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Arabic Language and Linguistics
Georgetown University Press 2012; US$ 44.95Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological,... more...
Arabic Today
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 160.00A student, business and professional course in spoken and written Arabic aimed at those with no prior knowledge of the language.Suitable for business professionals and students wanting to communicate directly with people and institutions in the Arab world, Arabic Today is a self-contained course in contemporary Arabic.Tuition tends to concentrate either... more...
A River Dies of Thirst
Saqi 2012; US$ 11.67Mahmoud Darwish was one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. During the tumultuous summer of 2006, as Israel attacked Gaza and Lebanon, Darwish was in Ramallah. He recorded his observations and feelings in writing, included in A River Dies of Thirst, some of his... more...
Grammatik der arabischen Mundart der Medina von Tunis
De Gruyter 1984; US$ 154.00Grammatik Der Arabischen Mundart Der Medina Von Tunis. more...
Sirat Antara the Manuscript from the University Library in Wroclaw, Poland
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 169.95The Sirat Antara was an eighteenth century manuscript discovered by Anna Nawolska in the Manuscripts Department of Wroclaw University, Poland, which Nawolska translated from Arabic into English. Anatara Ibn Shaddad al-Absi was a sixth century pre-Islamic poet, knight, and hero. The Sirat Antara is the fifth incomplete volume of the chivalric epic that... more...
Standing by the Ruins
Fordham University Press 2011; US$ 21.99Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of resistance to it. Focusing on contemporary Lebanese fiction,... more...
Plague Lands
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2011; US$ 20.95Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. The first of his poetry to appear in English, this collection includes an elegy for the life of a lost citya chronicle of a journey into exile, haunted by the deep history of an ancient civilization. Memories of Baghdad’s alleys, smoke-filled... more...
Why Arabic? - Hoezo arabisch?
Leiden University Press 2012; US$ 15.95The sheer quantity of baggage that Arabic has acquired on its travels through the Western consciousness is unique. That the West's complex and intricate relationship with the language is now characterised above all by fear is a special tragedy, argues papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn in Why Arabic?In this vigorous defence of Arabic and the long tradition... more...
Moorish Poetry
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95Seven hundred and fifty years ago, this anthology of small masterpieces of renowned Moorish poets from Muslim Spain, North Africa and Sicily was compiled by Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi, a native of Southern Spain. The text has been translated into rhymed English verses with an Introduction explaining the conventions of Arabic literature within which these... more...
Thinking Arabic Translation: Tutor's Handbook
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 61.00Thinking Arabic Translation is a comprehensive and practical 24-week course in translation method. Adapted from the successful French-based Thinking Translation (1992) it has been successfully piloted at Durham University. Clear explanations, discussion, examples and exercises enable students to acquire the skills necessary for tackling a broad... more...









