Reading the Arab World: A Content-Based Textbook for Intermediate to Advanced Learners of Arabic

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (English)
Introduction (Arabic)
Guidance Notes
Introducing the Arab World
Unit One: Family Issues
	Lesson One: The structure of the contemporary Arab family
	Lesson Two: The extended family
	Lesson Three: Arranged marriage: Why do girls fear traditional marriage?
	Lesson Four: How divorce statistics in the Arab world have changed society’s perceptions
	Lesson Five: Grandparents and grandchildren: Love conquers generational differences
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Two: Youth Issues
	Lesson One: Arab youth and visions of the future
	Lesson Two: Arab youth: Apathy, frustration, and change
	Lesson Three: Arab youth and  Cultural practices
	Lesson Four: Why do Arab youth migrate?
	Lesson Five: Arab youth between  the hammer of reality  and the anvil of  ambition
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Three: Women’s Issues
	Lesson One: What is the feminist  movement, and who  are the Arab women  that head it?
	Lesson Two: How can Arab women  be empowered?
	Lesson Three: Arab women: Issues  and priorities
	Lesson Four: On the media and the  position of women
	Lesson Five: On International  Women\'s Day: Learn  about the situation of  working Arab women
	Lesson Six: The reality of Gulf  women socially and  culturally
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Four: Religion’s Impact on Individuals and Society
	Lesson One: Sources of ethics and  moral
	Lesson Two: Religion and being  religious: The  dialectic between  progress and  backwardness
	Lesson Three: Religion and state in the Arab world
	Lesson Four: Extremism between religious and secular
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Five: Education and Human Development Issues
	Lesson One: Illiteracy in the Arab world
	Lesson Two: The best modern Arab  and international  universities of the  year 2020
	Lesson Three: Education reform in the Arab world
	Lesson Four: “The Art of  Indifference”: What is  the secret behind the  popularity of self-help  books?
	Lesson Five: Human Development  Report 2015:  Development in every  work
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Six: Economy and Development Issues
	Lesson One: The Conflict between development trends
	Lesson Two: Poverty and  corruption in the Arab  world
	Lesson Three: Four Arab countries  from which the  middle class may soon  disappear
	Lesson Four: Your guide to learn  about real estate  investment markets in the Arab world
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Seven: Cultural and Societal Issues
	Lesson One: Introduction to the characteristics and characteristics of Arab society
	Lesson Two: In Ramadan . . . Are Arabs similar from the Ocean to the Gulf?
	Lesson Three: In praise of the Kunefe
	Lesson Four: The cafe in contemporary Arab culture
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Eight: The Question of Identity
	Lesson One: The components of the Arab identity
	Lesson Two: The question of identity and its theoretical background
	Lesson Three: The problem of identity in Iraq
	Lesson Four: Imagined national identities
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Nine: Intellectual and Cultural Issues
	Lesson One: Problems of contemporary Arab thought
	Lesson Two: Questions of modernity in Arab thought
	Lesson Three: Contradictions in the contemporary Arab thought
	Lesson Four: The concept of freedom in contemporary Arab thought
	Lesson Five: Types of intellectuals in the Arab world
	Vocabulary lists
Unit Ten: Politics Issues
	Lesson One: The past and the future of the Arab world
	Lesson Two: Is the Gulf Cooperation Council finished?
	Lesson Three: Cultural diversity in the Arab world is a problem!
	Lesson Four: Not the end of the Arab Spring
	Lesson Five: Democracy first, democracy always
	Vocabulary lists