By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer From the desert they came – men filled with religious zeal and riding under banners inscribed with the motto “There is no god but God and Muhammad is His messenger”. After establishing the Middle East and North Africa as the foundation of their new Arab/Islamic Empire, the Arabs, in … Continued
SOURCE: WISCONSIN MUSLIM JOURNAL BY: ASMA WAHAB Elise Bellin, Librarian of the Islamic Resource Center, wrote this book review as part of an ongoing series that focuses on a range of books within the IRC collection as a service to the community. ISBN: 194855500x, 9781948555005 (2019) Finding high quality Arabic materials in the US or the … Continued
By: Habeeb Salloum/Contributing Writer The Arabic language is the youngest of Semitic idioms which include Aramaic, the Assyro-Babylonian tongues, Ethiopic, Hebrew and South Arabic like Sabean and Himyaritic. However, it is the nearest to the original archetype, ‘Ursemitisch’, from which all these tongues are derived. Arabic, as we know it today, developed from the language … Continued
SOURCE: ABC 13 HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — HISD’s Arabic Immersion Magnet School will soon serve students from Pre-K to eighth grade. “My favorite part is going to my class and knowing that I’ll learn something new,” explained fourth grader Tomas Jurado. Tomas and his siblings all attend AIMS. They already speak Spanish at home, and … Continued
SOURCE: VARIETY BY: NICK VIVARELLI The Cairo Film Festival’s Industry Days wrapped Tuesday on a high note, with several Arabic film projects emerging as standouts of its co-production platform. The informal market component of the rebooted Cairo fest entailed five days of networking, deal-making, and mentoring, and had a greater focus on TV. Attending were such high-level … Continued
SOURCE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE BY: JANICE NEUMANN Parents whose main language isn’t English sometimes feel like outsiders when they visit Oak Lawn Community High School, missing out on the academic and extracurricular programs their teens enjoy simply because they speak another language. But staff and students five years ago found a way to bridge that communication … Continued
SOURCE: CNN BY: ALAA ELASSAR “Sesame Street” and the International Rescue Committee have collaborated in efforts to help Syrian refugee children. A new program called “Ahlan Simsim” is set to air in February 2020. (CNN)Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee have joined forces to help Syrian refugee children through educational learning programs, including the launch of … Continued
SOURCE: STEP FEED BY: SARAH TRAD It’s heartwarming when Western artists learn a couple of Arabic words to utter at concerts when they’re in the region. It’s not the end of the world to attempt a marhaba (hello) or bahebkoum (I love you) and it makes the audience a forever fan of the singer. For the 23-year-old British rock … Continued
SOURCE: HARPER’S BAZAAR ARABIA Hang up the fake spider webs, put your best pumpkins on display and pass the popcorn… Arabic cinema has given us so many legends, from our former cover star Yousra and Saba Mubarak to Sawsan Badr. Comedy, romance and drama is the usual field where Arabic cinema excels. But seeing as it’s Hallow’s Eve tonight, it’d almost be rude … Continued
SOURCE: GULF NEWS SHARJAH Sharjah World Book Capital Office (SWBC Office) is calling upon Arab writers and poets to contribute to a contemporary Arabic language anthology, Lungs of the Sea. The works selected for the anthology will include a mix of emerging writers in the Arab world and well-known names in modern Arabic literature. This … Continued
SOURCE: MINNESOTA DAILY BY: FARRAH MINA The Arabic department is discussing ways to address the Nazi background of an Arabic-English dictionary that has been required for Arabic classes at the University for years. NUR B. ADAM Lauren Meyers works in the O. Meredith Wilson Library on Friday, Oct. 18. Meyers criticizes the use of the … Continued
SOURCE: SYRACUSE. COM BY: JACOB PUCCI ONONDAGA, N.Y. – The group of around a dozen is far smaller than the estimated 12,000 people who flock to St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church for the church’s Middle Eastern Festival, but like the annual summer fest, food remains the focus. Every October for at least the past 25 years, the … Continued
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