For the classroom
First texts in Arabic
For students learning Arabic: short texts from the reader, from the shortest to the longest, to read in full. The texts are in Arabic; each work is introduced in one sentence in English.
In the reader, the “Aa” settings enlarge the text and the space between lines; you can also highlight words to look up and add a note.
- موطني80 words
Ibrahim Tuqan · ديوان إبراهيم · Palestine, 1955
The patriotic and love poems of a pioneer of Palestinian national poetry, gathered after his death.
- إلى طغاة العالم74 words
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi · أغاني الحياة · Tunisia, 1955
Protectorate Tunisia, where a young man of twenty writes as one speaks to a people, and dies without seeing his book published.
- الأمة العربية ماضيها وباقيها177 words
Maruf al-Rusafi · ديوان الرصافي · Iraq, 1910
An Iraqi neoclassicist who bends the ancient metre to the causes of his time, from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the British mandate.
- اللغة العربية تنعى حظها223 words
Hafez Ibrahim · ديوان حافظ إبراهيم · Egypt, 1937
Topical verse in classical language, on women, poverty, schooling and the occupier.
- ملائكة الرحمة171 words
Ibrahim Tuqan · ديوان إبراهيم · Palestine, 1955
The patriotic and love poems of a pioneer of Palestinian national poetry, gathered after his death.
- إرادة الحياة537 words
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi · أغاني الحياة · Tunisia, 1955
Protectorate Tunisia, where a young man of twenty writes as one speaks to a people, and dies without seeing his book published.
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