Reading the Arab World: A Content-Based Textbook for Intermediate to Advanced Learners of Arabic

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Reading the Arab World is a content-based textbook for intermediate to advanced students of Arabic, designed to enhance language skills through exposure to authentic texts. Students will develop their reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as they learn about the most contemporary issues shaping the Arab world through a range of authentic texts. The choice of texts and authors is diverse and includes texts from various sources and geographical regions in the Arab world, as well as authors of different genders, ages, generations, and schools of thought, thus ensuring a compelling range of viewpoints and angles. Each text is supported by relevant tasks such as vocabulary exercises, comprehension activities, and discussion questions. This is an ideal resource for students of Arabic as a second or heritage language, working at or above the Intermediate-High level on the ACTFL proficiency scale. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (English) Introduction (Arabic) Guidance Notes Introducing the Arab World Unit One: Family Issues Lesson One: The structure of the contemporary Arab family Lesson Two: The extended family Lesson Three: Arranged marriage: Why do girls fear traditional marriage? Lesson Four: How divorce statistics in the Arab world have changed society’s perceptions Lesson Five: Grandparents and grandchildren: Love conquers generational differences Vocabulary lists Unit Two: Youth Issues Lesson One: Arab youth and visions of the future Lesson Two: Arab youth: Apathy, frustration, and change Lesson Three: Arab youth and Cultural practices Lesson Four: Why do Arab youth migrate? Lesson Five: Arab youth between the hammer of reality and the anvil of ambition Vocabulary lists Unit Three: Women’s Issues Lesson One: What is the feminist movement, and who are the Arab women that head it? Lesson Two: How can Arab women be empowered? Lesson Three: Arab women: Issues and priorities Lesson Four: On the media and the position of women Lesson Five: On International Women's Day: Learn about the situation of working Arab women Lesson Six: The reality of Gulf women socially and culturally Vocabulary lists Unit Four: Religion’s Impact on Individuals and Society Lesson One: Sources of ethics and moral Lesson Two: Religion and being religious: The dialectic between progress and backwardness Lesson Three: Religion and state in the Arab world Lesson Four: Extremism between religious and secular Vocabulary lists Unit Five: Education and Human Development Issues Lesson One: Illiteracy in the Arab world Lesson Two: The best modern Arab and international universities of the year 2020 Lesson Three: Education reform in the Arab world Lesson Four: “The Art of Indifference”: What is the secret behind the popularity of self-help books? Lesson Five: Human Development Report 2015: Development in every work Vocabulary lists Unit Six: Economy and Development Issues Lesson One: The Conflict between development trends Lesson Two: Poverty and corruption in the Arab world Lesson Three: Four Arab countries from which the middle class may soon disappear Lesson Four: Your guide to learn about real estate investment markets in the Arab world Vocabulary lists Unit Seven: Cultural and Societal Issues Lesson One: Introduction to the characteristics and characteristics of Arab society Lesson Two: In Ramadan . . . Are Arabs similar from the Ocean to the Gulf? Lesson Three: In praise of the Kunefe Lesson Four: The cafe in contemporary Arab culture Vocabulary lists Unit Eight: The Question of Identity Lesson One: The components of the Arab identity Lesson Two: The question of identity and its theoretical background Lesson Three: The problem of identity in Iraq Lesson Four: Imagined national identities Vocabulary lists Unit Nine: Intellectual and Cultural Issues Lesson One: Problems of contemporary Arab thought Lesson Two: Questions of modernity in Arab thought Lesson Three: Contradictions in the contemporary Arab thought Lesson Four: The concept of freedom in contemporary Arab thought Lesson Five: Types of intellectuals in the Arab world Vocabulary lists Unit Ten: Politics Issues Lesson One: The past and the future of the Arab world Lesson Two: Is the Gulf Cooperation Council finished? Lesson Three: Cultural diversity in the Arab world is a problem! Lesson Four: Not the end of the Arab Spring Lesson Five: Democracy first, democracy always Vocabulary lists