January 28, 2014**** Boren Scholarship: February 5, 2014***** *Many institutions have an earlier on-campus deadline. Visit our website for information about your campus deadline and Boren campus representative.**** ** ** For more information about the Boren Awards, to register for one of our upcoming webinars, and to access the on-line application, please visit www.borenawards.org. You can also contact the Boren Awards staff at boren at iie.org or 1-800-618-NSEP with questions.**** ** ** The Boren Awards are initiatives of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and are administered by the Institute of International Education. *** * ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I am running a study abroad program, and we happened to be on a major field trip when this arrived, and I didn't have consistent internet access until today.] The Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo is pleased to invite you to take part in a Thematic Conversation Session at MESA. The Thematic Conversation is entitled "Teaching Arabic On-line". The Conversation is taking place on Friday, October 11, 2013 from 11:00 to 1:00 Hope to see you all there, Zeinab Taha -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Author: Lazhar Zanned (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Link to paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2337745 Lazhar Zanned Faculty of Literatures, Arts and Humanities University of Manouba Manouba 2010 Tunisia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The simplified version of the novel comes with a set of pedagogical activities to exploit the text and a companion website free of use. http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/hoda-barakats-sayyidi-wa-habibi If you end up using it to supplement your Arabic courses, I would love to hear your feedback. Laila Familiar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Initial appointment is for 2014-2015, and the appointment is renewable for a maximum of six years contingent upon excellent performance and instructional need. Native or near-native command of Standard Arabic required, knowledge of one or more dialects desirable. M.A. or Ph.D. preferred. Prior language teaching experience preferred. The successful candidate will be teaching first, second or third-year classes (a total of 12 hours of classroom contact per week per semester). Applicant must apply online at http://jobs.princeton.edu< http://jobs.princeton.edu/>. Applicants are required to submit a cover letter; curriculum vitae; samples of language-teaching materials you have created (preferably in .pdf or .doc format), and contact information for at least three references whom we may contact via phone or email. If you have videos of your teaching, or student evaluations, these may also be included in your application. Review of applications will begin on November 5, 2013. 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Please find below a description of the seminar (link here: http://acla.org/acla2014/**shifting-centers-of-cultural-** capital-in-the-arab-world/). Interested participants should submit their paper proposals through ACLA's website (http://acla.org/acla2014/**propose-a-paper/) and specify this seminar. Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World *Seminar Organizer(s):* * Amr Kamal (The City College of New York), Nancy Linthicum (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) The well-known Arab adage "Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Baghdad reads" has gradually lost its currency in recent years as other Arab cities both further east and west of this triangle (Doha, Abu Dhabi, Casablanca, Tunis, to name a few) have actively competed to refashion themselves as patrons and vibrant centers of cultural production. As a result, several cities have created new relations with and new visions of national, regional, and pan-Arab culture, especially with the economic success of the Gulf. Some have achieved this through lavish funding of museums, literary prizes, book fairs, and programs at U.S. universities, control over wide-reaching satellite channels, and several other means. Others have gained cultural capital through less coordinated efforts, notably through the rapid, extensive spread of popular music, poetry, blogs, and street art motifs of the Arab Spring from city to city, country to country. Additionally, within these various cultural capitals, individual actors have engaged in debates with dominant ideologies, aesthetics, and institutions, as they lay claim to their own cultural capital. This seminar examines how Arab cultural centers are recreated and contested from various locations (Damascus, Cairo, Dubai, Paris, Montreal, New York) and how individuals take part in these negotiations. It considers the movement of cultural capital among and within Arab cities as different actors -- writers, critics, state ministries, artists, museums, publishers, artist unions -- have vied for influence, forged new alliances, and adapted to new technologies and political realities. *SEMINAR KEYWORDS*: Arab cities, cultural capital, Gulf, Maghreb, Mashriq, Mediterranean, Arab Spring, 20th century, literature, new media Best, Nancy Linthicum -- Nancy Linthicum Doctoral Candidate, Arabic Language and Literature Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Does anybody know of any publications on the subject? I have found references in English on Iraqi Arabic, Kuwaiti Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Tunisian Arabic, Jordanian Arabic, and Lebanese Arabic. But all the rest of the dialects are not represented. I will be very grateful if you have pointers in this direction. Many thanks for your collaboration. Best regards ****************** Dr. Zouheir A. Maalej Professor of Cognitive Linguistics Coordinator of the Quality and Academic Accreditation Committee Associate Editor of the College of Languages Journal Department of English Language and Translation College of Languages & Translation King Saud University P.O. Box: 87907, Riyadh 11652, K.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:01 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:01 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: 17 Oct 2013 From: Gerlach Islamic Studies Subject: Gerlach Books Up to 25% discount on antiquarian books on ARABIC LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS & LITERATURE Please have a look at the title list which can be downloaded from this site: http://www.gerlach-books.de/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) - 10% discount for any single book - 25% discount when ordering 5 or more books - 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 29 October 2013 only Looking forward to your orders. Best regards from Berlin (Ms) Dagmar Konrad :::::::: FOR YOUR email or fax ORDER (Fax +49 30 3235667) ::::::::: To order please send us an email or a fax. Our order form and title list can be downloaded from here: http://www.gerlach-books.de/books_offers.php GERLACH BOOKS & ONLINE - MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES < www.gerlach-books.de> Heilbronner Strasse 10 D-10711 Berlin (Halensee), Germany TEL +49 30 3249441 FAX +49 30 3235667 MAIL ********************************************* OUR PREVIOUS OFFERS - UNSERE LETZTEN ANGEBOTE: - Travels in Arabia - Art, Architecture & Archaeology - Encyclopedias, Bibliographies & Dictionaries - New Publication: The Qu'ran Revealed - Book Collection: Archaeology of Syria - Nationalism, Socialism, Liberalism in the Middle East - German Scholarship on the Middle East LIST OF ALL OFFERS - LISTE ALLER ANGEBOTE: http://www.gerlach-books.de/books_offers.php -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:29 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:29 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Call for papers: New West Asia Journal of Speech-Language Pathology LAUNCHING IN 2014 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: Call for papers: New West Asia Journal of Speech-Language Pathology LAUNCHING IN 2014 -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: ghada khattab Subject: Call for papers: New West Asia Journal of Speech-Language Pathology LAUNCHING IN 2014 LAUNCHING IN 2014 Editors: Dr Ghada Khattab, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK Professor Reza Nilipour, University of Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran Professor Seyhun Topbaş, Anadolu University, Turkey Associate Editor: Professor Martin Ball, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA This new journal aims to provide a forum for academic discussion and progress in all areas of communication disorders, as related to the West Asia region (a region taken to include the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Egypt). It will publish peer-reviewed studies of all aspects of communication disorders and the provision of therapeutic intervention. Studies that explore theoretical developments and their applications, as well as more directly applied articles on specific therapeutic techniques, will be welcomed. To submit a paper to be considered for publication in this journal, or to find out how to subscribe, please send an email to Rachael Wilkie, Publisher: rachael_jrpress at btinternet.com ISSN 2052-8744 Further information about the author guidelines go to: http://www.jr-press.co.uk/wajslp-author-guidelines.html Ghada ---------------------- Ghada Khattab Speech and Language Sciences Section King George VI bldg Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK e-mail: ghada.khattab at ncl.ac.uk http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/ghada.khattab -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:06 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:06 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&LIT:CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: KateC Wilson Subject: CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation Call for Essay Proposals for Volume on Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled *Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation*, to be edited by Michelle Hartman. This volume is designed to offer a broad range of ways to think through the teaching of Arabic literature in translation in English. Essays will address the challenges of teaching Arabic literature in translation in a variety of coursesand institutions. The volume will provide suggestions for nonspecialists who wish to teach Arabic literature, and it will offer specialists in the field new perspectives on teaching. Essays should focus not just on teaching the texts but on teaching them as translations and should *demonstrate some familiarity with the field of translation studies*. Essays should also take into account the following: the legacies of orientalism in teaching Arabic literature today; the politics of teaching Arabic literature in particular locations (whether in North America or elsewhere); and the ethical responsibilities of teaching literature translated from Arabic in the classroom. *Modern* will be used in its broadest possible meaning; essays are welcomed about teaching Arabic literature from any period considered modern, particularly essays on texts from the nineteenth century and/or the *nahda*. Essays focusing on questions of canonicity and on canonical and noncanonical authors are also welcomed. Possible topics for essays include · teaching Arabic literature in different kinds of courses o postcolonial literature, o world literature, o gender studies, etc. · teaching Arabic literature if you do not know Arabic; history, current events, and · the politics of teaching Arabic literature; · working within and beyond the canon of modern Arabic literature. If you are interested in contributing an essay (3,000–3,500 words), please send a summary proposal (500 words) to Michelle Hartman ( michelle.hartman at mcgill.ca) by 15 November 2013. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:53 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:53 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayet Institute Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: Hedayet Institute Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: nagwa hedayet Subject: Hedayet Institute Programs Hedayet Institute is pleased to announce to students and colleagues: 1-Arabic Total Immersion Study Abroad Programs and, 2-Islamic Studies Program: With al-Azhar University Instructors’ Collaboration ($7USD per hour) v Fall Term II, both 7 week programs above: Program commences Nov. 3rd and ends Dec.19th, 2013 We still have few slots for next Fall Term II, therefore, we have extended the deadline instead of Oct. 3rd to Oct. 12th, 13. This is an unprecedented time in Egypt and the ME, so hurry up! Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours v Winter Short Term: Duration 4 weeks of 20 hours./wk Program Program commences Jan.8th and ends Feb.4th, 2014 Application deadline is Dec.8th, 2013 Cost: $1584 USD for a total of 88 hours ‘Living Egypt’ short tourist, historic, archaeological, political etc. language programs that are coordinated with different universities arrangements during or after Christmas Vacation in 1, 2 or 3 week duration are available. Deadline is Nov. 27th, 13. v Spring Term I: 7 week Program Program commences Feb. 9th and ends March 27th, 2014 Application deadline is Jan.9th, 2014 Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours v Spring Term II: 7 week Program Program commences March30th and ends May 22nd, 2014 Application deadline is Feb. 30th, 2014 Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours Combine two terms and get 10 % discount in the second term tuition fees. Come in a small group of at least three students and each will get 15% discount. Hedayet’s New Language Trainings: . · Islamic Studies Program: Fusha, Tajweed Al Qura’n, Sira, ‘Maqaasid al Shari’a’, Islamic Philosophy, jurisprudence and ‘Tafsir’ or interpretation of al Qur’an using CBI taught by filed scholars at prices as low as $7 per class hour. Heritage as well as interested non Muslim students, junior scholars and scholars are welcome. Professional instruction is provided to each level. · TAFL Short Training Workshop in the last week of Oct.2013 Prices are as low as $10 USD per hour in Total Immersion above programs for groups of 6 students and above affiliated with a specific university or organization. Because Hedayet Institute is situated in Maadi, south of downtown Cairo proper & Tahrir Square, by more than 12 kms, it has been a very calm district even during past events. It can be reached by metro from the center in 20 mints. Watch Islam & Politics on ground interaction in Egypt like nowhere and never before. Please apply online on our web site at: http://www.hedayetinstitute.com For more information on pls. contact administration at: info at hedayetinstitute.com USA Vonage Telephone no.: +1646-2168-308 UK Vonage Telephone no.: +4420337-10141 Cairo Telefax: +12025270518 Nagwa Hedayet, PhD. Director Hedayet Institute for Arabic Studies www.hedayetinstitute.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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M., Frota, S. N., & Yoshioka, J. K. (Eds.)* This volume celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of second language acquisition. The 19 chapters encompass a compelling collection of cutting-­edge research studies exploring such constructs as noticing, attention, and awareness from multiple perspectives, which expand, fine tune, sometimes support, and sometimes challenge Schmidt’s seminal ideas and take research on noticing in exciting new directions. *2) Practical Assessment Tools for College Japanese* by Kondo-Brown, K., Brown, J. D., & Tominaga, W. (Eds.) Each of the 21 modules presents a practical assessment idea that can be adopted or adapted for the reader’s own formative or summative assessment of their Japanese language learners. For ease of use, each module is organized in approximately the same way including background information, aims, levels, assessment times, resources, procedures, caveats and options, references, and other appended information. *3) Language Learning & Technology, Volume 17, Number 3 (October 2013) - Special Issue on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning* *Guest Editors - Susana Sotillo and Glenn Stockwell** *4) Reading in a Foreign Language, Volume 25, Number 2 (October 2013)* For more information on each, visit the NFLRC website: *http://nflrc.hawaii.edu* -- Jim Yoshioka Program Coordinator ************************************************************ *National Foreign Language Resource Center* University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 1859 East-West Road #106 Honolulu, HI 96822-2322 Phone: 808-956-9424 Email: nflrc at hawaii.edu Website: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu NFLRC Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/nflrchawaii ************************************************************ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:57 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:57 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L: New Dissertation: 'Towards a Sociohistorical Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabic Dialect Diversity' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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 Dissertation: New Dissertation: 'Towards a Sociohistorical Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabic Dialect Diversity' -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Alexander Magidow Subject: New Dissertation: New Dissertation: 'Towards a Sociohistorical Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabic Dialect Diversity' Institution: University of Texas at Austin Program: Department of Middle Eastern Studies Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2013 Author: Alexander Magidow Dissertation Title: Towards a Sociohistorical Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabic Dialect Diversity Dissertation URL: http://repositories.lib.**utexas.edu/handle/2152/21378 Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Dissertation Director: Kristen Brustad Patience Epps Dissertation Abstract: This dissertation establishes a framework for a reconstruction of the Arabic dialects that existed immediately prior to the Islamic conquests and tests that framework with a reconstruction based on the demonstrative pronouns and adjectives used in over sixty modern spoken dialects of Arabic dialects. The dissertation develops a framework, drawing on work in sociolinguistics, in which the unit of reconstruction is the speech community rather than the 'language' or 'dialect.' Speech communities are defined as groups of speakers connected by networks as well as by a sense of allegiance, and may have diverse repertoires which include multiple languages. Speech communities are easier to situation historically since their boundaries often coincide with those of political or social entities reported in non-linguistic texts. We can diagnose the existence and extent of pre-historical speech communities by the way their boundaries limit the diffusion of innovations. In order to link the historical reconstruction to the history of Arabic speaking communities, the dissertation investigates the historical and social circumstances of the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula and of the post-Islamic colonization of the Middle East and North Africa by Arabic speakers. It questions the whether a 'tribe' is identical to a speech community, as assumed in earlier literature, and argues that the success of the Arabic-speaking minorities in the conquered was largely related to patterns of settlement that segregated Arabs from non-Arabs. It also questions the traditional chronology of the settlement of North Africa and the division between pre- and post- 'Hilalian' dialects. The dissertation then reconstructs the Arabic demonstrative pronouns and adjectives, and shows that Arabic dialects can be classified primarily based on how they mark gender differentiation in the singular and by the form of their plural demonstratives. Linking the reconstruction of the demonstratives to the historical data, the dissertation suggests that following origins for modern Arabic dialects: the rural dialects of the Levant and Iraq, with c. pl. *haː-ula, originally hailed from the southern Hijaz, though an older layer of unknown origin, with f. sg. taː, is still detectable. The same speech community gave rise to the dialects of the Northern Yemeni plateau. The dialects of Levantine and Iraqi cities, with m. pl. *haːðawla, f. pl. *haːðanna (< *haːðalla) represents later dialect shift, the origins of which are unclear. Modern (northern) Egyptian Arabic, characterized originally by m. pl. *ðawl, f. pl. *ðayl , originated on the Yemeni Tihama coast. The pre-Islamic origin of North African dialects, characterized by c. pl haːðuː demonstratives, is less clear, but speakers of these dialects colonized Upper Egypt as well, though only traces of that period remain. Classical Arabic demonstratives show a great deal of diversity, and may reflect the process of its development as a literary koiné. Finally, the dissertation concludes by arguing that theories about the original homeland of Arabic obscure the importance of the geographical and linguistic variation present in Arabic immediately prior to the Islamic conquests. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:26 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:26 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Moroccan Arabic Textbook Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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 Moroccan Arabic Textbook -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Subject: New Moroccan Arabic Textbook Dear colleagues, Albujayra Publishers are pleased to present their new release: a new method to teach Moroccan Arabic: *B chuiya b chuiya. * Authors:* Moscoso García, Francisco; Nouaouri Izrelli, Nadi Hamdi; Rodríguez García, Oscar.** * You can have a sample previewat our website< http://www.kutub.albujayra.com/catalog/index.php?route=product/product&path=67&product_id=63 >. For orders and more info, please contact us at orders at albujayra.com or register at our website www.kutub.albujayra.com/catalog. As a teacher or institution, you can get special discounts. *B chuiya b chuiya* (بشويّة بشويّة) is a course designed for young and adult students of Moroccan Arabic willing to learn this language and culture in a dynamic and efficient manner. The course is conceived as a coherent and progressive unit in which the student is gradually introduced in the vocabulary, grammar and sociolinguistics of the language and in prominent aspects of the culture. At the end of the course, the student should be able to meet the basic communicative needs of daily life. Composed of a book with video and audio files, *B chuiya b chuiya* (A1 level) lays the foundations of a major project aiming at developing teaching materials for levels A1, A2 and B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). These materials are part of a larger research project entitled Arabic as a foreign language: challenges, varieties and resources supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and coordinated by Professor Victoria Aguilar at the University of Murcia. We have followed the recommendations and guidelines by the CEFR for the A1 level in all aspects: level of language, competences, and particularly the teaching approach. In this respect, the learner stands in the center of the stage and fulfils the leading role in his own learning process. As a result, *B chuiya b chuiya* establishes a basis for the adaptation of Moroccan Arabic to the levels of reference suggested by the European Council and for its future standardization. The course book is divided into two parts of six units each, and an additional review unit after each part. Every unit contains five different sections dealing mainly with a particular skill, but integrating as far as possible the rest of them in communicative activities in which both the student and the teacher can achieve the goals set at the beginning of the unit. To complete the unit, the student can asses the skills he has acquired by practicing self-evaluation drills. At the end of the textbook, four appendices have been added: in the first one, the student can read all the transcripts of the audio and video files included with the book. In the second one, students can check the keys to all the exercises. In the third, the complete paradigms of verbs can be looked up, and in the fourth, a small glossary lists the most relevant words in Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, French and English. In addition, we have included, after these words, phonological and phonetic guidelines that can help students better understand the sounds of Moroccan Arabic. The contents have been programmed for its exploitation during 120 hours. However, the versatility of the book makes easier the design and scheduling of tailor-made courses. For instance, our A1 level book may be used for two teaching modules of 60 hours each (six teaching units each module) thus dividing the initial level into A1.1 and A1.2. As the authors say, *B chuiya b chuiya* offers an innovative way to learn Moroccan Arabic from scratch and a new dynamic and communicative method for teaching it. With it, we hope to have contributed at least modestly to bridge the gap between cultures and languages in our globalized world. -- C/ Puerto de Navacerrada nº 11 04720 Aguadulce - Almería España - Spain - Espagne www.kutub.albujayra.com orders at albujayra.com Telf.: +34 950 08 29 92 / Mobile: +34 627 07 65 78 Fax: +34 901 70 67 84 Skype: Albujayra -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 14:34:25 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:34:25 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP Special Issue of CCIS Journal on Arabic NLP Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: CFP Special Issue of CCIS Journal on Arabic NLP -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Prof_Khaled Shaalan Subject: CFP Special Issue of CCIS Journal on Arabic NLP CALL For Papers Special Issue on Arabic NLP: Current State and Future Challenges Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (JKSU-CIS) Publisher: Elsevier URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-king-saud-university-computer-and-information-sciences CFP URL: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/CIS_CFP.