Tag Archives: music
Listening Comprehension Answers: East and West Together Posted by Fisal on Sep 11, 2014
Ahlan Arabic lovers! Here are the answers to the last listening comprehension exercise about the east and west music giants; Charles Davis and Ziad Al-rahbani, coming together in Lebanon. To view the exercise again, click here. الإجـــَـــــابــــَـــــات Questions اِســْــم عــِــمــْــلاق الــمــُــوســِـــيــقــَــى الــغــَــرْبــِــيّ هــُــوَ تــشــَــارْلــِــز دِيــفــِــيــسْ . 1) The name of the western…
Listening Comprehension Exercise: East and West Together Posted by Fisal on Sep 11, 2014
Ahlan Arabic lovers! Do you like music? What kind of music do you like? Can music unify people? Today, we are going to listen to a news report about two giant music figures; one from the east and the other from the west. شــَــاهــِــدْ الــفــِــيــديــُــو ، ثــُــمَّ أجـِــبْ عـَــن الأســئــلــة الــتــَّــالــِــيــَـــة : Watch…
“She is my Life”; Amr Diab Posted by Fisal on Aug 24, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً Arabic lovers! Here is a beautiful love song by Amr Diab عــَـــمــْـــرو دِيــَـــاب . The song is entitled “She is my Life هــِــى .. حــَــيــَـــاتــِـــي“. It was written by the Egyptian poet Magdy Al-Naggar مــَــجــْــدِى الــنــَـــجـــَّــــار . Amr Diab composed it himself in the Latin House music. The song is about…
Hobbies: Do you have one and how can you talk about it in Arabic? Posted by jesa on Apr 16, 2013
Marhaba (مرحبا)! Today I would like to talk about hobbies (الهواية/الهوايات). I will tell you all about my own hobbies and then consider some common hobbies from my personal experiences with family and friends. I will also teach you how to express (للتعبير عن) and talk about some common hobbies in Arabic. A basic…
The Egyptian X Factor Posted by jesa on Feb 9, 2013
Marhaba (مرحبا)! In this post, I would like to share a small excerpt from an article on recent developments in show business and entertainment in Egypt. This article was published on the website of Al Akhbar, an Arabic newspaper based in Lebanon that covers different political, economic and cultural developments in the Middle East, North…
You are Back O, My Birthday! Posted by Fisal on Feb 2, 2013
I have thought a lot of something to write about today. It was my birthday yesterday and I remembered this nice song of Fareed Al-Atrash فــريــد الأطـــرش about his birthday in the movie and I liked to share it with you. Fareed was a famous Syrian singer مــُــطــْــرِب , composer مــُــلــَــحـــِّـــن and actor مــُــمــَــثــــِّـــلْ…
The Voice of Lebanon Posted by jesa on Jan 7, 2013
Marhaba! In this post, I would like to introduce you all to an iconic music legend and legendary artist Wadih el Safi (وديع الصافي), known as the ‘Voice of Lebanon’. He is an accomplished musician, talented songwriter and recognized actor. I will also post one of his most famous musical masterpieces: an old song from…