Media Arabic

Gives you up-to-date expressions, jargon and new coinages for modern concepts in media Arabic. What is the Arabic term for the UN? What phrase would be used to describe 'rogue state' in the Arab media? Or 'the Arab Spring'? This short, accessible vocabulary gives you ready-made lists of key terms in media Arabic for translating both from and into Arabic. It is divided into 8 key areas:* General (reports, statements, sources, common media idioms)* Politics & Government* Elections* Military* Law and Order* Economics* Trade & Industry* Aid & DevelopmentThis second edition has been revised and updated throughout and now includes an English-Arabic index as well as audio and elearning materials.Key Features:* Terms grouped in thematic sections* Easy-to-learn lists to test translation* CD of audio files to help you check your pronunciation* Online interactive audio-visual e-Flashcards* IndexKeywords: Arabic; media Arabic; learn Arabic; teach Arabic; fast Arabic; quick Arabic; easy Arabic; newspaper Arabic; "e;how to say"e; Arabic.

Media Arabic provides advanced students of Arabic with a range of engaging texts on controversial and contemporary topics that reflect the current social and political environment in the Middle East. Divided into ten thematic modules, each module includes three units based on a selection of authentic newspaper articles that dive deep into topics as diverse as climate change, racism, and corruption. Each unit contains comprehension and discussion questions as well as vocabulary lists, translation exercises, and creative writing exercises. Each topic also benefits from a curated selection of authentic news videos, which can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781032044460. Ideal for use in Media Arabic courses, this book can also be used as a self-study resource for advanced level students.

A new and updated edition of the essential activities book for learning to read the news in Arabic In light of the rapidly growing number of people studying Arabic—in academia, governments, NGOs, and business—Media Arabic is a unique and timely learning tool for anyone looking to access news information from this important global region firsthand. Media Arabic introduces the language of the newspapers, magazines, and internet news sites to intermediate and advanced level students of Modern Standard Arabic. Using this textbook, students will be able to master core vocabulary and structures typical of front-page news, recognize various modes of coverage, distinguish fact from opinion, detect bias, and read critically in Arabic. Drawing on their long experience as Arabic instructors, Alaa Elgibali and Nevenka Korica have organized the book into six chapters, each covering a dominant news topic: Talks and Conferences, Demonstrations and Protests, Conflicts and Terrorism, Elections, Rule of Law, and Business. In addition, the book offers three self-assessment units and a glossary organized by theme. The book enables students to read extended texts with greater accuracy and speed by focusing on the relationships among meaning, language form, and markers of cohesive discourse. The activities include pre-reading discussions as well as extensive practice on vocabulary in context, organizing information, skimming, scanning, critical reading, and analyzing content.

Your one-stop guide to Arabic media languageDo you want to develop, enhance and refine your Arabic media language, translation and analytical skills? Then this is the book for you. It gives you a broad range of exercises on reading comprehension, speaking, writing and listening, based on a wide variety of media texts and audio materials. You can also equip yourself with journalistic skills such as giving presentations and writing media articles.Focusing on the style of Arabic media language, you are guided through a series of topics:DiplomacyElectionsViolence and AnarchyWar and Military ActionEconomyLaw and OrderTrade and IndustryReports on Language and CultureNatural DisastersRevolutionsaWar on TerrorismArabic Radio and TV ExtractsEach module includes a section for discussion and debate as well as an explanation of Media Arabic issues.The book includes:Authentic texts and listening materials gathered from a wide range of Arabic mediaOver eighty minutes of audio material available as a free downloadVocabulary listKey to exercisesNew to this edition:Brand new texts and listening materialsNew module on Language and CultureNew module on RevolutionsNew drills throughoutNow includes radio as well as TV

This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country’s media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contributions from experts in the field of media in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to provide valuable insights into the heterogeneity of this region’s media systems. It focuses on trends in government stances towards media, media ownership models, technological innovation, and the role of transnational mobility in shaping media structure and practices. Each chapter in the volume traces a specific country’s media – from Lebanon to Morocco – and assesses its media system in terms of historical roots, political and legal frameworks, media economy and ownership patterns, technology and infrastructure, and social factors (including diversity and equality in gender, age, ethnicities, religions, and languages). This book is a welcome contribution to the field of media studies, constituting the only edited collection in recent years to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of Arab media systems. As such, it will be of great use to students and scholars in media, journalism and communication studies, as well as political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists with an interest in the MENA region.

An introductory media Arabic book for the elementary and low intermediate levels With the proliferation of satellite television news and social media channels, students of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) have access to an increasingly vast range of print and broadcast news from the Arab world. Media Arabic for Beginners is a unique textbook designed to lead elementary and low intermediate level students of MSA to a solid level of proficiency in the language of Arabic media. Through active engagement with authentic texts selected from a wide variety of news sources and websites, learners are familiarized with vocabulary, idioms, lexical items, and collocations, while grammatical concepts are introduced and explained in context. With sixteen texts accompanied by sixteen audio files and supportive PowerPoint presentations, this content-based approach allows students to develop and enhance their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills. Vocabulary and grammatical points are presented as PowerPoint slides, making for discrete and manageable learning targets. Media Arabic for Beginners is structured around four themes, each devoted to a dominant news topic: Official Visits and Talks; Elections and Referendums; Attacks and Explosions; and Demonstrations and Protests. Each unit is in turn made up of four lessons, each lesson featuring a text from a particular perspective together with pre-reading activities, reading activities, post-reading activities, and a section with particular focus on grammar. The texts progress from very simple to more complex, as students steadily increase their reading fluency. Each unit ends with a thorough review section with various activities, such as comprehension questions, vocabulary translation, and role play.

Designed for use in the classroom, but equally suitable for self-study, Media Arabic provides the basic skills required for comprehension and news gathering from Arabic radio, TV and newspapers. Based on recent news material from newspapers and the spoken media, the course assumes knowledge of no more than the basic grammar and a restricted vocabulary, and can be used by undergraduate students, businessmen and journalists. An accompanying CD of BBC World Service recordings is available only from the publishers: contact EUP on +44 (0)131 650 4218.

This volume is the first of its kind to deal with the relation between Arabic and the media. It focuses on close analyses of examples of media Arabic (code-switching, language variation, orthography and constructions of identity), and also offers approaches to the use of media for teaching Arabic.