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arabic is a member of the Semitic languages family that uses a distinct alphabet set and spoken by more than 340 million individuals as their first language. It is the official language, either solely or jointly, in twenty countries located in the Middle East and Africa. Arabic is the language of the Holly Qur’aan and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Arabic Natural language processing (NLP) is still in its initial stage compared to the work in English and other languages. NLP is made possible by the collaboration of many disciplines including computer science, linguistics, mathematics, psychology and artificial intelligence. The results of which are highly beneficial for many applications such as machine translation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, text summarization and Question Answering. This special issue of CCIS Journal is intended to present the current state of research on Arabic NLP, Arabic computational linguistics, and related areas. We welcome unpublished high quality papers (in English) on current state of Arabic NLP including, but not limited to: * Part of Speech Tagging * Morphological analysis and generation * Word sense and Syntactic disambiguation * Transliteration, transcription and diacritization * Named Entity Recognition * Corpus Linguistics (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.) * Machine Translation * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval * Question Answering * Semantic and Sentiment analysis * Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization >>>> Important Dates <<<<< * Submission of extended abstracts (300-500 words): October 30, 2013 * Notification of proposal acceptance: November 15th 2013 * Submission of full papers: January 30th 2014 * Notification of paper acceptance: March 30th 2014 * Final version submission: May 31st 2014 * Publication date: November 2014 >>>> Submission <<<<< Submission System: http://ees.elsevier.com/jksu-cis/ >>>>> Guest Editors <<<<< * Eric Atwell– Associate Professor, Language research group, I-AIBS institute for artificial intelligence and biological systems, School of computing, Faculty of engineering, University of Leeds. * Khaled Shaalan– Full Professor at Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo Univ. (on Secondment to The British University in Dubai). * Imed Zitouni–PhD, Principal Researcher at Microsoft, Member of the Relevance and Measurement team of Microsoft. >>>>> Special Issue Editor <<<<< Hend Al-Khalifa – Associate professor, Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University hendk at ksu.edu.sa Regards, Khaled _________________________________________________________ Khaled Shaalan, PhD Professor Computer Science Dept. Faculty of Computers & Information Cairo University 5 Ahmed Zewel St., Orman, Dokki, Giza 12613 Egypt Email: k.shaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg Personal Email: khaled.shaalan at gmail.com Personal Website: http://sites.google.com/site/khaledshaalan (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 18:30:11 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:30:11 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Middlebury Job repost, deadline November 1 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:Middlebury Job repost, deadline November 1 -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: "Soltan, Usama" Subject: JOBS:Middlebury Job repost, deadline November 1 The Arabic Program announces an opening for a tenure track position (assistant professor level), beginning September 2014. Superior language proficiency in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and English is required, and native or native-like proficiency in at least one Arabic dialect is strongly preferred. The successful candidate will teach MSA at all levels, and will also offer courses that contribute to the Arabic Program's track in linguistics and to the College's Linguistics Program. Candidates should hold a PhD or have ABD status with near-term plans for completion of the doctorate. Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research. An Equal Opportunity Employer, the College is committed to hiring a diverse faculty as we work to foster innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body. Applications for this position will be accepted starting August 15th 2013. Candidates who would like to be considered for interviews at the Middle East Studies Association meeting in October should complete their applications by October 1st (including letters of recommendation); all dossiers must be completed by November 1st, 2013. Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. Through Interfolio, candidates should submit a letter of application addressed to search committee chair Professor Larry Yarbrough. The letter should include a section addressing approaches to teaching and plans for research. In addition, applications should include: a curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and three current letters of recommendation (at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise.) Samples of scholarship will be solicited from candidates invited for interviews. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:50 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:50 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN&TRANS:NEA Grants for Translation into English Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: KateC Wilson Subject: http://arts.gov/grants-individuals/translation-projects Through fellowships to published translators, the Arts Endowment supports projects for the translation of specific works of *prose*, *poetry*, or * drama* from other languages into English. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:48 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:48 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:NYU Abu Dhabi Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:NYU Abu Dhabi Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: Susan Heinrich Subject: JOBS:NYU Abu Dhabi Job FACULTY POSITION Arabic Language NYU Abu Dhabi NYU Abu Dhabi is currently inviting applications for a teaching position in Arabic Language. The appointee will join a thriving Arabic language program in an exciting linguistic and cultural context. This is a renewable three-year appointment with a 3/3 teaching load. The load could be later lowered if the candidate has an active research agenda. The terms of employment are competitive and include housing and educational subsidies for children. An M.A. in Arabic Language or a related field is required; candidates possessing a Ph.D. will be given preference. We seek candidates with primary interest, research, and experience in teaching Arabic (to native or non-native learners) at all levels with ability to teach MSA, at least one Arabic dialect, and specialized content courses in Arabic. The appointment will begin September 1, 2014. Review of applications will begin on January 2, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter which includes a discussion of research and teaching philosophy, representative publications, copies of student evaluations and the names and contact information of three references. Please visit our website at http://nyuad.nyu.edu/about/careers/faculty-positions.html for instructions and other information on how to apply. If you have any questions, please e-mail nyuad.humanities at nyu.edu. About NYUAD: New York University has established itself as a Global Network University, a multi-site, organically connected network encompassing key global cities and idea capitals. The network has three foundational degree-granting campuses: New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai, complemented by a network of over 15 research and study-away sites across five continents. Faculty and students will circulate within this global network in pursuit of common research interests and the promotion of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary solutions for problems, both local and global. Entering its fourth year, NYU Abu Dhabi has recruited a cohort of faculty who are at once distinguished in their research and teaching. Our students are drawn from around the world and surpass all traditional recruitment benchmarks, both US and global. NYU Abu Dhabi’s highly selective liberal arts enterprise is complemented by an institute for advanced research, sponsoring cutting-edge projects across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:45 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:45 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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: CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: Namya.HS at vollbio.de Subject: CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages Call for Papers: "Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents, Languages in Historical Context: The Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference" (Munich, October 7th-10th, 2014) During the last years, Arabic papyrology has started to contribute significantly to Arabic and Islamic studies: we now dispose of a number high standard editions of documents; scholars working on the Islamic World up to the 16th century counterbalance literary tradition with documentary evidence; and cooperation with Demotic, Greek, and Coptic papyrology has steadily improved. The thematic framework of the "Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference" in 2014 will be somewhat wider. We intend to bring together scholars using documentary evidence for the history of the Early Islamic world (including Arabic, Coptic, and Greek papyri, inscriptions and coins) with scholars working on Semitic languages and writing systems in general. About one third of the contributions will be devoted to this wider perspective. The Sixth ISAP Conference will be hosted by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (www.badw.de) and be organized by the Academy's Committee of Semitic Philology, ISAP, and the Munich Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. The conference will start on the morning of Tuesday, October 7, 2014, and continue through the afternoon of Friday, October 10, 2014. The programme will include 20-minute lectures, evening lectures, and a poster exhibition of current PhD projects, as well as a visit of the Bavarian State Library with its holdings in Oriental manuscripts (and Sabaic wood sticks). Optional visits will include the newly reopened Egyptian Museum and the State Museum for Ethnology. Conference languages will be English, German, French and Arabic. However, all lectures will be given in English. Giving a lecture and/or presenting a poster Please send a 400-word abstract to Dr. Kathrin Mueller (pap at semphil.badw.de) no later then end of December, 2013. Notification regarding the acceptance of proposals will be made by end of March, 2014. Participation with no lecture Please send a notice of intent to participate to Dr. Kathrin Müller ( pap at semphil.badw.de) no later then end of August, 2014. There will be no conference fee charged. Yet, participants will be asked, on spot, to be or become members of ISAP. Information on membership can be found on the ISAP website (www.ori.uzh.ch/isap). Travel Subsidies It is hoped that the Conference will be able to offer a few awards for scholars not able to get institutional subventions for travel to Munich. Please let us know as soon as possible whether you will be in need for such sponsoring. Conference Organizers If you have any further questions about the Conference, please contact Dr. Kathrin Müller (pap at semphil.badw.de), Professor Andreas Kaplony ( andreas.kaplony at lmu.de) or Dr. Daniel Potthast (daniel.potthast at lmu.de). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:56 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:56 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CET programs in Jordan and Tunisia Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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 programs in Jordan and Tunisia -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: "Allegra O'Donoghue" Subject: CET programs in Jordan and Tunisia Dear Colleagues, CET Academic Programs is accepting applications for its spring semester study abroad programs in Jordan and Tunisia. Students live with local roommates while taking Arabic language courses and electives. Internship opportunities are also available! Application deadline is November 1, 2013. Check out this CET Jordan blog post about living with a Jordanian roommate: http://cetacademicprograms.com/category/jordan/ Intensive Arabic Language in Jordan: http://cetacademicprograms.com/programs/jordan/arabic-language-jordan/ . Modern Standard Arabic + Jordanian Dialect . Arabic-language content courses . 2 semesters college-level Arabic study required Middle East Studies & Internship in Jordan: http://cetacademicprograms.com/programs/jordan/internship-amman/ . Modern Standard Arabic + Jordanian Dialect . Internship placement + course . No language prerequisite Intensive Arabic Language & Culture in Tunisia: http://cetacademicprograms.com/programs/tunisia/arabic-language-tunisia/ . Modern Standard Arabic + Tunisian Dialect . English-language area studies courses . No language prerequisite Best, Allegra O'Donoghue ____________________________________________________ CET Academic Programs ~ Innovators in Study Abroad Since 1982 Allegra O'Donoghue Middle East & North Africa Programs Manager 1920 N Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202.349.0676 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:53 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:53 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:4th Tunis Exchange program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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: 4th Tunis Exchange program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: Nicholas Noe Subject: 4th Tunis Exchange program Apply For the Fourth Tunis Exchange January 4-18, 2014/Deadline November 20 Mideastwire.com and its partners - Université Paris-Dauphine I Tunis and Tunisia Live - are pleased to announce the Fourth Tunis Exchange January 4-January 18, 2014. The two-week course will immerse our participants in the politics of Tunisia, with a particular emphasis on direct engagement with high-level academic, political, intellectual and religious figures active across the spectrum. TO REQUEST AN APPLICATION for this Winter's Tunis Exchange, email info at mideastwire.com. APPLY BY NOVEMBER 20, 2013 (applicants are accepted on a rolling basis and spaces are limited). Note that tuition discounts are available for those applicants with demonstrated need as well as alumni of our previous Exchanges. For more information, please emailinfo at mideastwire.com ******************* Learn Arabic in Tunis! For more information about our new series of Arabic Language classes - including private lessons - offered at several different levels, visit: https://www.facebook.com/ArabicInTunis All classes take place at our Hotel - Villa 78 - located at 78 Avenue Mohammad V in Downtown Tunis (www.villa78tunis.com). ******************* Background on Five Years of the Exchange in the MENA Region: The Exchange is an effort by Mideastwire.com and its partners to promote direct engagement and understanding through a variety of city-focused politics conferences. The First Exchange was launched in June 2008 in Beirut, Lebanon. Now, several years on, over 325 students from 44 different countries have participated in 18 different Exchange programs across the region, with many going on to work as diplomats in their home countries, for NGOs serving the region and as social entrepreneurs. The Exchange welcomes applications from current students as well as professionals and post-professionals interested in better understanding the Middle East and North Africa, and, we hope, their own country's involvement in the region. To view previous Exchange itineraries in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Tunis and the Gulf, as well as media coverage of our efforts, visit http://www.thebeirutexchange.com ******************* THE FOURTH TUNIS EXCHANGE January 4-18, 2014/Application deadline November 20, 2013 Limited spaces available/Rolling acceptance As with our other Exchanges, the two-week program January 4-18 will engage students from around the world in a multifaceted discussion of some of the key issues facing Tunisia and the wider region. The Tunis Exchange program specifically rests on two tracks: Academic - Participants will attend a series of lectures led by leading professors and public intellectuals in Tunisia. Topics will include, among others: Economic challenges facing Tunisia and North Africa; Political Islam and electoral politics; The status of women in Tunisia and the MENA region; Media coverage of the Arab revolts; Trade union politics in the post Ben Ali era; Emerging security challenges in the MENA region, as well as a range of other topics. Dialogue with Leaders - Participants will have the opportunity to meet, listen and engage leading social, political, religious and economic leaders from across the spectrum in Tunisia. ********* Program Format - The Tunis Exchange will be held over fourteen days total at the conference room of the Le Pacha hotel in downtown Tunis. Students are expected to stay at our hotel, Villa 78 (located across the street from the Pacha) or at the Pacha hotel itself, unless permission for offsite stay at alternative hotels or accommodations is requested, since most meetings will take place in the conference room at Le Pacha. Off-site meetings will entail bus travel as a group in and around Tunis. At least three days of the program will entail travel to other cities and regions in Tunisia for meetings with local activists, intellectuals, academics and political/religious leaders, including in Sidi Bouzid, Sfax and Gafsa. Previous Institutional Participants in the Tunis Exchange (Partial list only): Ennahda Party Congress for the Republic Party Ettakatol Party Constitutional Democratic Rally Party The Democratic Modernist Pole Party Worker's Communist Party Progressive Democratic Party Tunisian General Trade Union Union of Tunisian Journalists The Central Bank of Tunisia Ministry of Women's Affairs Ministry of Human Rights Manouba University Tunis University Association of Democratic Women Tunisian Network for Social Economy Tunisian Observatory for a Democratic Transition Tunisian League of Human Rights Tunisian-American Chamber of Commerce Tunisian Association of Young Entrepreneurs Committee to Protect Journalists Attounsia Newspaper To view a schedule for a previous Tunis Exchange, visit: http://www.thebeirutexchange.com/images/stories/1_-_Tunis_Exchange_Schedule_Final_Tunis.pdf Costs: Tuition - $2000; Partial financial aid is available for those students and individuals that can demonstrate need as well as alumni of our previous programs. Accommodation - Eleven nights of the program will be spent at our facilities in downtown Tunis, while at least three nights will be spent at hotels outside of Tunis. Room rates vary depending on arrangements, but generally fall within the range of $600-$700 total for a shared double room during the duration of the program (breakfast is included). Alternative accommodation, including in a single room, is available upon request. Airfare - $450, approximate from the European Union. REQUEST AN APPLICATION via info at mideastwire.com For more about Université Paris-Dauphine I Tunis, visit http://www.tunisdauphine.tn/ For more about Tunisia Live, visit http://www.tunisia-live.net For more about Le Pacha Hotel, visit http://www.lepacha.com.tn/ ******************* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Subject: :New Book:Using Numbers in Arabic I would like to announce a new reference book available to the intermediate or advanced learner of Arabic: Using Numbers in Arabic, by Jamal Ali Georgetown University Press 2013 This guide shows the reader, using clear explanations and examples, exactly how to use cardinal and ordinal numbers in Arabic, from one to the billions and beyond. It also covers useful number-related topics such as dates, times, fractions and decimals. All information is based on real-world practice, with helpful citations from literature and media to illustrate each principle. While focusing on Modern Standard Arabic, the volume also covers Classical Arabic and describes and illustrates differences between classical and modern practice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:40:10 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:40:10 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&LING:CFP 3rd International Qatar U. Arabic Dept. Conf. Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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: CFP 3rd International Qatar U. Arabic Dept. Conf. -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: Emad Abdul-Latif Subject: CFP 3rd International Qatar U. Arabic Dept. Conf. Call for papers The Third International Conference of the Arabic Department Qatar University "Linguistics and the development of Arabic Teaching" Doha April 29 - 30, 2014 The Department of Arabic cordially invites researches to submit abstracts for its third international conference. The conference will examine the various aspects of the relation between linguistics and Arabic teaching for both native and non-native speakers. Suggested topics include: 1) Theories of Language acquisition 2) Applied linguistics and Arabic teaching 3) The role of grammar in teaching Arabic 4) Strategies of Arabic learning 5) The importance of literature to Arabic teaching 6) Strategies of teaching Arabic for non-native speakers 7) The international experiences of Language teaching 8) Communication technologies as means of Arabic teaching and learning These topics should only be considered as general guidelines and are not exhaustive. Any paper dealing with Arabic teaching or learning from a linguistic point of view will be considered. How to submit a paper? Abstracts, not exceeding 400 words, should be sent by email before 17thNovember 2013 to headdeparabic at qu.edu.qa , with the name, current position and affiliation written in the body of the email. Notification of paper acceptance will be sent via email by end of November 2013. A full paper should be submitted by the 10th of February 2014. Each presentation will be allowed 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Venue and Facilities This conference will be hosted by Qatar University. It will afford a full board accommodation during the conference days in addition to a free entry visa to Qatar.------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:39:59 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:39:59 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Moroccan Berber Manual Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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 Book:Moroccan Berber Manual -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: New Book:Moroccan Berber Manual Title: Manuel de Berbère Marocain Subtitle: Dialecte Rifain Series Title: LINCOM Orientalia 80 Publication Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom-shop.eu Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu/ Author: Léopold Victor Justinard Paperback: ISBN: 9783862882656 Pages: 168 Price: Europe EURO 54.80 Abstract: Dès qu’on parle de langue berbère, il faut préciser. Le berbère n’est pas une langue écrite. Il se compose d’un grand nombre de dialectes, de parenté étroite, mais tout de même différant les uns des autres. Etudier la langue berbère, c’est donc d’abord étudier un dialecte de langue berbère. Le présent travail, consacré au dialecte berbère des Rifains, est le résumé des notes prises au cours de trois mois passés à l’Etat-Major du 19e Corps d’Armée, pendant les opérations de l’été 1925 au nord de Taza, notes prises rapidement pour étudier ce dialecte. Il est destiné à ceux qui auraient le désir d’en faire autant. C’est dire qu’il n’a aucune prétention scientifique et vise surtout un résultat pratique. Re-edition. Written in French. Originally published 1926 in Paris. