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Al-Kitaab Part One, Third Edition, with Haki bil-Libnani Bundle: Book + Lebanese Arabic Companion Website Access Card

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The Al-Kitaab Part One, Third Edition, with Lebanese Arabic Bundle includes Haki Lebanese Arabic Online Textbook and Companion Website (ISBN 978-1-62616-154-2), packaged with Al-Kitaab Part One, Third Edition textbook, (ISBN 978-1-58901-736-8).

Haki bil-Libnani provides students of Arabic with an opportunity to acquire substantial and systematic proficiency in Lebanese dialect and culture, and is designed to work alongside the bestselling Arabic-language textbook Al-Kitaab Part One, Third Edition . The fully online textbook and interactive website recreates Al-Kitaab's video dialogues of Maha and Khaled recast in a Lebanese context while a second, original storyline consists of short dialogue scenes involving two Lebanese cultural liaisons who introduce a Lebanese-American student to daily life in Lebanon. Haki bil-Libnani integrates speaking, listening, grammar, and cultural competency skills to facilitate the teaching and learning of Lebanese Arabic while introducing students to Lebanon's vibrant and charming culture.

All Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) drills and exercises from the Al-Kitaab Part One, Third Edition , website are included here, so that students using Haki bil-Libnani alongside the Al-Kitaab Part One, Third Edition , textbook will only need to purchase this bundle. The Al-Kitaab Part One, Third Edition, with Lebanese Arabic Bundle Haki bil-Libnani will also be useful to individual learners with some proficiency in Arabic, who desire to learn Lebanese.

The Al-Kitaab Part One Bundle provides a complete and comprehensive program for students in the early stages of learning Arabic, developing skills in formal and colloquial Arabic, including reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge, integrating materials in colloquial and formal/written Arabic. The Companion Website Access Key for provides an individual student with full access to the companion website and is valid for 18 months from the student's first use of the key. This bundle cannot be returned if the seal protecting the Companion Website Access Key is removed.

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Published December 1, 2014

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About the author

Adnan Haydar

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Adnan Haydar is head of the Arabic section in the department of world languages, literatures, and cultures and professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of Arkansas, where he also directed the King Fahd Middle East Studies Program from 1993 to 1999. Dr. Haydar has taught at the University of California, the University of Pennsylvania, Middlebury College, and the University of Massachusetts. His fields of specialization and areas of teaching include modern and classical Arabic literature, Arabic language, folk literature, oral poetry, and European and Arabic poetics. He has directed SINARC, BAALI, and SCALE, summer institutes in Lebanon for intensive Arabic language and culture from 1997-2010.

He has authored, co-authored and co-edited eight books, including Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition, and published numerous translations and interpretations of poetry and fiction, including Adonis’ Mihyar of Damascus, His Songs, Khalil Hawi’s Naked in Exile, and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s celebrated novels The Ship and In Search of Walid Masoud. He has edited numerous modern Arabic novels in translation for Syracuse University Press. His many articles on modern literary theory and oral poetry have appeared in premier literary journals in the U.S. and in the Middle East. His translation (with Michael Beard) of Adonis’ Mihyar of Damascus, His Songs, published by BOA Editions, has recently been awarded the Modern Language Association’s prestigious Lois Roth Award for the Translation of a Literary Work.

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