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Date:  17 Aug 2001
From: "Gail Grella" <grellag1 at smtp.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Georgetown Univ. Press Announcements

Georgetown University Press is pleased to announce three new items in the
Al-Kitaab fii Tacallum al-cArabiyya textbook program by Kristen
Brustad, Mahmoud
Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi:

1) The Newly Repackaged Edition of  "ALIF BAA: Introduction to Arabic Letters
and Sounds” with audio CDs

2)  Audio CDs are now available for Volume 1 (previously available only on
audiocassettes)

3)  Volume 3 is now available.

See descriptions below.

To order:  U.S and all countries not listed below, please order from
Georgetown University Press,c/o Hopkins Fulfillment Service, P.O. Box 50370,
Baltimore, MD  21211-4370 Telephone: 800-537-5487 (US) or 410-516-6995.  Fax:
410-516-6998.
Canadian customers: Please order from Scholarly Book Services, 473 Adelaide
Street West, 4th Floor, Toronto, ONT M5V 1T1; Telephone: 800-847-9736. Fax:
800-220-9895.  UK, Europe, and Israel: Send orders to Georgetown University
Press,  c/o Plymbridge Distributors, Ltd., Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY,
United Kingdom. Telephone: 44 (0) 1752 202301.  Fax: 44 (0) 1752 202333.  Japan
and Korea: Order from United Publishers Services, Ltd., Kenkyu-sha Building, 9
Kanda Surugadai, 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062 Japan. Fax:
81-3-3219-8417.   Prices may vary outside U.S. Contact distributor for pricing
information.

Also available on our website: http://www.georgetown.edu/publications/gup/

1)  The Newly Repackaged Edition of ALIF BAA:
Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, with 3 audio CDs

August 2001  224 pp.
ISBN 0-87840-273-X, paper with a set of 3 CDs bound in, $34.95

Newly packaged with a set of three audio CDs, Alif Baa, Introduction to Arabic
Letters and Sounds, is intended for anyone interested in learning modern Arabic
as a living language. The first part of the Al-Kitaab language program, it
embodies two main premises: that the student can and should learn to recognize
and produce the sounds of Arabic correctly from the very beginning,
and that the
student should be introduced to the full range of the Arabic language and
cultural continuum—colloquial, modern standard, and classical.
  In teaching the sounds and letters of Arabic, Alif Baa provides a variety of
exercises aimed at developing all skills: reading, listening,
writing, speaking,
and cultural understanding. In order to teach Arabic as used by
Arabs, including
social aspects of Arab culture, this book and its accompanying CDs
introduce the
student to the colloquial dialect of Cairo, the most widely spoken and
understood in the Arabic-speaking world.
Alif Baa introduces about 150 basic vocabulary words, including
social greetings
and politeness formulae, most of which are common to standard Arabic and one or
more dialects. The book and CDs focus on reading skills, aural recognition, and
oral production through extensive drills and accompanying videos. Including
authentic materials from newspapers and magazines and skits filmed in Egypt, as
well as an English-Arabic glossary, Alif Baa lays the groundwork for
the rest of
the Al-Kitaab language program.

2)  Audio Compact Disks for Al-Kitaab, Part One:

Set of 4 audio CDs will be available in October.
ISBN 0-87840-358-2, $49.95

This material was previously available only on audiocassettes.

3)  Al-Kitaab fii Tacallum al-cArabiyya
A Textbook for Arabic: Part Three

Now available  480 pp.
ISBN 0-87840-272-1, paper, $44.95

Accompanying Audio Compact Disks will be available in November.
ISBN 0-87840-875-4, Price TBD.

Continuing the Al-Kitaab Arabic textbook program, Part Three is
intended to help
learners reach an advanced level of proficiency. More than thirty authentic
texts by writers from across the Arab world address a range of political,
social, religious, and literary themes and represent a range of genres, styles,
and periods. Although the book focuses primarily on modern Arabic, classical
Arabic texts have been incorporated into some of the lessons to introduce
students to the continuity of the language throughout its history.
Accompanied by audio CDs, Al-Kitaab, Part Three combines the features of a
textbook and a reader. Like its predecessors, this book presents
vocabulary-building drills and contextualized explanations of grammar, with
exercises designed to push students toward independent learning. New with this
volume is an increased attention to the stylistic features of Arabic, and
exercises that aim at transforming passive skills into active ones.

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