English 101 Grammar & Reading is a small booklet of 38 pages written by Mr.Amin Hady mainly for Arab students to learn English.But this booklet can be used for any learner or teacher as there is very few Arabic here. Very useful for practising speaking in English.
English and Arabic are today among the 6 official languages of the United Nations, with an estimated 322 and 175 millions of speakers around the world, respectively. Yet these two languages represent two distinct worlds, each having for the most part its own culture, religion and mentality. Tools such as VerbAce may help English speakers to access Arabic text (and vice versa) and thus to bridge some of the gap between East and West.
A First Course in ESSAY WRITING Compiled by Hala Darwish & Mohammed Abdel Aatty Revised by M.M. Enani DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FACULTY OF ARTS, CAIRO UNIVERSITY
"This is a most valuable introduction to the art (and science) of writing: it takes the student from the rudimentary to the advanced stages of writing techniques through a precise, step-by-step method. It is intended primarily as a teach-yourself course, which requires a great deal of attention to detail and to guidance on problematic points. It can, however, be taught in class by the experienced teacher who should occasionally refer to the corresponding linguistic structures in Arabic, as well as the evolution of Modern Standard Arabic which has been influenced in the twentieth century by modern European languages. The teacher may postpone this to a later stage, when the student has fully absorbed the technical aspects of English writing, but it is advisable, I believe, to start as early as this course in establishing correspondences and differences. .........." M. Enani & M. Abdel Aatty(from the Preface)
Product Description: In spite of the considerable attention devoted to the third/ninth century by scholars of Arabic literature, credit for the elaboration of the notion of adab in its wider meaning of literary culture is given to and concentrated upon only a handful of writers. The disproportionate emphasis, within and outside the Arabic literary-historical and critical tradition, has been at the expense of certain crucial aspects of that tradition.
Naguib Mahfouz is the most important Arabic fiction writer of this century. Born in 1911, his long and prolific writing career represents the evolution of the novel genre in Arabic literature. His books are a rich record of the tragic tensions attendant on a nation's quest for freedom and modernity. In 1988 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
