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Cultural Movements

10 words · ~15 min

Grammar focus

Cultural movement vocabulary and historical present tense in Arabic literary discourse

Cultural note

The النهضة (Renaissance) movement of the 19th-20th century modernized Arabic literature and thought across the Arab world.

Sample words from this lesson

مُعاصِر
muʿāṣir
contemporary / modern
كلاسِيكِيّ
klāsīkiyy
classical
رَمْزِيَّة
ramziyya
symbolism

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