Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions

Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions

Dalal Abo El Seoud, Farah Shafie (Illustrator)
$18.95
Publication Date: June 14th, 2022
Publisher:
American University in Cairo Press
ISBN:
9781649031907
Pages:
172
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Description

GOURMAND AWARD WINNER 2023, BEST ILLUSTRATED

A delightfully illustrated selection of 100 commonly used Egyptian food expressions

Can you guess what Egyptians mean when they say that something is "a peeled banana" or that someone is "sleeping in honey" or has "turned the sea to tahini"? You may find the answers quite unexpected when you open the pages of this delightful giftbook featuring some one hundred popular food-inflected phrases and sayings used by native speakers of Egyptian Arabic.

Idiomatic expressions lend color, dynamism, and humor to everyday speech, and convey complex ideas and beliefs with an economy of words that also tell us something about the culture from which they spring. Each expression in Fish, Milk, Tamarind is given in Arabic script and English transliteration followed by its literal and intended meanings, while humorous color illustrations throughout help readers visualize and remember the expressions. Learners and native speakers of Arabic, as well as Egypt enthusiasts and language lovers will find much in this book to teach, entertain, and enthrall them.

About the Author

Dalal Abo El Seoud is chair of, and senior instructor in, the Department of Arabic Language Instruction at the American University in Cairo, where she has been teaching since 1997. She is co-author of the three-volume series Uktub al-'arabiya: Writing Skills in Modern Standard Arabic (AUC Press, 2012-2014) and The Concise Arabic-English Lexicon of Verbs in Context (AUC Press, 2011).