Tag Archives: Arabic literature
The MWF Initiative: A New and Fun Way to Learn Arabic Posted by jesa on Apr 12, 2013
Marhaba (مرحبا)! Starting tomorrow, the Arabic Team at Transparent Language launches the MWF Initiative, a new (جديد) and fun (مرح) method to learn (تعلّم) Arabic (العربية) through our various social media outlets (وسائل الاعلام الاجتماعية). The MWF Initiative (مبادرة) is part of our continued commitment (التزام) and determination to reaching out to the Arabic Community…
Reading Comprehension Answers – From Jubran to Mai Posted by Fisal on Mar 18, 2013
Did you like Jubran’s message to his beloved; Mai? Did you answer all the questions correctly? Ok, let’s check together. Here are the answers to the reading comprehension exercise based on Jubran’s message: كـــَـــاتـــِــــب الــرســالـــة هــو جــُـــبــران خــلــيـــل جـُــبــران ، و كــتــبــهــا لـِ مــَـــىّ زيـــادة 1) The writer of the message is Jubran…
Reading Comprehension Exercise – From Jubran to Mai Posted by Fisal on Mar 17, 2013
اِقــرأ الـــرســـالـــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following message then answer the questions: مــِـــن جــــُــــــبــْـــران إلــى مــــَـــــيّ : أنـــا أعــْـــلـــَــــمُ أنَّ الــقـــلـــيــــــلَ مــِـــنَ الــحـــُّـــــبِّ لا يــُـــرضــِـــيـــــكِ ، كــَــمـــَـــا أعــْــــلـــَــــمُ أنَّ الــقـــَــــلــيـــــلَ مـــِـــنَ الــحـــُّـــبِّ لا يـــُـــرضـــِــــيـــنـــي ، أنــْـــتِ وأنـــَــــا لا ولـــَـــنْ نــَـــرْضـــَـــى بــالـــْـــقـــَـــلـــِــــيــــل . نــَــحــْـــنُ نــُــــريـــــدُ الــكــــثـــيــــر . نــحـــــنُ نـــُــــريــــــدُ كـــُــــلَّ شـــَـــيءٍ…
Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad (1889 – 1969) Posted by Fisal on Feb 7, 2013
In today’s post, I am going to tell you about a famous Egyptian figure; Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad عــبــاس مـحــمـــود الـعــقـــاد . Al-Aqqad was a famous writer كــاتــب , novelist روائــي , poet شــاعـــر , journalist صــحــفــي and critic نــاقــد . He was also a member of the Arab Academy الأكــاديــمــيـــة الــعـــربــيـــة . Al-Aqqad…
Nizar Qabbani: Bigger than all Words Posted by Fisal on Aug 16, 2012
It has been a while since we last read any Arabic poetry! Today we are going to read a poem by the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani نزار قبانى . The poem is entitled, “Bigger than all Wordsأكــبــرُ مـِــن كــُــلِّ الـكــَــلـِـــمــَــــات ”. In the poem, Nizar boasts of being a great eloquent poet. He…
Science and Manners Posted by Fisal on Mar 24, 2012
Our blog today is about a masterpiece poem of the famous Egyptian Poet of the Nile شاعر النيل ; Hafez Ibrahim. The poem is called “Science and Manners العلم و الأخلاق“. Hafez chanted this wonderful poem in an opening ceremony حفل افتتاح of a new girls’ school in the city of Port Said in 1910…
The Legend of Love and Genius; Mai Ziyada (1886 – 1941) Posted by Fisal on Feb 23, 2012
The Legend of Love and Genius أســْــطـــُــورَة الــحــُــبّ و الــنــُــبــُــوغ ; Mai Ziyada (1886 – 1941) Born on the 11th of February, 1886, Mai Ziyada مـَـيّ زيــَــادة was a famous Arab Poet, writer, and translator. She was a key figure of the Nahda نــَــهــْـــضــَـــة (renaissance) of the nineteenth century Arabic literary scene. Her original name is Mary…