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Date: 02 Aug 1999
From: Digitek International <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Sakhr Lexicons on the Internet

New Arabic Language and Culture Resources on the Internet
Sakhr Adds Lexicons to Websites


Washington DC, July 28 -- Two major Arabic linguistic resources are now
freely available on the Internet. The Online Dictionary of Literary
Terms and a collection of the three best known Arabic lexicons are now
available through
   http://www.sakhr.com (Arabic interface),
   http://www.sakhrsoft.com (English interface), and
   http://www.sakhrus.com (English interface).

Teachers, students, researchers or anyone interested in Arabic
linguistics, culture, or history will find both resources invaluable
aids for understanding the Arabic vocabulary.
The Arabic Lexicon site (at lexicons.sakhr.com) uses Sakhr Software's
powerful search engines to navigate the Al-Moheet, Moheet Al-Moheet, and
the Al-Waseet lexicons.  Users can search the lexicons by word, word
root, or topic.

Sakhr has given the more specialized vocabulary of literary analysis and
criticism its own dedicated site (at literary.sakhr.com) with detailed
descriptions of the literary terms and their equivalents in English and
French.  The entries are from Ibrahim Fathi's Al-Mu'ajem Al-Mustalihat
Al-Adabiya.

Fahed Al-Sharekh, manager of Internet development projects at the
Alalamiah Group, parent company of Sakhr Software, notes that it is
Sakhr's "aim to make its Web site, www.sakhr.com, the largest Arabic
cultural site in terms of content and variety".  Among forthcoming
cultural resources, Al-Sharekh noted, are the complete Lissan Al-'Arab
lexicon of Arabic and the Al-Mo'alaqat Al-Saba'a, the famous seven
Arabic odes known since pre-Islamic times.

Sakhr's new contributions join its Encyclopedia of Arabic Cinema, its
own multilingual dictionary Al-Qamoos, and the collected poetry of
Al-Motanabi as existing Arabic cultural resources on the Internet.

In a related development, Sakhr Software has recently posted a version
of its popular Arabic Web browser, Sindbad, for Windows NT at its site.
The new version is available for free downloading at any of the Websites
mentioned above.

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