Student Resources
Students who are studying Arabic at USD may find these resources helpful.
Activities and Cultural Events
None at this time.
Entertainment
Movies
- 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
Music
- 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
Television
Television News
- 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
Learning
- 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
Radio, podcasts & other audio
- Archive of episodes from ساعة لقلبك - a famous Egyptian comedy radio show from the '50s and '60s
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France24 - Monte Carlo Doualiya - Click on the link at the bottom reading البث المباشر to listen to their radio stream
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BBC Xtra podcast - the BBC's flagship Arabic podcast, covering social and human interest issues. Updated daily with approximately half hour long podcasts
- ArabicPod - over 100 beginner-level Arabic podcasts available for free (with registration); however, for access to higher-level podcasts, a subscription is required
Reading
Books
- 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
Magazines
- Akhbar El Nogoom (entertainment news, Egypt)
- Sayidaty (women's magazine, Egypt)
Newspapers
- Ad Dustour (Jordan)
- Al Ahram (Egypt)
- Al Bayan (United Arab Emirates)
- Al Gomhuria (Egypt)
- Al Ittihad (United Arab Emirates)
- Al Masry Al Youm (Egypt)
- Al Mesryoon (Egypt)
- Al Quds (Palestine)
- Al Rai (Jordan)
- Al Wafd (Egypt)
- An Nahar (Lebanon)
- Al Watan (Saudi Arabia)
- Az Zaman (Iraq)
- Dar Al Khaleej (United Arab Emirates)
Upcoming Events
- Apr26
Anti-Racism Across Cultures Speaker Series: Translation and the Lived Geographies of the Black Mediterranean
Monday, April 26, 2021 // 5:30 p.m.Virtual Event
Arabic
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