Arabic
Collection of Arabic dictionaries, with links to online grammars
http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction2.html#semiticSakhr Arabic Dictionaries
http://lexicons.sakhr.com/Sakhr Literary Dictionary
http://literary.sakhr.com/
Webster's Dictionary
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Arabic-english/http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/glossary.html
This web site is a glossary of Islamic term and concepts. It is very informative and I recommend it!
English
A Web of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Biggest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing 230 languages); site also offers linguistic "Fun & Games" (From 'Historical Linguistic Games ' to 'On-line Vocabulary Quizzes')Wiktionary
http://www.wiktionary.org/
Free multilingual content dictionaryWikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Free multilingual encyclopediaLexical FreeNet
http://www.lexfn.com/
Connected Thesaurus. Easy to use database that allows you to search for relationships between words, concepts and people. Very powerful with features lacking in other thesauri.Links and Resources for Writers
http://www.jbwb.co.uk
Jacqui Bennett's Writers Bureau. Constantly updated and reviewed very useful reference links: Encyclopedia Britannica, rhyhming dictionaries, on-line English grammar and searchable quotation collections.Merriam Webster OnLine
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
The reference classic - fast reliable site
For a list of CDs, DVDs, videos, etc. available in the CFLC search our online database:
http://inside.bard.edu/blrc/database/Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com
Mainstream videos and DVDs, including most available popular foreign feature film titles.
Film
MovieFacts on line
http://www.eonline.com/Facts/Movies/
0,60,71107,00.html
Find out about your film's running time, release date, director, reviews etc.FACETS
http://www.facets.org
The single best source for international cinema on video and DVD. The FACETS catalog includes both feature films and documentary works.Kino International
http://www.kino.com
A small but important collection of international cinema, including seminal works of Weimar film. Excellent print reproductions; many restored versions. Kino titles are also available through most of general video distributors.
Music
Arabic Pop Music and Music Videoclips
http://www.mazika.com
For downloading Pop Arabic music: mp3's and video files. Requires registering, which is for free.
Music of Lebanon allows anyone to download and listen to a wide selection of Lebanese artists free of charge and with no strings attached.http://almashriq.hiof.no/base/
music.html
Musical artists’ biographies; complete with music, movies, pictures, as well as descriptions of instruments and summary of Arab music. Note: focus on Lebanese music.
is a better site, however. It offers a larger selection of Arabic artists, not limited to only Lebanon, as well as lyrics, and news concerning music in the Arab World. But in order to take advantage of these offers one must create an account on the site.http://www.arabrap.net
This site is a resource for anyone who loves hip hop and the Arabic language and culture. It has many downloadable complete songs from Arab language rappers and discussion boards to post lyrics and discuss current events and music.
Quiz for basic Arabic
http://www.transparent.com/tlquiz/
lwquiz/Arabic/tlarab.htm
In transliterated Arabic. Mainly for testing basic vocabulary. Good for tutors' activities and beginners.Alphabet
http://www.arabic2000.com/arabic/
alphabet.html
This site is like an interactive classroom where one can brush up on the Arabic alphabet. It basically comes in handy for familiarizing one’s self with the sound and appearance of each letter. There is a chart of the entire alphabet, and all one has to do is click on the letter and it will be pronounced for them.Learn Arabic
http://afl.ajeeb.com/freetour/menu/
menu.html
This site seems fairly comprehensive. It includes a writing tutorial, a pronunciation guide, grammar, vocabulary and even a catchy song to help learn letters.Babel-Arabic
http://lexicorient.com/babel/
arabic/01.htm
This site has some basic conversational Arabic translated and transliterated. Each phrase has a link to a realplayer file of a man reading it. There are also some basic writing instructions.Ukindia
http://www.ukindia.com/zarl.htm
This site has a tutorial for learning how to read Arabic print. It also has the Hindi equivalent of each letter next to it.Let’s Learn Some Arabic
http://www.alrashidmall.com/learn-arabic.htm#Basics
This site offers some basic beginning vocabulary, greetings, questions, directions, pronouns and numbers. The material is far from comprehensive and seems aimed at tourists trying to navigate the Arab world.
