arabic language

Offers a guided reading of the work of Sheikh Ibn Battuta using twenty interactive lessons on style and grammar along with historical and cultural background and critical evaluation. The work itself chronicles the travels of Ibn Battuta to East Africa, Byzantium, Iraq, Russia, India, Ceylon, and China during the fourteenth century. Describes Muslim maritime activities, foreign architecture, and the agricultural activities of various cultures as well as other sights from his travels.

Eleven-year-old Saba's greatest desire is to have a mobile phone like all of her friends at school. However, when she asks her mother for one, she refuses, saying she doesn't need one, leading Saba to embark on a campaign to change her mother's mind.

A teenager named Saba worries about economic strife threatening her family.

It's alphabet rhyme time in this illustrated introduction to Arabic language and culture! A perfect read-aloud bedtime book and the ideal accompaniment to guide emerging readers, My First Book of Arabic Words introduces children to the basic words and simple vocabulary of Arabic through colorful rhymes and beautiful imagery. The ABCs of Arabic life are charmingly captured in Chaymaa Sobhy's illustrations, offering a contemporary lens on the great dynamism and diversity found in global Arab culture. A charming character serves as your guide. Along the way, you get an A-to-Z introduction to her family, friends, and community, and follow her fun-filled adventures. Holidays and cultural traditions are woven into the narrative, offering a window into the world of an English-speaking child in the twenty-first century Arabic world: E is for Eid al-Fitr. We celebrate, we eat! Gather round the table can you find a seat? A fun and informative foray into the Arabic language that combines Aya Khalil's lilting rhymes with Chaymaa Sobhy's vibrant illustrations.

"From tiger sharks to great whites, get ready to face these large and in charge predators as they cruise through Earth's oceans"--Back cover.

Provides fifteen-minute lessons designed to help people learn basic Arabic words and phrases useful for vacation and business situations.

A boy worries about the end of the world.

"Dig, climb, hammer, lift, drive, build! See what construction workers do!"--OCLC.

Fleeing their homeland in search of safety in another country, a Palestinian family carries a single suitcase in which the special contents evoke eleven Arabic names for love, in this moving scrapbook that explores universal bonds of family, loyalty and friendship.

"When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort"--OCLC.