Signboard Realia : Egypt – The land of civilization

1 Pound

50 Piastres (or Qirsh/Quroush in Arabic, pronounced irsh/uroush)

www.joelscoins.com

25 Piastres

50 Piastres

http://binzaid.com

20 Piastres

img78.imageshack.us

1 Pound

forum.egypt.com

Egypt Air

bp3.blogger.com

مصر للطيران

www.leblover.com

ftpal.net

Map of Egypt

Map of Egypt

Film ticket

zamakan.gharbeia.org

Signboard : Egypt Flight Attendants Association

Flickr.com

Vodaphone Signboard

Egypt.com

Dkimages.com

Strictly Forbidden to Climb the Pyramids

Corbis.com

http://jeff560.tripod.com

The 20th Centuary Film Guide in Egypt and the Arab World

musicman.com

The Egyptian Radio

www.afropop.org

Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign Poster Map in Arabic
Map, PALDIS for the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, March 21st, 2004

“A translation of our english campaign map, this new map created by the Palestine Land Development Information Systems (PALDIS) for PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign shows the Wall’s latest path of devastation and ghettoization of the West Bank. Finalized in November 2003, with further updates in March 2004, this map reveals that if completed in its entirety, nearly 50% of the West Bank population will be affected by the Wall though the loss of their land, imprisonment into ghettos, isolation into de facto annexed areas by Israel.”

Download this Map in PSD [18 MB] OR Download in PDF [9 MB]

Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign Poster Map – English Version

Source of Realia

• Stopthewall.org

V-tivity

How do we say “Gibraltar” in Arabic? (Hint: Gibraltar is literally the Arabic of “Mountain of Tariq”)

Can you identify the two oceans that surround Morocco?

Can you recognize the main cities of Morocco?  – Have you been to any of them

What are the countries surrounding Morocco?

V-tivity 

Can you identify the Italian capital and other major Italian cities?

Can you identify the European countries at the top of the map?

Can you identify the two Arabic countries at the bottom of the map?

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ANSWERS

• Share and discuss your answers by leaving a comment in the comments section below
• To view/download the model answers, go to the download page

Hints/Tips:

• North : شمال
• South : جنوب
• East : شرق
• West : غرب

V-tivity

• Can you identify the seven world continents?

Source of Realia:

• q8y2b.com/atlas

This is an Arabic-French map of the Arab world.

Source : facultyfiles.deanza.edu

Source : www.khowaga.us

Source : safarfund.org

Note: There is a spellling mistake in (Morocco)

Source : alkarama.org

Map of the Arab World with corresponding country flags

Source: www.library.ex.ac.uk

List of countries where Arabic is an official language

The following is a list of 26 countries where Arabic is an official language. Non-sovereign states are listed in italics. Please note that is some of these countries, Arabic is spoken by a minority of the people.

Nr.	Country	# Population
#	-	359,288,109
1.	Algeria	33,333,216
2.	Bahrain	708,573
3.	Comoros	798,000
4.	Chad	10,146,000
5 .	Djibouti	496,374
6.	Egypt	80,335,036
7.	Eritrea	4,401,000
8.	Iraq	26,783,383
9	Israel	7,184,000 (including settlers and Arabs)
10	Jordan	5,924,000
11	Kuwait	3,100,000
12	Lebanon	4,099,000
13	Libya	6,036,914
14	Mauritania	3,069,000
15	Morocco	33,757,175
16	Oman	3,204,897
17	Palestinian Territories	3,800,000 (WB and GS)
18	Qatar	841,000
19	Saudi Arabia	24,735,000
20	Somalia	9,118,773
21	Sudan	39,992,490
22.	Syria	20,314,747
23.	Tunisia	10,102,000
24.	United Arab Emirates	4,496,000
25.	Western Sahara	341,000
26 .	Yemen	22,230,531

Find out more

Arab World (Wikipedia)

Source of Realia

• Exeter University Library (Library.ex.ac.uk)
• Alkarama.org
• Safarfund.org