Department of World Languages & Cultures

Websites for Students of Arabic:

Arabic News in Arabic

Al-Ayyam - from Yemen
News from Arabic Countries
Al-Ayam - from Bahrain
Al-Hayat - in PDF Format - from England
Al-Quds - from Palestine
Arabia.com
As-Safir - in PDF Format - from Lebanon
At-Tariq - in PDF Format - from Yemen
Al-Khabar - in PDF Format - from Algeria
Al-Qabas - from Kuwait
Al-Watan - from USA
Al-Watan - from Kuwait
Al-Watan -from Oman

Arabic News in English

Daily Business & Financial News
ArabicNews.com - from USA
Ain-Al-Yaqeen - from USA
CNN Middle East - from USA
TheDailyStar - from Lebanon
Middle East Economic Survey - from Cyprus
Monday Morning - from Lebanon
Gulf News
Khaleej Times
Sahafa Online

ONLINE TV & Radio & Arabic real Audio Sources

Aljazeera channel - Qatar TV
BBC World Service - Arabic
Deutsche Welle:Arabic
Radio Oman - Live (Real Audio)
RadioKuwait.org - Arabic News
RadioKuwait.com (Real Audio)
Radio Tunis Live
Radio Tunis Real Audio Recorded Qur'an Suras
Real Audio Arabic
Voice of America - Arabic - from USA - Real Audio Player
Some Quran Suras with RealAudio

Arabic Chat & Forums

ArabChat IRC Network
ArabChat.com
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kadhim/
Reader Arabic Computing Mailing List
Arabic Forum

Calculation of Great Circle Distances and Bearings

It can be used for directing short wave antennas & finding Direction of QIBLA

Great Circle Distance and Bearing Calculator in Lotus 1-2-3 Format
QIBLA Calculation via Excel (First unzip the file then use the Excel Program to calculate for other cities)
Latitute & Longtitude of New York City (You can find out any city in US)
An example for calculating direction of QIBLA via EXCEL

Arabic Tutorials

The Golden Advice Regarding The Proper Manner Of Learning The Arabic Language
Arabic Grammar Tutorial
Arabic for Non Arab with sound
Basic Arabic Tutorials
Transliterated Version of Egyptian Dialogues (PDF file)
Arabic Language, Culture & Grammer Notes
Learn to Read the Qur'an in 10 Lessons
Learning Arabic Facts Page
Arabic Lessons - Vocabulary
Arabic Alphabet Online
Some Quran Suras with Latin Alphabet & RealAudio Help for Western Readers who are learning to read the Quran
Learning to read Yaseen Sura with tajweed
Arabic Pronounciation Help
Babel Arabic Tutorials
Beyond Nouns and Verbs - PDF file (pages 56-65)
The Art of Arabic Calligraphy
Test Your Arabic Knowledge - Online Quiz
Check Your Arabic Knowledge - Another Online Quiz
Arabic Voweling Problem Sets - Interactive Tutorial

Arabic Words and Their English Meanings

Arabic Phrases by Jordanian
Language of the Bakahs
Useful Terms from the Arabic Language
Classical & Egyptian Dialect
Urdu-English Dictionary includes many Arabic words
Interlaan English-Arabic Vocabulary
Basic Vocabulary
Basic Arabic Words by Egyptian
Useful Arabic Questions & Answers by Syrian
Arabic words
Common Arabic Phrases by Syrians
Common Arabic words used in Qatar
Arabic Shopping Phrases by DubaiCity
Qur'anic Words list
Qur'anic Glossary
Quranic Word a day
Arabic Phrases used in Saudi Arabia
Concordance of Qur'an (phonetic Arabic with English Alphabet)
Quranic Words list

My Arabic Grammar Tutorials

Arabic Pronouns
Arabic Sentence
Arabic Tenses
Arabic Tenses: The Perfect Tense:example verb - akala
Arabic Tenses: The Present Tense:example verb - kataba
Arabic Strong Verbs & Arabic Weak Verbs:examples of initial letter being weak, e.g., wajada, wa'Ada
Arabic Weak Verbs:examples of middle letter being weak, e.g., baa'A, jaa'A, saara, kaana, raway, sawiya
Arabic Weak Verbs:examples of last letter being weak, e.g., qara'a, bada'a
Arabic Doubled Verbs - example verbs: wadda and $akka

