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Reading Comprehension Answers: World Teachers’ Day Posted by Fisal on Oct 30, 2013
Here are the answers to the reading comprehension exercise about the World Teachers’ Day. To view the exercise again, click here. تـــَـــتـــَـــحــَــــدَّثْ الــقــِـــطـــْـــعــَــــةُ عــَــنْ الــيــَـــوم الــعــَــالــمــىّ لـِــلــمــُــعــَـــلـــِّــمــيــن 1) The passage talks about the World Teachers’ Day. تـــَـــأثـــِـــيــــرُ الــمــُـــعـــَــــلـــِّـــمــيــنَ عــَــلــى الأطـــْـــفــَــــالِ : الــمــُــعــَـــلـــّــمــُـــونَ هــُـــمْ أحــَــدِ الــعــَـــوَامـــِـــلِ الـتِـي تــُـــبــْـــقــِــي الأطــْـــفــَـــالَ فـِــي مــَـــدَارسـِــهــِــم وتــُــؤَثـــِّــــرُ فـِــي عــَــمــَـــلــِــيــَّـــةِ الــتــَّـــعــَـــلــُّـــمِ…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: World Teachers’ Day Posted by Fisal on Oct 29, 2013
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: فــِــي جــَــمــيــع أنــْـــحـــَــــاءِ الـعــَــالــَــمْ ، يــُـــوَفـــِّـــرُ الـتــَّــعــْـــلــيـــمُ الــجــَـــيــّــدُ الأمــَـــلَ والـوَعــَـــدَ بــِــمــُـــســْــــتـــَــــوى مــَـــعـــِـــيـــشـــَـــةٍ أفـــْـــضـــَــــلَ . و مــَـــعَ ذلـِـكَ ، فــَــلــَـــيــْــسَ مــِــنَ الـمـُــمـْــكـِــنِ أنْ يــَـــكــُـــونَ هــُــنــَـــاكَ تــَــعــْــلــيــمٌ جــَــيــّـــدٌ بــِــدُون وُجــُـــودِ مــُــعــَـــلــِّــمــيــنَ مــُــخــْـــلــِــصــيــنَ ومــُــؤَهــَّــلــِــيــنَ . والــمــُــعــَـــلـــّــمــُـــونَ هــُـــمْ أحــَــدِ…
Habibi, the Arabic Adagio by Majida el Roumi Posted by jesa on Oct 24, 2013
Marhaba! In a previous post I introduced you all to the Lebanese diva Majida el Roumi. Today, I am sharing another musical masterpiece by Majida called ‘Habibi’ (حبيبي) which literally means My Love. The song is based on a classical piece called Adagio in G Minor by the famous 18th century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni…
Fairouz and the Resonant Arabic Guitar Posted by jesa on Sep 29, 2013
Marhaba! You all know by now that Fairouz (فيروز) is one of my favorite Arab artists and that almost all her songs are beautiful and reflect the true cultural nature of different Arab societies. Her songs capture how Arab societies view love, patriotism, and nationalism, among other important themes. Based on my previous post that…
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…
How to Make Vegetarian Stuffed Grape Leaves Posted by jesa on Sep 24, 2013
Marhaba! Today I am going to teach you how to prepare and make Veggie Grape Leaves (ورق عريش محشي قاطع). I feel that most of the recipes that I have shared lately are more for meat lovers. In this post I would like to share a recipe that my wife and I use when preparing…
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…