This book with its companon website develops skills in formal and colloquial Arabic, including reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge, integrating materials in colloquial and formal/written Arabic. Al-Kitaab Part One is the second book in the Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program and is now available in an extensively revised and reorganized third edition.
We salute you, Maha, for all that you do.Book Description Georgetown University Press, United States, 2011. We owe them our thanks for creating a character that both quietly reflected how our social lives’ suffered as we plunged further into the abyss that is Arabic study while simultaneously uniting us around a common experience of sweet, sweet suffering. I don’t think that her creators expected that a cult of personality would emerge from Maha’s piercing gaze and blatant social desperation, but we owe them our thanks.
Indeed, we are all blessed with fond memories of Maha’s uncanny ability to lighten the mood, despite her consistently melancholy disposition in the videos we watched weekly about her life. 2–“dhabet KBEEEEEEEER fil jaysh,”–much to the delight of their peers. Every time the word ضابط – ‘officer’ – was spoken and heard, one person in the room was inevitably unable to restrain themselves from blurting out Maha-ism No. When your classmates became sluggish and discouraged mid-semester, simply dropping that Maha-ism seared in the minds of all-“ana ash3or bilwa7da”– would set off a round of giggles that immediately softened the pain of verb conjugation tables. Maha is our rallying cry: our point of unity and mutual understanding as Arabic students, engaged together in a struggle against the brutality of FusHa grammar and endless vocabulary lists. Maha, Arabic textbook character and fashion icon, gives the camera a taste of her signature stare.
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