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The Cairo Tower Posted by Fisal on Sep 28, 2013
Today is the 43rd. anniversary ذِكــْـــرَى of Gamal Abdel-Nasser and I am going to tell you about one of his great engineering projects and how he managed to raise money for its construction. The Cairo Tower بـــُـــرج الــقـــاهـــرة /Borj Al-Qahirah/ is considered an icon of modern Cairo. It is one of Cairo’s well-known modern…
Listening Comprehension Answers: Moroccan Complaint Posted by Fisal on Sep 21, 2013
Here are the answers to the Listening Comprehension Exercise: Moroccan Complaint. To view the exercise again, click here. تــُـــوجــَـــد الــمــكــتــبـــة فـى مــَــديــــنـــــــة الــرِبـــَــــاط . 1) The bookshop is in the city of Rabat; The Moroccan capital. تــَـــخــَــصــَّــصــَــتْ الــمـَــكــْـــتــَـــبــَـــة فــى بــَــيــْــــع الــمــُــقــَـــرَّرات و الــدَّفــَـــاتــِــر الــمــَــدرســـيــَّـــــــة . 2) The bookshop is specialized in selling school books and…
Listening Comprehension Exercise: Moroccan Complaint Posted by Fisal on Sep 20, 2013
اِسـتـمـع إلـى الـتـــقــريـــر الـتــالـى ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Listen to the following news report and then answer the questions: فــى أىّ مـــديــنـــة تــُـــوجــَـــد الــمــكــتــبـــة ؟ 1) In which city does the bookshop exist? فــِـــيـــمَ تــَـــخــَــصــَّــصــَــتْ الــمـَــكــْـــتــَـــبــَـــة ؟ 2) What is the bookshop specialized in? مـِــنْ مــَــاذا تــَــشــْــكــُــو الــعــَــائــِــلات فـى الــمــَــغـــْـــرب ؟ 3) What do…
This is My Love.. This is My City.. (Part II) Posted by Fisal on Aug 15, 2013
Today, I am going to introduce the second half of Nizar Qabbani’s great poem “This is my Love .. This is my City..هــَـــذهِ هــِــى حــَــبــيـــبـــتـــى .. هــَـــذهِ هــِــى مـَــــديـــنــــتـــــى ”. You can see the first half of the poem Here. Nizar wrote this poem in London in the summer of 1994. I did the English…
This is My Love.. This is My City.. (Part I) Posted by Fisal on Aug 14, 2013
In today’s post, I am going to present one of Nizar Qabbani’s great poems. The poem is entitled “This is my Love .. This is my City.. هــَـــذهِ هــِــى حــَــبــيـــبـــتـــى .. هــَـــذهِ هــِــى مـَــــديـــنــــتـــــى ”. Nizar wrote this poem in London in the summer of 1994. The poem is a bit long, so I will…
Reading Comprehension Answers: Yusuf Khaleef Posted by Fisal on Apr 28, 2013
Here are the answers to the last reading comprehension exercise about the contemporary Egyptian poet, Yusuf Khlaeef. If you want to go over the exercise again, click the following link: https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/reading-comprehension-exercise-yusuf-khaleef/ الإجــــابــــــــــات وُلــِـــدَ الــدكـــتـــور يــوســـُـــف فــى مـــديـــنــــة الأســــكـــنــدريــــة – مـــصـــر . 1) Professor Yusuf was born in the city of Alexandria, Egypt. عـَـمِـل…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: Yusuf Khaleef Posted by Fisal on Apr 27, 2013
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following message then answer the questions: وُلـــِـــدَ الــدكــتـــــور يـــوســــف عــبـــد الــقــــادر خــلــيــــف فــى عـــام 1922 فــي حــي رأس الــتــيـــن بـمــديــنــة الإســكــنــدريــة – مــصــــر . حــَـــصــُــــلَ عــلــى الــلــيــســـانــــس من قسم اللغة العربية عام 1944 والــمــاجــســتــيــــر عام 1950 و والــدكـــتـــوراه عام 1956 مـِـــن كــُــلــيــــة الآداب –…