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:39:56 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:39:56 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: A Moroccan Berber Secret Language Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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 Book: A Moroccan Berber Secret Language -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: New Book: A Moroccan Berber Secret Language Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:24:27 From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de] Subject: One Moroccan Amazigh/Berber Secret Language: the “sīn” Variety: Berjaoui E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-4181.html&submissionid=21759382&topicid=2&msgnumber=1 Title: One Moroccan Amazigh/Berber Secret Language: the “sīn” Variety Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 35 Publication Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom-shop.eu Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu/ Author: Nasser Berjaoui Paperback: ISBN: 9783862884711 Pages: 204 Price: Europe EURO 68.20 Abstract: This book (which is one among a series of future works on Moroccan Amazigh/Berber “secret languages”) is the first research project, to the best of our knowledge, that studies and provides a detailed description and analysis of one Amazigh/Berber “secret language” of the south-east of Morocco. The present book contains ten chapters. These respectively propose the following: general backgrounds, the basic encoding procedures of individual words in the “secret language”, the secretizing of various speech parts, the manipulation of miscellaneous verbal forms, the changing of defined nouns, the distortion of multi-consonantal short speech parts, the encrypting of miscellaneous one-segmental words, the converting of syntactic structures, the manipulation of semantic aspects of the Tamazight, and the delivery rates of the messages in the “secret language”. Last, but not least, the study provides a detailed presentation of all the rules that govern the “secret language” in question. This language is called the “sin” variety, since it makes use of this consonant (the “s” consonant) in the secretization operations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:40:15 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:40:15 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Book:MSA:Integrating Main Arabic Dialects Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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 Book:MSA:Integrating Main Arabic Dialects -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: Sebastian Maisel Subject: New Book:MSA:Integrating Main Arabic Dialects Dear colleagues, Please check out our new publication MODERN STANDARD ARABIC: INTEGRATING MAIN ARABIC DIALECTS which offers a new approach to teaching Arabic based on new technology and resources. It is available both as traditional textbook (ISBN 978-3-940075-74-1) and as e-Edition in HTML with appr. 8000 audio files and many other computer-based applications and exercises. The e-Edition works with all common browsers and may be used with all standard laptops, tablets, smart phones etc. You can find the detailed description, a sample chapter and access to a free trial period for the e-Edition at http://www.modern-standard-arabic.com/en/ About the authors Eckehard Schulz (profschulz at rz.uni-leipzig.de): Professor for Arabic Language and Linguistics at Leipzig University, Germany. Sebastian Maisel (maisels at gvsu.edu): Associate Professor for Arabic and Middle East Studies at Grand Valley State University. For questions and comments please contact the authors. Best regards Eckehard Schulz & Sebastian Maisel -------------------------------- Professor Dr. Eckehard Schulz Universität Leipzig Orientalisches Institut Schillerstr.6 04109 Leipzig Tel.: +49/341/9737200 ------------------------------- Sebastian Maisel, PhD Associate Professor for Arabic and Middle East Studies Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 49401 Tel: 616.3312034 Email: maisels at gvsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:40:01 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:40:01 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Moroccan Arabic Texts Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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 Book:Moroccan Arabic Texts -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: New Book:Moroccan Arabic Texts Title: Marokkanisch arabische Texte Series Title: Languages of the World/Text Collections 33 Publication Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom-shop.eu Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu Editor: Utz Maas Editor: Abderrahmane Assini Editor: Sandra Ziagos Paperback: ISBN: 9783862885152 Pages: 269 Price: Europe EURO 68.80 Abstract: The volume extracts a choice from a large corpus of recordings made in Morocco since 1990. The texts capture aspects of the process by which a supraregional koiné (Mar. Arab. darija) is about to be established. Included are recordings from the urban centres (Casablanca, Fas) as well as from the rural countryside (esp. from the Middle Atlas region) with speakers who have a Berber family language. Documented are spontaneous conversations (visit of neighbours, meeting at the street corner …) as well as narrative and expository texts (autobiographic stories, reports of work in different trades etc.). Speakers are from different classes: cultivated urban speakers as well as rural illiterates. In addition, examples of dialect varieties outside of the koinéization are included as well. Texts are given in a broad transcription with translation and linguistic glosses. To illustrate the dialectal varieties, extracts of every text are given in a more narrow transcription. Transcription and glosses correspond to Maas, Marokkanisches Arabisch (Lincom 2011), that is based on this corpus. This text edition makes it possible to control the examples in the grammar within their context. Der Band enthält eine Textauswahl aus einem größeren Corpus von überwiegend spontanen Gesprächsaufzeichnungen in Marokko seit 1990. In der vorgelegten Auswahl wird der Prozeß greifbar, mit dem sich in Marokko eine überregionale Verkehrssprache (Koiné, mar. arab. darija) etabliert. Im Vordergrund stehen einerseits Aufnahmen aus den großen urbanen Zentren (Casablanca, Fas), andererseits aus dem ländlichen Raum (bes. dem Mittleren Atlas) mit Sprechern mit einer berberischen Familiensprache, die diesen Koinéisierungs-Prozeß prägen. Dokumentiert werden spontane Gespräche in informellen Kontexten (Nachbarschaftsbesuche, Treffen an der Straßenecke …) neben narrativen und expositorischen Texten (autobiographische Erzählungen, Darstellungen der handwerklichen Arbeit u.dgl.). Repräsentiert sind sowohl Sprecher aus der städtischen Bildungsschicht wie analphabete Sprecher(innen) vom Land. In einigen Beispielen werden auch dialektale Sprachformen dokumentiert, die wei! terhin außerhalb dieses Prozesses der Konéisierung praktiziert werden. Die Texte werden in einer breiten phonetischen Umschrift präsentiert, mit einer interlinearen Übersetzung und sprachwissenschaftlichen Glossierung. Dialektale Züge der Sprecher werden in exemplarischen Auszügen mit einer engeren phonetischen Umschrift verdeutlicht. Umschrift und Glossierung entsprechen der Analyse in Maas, Marokkanisches Arabisch (Lincom 2011), die sich auf dieses Corpus stützt. Die vorliegende Textauswahl erlaubt es, die dort genutzten Sprachbeispiele in ihrem Kontext zu kontrollieren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:40:13 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:40:13 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Update | Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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: Update | Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: Evyn Kropf Subject: Update | Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Dear Colleagues, Earlier this year, we at the University of Michigan Library concluded a collaborative project to realize the cataloguing of our Islamic Manuscripts Collection. 883 new catalogue records were created in the course of the project representing 1447 titles in 877 volumes, 2 rolls, and 3 single leaves. Another 21 manuscript descriptions were significantly enhanced. While in the end most of the cataloguing was done by the project cataloguer, we are grateful to all who contributed remotely and locally, especially our local project staff who worked on manuscripts not yet digitized (http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/progress). We are pleased to report that the entire collection is thus fully catalogued with detailed, searchable descriptions for each manuscript appearing in the online Library catalogue, Mirlyn (http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/). The catalogue records should also appear soon in OCLC’s WorldCat. Further, descriptions and complete digital surrogates for 912 manuscripts from the collection appear in the online catalogue of the HathiTrust Digital Library (http://hathitrust.org/). To assist with navigating the collection and descriptive data, a research guide has been created with details on the collection history, size, and scope, as well as strategies for locating manuscripts of interest, instructions for viewing manuscripts in the Library, and advice on locating, viewing and downloading digitized manuscripts: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/islamicmss This guide will be enhanced and updated periodically as we continue to develop the collection. In addition, a research guide on Islamic Manuscript Studies has been created with more general advice on identifying and locating manuscripts, an introduction to palaeography and manuscript description, bibliographical resources and reading lists, as well as listings of digitized manuscripts and online catalogues with links and descriptions, a selection of the largest collections of Islamic manuscripts held in North America having some sort of web presence, and links to other relevant research guides and associations, institutes and research initiatives: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/islamicmsstudies This guide will also continue to evolve and we welcome any feedback on it. We also continue to welcome any comments you might have on the manuscripts or their descriptions posted to the collection project site: http://lib.umich.edu/islamic Just keep in mind that not all manuscripts from the collection currently appear there. In order to search all manuscripts from the collection, it is best to search Mirlyn. As always, feel free to be in touch with any questions or requests for assistance with navigating the collection. With all best wishes, Evyn Kropf _______________________________________ Evyn Kropf Librarian for Near Eastern and Religious Studies Curator, Islamic Manuscripts Collection University Library Area Programs M117B Hatcher Graduate Library North The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 (734) 764-1220 | ekropf at umich.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:29:03 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:29:03 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Materials on Umm Kulthum Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: Materials on Umm Kulthum -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: Maggie Nassif Subject: Materials on Umm Kulthum Dear All I am forwarding some really useful teaching resources to learn about the Arabic language and culture produced by Al-Bustan Seeds in Philadelphia. Materials on Umm Kulthum http://albustanseeds.org/digital/kulthum/ http://albustanseeds.org/digital/kulthum/for-educator And here's a link to a song tool for Yalli Zara'tu-l Burtuan.. and check out the discussion page: http://albustanseeds.org/digital/yalli/ MNN -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:28:59 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:28:59 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Online MA in Linguistics response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: Online MA in Linguistics response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: Adil Elshikh Subject: Online MA in Linguistics response It is better to look for universities that offer this course by thesis only. this site may help http://www.uniguru.co.in/studyabroad/studies/malaysia-university-courses/malaysia-linguistic-studies-courses/i/fj./all114/1/programs.html may Allah help you -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:28:51 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:28:51 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L;LING:New Book: Marked Word Order in Quran and Translations Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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 Book: Marked Word Order in Quran and Translations -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: Ahmed Saleh Elimam Subject: New Book: Marked Word Order in Quran and Translations Dear All, A new book entitled (Marked word order in the Quran and its English Translations: Patterns and Motivations) has just come out. see here http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Marked-Word-Order-in-the-Quran-and-its-English-Translations--Patterns-and-Motivations1-4438-5124-8.htm Regards, Ahmed Saleh Elimam Homepage: http://leicester.academia.edu/AhmedElimam -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:28:54 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:28:54 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Paper:Aspect as scanning device in NLP: Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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 Paper:Aspect as scanning device in NLP: The Case of Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: Lazhar Zanned Subject: New Paper:Aspect as scanning device in NLP: The Case of Arabic Title: Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing : The case of Arabic Author: Lazhar Zanned (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Link:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2345631 Lazhar Zanned Faculty of Literatures, Arts and Humanities University of Manouba Manouba 2010 Tunisia SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1575759 https://sites.google.com/site/lazharzanned/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:29:06 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:29:06 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CLS application reminder Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: CLS application reminder -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: "Jessica O'Higgins" Subject: CLS application reminder Reminder: less than four weeks left until the deadline for the 2014 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) competition! Applications are due Friday, November 15, 2013 by 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the scholarship competition for the 2014 CLS Program in thirteen critical foreign languages. The CLS Program provides fully-funded group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S. citizen undergraduate and graduate students. In Arabic, the program is offered at the advanced beginning, intermediate and advanced levels! Other languages offered include: Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu. The application is available online at http://www.clscholarship.org. Applications will be due November 15, 2013 by 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. Prior to preparing their application, interested students should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website< http://www.clscholarship.org/applicants>. Students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, science, social sciences, arts and humanities are encouraged to apply. While there is no service requirement attached to CLS Program awards, participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their professional careers. The CLS Program will be planning outreach events at universities across the U.S. in fall 2013. Check out the CLS webpage or our Facebook page< http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship> for updates! For more information about the CLS Program, please visit the CLS website< http://www.clscholarship.org/>. Jessica O'Higgins Program Officer, Critical Language Scholarship Program American Councils for International Education 1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20036 T 202-833-7522 F 202-833-7523 www.americancouncils.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:29:01 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:29:01 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Winter Break Program in Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: Winter Break Program in Oman -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: Judi Garfinkel Subject: Winter Break Program in Oman WINTER BREAK ARABIC PROGRAM IN OMAN The Center for International Learning is now taking applications for its popular Intensive Arabic Study Program, a 3-week program January 5- 23. Classes are offered at all proficiency levels, with students receiving 90 Arabic contact hours. For more information and to apply: http://omancenter.org/winter_arabic_programs.html. Regards, *Judi Garfinkel, M.P.H. Associate Dean for Programs Center for International Learning Box 2644, PC 111 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman * *Mobile: +968 9960 5159 * *Website: www.omancenter.org * *Facebook: www.facebook.com/CenterForInternationalLearning -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:28:56 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:28:56 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:U of North Carolina Wilmington Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:U of North Carolina Wilmington -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: "Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" Subject: JOBS:U of North Carolina Wilmington Dear Colleague: As an institution of higher learning, the University of North Carolina Wilmington is committed to maintaining a campus environment that values diversity. The university aims to achieve, within all areas of the university community, a diverse student body, faculty, and staff capable of providing for excellence in the education of its students and for the enrichment of the university community. To that end, I invite your assistance in identifying candidates with specific attention to minorities and women for the position of Assistant Professor of Arabic in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at UNCW. UNC Wilmington, one of 17 constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina, has consistently achieved regional and national recognition for its emphasis on quality undergraduate education, enriched by graduate and research programs, and the value of its education offerings. The department currently offers majors in French, German and Spanish, and has an MA program in Hispanic Studies. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Arabic beginning August 2014. The teaching load is 3/3, half of which will be taught through distance learning systems of the university, either online or through intercampus-linked classrooms. The successful candidate will be expected to teach basic language courses and eventually upper-level courses in Arabic Studies. Preference will be given to applicants with successful college-level teaching experience and a strong interest in curriculum development. An active research agenda is essential, and contributions to university service will be expected. The position requires native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English. A Ph.D. in Arabic or equivalent foreign degree must be in hand by August 2014. If you are aware of individuals ready to join a faculty of outstanding scholars and a community of learners at a growing, comprehensive public institution, please send me their contact information so that I may encourage their application. The vacancy announcement is online at http://uncw.edu/hr/joblistings_epa/14F023.html. Thank you for any help you can provide. Best wishes, Amanda Boomershine Search Committee Member Amanda Boomershine, PhD Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5973 Phone: (910) 962-7922 Fax: (910) 962-7712 email: boomershinea at uncw.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:32 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:32 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Jazeera Learning Arabic Website Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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-Jazeera Learning Arabic Website -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: A Zouhir Subject: Al-Jazeera Learning Arabic Website Thought learners of Arabic might find this interesting: http://learning.aljazeera.net/arabic Abderrahman Zouhir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:52:00 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:52:00 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article:Subject Expression in Emirati Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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 Article:Subject Expression in Emirati Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: New Article:Subject Expression in Emirati Arabic Journal Title: Language Variation and Change Volume Number: 25 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2013 Main Text: Subject expression and discourse embeddedness in Emirati Arabic Jonathan Owens, Robin Dodsworth, Mary Kohn -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:27 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:27 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Seeks videos on how to roll 'r' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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: Seeks videos on how to roll 'r' -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: "Horesh, Uri" Subject: Seeks videos on how to roll 'r' I'm teaching an intro Arabic class, and one of my students, who has studied some cognitive science and linguistics, and claims to know about brain plasticity and realizes that as a 20 year-old his brain is not as prone to learning a new phonemic inventory than when he was 3, has asked me whether I knew of any good videos for teaching how to roll one's /r/s. Our textbook (Alif Baa) does have videos illustrating how to pronounce *all* Arabic phonemes, but this is inadequate for him. He has searched YouTube, but so far to no avail. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, Uri -- Uri Horesh, Lecturer in Arabic Program in Middle East and North African Studies Northwestern University -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:24 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:24 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mapping Arabic Heritage Conf. CFP Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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: Mapping Arabic Heritage Conf. CFP -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: Jeremy Palmer Subject: Mapping Arabic Heritage Conf. CFP Call for papers Mapping Arabic Heritage: Language, Literature and Culture, Past and Present A joint AUS- BRISMES conference Date: 14-16 April-2014 Location: The American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE. Contact Person: Dr. Imed Nsiri, Dr. Mai Zaki Conference Email: atsbrismes at aus.edu Conference web Site: www.atsbrismesconf.com The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies (ATS) at the American University of Sharjah, with the support of the Center of Gulf Studies (CGS), and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) invite submissions for paper presentations for this event which covers all areas related to Arabic heritage, including Arabic language and linguistics, literature, culture, translation and Islamic studies. Abstracts of original research in the following fields are welcomed: 1. Theoretical and applied issues in Arabic language and linguistics, including linguistic analysis, Arabic language teaching, Arabic dialectology, and the history of Arabic and its contact with other languages. 2. Arabic literature studies covering any period from pre-Islamic era to the present. 