These audio sequences accompany the first part of Foundations of Standard Arabic. The book's purpose is to impart reading and writing skills in Arabic for the beginner student. In a relatively short time, the student will be able to read simple texts and easy articles from the Arabic press. The vocabulary introduced is broad and varied. It includes words and expressions from daily life as well as journalistic terms. The teaching method of this book is based on the theory that Arabic should be taught in Arabic: the student is asked to change sentences, to complete sentences, ask and answer questions in Arabic, and spell sentences in Arabic in order to create a flow in expression (oral and written), to deepen the proficiency of the language and assimilate the vocabulary.

Includes an audio CD.

Due to political and cultural developments in the region, Middle Eastern women receive a lot of attention lately. Gender analysis which emphasizes historical aspects in differentiating between the sexes has become an inseparable part of the area's genealogy study. The collection 'Women and Gender in the Middle East in The Twentieth Century', which introduces study results in this important area of research, aims to enrich knowledge and erode stereotypes. Written by Israeli researchers, these articles deal with women authors and movie makers, the Islamic dress code controversy, women education and the women movement. The collection also deals with the state's attitude towards women and their attitude towards the state. It touches upon official feminism, when the state wishes to take upon itself the improvement of women's status, and also women's opposition statements about policies implemented upon them.

What drives certain Bedouin women to fight for their right to higher education? Are they a rising power in their communities? What price are they forced to pay? These questions and others are discussed in Excluded and Loved , which delves into the world of the Bedouin women who have chosen to attain higher education in Israel. The book touches upon their private and community lives, telling the story of their pain and strength. It depicts a broad picture of the relationships between men and women in the southern-Israeli Bedouin communities, unraveling the changes that occurred over the last decade. The stories of the interviewed women are interwoven in the personal story of the researcher, one of the first women in her tribe to seek higher education.

What is fair? How do rights join hands with generosity? How can punishment be justified? Is there recompense for human suffering? What sense can we make of immortality, or of the idea of a messianic age? In On Justice , Lenn Goodman offers the first general theory of justice for more than a century to tap the riches of the Jewish tradition-biblical, rabbinic, and philosophical-and bring its texts into dialogue with the classic works of Western ethics and political philosophy. Against the backdrop of a conversation, he opens up with Saadiah, Halevi, Maimonides, and Spinoza, with Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Rawls-Goodman, developing a fresh, ontological approach to the core issues of ethics, politics, and the human condition. The original ideas of On Justice will engage both Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers and students of society and ethics.

In this path breaking book, Yaron Ben-Naeh describes and analyzes for the first time in scholarly literature the Jewish Society in the urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, in Anatolia and in the Arab provinces. It focuses on the 17th century, the period which shaped and molded Ottoman Jewry as such. The book is solidly based on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, among them Ottoman documents which the author has found and deciphered. The chapters of the book deal with various aspects of communal life, family life and social dynamics, with special relation to city life and the surrounding Muslim society and acculturation processes which had made it into the core of sephardi Jewry.

"A catastrophe has befallen us!" - these were the words expressed by the secretary of the Arab League following the decision by the Arabs to invade Palestine on 15 May 1948. Who caused the Arab countries to participate in a war in which they had no interest, and why did they fight? What did King Abdallah say to Golda Meir during their secret conversation in Amman on the eve of the war? Why did the Arab efforts to release the Egyptian soldiers from the siege at Faluja fail? How did the Jewish prisoners live in the prisoners' camp in Trasnjordan and how they were finally released? Both these and other questions are answered in the book: Cooperation and Hostility: Abdallah, the Arab Legion and the 1948 War, which examines the rule of the Arab Legion during 1948 war. The book explains King Abdallah's intentions towards Palestine as well as considering his political and military moves. The book also analyses the cooperation between the Arab armies during the war, and the British aid to Transjordan and especially to the Arab Legion during this war. With the aid of British, Israeli and Jordanian documents the author presents in a clear and comprehensive manner the establishment and development of the units of the Arab Legion including the military intelligence and the Air force which were exposed for the first time in this book.

This issue of "Hamizrach Hachadash" contains 11 articles. The articles deal with Law and Society.

A collection of short stories in Hebrew about the Arab way of life.

This book illustrates the close link between the development of the national ideal in Egypt, and the development of the new written Arabic, and studies the Academic activities in Cairo following the historical and social changes in the Arab world in the 20th Century.