Books/Magazines

Book Realia : Moroccan & Egyptian Arabic Phrasebooks | Limited Preview

  • Lonely Planet Egyptian Arabic Phrasebook (Paperback) by Siona Jenkins
  • Arabic at a Glance: Phrase Book & Dictionary for Travelers
  • Arabic Phrase Book by Berlitz Publishing Company
  • Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook By Dan Bacon, Bichr Andjar, Abdennabi Benchehda

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Human Rights Miscellaneous Realia Items

The following is a collection of miscellaneous Realia items (with English translation) which reflect the topic of Human Rights in the Arab world.

These realia items were carefully selected to include a wide range of the most commonly used law and human rights vocabulary.

In the events and demonstrations banners/posters realia, they are particularly used in the context of increasing awareness about the situation of Human Rights concerns in the Arab world.

The realia types available in this post are:

  1. Organisations logos
  2. Book covers
  3. News Video Report Realia
  4. Events and demonstrations banners/posters

Links to relevant vocabulary learning resources are listed at the end of this post.

V-tivity

Translate the text/meaning of the following realia items:

  • Book/Journal Cover No. 4
    • What are the main front cover articles?
  • Events and demonstrations banners/posters

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Book Cover Realia: Oath Betrayed-Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror

This is a new book on the US war in Iraq published in 2006, which was translated into Arabic.

The editrorial review states:

” The graphic photographs of U.S. military personnel grinning over abused Arab and Muslim prisoners shocked the world community. That the US was systematically torturing inmates at prisons run by its military and civilian leaders divided the nation and brought deep shame to many. When Steven H. Miles, an expert in medical ethics and an advocate for human rights, learned of the neglect, mistreatment, and torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and elsewhere, one of his first thoughts was: “Where were the prison doctors while the abuses were taking place?”

In Oath Betrayed, Miles explains the answer to this question. Not only were doctors, nurses, and medics silent while prisoners were abused; physicians and psychologists provided information that helped determine how much and what kind of mistreatment could be delivered to detainees during interrogation. Additionally, these harsh examinations were monitored by health professionals operating under the purview of the U.S. military.

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كتاب “خيانة القسم: التعذيب والتواطؤ الطبي والحرب على الإرهاب”, ستيفن هـ. مايلز

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Arts & Literature Magazines Realia ٌ

The following realia is a collection of Arts & Literature magazines front covers

V-tivity:  Can you recognise the following items:

  1. The magazine’s name and motto
  2. Front cover articles
  3. Name of Publishing house

 

Key Vocabulary

Creativity : إبداع

Expression (artistic or linguistic) : تعبير / تعابير

to absorb, understand (learning) : استوعب / يستوعب

Methodology : منهجية

Analysis : تحليل

Characteristic, attribute: ميزة

Generation : عصر

Magazine 1:

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Interactive Virtual Online Arabic Newspaper: جريدة النهار

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Annahar (جريدة النهار), a leading Arabic-language daily newspaper from Lebanon, offers its readers a free virtual daily newspaper that you can read online using flash technology.So far, I found this the most authentic and life-like Arabic realia available online for Arabic learners and teachers as well as for native Arabs worldwide.This virtual tool will not only help you improve and perfect your reading skills, it will also keep you abreast of the latest current affairs in the Arab world in particular and international affairs in general.The newspaper content provides fresh and up-to-the-minute news and information for its readers.

Online Childrens Story e-book – Bakkar and the little bird

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Summary
While on his way to school, Bakkar goes to the temple and draws a picture of Horus to present in the school’s competition. Bakkar finds a little bird crying because its baby fell from the nest and is trapped. Bakkar helps the bird and carries the baby back to the nest. The wind blows Bakkar’s drawing away and he walks to school feeling very sad, especially when he sees all his friends presenting their work. But then we learn that good deeds always pay back when we find the bird bringing Bakkar’s drawing back to him.

Publication Date: 2002, Author – Amr Samir Atef, Publisher: High National Committee for “Reading for All Program” – Egypt

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Berlitz Pocket Guide books – France

دليل الجيب إلى الريفييرا الفرنسية: معلومات وافية لاستكشاف معالم الريفييرا الفرنسية المميزة

 

 

تعريف الناشر:
تجتمع المعلومات المفيدة الى جانب الخرائط السهلة مع الصور الاخاذة لتقدم لك دليلا متكاملا عن الريفييرا الفرنسية. فاذا كنت تخطط لزيارتها في رحلة استجمام وراحة او للعمل فان هذا الدليل سيقدم لك كل المعلومات الموثوقة التي تهمك.
– معلومات حول المعالم المهمة والمواصلات.
– اماكن التسوق والتبضع ومزاولة مختلف الرياضات.
– الشواطئ في مختلف المدن.

– المطاعم والمرابع الليلية والمهرجانات السنوية.
– دليل للفنادق يمكنك من الحجز المسب

Book Cover – e-Travel

دليل السياحة والسفر الكترونيا

تعريف الناشر:

يقدم لك هذا الكتاب دليلا متكاملا للتخطيط لرحلاتك واجازاتك وحجزها الكترونيا على الشبكة. ويقسم الكتاب عملية التخطيط الى اجزائها المنطقية، فمن تقرير وجهة السفر الى الوصول الى خطة قضاء الاجازة، سوف تتعلم كيف تستعمل الكمبيوتر كدليل يدوي واداة اتصال على الطريق.

Berlitz Pocket Guide books – Morocco & London

ليل الجيب الى المغرب – دليل الجيب إلى لندن

تعريف الناشر:
يزدحم هذا الدليل بالمعلومات والصور والخرائط المفيدة لجعل زيارتك إلى لندن قمة في النجاح .
– المعالم الأثرية : قصر بكينغهام، برج لندن، كاتدرائية سانت بول، ووستمينيستر .
– المتاحف الشهيرة : ناشونال كاليري، المتحف البريطاني، متحف فيكتوريا وألبرت وكاليري تايت .
– الحدائق الغناء : هايدبارك، حدائق سانت جيمس الرائعة، الحديقة اليابانية والطواويس في هولاند بارك.
– التسوق : مخزن هارودز العالمي، شارعي بوند وأوكسفورد، الأسواق ذات النكهة الخاصة .
– المناطق المميزة : نايتسبريدج، كنزينغتون وهامبستد.
– التسلية : مسارح الوست إند، حفلات الأوبرا الملكية، قاعة البرت هول الملكية للحفلات .
– خاص بالأطفال : حديقة حيوانات لندن، أكواريوم لندن، متحف ألعاب بولوك، عين لندن .
– اقتراحات مفيدة لفنادق ومطاعم تناسب جميع الأسواق والميزانيات .

Book Cover – Personal Development 3

كيف تكسب الاصدقاء وتؤثر في الناس – من كتاب ديل كارنيجي

v-TIVITY

  • What is the title of the book?
  • This is quite a famous book and it is one of the first best-selling self-help books.
  • Written by Dale Carnegie and first published in 1937, it has sold more than 15 million copies.
  • It has been translated to the main languages of the world, including Arabic.
  • I have read it myself both in English and Arabic and would recommend it to everyone.

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