حَظُّ الْبِنْتِ: الْأَمِيرُ فِي الْمِرْآةِ This story is taken from a book entitled The Secret of Life: Folk Tales from Bengal. The book is written by Lal Behari Day and translated into Arabic by Abdulwahhab Al-Maqalih. The translated version is meant for native speakers of Arabic. To make it suitable for learners of Arabic as a foreign language, we have abridged it, rephrased…

حَظُّ الْبِنْتِ: الْهَدِيَّةُ الْغَرِيبَةُ This story is taken from a book entitled The Secret of Life: Folk Tales from Bengal. The book is written by Lal Behari Day and translated into Arabic by Abdulwahhab Al-Maqalih. The translated version is meant for native speakers of Arabic. To make it suitable for learners of Arabic as a foreign language, we have abridged it, rephrased…

نَازِكُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: رَائِدَةُ الشِّعْرِ الْحُرِّ This reading passage is about Nazik al-Malaika, an Iraqi poet. It is suitable for learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language, namely intermediate  learners. نَازِكُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ شَاعِرَةٌ عِرَاقِيَّةٌ. وُلِدَتْ نَازِكُ فِي بَغْدَادَ، عَامَ أَلْفٍ وَتِسْعَمِائَةٍ وَثَلَاثَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ (1923). يَرْتَبِطُ اِسْمُ نَازِكَ بِ…

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (60) Read the Story حَظُّ الْبِنْتِ: الْأَمِيرُ فِي الْمِرْآةِ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (59) Read the Story حَظُّ الْبِنْتِ: الْهَدِيَّةُ الْغَرِيبَةُ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (58) Read the passage نَازِكُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: رَائِدَةُ الشِّعْرِ الْحُرِّ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (57) Read the passage عَبْدُ اللَّهِ الْبَرَدُونِيُّ: عَيْنُ الْيَمَنِ الَّتِي لَا تَنَامُ 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 …