3. Islamic studies and studies on the history and culture of Arab society in any time period. 4. Theoretical and applied issues in Arabic translation and interpretation. These topics should only be considered as general guidelines and are not exhaustive. Any paper dealing with Arabic in its linguistic, cultural, literary or translation context will be considered. Anonymous abstracts, not exceeding 300 words, should be sent by email before 31st December 2013 to atsbrismes at aus.edu, with the name and affiliation written in the body of the email. Notification of paper acceptance will be sent via email by end of January 2014. Each presentation will be allowed 15 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Beyond the Colloquium Participants will be asked to develop their papers further for inclusion in a peer-reviewed conference proceeding. It is intended that selected high-quality papers are to be published by BRISMES in a special issue under the title of the conference. The papers accepted can be presented in English or Arabic. Venue This conference will be hosted by the American University of Sharjah. Participants must register in order to take part in the conference. Early bird registration fee is $100, starting on 15th February 2014. Registration on the first day of the conference is $125. This includes refreshments and lunch throughout the conference days and cultural trips in Sharjah, in addition to the conference dinner on April 14th. Please direct any inquiries to Dr. Imed Nsiri at insiri at aus.edu or Dr. Mai Zaki at mzaki at aus.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:29 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:29 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:American U of Beirut Job in Classical Islamic Thought Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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: American U of Beirut Job in Classical Islamic Thought -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: Nadine Rizk Subject: American U of Beirut Job in Classical Islamic Thought The American University of Beirut The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages seeks applicants for a faculty position in the field of Classical Islamic Thought to begin September 1, 2014. Candidates should be able to design and teach advanced courses in Qur'anic Studies and in one or more of the following areas: Islamic theology and its Greco-Arabic background, as well as courses in other fields of classical Islamic thought such as heresiography and classical literary theory. The language of instruction in this department (and only in this department) is Modern Standard Arabic, but mastery of English is an essential requirement. A reading knowledge of French and/or German is desirable. Applicants must be able to teach, in Arabic, service courses in Arabic grammar, Islamic theology and philosophy to native speakers of Arabic. Solid knowledge of the Arabic language and heritage and training in modern Western methodologies are essential. Applicants must have a PhD by the time of appointment. Rank will normally at the assistant professor level; usual contracts are initially for four years. Visiting scholars will be considered. Interested candidates should send a letter of application, a CV, and should arrange for three letters of reference to be directly sent to: Patrick McGreevy Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences American University of Beirut c/o 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 8th Floor New York, NY 10017-2303 Or Patrick McGreevy Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences American University of Beirut P.O. Box 11-0236 Riad El-Solh Beirut 1107 2020 Lebanon Electronic submissions are highly encouraged; please send to: as_dean at aub.edu.lb Review of applications will begin as of November 8, 2013. Interested applicants who will be attending MESA meetings in October are requested, if possible, to submit their materials early, so that preliminary meetings may be arranged. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For more information, please visit http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/pages/academic-employment.aspx The American University of Beirut is an Equal Opportunity Employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013cara -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 1 13:56:22 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:56:22 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:AIMA IV Program (at Emory U) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Oct 2013 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: AIMA IV Program (at Emory U) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Oct 2013 From: "Horesh, Uri" Subject: AIMA IV Program (at Emory U) Sent on behalf of Benjamin Hary: bhary at emory.edu We are very pleased to invite you to take part in the Fourth International Symposium on Middle and Mixed Arabic, which will be held from Saturday 12 to Tuesday 15 October 2013 at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. After the successful first symposium in Louvain-la-Neuve (2004), the second symposium in Amsterdam (2007), and the third symposium in Florence (2010)1, our university has taken over the task to convene the fourth symposium on the same topic of Middle/Mixed Arabic. The objectives of the fourth symposium are the same as those of the three preceding ones: To study written varieties of Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic (MMA) and varieties, particularly oral, of contemporary Mixed Arabic. The main topic of the conference is The Role of Middle/Mixed Arabic in the Standardization of Modern Arabic in its Actual Written/Spoken Use. The conference theme will deal with questions such as, How is MMA used in contemporary forms of written Arabic? What was the role of MMA in the 'invention' of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)? How are mixed Arabic forms used in contemporary Arabic? How is the Arabic continuum used? How is MMA used in literary classical and modern texts? AIMA IV Emory University The Role of Middle/Mixed Arabic in the Standardization of Modern Arabic in Its Actual Written/Spoken Use All sessions will be held in the Oak Amphitheater, Emory Conference Center Registration is $60 for faculty and $30 for students Saturday, October 12, 2013 Chair: Benjamin Hary, Emory University 7pm Opening Ceremony and Dinner 8:30 Keynote Speaker, Devin Stewart, Emory University ?Middle Arabic and Speech Genres? Sunday, October 13, 2013 Breakfast Chair: Vincent Cornell, Emory University 9:00 Opening Remarks 9:30 Liesbeth Zack, The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ?Middle Arabic in Legal Documents from the Dakhla Oasis (Egypt)? 10:00 Johannes den Heijer and Perrine Pilette, Universit? Catholoique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Nueve, Belgium ?Dilemmas in Editing Middle Arabic Texts: The History of the Patriachs of Alexandria as a Case Study? 10:30 Lucia Avallone, Universit? degli Studi Bergamo, Italy ?Mixed Arabic: Stylistic and Sociolinguistic Choices in Contemporary Egyptian Literature? Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: Sam Cherribi, Emory University 11:30 J?r?me Lentin, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France ?From Ancient Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic through Middle Arabic: The case of the prepositional phrase min qibal? 12:00 Arik Sadan, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel ?Semantic and Syntactic Influences of Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic on Modern Standard Arabic? 12:30 Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ?Mixed Arabic as an Essential Element in Literary and Semi-Literary Writing in Contemporary Egypt? Lunch Chair: Gehane Shehata, Emory University 2:00 Elise Franssen, Universit? de Li?ge, Belgium ?La langue des manuscrits de la recension ?gyptienne des Mille et une Nuits? 2:30 Miloud Gharrafi, Universit? de Toulouse, France ?Le moyen arabe dans les documents administratifs au Maroc? 3:00 Kheira Benlachen, Universit? d'Oran, Algerie ?Le parcours de l?arabe moyen dans l?enseignement des sciences biologiques en Alg?rie (1962?2012)? Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: Allal El-Hajjam, Emory University 4:30 Francesco Sinatora, Georgetown University, USA ?The Role of Mixed Arabic on Syrian Political Facebook Pages: A Rhetorical Conflict?? 5:00 Abedlfattah Nissabouri, Universit? Rennes II, France ?Notes sur le moyen arabe ? partir de corpus marocains? 5:30 Maria Angeles Gallego, CSIC, Madrid, Spain ?The Arabic of Andalusi Jews in Grammatical Literature? Dinner Monday, October 14, 2013 Breakfast Chair: Gordon Newby, Emory University 9:00 Gunvor Mejdell, University of Oslo, Norway ?Mixed Arabic of the Written Media? 9:30 Anna Belikova, Russia Today TV and Abeer Heider, American University in Cairo, Egypt ?Arabic Language on TV: Fu??? and Dialect Mixture? Or Something Else?? 10:00 Moises Gardu?o Garcia, School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico ?The Language(s) of the So-Called Arab Spring? 10:30 Shuki Cohen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA ?The socio-linguistics of Arabic Variants in a Corpus of Palestinian Suicide Bombers Last Wills? Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: Marjorie Pak, Emory University 11:30 Roni Henkin-Roitfarb, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel ?Complex Code Switching in Negev Bedouin Students? Interview Register? 12:00 Uri Horesh, Northwestern University, USA ?Phonological Consequences of Contact with Modern Hebrew on the Palestinian Arabic Dialect of Jaffa: A Variationist Study? 12:30 Tsivia Tobi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ?The Italian Component in the Colloquial Judeo-Arabic in Tunisia? Lunch Chair: Rkia Cornell, Emory University 2:00 Andreas Hallberg, Lund University, Sweden ?Case Markers in Spoken MSA? 2:30 Yosef Tobi, University of Haifa, Israel ?The Influence of the Muslim-Yemeni ?umayn? Poetry on Shalom Shabaz?'s Judeo-Arabic Poetry (17th Century)? 3:00 Mohamed El Ferrane, Universit? Mohamed V Souissi, Rabat, Morocco ?Le moyen arabe au Maroc, histoire et controverse? Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: TBA 4:30 Ofra Tirosh-Becker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ?Linguistic Characteristics of a 20th Century Algerian Judeo-Arabic Journal? 5:00 Tania Mar?a Garc?a Ar?valo, University of Granada, Spain ?The Mixture of Elements in Modern Tunisian Judeo-Arabic: The Case of Ma?aseh Sadiqim? 5:30 Marie Robache, Universit? Rennes II, France ?The Complicated Standardization of the Synonymy between the Second and the Fourth Verbal Forms in Modern Arabic of the Press Through the Study of Some Mixed Forms? Dinner Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Breakfast Chair: Scott Kugel, Emory University 9:00 Joseph Dichy, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2, France ?Polyglossia and Middle Varieties in Arabic and Other Natural Languages? 9:30 Yonatan Belinkov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ?arTenTen: A Web Corpus for Arabic Varieties? Coffee Break/Light Refreshments Chair: TBA 10:30 Keynote Speaker, Jacques Grand?Henry, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium ?Some Lexical Connections between Middle and Modern Standard Arabic? 11:30 Association Business Meeting Lunch 1:00?5:00 Tour of Atlanta Dinner Local Organizing Committee: Benjamin Hary, Director of the Program in Linguistics Darinishia Bolden, Program Administrative Assistant Rebecca Liebeskind, Conference Coordinator -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:09 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:09 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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 Book:Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: "Prof. Jonathan Owens" Subject: New Book:Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics Oxford University Press is thrilled to announce the publication of *The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics *edited by Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, Jonathan Owens. A comprehensive, one-volume guide that deals with all major research domains which have been developed within Arabic linguistics, chapters in the*Handbook *are written by leading experts in the field, who both present state-of-the-art overviews and develop their own critical perspectives. An essential reference work for anyone working within Arabic linguistics, the book brings together different approaches and scholarly traditions, and provides analysis of current trends and directions for future research. * *To view the complete Table of Contents with contributors please click here . For more information or to order, please see Oxford University Press , Amazon.com , www.bn.com, or your local bookstore. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:03 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:03 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Video to help with trilled 'r' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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: Video to help with trilled 'r' 2) Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' 3) Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' 4) Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Kevin Burnham Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' Hey Uri, The University of Iowa phonetics website ( http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#) might have what he is looking for. The Spanish [r] is, I believe, identical to the Arabic one. K -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Seham Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ghuo1rv_e8&desktop_uri=%2fwatch%3fv%3d_ghuo1rv_e8 I think IT is a good video -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Paul Roochnik Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' Regarding Uri's interest in a video about rolling the /r/ : Many American students of Arabic struggle to master the raa', the 'ayn, the ghayn, the qaaf, the *h*aa', the khaa', etc. Their instructors are not necessarily the most qualified people to teach them... regardless of whether the instructor is a native speaker or not. Professional speech therapists, on the other hand, are uniquely qualified to help people with their pronunciation problems. This is their field of expertise. Bringing an Arab speech therapist into the Arabic-101 classroom for a few hours would be a wise investment at the start of the semester. The expert would train the strugglers to master the "exotic" sounds of Arabic, from the vantage point of articulatory physiology. And as the old proverb says, "Well begun is half-done." Give the students the right start and they will take such pride in their ability to produce those cool Arabic phonemes, it might even inspire them to stick with the language... thus reducing attrition in our Arabic programs... and keeping us -- the teachers -- employed! Cheers, Abu Sammy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Haseeb Shehadeh Subject: Video to help with trilled 'r' Dear Uri, There are a plenty of YouTubes concerning the pronunciation of raa? especially in reading the Qur?an, see for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyQkr31IqY Best, Haseeb Shehadeh -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:10 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:10 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New Book:Translation of Familiar Strangers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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 Book:Translation of Familiar Strangers -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Mohammed Jiyad Subject: :New Book:Translation of Familiar Strangers Dear Colleagues, My translation of Jonathan Lipman?s book Familiar Strangers has been published in Beirut by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiya. Author John Voll says of the book, ?No published study comes close to providing this kind of study of the history of Islam and Muslims in China. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:05 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:05 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:New MA Program in Arabic Translation, Kent State Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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 MA Program in Arabic Translation, Kent State -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Bilal Sayaheen Subject: New MA Program in Arabic Translation, Kent State The Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL) at Kent State University introduces a new MA Degree Program in Arabic Translation starting Fall 2014. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:58:47 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:58:47 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Job:Carnagie Melon University Tenure Track Message-ID: --------------------------------------- Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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: Job:Carnagie Melon University Tenure Track -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Maria Del Mar Rosa Rodriguez [mailto:mrosarod at andrew.cmu.edu] Subject: Job:Carnagie Melon University Tenure Track JOB POSTING ? The Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon UNiversity in Pittsburgh PA, invites applications for a tenure track position in Arabic beginning in August 2014. Of particular interest are candidates at the rank of assistant professor whose research focuses on one or more of following areas: literary and cultural studies, second language acquisition and literacy, bilingual studies, technology enhanced learning. ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? Applications will be accepted online through Interfolio and should arrive not later than October, 31, 2013. Applicants should use the Interfolio link to submit a letter of application (indicating, among other things, any professional conferences they plan to attend between October 2013 and January 2014, including the MESA meeting in New Orleans, the ACTFL meeting in Orlando and the MLA meeting in Chicago), resume, statements of teaching, research, and curricular interests, and three (3) letters of recommendation. Representative publications, not to be returned, may also be included. ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qualifications Successful candidates must have an earned Ph.D., strong evidence of research productivity, excellence in teaching, potential for securing extramural funding, native or near-native proficiency in Arabic, and interest in teaching courses across the range of the curriculum. Teaching load is 2+2. ? ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Application Instructions Please submit all documents no later than October, 31, 2013 through Interfolio. https://apply.interfolio.com/21745 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:16 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:16 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Michigan Job Revised announcement Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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 Michigan Job Revised announcement -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: Nancy Neill Subject: U of Michigan Job Revised announcement The University of Michigan Department of Near Eastern Studies Revised Announcement of Tenure-Track Position The Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan is seeking to fill a position in Arabic Studies at the rank of tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor, beginning September 2014. This is a university-year (nine-month) appointment. Candidates must already hold the PhD and are expected to have native or near-native proficiency in both Arabic and English. Candidates must produce evidence of substantial, innovative research in their fields of specialization. Those candidates whose teaching and research focus on religious and cultural movements and trends in the contemporary Arab world, and on Islamic law in particular, are especially encouraged to apply, as are those with an active interest in areas pertaining to Arabic language study and curriculum. Of particular interest to our department at this time is a candidate who, in addition to teaching courses in English in these fields, would also regularly offer advanced courses in Arabic on these topics, and would be involved in these and other ways in contributing to the Arabic language curriculum. Salary will be commensurate with the successful candidate?s training and experience. Please send a cover letter with a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, a statement of current and future research plans, evidence of teaching excellence, samples of syllabi and publications, and a curriculum vitae to: Arabic and Islamic studies Search Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan, 4111 Thayer building, 202 South Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608. Candidates at the level of assistant professor should send three letters of recommendation; those at the associate level should send a list of references. Letters may be forwarded to the above address or to lsa-nes-search at umich.edu. The University of Michigan is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply. The University is supportive of the needs of dual career couples. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:06 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:06 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arab-American Conference, Dearborn Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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: Arab-American Conference, Dearborn -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: KateC Wilson Subject: Arab-American Conference, Dearborn Beyond the Label: Arab American Faces, Places, and Traces (Organized by the Arab American Studies Association) April 4-6, 2014 The Arab American NationalMuseum Dearborn, Michigan The label ?Arab American? is imbued with layered meanings within both academic settings and public arenas. Variously embraced, sometimes contested, often redefined, Arab American identity constructions have been influenced by historical factors, discourses of self-identification, and normative processes of data collection. We invite papers that address Arab American formations or contestations from a variety of disciplines, and we especially welcome works that explore the impact of historical research on interdisciplinary and comparative analyses or methodological approaches to the study of Arab Americans. At this conference, we aim to explore questions such as: How are Arab Americans constructed differently in various discourses and in different historical periods? How do familial, local, ethnic, transnational, class and/or religious affiliations influence Arab American identity formations? How are such formations shaped through sexual, ideological, or political orientations? Who is excluded and who is included in various spaces and designations, and how do such inclusions or exclusions shape various narratives about Arab American history and identity formations? How has Naff?s work impacted Arab American Studies? Abstracts of 300 words in length, along with brief bios, should be sent as MS-Word attachments to conference at arabamericanstudies.orgby September 30, 2013. Papers submitted will be considered for publication after the conference. Final drafts should be ready and submitted by January 15, 2014. