Article 4 of Egypt's Proposed Constitution with various translations

Final Draft of Constitution, published November 29, 2012
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypt-s-draft-constitution-translated

Article 4

Al-Azhar is an encompassing independent Islamic institution, with exclusive autonomy over its own affairs, responsible for preaching Islam, theology and the Arabic language in Egypt and the world. Al-Azhar Senior Scholars are to be consulted in matters pertaining to Islamic law.


The post of Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh is independent and cannot be dismissed. The method of appointing the Grand Sheikh from among members of the Senior Scholars is to be determined by law.

The State shall ensure sufficient funds for Al-Azhar to achieve its objectives.


All of the above is subject to law regulations.



October 30, 2012
http://www.acus.org/egyptsource/unofficial-english-translation-egypts-draft-constitution

Article 4

Al-Azhar is an independent Islamic institution, its headquarters in Cairo and its domain is the Islamic nation, and the whole world. It shall be responsible for spreading the Islamic call and the religious scholarship. The State shall ensure all the sufficient financial allocations for the achievement of its objectives and the law shall determine the section of the Rector of Al-Azhar, who shall be independent and impeachable.

The Council of Al-Azhar’s Senior Scholars shall be consulted on issued related to Islamic Sharia.

 

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-894860

Article 4;
Al-Azhar is an encompassing independent Islamic institution, with exclusive autonomy over its own affairs, responsible for preaching Islam, theology and the Arabic language in Egypt and the world. Al-Azhar Senior Scholars are to be consulted in matters pertaining to Islamic law;The post of Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh is independent and cannot be dismissed. The method of appointing the Grand Sheikh from among members of the Senior Scholars is to be determined by law.

 

 

دوريتس דוריטוס Doritos transliterated into Arabic and Hebrew

Doritos or Doritosh--as long as they are tasty, bring them on!

You'll need to enlarge it in viewer to see the spellings lined up. Find them in the first word of the respective ingredients columns on the left-hand side of the Doritos wrapper. Because it is a foreign word, the person who transliterated "Doritos" into Hebrew used the samech /s/ instead of the sin /s/, so that there is no question that the last sound is an /s/, and not a shin /sh/. The Arabic transliterator used the sin /s/, and leaves it to the reader to be familiar enough with the word to know that it is not "Doritosh,"

You would get different results if you were to use the Spanish or English pronunciations to transcribe the words. The main difference in American English is the flapping [D] of the last "t," which makes it sound like the first trill of a rolled-r; in Spanish this "t" is often the voiced inter-dental, which can be written in Arabic as ث.  The second difference is that the English ends the word in a [z] rather than the spelled "s"; Spanish uses a devoiced /z/ that sounds s-like. Apparently, both Arabic and Hebrew use the /s/.

Thanks as usual to the keyboards at
http://www.muftah-alhuruf.com/
and http://www.mikledet.com/     Enjoy the (Latin alphabet) phonetic option on the latter!

You can find the front side of the wrapper on my Hebrew language blog. Yum!

Children's bilingual books

How many donkeys? : an Arabic counting tale retold by Margaret Read MacDonald and Nadia Jameel Taibah ; illustrations by Carol Liddiment.
Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman, 2009.
ISBN 2008056047 Library of Congress

Manual Transliteration Systems I have used

Arabic:: Library of Congress , International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) (scroll to yellow), Foreign Service Institute (page 13 of Smith's 1969 Modern Written Arabic)
YIVO for Yiddish and Hebrew

Persian: SDSU Language Acquisition Resource Center LARC transliteration system and Dr. Atefeh Oliai's variations on this

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Russian: IPA

American Sign Language (ASL): SignWriting as used by researchers at the Salk Institute (La Jolla, CA)

Handling special characters

Embedding IPA and non-Latin characters so they display on a screen using Unicode

on-line dictionaries

Tamazight spoken in the Kelaa Mgouna/Boumalen Dades region

California's Annual Arab film festival

On Opening Night, October 16th 2008, the 2008 Arab Film Festival Jury announced the recipients of the Noor Awards at the Castro Theater (in green)

