Arabic Language Services

Pocket Guide to Arabic Script by Fayeq Oweis
published by Hippocrene Books

A handy booklet that offers a complete, easy-to-use reference for the Arabic writing system. Ideal for students, it presents the basics for reading and writing Arabic script with a summary of word structure and grammar. Oreder it on-line from Hippocrene Books

Check the Arabic classes that I teach at:

Santa Clara University http://www.scu.edu/modernlanguages/


San Jose State University

De Anza Community San Jose State University

Arabic Language Links:

Check the Arabic<-->English Machine translation at Google.com

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More Google Products in Arabic

Arabicizing Windows Applications to Read and Write Arabic

Read all about the history and description of the Arabic Language: http://www.wm.edu/aata/arabic.php

Arabic Language - Learning Sites:
Here you can find resources and download the Arabic alphabets in a Flash presentation - www.arabacademy.com

Learn about the Arabic Language and some cultural phrases
www.i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm

Xerox Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation

Arabicclass.com

On-line Arabic-English Translation at www.ajeeb.com

Arabic Calligraphy
Arabic Calligraphy Articles from Sakkal: http://www.sakkal.com/ArtArabicCalligraphy.html

Arabic Calligraphy origion, development & examples www.islamicart.org

Arabic Poetry
Read and listen to poetry www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/index.html

Food in the Arabic World
Food from the Arab World: From this website, you can download an
abundance of recipes specially soups, fish, meat, fowl, desserts and syrups.

Arab Gateway: A large selection of dishes based on the book, Food from the Arab World, by Marie Karam Khayat and Margaret Clark Keatinge (Beirut 1959).

A Guide to Good Cooking: This website shares the information about the terms of food definitions of Arabic cooking with explanations of unfamiliar words used in the Arabic kitchens.

The Middle East: The cultures and special food of every Arabic country in the Middle East!

Arabic Coffee: On this website you can read about Arabic coffee.

Arabic Radio and TV stations
AlJazeera: http://www.aljazeera.net

Saudia Online: This website provides a lot of radio and TV stations for example: Radio Egypt, Friday Prayer from Mecca, and Jordan Radio.

Arabic Press: This website provides many TV and radio stations from the Arabic world.

Arabic Music
http://www.mazika.com/

Online Arabic Bookstores
On-line Arabic Bookstore from Lebanon www.neelwafurat.com

Art & Culture

Al-Jadid- A Review and Record of Arab Culture and Arts

Religion
Quran in Arabic, written & recited
http://quran.muslim-web.com/index.htm?

The Bible in Arabic http://www.thegrace.com/

Discover Islam: Short biography of Prophet Muhammad for those people, who are not Muslims, but would like to read about Islam religion and the important people in the religion. http://www.discoverislam.com

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Fayeq S. Oweis
San Francisco, California