Advanced Media Arabic (Arabic Edition)

Lahlali has clearly made a great effort to use articles from real-world sources on interesting topics. The book is organized into chapters based on news topics (such as diplomacy, the military, elections, etc.). Each chapter contains half a dozen sections, each with an engaging article and a variety of questions and exercises to help you learn and use the vocabulary. This book will work well as either a class textbook or an individual study workbook.

book came with a HUGE crease on the cover. i intended on selling this item after my class and now will receive less money, something students are often short on. On top of that, this is the second comment I have been made about the terrible state of the book and never received a response first time.

Excellent resource that is being used as a textbook to teach a young man who wants to become a reporter.

A little dated in its material but it still does the job.

Excellent condition.

This book has much to offer, with lots of interesting and current articles with useful key vocabulary. The Elgibali book has similar benefits (and is a much more pleasant experience), but Lahlali's book goes well beyond Elgibali's coverage, deepening the vast store of vocabulary that one needs to make any headway in the often sylistically challenging Arabic media.But Lahlali's book's strength is its weakness. It suffers greatly from the most common and most frustrating problem of modern advanced Arabic materials for English speakers: it is completely out of touch with the average user. Some of the passsages are quite easy, but most are so difficult and stylistically unique as to be counterproductively frustrating. If the difficulty lay in common vocabulary, it would be worth the effort to struggle through, but most of these direct excerpts from online media are full of stylistic turns of phrase that, to a foreign learner of almost any level, serve more to confuse and frustrate than to educate. More than once, I asked my well-educated Syrian-born friend the meaning of one or another word or phrase, and she had never encountered these words.More to the point, the glossaries are laughable, both in what they DO contain and in what they do NOT. For example (and there are MANY more such examples), for one reading passage, the word "strengthening" is defined in the glossary (what intermediate-level Arabic student doesn't know the word ta'ziiz?), as is the phrase "weak dollar" (again, any first-year student would have learned these words), but the words "indifference" and "apathy" from the text are not defined. In a later passage, the simple words "doubts" (shkuuk) and "short term" (al-mada al-qaSir) are defined, but words like "state of confusion, fumbling about" (al-tkhabbuT?--this word is not even in the Hans Wehr dictionary!), pessismism (tshaa'um), optimism (tfaa'ul) and many other advanced concepts are not defined. Moreover, even when I understood the passage, quite often the questions in the exercises would use words that were totally alien to me (and often, again, to my native Arabic speaking friend).I'm relieved to have made my way through this book, and I applaud Lahlali for improving the selection of materials for advanced Arabic study, but wallahi, give us a break! Either edit the passages to use more common words, or at least define the odd-balls and somehow focus our attention on the useful material. A daily read of online papers like al-sharq al-'ausaT or even CNN and BBC in Arabic has been more useful (and far less frustrating) than Lahlali's book.

A terrific collection of interesting study texts from actual newspaper articles covering the usual areas:DiplomacyElectiuonsViolence and AnarchyWar and Military ActionEconomyLaw and OrderTrade and IndustryNatural Disasters"War on Terrorism"Arabic TV extractsThe focus is enhanced reading skills and there are several quite long and INTERESTING articles in each chapter for you to sink your teeth into, plus glossaries and a range of exercises for class or personal study. You can access (free downloads) some audio for later units on the publisher's website (info in the book). There are html links for many of the original source materials, so you can go exploring online.This is a really solid resource - another example of the modern development of textbooks for English speaking students of Arabic: professionally put together by experienced academics with a clear and appealing layout.(I know 5 stars is high, but frankly to date I have only reviewed the materials I found to be excellent, rather than those that have disappointed).The serious student or teacher will NOT be disappointed by this purchase.

Excellent second edition, with new updated stuff, online audio material, new text and vocabulary. Suitable for advanced level arabic students, who want to enrich their vocabulary on media issues. Consolidation excersises included. Ideal for self - studying.

Brilliant book for the advanced learner of Arabic.