الْمِحْفَظَةُ الضَّائِعَةُ This story is taken from a book entitled Tibetan Folk Tales. The book is written by Albert Leroy Shelton and translated into Arabic by Ghassan Alamuddin. The translated version is meant for native speakers of Arabic. To make it suitable for learners of Arabic as an additional language, we have abridged it, rephrased it in an elegant, flowing, and les…

الْأَخَوَانِ: سَاحِرَةُ الْغَابَةِ This story has been taken from Brothers Grimm’s Folk Tales Collections. To make it more delightful, we have elaborated upon it in order to depict the characters' emotions  and give it more meaning and humanity. For every behavior of the theirs, we gave a reason to rid the story of ambiguity and simplicity that is a distinctive feature of folk…

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (54) Read the passage أَمَلُ دُنْقُلُ: شَاعِرُ الرَّفْضِ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (53) Read the passage مُحَمَّدُ مَحْمُودُ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (52) Read the Story حَظُّ الْبِنْتِ: الشَّجَرَةُ النَّاطِقَةُ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (51) Read the passage مَحْمُودُ دَرْوِيشُ: صَوْتُ فَلَسْطِينَ 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 …