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Nizar Qabbani; “Unlimited Love” Part II Posted by Fisal on Aug 29, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً Arabic lovers! Here is the second part of the long love poem by Nizar Qabbani نــِــزَار قــَــبــَّــانــِــي . The poem is entitled “Unlimited Love حــُــبٌّ بــِــلا حــُــدُود“. There is also the youtube video reciting the whole poem in Arabic so that you can listen to the poem as long as reading…
Nizar Qabbani; “Unlimited Love” Part I Posted by Fisal on Aug 29, 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 “Unlimited Love حــُــبٌّ بــِــلا حــُــدُود“. Since the poem is very long, I will post it in two parts. I have also posted a youtube video reciting the whole…
“She is my Life”; Amr Diab Posted by Fisal on Aug 24, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً Arabic lovers! Here is a beautiful love song by Amr Diab عــَـــمــْـــرو دِيــَـــاب . The song is entitled “She is my Life هــِــى .. حــَــيــَـــاتــِـــي“. It was written by the Egyptian poet Magdy Al-Naggar مــَــجــْــدِى الــنــَـــجـــَّــــار . Amr Diab composed it himself in the Latin House music. The song is about…
Arabic Translation Answer: ‘This Article is not for you!’ Posted by Fisal on Aug 21, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Here is the English translation of the article “This Article is not for you هــَــذا الـمــَــقــَــالُ لا يــَــعــْــنــيــك” by the Saudi journalist Muhammad Al-Rotayyan مـُــحــَــمــَّــد الــرُّطــَـــيــَّـــانْ who writes for Al-Madinah newspaper. For more information about Al-Rotayyan, please click on his name above. Also, to view the article in Arabic, kindly…
Arabic Translation Exercise: ‘This Article is not for you!’ Posted by Fisal on Aug 21, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a translation exercise. We are going to read a short article by one of the Arab writers. The article will be in Arabic and you are going to test your Arabic reading skill and translate the article into English. Of course I will post the…
Egyptian Proverbs (8) Posted by Fisal on Aug 13, 2014
Arabic proverbs الأمــْــثــَــال الــعــَــرَبــِــيــَّـــة reflect the beauty جــَــمــَــال of the Arabic Language and the wisdom حــِــكــْــمــَــة of the Arabs and their culture. In Egypt, these proverbs are part of everyone’s daily routine. There is no one single situation مــَــوْقــِــف that would not have the perfect proverb tailored for it. Just for the sake of fun الــمــُــتــْــعــَــة , I…
Nizar Qabbani: Al-Quds Posted by Fisal on Jul 31, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Today, I am going to present a poem by the great Arab poet نــِــزار قــَــبــَّـــانــِــى Nizar Qabbani. The poem is entitled الــقــُــدْسُ /Al-Quds/ (Jerusalem). In the poem, the poet longs for peace الــســَّــلام and for the land to come back to its owners. He longs for the time when blood الــدَّم and aggression الــعــُــدْوَان will stop. He never loses hope الأمــَــل in spite…