Minorities in the Arab world Posted by aziza on Jan 28, 2018 in Culture, Vocabulary
This post presents a listening comprehension exercise in Arabic. Listen to the report on Minorities in the Arab world and answer the questions that follow. You can use the vocabulary list at the end to assist your comprehension.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4UN1mpYqs
Answer the following questions in English:
How have Arab societies considered talking about minorities and why?
Are minorities always small in number?
How are minorities in the Arab world classified?
Answer the following questions in Arabic:
ما اسم الأقليات المهمة في شمال أفريقيا والعراق؟
ماذا يجمع الأقليات؟
كيف كانت تفسر المطالبة بالحقوق الثقافية والاجتماعية والاقتصادية؟
Useful vocabulary:
الأقليات = minorities
صراعات = conflicts
مجرد = mere
الحديث = talking
لعقود كثيرة = for many decades
من المحرمات = taboo
مسألة = issue
تمس = affects
الوحدة الوطنية = national unity
الاستقرار =stability
اصطلح = termed
تسمية = name
مكونات = components
تصنيف = classification
عرقي = ethnic
ديني = religious
مذهبي = sectarian
اختلاف = difference
الشعور بالتهميش = sense of marginalisation
الاضطهاد = persecution
القومية العربية = Arab nationalism
المطالبة = demanding
الحقوق = rights
الثقافية = cultural
الاجتماعية = social
الاقتصادية = economic
نزعة = tendency
انفصالية = separatist
القضاء على = eliminate
مهما كان الثمن = at any cost
التعايش = coexistence
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