The course aims to provide students with the linguistic tools necessary to understand and analyse texts about politics in Arabic language, search and understand news on major news sites, and conduct research independently.
Course Prerequisites
Students are required to pass the exame of Arabic 1 Advanced course. Knowledge of the main morpho-syntactic structures is required, as well as the acquirement of basic media Arabic vocabulary.
Teaching Methods
Lectures and group interaction activities.
Assessment Methods
The final exam consists of written and oral tests. The written exam will be a written comprehension (without dictionary) on the subjects treated during the lessons.The oral exam will consist in reading and analsyng the texts of the lessons and in a conversation with the mother tongue teacher. Non-attenders ( those who have not attended at least 80 percent of the lectures, excluding students in DD in Fes) will have to read one of the following texts of their choice, to be taken to the oral exam: - al-Tahir Labib, Hilmi Sha'rawi e Hasan Hanafi, L'altro nella cultura araba, Mesogea, Messina 2006 (Presentazione, pp. 5-25 e Hilmi Sha'rawi: L'immagine dell'africano nella cultura araba, pp. 109-223) - Castellino Joshua e Cavanaugh Kathleen, Minority Rights in the Middle East, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 79-140 ( chap. 2: Minority Identities in the Middle East: Religious Minorities; chap. 3: Minority Identities in the Middle East: Ethno-National and Other Minorities) - Pier Giovanni Donini, Le minoranze, Jaca book, Milano 1998
Texts
Text: A. Elgibali, N. Korica, Media Arabic. A Course for Reading Arabic News, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo 2007: Unit two: Demonstrations. - Further teaching material will be uploaded on the Kiro platform.
Grammar: Schulz, Krahl, Reusche, Standard Arabic. An elementary-intermediate course, Cambridge, CUP 2000
Dictionary: H. Wehr, and J. Milton Cowan, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, London: Harrap, 1976
Contents
In this module, in addition to completing the study of syntax (the elative, complements in accusative (tamyiz, hal and maf'ul li-ajlihi) and weak verbs) we will use authentic texts and audiovisual material aimed at understanding modern and contemporary society, with a focus on human rights, demonstrations and protests, social change, migration, minorities and cultural diversity. Major news stories on Arab networks will also be followed. Supplementary teaching hours with the native speaker will also include learning the basics of the Egyptian dialect variety (Cairo dialect) Students in DD at the Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah University in Fes will be exempt from the dialect variety portion of the oral exam upon certification of attendance of at least 20 hours of Moroccan dialect in Fes.
Course Language
Italian
More information
A constant frequency of lessons is required, included the supplementary teaching classes with the mother tongue teacher. Please check regularly what is published on the Kiro platform, both by the teacher and by the mother tongue teacher (Centro Linguistico)
