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“To my Love on New Year’s Eve”; Nizar Qabbani Posted by Fisal on Dec 31, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً and Happy New Year, Arabic lovers! Today, I am presenting a very beautiful love poem by the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani نــِــزَار قــَــبــَّــانــِــي . The poem is entitled; “To My Love on New Year’s Eve إلـي حـبـيـبـتـي فـي رأس الـسـنـة“. It is a poem of unlimited love, an eternal one that…
Reading Comprehension Answers: My Language is Arabic Posted by Fisal on Dec 25, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Here, I present the answers to the Reading Comprehension Exercise: My Language is Arabic. To view the exercise and questions again, please click here. الإجــابــات Answers عــنــوان الــمــســابــقــة هــو «لـغــتـي عـربـيــة» 1) The title of the competition is; “My Language is Arabic” تــَــمَّ إطــلاق الـمـسـابـقـة بــواســطــة وزارة الـتـعـلـيـم الـعـالـي و الـبـحـث…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: My Language is Arabic Posted by Fisal on Dec 25, 2014
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: أطـلـقـت وزارة الـتـعـلـيـم الـعـالـي و الـبـحـث الـعـلـمـي بـالـتـعــاون مـع جـمـعـيـة حـمـايـة الـلـغـة الـعـربـيـة بـدولـة الإمـارات الـعـربـيـة الـمـتـحـدة مـسـابـقـة عـالـمـيـة بـعـنـوان «لـغــتـي عـربـيــة»، و ذلـك بـالـتـزامـن مـع الإحـتـفـال بـالـيـوم الـعـالـمـي لـلـغـة الـعـربـيـة فـي الــثـامـن عـشـر مـن ديـسـمـبـر لـهـذا…
Where do the Arabic names of weekdays come from? Posted by Fisal on Dec 24, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً Arabic lovers! In today’s post, I am going to discuss the meaning of the Arabic names of weekdays and where they came from. The weekdays, as they are known today, took some time along history until they reached the form known in the Arab world today. Arabs did not have separate…
Nizar Qabbani; “River of Sorrows” Posted by Fisal on Dec 17, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً Arabic lovers! Today, I am presenting a very beautiful love poem by the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani نــِــزَار قــَــبــَّــانــِــي . The poem is entitled; “River of Sorrows نــهــرُ الأحــزان“. It reflects the suffering that the poet finds in his love. I have also posted a youtube video of Nizar Qabbani…
Listening Comprehension Answers: Morocco Floods 2014 Posted by Fisal on Dec 11, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic lovers! How did you do in the last Listening Comprehension Exercise about the 2014 Morocco Floods? Heavy rains hit the south-eastern part of Morocco on 24th November, 2014 causing some deaths and destruction of some villages and leaving another number homeless. That is what the news report is about in brief. In…
Listening Comprehension Exercise: Morocco Floods 2014 Posted by Fisal on Dec 11, 2014
شـــَــاهــِــدْ الــفــِــيــديــُــو ، ثــُــمَّ أجـِــبْ عـَــن الأســئــلــة الــتــَّــالــِــيــَـــة : Watch this video and then answer the following questions: * Just in case the video link doesn’t work, click here to reach the video. الأســـئـــلــة Questions مــَــاذا حــدث فــي الــمــغــرب ؟ 1) What happened in Morocco? لــمــاذا حــدث هــذا ؟ 2) Why did this happen?…