20 Funniest Short Stories from the Arab Culture

Author: Ishraq Arafeh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781072129493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Life is a school by itself, where we interact with a variety of people and encounter numerous challenges. It is inventible not to make mistakes in life. Making mistakes and learning from them clarify to us the true meaning of life. When we understand life, we live satisfactorily in this world. Those who are fortunate are surrounded by wise and knowledgeable people who can give thoughtful advices about taking critical decisions. With no wise people around, it is more probable to fail and take the wrong decisions in life. Nonetheless, there are some books written about judicious people in the past. These books demonstrate how such people responded to certain actions in their lives, and how they overcame the challenges they faced. It is crucial to start reading such books if you have not done so. Unfortunately, some of us do not have the time to read books, in general, because we are busy with our life issues. In addition, technology and the internet made it easier for us to search for the information we need. We just "Google" a specific topic and find what we are looking for in few minutes! To counter this fact, it is necessary to make reading books an entertaining process. This is most easily done when the stories in the books are seasoned with a sense of humor! To attract the audience, we introduce this book, "20 Funniest Stories from the Arab Culture", which is rich in stories from the Arab folklore. This book contains tales from the Arabic tradition that teach us wisdom and intelligence in a funny way. The book is about amusing situations and intelligent reactions from three popular Arab characters: Juha, Asha'ab, and AlJahidh. Juha the "wise fool" is a famous marauding character in the Middle East and North Africa. Asha'ab is a hilarious character who was known for being greedy and his love for food. AlJahidh was known for prose writing in the Arabic literature. This book introduces 20 facetious situations that these characters encountered, and it narrates them in a form of short stories with simple language. The book targets all of the ages.The language in the book is easy to understand and the stories have a sense of humor. You would feel as if you are literally interacting with the characters while reading this book.

Arabic Short Stories for Beginners

Author: Lingo Mastery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951949396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Are you looking for a fun and effective way to grow your Arabic language skills?A beautiful, ancient language spoken by over 420 million people worldwide, Arabic is a language that will allow you to build your professional career and open up the world for you. Modern Standard Arabic, which we will deal with in this book, is the standardized, literary Arabic that is used in print and mass media.The Arabic world is known for its excellent storytelling. Because of this, in this book we have compiled 20 easy-to-read, compelling and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the wonderful Arabic tongue.How Arabic Short Stories for Beginners works:?Each chapter possesses a funny, interesting and thought-provoking story based on real-life situations, allowing you to learn a bit more about the Arabic culture.?The summaries follow a synopsis in Arabic and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about. Use them if you're having trouble.?At the end of those summaries, you'll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance! Don't get lost trying to understand or pronounce it all, either, as all of the vocabulary words are translated for your ease of use!?Finally, you'll be provided with a set of tricky questions in Arabic, allowing you the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Whether it's true or false, or if you're doing the single-answer questions, don't worry if you don't know the answer to any - we will provide them immediately afterwards, but no cheating!We want you to feel comfortable while learning the tongue; after all, no language should be a barrier for you to travel around the world and expand your social circles!

If I Ran the Zoo

Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0394800818
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63

Book Description
Gerald tells of the very unusual animals he would add to the zoo, if he were in charge.

Cities of Salt

Author: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : Arabic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 650

Book Description
Spell-binding evocation of Bedouin life in the 1930s when oil is discovered by Americans in an unnamed Persian Gulf kingdom.

Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English

Author: Nouri Gana
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748685553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
The novel is a largely imported European genre, coming relatively late to the history of Arab letters. It should therefore perhaps come as no surprise that the first novel to have been written by an Arab was written in English (Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid, 1911). However, subsequent years saw the flourishing of, first, Arabic novels, then the Francophone Arab novel. Only in the last two decades has the Anglophone Arab novel experienced a second coming, and it is this re-emergence of literary activity that is the focus of this collection. Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo Arab literature to critical debate, the Companion presents a range of critical responses and pedagogical approaches to the Anglo Arab novel. It offers both classroom-friendly essays and critically sophisticated analyses, bringing together original critical studies of the major Anglo Arab novelists from established and emerging scholars in the field.

The New York Times Book Review

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description
Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).

