2018/2019

2019/2020

DM270

L-OR/12 (ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

AFRICAN AND ASIAN STUDIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (30/09/2019 - 16/12/2019)

9

60 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

BERTONATI STEFANIA (titolare) - 9 ECTS

Students are required to pass the exame of Arabic 1 Advanced course.

The course aims to provide students with the linguistic tools necessary to understand and translate texts about politics in Arabic language and to look independently for the desired informations on the major Arabic networks.

In this module, students will deepen the political language, and in particular on the subjects of demonstrations, elections, conflicts and terrorism. They will also follow news in Arabic on the major Arab websites.

Lectures with the help of telematic tools and group interaction activities.

Coursebook:
A. Elgibali, N. Korica, Media Arabic. A Course for Reading Arabic News, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo 2007.
- Extra material will be provided by the teacher.

Grammar:
A. Manca, Grammatica teorico-pratica di arabo letterario moderno, Associazione Nazionale di Amicizia e Cooperazione Italo-Araba, Roma 2011.

Dictionaries:
E. Baldissera, Il dizionario di Arabo (italiano-arabo, arabo-italiano), Zanichelli, Bologna, seconda edizione 2014.
R. Traini, Vocabolario arabo-italiano, Istituto per l'Oriente, Roma, 1994.

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 translated the texts of the lessons and in a conversation with the mother tongue teacher.

A constant frequency of lessons is required, included the supplementary teaching classes with the mother tongue teacher (prof. Hafez Haidar).