The winds of change in the Arab World Posted by aziza on Jan 27, 2011
The Arab world is facing a very critical moment in its history. For the first time in decades, people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the oppressive and undemocratic regimes that have been in power for decades in a number of Arab countries, most notably Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen. Change has started in…
Talking Politics Posted by aziza on Jan 24, 2011
Politics of the Middle East is very complicated. Each other country presents a unique style of government. Most countries are republics, some are kingdoms, and there is one sultanate. Most Arab peoples have suffered undemocratic and oppressive governments over their long histories, and few revolutions and coups have taken place in the past. The most…
Identifying fronted predicates1 Posted by aziza on Jan 20, 2011
In this posting, the answer of the question presented yesterday about fronted predicates. Please find the fronted predicates underlined and the subjects marked in bold. كان للصالونات الأدبية دور هام فى الحياة الأدبية في مصر .. كان لها دور كبير ومؤثر .. فصالون مي مثلا، كان ينبض بالحرارة، لأن صاحبة الصالون كانت جميلة، وكان كل…
Identifying fronted predicates Posted by aziza on Jan 19, 2011
I got a request from one of the dear blog readers asking for examples on identifying fronted predicates and their subjects. First, allow me to remind of the cases in which we have fronted predicates and what conditions need to exist in a sentence so that it has a fronted predicate. We have a fronted…
Arabic Poetry – Introduction Posted by aziza on Jan 13, 2011
I have always loved poetry, but I did not like learning about it at school and university because it was taught in a very factual way and we were forced to memorize so much of it. However, I never stopped reading and enjoying poetry out of the educational context. I wanted to write about poetry…
Word search answer Posted by aziza on Dec 31, 2010
In this post, I present the answer of the word search game. عيد سعيد = Happy Feast ميلاد مجيد = Merry Christmas كل عام وأنتم بخير = happy occasions (this greeting can be used for any occasion that comes regularly) like feasts and birthdays زينة = decorations شجرة = tree عيد سعيد ميلاد مجيد كل…
Word search greetings Posted by aziza on Dec 29, 2010
Now that it is time for greetings and celebration, my work search game hides three greetings and two Christmas words. Can you find them? عيد سعيد ميلاد مجيد كل عام وأنتم بخير شجرة زينة