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Mustafa Amin (1914 – 1997) Part 2 Posted by Fisal on May 21, 2014
In part 1, we talked about the early life of the famous Egyptian journalist; Mustafa Amin. We have already known that he managed to fulfill his life-long dream of possessing his own newspaper which is Akhbar Al-Youm أخــْـــبــَـــار الــيــُـــوم . That dream came true in 1944. After Amin’s foundation of Akhbar…
Mustafa Amin (1914 – 1997) Part 1 Posted by Fisal on May 20, 2014
Today, I am going to tell you about a very famous and influencing figure in the Egyptian social and media life. Mustafa Amin مــُـــصــْــطــَــفــى أمــِـــيــن was an Egyptian writer and journalist. He loved journalism more than anything else. He and his twin brother Ali Amin عــلـى أمــِـــيــنare the founders of Akhbar Al-Youm أخــْـــبــَـــار…
Reading Comprehension Answers: Pharaonic Wedding Posted by Fisal on May 15, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic lovers! Here are the answers for the reading comprehension exercise about the pharaonic wedding. To view the exercise again, click here. الإجــَـــابـــَــــات Answers اِســْـــم الــشــَـــرِكــَـــة الــمــُــنــَـــظـــِّـــمــَـــة لـِـلــْــحــَـــفـــْـــلِ هــُــو “الأمــِـــيــرة ســِــيــنــَــا جــُـــروب” 1) The company that organized the wedding is “Al-Amirah Sina Group”. تــَـــمَّ الــْــحــَـــفـــْـــل فــى مـديــنــة شــَــرم الــشــيـخ فــجــر الــثــُّــلاثــَــاء الــمــَــاضــى . …
Reading Comprehension Exercise: Pharaonic Wedding Posted by Fisal on May 14, 2014
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: نــَــظــَّـــمــَـــتْ شــَـــرِكــَـــة “الأمــِـــيــرَة ســِــيـنــا جــُــروب” بــَــشــَـــرْم الــشــِّـــيــخ حــَــفـــْــل زِفــَــاف لــِــســَـــائــِــحــَــةٍ أجــْـــنــَــبــِــيــَّــةٍ عــَــلـى الــطــَّــرِيــقــَــةِ الــفــِــرْعــُـــونــِــيــَّــةِ ، فــَــجــْــرَ أمــْــسَ الــثــُّـــلاثـــَــاءِ . نــَــظــَّــمــَــتْ الــشــَّـــرِكــَــةُ الــحــَــفــْـــلَ فـي إِطــَــار جــَــذْبِ وتــَـــنــْــشــِــيــطِ الــســِــيــَـــاحــَـــةِ مــِــنْ خــِــلالِ الإطــْــلالــَــةِ عــَـلـى الــحــَــضــَــارَةِ الــفــِــرْعــُـــونــِـــيــَّـــةِ . وقــَــالَ…
“And I Love You” – Kazem Al-Sahir Posted by Fisal on Apr 27, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً Arabic lovers! Here is a beautiful love song by Kazem Al-Sahir كــَــاظــِـــم الــســَّـــاهــِـــر. The song is entitled “And I Love You و إنــِّــي أُحــِـــبــُّـــكِ“. It was written by the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani نــِـــزار قــَــبــَّــانــِــى. I did the English translation for the poem and I hope you will enjoy it…
The Verbal Sentence (Part 5) – The Passive Subject Posted by Fisal on Apr 25, 2014
We are going to continue our study of the Verbal Sentence الـجـمـلــة الـفـعـلـيـــة . We have already discussed the Verb in more detail and the Subject or doer of the verb. We have also started discussing the subject-verb agreement; how the verb looks like with different subjects. All that was in the active…
Nizar Qabbani: One Road Posted by Fisal on Apr 17, 2014
Ahlan أهـــلاً , Arabic lovers! Today, I introduce one of Nizar Qabbani‘s poems. It is not a love poem. It is a patriotic one. The poem is for Palestine and the struggle of its people against the occupation. There is no Arab poet who didn’t write about that problem. I did the…