Umm al-Dunya

Abbas Al-Tonsi is a senior lecturer in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is the author or co-author of a number of Arabic coursebooks, including the Al Kitaab series. Heba Salem is a Senior Arabic Language Instructor at the American University in Cairo. Nevenka Korica Sullivan has taught Arabic at Harvard University and the American University in Cairo and in Middlebury's summer program, specializing in teaching the advanced level learners. She is the co-author of Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News (Revised and Updated Edition) (AUC Press, 2014), and Umm al-Dunya, Advanced Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (AUC Press, 2012).

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter one: The Family is Back in CairoChapter two: First Night in CairoChapter three: The New ApartmentChapter four: Family DinnerChapter five: The Coffee Shop ProjectChapter six: New Secondary School for AhmadChapter seven: Family Issues and ArgumentsChapter eight: At the Home for the ElderlyChapter nine: More and More Family IssuesChapter ten: 25th of January Revolution Key for the answersGlossary for vocabularyGlossary for expressions

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