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Go topSOURCE: CNN BY: ZAHRAA ALKHALISI Dubai (CNN Business)Spotify is bringing its services to the Middle East. The music streaming platform has launched in 13 Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Users in the region will have full access to Spotify and a “fully localized Arabic Spotify service with right-to-left text … Continued
SOURCE: STAR 2 BY: FATIMAH ZAINAL In 2000, an unassuming little book called Letters To A Young Muslim was published in English – and turned out to be an unexpected hit, selling worldwide after having been translated into five languages (so far). But the book has not been translated into the author’s mother tongue, Arabic. … Continued
SOURCE: MIDDLE EAST ONLINE CAIRO – In nearly every modern novel in Standard Arabic there is bound to be dialogue written in dialectical Arabic. This style feature feeds the feud between supporters of the sole use of Standard Arabic and those who favour injecting local dialects. Even though a new round of the battle is … Continued
‘Popular Proverbs: An Entrance to Emirati Culture’ and’ UAE 101: Stories and Cultural Learnings’ explore how to speak Arabic with an Emirati dialect like a native SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: MELISSA GRONLUND There’s something wonderful about local dialects: the way that New Yorkers wait “on” line rather than in line, or how people in Yorkshire watch “ut … Continued
SOURCE: FORBES BY: ALEXANDRA TALTY By all measures, The Synaptik is having a good year. Months after unveiling his English collaboration EP “Terminal” with the rapper Chyno, his first album “Om Al Mawjat” or “Mother of all Waves,” debuted to fan fare in Jordan. After spending the summer touring Europe, he’s hitting the road again … Continued
SOURCE: AL-FANAR MEDIA BY: HOSSAM ABOUZAHR I learned Arabic as an adult. I have a dual master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies and public policy, and I have created an online dictionary of “al-Fusha,” or classical Arabic, and the Egyptian and Levantine colloquial dialects. Despite my nerd credentials, teaching my son Arabic is one of … Continued
SOURCE: UCLA. EDU BY: DAWN ZETZER The UCLA Library and Early Manuscripts Electronic Library have partnered with St. Catherine’s Monastery to digitize and publish online on an open access basis some 1,100 rare and unique Syriac and Arabic manuscripts dating from the fourth to the 17th centuries. A UNESCO World Heritage site located in a … Continued
SOURCE: ENTREPRENEUR BY: AMMAR BADR Search marketing in the MENA region is growing at an increasingly fast pace. Millions of people across the globe use the internet every day to communicate, shop, learn and interact. This has created unlimited opportunities for people who want to do business online. At the same time, search marketing in … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL A digital library containing great works of Arabic literature has received a Dh4.92million grant from one of the UK’s largest philanthropic organisations. Arabic Collections Online, an open access project managed by New York University-Abu Dhabi and NYU-New York, has received funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund that supports multiple open access programmes. … Continued
SOURCE: EURONEWS BY: ALICE CUDDY Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv this week for what has been dubbed the “world’s largest Arabic lesson”, held in response to a controversial new law that removed Arabic’s status as an official language in the country. The “nation-state” law, passed on July 18, declared Hebrew the language of … Continued
SOURCE: MADA MASR BY: SHERIF ABDEL SAMAD About half a dozen French graphic novels are currently being translated into Arabic, awaiting publication by the end of 2018. The first to come out in this series, facilitated by the French Cultural Center and translated by Mona Sabri, was Golo’s Proud Beggars (2009), an adaptation of Albert … Continued
SOURCE: HAARETZ BY: ZVI BAR’EL Near the exit from one of the Arab villages in the Galilee, the local council put up a sign reminding drivers to buckle up. The sign is entirely in Hebrew, as if only Hebrew-speakers left the village every day on their way to work or school. Further down the road, … Continued
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