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World Languages A-Z: Arabic (العربية)

Arabic is a global language, with over 350 million native speakers. Discover this beautiful, poetic, and useful language with the library resources below! اللغة العربية لغة عالمية، يتحدث بها أكثر من 350 مليون شخص. اكتشف هذه اللغة الجميلة والشاعرية والمفيدة من خلال موارد أدناه #IndyPLAdults

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  • Short stories by an Egyptian author.
    Book, 2023al-Qāhirah : Dār al-ʻAyn lil-Nashr, 2023. — Arabic FIC T234z
  • The third book in a trilogy of stories set in 20th century Cairo. By Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988).
    Book, 2022al-Qāhirah : Dīwān lil-Nashr, 2022. — Arabic FIC M2148s
  • Under the fig trees

    Taht alshajra

    "On a hot summer day, a crew of workers--men and women, young and old--arrive at dawn at a picturesque fig orchard in northwest Tunisia. We eavesdrop, through the sun-dappled leaves of the fig trees, as they joke, argue, debate, gossip, flirt, all…
    DVD, 2024New York, NY : Film Movement, [2024] — Arabic DVD UND
  • "Traditionally, Egyptian cooking has been best practiced and enjoyed at home, where generations of unrecorded family recipes have been the sustaining repertoire for daily meals as well as sumptuous holiday feasts. Abou El Sid, one of Cairo's most…
    Book, 2015Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2015. — Arabic 641.5962 L522a
  • A story about life during the Lebanese civil war.
    Book, 2010Al-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ ; Bayrūt : Al-Markaz al-Thaqāfī al-ʻArabī, 2010. — Arabic FIC H419h
  • "The debut feature of filmmaker Tamer El Said tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, and Berlin during the…
    DVD, 2019[United States] : Big World Pictures, [2019] — Arabic DVD IN
  • "A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attends a video workshop at a small town community center run by Rona, a young filmmaker from Tel Aviv, who teaches them to document their lives. As each student shares footage from her home life with the…
    Streaming Video, 2021Kino Lorber, 2021. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • Eleven Words for Love

    a Journey Through Arabic Expressions of Love

    Abdel-Fattah, Randa,
    Beautifully illustrated children's book, by a Palestinian author.
    Book, 2023Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — J P ABD
  • "An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest." The first feature film shot entirely in Saudi…
    DVD, 2014Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Classics, [2014] — Arabic DVD WAD
  • "In Jordan, in 1967, tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, eleven, and his mother Ghaydaa are placed in a temporary refugee camp, where they wait, like the…
    DVD, 2014[New York, N.Y.] : Kino Lorber, [2014] — Arabic DVD WHE
  • Poems by a Bahraini poet and activist.
    Book, 2021Bayrūt [Lebanon] : al-Muʼassasah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Nashr, 2021. — Arabic 892.717 S6168t
  • بنات اوى والحروف المفقودة

    عن الحيوانات الناطقة في الخطاب الخطر

    ورداني، هيثم
    Literature from an Egyptian writer and translator living in Berlin.
    Book, 2023al-Qāhirah : al-Karmah lil-Nashr, 2023. — Arabic 398.24 W264b
  • From Ibn Sina to Sindbad

    a Guided Reader to Classics of Arabic Literature

    DiMeo, David Fred,
    "From Ibn Sina to Sindbad makes some of the greatest works of the Golden Age of Arab Civilization accessible to Arabic students at the mid- to high-advanced level of proficiency, while also providing a ready curriculum for teachers of Advanced…
    Book, 2023Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2023. — 492.7 DIM
  • "Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States [...] This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said's Arabic narrative, augmented…
    Book, 2011Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2011] — B Said, Omar ibn SAI
  • Book, 2022Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, 2022. — 492.78242 RIS
  • 15-minute Arabic

    Learn in Just 12 Weeks

    Sarhaan, Marion,
    Book, 2024New York, NY : DK, 2024. — 492.78242 SAR 2024