Download or read book Lebanese 101 written by Ali Matar and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you having trouble communicating with your Arab friends?Have you wasted alot of time learning the Modern Standard Arabic 'MSA' and got nowhere?Well, this book can solve all of these problems!Fusha or MSA is not actually spoken between Arabs, since Fusha is a written language and not a spoken one in the Arab world.Lebanese is spoken worldwide and almost every Arabic country can understand the Lebanese dialect.This book will give you the first steps for achieving the beginner level in Lebanese Arabic. It includes grammar, comprehension, vocabulary and tests. It is also written in Latin letters, so that you can understand how to pronounce the words and letters correctly.By the end of this book you can achieve:* Learn the basics of the Lebanese/Levantine Dialect* Learn the internet language on how Arabs communicate on Social Media* Focusing more on the Levantine/Middle Eastern dialect than FushaAbout the Author:Ali Matar, born in Beirut/Lebanon, is the founder and creator of the YouTube channel MatarTV (over 34000 subscribers/August 2019), where he crushed stereotypes, habits and struggles of the younger Lebanese/Arab people in a funny way. He shows Lebanon from a different perspective and the point of view of an Arab living in a foreign European country. He also created the channels MatarPodcast, MatarEducation and developed Lebanese Arabic online courses.'' It is one of the best and most effective courses in Lebanese Arabic I managed to find after trying hundreds of sources! Mumtaz!'' - Comment of a course participant on Udemy

Download or read book Lebanon written by Tom Najem and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In a time of great political change and unrest in the Middle East, this highly topical text offers a succinct account of the contemporary political environment in Lebanon. Tom Najem provides both a developed understanding of the pre-civil war system and an analysis of how circumstances resulting from the civil war combined with essential pre-war elements to define politics in Lebanon. Systematically exploring Lebanons history, society and politics, the author stresses the importance of the crucial role of external actors in the Lebanese system. The analysis encompasses:the formation of the stateweaknesses and dynamics of the Lebanese statethe civil warpost-war government and changethe Lebanese economyforeign policy. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book fills a conspicuous gap in the existing academic literature on Lebanon. It will be of interest not only to students of international politics and Middle East studies, but also to anyone travelling in or wanting to learn more about the region.

Download or read book Lebanon written by William Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh centuries. The identities of Maronite Christians, Twelver Shia Muslims, and Druze, the mountain communities, developed alongside assertions of local chiefs under external powers from the Umayyads to the Ottomans. The chiefs began interacting in a common arena when Druze lord Fakhr al-Din Ma'n achieved domination of the mountain within the Ottoman imperial framework in the early seventeenth century. Harris knits together the subsequent interplay of the elite under the Sunni Muslim Shihab relatives of the Ma'ns after 1697 with demographic instability as Maronites overtook Shia as the largest community and expanded into Druze districts. By the 1840s many Maronites conceived the common arena as their patrimony. Maronite/Druze conflict ensued. Modern Lebanon arose out of European and Ottoman intervention in the 1860s to secure sectarian peace in a special province. In 1920, after the Ottoman collapse, France and the Maronites enlarged the province into the modern country, with a pluralism of communal minorities headed by Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. The book considers the flowering of this pluralism in the mid-twentieth century, and the strains of new demographic shifts and of social resentment in an open economy. External intrusions after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war rendered Lebanon's contradictions unmanageable and the country fell apart. Harris contends that Lebanon has not found a new equilibrium and has not transcended its sects. In the early twenty-first century there is an uneasy duality: Shia have largely recovered the weight they possessed in the sixteenth century, but Christians, Sunnis, and Druze are two-thirds of the country. This book offers readers a clear understanding of how modern Lebanon acquired its precarious social intricacy and its singular political character.