This is an amazing cite. It covers everything from the alphabet, to basic sayings, to more developed vocabulary. Most of the website is free access, but there is another section that can be purchased which allows the student to take quizzes, complete lessons, and hear words being pronounced. There is a song for the alphabet and it can be heard on any computer. This cite has great graphics and pronunciation.
Arab Culture and Civilization NITLE: National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education
http://www.nitle.org/arabworld/
main_menu.php
A collaborate webproject sponsored by NITLE with a vast amount of links to and information on history, Islam, ethnicity and identity, Arab Americaicns, literature and philosophy, performing arts, family and society, art and archetecutre, Arabic language, geography, and more.http://www.arabic2000.com/search.html
A list of questions asked (or searched for) repeatedlyIslamic History
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ISLAM/
ISLAM1.HTM
“Islam” is designed as a learning module in the form of a “research textbook” by Richard Hooker, as part of the “World Civilizations” program of Washington State University. It provides more information and in more detail than the average college freshman level world civilization textbook. It is apparently intended as a resource for students to extract overall back- ground, but with enough detail that they can approach sophisticated and creative assignments on the culture. The module highlights the similarities and differences between early Islamic cultures and other cultures of the same period, stressing the cultural interactions.
‘The Egyptian Castle’ is a site devoted to everything and anything Egyptian, expanding to many other Middle Eastern subjects outside of the term “Egyptian.” One can download TV shows, movies, and music. One can also listen to radio stations across the Arab world. Possibly the most interesting aspect the site offers is to watch live TV from various places in the Middle East: Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Tunisia, and Qatar (al-Jazeera News Channel).http://www.alsintl.com/languages/
arabic.htm
ALS International web site gives a history of, and facts about the Arabic language.
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/
A comprehensive collection of links and resources documenting Islam’s history and sacred texts as well as information on the place of Islam in the modern world. Mr. Godlas has maintained the site since 1997, but the September 11 attacks have given it unprecedented popularity. Available are both primary-source material from Islamic Web sites that highlight the religion's own viewpoints, and scholarly research on the subjects.
http://www.aaiusa.org/
Founded in 1985, the Arab American Institute (AAI) is a nonprofit organization committed to the civic and political empowerment of Americans of Arab descent. AAI enables Arab Americans to take increasingly visible and active roles in campaigns and elections by mobilizing resources, providing leadership development, working with party officials, electing delegates, and defining issues.
Available through a link from this site is a PDF document, Impressions of America 2004, a six-nation survey by John Zogby and James Zogby, commissioned by the AAI. The document describes how Arab attitudes toward the U.S. have deteriorated over the past couple of years, mostly as a result of U.S. government policies in the Middle East.
www.arab.de
Practically any question pertaining to the Arab World can be answered at ‘Arabic German Consulting’ (whose site is offered in four different languages) or in the list of sites it offers. The links on the site range from such topics as Arab Women, to Arab Chat Rooms, to Arab Cuisine. There is also a plethora of links to live radio and TV stations (including MTV Lebanon) in Arab speaking countries.
A very sophisticated site containing comprehensive information about Arab culture and civilization. It was designed after 9/11 to help educate liberal arts college students about the area of world where the attacks came from. It has an extensive database of articles on History, Ethnicity and Identity, Islam, Arab Americans, Literature and Philosophy, Pop Culture, Geography, and others.Arab Countries' Flags
http://www.arab.net/
Go to the site and just click on the flags and get to know about their culture and more
http://www.al-bab.comTest your cultural knowledge!
http://aaiusa.org/quiz.htm
Test your knowlege of Arab Americans in several key areas: Religion, Geography, Population & Culture!Readings from the Qur'an
http://www.islamicity.com/multimedia/
radio/ch100/
"When the Qur'an is read, listen to it with attention, and hold your peace: that ye may receive Mercy."† Qur'an 7:204. Audio clips of people reading from the Qur’an.Know more about the Arab culture:
http://afl.ajeeb.com
(Requires Internet Explorer for PC)
Arts and Architecture
Arabic Pictures
http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Arabic/arabfilm.htmlPictures of art work and architecture reflecting the arab and Islamic culture.
