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Listening Comprehension Exercise: Moroccan Complaint Posted by Fisal on Sep 20, 2013
اِسـتـمـع إلـى الـتـــقــريـــر الـتــالـى ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Listen to the following news report and then answer the questions: فــى أىّ مـــديــنـــة تــُـــوجــَـــد الــمــكــتــبـــة ؟ 1) In which city does the bookshop exist? فــِـــيـــمَ تــَـــخــَــصــَّــصــَــتْ الــمـَــكــْـــتــَـــبــَـــة ؟ 2) What is the bookshop specialized in? مـِــنْ مــَــاذا تــَــشــْــكــُــو الــعــَــائــِــلات فـى الــمــَــغـــْـــرب ؟ 3) What do…
Zajal el Zajjalin Posted by jesa on Feb 6, 2013
Marhaba (مرحبا)! As promised in an earlier post, today I would like to introduce you all to Zajal (زَجَل), one of the most popular iconic and cultural traditions of many Mediterranean countries. In a nutshell, zajal is a traditional form of oral poetry (شعر) in colloquial dialect (اللغة العاميّة ) . Most notably this form…
How To Cook Mlookhiyeh Posted by jesa on Nov 12, 2012
Mlookhiyeh (مُلوخِيَّة) is one of the most popular dishes in the Arab world generally. In essence, it is the leaves of Corchorus species, which are used as a vegetable around the Middle East and North Africa . In Western contexts it is usually referred to as ‘Jew’s Mallow Stew.’ It is thoroughly cooked and cannot…
Promoting Arabic and هِجـــــــــري (Hijri) Calendar Posted by Hichem on Jun 10, 2012
Let us first start with the signification of the Arabic term هِجـــــــــري (Hijri.) As explained by Aziza in her post “The New Hijri Year“, “The word Hijri is derived from the word Hijra (emigration of Prophet Mohammed from Mecca to Medina.)” Therefore “هِجـــــــــري” is an adjective, and its corresponding noun is “هِجـــــــــرة.” A few days…
Quick Intro to “Classy Insults” in Classical Arabic Posted by Hichem on Mar 13, 2012
!لا تَفْجَعُـــــــــــــوا يا أَصْدِقَــــــــــائي (Don’t panic, my friends!) Today’s post is not yet another vulgar compilation of الكلام الفاحش (profanities) such as the ones you can often run into on the Web in almost any language… Not at all. What you will find here is a quick intro to rather “classier” examples and paradigms of how insults…