Download or read book The Spoken Arabic written by Ali Matar and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have been searching for a long time on books and resources to train and improve your spoken Arabic skills, then this book is for you. If you are a beginner, or advanced, but want to freshen up your Lebanese Arabic dialect knowledge, then you are reading the right description of your future book. This book consists of 4 parts to make your language learning journey easier. Part I: GrammarPart II: VocabularyPart III: AudioPart IV: Spelling With more than 100 exercises bundled in this book, working on your ability to fully understand Lebanese words and phrases, and to be able to read and even write the Lebanese dialect and practice it verbally, is now possible. Beginner exercises that no one has ever done for a spoken dialect before! P.S. This book does not have any lessons. It only has exercises related to the Spoken Lebanese Arabic dialect. If you are looking to learn the Lebanese Arabic dialect, then please check out my other books.

Download or read book The Lebanese Army written by Oren Barak and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Oren Barak sheds new light on the major political and social developments in Lebanon since its independence by focusing on the emergence of the Lebanese Army, its paralysis during the civil war from 1975 to 1990, and its reconstruction after the war. He discusses the remarkable transformation of a military dominated by one sector of society—the Christian communities, and particularly the Maronites—into one that is characterized by power sharing among Lebanon's various communities, large families, and regions. The book develops a new approach to the study of the role of the military in divided societies by examining military institutions from three intertwined angles: first, as major arenas for social coexistence and conflict; second, as actors that are involved in politics but are also affected by political processes; and third, as actors that promote the process of state formation. This comprehensive look at Lebanon will inform the discussion of other divided societies, such as Afghanistan and Iraq, that face the dual challenge of restoring the political system and the security sector after state failure and intrastate conflict.

Download or read book Lebanon s Jewish Community written by Franck Salameh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system.

Download or read book The Spoken Arabic written by Ali Matar and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.S. This is a combination of my first two books to make your life way easierThe books: Lebanese 101 and Lebanese Arabic GrammarA UNIQUELY POWERFUL APPROACH TO LEARNING SPOKEN ARABIC, FAST!Are you struggling to find a good resource for learning the spoken Arabic?Have you ever wanted to learn spoken Arabic to discover beautiful Dubai or just communicate with the closest people around you who are from an Arabic background? Then read on!This book doesn't just dive into the grammar of the Lebanese Arabic Language. The combination of all the modules that go into the basics, getting socially comfortable in conversation skills, reading and writing exercises, tests, vocabulary and verb conjugations, you will be unstoppable! By the end of this book, you will learn: The basics of the Lebanese/Levantine Dialect Learn the internet language on how Arabs communicate on social mediaFocus more on the Levantine/Middle Eastern dialect than Fusha. I even write Arabic in Latin letters so that you understand how to pronounce them correctly.Learn this one dialect that will allow you to communicate easily with all Arabs... even if you've never spoken a word in Arabic before!Finally, a book that IS NOT about Fusha which is the traditional Arabic but the Spoken Lebanese Arabic Language.

Download or read book Democracy Due to Lebanese Political System Democracy Concept written by Omar El Helwe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to separate between political and economical concept when talking about Democracy.Democracy with its general concept is not only practical and political procedures, but it is a group of values, thoughts and behaviors plus directions.It is the only political system that runs societies which allows for all social and political categories to express, asking for its legal demands and works to achieve them by using peaceful ways under law and constitution.

Download or read book The Anglo Arab Encounter written by Geoffrey Nash and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise study argues there is a qualitative difference between Arabic literature, Arabic literature translated into English, and a literature conceived and executed in English by writers of an Arab background. It examines the corpus of a group of contemporary Arab writers who incorporate Arab subjects and themes into the English language.

Download or read book Privatizing Welfare in the Middle East written by Anne Marie Baylouny and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the effects of neoliberal economic reforms on middle classes in the Middle East. Based on fieldwork and interviews with members, non-members, and policymakers, this title provides fresh insights into democratization, liberalization, and civil society.

Download or read book Reproducing Sectarianism written by Paul W. T. Kingston and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the politics of civil society in modern Lebanon.

