Tag Archives: Egypt
Archaeologists Dig Out One of the World’s Oldest Tombs in Egypt Posted by jesa on May 10, 2014
Marhaba! Archaeologists have just discovered yet another gem from one of the world’s most important centers of civilization: an ancient and historic tomb in southern Egypt. And again another captivating surprise from one of the greatest states in the world. Just take a moment to think about such a discovery and the probable origins of…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: The Phenomenon of Abu-Simbel Posted by Fisal on Feb 22, 2014
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: فــِــي صــَــبــَــاح الـيــَــوم الـســَــبـت الـمـُــوافــِــق 22 فـِــبـرايــر ، تــَــعــَــامـَــدَتْ الـشــَّــمــْــسُ عــلــى وَجــْــهِ تــِـمــْــثـــَــالِ الـمـَــلـِــك رمـســيــس الـثــانــى داخــِــل مـَــعــْــبــَــدِهِ بــِـمـَـــديــنـــة أبــُــو سـِــمــبــِــل فـى جــَــنــُــوب أســْــوان بــِــصــَــعــيــدِ مـِـصــر . و تـــُــعــتـــَـــبــَـــر هـَــذهِ الــظــَّـــاهــِـــرَةِ الــفــَــلــَــكــِــيـــّــةِ هـِـىَ الأقـــْـــدَم و الأهـــَـــم بــيــنَ…
Meet the Egyptian born star Dalida Posted by jesa on Jan 28, 2014
Marhaba! In this post, I want to introduce you all to the international music icon: Dalida. In addition to Fairouz, Julia Boutros, and Majida el Roumi, Dalida is by far one of my favorite artists. Born on January 17, 1933, in Cairo, Egypt to Italian parents, Dalida spent most of her early years in Egypt…
The Cairo Tower Posted by Fisal on Sep 28, 2013
Today is the 43rd. anniversary ذِكــْـــرَى of Gamal Abdel-Nasser and I am going to tell you about one of his great engineering projects and how he managed to raise money for its construction. The Cairo Tower بـــُـــرج الــقـــاهـــرة /Borj Al-Qahirah/ is considered an icon of modern Cairo. It is one of Cairo’s well-known modern…
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…
The American University of Beirut Honors American scholar Noam Chomsky and Egyptian star Faten Hamama Among Others – Answers Posted by jesa on Jun 18, 2013
Marhaba! I hope you found the excerpt from the article in the previous post interesting. I am confident you have all worked hard to answer the questions. After presenting you with the answers and the translation of some key words, I have added Faten Hamama’s famous movie ‘Oreedo Hallan’ (أريد حلاً), which was mentioned by…