A link database to websites discussing Arab and Islamic architecture. Classical and modern vernaculars are discussed. Lots of photos.Islamic Arts and Architecture http://www.islamicart.com/index.html This nonprofit organization is dedicated to providing information on arts and architecture and to promoting the awareness of Islamic arts as a humanistic study, recognizing the interrelationship between the arts and other academic disciplines.
Maps
http://lexicorient.com/babel/arabic/
Maps and encyclopedia of orient, news, as well as basic dialogues in Arabic, focus on North Africa.World map with countries, regions and cities:
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx
Magazines
Al Mawed
http://www.almawed.com
Egyptian magazine for celeberty news and gossip.
Comics and Cartoons
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/14/DDGQR8S6UD22.DTLhttp://akcomics.com
Engish and Arabic versionsPolitical Cartoons from the Arab World
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Cartoons/Today's%20cartoons.htm
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Cartoons/2003%20cartoons/Jan-May%2016/Jan%202003%20cartoons.htm
Al-Jazeera's 'Today's Cartoons' is the source for numerous political cartoons on the Web, representing reactions of Arab cartoonists to American foreign policy in the Middle East, Israeli occupation policies and practices in occupied Palestine, or policies and practices of Arab governments and Arab rulers. The main objective is to enable English readers all over the world, particularly in the United States and Israel, to comprehend the impact of the policies of these governments on Arabs and Muslims. When people are more aware of the consequences of policies of their governments, states Al-Jazeera, cross-cultural understanding will increase, and that should lead to a more just and peaceful world.
Another bunch of Al-Jazeera cartoons can be found at . And here are a couple of cartoons that the U.S. State Department pressured Al-Jazeera to delete from their site:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/jazeera-cartoons.htm
One of the most well-known Arab cartoonists is the late Mahmoud Kahil, who expressed his outrageous cartoons with style and, according to the London Times’s Cartoonists Against Terrorism http://www.londonstimes.us/cat/cat_toons_24.html
another example of Kahil’s work: http://www.topdog04.com/000076.html
Islamic Art
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/visual/art.htm
Calligraphy
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Inlet/7299/ToWrite.html#Pen
http://www.islamicart.com/main/calligraphyArabic Calligraphy
http://www.arabiccalligraphy.com/resources.php
On this website there are several different articles on arabic calligraphy, including its historical and current usage. There are lessons posted everywhere, so that people can teach themselves how to do it. There is also a section where you can look at different Arab names in calligraphy, or look up how your own looks. Both cursive and kufric styles are highlighted on this website.
Children's Books
http://www.icdlbooks.org/
This site is my favorite of the five, The International Children's Digital Library. It has online children’s books that are fully readable with pictures. The web site has many books completely in Arabic among many other languages such as Farsi, French, Japanese, Croatian, German, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish and many more to choose from. All you need to do is to click on the button that says “Simple Search”, and then choose the language.Arab related Top Sites
http://www.arab.de/atopsite.htmMiddlebury Resources
http://wolf.middlebury.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/ log_in?SETTING_KEY=Midd&servers=1home&guest =guest&screen=home.html
This source will provide information on the book and serial collection at Middlebury College, and will also link you to information at other locations both on and off campus.UPenn-Literature on line
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Search Books, Features, Archives online by author, title, subject, foreign Languages and more - amazing, free site!
An Arab Literary magazine. It reviews and discusses current Arab artistic projects in literature, film, theater, poetry, music, and dance as well as addressing current social and political issues and their connection to the Arab artistic world.1001 Nights!
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/arabnit.htm 32 Stories in English from 1001 Nights (Alf laylah wa laylah)Selected writings by Ibn Batuta
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/
batuta.html
Parts of Ibn Batuta's (1307 - 1377) diary, the man who is considered the Arab equivalent of Marco Polo.Essays About the life and writings of Ibn Khaldun
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/ibnkhaldun/2.html
Ibn Khaldun is generally regarded as a historian, sociologist and philosopher. Thus his life and work have already formed the subject of innumerable studies and given rise to the most varied and even the most contradictory interpretations.LiTGloss
http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts/shtml
The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English. The texts are of literary, cultural, or historical interest to speakers of English, and likely (we think) to be better appreciated if read in the original language. Our goal is to make them accessible by providing semantic and syntactical help, and to provide supplementary materials which help the students see the text in its literary, artistic, historical, cultural contText in Arabic available by Mahmoud Darwish.
