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Nizar Qabbani: Five Love Texts Posted by Fisal on Sep 27, 2012
It has been a while since we last read any Arabic poetry! Today we are going to read a poem by the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani. The poem is entitled, “Five Love Texts خـمــســةُ نــُُــصـــُـــوص عــَــن الــحــُـــبّ ”. In the poem, Nizar boasts of being in love. He says that his love is…
Reading Comprehension Answers – Love Posted by Fisal on Sep 22, 2012
Here are the answers to the reading comprehension exercise that I posted yesterday. To see the passage and questions again, click the following link: https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/reading-comprehension-exercise-love/ تتحدث القطعة عن الحب و المال 1) The passage speaks about love and money. لا يستطيع الإنسانأن يشترى الحب و القلوب و المشاعر . 2) Man can not…
Reading Comprehension Exercise – Love Posted by Fisal on Sep 21, 2012
اِقــرأ الـقـطــعــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage then answer the questions: قــد يـمــلــك الإنــســانُ كـل أمــوال الــدنـيــا و لــكــنــه لا يــســتــطــيـــع أن يــشــتـــرى إحــســاســـاً صــادقــاً .. قــد يــتــصـــور الإنــســانُ أنــه بــدفــــتــر شــيــكـــاتـــه يــســتـــطـــيـــع أن يـــحــــول مــقـــدرات الــدنــيــــا و يــتــحــكـــم فــيــهـــا .. يــحـــب مــن يــحـــب .. و يــجـــرح مــن يـــجــــرح…
Rosetta (Rasheed) Posted by Fisal on Sep 20, 2012
Rasheed or Rashid رشــــيــد or what is known in the west as Rosette or Rosetta is a city in the governorate of Beheira, Egypt. It is an old port that lies at the mouth of the western part of the Nile where it meets with the Mediterranean Sea. It is considered one of the…
Verbal Sentence: The Subject/Doer (Part 2) Posted by Fisal on Sep 17, 2012
Today we are going to continue our study of the second element in the Verbal Sentence الـجـمـلــة الـفـعـلـيـــة ; the subject. We have already known that the subject or the doer الــفــاعــِــل of an action is a noun (or a pronoun) that is in the Nominative Case حــَــالــَــةُ الــرَّفــْــعِ and is preceded by an…
Ismail Yasin; (1912 – 1972) Posted by Fisal on Sep 16, 2012
Ismail Yasin إسـمــاعــيــــل يــاســيـــن was a very famous Egyptian actor and monologist. He was born on the 15th of September, 1912 in Suez City. His father was a middle class jeweler. His mother died when he was still a little child and his step-mother used to hurt him. Like most children of the time…
Baklava Posted by aziza on Sep 12, 2012
Do you like baklava (البقلاوة)? It is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of filo pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey. Here is one way of preparing it: Ingredients 1 (16 ounce) package phyllo dough 1 pound chopped nuts 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 cup…