Research Guides: Arabic Language Learning: Literature and Culture

Bilingual Readers

Modern Arabic Short Stories by Daniel L. Newman
Call Number: PJ7694.E8 M63 2008
ISBN: 0863564364
Arabic Stories for Language Learners by Hezi Brosh
Call Number: PJ6311 .B73 2013
ISBN: 0804843007
A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories by Sabry Hafez
Call Number: PJ6119 .R32 1988
ISBN: 0863560873
A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature by S. A. Bonebakker
Call Number: PJ6311 .R4 2012
ISBN: 1937040038
The Epistle on Legal Theory by Muhammad Ibn Idris Al-Shafi'i
Call Number: KBP440.62.S53 A3713 2013
ISBN: 0814769985
A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of Ali by Al-Qadi Al-Quda
Call Number: PJ7698.A5 A2 2013
ISBN: 0814729142
Leg over Leg by Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq
Call Number: PJ7862.H48 S213 2013
ISBN: 0814729371

We have a selection of high quality children's books in call number range PZ10.731.

Jarrah al-samin wa-al-ʻasal by Sharaf al-Dīn, Fāṭimah
Call Number: PZ10.731.S525 J37 2009
ISBN: 9948037464
Al-mughafal wa-al-khabīth by Sharaf al-Dīn, Fāṭimah
Call Number: PZ10.731.S525 M8 2008
ISBN: 9948037456

Sahlawayhi 1 by Ahmed H. Khorshid
Call Number: PJ6311 .K56 2009
ISBN: 1449539742
This is the first-ever series of graded stories for beginning adult learners of Arabic as a foreign language.
Sahlawayhi 2 by Ahmed H. Khorshid
Call Number: PJ6311 .K56 2012
ISBN: 1448605296
Hoda Barakat's Sayyidi Wa Habibi by Hoda Barakat; Laila Familiar
Call Number: PJ7816.A672 S2913 2013
ISBN: 1626160023
Sayyidi wa Habibi (My Master and My Love) is a novel by acclaimed Lebanese author Hoda Barakat, abridged in this volume for learners of Arabic at the advanced low proficiency level.
Saud Al-Sanousi's Saaq Al-Bambuu by Saud Al-Sanousi; Laila Familiar
Call Number: PJ7962.A59 S38 2017
ISBN: 1626163855
This book is an abridged edition of the Arabic novel Saaq al-Bambuu (The Bamboo Stalk), written by Saud al-Sanousi, a living Kuwaiti writer. The abridged edition, which was written by the editors and approved by the author (highlighting its authenticity), is presented in Arabic and provided with exercises for use in an Arabic language-learning course at the intermediate-advanced level.

We have a selection of novels, short stories, and poetry in the Arabic literature section.

Fī ghiyāb al-jawāb : qiṣaṣ qaṣīrah kutibat fī 2011-2012 by ʻAbd al-Razzāq, Wafāʼ
Call Number: PJ7804.R43 F54 2013
al-Ḥarf wa-al-ghurāb : shiʻr by Kamāl al-Dīn, Adīb
Call Number: PJ7942.A3739 H37 2013

We have textbooks to aid reading literature in Arabic as well as classic novels and short stories in both Arabic and English translation.

Building Arabic Vocabulary Through Reading by Nariman Naili Al-Warraki; Nadia Harb
Call Number: PJ6111 .W37 2013
ISBN: 9774166132
Mastering Arabic Through Literature by Iman A. Soliman
Call Number: PJ6111 .S59 2014
ISBN: 9774165985
The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy
Call Number: PJ7715 .M87 2010
ISBN: 039392808X
Alf laylah wa laylah by Tarnowska, Wafa'
Call Number: PZ8.T178 A73125 2012
Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz
Call Number: PJ7846.A46 Q2513 2008
ISBN: 9774161564
al-Qāhirah al-jadīdah by Naguib Mahfouz
Call Number: PJ7846.A46 Q25 2009
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Call Number: PJ7846.A46 Z4813 2011
ISBN: 9774164830
Zuqāq al-midaqq by Naguib Mahfouz
Call Number: PJ7846.A46 Z48 2009
Classical Arabic Literature by Geert Jan Van Gelder
Call Number: PJ7694.E1 C53 2013
ISBN: 0814770274

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Perspectives: Arabic language and culture in film by Nasser M. Isleem
ISBN: 098215951X
Publication Date: PJ6095 .A48 2009
Popular Proverbs by Nasser M. Isleem
Call Number: PN6519.A7 I85 2009
ISBN: 0982159501
The Arabic Novel by Roger Allen
Call Number: PJ7577 .A4 1995
ISBN: 081562641X
Making Music in the Arab World by A. J. Racy
Call Number: ML348 .R33 2003
ISBN: 0521304148
Popular Culture in the Arab World by Andrew Hammond
Call Number: DS36.88 .H357 2007
ISBN: 9774160541