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 3 16:59:07 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:59:07 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA 2014-2015 Full Year Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 03 Oct 2013 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: CASA 2014-2015 Full Year Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 03 Oct 2013 From: "Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" Subject: CASA 2014-2015 Full Year Program ANNOUNCEMENT CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDY ABROAD (CASA) CASA I 2014-2015 Full-Year Program The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) is pleased to announce that it will offer CASA I Full-Year Fellowships for advanced Arabic language study for the 2014-2015 academic year. CASA I Fellowships: (June 2014-May 2015) The CASA I fellowships provide intensive language and culture training in Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic (reading, listening and writing) for three semesters (summer, fall and spring) and allow students in the spring semester to take courses in Arabic in their respective areas of specialization. In 2013-2014, CASA offered 29 CASA I fellowships in Cairo; however, due to political unrest in Egypt, the CASA fellows were evacuated and the program relocated to the Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, Jordan. For 2014-2015, CASA expects to offer up to 23 fellowships for the full-year program. CASA hopes to return to Cairo in June 2014 but will keep contingency plans in place to meet any emergencies. Requirements: To qualify for a CASA I fellowship, the successful applicant must: 1) be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; 2) be enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program or in between their undergraduate and graduate study; 3) be committed to a career in Middle Eastern Studies; and 4) pass the CASA Selection exam, which usually requires a minimum of 3-4 years of college-level language study. The exam will be administered to all stateside applicants at a school in their locality on Friday, February 7, 2014 and for all international applicants the exam will be administered on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Each applicant must complete and submit the CASA I application form and provide all supporting documents by the designated deadline. For those applicants awarded a fellowship, a 20-30 minute Oral Proficiency Interview in Arabic will be coordinated with a certified oral proficiency tester. This interview takes place in April once an applicant's enrollment in CASA is confirmed. Each CASA I applicant is required to pay a non-refundable program fee once an award has been accepted. Fees for 2014-2015 will be posted on the CASA web site soon. Please note that only applicants affiliated with a CASA Consortium university, at the time program fees are due, are eligible for the Consortium rate. Applicants for CASA I have the option of participating on a Pay-Your-Own-Way basis, if they have other sources of funding. Applicants are encouraged to seek funding from other private and government sources, such as the Fulbright Hays Student Scholarships, for their CASA studies. The deadline for Fulbright Hays Scholarships is October 15, 2013. Please visit the website for more information: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/program_country.html?id=32 Please note that non-U.S. citizens are also welcome to apply to CASA, and if accepted, may participate on a Pay-Your-Own-Way basis only. Benefits: A CASA I fellowship award covers tuition, round-trip airfare and a monthly stipend. For detailed descriptions of the CASA programs, a list of Consortium members, or to download application forms, please visit the CASA website at: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa/ *The application deadline for the 2014-2015 CASA I program is Monday, January 6, 2014* All questions and applications should be addressed to: ATTN: Marissa Canales, Stateside Program Coordinator Center for Arabic Study Abroad/University of Texas at Austin 204 W. 21st Street, F9400, CAL 510A Austin, TX 78712 Email: casaprogram1967 at gmail.com Phone: (512) 471-3513 / Fax: (512) 471-7834 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 03 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:28 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:28 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching pronunciation (was 'r' trilling) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Teaching pronunciation (was 'r' trilling) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Ayesha Nicole Subject: Teaching pronunciation (was 'r' trilling) Good Morning, Abu Sammy's suggestion reminded me of this excellent book for both teachers and students: Techniques of Teaching Comparative Pronunciation in Arabic and English Dr. Edward Odisho http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/showproduct.aspx?ISBN=1-59333-173-8 Si -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:41 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:41 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants MA in Linguistics Online Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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 MA in Linguistics Online -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Khadija Hamdi Khalifa Subject: Wants MA in Linguistics Online Subject: Asking for MA in linguistics.My name is Khadija. I am Egyptian. I live in Kuwait. I graduated from Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, English Department. *I ranked the fourth one*. I was studying *Translation Diploma* in the American University in Cairo .Ihave *a contract* to work in Kuwait as a teacher of English For one year. This contract can be renewed for more years .Iam so interested in studying English Linguistics. I want to get *MA andPHD* in Linguistics. I want to get into MA as soon as possible. I am askingabout the system of study. Also, Is there any kind of *scholarships*? If there is not any scholarships, I want to know the *fees.* it is important for me to join part time or online study because I am working in Kuwait. Moreover, I want to know the conditions to join MA. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013c -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:38 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:38 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Noor Majan Training Institute, Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: "Gregory J. Bell" Subject: "Gregory J. Bell" Dear Fellow Arabic Teachers, Several of my Omani colleagues, all excellent Arabic teachers, opened an institute in Oman in 2012 that I would like to bring to the attention of teachers and students. The Noor Majan Training Institute (NMTI) provides accelerated and intensive Arabic study at the novice through superior levels. The staff have considerable experience coordinating programs and teaching Arabic as a foreign language. In addition to hosting individual students from various countries and universities, NMTI hosted one of the State Department's CLS programs in 2013. For information about dates, prices, housing options, curriculum, etc., see http://www.noormajan-institute.com< http://www.noormajan-institute.com/>. Greg Bell Department of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:15:30 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:15:30 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AATA Meeting and Panel at MESA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: AATA Meeting and Panel at MESA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: moderator (forwarding AATA message) Subject: AATA Meeting and Panel at MESA Dear Colleague: I look forward to seeing you at the 2013 American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting will take place next week, on Thursday, 10 October in New Orleans. The AATA Panel, "Content Based Instruction in the Arabic Language Classroom" is 1.00 - 3.30 p.m. The panel line-up is as follows: Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University, "Challenges to Teaching Writing in Advanced Arabic Courses" Laila H. Familiar, University of Texas at Austin, "Approaches to Teaching Literature in a Content-Based Model" Muhammad Habib, Duke University, "New Approaches to Content-Based Learning: Teaching Media Arabic in a Flipped Classroom" Mouna Mana-Hannouchi, National Foreign Language Center, "Pedagogical Needs of Arabic Teachers in Implementing Content-Based Instruction" The AATA Business Meeting, when the Lifetime Achievement Award will be made to Professor Emeritus Farhat Ziadeh, University of Washington, is 3.30 - 4.30 p.m. Both events will take place in the Nottoway Room of the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. Please remember that AATA events are free and open to the public. If you plan to attend other events at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, you must register. For registration information, please see: http://mesa.arizona.edu/annual-meeting/registration.html. Finally, if you should misplace this message, you can find the details on the MESA website and in the printed program. AATA events appear on the "Meetings in Conjunction" page. See you in New Orleans! Elizabeth M. Bergman, Ph.D. Executive Director American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) 3416 Primm Lane Birmingham, Alabama 35216 USA Phone 205-822-6800 Fax 205-823-2760 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:50 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:50 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Routledge Sponsored Panel at MESA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Routledge Sponsored Panel at MESA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Routledge Language Learning < mail.kqdrdcekarlnjzewci at tandf.msgfocus.com> Subject: Routledge Sponsored Panel at MESA October 12th, 2013 Middle East Studies Association Dear Colleague, Routledge Language Learning would like to invite you to a session on Integrating the Colloquial and MSA in the Arabic Classroom with Munther Younes, author of the brand-new textbook series 'Arabiyyat al-Naas. Professor Younes, Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Director of the Arabic Program at Cornell University, will discuss the benefits of integrating the colloquial alongside MSA starting in the first year of Arabic instruction, an approach he has tested over a number of years in his classes at Cornell. He will address the ways this approach benefits students as well as how instructors who are not currently incorporating a colloquial dialect can switch over to doing so. The session will be held on Saturday, October 12th from 11 am to 12 noon, in the Oakley room on the 4th floor. Coffee and New Orleans-style beignets will be served. We look forward to seeing you there, Routledge Language Learning Get your 20% conference DISCOUNT! 20 percent offMake sure to visit the Routledge booth and receive a special 20% discount on all Middle East Studies and Language Learning titles. And be sure to pick up your complimentary exam copy of 'Arabiyyat al-Naas, available to qualified professors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:30 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:30 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:JOBS:Carnagie Mellon University Tenure Track Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:Carnagie Mellon University Tenure Track -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Vera Lampley Subject: JOBS:Carnagie Mellon University Tenure Track Carnegie Mellon University Tenure Track Position in Arabic The Department of Modern Languages (http://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/modlang/) invites applications for a tenure track position in Arabic beginning in August 2014. Of particular interest are candidates at the rank of assistant professor whose research focuses on one or more of following areas: literary and cultural studies, second language acquisition and literacy, bilingual studies, technology enhanced learning. Successful candidates must have an earned Ph.D., strong evidence of research productivity, excellence in teaching, potential for securing extramural funding, native or near-native proficiency in Arabic, and interest in teaching courses across the range of the curriculum. Teaching load is 2+2. Applications will be accepted online through Interfolio and should arrive not later than October, 31, 2013. Applicants should use the link below to submit a letter of application (indicating, among other things, any professional conferences they plan to attend between October 2013 and January 2014, (including the MESA meeting in New Orleans, the ACTFL meeting in Orlando and the MLA meeting in Chicago), resume, statements of teaching, research, and curricular interests, and three (3) letters of recommendation. Representative publications, not to be returned, may also be included. https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/21745 Carnegie Mellon University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:19:06 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:19:06 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Programs Fall Winter Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Programs Fall Winter -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: jameslatta at arabeya.org Subject: Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Programs Fall Winter Hello, my name is James Latta and I am from the Arabeya Arabic Language Institute, an Arabic language school located in Cairo. I just thought I would let you know about our school, programs, and how we can help your students in improving their Arabic proficiency. At Arabeya, we offer a wide range of courses for those wishing to learn or improve their Arabic, whether it be in Modern Standard Arabic or in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. We have classes and courses for every level in proficiency, as well as programs for specific areas of interest, such as media, diplomacy, business communications, literature, and calligraphy. We also offer online spoken Arabic classes via Skype with Northeastern students as a practical part of their semester studies at University. Over the years, we have had the pleasure of hosting students from Universities all over the world including Hunter, Northeastern, Boston, Maryland, Harvard, and Cambridge as a part of Summer and winter Study Abroad Programs that was designed to introduce students to the language, culture, and history of Egypt and also host students from the ROTC. There are a number of seasonal programs that we run throughout the year with discount prices, ideal for strapped for cash university students looking for options over the semester break. These courses are intensive, enriching the student with a great wealth of knowledge for minimal cost and time expenditure. Now is the best time to take advantage of our intensive and effective Winter and Christmas Program 2013-2014 If you have any queries please feel free to contact us directly at: info at arabeya.org Or you can visit our website at: www.arabeya.org Best regards, James Latta Director of Intercultural Communications and Marketing Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Main Office: Address: 13 Tahrir Sq. Downtown, Cairo, Egypt Tel: (+202) 257 897 32 Second branch: Address: 19 Mansurra st, from Omar Tosson, Ahmed Orabi Mohandesin Giza, Egypt Tel: (+202) 330 224 79 Email: info at arabeya.org Web: www.arabeya.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:36 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:36 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayet Institute 2013-2014 Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Hedayet Institute 2013-2014 Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Nagwa Hedayet info at hedayetinstitute.com Subject: Hedayet Institute 2013-2014 Programs Hedayet Institute is pleased to announce to students and colleagues: *1-* Arabic Total Immersion Study Abroad Programs and, *2-* Islamic Studies Program: With al-Azhar Instructors? Collaboration - *Fall Term II, *both 7 week programs above: Program commences *Nov. 3rd and ends Dec.19th, 2013 * We still have few slots for next Fall Term *II,* therefore, we have extended the deadline instead of Oct. 3rd to Oct. 12th, 13. This is an unprecedented time in Egypt and the ME, so hurry up! * *Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours - *Winter Short Term*: Duration 4 weeks of 20 hours./wk Program Program commences Jan.8th and ends Feb.4th, 2014 Application deadline is Dec.8th, 2013 Cost: $1584 USD for a total of 88 hours ?*Living Egypt? short tourist, historic, archaeological, political etc. language programs that are coordinated with different universities arrangements during or after Christmas Vacation in 1, 2 or 3 week duration are available. Deadline is Nov. 27th, 13.* ** - *Spring Term I:* 7 week Program Program commences Feb. 9th and ends March 27th, 2014 Application deadline is Jan.9th, 2014 Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours - *Spring Term II:* 7 week Program Program commences March30th and ends May 22nd, 2014 Application deadline is Feb. 30th, 2014 Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours *Combine two terms and get 10 % discount in the second term tuition fees. Come in a small group of at least three students and each will get 15% discount. * Hedayet?s New Language Trainings: . - Islamic Studies Program: Fusha, Tajweed Al Qura?n, Sira, ?Maqaasid al Shari?a?, Islamic Philosophy, jurisprudence and ?Tafsir? or interpretation of al Qur?an using CBI taught by filed scholars at prices as low as $7 per class hour. Heritage as well as interested non Muslim students, junior scholars and scholars are welcome. Professional instruction is provided to each level. - TAFL Short Training Workshop in the last week of Oct.2013 *Prices are as low as $10 USD per hour in all above programs for groups of 6 students and above affiliated with a specific university or organization.* Because Hedayet Institute is situated in Maadi, south of downtown Cairo proper & Tahrir Square, by more than 12 kms, it has been a very calm district even during past events. It can be reached by metro from the center in 20 mints. Watch Islam & Politics on ground interaction in Egypt like nowhere and never before. Please apply online on our web site at: http://www.hedayetinstitute.com For more information on pls. contact administration at: info at hedayetinstitute.com USA Vonage Telephone no.: +1646-2168-308 UK Vonage Telephone no.: +4420337-10141 Cairo Telefax: +12025270518 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:47 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:47 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Two New Articles:Subject Expression and Intrusive -n Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Two New Articles:Subject Expression and Intrusive -n -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: "jonathan owens" Subject: Two New Articles:Subject Expression and Intrusive -n "Subject expression and discourse embeddedness in Emirati Arabic" Language Variation and Change, 25/3: 255-85, 2013 JONATHAN OWENS, ROBIN DODSWORTH, MARY KOHN Since Prince (1981) and Giv?n (1983), studies on discourse reference have explained the grammatical realization of referents in terms of general concepts such as ?assumed familiarity? or ?discourse coherence.? In this paper, we develop a complementary approach based on a detailed statistical tracking of subjects in Emirati Arabic, from which two major categories of subject expression emerge. On the one hand, null subjects are opposed to overt ones; on the other, subject-verb (SV) is opposed to verb-subject (VS). Although null subjects strongly correlate with coreferentiality with the subject of the previous clause, they can also index more distant referents within a single episode. With respect to SV vs. VS, morpholexical classes are found to be biased toward one or the other: nouns are typically VS, pronouns SV. We conclude that the null subject variant is the norm in Emirati Arabic, and when an overt subject is appropriate, lexical identity biases the subject into SV or VS order, generating word order as a discourse-relevant parameter. Overall, our approach attempts to understand Arabic discourse from a microlevel perspective. "The Historical Linguistics of the Intrusive *-n in Arabic and West Semitic" Journal of the American Oriental Society 133.2: 217-47, 2013. Jonathan Owens A much discussed morpheme in Semitic historical linguistics is the suffix *-n. Its reflexes include the energic in Classical Arabic, the ventive in Akkadian, and many languages with a [V ? n ? object pronoun] reflex. Explanations of its origins fall broadly into two camps. One sees it originally as a proto-Semitic verbal suffix, while the other derives it from a grammaticalization of an originally independent [deictic/presentative + object pronoun] element. This paper argues for the correctness of the second explanation, to which end a general reconstruction of the historical development of the morpheme in West Semitic is developed, with particular attention given to Arabic. Although a modest and unobtrusive morpheme, it is argued that the linguistics of *-n is of considerable significance for conceptualizations of Arabic and Semitic historical linguistics. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:44 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:44 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Marhaba! Level 2 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Marhaba! Level 2 -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Cindy Su Subject: Marhaba! Level 2 Marhaba! Level 2 Curriculum Guide Available November 1 By Steven Berbeco Ed D ?This is an excellent interactive approach that allows students to explore their creativity while learning the language. It gives students the opportunity to engage in more meaningful activities that cater to their own way of learning.? ?Nada Shaath, Bell High School, California Building on the innovative and student-centered Marhaba! Level 1 Curriculum Guide, this brand new Level 2 Guide (http://bit.ly/18K3yKL) offers more support and guidance for teachers of second-year Arabic. It includes ? More detailed instruction on choosing what Arabic grammar and vocabulary to teach students ? How to plan curricula around the student daftar with more detailed Sample Curriculum Maps ? Pedagogical support on designing assessments. ? New activities and daftar pages ? Explanation on how to adapt activities from Level 1 to teach the more advanced grammar, vocabulary, and cultural exploration of Level 2 ? Additional resources on the companion website www.marhabaproject.org. Read Steven Berbeco?s The Effects of Non-Linear Curriculum Design on Arabic Proficiency(http://bit.ly/17g3ej9) to learn more about the theory and practice behind this successful teaching approach, where students create personalized textbooks called Daftars and take ownership of their own learning. Pre-Publication Offer: Get a coupon for 20% off these three titles and the daftars when you sign up for Cheng & Tsui?s product announcements and special offers at http://bit.ly/GIzSUy! To speak with a Publisher?s Representative about our Arabic publications , please e-mail inquiries at cheng-tsui.com or call 1-800-554-1963 x5. Product Information: Publication Date: November 1, 2013 Marhaba! Level 2 Curriculum Guide ISBN: 9780887279546 Marhaba! Level 2 Student Daftars Term 1 Daftars ISBN: 9780887279553 Term 2 Daftars ISBN: 9780887279560 Term 3 Daftars ISBN: 9780887279577 Term 4 Daftars ISBN: 9780887279584 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:26 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:26 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New AMIDEAST Arabic Program in Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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 AMIDEAST Arabic Program in Oman -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Jerome Bookin-Weiner Subject: New AMIDEAST Arabic Program in Oman Earlier today, AMIDEAST (America Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc.), a US-based non-profit that has been meeting education and training needs in the Arab world since 1951 announced the addition of a new education abroad program in Oman. Here is the text of the press release announcing the program: AMIDEAST Launches Education Abroad Program in Oman New Program Offers Semester, Full Year, and Summer Course Options Washington, DC, October 3, 2013 -AMIDEAST is launching a new education abroad program for American undergraduate students in the Sultanate of Oman, beginning in spring 2014. The new program will be part of AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs in the Arab World, which began in 2007 and over the years has offered semester/academic year study opportunities in Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, and Morocco, combining language study with coursework and cultural enrichment opportunities designed to deepen students' Arabic language proficiency and understanding of the Arab world. In addition, AMIDEAST has assisted U.S. universities with a variety of customized programs in these countries and in Oman, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. The AMIDEAST Semester Abroad program in Oman features language study in both Modern Standard Arabic and the Omani dialect. Like other AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs, it combines language studies with opportunities to learn about the culture, society, and history of the country and region through coursework, excursions, and other activities. Students in AMIDEAST's programs earn college credit either through AMIDEAST directly or through its Institution of Record, Northeastern University in Boston. Oman has emerged as a popular destination for American students seeking a study abroad experience in the region. As a result, prospective American and other foreign students can choose from a number of opportunities in the Sultanate, including programs at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultan Qaboos College, and the University of Nizwa, among others. "We welcome your American students," the Ministry of Education recently told AMIDEAST, which works closely with the ministry in implementing a variety of education and training programs in the Sultanate, including its first education abroad program that began in 2009. "AMIDEAST is excited to be able to add Oman to our Education Abroad Programs. The new program expands our ability to offer choices that represent the breadth of the Arab World, from North Africa to the Gulf," said Ambassador Theodore H. Kattouf, AMIDEAST's President and CEO. "In Oman, moreover, students have a chance to become familiar with Oman's uniqueness among the Gulf countries and see close-up the Sultanate's dedication to preserving its cultural heritage while undergoing rapid modernization since 1970." AMIDEAST's new program in Oman builds on the success of several exchange initiatives for American students that AMIDEAST has administered in the Sultanate, including programs currently underway. These summer and academic year initiatives make it possible for young Americans to develop Arabic language skills and first-hand familiarity with the region while still in high school and college. AMIDEAST has also organized short-term visits for university students, professors and presidents seeking to gain insights into the region and to exchange experiences in higher education. Oman offers a rich and unique vantage point for learning about the Gulf and about Arab society, as former AMIDEAST student Richard Gima discovered. "My outlook on the world has dramatically changed," said Gima, who fell in love with the region because of his experience in Oman. "The relationships that I made there really mean a lot. The Omanis are very, very open and very hospitable. They put your needs before their own. They're the nicest people I've ever met." * * * END * * * About AMIDEAST America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc., or AMIDEAST ( www.amideast.org), is a private, nonprofit organization that provides programs and services to improve educational opportunities and quality, strengthen local institutions and develop language and professional skills for success in the global economy. Founded in 1951, AMIDEAST is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has a network of field offices in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen. --- Jerome B. Bookin-Weiner, PhD Director of Education Abroad America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 8 10:11:33 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:11:33 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Boren Fellowships for Study Abroad Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Tue 08 Oct 2013 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: Boren Fellowships for Study Abroad -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Oct 2013 From: Boren Subject: Boren Fellowships for Study Abroad The subscribers of America Association of Teachers of Arabic might be interested in this announcement (below) about the Boren Awards. As you may know, Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide funding for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in world regions critical to U.S. interests, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year. The applications are now available.