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Explains why there are sometimes breaks due to vowel diacritics in Arabic. (need a font that uses zero-width characters for the diacritics).

Searchable database of lessons to review Arabic grammar. From Defense Language Institute. Some include audio/video.

"Middlebury College is pleased to announce The Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages. These 100 fellowships are made possible by a generous gift from Kathryn Davis, to address today's critical need for increased language proficiency in the United States. The Kathryn Davis Fellowships cover 100% of tuition, room, and board for one summer of summer language study from beginner to graduate levels in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian at the Middlebury College Language Schools. The Davis Fellowships are merit-based and intended for exceptionally qualified individuals with demonstrated interest in one or more of the following areas: international, global, or area studies; international politics and economics; peace and security studies; and/or conflict resolution. Individuals in other fields, including working professionals, are encouraged to apply if their field of expertise requires them to study one of the critical languages listed above."

Arabic news

No.1 Free online source for Arabic Music and Rai Music.

Simple, interactive arabic learning website. Great for beginners.

Arabic Magazine Website. This is an entertainment magazine, and is written in Arabic.

Since 1946 the Middle East Institute has been an important conduit of information between Middle Eastern nations and American policymakers, organizations and the public. We strive to increase knowledge of the Middle East among our own citizens and to promote understanding between the peoples of the Middle East and America. Today we play a vital and unique role in expanding the dialogue beyond Washington, DC, and actively with organizations in the Middle East. Our Department of Programs present programs with top regional experts and officials from the US and foreign governments. The George Camp Keiser Library has the largest English-language collection on the Middle East outside of the Library of Congress. We publish quarterly one of the most prestigious journals on the Middle East, The Middle East Journal. MEI's Department of Languages and Regional Studies offers courses in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish and seminars highlighting the history, literature and culture of the Middle East.

Tools for Arabic study, including spell-checker, autocorrect, corpora, word tagger, morphological analyzers, dictionaries, games, etc.

A remarkably interactive website for learning Arabic with rhymes for alphabet learning and other interactive methods for script memorization.

This is a website that only requires you to give three letters of a verb to get all possible conjugations of it.

A Comprehensive Arabic Grammar Guide in German

Blog post with idea of using Google Drawings for handwriting practice: "Google's Drawing program is the perfect platform to practice orthography- the skill of writing characters and symbols to create words- in language classrooms with non-Roman alphabets, such as Arabic or Chinese."

Learn Arabic online with free podcasts, transcripts and downloads. Download lessons to your pocket.

Includes OCR for more than 120 languages. Special versions for Asian, Hebrew and Arabic characters also available.