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Summary: Nicholas Awde means "quality product"
Review: A handy but not quite pocket-sized dictionary of 18,000 entries that must have been compiled using up-to-date source material. Look up coalition, extremist, bomber, martyr, military occupation, resistance, torture, prison, fanatic, graveyard, reconstruction, genocide, or refugee, and you'll find what you need. The Arabic script is crystal clear and of more than adequate font size. Short appendices include the days of the week, months in two forms plus the Islamic months, and country names. The phonetics for both the Arabic and English entries are easily understood, the dictionary being intended for both students of English and Arabic. This may be the only dictionary out there that you would actually ever be tempted to carry around with you. Lots of value for a very reasonable price!
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Summary: Nice little dictionary - less daunting than most others
Review: I bought this dictionary a few months back, just before the new semester. I also bought the Hans Wehr dictionary, which of course, is Arabic-English only. I think this 'Practical Dictionary' is a useful for English-speakers, in that it works how dictionaries work in European languages: words are arranged alphabetically, not according to the root ('jadhr'). Sure, once you're used to dealing with roots, and with some practise, it'll probably become easy to look things up, but when you're just trying to get your homework done in time for class, this book works well.
It goes from each language into the other, which makes it a handy little dictionary. Not quite pocketsize, but certainly easy to carry around in your backpack/briefcase.
As for the fonts, I'd say the Arabic font is adequate. For some reason, the English font is quite a bit bigger, especially the headers in the English-Arabic section, and so when you go back to look up an Arabic word, all of a sudden, it seems unnecessarily small by contrast.
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