Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Tales from the Arabian nights [21 stories]	Richard Francis Burton	Magic and marvels await you in Tales from the Arabian Nights, a collection of twenty of the best-known stories from the book that western readers have known for over three centuries as The Arbian Nig…	OL15936336W
Arab women writers	Ferial Ghazoul,Radwa Ashour,Hasna Reda-mekdashi	"Arab women's writing in the modern age began with A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study - first publis…	OL16941734W
Arabic for Nerds	Gerald Drissner	Reading about Arabic grammar is usually as thrilling as reading telephone directories. The author uses a new approach: he compiled over 270 interesting questions drawing from his years of studies in …	OL17335993W
Zeina	Nawal El Saadawi	Bodour, a distinguished literary critic and university professor, carries with her a dark secret. As a young university student, she fell in love with a political activist and gave birth to an illegi…	OL17940327W
501 Arabic verbs	Raymond P. Scheindlin	Barron’s 501 Arabic Verbs is printed in Arabic script with exemplary sentences in English for each verb. To reflect correct Arabic style, 501 Arabic Verbs has been printed back cover to front and bac…	OL1842807W
Egypt's Culture Wars	Samia Mehrez	"This work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty-first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between "high" and "low" culture, drawing on co…	OL3663376W
A linguistic study of the development of scientific vocabulary in standard Arabic	Abdul Sahib Mehdi Ali	This book is an in-depth study of the development of scientific and technical vocabulary in Arabic throughout its history, with special emphasis on the issue in modern times and the potential the lan…	OL5024065W