Full Description
Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans' colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, "Oriental language teachers" - as they were termed prior to the Second World War - were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and increasingly competed with each other by promoting their languages and cultures abroad, by means of both private and governmental actors. At the same time, learning Arabic became more prominent around the Mediterranean. The first half of the twentieth century corresponded with the emergence of new media; language was thought of as a cultural product to be exported into new cultural spaces. However, many blind spots remain in the history of linguistic thought and practices, including the forgotten and neglected voices of those involved in learning and teaching Arabic. This volume aims to revisit aspects of this linguistic encounter, including its vision, profile, priorities, trajectories, and practices.
Contents
Acknowledgement
Transliteration
List of Figures
1. Introduction - Lucia Admiraal, Sarah Irving, Rachel Mairs and Karène Sanchez Summerer
2. Anthony Gorman - Arabic at the University of Edinburgh (1850-1950): its development, character and constituency
3. Laura Gerd - Arabs intellectuals in Russia (19-20th century): teaching, research and politics
4. Liesbeth Zack - "I hope you will teach your daughters to read": Dialogues in Arabic language guides from 19th-century Egypt
5. Rachel Mairs - "Like the bleating of a goat": Teaching foreigners to pronounce the 'difficult' Arabic consonants (1798-1945)
6. Sarah Irving - The Manual of Palestinean [sic] Arabic: politics in a late-Ottoman language textbook
7. Amit Levy - ''Send my regards to those working on the al-Bal.dhur. manuscript": The Study of Arabic and Islam in Interwar Jerusalem as Intellectual Common Ground
8. Eftychia Mylona - 'Our Greek dignity and our educational autonomy': Arabic language teaching in Egyptiot schools, 1950s to 1970s
9. Kaoutar Ghilani - Arabic Language Teaching as a Battleground: Colonial and Nationalist Myths and Discourses on Arabic in Morocco
10. Brahim el Guabli - When Tamazight was Part of the World
Abstracts, Keywords and Biographies
Index
