Media Arabic: Journalistic Discourse for Advanced Students of Arabic

Media Arabic provides advanced students of Arabic with a range of engaging texts on controversial and contemporary topics that reflect the current social and political environment in the Middle East.

Divided into ten thematic modules, each module includes three units based on a selection of authentic newspaper articles that dive deep into topics as diverse as climate change, racism, and corruption. Each unit contains comprehension and discussion questions as well as vocabulary lists, translation exercises, and creative writing exercises. Each topic also benefits from a curated selection of authentic news videos, which can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781032044460.

Ideal for use in Media Arabic courses, this book can also be used as a self-study resource for advanced level students.

Jonas Elbousty holds MPhil and PhD degrees from Columbia University. He teaches in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, where he serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Summer Study Abroad Program in Rabat, Morocco. He is the co-editor of Vitality and Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco’s Literary Tradition (2014) and the co-author of Advanced Arabic Literary Reader (2016).