Day 1-3: a comprehensive summary on the grammar of Modern Standard Arabic; translation of short news pieces

Day 4: language and style of media Arabic; terminology through examples

Day 5-6: reading media news, grammatical background, and application of the acquired skills

Day 7-8: news video analysis (listening comprehension)

Day 9-10: editing news, text composition

Day 11-12: bring your own news (text, video) for the course!

During the coursework, there is no need for a textbook, although we recommend the following titles for further study:

Ashtiany, Julia: Media Arabic. Edinburgh University Press, 1993.

Bassiouney, Reem (ed.): Arabic and the Media. Linguistic Analyses and Applications. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010.

Kendall, Elizabeth: Media Arabic. Second Edition. Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Lahlali, El Mustapha: Advanced Media Arabic. Second Edition. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Harb, Zahera: Reporting the Middle East. The Practice of News in the Twenty-first Century. I.B. Tauris, 2017.

Braude, Joseph: Broadcasting Change. Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Liberalism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Lahlali, El Mustapha: Arabic Media Dictionary. Routledge, 2019.

Miladi, Noureddine and Mellor, Noha (eds.): Routledge Handbook on Arab Media. Routledge, 2020.