Category Archives: Arabic

Fertile Desert: Arabic short stories from the UAE

By admin | Published: 28 August 2009

Browsing the internet, I came across an interesting book review of “In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates”. As the title implies, this is a collection of short stories from the Arabian Gulf, specifically the UAE, translated into English.

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Do you tweet basic Arabic?

By admin | Published: 27 August 2009

A language school based in Dubai are planning to make use of Twitter to bring basic Arabic language to a worldwide audience. Followers of the Eton Institute will get a daily lesson, containing an English transliteration of an Arabic phrase.

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Is Arabic translation of credit crunch a spending spree?

By admin | Published: 4 November 2008

I’ve mentioned before that I am a big fan of Charlton Athletic football club and the past few weeks have been a real rollercoaster for us fans. For a while I thought my separate worlds of football and Arabic translation would be brought together as Dubai based Zabeel Investments made an “indicative offer” to buy [...]