In SF, SJ, and LA * 12th Annual Arab Film Festival * 16-28 October 2008 http://www.aff.org/AFF_2008_film_list.pdf (text below)

FEATURE FILMS: FICTION
All My Life (Dir. Maher Sabry / Egypt, USA / 2008 / 120min)
Amours D' Enfants (Dir. Fares Khalil / Lebanon / 2008 / 107min)
Bahraini Tale (Dir. Bassam Al Thawadi / Bahrain / 2007 / 96min)
Burned Hearts (Dir. Ahmed El Maanouni / Morocco / 2007 / 84min)
Captain Abu Raed (Dir. Amin Matalqa / Jordan / 2007 / 110min)
Falling from Earth (Dir. Chadi Zeneddine / Lebanon / 2007 / 70min)
Four Girls (Dir. Hassin Al Halibi / Bahrain / 2008 / 144min)
Out of Coverage (Dir. Abdellatif Abdulhamid / Syria / 2008 / 100min) - Not in Competition
Paloma Delight (Dir. Nadir Mokneche/ Algeria / 2007/ 134min) Noor Award for Best Feature Fiction
The President's Chef (Dir. Saeed Hamed / Egypt / 2008 / 150min) - Not in Competition
Samira's Garden (Dir. Latif Lahlou / Morocco / 2007 / 110min)
Seventh Heaven (Dir. Saad Hendawy / Egypt / 2008 / 100min)
The Shadow of Silence (Dir. Abdullah Al Muheisen / Saudi Arabia / 2006 / 96min)
The TV Is Coming (Dir. Moncef Dhouib / Tunisia / 2006 / 95min) - Not in Competition
Waiting for Pasolini (Dir. Daoud Aoulad-Syad / Morocco / 2007 / 100 min) -OPENING NIGHT - Not in Competition
The Yellow House (Dir. Amor Hakkar / Algeria / 2008 / 84min) Special Mention for Best Feature Fiction

FEATURE FILMS: DOCUMENTARIES
33 Days (Dir. Mai Masri / Lebanon / 2007 / 70 min)
Amina (Dir. Khadija Al-Salami / Yemen / 2008 / 52min)
Dancers (Dir. Celame Barge / Egypt / 2007 / 51min)
Gaza Souvenirs (Dir. Samuel Albaric / France / 2006 / 46min)
Life after the Fall (Dir. Kasim Abid / Iraq / Documentary / 2008 / 155 min) Noor Award for Best Feature Documentary
Made in Egypt (Dir. Karim Goury / Egypt / France / 2006 / 69min)
Memory of a Woman (Dir. Lassaad Oueslati / Tunisia / 2008 / 52min)
Recycle (Dir. Mahmoud Al-Massad / Jordan / 2007 / 78 min)
Refugees for Life (Dir. Hady Zaccak / Lebanon / 2008 / 48min)
Roundabout Chatila (Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2005 / 50min) - Not in Competition
Seeing through the Sand (Dir. Noor Al-Dabbagh / Saudi Arabia / 2008 / 50min)
Slingshot Hip Hop (Dir. Jackie Salloum / Palestine / 2008 / 89min)
Storm from the South (Dir. Walid Al Awadi / Kuwait, UAE / 2006 / 52min)
Waiting for the Day (Dir. Meyar al Roumi / France, Syria / 2003 / 50min) - Not in Competition
War, Love, God, Madness (Dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji / Iraq / 2008 / 72 min) - Not in Competition
The Way North: Maghrebi Women in Marseille (Dir. Shara K. Lange. / France / 2007 / 58min)

