Essential Skills in Arabic: From Intermediate to Advanced

Do you want to build on your Arabic reading, writing and listening skills? Improve your ability to communicate in this language? This is the book for you. Offering practical sessions and exercises, each module contains a wide range of authentic, contemporary texts so that you can practice your skills as they develop. Moving you from the intermediate to the advanced level of Arabic you will work through sessions on culture and society, the environment, education in the Arab world, global issues, media and communication, the economy, sports, and arts and literature. Each module follows the same structure, covering the essential skills of reading, grammar, vocabulary, listening, translation, writing and speaking.

El Mustapha Lahlali is a Professor of Linguistics and Media at the University of Leeds. He has published widely in the field of Arabic, media and translation. Some of his publications include: How to Write in Arabic: Developing your Academic Writing Style (2nd edition) (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Arabic Media Dictionary (Routledge, 2019), Essential Skills in Arabic: From the Intermediate to the Advanced (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) (co-authored), Advanced Media Arabic (2nd edition) (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Contemporary Arab Broadcast Media (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), Ibn al-Tayyib: the Forgotten Journey of an 18 Century Arab Traveller (I.B. Tauris, 2010) (co-authored), How to Write in Arabic (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Advanced Media Arabic (Edinburgh University Press, 2008) and Critical Discourse Analysis and Classroom Discursive Practices (Lincom Europa, 2007).

Radia Kesseiri is a Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Leeds. She is author of Algeria: An International Account of Foreign Policy. 1965-1978 (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011) and The Evolution of Algerian Political Thought: Origins, Colonial Rule and Post- Independence (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013).