Timings: Either Tuesdays 12.00pm– 2.00pm online; or Mondays 6.00pm– 8.00pm at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road. For the Arabic-English editors, the framework consisted of the ‘ Bulaaq Arabic-Dutch dictionary' compiled by Jan Hoogland and his team (of which I was one, before I moved to Britain). We actually hired mostly Dutch editors to work on this side (whose Arabic and English was top notch, of course) so the usefulness of the Dutch translations didn't get lost. Their work was then reviewed by native English speakers from both Britain and the US. In the first year, there is less literature in the European language to allow for intensive focus on the Middle Eastern language. You will normally spend your second academic year at an approved course of study in the Middle East. You are strongly advised to spend the adjacent summers where the European language of your choice is spoken. BA in Classics and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Oxford University Press had a very good English-language framework, consisting of entries already divided into senses and containing indicators, collocates, examples, and extra hints for translators to make sure they understood the English perfectly before translating it into Arabic to create the English-Arabic half of the dictionary. The English-Arabic translations were then reviewed by Arabic reviewing editors from different countries. Awarded full-bursary by The University of Manchester, entitled Graduate Teaching Fellowship, to study towards a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies. Structure: 20 weekly classes spread over three terms: Michaelmas (Oct.– Dec. 2023), Hilary (Jan.– Mar. 2024), and Trinity (April– May 2024). urn:lcp:oxfordessentiala0000unse_e4x0:epub:422a1aaf-e379-4556-a97b-feb25f319759 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier oxfordessentiala0000unse_e4x0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5kb5083t Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780199561155 Applications are now open for the Centre’s Arabic classes at four levels, from Complete Beginner to Upper Intermediate. Each course is two-and-a-half terms in length (40 hours total), beginning in October 2023 and ending in May 2024. Applications are now CLOSED.Quite little. For Arabic, as the dictionary focuses on Standard Arabic, the language is by nature quite formal. For English, we tend to include only words with staying power, which youth language, which is quite dynamic, tends to have few of. How many Arabic roots (3 radicals) and how many with 4 radicals are there in the dictionary? Awarded The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and The Palestinian American Research Centre (PARC) research funds for a project entitled: "Palestinian Transgressive Voices: Cultural Memory and Performative Arts in the Diaspora and Palestine".

When creating the dictionary, we largely used the Gigaword corpus ( https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2003T12), analyzed by Sketch Engine software ( https://www.sketchengine.eu/); enhanced and improved by Oxford University Press (OUP) corpus linguists. A corpus is a gigantic mass of texts of many different sources in a particular language, that can be researched with software to find how a particular word behaves in context. Please note that once you have chosen your course delivery type – in person or online – you will not be able to change this part way through a course except in exceptional circumstances. When creating this dictionary, we started with what's called a ‘framework'. A framework is basically the source language half of the dictionary. Passed the 2nd stage of The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition.And with this, you've given an excellent example of how hard it is to find new words computationally! This course is designed for students who have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and have a good basic vocabulary. Students will be expected to enrich these skills and develop their written and spoken communicative abilities by exploring different subjects and topics, and various grammatical constructs. Term 1 will focus on expanding students' vocabulary relating to personal and social topics, and will introduce them to more complex ways of expressing their thoughts. The second term will build on these skills and expose students to various forms of written and recorded media. Topics will include: work-life and academia, TV and media, family, hopes and dreams, expressing opinions, time and quantifiers. By the end of the second term students should have reached Level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

We have some very, very common ones in the dictionary, marked as ‘colloquial', but very few. How do you deal with the fact that Arabic words often describe more of an idea than a specific event, thing or action? Where do you draw the line? Most words have several meanings, which we call senses, so you'll have to use indicators and collocates to explain to people in which context you use which translation. Some older dictionaries, like Hans Wehr for Arabic, don't provide this sense division, which can make it very hard to find the right translation. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Dr Farah Aboubakr was Senior Tutor of Arabic at the Language Centre (the University of Manchester); Freelance Translator and Lexicographer on the new edition of the Arabic-English-Arabic Oxford Dictionary (Oxford University Press); and Team Leader of the Senior Intensive Arabic course designed for professional linguists in the UK government as well as Convenor of Culture and Language Teaching of Levantine Dialects (Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese) at Communicaid Ltd. Qualifications Discover the cultures of the Arabic-speaking world, including food, festivals, traditions, politics, etiquette and more The book, The Folktales of Palestine: Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling (2019) was nominated for Palestine Book Award.But specifically for Arabic dictionaries – we divide roots into word forms, which often have a more concrete meaning than the root. Then we divide these word forms into senses, which try to capture a significant segment of the semantic field and translate it into English, which is the aim. Nominated for the EUSA Teaching Award (Student-led Teaching Award) in the categories of Outstanding Course and Teacher of the Year between 2014 and 2021 at the University of Edinburgh. This is instead of taking three papers in a subsidiary language. They also write a dissertation on a topic of their choice. BA in European and Middle Eastern Languages - Arabic with a European language

Of course we did a lot of human reading of the corpus to find new senses like these, but as we didn't have unlimited time, things inevitably got missed – like this. For any language pair, semantic fields (by which I mean the meanings covered by a specific word) rarely overlap; only for very concrete specific things like carbon dioxide. It's always a challenge to capture the overlaps between the semantic field of word A in language A and word B in language B; and the further apart the languages are, the more difficult it gets. After the 2011 revolution, the word الفلول was widespread, also used in Egyptian media for the remnants of the Mubarak regime. I couldn't find it in the dictionary. Would you also include such terms?M.A. (Distinction) 2004: Translation and Interpreting (Arabic-English-Arabic) - The University of Salford. Dissertation entitled: “The Translation of Wordplay, Irony and Satire in the Pessoptimist by Emil Habiby. I have worked on dictionaries of many languages now over the years. I think the biggest challenge for editors of any bilingual dictionary is that it is really hard to translate a word, as opposed to a text. That sounds paradoxical – surely a text is composed of many words, so should be harder? How do you deal with English terms for which there is no Arabic word yet? (for example: “ghosting”) But in practice, getting down to word level is really difficult. When you translate a text, you have the full context; if one word doesn't quite work, you can play around with the surrounding text to make sure that the translation matches the intention of the original. When writing a dictionary, you don't have that space: every word needs to be perfect.