Modern Arabic Grammar in Context An Advanced Course for Foreign Students

by Samar Attar

Lesson 1: The Verb. Learn about the simple and derived forms of the verb; the sound verb; the perfect; the imperfect; the imperative and the future; the passive; hamzated verbs; the double verb; the weak verbs; the verb with weak final radical; the doubly and trebly
weak verb; the irregular verb.
Lesson 2: The Noun. Learn about the noun; the masculine and the feminine;
the dual; sound masculine plural; broken plural.

268 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 1998

About the author

Samar Attar was born in Damascus, Syria. She studied at Damascus University (two Licence es Lettres degrees, English and Arabic Literature), Dalhousie
University, Canada (M.A., English Literature), and State University of New York at Binghamton (Ph.D., Comparative Literature: English, French, German). She taught English, Arabic, and Comparative Literature
in the United States, Canada, Algeria, West Germany, Australia, and Turkey.

During 1990-1991, she was a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and in 1994-1995, 1999-2000, and 2003-2006 a
visiting research scholar at Harvard.

She has extensive publications in both English and Arabic in the fields of literary criticism, gender studies, migration, philosophy, translation, language
teaching, and creative writing. Her books include The Intruder in Modern Drama (Frankfurt am Main 1981), A Journey at Night: Poems by Salah ‘Abd
Al-Sabur (Cairo, 1970),
Modern Arabic For Foreign Students, four volumes plusteacher’s manual and seventeen cassettes (Beirut, 1988 and 1991),
The Arab European Encounter:An Advanced Course for Foreign Students (Beirut, 1998) and
Grammar in Context (Beirut, 1998).
She has two novels: Lina: A Portrait of A
Damascene Girl (Beirut, 1982 in Arabic and Colorado Springs, 1994 in English), and The House On Arnus Square (Sydney, 1988 in Arabic and Pueblo,
Colorado, 1998 in English).
Her poems have appeared in anthologies in
Canada, the United States, and England, including The Penguin Book of Women Poets (London, 1978) and Women of the Fertile Crescent (Washington, 1981). Herradio play Australia Day appeared in Australian Writing 1988 (Penguin).