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All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
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- ISBN
- 9789774168659
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- All Strangers Are Kin : Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
- Item Length
- 5.9 in
- Publisher
- American University in Cairo Press
- Subject
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Arabic, Journalism, Essays & Travelogues, Middle East / General
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 8.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just might feel like a wizard. They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. O'Neill had put in her time. Steeped in grammar tomes and out-dated textbooks, she faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus, but couldn't shake her fascination with the language or the cultures it had opened up to her. So she decided to jump back in-this time with a new approach. Join O'Neill for a grand tour through the Middle East. You will laugh with her in Egypt, delight in the stories she passes on from the United Arab Emirates, and find yourself transformed by her experiences in Lebanon and Morocco. She's packed her dictionaries, her unsinkable sense of humor, and her talent for making fast friends of strangers. From quiet, bougainvillea-lined streets to the lively buzz of crowded medinas, from families' homes to local hotspots, she brings a part of the world that is thousands of miles away right to your door. A natural storyteller with an eye for the deeply absurd and the deeply human, Zora O'Neill explores the indelible links between culture and communication. A powerful testament to the dynamism of language, All Strangers Are Kin reminds us that learning another tongue leaves you rich with so much more than words.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
American University in Cairo Press
ISBN-10
9774168658
ISBN-13
9789774168659
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240516419
Product Key Features
Publication Name
All Strangers Are Kin : Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Arabic, Journalism, Essays & Travelogues, Middle East / General
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
5.9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
8.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2018-295847
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pn4874.O68.A3 2018
Reviews
"Zora O'Neill is a wonderful writer, a hakawati who can spin a tale with the best of them."--Rabih Alameddine, author of "The Hakawati" and "An Unnecessary Woman" "Zora O'Neill is the perfect travel companion: smart, curious, witty and knowledgeable. In a time when the news out of the Middle East is too often grim, she finds warmth and humor. By refusing to tread along the same paths that so many news reporters are confined to, she reveals to us rich new possibilities for understandingall in a deceptively breezy tone."--Carla Power, author of National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Finalist "O'Neill masterfully weaves together vignettes, linguistic musings, and a colorful cast of thousands into an always-thoughtful, often hysterically funny paean to a part of the world about which most Americans remain woefully ignorant."--Suketu Mehta, author of "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" "Wry, witty, and charmingly erudite, this lovely book goes through the looking glass of the Arabic language and emerges with a radiant image of the Arab world."--Diana Abu-Jaber, author of "Life Without a Recipe", "Crescent", "The Language of Baklava", and others "You will travel through countries and across centuries, meeting professors and poets, revolutionaries, nomads, and nerds. O'Neill's generous storytelling makes the intricacies of Arabic grammar seem fascinating and inexplicably glamorous. And the most unforgettable character you encounter may be the Arabic language itself, which will feel like an old friend by the time you finish this warm and hilarious book."--Annia Ciezadlo, author of "Day of Honey" "This charming memoir . . . is sure to bring a nod of recognition to any student of Arabic, however uncomfortably he or she ever sat in that classroom, as well as to enthrall those never-students curious about the world's fifth-most-spoken language."--Louis Werner, AramcoWorld "O'Neill doesn't teach readers to be fluent in Arabic, but she imparts a more valuable lesson on how (and how not) to learn a language, and the journey is more fascinating than the result."--Publishers Weekly
Table of Content
Prologue EGYPT Empty Talk Inside the Word Factory A Prophecy Two Tongues See What We Did Where's Your Ear? Days of Rage Hidden Fingers Illuminating the House Graduation Day THE GULF Knowledge Village Practical, Fashion, Extreme When Your Ear Hears Eau de Facebook What He Did Not Know Heritage Club The Best People Supreme Poets Develop! LEBANON The New Beirut What Is the Rule? We Don't Talk about Politics Here Almost a Dead Language Your Mother Easy--but Not Good The Weird Uncle Pierre and His Friends We Have Not Taught the Prophet the Price Land of Thorns MOROCCO Daddy, Mommy, Gramps The Place Where the Sun Sets You Pour the Tea God Is Beautiful Speaking Mexican Let's Chat in Arabic Sweet Sensation Up in the Old Hotel What Is the Name of This? Crossing the Bridge Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes
Copyright Date
2018
Dewey Decimal
070.408973
Dewey Edition
23
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