Essential Skills in Arabic

How to improve your reading, listening and communication skills in Arabic

Do you want to build on your Arabic reading, writing and listening skills? Improve your ability to communicate in this language? This is the book for you. Offering practical sessions and exercises, each module contains a wide range of authentic, contemporary texts so that you can practice your skills as they develop. Moving you from the intermediate to the advanced level of Arabic you will work through sessions on culture and society, the environment, education in the Arab world, global issues, media and communication, the economy, sports, and arts and literature. Each module follows the same structure, covering the essential skills of reading, grammar, vocabulary, listening, translation, writing and speaking.

The book includes:
. A wide variety of drills to help you refine your reading, writing, speaking and listening skills
. A key to exercises so you can check your progress
. A glossary of key Arabic terms
. Access to online audio material to accompany the listening drills

El Mustapha Lahlali is an Associate Professor and Director of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds. He is author of How to Write in Arabic (2009), Advanced English-Arabic Translation: A Practical Guide (with Wafa Abu Hatab) (2014) and Advanced Media Arabic (Second Edition 2017) (all Edinburgh University Press).

Radia Kesseiri is a Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Leeds. She is author of Algeria: An International Account of Foreign Policy. 1965-1978 (2011) and The Evolution of Algerian Political Thought: Origins, Colonial Rule and Post- Independence (2013).


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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Map of the Book; Key to Symbols; Module 1: Culture and Society : ; Unit 1 ; Unit 2 : ; Unit 3 : ; Module 2: Environment : ; Unit 1 ; Unit 2 ; Unit 3 ; Module 3: Education : ; Unit 1 ; Unit 2 : Unit 3 ; Module 4: Global Issues : ; Unit 1 ; Unit 2 ; Unit 3 ; Module 5: Media and Communication : ; Unit 1 ; Unit 2 ; Unit 3 ; Module 6: Economy and Development : ; Unit 1 ... ; Unit 2 ... ... ; Unit 3 ; Module 7: Sports : ; Unit 1 ... ; Unit 2 ; Unit 3 ... ; Module 8: Arts and Literature : ; Unit 1 ; Unit 2 ; Unit 3 ; Answers; Transcripts.