Arabic Foreigners (16 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback, light shelf-wear, tight binding, very nice copy and reference!

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Large 8°, softcover. 1. ed. 206 p. As new. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

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Folio Softcover. Condition: Poor. Nos. 203-204. 340p. A two volume softcover set. No author or publishing information present. Interior is heavily written and notated, but contents are still legible. Pages are heavily dog-eared. Wraps are stained, chipped, and tatty, as pictured. Binding is intact although hinges and spine are torn, remaining loosely attached. Decent reading copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Originally issued in 1936, this reprint was done photo-lithographically by the Sudan Survey Department in June 1950, with slightly different dimensions, and different spine font. Original gilt-titled navy cloth 13x20cm. xii, (1), 91, (1)pp. Covers good, rubbed along the spine edges with short splits. Interiors near fine, foxed to the endpapers. The authors were in the Sudan Education Department. Prepared for beginners, they draw together customs and phrases "in use in Omdurman, sophisticated areas and amongst the educated classes generally --- An attempt has also been made to explain customs which the foreigner will not necessarily want to follow but which if not appreciated may easily lead to misunderstandings". The contents are arranged thematically, for outlook, greetings, parting, the sick, congratulations, condolences, hospitality, presents and tips, interruptions, women, conversations, letter writing, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original gilt-titled navy cloth 13x19cm. xii, (1), 91, (1)pp. Printed by Walter Lewis at Cambridge University Press. First edition, first printing (this would be reprinted by the Sudan Survey Department in 1950). Covers good, sunned to the spine with mottling to the cloth. Interiors near fine, lightly tanned. The authors were in the Sudan Education Department. Prepared for beginners, they draw together customs and phrases "in use in Omdurman, sophisticated areas and amongst the educated classes generally --- An attempt has also been made to explain customs which the foreigner will not necessarily want to follow but which if not appreciated may easily lead to misunderstandings". The contents are arranged thematically, for outlook, greetings, parting, the sick, congratulations, condolences, hospitality, presents and tips, interruptions, women, conversations, letter writing, etc.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd edition, no markings.

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paperback. Condition: New. Language:Chinese. Binding:paperback.

First edition, first impression. A charming and practical phrase book from the Sudan Education Department, containing "some of the commoner and safer phrases for most of the situations likely to arise in which one wants to say the right thing" (p. vii). This copy has a regional provenance, with the ownership inscription of Paul Philip Howell, a district commissioner in British Sudan. Produced by the British colonial government in Sudan, this book would have been essential reading for colonial officials and administrators working in northern Sudan, where the majority population are Arabic speakers. V. L. Griffiths (1902-1984) was a civil servant and the moving force behind the progressive Institute of Education at Bakht er Ruda, a remote rural community some 195km south of Khartoum, "heralded in the Colonial office Report of 1948 as a model for the rest of the empire". Griffiths "played an outsize role in the colony's education system as a trainer of teachers, inspector of schools, and prolific author of textbooks" (Linstrum, p. 173). Foremost among his books was a trio intended as a "Good Citizen" series: Character Aims (1949), Character Training (1949), and Character: Its Psychology (1953). His co-author here, Abdel Rahman Ali Taha, was vice-principal at Bakht er Ruda and later Sudan's first Minister of Education. Consciously designed for conversing with the upper echelons of Sudanese society, this small guidebook offers a microcosm of British attitudes to and relations with Sudanese elites. The authors clearly state in their introduction that "the reader must be warned that the customs described and the phrases given are those in use in Omdurman, sophisticated areas and amongst the educated classes generally". Tailored to the Sudanese dialect of Arabic, it sets out to provide the reader with the tools required to avoid embarrassment and offence, the authors recognizing that "a lack of knowledge of their respective customs is often an unrecognised but most fruitful cause of misunderstanding between the races" (p. vii). Chapters include "Differences of Outlook", greeting and parting, "The Sick", condolences, "presents and tips", hospitality, and other essential pleasantries. Also included is an explanation of the differing customs between the English and "the Arabs", advice on talking sensitively to women, and letter writing. Howell (1917-1994) arrived in Sudan in 1938, where he served as aide-de-camp to two successive governors-general and served concurrently in several roles, as assistant district commissioner in Khartoum and subsequently southern Sudan, and as district commissioner in western Sudan from 1946 to 1948. He retired from the Sudan Political Service in 1955, a year before Sudan won its independence from Britain. Described as a "generalist in the best sense of the word", Howell was a keen anthropologist, studying for a PhD alongside his official duties (Deng, p. 69). Howell's inscription dates to his tenure as assistant district commissioner of northern Khartoum: "Paul Philip Howell, ADC, Khartoum North". Achol Deng, "Obituary: Paul Philip Howell, D.Phil, C.B.E., O.B.E.", The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 1, 1994, pp. 69-71. Small octavo. Original blue cloth, neatly rebacked with original gilt-lettered spine relined and laid down. Spine sunned, corners lightly worn, boards marked, minor offsetting and foxing to preliminary and end matter. A very good copy.