SHORT FILMS: FICTION
Alienation (Dir. Fady Copty / Palestine / 2007 / 8min)
Arafat & I (Dir. Mahdi Fleifel/ Palestine, UK / 2008 / 15min)
At the Day's End (Dir. Sherif El Bendary / Egypt / 2007 / 15min)
Before the Wind Blows (Dir. Samer Najari / Canada / 2006 / 18min)
Bint Mariam (Dir. Saeed Salmeen Al Murry / UAE / 2008 / 25min)

The Cistern (Dir. Lassaad Oueslati / Tunisia / 2006 /12min) - Not in Competition
Clean Hands Dirty Soap (Dir. Karim Fanous / Egypt / 2007 / 25min) Noor Award for Best Short Fiction
Dead Fish (Dir. Malik Amara / Tunisia / 2008 / 19min)
Flou (Dir. Youssef Britel / Morocco / 2007 / 6min)
Free to Fly (Dir. Sajeda Abousaif & Alabbas Saed / Jordan / 2008 / 6min)
I Am Ready (Dir. Omar Saleh / Jordan / 2008 / 12min)
Karma (Dir. Faisal Alibrahim / Kuwait / 2007 / 10min)
Messaoud (Dir. Omar Mouldouira / Morocco / 2006 / 8 min)
The Maid (Dir. Heidi Saman / Egypt / 2008 / 19min)
Neighbors (Dir. Gina Asfour / Palestine / 2008 / 13 min)
Noor (Dir. Eyas Salman / Palestine / 2008 / 20 min)
Pickled (Dir. Razi Najar / Palestine / 2008 / 16 min)
Tenbak (Dir. Abdullah Hassan Ahmed / UAE / 2008 / 26min) Special Mention for Best Short Fiction
Tough Crowd (Dir. Iman Zawahry / USA / 2007 / 9min)
The Shooter (Dir. Ihab Jadallah / Palestine / 2007 / 7min)
The View (Dir. Omar Saleh / Jordan / 2008 / 16min)
A Winter Day's Visits (Dir. Ismaeel Hamdy / Egypt / 2007 / 37min)
Ya Hala Wood (Dir. Hazim Bitar / Jordan / 2008 / 10min)
The Young Lady and the School (Dir. Mohamed Nadif / Morocco / 2008 / 10min)
The Young Lady and the Teacher (Dir. Mohamed Nadif / Morocco / 2007 / 16min)

SHORT FILMS: DOCUMENTARIES
Against the Light (Dir. Koutaiba al Janabi / UK, Czech Republic / 2007 / 15min)
A Candle for the Shabandar Café (Dir. Emad Ali / Iraq / 2007 / 23min) - Not in Competition
Deadly Playground (Dir. Katia Saleh / Lebanon / 2007 / 23min)
Doctor Nabil (Dir. Ahmed Jabbar / Iraq / 2007 / 15min) - Not in Competition
Leaving (Dir. Bahram Al Zuhairi / Iraq / 2007 / 23min) - Not in Competition
Merely a Smell (Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2007 / 11min)
Mimoune (Dir. Gonzalo Ballester / Spain/ Morocco / 2006 / 11min)
Nights and Days (Dir. Lamia Joreige / Lebanon / 2007 / 17min)
Not My Turn Yet (Dir. Rabee Zureikat & Hazim Bitar / Jordan / 2008 / 6min)
Open Eyes (Dir. Jana Sintschnig / USA / 2007 / 7min)
Out of the Frame (Dir. Nizar Annadawi / Iraq / 2007 / 22min) Noor Award for Best Short Documentary
A Palestinian Mural (Dir. Norma Sayage / USA / 2008 / 12 min)
(Posthumous) (Dir. Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon / 2007 / 28min)
A Stranger in His Own Country (Dir. Hassanain Al Hani / Iraq / 2007 / 10min) - Not in Competition
When Walls Speak (Dir. May Odeh / Palestine / 2008 / 16 min)

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Jordanian Arabic
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Lesson 2: Physical State
Lesson 3: Family
Lesson 4: Useful Expressions
Lesson 5: Communication Difficulties
Lesson 6: Food
Lesson 7: Directions
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