This week, we share the third (and last for a little while) of our A Walk Through... series where we bring you through Gemmayze, one of Beirut's most Westernised neighbourhoods, and try to take a critical lens to the area. For transcripts and translations, or to sign up for Arabic classes, go to https://realarabic.weebly.com 

Real Arabic is public again! It turns out, making paid content took the joy out of making this podcast, so we're going back to making the podcast freely available. This is the second in our A Walk Through.. series which we made available to our contributors last week but we're now making available to everyone. It tells you about Saida, a city to the south of Beirut. Please consider donating if you enjoy our content, your support means a lot to us and helps us to keep going. Our Patreon...

We are changing how we run! To make the podcast sustainable, we are asking our listeners to subscribe for access to most of our content in the future. We will still make one podcast per month available for free, but the other three podcasts per month will only be available to those who support us through Patreon, and register on our website. We have three subscription packages available: $5/month for podcast only; $15/month for podcasts + one class with Amer; $50/month for podcasts + 4...

We're very excited to share the first episode in our A Walk Through... series, where we will take you through some of our favourite places in Lebanon (and hopefully later, other places in the Middle East). We start with Hamra, the closest to our heart, where we lived together in Beirut. For transcripts and translation, or to sign up for Arabic classes, go to our website: https://realarabic.weebly.com

Last week, we told the story of Sarah, a Lebanese woman who braved family pressure to stop wearing the hijab. This week, we share an interview with Sarah where she talked about the reaction to the story when she published it on Freethought Lebanon, the power of extended family in Lebanese culture, and the future.Thank you to Amer's cousin Lama for recording this episode with us. Her accent is from Suweida, in the South of Syria.For transcripts and translation, or to sign up for Arabic...

In this episode, we share the story of Sarah, a Lebanese woman who went against family pressures to remove her hijab. She originally wrote her story for Freethought Lebanon, under the title 'I Am an Atheist and I Wear the Veil'. She consented for us to adapt and share her story. In part II next week we will share an interview that we had with Sarah about the feedback she received from her article.Thank you to Dzovig Arnelian, a friend and a wonderful artist for agreeing to record this with...

This episode discusses the culture of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, and across the Middle East. For transcripts and translation, or to sign up for Arabic classes, go to our website: https://realarabic.weebly.com

This episode introduces you to the situation in Lebanon just prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus, and what happened as a result when the outbreak happened. It's a personal episode for us, as Keire is running a fundraiser for Syrian refugee families that she knows in Lebanon who are struggling to put food on the table, for more information and to donate, see this link: https://gogetfunding.com/support-for-syrian-refugees-in-lebanon/For transcripts and translation, or to sign up for Arabic...

This episode introduces you to the initial phases of the recent popular uprisings in Lebanon. Stay tuned for our update of the current situation in Lebanon.For transcripts and translation, or to sign up for Arabic classes, go to our website:  https://realarabic.weebly.com

Real Arabic provides you with interesting podcasts about culture, politics, history, and society in the Middle East in slow, simplified spoken Levantine Arabic.This episode introduces you to the background context of the recent popular uprisings in Lebanon. stay tuned for our podcast on the uprisings themselves. For transcripts and translation, go to our website:  https://realarabic.weebly.comYou can support these podcasts by donating to our Patreon...

Real Arabic provides you with interesting podcasts about culture, politics, history, and society in the Middle East in slow, simplified spoken Levantine Arabic.This episode introduces you to the failure to teach recent  history in Lebanese schools, which is key to understanding how sectarianism is evolving  in Lebanon For transcripts and translation, go to our website:  https://realarabic.weebly.comYou can support these podcasts by donating to our Patreon...

Real Arabic provides you with interesting podcasts about culture, politics, history, and society in the Middle East in slow, simplified spoken Levantine Arabic.This episode introduces you to the Lebanese civil war. It gives a simplified breakdown of key events, and attempts to remain neutral. If you want to learn more about this very complex war, we recommend reading Pity the Nation, by Robert Fisk.For transcripts and translation, go to our website:  https://realarabic.weebly.comYou can...

Real Arabic provides you with interesting podcasts about culture, politics, history, and society in the Middle East in slow, simplified spoken Levantine Arabic.This episode introduces you to the history of Palestinians in Lebanon pre-civil war, which is key to understanding the civil war itself.For transcripts and translation, go to our website:  https://realarabic.weebly.comYou can support these podcasts by donating to our Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22262458

Real Arabic provides you with interesting podcasts about culture, politics, history, and society in the Middle East in slow, simplified spoken Levantine Arabic.This episode introduces you to the sectarian groups of Lebanon, which are key to understanding Lebanese history, culture, and politics.For transcripts and translation, go to our website:  https://realarabic.weebly.com

Real Arabic provides you with interesting podcasts about culture, politics, history, and society in the Middle East in slow, simplified spoken Levantine Arabic.This episode introduces you to the history of Lebanon and Syria.For transcripts and translation, go to our website:  https://realarabic.weebly.com

Welcome to Real Arabic, your key to learning spoken Levantine Arabic in an engaging, interesting way. This is an introduction to the podcast.For more information, and for podcast transcripts visit our website: https://realarabic.weebly.comYou can support these podcasts by donating to our Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22262458