SOURCE: AL-FANAR MEDIA BY: HOSSAM ABOUZAHR I learned Arabic as an adult. I have a dual master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies and public policy, and I have created an online dictionary of “al-Fusha,” or classical Arabic, and the Egyptian and Levantine colloquial dialects. Despite my nerd credentials, teaching my son Arabic is one of … Continued
SOURCE: UCLA. EDU BY: DAWN ZETZER The UCLA Library and Early Manuscripts Electronic Library have partnered with St. Catherine’s Monastery to digitize and publish online on an open access basis some 1,100 rare and unique Syriac and Arabic manuscripts dating from the fourth to the 17th centuries. A UNESCO World Heritage site located in a … Continued
SOURCE: ENTREPRENEUR BY: AMMAR BADR Search marketing in the MENA region is growing at an increasingly fast pace. Millions of people across the globe use the internet every day to communicate, shop, learn and interact. This has created unlimited opportunities for people who want to do business online. At the same time, search marketing in … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL A digital library containing great works of Arabic literature has received a Dh4.92million grant from one of the UK’s largest philanthropic organisations. Arabic Collections Online, an open access project managed by New York University-Abu Dhabi and NYU-New York, has received funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund that supports multiple open access programmes. … Continued
SOURCE: EURONEWS BY: ALICE CUDDY Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv this week for what has been dubbed the “world’s largest Arabic lesson”, held in response to a controversial new law that removed Arabic’s status as an official language in the country. The “nation-state” law, passed on July 18, declared Hebrew the language of … Continued
SOURCE: MADA MASR BY: SHERIF ABDEL SAMAD About half a dozen French graphic novels are currently being translated into Arabic, awaiting publication by the end of 2018. The first to come out in this series, facilitated by the French Cultural Center and translated by Mona Sabri, was Golo’s Proud Beggars (2009), an adaptation of Albert … Continued
SOURCE: HAARETZ BY: ZVI BAR’EL Near the exit from one of the Arab villages in the Galilee, the local council put up a sign reminding drivers to buckle up. The sign is entirely in Hebrew, as if only Hebrew-speakers left the village every day on their way to work or school. Further down the road, … Continued
Ironically, amid the discussion of Israel’s ‘Jewish and democratic values,’ a section of the law that might have called for preserving Arabic’s official status would have been the only part of it to be both Jewish and democratic SOURCE: HAARETZ BY: YONATAN MANDEL The nation-state law is stirring fierce debate among both Jews and Arabs … Continued
SOURCE: AL-FANAR MEDIA BY: M. LYNX QUALEY Two decades ago, scarcely enough material existed to teach a course on Arabic literature in translation. Most comparative literature departments lacked a focus on Arabic, and most Arabists focused on teaching literature in the original. Perhaps most importantly, far fewer students in the United States were enrolled in … Continued
Randa Necola/Arab America Contributor Writer Stickers and Emojis became very popular for smartphones. However, Arabs pioneered creating Arab stickers and emojis to give the chats and message an Arab and fun twist or as we say, SPICE! The Arab emojis and stickers are about countries, religions, and dialects in the Arab world. They … Continued
SOURCE: KHALEEJ TIMES BY: AFKAR ABDULLAH China has launched ‘The Books’ – the largest website of Arabic e-books – which contains more than 10,000 ‘official’ titles, during the ongoing Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). The Chinese government chose the emirate Sharjah as a platform to launch the website, because it is the capital of Arabic … Continued
SOURCE: BREITBART BY: VIRGINIA HALE The Qatar Foundation International (QFI) — a nonprofit founded by Qatari royal and Al Jazeera creator Sheikh bin Al Thani — is donating the money to a British Council initiative aimed at increasing the number of UK schools which offer Arabic as a foreign language. According to The Times, £70,000 of … Continued
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