**** ** ** It would be greatly appreciated it if you distributed the announcement(below). Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions and, if you are able to share the announcement, please let us know. **** ** ** Best Regards,**** ** ** *Boren Scholarships and Fellowships* Institute of International Education (IIE)**** 1400 K Street NW, 7th Floor**** Washington, DC 20005**** Phone 1-800-618-NSEP (6737)**** Boren at iie.org* *| www.iie.org**** Twitter @IIEGlobal | Facebook IIEGlobal | Blog Opening Minds **** ** ** *Opening Minds to the World?***** **** Boren Scholarships and Fellowships, Initiatives of the National Security Education Program**** Twitter @BorenAwards | Facebook BorenAwards | YouTube BorenAwards |borenawards.org ** * ** * *Boren Scholarships and Fellowships* The applications for the 2014-2015 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available at www.borenawards.org. Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.**** ** ** Boren Scholars and Fellows represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in studying less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. As part of the African Languages Initiative, Boren Award applicants have the opportunity to further their study of Akan/Twi, French, Hausa, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, or Zulu. For a complete list of languages, visit our website. **** ** ** Undergraduate students can receive up to $20,000 for an academic year?s study abroad and graduate students up to $30,000 for language study and international research. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year.**** ** ** *National Application Deadlines* Boren Fellowship: January 28, 2014**** Boren Scholarship: February 5, 2014***** *Many institutions have an earlier on-campus deadline. Visit our website for information about your campus deadline and Boren campus representative.**** ** ** For more information about the Boren Awards, to register for one of our upcoming webinars, and to access the on-line application, please visit www.borenawards.org. You can also contact the Boren Awards staff at boren at iie.org or 1-800-618-NSEP with questions.**** ** ** The Boren Awards are initiatives of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and are administered by the Institute of International Education. *** * ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 08 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:34 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:34 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Thematic Session at MESA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: Thematic Session at MESA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Zeinab Taha Subject: Thematic Session at MESA [moderator note: I apologize for posting this after it already happened. I am running a study abroad program, and we happened to be on a major field trip when this arrived, and I didn't have consistent internet access until today.] The Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo is pleased to invite you to take part in a Thematic Conversation Session at MESA. The Thematic Conversation is entitled "Teaching Arabic On-line". The Conversation is taking place on Friday, October 11, 2013 from 11:00 to 1:00 Hope to see you all there, Zeinab Taha -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Author: Lazhar Zanned (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Link to paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2337745 Lazhar Zanned Faculty of Literatures, Arts and Humanities University of Manouba Manouba 2010 Tunisia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The simplified version of the novel comes with a set of pedagogical activities to exploit the text and a companion website free of use. http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/hoda-barakats-sayyidi-wa-habibi If you end up using it to supplement your Arabic courses, I would love to hear your feedback. Laila Familiar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:13 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:13 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Princeton University Lecturer Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:Princeton University Lecturer Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: "Nancy A. Coffin" Subject: The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a full-time position in Modern Standard Arabic at the rank of Lecturer. Initial appointment is for 2014-2015, and the appointment is renewable for a maximum of six years contingent upon excellent performance and instructional need. Native or near-native command of Standard Arabic required, knowledge of one or more dialects desirable. M.A. or Ph.D. preferred. Prior language teaching experience preferred. The successful candidate will be teaching first, second or third-year classes (a total of 12 hours of classroom contact per week per semester). Applicant must apply online at http://jobs.princeton.edu< http://jobs.princeton.edu/>. Applicants are required to submit a cover letter; curriculum vitae; samples of language-teaching materials you have created (preferably in .pdf or .doc format), and contact information for at least three references whom we may contact via phone or email. If you have videos of your teaching, or student evaluations, these may also be included in your application. Review of applications will begin on November 5, 2013. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:10 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:10 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:CFP Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: CFP Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Nancy Spleth Linthicum Subject: CFP Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World Dear colleagues of Arabic literature, Prof. Amr Kamal and I are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) and welcome paper proposals (deadline Nov. 1) for our topic: Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World. Please find below a description of the seminar (link here: http://acla.org/acla2014/**shifting-centers-of-cultural-** capital-in-the-arab-world/). Interested participants should submit their paper proposals through ACLA's website (http://acla.org/acla2014/**propose-a-paper/) and specify this seminar. Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World *Seminar Organizer(s):* * Amr Kamal (The City College of New York), Nancy Linthicum (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) The well-known Arab adage "Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Baghdad reads" has gradually lost its currency in recent years as other Arab cities both further east and west of this triangle (Doha, Abu Dhabi, Casablanca, Tunis, to name a few) have actively competed to refashion themselves as patrons and vibrant centers of cultural production. As a result, several cities have created new relations with and new visions of national, regional, and pan-Arab culture, especially with the economic success of the Gulf. Some have achieved this through lavish funding of museums, literary prizes, book fairs, and programs at U.S. universities, control over wide-reaching satellite channels, and several other means. Others have gained cultural capital through less coordinated efforts, notably through the rapid, extensive spread of popular music, poetry, blogs, and street art motifs of the Arab Spring from city to city, country to country. Additionally, within these various cultural capitals, individual actors have engaged in debates with dominant ideologies, aesthetics, and institutions, as they lay claim to their own cultural capital. This seminar examines how Arab cultural centers are recreated and contested from various locations (Damascus, Cairo, Dubai, Paris, Montreal, New York) and how individuals take part in these negotiations. It considers the movement of cultural capital among and within Arab cities as different actors -- writers, critics, state ministries, artists, museums, publishers, artist unions -- have vied for influence, forged new alliances, and adapted to new technologies and political realities. *SEMINAR KEYWORDS*: Arab cities, cultural capital, Gulf, Maghreb, Mashriq, Mediterranean, Arab Spring, 20th century, literature, new media Best, Nancy Linthicum -- Nancy Linthicum Doctoral Candidate, Arabic Language and Literature Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:41 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:41 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Terms of Address references query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: Terms of Address references query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Zouheir Maalej Subject: Terms of Address references query Dear List Members, I am interested in and busy working on a paper on terms of address in the various dialects of Arabic. Does anybody know of any publications on the subject? I have found references in English on Iraqi Arabic, Kuwaiti Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Tunisian Arabic, Jordanian Arabic, and Lebanese Arabic. But all the rest of the dialects are not represented. I will be very grateful if you have pointers in this direction. Many thanks for your collaboration. Best regards ****************** Dr. Zouheir A. Maalej Professor of Cognitive Linguistics Coordinator of the Quality and Academic Accreditation Committee Associate Editor of the College of Languages Journal Department of English Language and Translation College of Languages & Translation King Saud University P.O. Box: 87907, Riyadh 11652, K.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:01 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:01 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: 17 Oct 2013 From: Gerlach Islamic Studies Subject: Gerlach Books Up to 25% discount on antiquarian books on ARABIC LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS & LITERATURE Please have a look at the title list which can be downloaded from this site: http://www.gerlach-books.de/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) - 10% discount for any single book - 25% discount when ordering 5 or more books - 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 29 October 2013 only Looking forward to your orders. Best regards from Berlin (Ms) Dagmar Konrad :::::::: FOR YOUR email or fax ORDER (Fax +49 30 3235667) ::::::::: To order please send us an email or a fax. Our order form and title list can be downloaded from here: http://www.gerlach-books.de/books_offers.php GERLACH BOOKS & ONLINE - MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES < www.gerlach-books.de> Heilbronner Strasse 10 D-10711 Berlin (Halensee), Germany TEL +49 30 3249441 FAX +49 30 3235667 MAIL ********************************************* OUR PREVIOUS OFFERS - UNSERE LETZTEN ANGEBOTE: - Travels in Arabia - Art, Architecture & Archaeology - Encyclopedias, Bibliographies & Dictionaries - New Publication: The Qu'ran Revealed - Book Collection: Archaeology of Syria - Nationalism, Socialism, Liberalism in the Middle East - German Scholarship on the Middle East LIST OF ALL OFFERS - LISTE ALLER ANGEBOTE: http://www.gerlach-books.de/books_offers.php -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:29 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:29 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Call for papers: New West Asia Journal of Speech-Language Pathology LAUNCHING IN 2014 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: Call for papers: New West Asia Journal of Speech-Language Pathology LAUNCHING IN 2014 -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: ghada khattab Subject: Call for papers: New West Asia Journal of Speech-Language Pathology LAUNCHING IN 2014 LAUNCHING IN 2014 Editors: Dr Ghada Khattab, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK Professor Reza Nilipour, University of Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran Professor Seyhun Topba?, Anadolu University, Turkey Associate Editor: Professor Martin Ball, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA This new journal aims to provide a forum for academic discussion and progress in all areas of communication disorders, as related to the West Asia region (a region taken to include the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Egypt). It will publish peer-reviewed studies of all aspects of communication disorders and the provision of therapeutic intervention. Studies that explore theoretical developments and their applications, as well as more directly applied articles on specific therapeutic techniques, will be welcomed. To submit a paper to be considered for publication in this journal, or to find out how to subscribe, please send an email to Rachael Wilkie, Publisher: rachael_jrpress at btinternet.com ISSN 2052-8744 Further information about the author guidelines go to: http://www.jr-press.co.uk/wajslp-author-guidelines.html Ghada ---------------------- Ghada Khattab Speech and Language Sciences Section King George VI bldg Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK e-mail: ghada.khattab at ncl.ac.uk http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/ghada.khattab -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:06 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:06 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&LIT:CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: KateC Wilson Subject: CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation Call for Essay Proposals for Volume on Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA?s Options for Teaching series entitled *Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation*, to be edited by Michelle Hartman. This volume is designed to offer a broad range of ways to think through the teaching of Arabic literature in translation in English. Essays will address the challenges of teaching Arabic literature in translation in a variety of coursesand institutions. The volume will provide suggestions for nonspecialists who wish to teach Arabic literature, and it will offer specialists in the field new perspectives on teaching. Essays should focus not just on teaching the texts but on teaching them as translations and should *demonstrate some familiarity with the field of translation studies*. Essays should also take into account the following: the legacies of orientalism in teaching Arabic literature today; the politics of teaching Arabic literature in particular locations (whether in North America or elsewhere); and the ethical responsibilities of teaching literature translated from Arabic in the classroom. *Modern* will be used in its broadest possible meaning; essays are welcomed about teaching Arabic literature from any period considered modern, particularly essays on texts from the nineteenth century and/or the *nahda*. Essays focusing on questions of canonicity and on canonical and noncanonical authors are also welcomed. Possible topics for essays include ? teaching Arabic literature in different kinds of courses o postcolonial literature, o world literature, o gender studies, etc. ? teaching Arabic literature if you do not know Arabic; history, current events, and ? the politics of teaching Arabic literature; ? working within and beyond the canon of modern Arabic literature. If you are interested in contributing an essay (3,000?3,500 words), please send a summary proposal (500 words) to Michelle Hartman ( michelle.hartman at mcgill.ca) by 15 November 2013. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:53 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:53 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayet Institute Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: Hedayet Institute Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: nagwa hedayet Subject: Hedayet Institute Programs Hedayet Institute is pleased to announce to students and colleagues: 1-Arabic Total Immersion Study Abroad Programs and, 2-Islamic Studies Program: With al-Azhar University Instructors? Collaboration ($7USD per hour) v Fall Term II, both 7 week programs above: Program commences Nov. 3rd and ends Dec.19th, 2013 We still have few slots for next Fall Term II, therefore, we have extended the deadline instead of Oct. 3rd to Oct. 12th, 13. This is an unprecedented time in Egypt and the ME, so hurry up! Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours v Winter Short Term: Duration 4 weeks of 20 hours./wk Program Program commences Jan.8th and ends Feb.4th, 2014 Application deadline is Dec.8th, 2013 Cost: $1584 USD for a total of 88 hours ?Living Egypt? short tourist, historic, archaeological, political etc. language programs that are coordinated with different universities arrangements during or after Christmas Vacation in 1, 2 or 3 week duration are available. Deadline is Nov. 27th, 13. v Spring Term I: 7 week Program Program commences Feb. 9th and ends March 27th, 2014 Application deadline is Jan.9th, 2014 Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours v Spring Term II: 7 week Program Program commences March30th and ends May 22nd, 2014 Application deadline is Feb. 30th, 2014 Cost: $2772 USD for a total of 154 hours Combine two terms and get 10 % discount in the second term tuition fees. Come in a small group of at least three students and each will get 15% discount. Hedayet?s New Language Trainings: . ? Islamic Studies Program: Fusha, Tajweed Al Qura?n, Sira, ?Maqaasid al Shari?a?, Islamic Philosophy, jurisprudence and ?Tafsir? or interpretation of al Qur?an using CBI taught by filed scholars at prices as low as $7 per class hour. Heritage as well as interested non Muslim students, junior scholars and scholars are welcome. Professional instruction is provided to each level. ? TAFL Short Training Workshop in the last week of Oct.2013 Prices are as low as $10 USD per hour in Total Immersion above programs for groups of 6 students and above affiliated with a specific university or organization. Because Hedayet Institute is situated in Maadi, south of downtown Cairo proper & Tahrir Square, by more than 12 kms, it has been a very calm district even during past events. It can be reached by metro from the center in 20 mints. Watch Islam & Politics on ground interaction in Egypt like nowhere and never before. Please apply online on our web site at: http://www.hedayetinstitute.com For more information on pls. contact administration at: info at hedayetinstitute.com USA Vonage Telephone no.: +1646-2168-308 UK Vonage Telephone no.: +4420337-10141 Cairo Telefax: +12025270518 Nagwa Hedayet, PhD. 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M., Frota, S. N., & Yoshioka, J. K. (Eds.)* This volume celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of second language acquisition. The 19 chapters encompass a compelling collection of cutting-?edge research studies exploring such constructs as noticing, attention, and awareness from multiple perspectives, which expand, fine tune, sometimes support, and sometimes challenge Schmidt?s seminal ideas and take research on noticing in exciting new directions. *2) Practical Assessment Tools for College Japanese* by Kondo-Brown, K., Brown, J. D., & Tominaga, W. (Eds.) Each of the 21 modules presents a practical assessment idea that can be adopted or adapted for the reader?s own formative or summative assessment of their Japanese language learners. For ease of use, each module is organized in approximately the same way including background information, aims, levels, assessment times, resources, procedures, caveats and options, references, and other appended information. *3) Language Learning & Technology, Volume 17, Number 3 (October 2013) - Special Issue on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning* *Guest Editors - Susana Sotillo and Glenn Stockwell** *4) Reading in a Foreign Language, Volume 25, Number 2 (October 2013)* For more information on each, visit the NFLRC website: *http://nflrc.hawaii.edu* -- Jim Yoshioka Program Coordinator ************************************************************ *National Foreign Language Resource Center* University of Hawai?i at M?noa 1859 East-West Road #106 Honolulu, HI 96822-2322 Phone: 808-956-9424 Email: nflrc at hawaii.edu Website: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu NFLRC Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/nflrchawaii ************************************************************ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:57 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:57 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L: New Dissertation: 'Towards a Sociohistorical Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabic Dialect Diversity' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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 Dissertation: New Dissertation: 'Towards a Sociohistorical Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabic Dialect Diversity' -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Alexander Magidow Subject: New Dissertation: New Dissertation: 'Towards a Sociohistorical Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabic Dialect Diversity' Institution: University of Texas at Austin Program: Department of Middle Eastern Studies Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2013 Author: Alexander Magidow Dissertation Title: Towards a Sociohistorical Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabic Dialect Diversity Dissertation URL: http://repositories.lib.