CAIRO: The poetry of Qassim Haddad, an influential cultural figure in Bahrain who is also the recipient of the Owais Cultural Foundation Prize for Poetry (frequently referred to as the Arabic-language Nobel Prize), will be translated into English by AUC Professor
Ferial Ghazoul and Instructor John Verlenden. The project is being funded with a $100,000 grant [...]

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Blogging The Casbah: The Slaughter of the Arabic Language
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A new study has found that young Malaysians aged 13 to 19 are the most frequent visitors to pornography websites.
According to Kosmo!, the study by Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Social Sciences Institute (Ipsas) showed that 22 percent of the multi-racial make-up of respondents in the survey were Malaysian.
They also topped the list of those who liked [...]

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Unfortunatelly I can’t speak in Arabic (yet, lol). But I wonder how many non-arabic speaking Muslims learnt this language to read the oryginal version of Quran. Is it worth? Do you feel any difference in reading arabic text and translations?

Non-arabic speaking Muslims, should we learn Arabic to read Holly Quran?
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I can speak, read, and write Persian fluently. It’s been only a month since I’ve discovered that I can type in Persian.Do you know any websites where I can find Arabic grammar and vocabulary? I want to be able to talk to Arabic people from all over the world.I learn languages pretty easily. شکراً جزیراً [...]

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I wish to learn the Arabic language, not only to read and write, but to speak it, so that I can understand the Qur’an better in it’s original language. I have begun reading basic Arabic letters, and insha-Allah will soon be able to read Arabic sentences and Qur’an, but how would I go about learning [...]

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