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Advanced Media Arabic (Arabic Edition) ReviewThis book has much to offer, with lots of interesting and current articles with useful key vocabulary. The Elgibali book has similar benefits (and is a much more pleasant experience), but Lahlali's book goes well beyond Elgibali's coverage, deepening the vast store of vocabulary that one needs to make any headway in the often sylistically challenging Arabic media.
But Lahlali's book's strength is its weakness. It suffers greatly from the most common and most frustrating problem of modern advanced Arabic materials for English speakers: it is completely out of touch with the average user. Some of the passsages are quite easy, but most are so difficult and stylistically unique as to be counterproductively frustrating. If the difficulty lay in common vocabulary, it would be worth the effort to struggle through, but most of these direct excerpts from online media are full of stylistic turns of phrase that, to a foreign learner of almost any level, serve more to confuse and frustrate than to educate. More than once, I asked my well-educated Syrian-born wife the meaning of one or another word or phrase, and she had never encountered these words.
More to the point, the glossaries are laughable, both in what they DO contain and in what they do NOT. For example (and there are MANY more such examples), for one reading passage, the word "strengthening" is defined in the glossary (what intermediate-level Arabic student doesn't know the word ta'ziiz?), as is the phrase "weak dollar" (again, any first-year student would have learned these words), but the words "indifference" and "apathy" from the text are not defined. In a later passage, the simple words "doubts" (shkuuk) and "short term" (al-mada al-qaSir) are defined, but words like "state of confusion, fumbling about" (al-tkhabbuT?--this word is not even in the Hans Wehr dictionary!), pessismism (tshaa'um), optimism (tfaa'ul) and many other advanced concepts are not defined. Moreover, even when I understood the passage, quite often the questions in the exercises would use words that were totally alien to me (and often, again, to my native Arabic speaking wife).
I'm relieved to have made my way through this book, and I applaud Lahlali for improving the selection of materials for advanced Arabic study, but wallahi, give us a break! Either edit the passages to use more common words, or at least define the odd-balls and somehow focus our attention on the useful material. A daily read of online papers like al-sharq al-'ausaT or even CNN and BBC in Arabic has been more useful (and far less frustrating) than Lahlali's book.Advanced Media Arabic (Arabic Edition) Overview

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