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A Roving Eye: Head to Toe in Egyptian Arabic Expressions
Mona Ateek
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Description for A Roving Eye: Head to Toe in Egyptian Arabic Expressions
Hardcover. A collection of the most intriguing, amusing, and humorous native expressions used everyday around the Arab world Illustrator(s): MacMullen, Doriana. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2CSR; WHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
No matter where we come from, we all have our unique local expressions and proverbs that raise confused eyebrows when translated literally. These phrases usually carry humor and wisdom at their core, but are only fully understood in their native language. A Roving Eye explores some of these phrases and sayings from one of the world's most expressive tongues, Egyptian Arabic, the most widely spoken form of Arabic. Including some one hundred popular phrases and proverbs, all linked to parts of the body and features of the face, A Roving Eye uses striking black-and-white photography to bring these expressions to ... Read more
No matter where we come from, we all have our unique local expressions and proverbs that raise confused eyebrows when translated literally. These phrases usually carry humor and wisdom at their core, but are only fully understood in their native language. A Roving Eye explores some of these phrases and sayings from one of the world's most expressive tongues, Egyptian Arabic, the most widely spoken form of Arabic. Including some one hundred popular phrases and proverbs, all linked to parts of the body and features of the face, A Roving Eye uses striking black-and-white photography to bring these expressions to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774166792
SKU
V9789774166792
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About Mona Ateek
Mona Ateek has an MA in teaching English as a foreign language and has been teaching in the English Language Institute of the American University in Cairo (AUC) since 1987. Mona Kamel Hassan is a senior Arabic language instructor in the Department of Arabic Language Instruction (ALI) at the AUC, and head of Arabic language courses there. Trevor Naylor is ... Read more
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