الْأَرْضُ الشِّرِّيْرَةُ This is an Arabic short story for beginners. It is for non-native speakers of Arabic. We took it from a story book entitled The Myths of the West. The author of this story is Sulaiman Mazhar. The original text is for native speakers of Arabic. So, it is in a more advanced Arabic. This Arabic short story for beginners has been abridged and simplified to…

نَجْمَةٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ This is an Arabic short story for beginners. It is for non-native speakers of Arabic. We took it from a story book entitled The Myths of the West. The author of this story is Sulaiman Mazhar. The original text is for native speakers of Arabic. So, it is in a more advanced Arabic. This Arabic short story for beginners has been abridged and simplified to…

الْكَنْزُ This is an Arabic short story for beginners. It is for non-native speakers of Arabic. We took it from a story book entitled The Myths of the West. The author of this story is Sulaiman Mazhar. The original text is for native speakers of Arabic. So, it is in a more advanced Arabic. This Arabic short story for beginners has been abridged and simplified to make it suitab…

نُعْمَانُ This Arabic short story is for beginners. It is for non-native speakers of Arabic. We took it from a short story book entitled Noman. The author of this story is Kamel Kilani. The original text is for native speakers of Arabic. So, it is in a more advanced Arabic. This Arabic short story for beginners has been abridged and simplified to make it suitable for foreign l…

الْأَبْنَاءُ الثَّلَاثَةُ This is an Arabic short story for beginners, namely for non-Arabs. It is taken from a short story book entitled The Three Sons. The author of the book is Mohammed Al-Ibrashi. The original text is meant for native speakers of Arabic, hence written in more advanced Arabic. We have abridged and simplified this Arabic short story for beginners in order to…

الْعَرَنْدَسُ This Arabic short story is for beginners, namely for non-Arabs. It is taken from a short story book entitled Al-Arandas. This book is written by Kamel Kilani. The original text is meant for native speakers of Arabic, hence written in more advanced Arabic. This Arabic short story for beginners has been abridged and simplified to be suitable for learners of Arabic …

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (35) Read the Story مَاكْبِث and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (34) Read the Story الْمَلِكُ عَجِيبٌ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (33) Read the Story تَاجِرُ بَغْدَادَ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (32) Read the Story بِنْتُ الصَّبَّاغ and answer the following questions.

Attached pronouns in Arabic are the pronouns that we attach to verbs, nouns, prepositions, or particles. Generally speaking, pronouns in Arabic are separate, attached, or implicit (i.e. implied or not overt). The separate pronouns  in Arabic are similar to the subject pronouns found in most world languages in addition to the dual and feminine forms that exist in Arabic. As for …

Arabic is a right-to-left cursive language. This short e-book "Ibnulyemen Arabic Alphabet and Cursive Writing" typographically shows how the Arabic letters are connected to to form words. There are twenty-eight letters in Arabic. Each letter has four shapes: at the beginning of the word, in the middle of the word, at the end of the word, and in isolation. This, as a result, see…

This is a short e-book of eleven short stories written in simplified Arabic. The original versions of these stories were written by Kamel Kilani and Mohammed Al-Abrashi, both Egyptian writers. They are fairly long and meant for native speakers of Arabic. The wording and structures of these stories have been tweaked and simplified to make them suitable for (advanced) beginner le…

Attached pronouns in Arabic are pronominal suffixes; for each separate pronoun there is a corresponding attached pronoun. These pronominal suffixes are are attached to nouns, prepositions, and verbs. With nouns, they function as possessive pronouns. With preposition, they function as object of prepositions. With verbs, they function as either subjects or objects.  In the table …