FORMS : derived forms of the verbs

Introduction to Forms and Form1 verbs
Form2
Form3
Form4
Form5
Form6
Form7
Form8
Form9
Form10

Qur'an Translations Browser Project

Three English Qur'an Translations Browser

Transliteration

ASCII Input Coding for Arabic Text
Turkish and Arabic Transliteration Tables
Transliteration Standard
Transliteration of Arabic Script
My Transliteration Table
Fulani-Arabic Transliteration

Arabic Software & Fonts

Arabic X Terminal Emulator for X-Windows
Arabic Word Processor Kateb for DOS
Arabic Word Processor Intext for DOS
ArabTeX: LaTeX with Arabic generation capabilities for UNIX and DOS
ArabFont - a collection of Arabic fonts for DOS
PMosaic
PMosaic FAQ
Aramedia - Universal Word
Language Dictionaries and Translators
My Arabic Teacher
ORIENTfont - a True Type free font to use in your browser
Dale Frakes' Arabic Software
Linux and Perl
Adobe Middle Eastern Software Center
Java Applet demo to view Arabic or Persian
The Arabic Macintosh - An Informal Resource Centre
ParsNegar Persian/Arabic/Urdu Word Processor
AraWebParse - Visual Rendering for Arabic Web Pages
Learning Arabic from English - CD-ROM
Arabic Fonts
OpenWindows Programs
Arabic Atari
Arabic Insta-Class Page
Unipad - Unicode editor for Windows95 & NT
World Language Resources

Arabic Language Related Material

Acqusition Order in Arabic as a Foreign Language - a Cognitive Approach
Arabic Languages
This is for the Job seekers in arabic countries
Statistics of Spoken Arabic
The Arabic Language - General Introduction
Introduction to the Noble Reading - The Qur'an
A paper discussing Arabic learning
The Nature of Old Arabic and its Change into Middle and then Modern Arabic
Dictionary Definitions and Corpus_Based Evidence in Modern Standard Arabic (PDF file)
Egyptian Arabic Profile
Levantine Arabic Profile
Gulf Arabic Profile
Algerian Arabic Profile

Arabic Pages at Educational Institutions

Viewing Arabic HTML files
Arabic Program at Penn
Amr's Arabic Archive
Arabic Literature Page at Cornell
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kadhim/
The Near East Collection at Yale University
UCLA - Egyptian Arabic Profile
The American Association of Teachers of Arabic

Arabic Classes at Educational Institutions

Arabic Course Descriptions at uga.edu
Arabic Classes at University of Arizona
Arabic CourseDescriptions at University of Arizona
Arabic at Clark Atlanta University
The George Washington University Arabic Program
Arabic at University of Pennsilvenia
Arabic Courses at Riverside Community College
Arabic Courses at bgsu.edu
Arabic Courses at University of Toronto
Three Years of Arabic Program
Arabic at nyu.edu
Arabic at Stanford University
Arabic Courses at University of Missouri - Kansas City
Arabic at University of Virginia
ArabAcademy Online

Everything Else

Hilaal Sighting in Saudi Arabia & Its Implications Worldwide
Hajj Visa Application Form
ISLAM, ASTRONOMY, HILAL & CYBERSPACE
Exploring Islam - a Washington Post Article
Muslim Scientists, Mathematicians and Astronomers BEFORE European Renaissance
Arabic Related Links
Arabic Calligraphy
Arab Corner Pages
Using the Internet in Arabic: Problem and Solutions
Arabic Language Processing
Online Dictionaries
Arabic as a Foreign Language BOOKSHELF
Arabic on the WWW
Arab World and Poetry
The Middle East on the Internet
Arabic & Middle East Links
How To View Arabic Pages
Arabic Mozilla Work Progress
Linux4arab.com
Arabic Representation on ASCII
Arabic Linux Mailing List
181 Arabic Dictionaries
Arabic Language links