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The Poetry Evening
أُمْسِيَةٌ شِعْرِيَّةٌ
Level B2 · ~5 min read · 12 key words
Opening lines
أَقَامَ الْمُنْتَدَى الثَّقَافِيُّ أُمْسِيَةً شِعْرِيَّةً فِي دَارِ الْأُوبِرَا. حَضَرَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ ثَلَاثِمِئَةِ شَخْصٍ لِلاسْتِمَاعِ إِلَى أَرْبَعَةِ شُعَرَاءَ مِنْ مُخْتَلِفِ الْبُلْدَانِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ.
Transliteration
aqāma al-muntadā ath-thaqāfiyyu umsiyatan shiʿriyyatan fī dāri al-ūbirā. ḥaḍara aktharu min thalāthimiʾati shakhṣin lil-istimāʿi ilā arbaʿati shuʿarāʾa min mukhtalifi al-buldāni al-ʿarabiyyati.
English translation
The cultural forum held a poetry evening at the opera house. More than three hundred people attended to listen to four poets from different Arab countries.
Sample vocabulary
قِراءة
qirāʾa
reading
حُرِّيَّة
ḥurriyya
freedom / liberty
ثَقَافَة
thaqāfa
culture
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