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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…
Why are Arab Stars Returning to the School of Love? Answers Posted by jesa on Sep 4, 2013
Marhaba! I hope you found the excerpt in the previous post interesting. I am confident you have all worked hard to answer the questions. In this post, I would like to present you with the answers and the translation of some key words. I want to stress again and again that such reading comprehension exercises…
Why are Arab Stars Returning to the School of Love? Posted by jesa on Sep 3, 2013
Marhaba! I am sharing an excerpt from an article that discusses a new Syrian TV series that will be filmed in Beirut, Lebanon soon. It will include many famous Arab celebrities, including the Egyptian star Hani Shaker (هاني شاكر). After presenting the excerpt, I have some questions for you to answer. This article was published…
3 Smart Tips to Pick Up Arabic Quickly Posted by jesa on Aug 26, 2013
Marhaba! In this post, I would like to discuss 3 smart and easy ways for you to pick up Arabic quickly. I want to thank a close friend of mine who brought up this idea a couple of times over the last couple of months. She is learning Arabic and constantly asks me about different…
Learn the Lebanese Way to Cook A Hot Spicy Fish Dish Posted by jesa on Aug 17, 2013
Marhaba! Today, I am going to teach you how to cook Samkeh Harra (سمكة حرة) with tahini sauce (الطحينة). It is a tasty dish that is popular in the Middle East and specifically the Levant. This dish has progressed from something that required intense and long hours of preparation to becoming a dish that is…
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…