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A fun, accessible, and fully illustrated book of 100 expressions about animals in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic This humorous and wonderfully illustrated book showcases everyday Egyptian Colloquial Ar...
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  • 23 March 2027
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A fun, accessible, and fully illustrated book of 100 expressions about animals in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic

This humorous and wonderfully illustrated book showcases everyday Egyptian Colloquial Arabic expressions that incorporate animals. From calm gazelles to swimming fish to crocodile tears, this unique book will entertain and inform readers, and immerse them in the cultural richness of Egyptian idioms and expressions. Reader’s will be surprised by similar expressions shared between Arabic and English, and also intrigued to learn new, unfamiliar turns of phrase.

Each expression is given in its original Arabic along with a transliteration, a literal meaning, and an explanation. It will be useful for students and linguists but also for those interested in Egyptian culture and communities.

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Price: $24.95
Pages: 160
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press
Publication Date: 23 March 2027
Trim Size: 7.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781649035776
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language learning: specific skills, Language teaching and learning: second or additional languages, Language learning: reading skills
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Dalal Abo El Seoud is a senior instructor in the Department of Arabic Language Instruction at the American University in Cairo, where she has been teaching since 1997, and served as chair of the department during 2013–2019. She is co-author of the three-volume series Uktub al-‘arabiya: Writing Skills in Modern Standard Arabic (AUC Press, 2012–2014) and The Concise Arabic–English Lexicon of Verbs in Context (AUC Press, 2011), and author of Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions (AUC Press, 2022).