Stories From the Center of the World

Author: Jordan Elgrably
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 0872869083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring! Featured in Alta Magazine's Top Books for May! Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints that illuminate life in the global Arab/Muslim world. "Provocative and subtle, nuanced and surprising, these stories demonstrate how this complicated and rich region might best be approached—through the power of literature."—Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Committed Stories from the Center of the World gathers new writing from the greater Middle East (or SWANA), a vast region that stretches from Southwest Asia, through the Middle East and Turkey, and across Northern Africa. The 25 authors included here come from a wide range of cultures and countries, including Palestine, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco, to name some. In “Asha and Haaji,” Hanif Kureishi takes up the cause of outsiders who become uprooted when war or disaster strikes and they flee for safe haven. In Nektaria Anastasiadou’s “The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff,” two students in Istanbul from different classes — and religions that have often been at odds with one another — believe they can overcome all obstacles. MK Harb’s story, “Counter Strike,” is about queer love among Beiruti adolescents; and Salar Abdoh’s “The Long Walk of the Martyrs” invites us into the world of former militants, fighters who fought ISIS or Daesh in Iraq and Syria, who are having a hard time readjusting to civilian life. In “Eleazar,” Karim Kattan tells an unexpected Palestinian story in which the usual antagonists — Israeli occupation forces — are mostly absent, while another malevolent force seems to overtake an unsuspecting family. Omar El Akkad’s “The Icarist” is a coming-of-age story about the underworld in which illegal immigrants are forced to live, and what happens when one dares to break away. Contributors include: Salar Abdoh, Leila Aboulela, Farah Ahamed, Omar El Akkad, Sarah AlKahly-Mills, Nektaria Anastasiadou, Amany Kamal Eldin, Jordan Elgrably, Omar Foda, May Haddad, Danial Haghighi, Malu Halasa, MK Harb, Alireza Iranmehr, Karim Kattan, Hanif Kureishi, Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, Diary Marif, Tariq Mehmood, Sahar Mustafah, Mohammed Al-Naas, Ahmed Naji, Mai Al-Nakib, Abdellah Taia, and Natasha Tynes

Arab Mass Media

Author: William A. Rugh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313067856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Since September 11, 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many television viewers in the United States have become familiar with Al Jazeera as offering an alternative take on events from that presented by mainstream U.S. media, as well as disseminating anti-American invective. Westerners have tended toward simplistic views of Arab newspapers, radio, and television, assuming that they are all under government control and that freedom of press is non-existent. William A. Rugh, a long time observer of the Arab mass media, offers a more nuanced picture of the Arab press as it relates to the political situation in the Arab world today. Although governmental influence over the media is stronger in the Middle East than in Europe or the United States, Rugh argues that there is more diversity in the Arab media than most people in the West realize. In reality, the Arab media are coming to reflect the diversity and wide range of opinions of those within the Arab world itself. In particular, the advent of privately owned Arab satellite television in the 1990s has led to significant liberalization of the media throughout the region. Rugh concludes that a democracy of ideas and voices is slowly growing in the Arab world, and he remains guardedly optimistic about the positive role the Arab media can play in processes of democratization and nation-building.

Syrian Brides

Author: Anna Halabi
Publisher: Petra Books
ISBN: 1989048153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81

Book Description
This captivating collection offers insights into the lives of Syrian brides-to-be and married women. With warmth and humor, the stories reveal the oppression found in Syrian society, and raise issues such as domestic violence.

The Guardians of Erum and the Calamitous Child of Socotra

Author: A. Ali Hasan Ali
Publisher: A. Ali Hasan Ali
ISBN: 9948344545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
Pursued by a powerful jinn master and a mysterious sect of occultists, Fada sets out across the lush and unforgiving ancient Arabian Peninsula on a quest to rescue his son. Legend has it that the sacrifice of a calamitous child, a child born under the Serpent-Neck star, can bring about the end of the world. Born under the Serpent-Neck star himself, jinn master Behas has sought out and killed many calamitous children to avert the destruction they portend. His next target is a boy named Dileel, the newborn son of a date farmer outside the great city of Erum. However, his plans are foisted when an occultist apprentice interferes to save the boy, and in the resulting confusion, Dileel is abducted by an unknown force. Determined to rescue his son, the humble date farmer Fada must leave behind everything he knows, enlisting powerful allies and risking his life on an unforgettable journey.