Download or read book Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies written by Maya Shatzmiller and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays focus on identity formation in five minority groups - Copts in Egypt, Baha'is and Christians in Pakistan, Berbers in Algeria and Morocco, and Kurds in Turkey and Iraq. While every minority community is distinctive, the experiences of these groups show that a state's authoritarian rule, uncompromising attitude towards expressions of particularism, and failure to offer tools for inclusion are all responsible for the politicization and radicalization of minority identities. The place of Islam in this process is complex: while its initial pluralistic role was transformed through the creation of the modern nation-state, the radicalization of society in turn radicalized and politicized minority identities. Minority groups, though at times possessing a measure of political autonomy, remain intensely vulnerable.

Download or read book War and Intervention in Lebanon Routledge Revivals written by Yair Evron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the bitter conflict that divided Jerusalem and Damascus, a fascinating process of indirect – through the United States – and tacit understandings emerged with regard to Lebanon in the 1970s. This derived largely from the Israeli deterrence posture which held in check Syrian military involvement in Lebanon. This book, first published in 1987, traces the development of the Israeli and Syrian involvement in Lebanon between 1975 and 1985, and of the deterrence dialogue which evolved between them. It also places this dialogue within the larger context of the overall Israeli-Syrian deterrence equation. War and Intervention in Lebanon is a fascinating and relevant work, of great value to those with an interest in International Relations and Middle Eastern history, politics and diplomacy.

Download or read book The Arab Avant Garde written by Thomas Burkhalter and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational techniques, performance styles, political motivations, professional trainings, and inter-continental collaborations that claim the mantle of "innovation" within Arab and Arab diaspora music. While most books on Middle Eastern music-making focus on notions of tradition and regionally specific genres, The Arab Avant Garde presents a radically hybrid and globally dialectic set of practices. Engaging the "avant-garde"—a term with Eurocentric resonances—this anthology disturbs that presumed exclusivity, drawing on and challenging a growing body of literature about alternative modernities. Chapters delve into genres and modes as diverse as jazz, musical theatre, improvisation, hip hop, and heavy metal as performed in countries like Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and the United States. Focusing on multiple ways in which the "Arab avant-garde" becomes manifest, this anthology brings together international writers with eclectic disciplinary trainings—practicing musicians, area studies specialists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars of popular culture and media. Contributors include Sami W. Asmar, Michael Khoury, Saed Muhssin, Marina Peterson, Kamran Rastegar, Caroline Rooney, and Shayna Silverstein, as well as the editors.

Download or read book The Politics of Arab Integration written by Giacomo Luciani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 1988, is the result of a major research project, the most important inquiry into the fundamental political structure of the Arab world. It is often argued that Arab states are arbitrary political creations that lack historical or present legitimacy and are unable to relate to each other in a productive way. It is further suggested that the demise of pan-Arabism merely underlines the inability of individual Arab states to integrate either domestically or internationally. This book, Volume Four in the Nation, State and Integration in the Arab World research project carried out by the Istituto Affari Internazionali, sets out to answer the questions of Arab integration, with articles from a wide range of contributors from around the world.

Download or read book 40 Km Into Lebanon written by H. Thomas Davis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wars fought between the Arab nations and the Israel have drawn the attention of military analysts for nearly five decades. Tactical warfare as well as performance of modern weapons have been of particular interest. Since the Israel was created in 1948, the weaponry on both Israeli and Arab sides has grown in quantity and sophistication, and tactical doctrine on both sides has evolved as well. The lessons to be learned from Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon point more particularly, however, to politics, not military tactics or modern arms. Chapters include: Clausewitz and the philosophy of war and politics. Bibliography. Maps and tables.

Download or read book Julie Taboulie s Lebanese Kitchen written by Julie Ann Sageer and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 125 recipes for traditional Lebanese favorites, from mezze, street-food skewers and sandwiches, and staples like Labneh and Ajin (Lebanese yogurt and bread) to fresh seasonal salads, pickles and vegetables, main dishes and sweets, and rich desserts laced with Atar (rose water syrup) --