Al Kitaab I

Lesson 1

General Links:

-Arab Countries' WWW Sites

-Modern Standard Arabic Page

-ArabNet

-Al Murshid

Maps:

-map of Morocco (loads kind of slowly and not in Arabic)

-Lebanon and the Middle East Maps (also not in Arabic)

-Maps of the Middle East

Listings of Faculty Members in Arab Universities:

-Faculties of Al-Quds University

Information about Arabic names:

(no links here yet)

Social pages from Arabic newspapers:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Two

Personals from Arabic newspapers:

(no links here yet)

Forms/applications:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Three

Information about family structure:

(no links here yet)

Arab University pages:

-Al Quds University

-Arabic University Archive

-The Lebanese University

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Lesson Four

Information about Mohammed:

-Mohammed and the Capture of Mecca (AD 630)

Links related to Islamic history (the caliphate, the Ummayads, and the Abbasids):

-Abbasid Caliphate: short chronology

-Abbasid Archaeology

-Haroun Al-Rashid and the Golden Abbasid Age

-Ummayad Caliphate: short chronology

Information about the Hashimites:

(no links here yet)

Job vacancy advertisements:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Five

Links to weather information and forecasts:

(no links here yet)  

Fayrouz:

-Fairuz

-Fairouz

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Lesson Six

Calendars/planner/schedules:

(no links here yet)

Restaurant menus:

(no links here yet)

Arabic foods:

-Moroccan Cuisine

-Lebanese and Arabic recipes

-The Middle Eastern Cook Book

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Lesson Seven

Information about Arab currencies:

-Egyptian Money

Obituaries:

-Obituaries from Al-Destour

The hajj; hajj as a form of address:

-Hajj: The Journey of a Lifetime

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Lesson Eight

Casablanca:

-Casablanca

Arabic Dictionaries:

(no links here yet)

Information about Sports and Hobbies:

-El-Ahly league schedule (with links to articles in Arabic about each game)

-Hamed El-Afandi's LIVE Egyptian Sport Page

-Zamalek Mailing List (includes an excellent Zamalek logo)

-Zamalek launches defense of African club title

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Lesson Nine

Links that involve time-telling in Arabic:

(no links here yet)

Lists showing rankings:

(no links here yet)

Television listings:

(no links here yet)

Schedules:

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Lesson Ten

Advertisements:

(no links here yet)

Links about King Fuad:

(no links here yet)

Links about Shiism:

-A Short History of the Lives of the Twelve Imams

Prayer schedules:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Eleven

Hotel Guides:

(no links here yet)

City guides and guides to cultural events:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Twelve

"In shaa allah":

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Thirteen

Expressions of courtesy:

fursa sayida, tasharafna (no links here yet)

Job advertisement: people seeking posts:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Fourteen

Housing:

(no links here yet)

-a house/apartment blueprint

-house/apartment for sale/rent ads

May Ziada:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Fifteen

Advice columns:

advice column stuff from magazines such as sayidati (no links here yet)

Maps:

-maps of Lebanon

Tunisia:

-Tunisia

-Tunisia's WWW Sites

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Lesson Sixteen

Calendar systems:

-date converter

Nizar Qabbani:

-Nizar Qabbani NYT obituary

-a poem (Tuuq al-yasmin) by Nizar Qabbani

-other poems by Nizar Qabbani

Abdul Haleem Haafiz:

(no links here yet)

Samples of handwriting:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Seventeen

The Quran:

-The Koran Collection at the Topkapi Palace Library

-Al-Quran Arabic: Sura 75: Al-Qiyama

-Al-Islam

Ramadan:

-Ramadan and Fasting

- ramadan schedules (no links here yet)

Hadeeth:

(no links here yet)

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Lesson Eighteen

Links about Egypt:

-Egypt: People and History

Nasser and the Suez Canal:

-Nasser Nationalizes the Suez Canal: 1956

The United Arab Republic:

(no links here yet)

Um Kulthoum:

-Um Kulthoum: The Star of the East

Moulids:

-Encyclopedia of the Orient: mawlid

-send a mawlid an-nabi virtual greeting card

Colors:

(no links here yet)

Parts of the body:

(no links here yet)

Personals Ads:

(no links here yet, will try to find some in alwaTan alaraby )

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Lesson Nineteen

Nicknames: kunyas:

(no links here yet)

Surat Yusuf:

(no links here yet)

Clothing:

-Bedouin women's clothing

Naguib Mahfouz:

-A Naguib Mahfouz Page

-Naguib Mahfouz

-Biography of Naguib Mahfouz

Traditional educational system: the katateeb:

(no links here yet)

Women's fashion:

(no links here yet, will look in sayidati, hawa, hiya )

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Lesson Twenty

Jerusalem:

(no links here yet)

Modern Middle Eastern history:

(no links here yet) 

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