From Pharoah's Lips

From Pharoah's Lips
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Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Total Pages : 78
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ISBN-10 : 9781617972287
ISBN-13 : 1617972282
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Book Synopsis From Pharoah's Lips by : Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef

Download or read book From Pharoah's Lips written by Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the most distant past to the modern day, some things never change including words. The modern Egyptian Arabic dialect is one of the most distinctive in the Arabic-speaking world precisely because of its illustrious heritage from the country's ancient past. Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef spends a day in the Egyptian countryside, taking note of the many expressions that once fell from the lips of the ancient Egyptians and that continue to be heard on the tongues of the modern Egyptians in their everyday speech. His charming tale of Bayoumi, a farmer, his wife Sawsan, and their baby provides the backdrop for tracing the persistence of these words and phrases. What these average Egyptians do, what tools they use, what they eat, how they organize their life, even how they interact all can be described with words that hark back to the age of the pharaohs. In telling his story, Dr. Youssef integrates the ancestry of these common expressions, with the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and Coptic and Arabic words appearing alongside transliterations and translations into English. Both entertaining and instructive, this volume includes a series of glossaries in Egyptian, Coptic, and Arabic. With an introduction by Fayza Haikal, an Egyptologist who specializes in Egyptian language, and illustrations by cartoonist Golo, this book is sure to appeal to anyone who has an interest in Egypt, ancient or modern.


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