Poetry
Poems by Arabic Women
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/awomnlit.htmA page that discusses the role of women in Arabic literature, with several poems written in English by Arabic women.Great Source for Several genres of Arabic Poetry!
http://www.arabicpoems.com
Great amount of Arabic Poetry in Arabic text from different genres.A source for pre-Islamic Arab Poems!
http://www.almubarak.net
The Website has a great amount of pre-Islamic Arab Poems and few poems by famous contemporary Arab poets.
http://www.arabicpoems.com
General Research and Documentation
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/MLA Bibliography
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/ library/mla.htmlMLA Citation Examples
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/ library/mlahcc.htmlMLA Style Electronic Formats
http://www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.htm
Create your own online vocabulary lists, flashcards, class websites + quizzes! Works great in Arabic on PCs and w/ Internet Explorer
http://www.quia.com
Create activites (word lists, flashcards, matching games etc.), class websites, and amazing online quizzes (including multiple choice, pop-up, fill-in, short answer and essay questions with easy links to ANY online source), create class rosters and have easy access to tests, students' scores, time spent on tests etc.; licence fee required for instructors (not for students)
Bard has licences for 10 instructors; for information contact kufner@bard.eduThe Realia Project
http://realiaproject.org/
Rich electronic archive for language instruction anywhere: publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures.Moodle
http://moodle.org
A free open-source course-management system to help teachers create online communitiesHow to Read Arabic on the Web http://www.assr.org/info/howa.html
This page provides information on how to view Arabic text on the Web—describing the appropriate browser connections and plug-ins for your operating system.Arabic Font Archives
http://user.dtcc.edu/~berlin/font/arabic.htmArabic Postcards Online
http://www.beetaqa.com/Arabic and Islamic Resources
http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/arabic/links.htmArabic Resources
http://www.sedl.org/loteced/lotelinks/
arabic.html
Great site listing Internet resources, calligraphy, langage and culture, egyptian culture, and teachers' resourcesRead and Listen to the Arabic Alphabet:
http://www.cafe-syria.com/Alphabet.htm
www.tarjiim.ajeeb.com
I found this site while doing my homework one day. This is a cite to help translate English into arabic, for free. This is very helpful if you are writing sentences and have run out of things to say. The translation is free, but only for a trial period of time, it costs around $30 to have a subscription for more than thirty days. This cite gives the proper translations; they are all in MSA.
This website is composed into various parts with the intent of helping people who are learning foreign languages. The best part of this website is it’s opportunity for pen-pals. Pen-pals are offered in almost every language, including many dialects of Arabic such as Moroccan, Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and others. By joining ‘My Language Exchange’ one can learn a Arabic from a native speaker and help others learn English.Learn the Arabic Numbers, Greeting & Commonly used expressions:
http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/panel.htmArabic Audio Dialogues: http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Arabic/arabic.html
http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/collection/ lm_jordan/joIndex.html
Lets you watch videos of normal conversations, read the conversations in Arabic, and there's an English translation.Pics Tips and Treats
http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/
tips.html
Guidelines to work with video in language teachingSoftware for Learning
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/
teaching.htm
Downloadable programs for use in the classroom or at home . Interesting: Markin a program which replaces the traditional teacher's red pen with a complete on-screen marking environment, is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments.Multi,Dicto, Gloss Makers
http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/ index.htm
These pages are intended for use by educational institutions to use as a model. Teachers are encouraged to try out cloze, match and gloss makers, and then save copies locally. The multimaker , for example, allows you to enter as many multiple choice questions in an exercise as you like. Include your own title, instructions and individualized feedback for each answer.
Arab Academy Placement Tests
http://www.arabacademy.com/
placement_e.htm
Three tests, (novice zero to novice mid), testing on alphabet, vocabulary, grammar and conversation.Goethe Language Tests
http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/
FREE tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations. Multilingual vocabulary exercises / language tests in
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