"This excellent, well-researched textbook includes a wide range of idioms, expressions and proverbs, classical and modern, and formal and popular. Its rich content makes it suitable for Arabic courses in different disciplines: literary, cultural, religious, media and everyday life conversation."

Otared Haidar, University of Oxford, UK

Lamia Jamal-Aldin is an Arabic language and literature academic with years of teaching experience at different universities in the UK and abroad. Lamia has a deep knowledge of the niceties of Arabic grammar and morphology in its classical, standard, and colloquial forms. Her passion for Semitic languages and her experience in pedagogy have driven her to develop unique and innovative methods in teaching Arabic as a second language.

Abdullah Hammadi is a freelance writer, translator, and analyst. His areas of interest include Arabic language and the socio-political trends in the Middle East. He formerly worked as a survey manager on an MIT project in the Middle East. Abdullah has a deep and wide understanding of classical, standard, and colloquial forms of Arabic, and of the nuances of the language. Short stories, poetry, essays, political analysis, translations, and Arabic teaching materials are part of his writing portfolio.