**utexas.edu/handle/2152/21378 Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Dissertation Director: Kristen Brustad Patience Epps Dissertation Abstract: This dissertation establishes a framework for a reconstruction of the Arabic dialects that existed immediately prior to the Islamic conquests and tests that framework with a reconstruction based on the demonstrative pronouns and adjectives used in over sixty modern spoken dialects of Arabic dialects. The dissertation develops a framework, drawing on work in sociolinguistics, in which the unit of reconstruction is the speech community rather than the 'language' or 'dialect.' Speech communities are defined as groups of speakers connected by networks as well as by a sense of allegiance, and may have diverse repertoires which include multiple languages. Speech communities are easier to situation historically since their boundaries often coincide with those of political or social entities reported in non-linguistic texts. We can diagnose the existence and extent of pre-historical speech communities by the way their boundaries limit the diffusion of innovations. In order to link the historical reconstruction to the history of Arabic speaking communities, the dissertation investigates the historical and social circumstances of the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula and of the post-Islamic colonization of the Middle East and North Africa by Arabic speakers. It questions the whether a 'tribe' is identical to a speech community, as assumed in earlier literature, and argues that the success of the Arabic-speaking minorities in the conquered was largely related to patterns of settlement that segregated Arabs from non-Arabs. It also questions the traditional chronology of the settlement of North Africa and the division between pre- and post- 'Hilalian' dialects. The dissertation then reconstructs the Arabic demonstrative pronouns and adjectives, and shows that Arabic dialects can be classified primarily based on how they mark gender differentiation in the singular and by the form of their plural demonstratives. Linking the reconstruction of the demonstratives to the historical data, the dissertation suggests that following origins for modern Arabic dialects: the rural dialects of the Levant and Iraq, with c. pl. *ha?-ula, originally hailed from the southern Hijaz, though an older layer of unknown origin, with f. sg. ta?, is still detectable. The same speech community gave rise to the dialects of the Northern Yemeni plateau. The dialects of Levantine and Iraqi cities, with m. pl. *ha??awla, f. pl. *ha??anna (< *ha??alla) represents later dialect shift, the origins of which are unclear. Modern (northern) Egyptian Arabic, characterized originally by m. pl. *?awl, f. pl. *?ayl , originated on the Yemeni Tihama coast. The pre-Islamic origin of North African dialects, characterized by c. pl ha??u? demonstratives, is less clear, but speakers of these dialects colonized Upper Egypt as well, though only traces of that period remain. Classical Arabic demonstratives show a great deal of diversity, and may reflect the process of its development as a literary koin?. Finally, the dissertation concludes by arguing that theories about the original homeland of Arabic obscure the importance of the geographical and linguistic variation present in Arabic immediately prior to the Islamic conquests. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 09:00:26 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:26 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Moroccan Arabic Textbook Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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 Moroccan Arabic Textbook -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Subject: New Moroccan Arabic Textbook Dear colleagues, Albujayra Publishers are pleased to present their new release: a new method to teach Moroccan Arabic: *B chuiya b chuiya. * Authors:* Moscoso Garc?a, Francisco; Nouaouri Izrelli, Nadi Hamdi; Rodr?guez Garc?a, Oscar.** * You can have a sample previewat our website< http://www.kutub.albujayra.com/catalog/index.php?route=product/product&path=67&product_id=63 >. For orders and more info, please contact us at orders at albujayra.com or register at our website www.kutub.albujayra.com/catalog. As a teacher or institution, you can get special discounts. *B chuiya b chuiya* (?????? ??????) is a course designed for young and adult students of Moroccan Arabic willing to learn this language and culture in a dynamic and efficient manner. The course is conceived as a coherent and progressive unit in which the student is gradually introduced in the vocabulary, grammar and sociolinguistics of the language and in prominent aspects of the culture. At the end of the course, the student should be able to meet the basic communicative needs of daily life. Composed of a book with video and audio files, *B chuiya b chuiya* (A1 level) lays the foundations of a major project aiming at developing teaching materials for levels A1, A2 and B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). These materials are part of a larger research project entitled Arabic as a foreign language: challenges, varieties and resources supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and coordinated by Professor Victoria Aguilar at the University of Murcia. We have followed the recommendations and guidelines by the CEFR for the A1 level in all aspects: level of language, competences, and particularly the teaching approach. In this respect, the learner stands in the center of the stage and fulfils the leading role in his own learning process. As a result, *B chuiya b chuiya* establishes a basis for the adaptation of Moroccan Arabic to the levels of reference suggested by the European Council and for its future standardization. The course book is divided into two parts of six units each, and an additional review unit after each part. Every unit contains five different sections dealing mainly with a particular skill, but integrating as far as possible the rest of them in communicative activities in which both the student and the teacher can achieve the goals set at the beginning of the unit. To complete the unit, the student can asses the skills he has acquired by practicing self-evaluation drills. At the end of the textbook, four appendices have been added: in the first one, the student can read all the transcripts of the audio and video files included with the book. In the second one, students can check the keys to all the exercises. In the third, the complete paradigms of verbs can be looked up, and in the fourth, a small glossary lists the most relevant words in Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, French and English. In addition, we have included, after these words, phonological and phonetic guidelines that can help students better understand the sounds of Moroccan Arabic. The contents have been programmed for its exploitation during 120 hours. However, the versatility of the book makes easier the design and scheduling of tailor-made courses. For instance, our A1 level book may be used for two teaching modules of 60 hours each (six teaching units each module) thus dividing the initial level into A1.1 and A1.2. As the authors say, *B chuiya b chuiya* offers an innovative way to learn Moroccan Arabic from scratch and a new dynamic and communicative method for teaching it. With it, we hope to have contributed at least modestly to bridge the gap between cultures and languages in our globalized world. -- C/ Puerto de Navacerrada n? 11 04720 Aguadulce - Almer?a Espa?a - Spain - Espagne www.kutub.albujayra.com orders at albujayra.com Telf.: +34 950 08 29 92 / Mobile: +34 627 07 65 78 Fax: +34 901 70 67 84 Skype: Albujayra -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 14:34:25 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:34:25 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP Special Issue of CCIS Journal on Arabic NLP Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: CFP Special Issue of CCIS Journal on Arabic NLP -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: Prof_Khaled Shaalan Subject: CFP Special Issue of CCIS Journal on Arabic NLP CALL For Papers Special Issue on Arabic NLP: Current State and Future Challenges Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (JKSU-CIS) Publisher: Elsevier URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-king-saud-university-computer-and-information-sciences CFP URL: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/CIS_CFP.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arabic is a member of the Semitic languages family that uses a distinct alphabet set and spoken by more than 340 million individuals as their first language. It is the official language, either solely or jointly, in twenty countries located in the Middle East and Africa. Arabic is the language of the Holly Qur?aan and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Arabic Natural language processing (NLP) is still in its initial stage compared to the work in English and other languages. NLP is made possible by the collaboration of many disciplines including computer science, linguistics, mathematics, psychology and artificial intelligence. The results of which are highly beneficial for many applications such as machine translation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, text summarization and Question Answering. This special issue of CCIS Journal is intended to present the current state of research on Arabic NLP, Arabic computational linguistics, and related areas. We welcome unpublished high quality papers (in English) on current state of Arabic NLP including, but not limited to: * Part of Speech Tagging * Morphological analysis and generation * Word sense and Syntactic disambiguation * Transliteration, transcription and diacritization * Named Entity Recognition * Corpus Linguistics (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.) * Machine Translation * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval * Question Answering * Semantic and Sentiment analysis * Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization >>>> Important Dates <<<<< * Submission of extended abstracts (300-500 words): October 30, 2013 * Notification of proposal acceptance: November 15th 2013 * Submission of full papers: January 30th 2014 * Notification of paper acceptance: March 30th 2014 * Final version submission: May 31st 2014 * Publication date: November 2014 >>>> Submission <<<<< Submission System: http://ees.elsevier.com/jksu-cis/ >>>>> Guest Editors <<<<< * Eric Atwell? Associate Professor, Language research group, I-AIBS institute for artificial intelligence and biological systems, School of computing, Faculty of engineering, University of Leeds. * Khaled Shaalan? Full Professor at Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo Univ. (on Secondment to The British University in Dubai). * Imed Zitouni?PhD, Principal Researcher at Microsoft, Member of the Relevance and Measurement team of Microsoft. >>>>> Special Issue Editor <<<<< Hend Al-Khalifa ? Associate professor, Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University hendk at ksu.edu.sa Regards, Khaled _________________________________________________________ Khaled Shaalan, PhD Professor Computer Science Dept. Faculty of Computers & Information Cairo University 5 Ahmed Zewel St., Orman, Dokki, Giza 12613 Egypt Email: k.shaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg Personal Email: khaled.shaalan at gmail.com Personal Website: http://sites.google.com/site/khaledshaalan (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 17 18:30:11 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:30:11 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Middlebury Job repost, deadline November 1 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:Middlebury Job repost, deadline November 1 -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 17 Oct 2013 From: "Soltan, Usama" Subject: JOBS:Middlebury Job repost, deadline November 1 The Arabic Program announces an opening for a tenure track position (assistant professor level), beginning September 2014. Superior language proficiency in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and English is required, and native or native-like proficiency in at least one Arabic dialect is strongly preferred. The successful candidate will teach MSA at all levels, and will also offer courses that contribute to the Arabic Program's track in linguistics and to the College's Linguistics Program. Candidates should hold a PhD or have ABD status with near-term plans for completion of the doctorate. Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research. An Equal Opportunity Employer, the College is committed to hiring a diverse faculty as we work to foster innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body. Applications for this position will be accepted starting August 15th 2013. Candidates who would like to be considered for interviews at the Middle East Studies Association meeting in October should complete their applications by October 1st (including letters of recommendation); all dossiers must be completed by November 1st, 2013. Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. Through Interfolio, candidates should submit a letter of application addressed to search committee chair Professor Larry Yarbrough. The letter should include a section addressing approaches to teaching and plans for research. In addition, applications should include: a curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and three current letters of recommendation (at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise.) Samples of scholarship will be solicited from candidates invited for interviews. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:50 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:50 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN&TRANS:NEA Grants for Translation into English Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: KateC Wilson Subject: http://arts.gov/grants-individuals/translation-projects Through fellowships to published translators, the Arts Endowment supports projects for the translation of specific works of *prose*, *poetry*, or * drama* from other languages into English. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:48 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:48 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:NYU Abu Dhabi Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:NYU Abu Dhabi Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: Susan Heinrich Subject: JOBS:NYU Abu Dhabi Job FACULTY POSITION Arabic Language NYU Abu Dhabi NYU Abu Dhabi is currently inviting applications for a teaching position in Arabic Language. The appointee will join a thriving Arabic language program in an exciting linguistic and cultural context. This is a renewable three-year appointment with a 3/3 teaching load. The load could be later lowered if the candidate has an active research agenda. The terms of employment are competitive and include housing and educational subsidies for children. An M.A. in Arabic Language or a related field is required; candidates possessing a Ph.D. will be given preference. We seek candidates with primary interest, research, and experience in teaching Arabic (to native or non-native learners) at all levels with ability to teach MSA, at least one Arabic dialect, and specialized content courses in Arabic. The appointment will begin September 1, 2014. Review of applications will begin on January 2, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter which includes a discussion of research and teaching philosophy, representative publications, copies of student evaluations and the names and contact information of three references. Please visit our website at http://nyuad.nyu.edu/about/careers/faculty-positions.html for instructions and other information on how to apply. If you have any questions, please e-mail nyuad.humanities at nyu.edu. About NYUAD: New York University has established itself as a Global Network University, a multi-site, organically connected network encompassing key global cities and idea capitals. The network has three foundational degree-granting campuses: New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai, complemented by a network of over 15 research and study-away sites across five continents. Faculty and students will circulate within this global network in pursuit of common research interests and the promotion of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary solutions for problems, both local and global. Entering its fourth year, NYU Abu Dhabi has recruited a cohort of faculty who are at once distinguished in their research and teaching. Our students are drawn from around the world and surpass all traditional recruitment benchmarks, both US and global. NYU Abu Dhabi?s highly selective liberal arts enterprise is complemented by an institute for advanced research, sponsoring cutting-edge projects across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:45 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:45 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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: CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: Namya.HS at vollbio.de Subject: CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages Call for Papers: "Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents, Languages in Historical Context: The Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference" (Munich, October 7th-10th, 2014) During the last years, Arabic papyrology has started to contribute significantly to Arabic and Islamic studies: we now dispose of a number high standard editions of documents; scholars working on the Islamic World up to the 16th century counterbalance literary tradition with documentary evidence; and cooperation with Demotic, Greek, and Coptic papyrology has steadily improved. The thematic framework of the "Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference" in 2014 will be somewhat wider. We intend to bring together scholars using documentary evidence for the history of the Early Islamic world (including Arabic, Coptic, and Greek papyri, inscriptions and coins) with scholars working on Semitic languages and writing systems in general. About one third of the contributions will be devoted to this wider perspective. The Sixth ISAP Conference will be hosted by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (www.badw.de) and be organized by the Academy's Committee of Semitic Philology, ISAP, and the Munich Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. The conference will start on the morning of Tuesday, October 7, 2014, and continue through the afternoon of Friday, October 10, 2014. The programme will include 20-minute lectures, evening lectures, and a poster exhibition of current PhD projects, as well as a visit of the Bavarian State Library with its holdings in Oriental manuscripts (and Sabaic wood sticks). Optional visits will include the newly reopened Egyptian Museum and the State Museum for Ethnology. Conference languages will be English, German, French and Arabic. However, all lectures will be given in English. Giving a lecture and/or presenting a poster Please send a 400-word abstract to Dr. Kathrin Mueller (pap at semphil.badw.de) no later then end of December, 2013. Notification regarding the acceptance of proposals will be made by end of March, 2014. Participation with no lecture Please send a notice of intent to participate to Dr. Kathrin M?ller ( pap at semphil.badw.de) no later then end of August, 2014. There will be no conference fee charged. Yet, participants will be asked, on spot, to be or become members of ISAP. Information on membership can be found on the ISAP website (www.ori.uzh.ch/isap). Travel Subsidies It is hoped that the Conference will be able to offer a few awards for scholars not able to get institutional subventions for travel to Munich. Please let us know as soon as possible whether you will be in need for such sponsoring. Conference Organizers If you have any further questions about the Conference, please contact Dr. Kathrin M?ller (pap at semphil.badw.de), Professor Andreas Kaplony ( andreas.kaplony at lmu.de) or Dr. Daniel Potthast (daniel.potthast at lmu.de). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:56 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:56 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CET programs in Jordan and Tunisia Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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 programs in Jordan and Tunisia -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: "Allegra O'Donoghue" Subject: CET programs in Jordan and Tunisia Dear Colleagues, CET Academic Programs is accepting applications for its spring semester study abroad programs in Jordan and Tunisia. Students live with local roommates while taking Arabic language courses and electives. Internship opportunities are also available! Application deadline is November 1, 2013. Check out this CET Jordan blog post about living with a Jordanian roommate: http://cetacademicprograms.com/category/jordan/ Intensive Arabic Language in Jordan: http://cetacademicprograms.com/programs/jordan/arabic-language-jordan/ . Modern Standard Arabic + Jordanian Dialect . Arabic-language content courses . 2 semesters college-level Arabic study required Middle East Studies & Internship in Jordan: http://cetacademicprograms.com/programs/jordan/internship-amman/ . Modern Standard Arabic + Jordanian Dialect . Internship placement + course . No language prerequisite Intensive Arabic Language & Culture in Tunisia: http://cetacademicprograms.com/programs/tunisia/arabic-language-tunisia/ . Modern Standard Arabic + Tunisian Dialect . English-language area studies courses . No language prerequisite Best, Allegra O'Donoghue ____________________________________________________ CET Academic Programs ~ Innovators in Study Abroad Since 1982 Allegra O'Donoghue Middle East & North Africa Programs Manager 1920 N Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202.349.0676 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 21 07:35:53 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:35:53 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:4th Tunis Exchange program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 21 Oct 2013 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: 4th Tunis Exchange program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Oct 2013 From: Nicholas Noe Subject: 4th Tunis Exchange program Apply For the Fourth Tunis Exchange January 4-18, 2014/Deadline November 20 Mideastwire.com and its partners - Universit? Paris-Dauphine I Tunis and Tunisia Live - are pleased to announce the Fourth Tunis Exchange January 4-January 18, 2014. The two-week course will immerse our participants in the politics of Tunisia, with a particular emphasis on direct engagement with high-level academic, political, intellectual and religious figures active across the spectrum. TO REQUEST AN APPLICATION for this Winter's Tunis Exchange, email info at mideastwire.com. APPLY BY NOVEMBER 20, 2013 (applicants are accepted on a rolling basis and spaces are limited). Note that tuition discounts are available for those applicants with demonstrated need as well as alumni of our previous Exchanges. For more information, please emailinfo at mideastwire.com ******************* Learn Arabic in Tunis! For more information about our new series of Arabic Language classes - including private lessons - offered at several different levels, visit: https://www.facebook.com/ArabicInTunis All classes take place at our Hotel - Villa 78 - located at 78 Avenue Mohammad V in Downtown Tunis (www.villa78tunis.com). ******************* Background on Five Years of the Exchange in the MENA Region: The Exchange is an effort by Mideastwire.com and its partners to promote direct engagement and understanding through a variety of city-focused politics conferences. The First Exchange was launched in June 2008 in Beirut, Lebanon. Now, several years on, over 325 students from 44 different countries have participated in 18 different Exchange programs across the region, with many going on to work as diplomats in their home countries, for NGOs serving the region and as social entrepreneurs. The Exchange welcomes applications from current students as well as professionals and post-professionals interested in better understanding the Middle East and North Africa, and, we hope, their own country's involvement in the region. To view previous Exchange itineraries in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Tunis and the Gulf, as well as media coverage of our efforts, visit http://www.thebeirutexchange.com ******************* THE FOURTH TUNIS EXCHANGE January 4-18, 2014/Application deadline November 20, 2013 Limited spaces available/Rolling acceptance As with our other Exchanges, the two-week program January 4-18 will engage students from around the world in a multifaceted discussion of some of the key issues facing Tunisia and the wider region. The Tunis Exchange program specifically rests on two tracks: Academic - Participants will attend a series of lectures led by leading professors and public intellectuals in Tunisia. Topics will include, among others: Economic challenges facing Tunisia and North Africa; Political Islam and electoral politics; The status of women in Tunisia and the MENA region; Media coverage of the Arab revolts; Trade union politics in the post Ben Ali era; Emerging security challenges in the MENA region, as well as a range of other topics. Dialogue with Leaders - Participants will have the opportunity to meet, listen and engage leading social, political, religious and economic leaders from across the spectrum in Tunisia. ********* Program Format - The Tunis Exchange will be held over fourteen days total at the conference room of the Le Pacha hotel in downtown Tunis. Students are expected to stay at our hotel, Villa 78 (located across the street from the Pacha) or at the Pacha hotel itself, unless permission for offsite stay at alternative hotels or accommodations is requested, since most meetings will take place in the conference room at Le Pacha. Off-site meetings will entail bus travel as a group in and around Tunis. At least three days of the program will entail travel to other cities and regions in Tunisia for meetings with local activists, intellectuals, academics and political/religious leaders, including in Sidi Bouzid, Sfax and Gafsa. Previous Institutional Participants in the Tunis Exchange (Partial list only): Ennahda Party Congress for the Republic Party Ettakatol Party Constitutional Democratic Rally Party The Democratic Modernist Pole Party Worker's Communist Party Progressive Democratic Party Tunisian General Trade Union Union of Tunisian Journalists The Central Bank of Tunisia Ministry of Women's Affairs Ministry of Human Rights Manouba University Tunis University Association of Democratic Women Tunisian Network for Social Economy Tunisian Observatory for a Democratic Transition Tunisian League of Human Rights Tunisian-American Chamber of Commerce Tunisian Association of Young Entrepreneurs Committee to Protect Journalists Attounsia Newspaper To view a schedule for a previous Tunis Exchange, visit: http://www.thebeirutexchange.com/images/stories/1_-_Tunis_Exchange_Schedule_Final_Tunis.pdf Costs: Tuition - $2000; Partial financial aid is available for those students and individuals that can demonstrate need as well as alumni of our previous programs. Accommodation - Eleven nights of the program will be spent at our facilities in downtown Tunis, while at least three nights will be spent at hotels outside of Tunis. Room rates vary depending on arrangements, but generally fall within the range of $600-$700 total for a shared double room during the duration of the program (breakfast is included). Alternative accommodation, including in a single room, is available upon request. Airfare - $450, approximate from the European Union. REQUEST AN APPLICATION via info at mideastwire.com For more about Universit? Paris-Dauphine I Tunis, visit http://www.tunisdauphine.tn/ For more about Tunisia Live, visit http://www.tunisia-live.net For more about Le Pacha Hotel, visit http://www.lepacha.com.tn/ ******************* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Subject: :New Book:Using Numbers in Arabic I would like to announce a new reference book available to the intermediate or advanced learner of Arabic: Using Numbers in Arabic, by Jamal Ali Georgetown University Press 2013 This guide shows the reader, using clear explanations and examples, exactly how to use cardinal and ordinal numbers in Arabic, from one to the billions and beyond. It also covers useful number-related topics such as dates, times, fractions and decimals. All information is based on real-world practice, with helpful citations from literature and media to illustrate each principle. While focusing on Modern Standard Arabic, the volume also covers Classical Arabic and describes and illustrates differences between classical and modern practice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"??????? ??????? ?? ?????? ???????". http://www.alaalem.