Title: Excellent Arabic Literature Resources (English speakers)
Product review: This book is one of the best resources for a broad overview of Arabic literature. With numerous excerpts from many time periods and styles, it provides a tour-de-Arabic over time and geography that I have yet to see in any other collection written for an English speaking Arabic learner. As an intermediate Arabic student, I've been searching for a resource like this. I am not able to read/select individual texts due to both time and knowledge constraints. This book provides well-chosen excerpts from well-known authors, is in an easily readable script, has an excellent glossary with each chapter and has a recording of a few of the pieces (particularly the poetry. My only wish is that there was a recording of all the pieces, but I realize that is easily beyond any reasonable expectation, but hey - I can hope!) My Palestinian language teacher is also very impressed by the selection, layout and breadth covered.
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