Al Kitaab Part II Audio Materials (requires AFS ID and password)
Al-Kitaab: A Series of Textbooks for Arabic, currently being used at Notre Dame
Arabic Media Internet Network, news, columns, chat room and links
Arabic Search Engine
Arabic Tutor, (The), CD-ROM available at counter (PC)
Learn Arabic, CD-ROM available at counter (PC)
Multilingual Dictionary - Easy Language, CD-ROM available at counter
Do's and Taboos Around the World
Do's and Taboos of International Trade, The
Dreams, Realities and Nightmares
Federal Funding Guide
Foreign Languages and Your Career
Gestures The Do's and Taboos of Body Language
Modern Technology in Foreign Language Education
Multilingual Dictionary - Easy Language, book that accompanies CD-ROM
New Ways in Teaching Grammar
New Ways in Teaching Listening
Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition
Teaching Languages in College
Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
Untangling the Web St. Martin's Guide to Language and Culture on the Internet
Alif Baa, courseware, lessons 1-10
Al-Kitaab, courseware, lessons 1-20
Al-Kitaab - Part Two, courseware, lessons 1-10
Arabic Writing, courseware, lessons 1-10
Arabic Grammar, courseware, lessons 1-8
E.M.S. Arabic Lessons, courseware, lessons 1-36
Standard Arabic, courseware, lessons 1-36
Video Tapes
(Click on title for details.)
Access to Arabic: Speak Arabic
Access to Arabic: Written Arabic
Alexandria...Why?
Alif Baa, Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds
Al-Kitaab 1 - A Textbook for Beginning Arabic Vol. 1
Arabic Sesame Street - Volume 1
Basic Arabic by Video
Dupes (The)
Wedding in Galilee
Access to Arabic: Speak Arabic
No. 003
VHS, 90 min, Color, Arabic with English, 1983
Filmed on-location in the Arab world to show authentic situations,
these videos teach the essential features of the Arabic spoken in
Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf region. Viewers also learn how to
read and write Arabic.
Access to Arabic: Written Arabic
No. 004
VHS, 90 min, Color, Arabic with English, 1983
Filmed on-location in the Arab world to show authentic
situations, these videos teach the essential features of
the Arabic spoken in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf region.
Viewers also learn how to read and write Arabic.
Alexandria ...Why?
No. 337
VHS, 133 min, Color, Arabic with English subtitles
Set against the panoramic backdrop of war-torn Egypt, director Youssef Chahine tells a highly personal tale of love and determination.
Amid the poverty, death and suffering caused by World War II, 18 year-old Yehia, retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing.
Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of one day studying filmmaking in America, but after falling in love and discovering the lies of
European occupation, Yehia profoundly reevalutates his identity and allegiances.
Alif Baa, Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds
Courseware
VHS, 15 min, Color, No subtitles
This video tape accompanies the Alif Baa textbook and contains some basic dialogues that were filmed in Egypt in the Cairene dialect. The tape is intended not only for its linguistic value but also for its visual and cultural content. The eighteen dialogues are distributed over the first nine units.
Al-Kitaab - A Textbook for Beginning Arabic Vol. 1
Courseware
VHS, 55 min, Color, No subtitles
Arabic Sesame Street - Vol. 1
No. 022
VHS, 98 min, Color, No subtitles
Arabic version of Sesame Street.
Basic Arabic by Video
No. 025
VHS, 90 min, Color, Arabic with English, 1983
A picture's worth 1,000 words. Learn a second language
for travel, business or pleasure by seeing as well as hearing.
Focus is on the alphabet, proper pronunciation and syntax,
and grammar. Read, write and speak a 1,000 word and phrase
working vocabulary using 43 of the most often encountered
life situations. Instant video-replay reviews at your own pace.
Dupes (The)
No. 339
VHS, 107 min, Black and White, Arabic with English, 1992
The Dupes, a stark black and white film, traces the destinies of three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession, despair and hope for a better future. The setting is Iraq in the 1950s and the protagonists, concealed in the steel tank of a truck, are trying to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's acclaimed novella, Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.
Wedding in Galilee
No. 338
VHS, 113 min, Color, Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles, 1987
One of the only films produced in Israel to feature an Arab point of view, Wedding in Galilee is a richly-detailed allegory of marriage, tradition and national identity.
The elder of a Palestinian village in Israel is given permission to hold a traditional wedding for his son on the condition that the Israeli military governor and his staff be guests of honor at the ceremony.
Director Michel Khleifi's extraordinary first feature is an erotic and often compelling meditation on two conflicting cultures who attempt to put aside their differences for one long day of celebration.
