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The Ancient City of Fes فاس Posted by yasmine on May 17, 2022
In this post, we’ll learn about the ancient city of Fes in Morocco مدينة فاس القديمة في المغرب. It’s history تاريخها dates back over a thousand years ألف سنة. Fes فاس is filled with souks أسواق, cafes مقاهي, Islamic architecture العمارة الإسلامية, and mosques المساجد. We’ll begin with watching a clip about what makes مدينة…
Libyan Recipe: Bazeen بازين Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Feb 25, 2022
In this post, you will be introduced to the number 1 (savoury) dish in Libya – it’s El-Bazeen البازين. Bazeen is one of the most known delicious and sophisticated dishes across Libya. Tunisia is probably the only other country that makes this dish but is cooked differently. In that sense, El-Bazeen is really unique to…
Keywords around libraries المكتبات Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 6, 2021
Welcome to this new blog post مرحبا بكم في هذه المدوّنة جديدة 🙂 Today, we’re going to learn about the theme of libraries المكتبات and some of the keywords المفردات الرئيسية around them – in Standard Arabic العربية الفصحى. The post will be vocabulary focused. A library مَكْتَبَة As may of you…
الأكِل الصِحّي Healthy Food Part One Posted by yasmine on Feb 17, 2021
In this post, we’ll be watching the first part of a video (in Jordanian Levantine) that talks about الأكِل الصِحّي healthy food that keeps us full longer. I have included a transcription and English translation to help you follow along. Let’s begin with a definition of الأكل الصحي in الفُصحى MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) and…
Mai Ziadeh مي زيادة: Arab Poet, Novelist and Feminist Posted by yasmine on Feb 10, 2021
In this post, I thought we could learn about a well-known شَخْصية عَرَبية Arab female figure other than أم كلثوم and فيروز. Have you heard of مَي زيادة Mai Ziadeh? Born in 1886, she was an Arab poet of Palestinian-Lebanese origin who was one of the leading female figures of النَهضة العَرَبية Al-Nahda (the Arab…
Environmental Wonders عجائب بيئية of Coronavirus Part Two Posted by yasmine on Dec 16, 2020
In last week’s post, we learned some new Arabic vocabulary surrounding the topic of “environment” البيْئة. We watched the first segment of a clip from Al-Jazeera talking about some of the environmental wonders caused by coronavirus فيروس كورونا in that due to people being quarantined في الحَجر الصِحي and the closing of factories المَصانِع, air…
Environmental Wonders عجائب بيئية of Coronavirus Part One Posted by yasmine on Dec 9, 2020
In this post, I thought we’d learn some new Arabic vocabulary surrounding the topic of “environment” البيْئة. For context, we’ll watch a clip from Al-Jazeera talking about some of the environmental wonders caused by coronavirus فيروس كورونا in that due to people being quarantined الحَجر الصِحي and the closing of factories المَصانِع, air pollution تَلَوُّث…