Student Resources

Students who are studying Arabic at USD may find these resources helpful.

Activities and Cultural Events

None at this time.

Foraten.net
Sotwesoora.tv
Al Mumiyaa' (The Mummy/The Night of Counting the Years) - a famous 1969 film with dialogue entirely in fuSHa. Subtitled version here
YouTube user omar1980TV - many full movies, mostly old ones, starring such actors as Soad Hosni, Ismail Yassin, Farid al Atrache, Fatin Hamama, Abdel Halim Hafez, and others
YouTube user Hind0Rostom - a large collection of full movies starring Hind Rostom

The Arabic Music.com
Panet.co.il
Farfesh
La7oon lyrics (registration required) - Arabic lyrics site
Arabic Song Lyrics & Translation - translations and lyrics to more than 600 Arabic songs
Arabic Lyrics Translation forum - features a large archive of song translations, and you can request (or post your own) translations of Arabic songs
Shira.net Song Translations - a bellydance website featuring lyrics in both transliterated and translated form
OrientalDancer.net Song Lyrics - more translated/transliterated lyrics from another bellydance site

Al Jazeera (website | online stream | YouTube channel)
Al Arabiya (website | online stream - not available in the US | YouTube channel)
France24 - Click on the banner reading البث المباشر to watch their live stream.
wwiTV - streaming TV channels from many different countries.
HD44 - a great collection of streaming Arabic TV channels and other video, including news and entertainment

Arabic Learning Resources (Vocabulary, grammar, Arabic language FAQs, and more)
Arabic Online (Note: These courses are for self-interest and are not transferrable for credit.)
Omniglot: Writing Systems and Languages of the World (Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic)
Online dictionaries

Archive of episodes from ساعة لقلبك - a famous Egyptian comedy radio show from the '50s and '60s
France24 - Monte Carlo Doualiya - Click on the link at the bottom reading البث المباشر to listen to their radio stream
BBC Xtra podcast - the BBC's flagship Arabic podcast, covering social and human interest issues. Updated daily with approximately half hour long podcasts
Al-Kitaab Podcasts
ArabicPod - over 100 beginner-level Arabic podcasts available for free (with registration); however, for access to higher-level podcasts, a subscription is required

Arabic e-books in PDF format (password for .rar files is tipsclub)
Adab (Arabic poetry)
4shared - If you're looking for a book (or, for that matter, a song), do a search in Arabic on this site