Asmaa Shehata is an assistant professor of Arabic at the University of Mississippi. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Utah.

• Introduction Unit 1: The Human Body Unit 2: Animals and Wildlife Unit 3: Time Unit 4: Everyday Life Unit5: Colors Unit 6: Inanimate Objects Unit 7: The Earth and the Sky Unit 8: The Senses Idioms Listed Alphabetically

"An easy-to-use, communicative handbook of the most frequently used idioms in Modern Standard Arabic."—Jona Fras, The University of Edinburgh"A useful source. . . . While building students’ communicative competence in conversing with native speakers, the book also teaches them about Arab culture. It will help students enrich their writing by using idiomatic expressions appropriately, and be a rich resource for translators and linguists alike."—Mona Hassan, The American University in Cairo

Asmaa Shehata is an assistant professor of Arabic at the University of Mississippi. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Utah.

• Introduction Unit 1: The Human Body Unit 2: Animals and Wildlife Unit 3: Time Unit 4: Everyday Life Unit5: Colors Unit 6: Inanimate Objects Unit 7: The Earth and the Sky Unit 8: The Senses Idioms Listed Alphabetically

"An easy-to-use, communicative handbook of the most frequently used idioms in Modern Standard Arabic."—Jona Fras, The University of Edinburgh"A useful source. . . . While building students’ communicative competence in conversing with native speakers, the book also teaches them about Arab culture. It will help students enrich their writing by using idiomatic expressions appropriately, and be a rich resource for translators and linguists alike."—Mona Hassan, The American University in Cairo

Asmaa Shehata is an assistant professor of Arabic at the University of Mississippi. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Utah.

• Introduction Unit 1: The Human Body Unit 2: Animals and Wildlife Unit 3: Time Unit 4: Everyday Life Unit5: Colors Unit 6: Inanimate Objects Unit 7: The Earth and the Sky Unit 8: The Senses Idioms Listed Alphabetically

"An easy-to-use, communicative handbook of the most frequently used idioms in Modern Standard Arabic."—Jona Fras, The University of Edinburgh"A useful source. . . . While building students’ communicative competence in conversing with native speakers, the book also teaches them about Arab culture. It will help students enrich their writing by using idiomatic expressions appropriately, and be a rich resource for translators and linguists alike."—Mona Hassan, The American University in Cairo