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=11740 http://www.m-a-arabia.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3355 http://hespress.com/art-et-culture/90677.html ?. ??? ?????? ?????? ?????? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:40:10 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:40:10 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA&LING:CFP 3rd International Qatar U. Arabic Dept. Conf. Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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: CFP 3rd International Qatar U. Arabic Dept. Conf. -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: Emad Abdul-Latif Subject: CFP 3rd International Qatar U. Arabic Dept. Conf. Call for papers The Third International Conference of the Arabic Department Qatar University "Linguistics and the development of Arabic Teaching" Doha April 29 - 30, 2014 The Department of Arabic cordially invites researches to submit abstracts for its third international conference. The conference will examine the various aspects of the relation between linguistics and Arabic teaching for both native and non-native speakers. Suggested topics include: 1) Theories of Language acquisition 2) Applied linguistics and Arabic teaching 3) The role of grammar in teaching Arabic 4) Strategies of Arabic learning 5) The importance of literature to Arabic teaching 6) Strategies of teaching Arabic for non-native speakers 7) The international experiences of Language teaching 8) Communication technologies as means of Arabic teaching and learning These topics should only be considered as general guidelines and are not exhaustive. Any paper dealing with Arabic teaching or learning from a linguistic point of view will be considered. How to submit a paper? Abstracts, not exceeding 400 words, should be sent by email before 17thNovember 2013 to headdeparabic at qu.edu.qa , with the name, current position and affiliation written in the body of the email. Notification of paper acceptance will be sent via email by end of November 2013. A full paper should be submitted by the 10th of February 2014. Each presentation will be allowed 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Venue and Facilities This conference will be hosted by Qatar University. It will afford a full board accommodation during the conference days in addition to a free entry visa to Qatar.------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Le berb?re n?est pas une langue ?crite. Il se compose d?un grand nombre de dialectes, de parent? ?troite, mais tout de m?me diff?rant les uns des autres. Etudier la langue berb?re, c?est donc d?abord ?tudier un dialecte de langue berb?re. Le pr?sent travail, consacr? au dialecte berb?re des Rifains, est le r?sum? des notes prises au cours de trois mois pass?s ? l?Etat-Major du 19e Corps d?Arm?e, pendant les op?rations de l??t? 1925 au nord de Taza, notes prises rapidement pour ?tudier ce dialecte. Il est destin? ? ceux qui auraient le d?sir d?en faire autant. C?est dire qu?il n?a aucune pr?tention scientifique et vise surtout un r?sultat pratique. Re-edition. Written in French. Originally published 1926 in Paris. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Variety: Berjaoui E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-4181.html&submissionid=21759382&topicid=2&msgnumber=1 Title: One Moroccan Amazigh/Berber Secret Language: the ?s?n? Variety Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 35 Publication Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom-shop.eu Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu/ Author: Nasser Berjaoui Paperback: ISBN: 9783862884711 Pages: 204 Price: Europe EURO 68.20 Abstract: This book (which is one among a series of future works on Moroccan Amazigh/Berber ?secret languages?) is the first research project, to the best of our knowledge, that studies and provides a detailed description and analysis of one Amazigh/Berber ?secret language? of the south-east of Morocco. The present book contains ten chapters. These respectively propose the following: general backgrounds, the basic encoding procedures of individual words in the ?secret language?, the secretizing of various speech parts, the manipulation of miscellaneous verbal forms, the changing of defined nouns, the distortion of multi-consonantal short speech parts, the encrypting of miscellaneous one-segmental words, the converting of syntactic structures, the manipulation of semantic aspects of the Tamazight, and the delivery rates of the messages in the ?secret language?. Last, but not least, the study provides a detailed presentation of all the rules that govern the ?secret language? in question. This language is called the ?sin? variety, since it makes use of this consonant (the ?s? consonant) in the secretization operations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:40:15 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:40:15 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Book:MSA:Integrating Main Arabic Dialects Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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 Book:MSA:Integrating Main Arabic Dialects -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: Sebastian Maisel Subject: New Book:MSA:Integrating Main Arabic Dialects Dear colleagues, Please check out our new publication MODERN STANDARD ARABIC: INTEGRATING MAIN ARABIC DIALECTS which offers a new approach to teaching Arabic based on new technology and resources. It is available both as traditional textbook (ISBN 978-3-940075-74-1) and as e-Edition in HTML with appr. 8000 audio files and many other computer-based applications and exercises. The e-Edition works with all common browsers and may be used with all standard laptops, tablets, smart phones etc. You can find the detailed description, a sample chapter and access to a free trial period for the e-Edition at http://www.modern-standard-arabic.com/en/ About the authors Eckehard Schulz (profschulz at rz.uni-leipzig.de): Professor for Arabic Language and Linguistics at Leipzig University, Germany. Sebastian Maisel (maisels at gvsu.edu): Associate Professor for Arabic and Middle East Studies at Grand Valley State University. For questions and comments please contact the authors. Best regards Eckehard Schulz & Sebastian Maisel -------------------------------- Professor Dr. Eckehard Schulz Universit?t Leipzig Orientalisches Institut Schillerstr.6 04109 Leipzig Tel.: +49/341/9737200 ------------------------------- Sebastian Maisel, PhD Associate Professor for Arabic and Middle East Studies Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 49401 Tel: 616.3312034 Email: maisels at gvsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:40:01 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:40:01 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Moroccan Arabic Texts Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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 Book:Moroccan Arabic Texts -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: New Book:Moroccan Arabic Texts Title: Marokkanisch arabische Texte Series Title: Languages of the World/Text Collections 33 Publication Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom-shop.eu Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu Editor: Utz Maas Editor: Abderrahmane Assini Editor: Sandra Ziagos Paperback: ISBN: 9783862885152 Pages: 269 Price: Europe EURO 68.80 Abstract: The volume extracts a choice from a large corpus of recordings made in Morocco since 1990. The texts capture aspects of the process by which a supraregional koin? (Mar. Arab. darija) is about to be established. Included are recordings from the urban centres (Casablanca, Fas) as well as from the rural countryside (esp. from the Middle Atlas region) with speakers who have a Berber family language. Documented are spontaneous conversations (visit of neighbours, meeting at the street corner ?) as well as narrative and expository texts (autobiographic stories, reports of work in different trades etc.). Speakers are from different classes: cultivated urban speakers as well as rural illiterates. In addition, examples of dialect varieties outside of the koin?ization are included as well. Texts are given in a broad transcription with translation and linguistic glosses. To illustrate the dialectal varieties, extracts of every text are given in a more narrow transcription. Transcription and glosses correspond to Maas, Marokkanisches Arabisch (Lincom 2011), that is based on this corpus. This text edition makes it possible to control the examples in the grammar within their context. Der Band enth?lt eine Textauswahl aus einem gr??eren Corpus von ?berwiegend spontanen Gespr?chsaufzeichnungen in Marokko seit 1990. In der vorgelegten Auswahl wird der Proze? greifbar, mit dem sich in Marokko eine ?berregionale Verkehrssprache (Koin?, mar. arab. darija) etabliert. Im Vordergrund stehen einerseits Aufnahmen aus den gro?en urbanen Zentren (Casablanca, Fas), andererseits aus dem l?ndlichen Raum (bes. dem Mittleren Atlas) mit Sprechern mit einer berberischen Familiensprache, die diesen Koin?isierungs-Proze? pr?gen. Dokumentiert werden spontane Gespr?che in informellen Kontexten (Nachbarschaftsbesuche, Treffen an der Stra?enecke ?) neben narrativen und expositorischen Texten (autobiographische Erz?hlungen, Darstellungen der handwerklichen Arbeit u.dgl.). Repr?sentiert sind sowohl Sprecher aus der st?dtischen Bildungsschicht wie analphabete Sprecher(innen) vom Land. In einigen Beispielen werden auch dialektale Sprachformen dokumentiert, die wei! terhin au?erhalb dieses Prozesses der Kon?isierung praktiziert werden. Die Texte werden in einer breiten phonetischen Umschrift pr?sentiert, mit einer interlinearen ?bersetzung und sprachwissenschaftlichen Glossierung. Dialektale Z?ge der Sprecher werden in exemplarischen Ausz?gen mit einer engeren phonetischen Umschrift verdeutlicht. Umschrift und Glossierung entsprechen der Analyse in Maas, Marokkanisches Arabisch (Lincom 2011), die sich auf dieses Corpus st?tzt. Die vorliegende Textauswahl erlaubt es, die dort genutzten Sprachbeispiele in ihrem Kontext zu kontrollieren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:40:13 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:40:13 +0300 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Update | Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 24 Oct 2013 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: Update | Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 24 Oct 2013 From: Evyn Kropf Subject: Update | Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Dear Colleagues, Earlier this year, we at the University of Michigan Library concluded a collaborative project to realize the cataloguing of our Islamic Manuscripts Collection. 883 new catalogue records were created in the course of the project representing 1447 titles in 877 volumes, 2 rolls, and 3 single leaves. Another 21 manuscript descriptions were significantly enhanced. While in the end most of the cataloguing was done by the project cataloguer, we are grateful to all who contributed remotely and locally, especially our local project staff who worked on manuscripts not yet digitized (http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/progress). We are pleased to report that the entire collection is thus fully catalogued with detailed, searchable descriptions for each manuscript appearing in the online Library catalogue, Mirlyn (http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/). The catalogue records should also appear soon in OCLC?s WorldCat. Further, descriptions and complete digital surrogates for 912 manuscripts from the collection appear in the online catalogue of the HathiTrust Digital Library (http://hathitrust.org/). To assist with navigating the collection and descriptive data, a research guide has been created with details on the collection history, size, and scope, as well as strategies for locating manuscripts of interest, instructions for viewing manuscripts in the Library, and advice on locating, viewing and downloading digitized manuscripts: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/islamicmss This guide will be enhanced and updated periodically as we continue to develop the collection. In addition, a research guide on Islamic Manuscript Studies has been created with more general advice on identifying and locating manuscripts, an introduction to palaeography and manuscript description, bibliographical resources and reading lists, as well as listings of digitized manuscripts and online catalogues with links and descriptions, a selection of the largest collections of Islamic manuscripts held in North America having some sort of web presence, and links to other relevant research guides and associations, institutes and research initiatives: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/islamicmsstudies This guide will also continue to evolve and we welcome any feedback on it. We also continue to welcome any comments you might have on the manuscripts or their descriptions posted to the collection project site: http://lib.umich.edu/islamic Just keep in mind that not all manuscripts from the collection currently appear there. In order to search all manuscripts from the collection, it is best to search Mirlyn. As always, feel free to be in touch with any questions or requests for assistance with navigating the collection. With all best wishes, Evyn Kropf _______________________________________ Evyn Kropf Librarian for Near Eastern and Religious Studies Curator, Islamic Manuscripts Collection University Library Area Programs M117B Hatcher Graduate Library North The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 (734) 764-1220 | ekropf at umich.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 24 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:29:03 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:29:03 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Materials on Umm Kulthum Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: Materials on Umm Kulthum -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: Maggie Nassif Subject: Materials on Umm Kulthum Dear All I am forwarding some really useful teaching resources to learn about the Arabic language and culture produced by Al-Bustan Seeds in Philadelphia. Materials on Umm Kulthum http://albustanseeds.org/digital/kulthum/ http://albustanseeds.org/digital/kulthum/for-educator And here's a link to a song tool for Yalli Zara'tu-l Burtuan.. and check out the discussion page: http://albustanseeds.org/digital/yalli/ MNN -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:28:59 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:28:59 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Online MA in Linguistics response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: Online MA in Linguistics response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: Adil Elshikh Subject: Online MA in Linguistics response It is better to look for universities that offer this course by thesis only. this site may help http://www.uniguru.co.in/studyabroad/studies/malaysia-university-courses/malaysia-linguistic-studies-courses/i/fj./all114/1/programs.html may Allah help you -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:29:06 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:29:06 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CLS application reminder Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: CLS application reminder -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: "Jessica O'Higgins" Subject: CLS application reminder Reminder: less than four weeks left until the deadline for the 2014 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) competition! Applications are due Friday, November 15, 2013 by 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the scholarship competition for the 2014 CLS Program in thirteen critical foreign languages. The CLS Program provides fully-funded group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S. citizen undergraduate and graduate students. In Arabic, the program is offered at the advanced beginning, intermediate and advanced levels! Other languages offered include: Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu. The application is available online at http://www.clscholarship.org. Applications will be due November 15, 2013 by 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. Prior to preparing their application, interested students should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website< http://www.clscholarship.org/applicants>. Students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, science, social sciences, arts and humanities are encouraged to apply. While there is no service requirement attached to CLS Program awards, participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their professional careers. The CLS Program will be planning outreach events at universities across the U.S. in fall 2013. Check out the CLS webpage or our Facebook page< http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship> for updates! For more information about the CLS Program, please visit the CLS website< http://www.clscholarship.org/>. Jessica O'Higgins Program Officer, Critical Language Scholarship Program American Councils for International Education 1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20036 T 202-833-7522 F 202-833-7523 www.americancouncils.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:29:01 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:29:01 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Winter Break Program in Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: Winter Break Program in Oman -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: Judi Garfinkel Subject: Winter Break Program in Oman WINTER BREAK ARABIC PROGRAM IN OMAN The Center for International Learning is now taking applications for its popular Intensive Arabic Study Program, a 3-week program January 5- 23. Classes are offered at all proficiency levels, with students receiving 90 Arabic contact hours. For more information and to apply: http://omancenter.org/winter_arabic_programs.html. Regards, *Judi Garfinkel, M.P.H. Associate Dean for Programs Center for International Learning Box 2644, PC 111 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman * *Mobile: +968 9960 5159 * *Website: www.omancenter.org * *Facebook: www.facebook.com/CenterForInternationalLearning -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 28 10:28:56 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:28:56 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:U of North Carolina Wilmington Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 28 Oct 2013 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: JOBS:U of North Carolina Wilmington -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 28 Oct 2013 From: "Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" Subject: JOBS:U of North Carolina Wilmington Dear Colleague: As an institution of higher learning, the University of North Carolina Wilmington is committed to maintaining a campus environment that values diversity. The university aims to achieve, within all areas of the university community, a diverse student body, faculty, and staff capable of providing for excellence in the education of its students and for the enrichment of the university community. To that end, I invite your assistance in identifying candidates with specific attention to minorities and women for the position of Assistant Professor of Arabic in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at UNCW. UNC Wilmington, one of 17 constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina, has consistently achieved regional and national recognition for its emphasis on quality undergraduate education, enriched by graduate and research programs, and the value of its education offerings. The department currently offers majors in French, German and Spanish, and has an MA program in Hispanic Studies. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Arabic beginning August 2014. The teaching load is 3/3, half of which will be taught through distance learning systems of the university, either online or through intercampus-linked classrooms. The successful candidate will be expected to teach basic language courses and eventually upper-level courses in Arabic Studies. Preference will be given to applicants with successful college-level teaching experience and a strong interest in curriculum development. An active research agenda is essential, and contributions to university service will be expected. The position requires native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English. A Ph.D. in Arabic or equivalent foreign degree must be in hand by August 2014. If you are aware of individuals ready to join a faculty of outstanding scholars and a community of learners at a growing, comprehensive public institution, please send me their contact information so that I may encourage their application. The vacancy announcement is online at http://uncw.edu/hr/joblistings_epa/14F023.html. Thank you for any help you can provide. Best wishes, Amanda Boomershine Search Committee Member Amanda Boomershine, PhD Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5973 Phone: (910) 962-7922 Fax: (910) 962-7712 email: boomershinea at uncw.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 28 Oct 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: