Al-'Arabiyya

Karin C. Ryding is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor Emerita of Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University. She was dean of Interdisciplinary Programs at Georgetown for three years, and headed Arabic training at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute from 1980 to 1986. She was president of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA), and has served on the executive committee of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) as well as on the executive council of the Modern Language Association (MLA). In 2008, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from AATA as well as the Distinguished Service Award from the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics of Georgetown University.

• Editor's Note Acknowledgments Essays Project Perseverance and Arabic Study Abroad R. Kirk Belnap, Jennifer Bown, Edie M. Dean, Dan P. Dewey, Lucy J. Schouten, Andrew K. Smith, Rebecca K. Smith, and Joshua R. TaylorArab Students's Perceptions of Diglossia Hezi Brosh Studying Arabic as an Additional Language Together with Arab Heritage Language Learners: The Intercultural Aspects of Sociocultural-Interactive StrategiesOmar Dhahir Decrowning Doubles: Indexicality and Aspect in a Bahraini Twitter Parody Account Amy Johnson Arabic Learner Attitudes toward Reading Translated Excerpts from Arabic Literature and Self-Reported Language Learning Motivation Summer Loomis and Cory JorgensenA Neo-Aspectualist Analysis of Egyptian and Standard Arabic Mustafa Mughazy Arabic Heritage Learners Abroad: Langauge Use and Identity Negotiation Emma Trentman Perfect Modality: Auxilary Verbs and Finite Subordinates in Levantine (and Other) ArabicsDavid WilmsenBook ReviewsAl-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Intermediate Arabic, Part Two, 3rd Edition - Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud al-Batal, and Abbas al-Tonsi. Reviewed by Nancy Coffin La fabtascienza nella letteratura araba, Ada Barbaro Reviewed by Caterina Pinto Shou fi ma fi? Intermediate Levantine Arabic, Rajaa Chouairi Reviewed by Karin C. Ryding Using Numbers in Arabic, Jamal Ali Reviewed by Gregory J. Bell Women's Voices in a Woman's Voice: Three Novels by Radwa Ashourtranslated from Arabic by Barbara Romaine Reviewed by David Wilmsen Contributors Submission guidelines