Miscellaneous Realia Items from Egypt : Signboards, Posters, Currency Notes etc
Posted by Mourad Diouri on May 8, 2008
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on May 8, 2008
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 30, 2008
فجر طاقتك الكامنة في الأوقات الصعبة - كتاب في التأملات
Click on image to download the entire book (translated into Arabic)
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 29, 2008
The following realia items were goods donated by Spirit of America and by Americans serving in Iraq. They are understood to be gifts of friendship from the American people.
This seems like another attempt to improve perceptions and relations between the Iraqis and Americans.
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 29, 2008
Basic Arabic Workbook: For Revision and Practice by John Mace
Click on image to browse a Limited Preview online version
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 29, 2008
Using Arabic: A Guide to Contemporary Usage by Mahdi Alosh
Click on image to browse a Limited Preview online version
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 29, 2008
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 29, 2008
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 29, 2008
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 15, 2008
FedEx Corporation is a leading logistics services company, based in the United States. FedEx is a syllabic abbreviation of the company’s original name, Federal Express.
The following images taken in Dubai show the FedEx logo (FedEx Express) written in Arabic/English.

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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 2, 2008

Source of Realia
Image: © Homer Sykes/Corbis
Photographer: Homer Sykes
Date Photographed: July 1, 2007
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 28, 2008


Post outline
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 28, 2008
Post outline
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 28, 2008
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 27, 2008
An interactive virtual Arabic Quran for Arabic learners and native-speakers.
Quranflash provides the Holy Quran for reading in a very unique and easy way, with an interface giving the impression that you really are holding the Quran.
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 26, 2008

Key Vocabulary
Source of Realiawww.kuwaitup.net
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 26, 2008

This signboard can easily be translated into :
MacStore : محل / متجر ماك
Apple Center : مركز أبل
Source of Realia
www.noelgreen.com
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 18, 2008

BBC Arabic (Learning English) has a dedicated bilingual radio programme aimed at teaching English to native Arab speakers. As an Arabic learner yourself, you may benefit hugely from listening to this interactive programme where the host (an Arabic speaker) interviews a guest (an English speaker) in English about a particular news item. The interview is then interpreted in Arabic immediately by the host.


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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 17, 2008
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
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 16, 2008
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 13, 2008
The following is a collection of over 10 warning signs realia mostly warning against mines, cease fire, military zones and camels!
Sign Realia 1
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Sign Realia 2

A similar sign is shown below

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