https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/697 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:25:13 GMT 2026-04-06T11:25:13Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145313 Title: Laḫūṣ, ʿAmāra : al-Qāhira aṣ-ṣaġīra Authors: Konerding, Peter Abstract: Der parallel auf Arabisch und Italienisch verfasste und 2010 erschienene Roman, dessen wörtliche Titelübersetzung ‚Kleinkairo‘ lautet, zeichnet frei von stereotypisierenden Vereinfachungen das Porträt eines arabischsprachigen Migrations milieus in Italien, das damit eine literarische Stimme erhält. Laḫūṣ’ Gesamtwerk charakteri siert eine sprachliche und kulturelle Vielstimmig keit, die unter anderem von der Biographie des Autors inspiriert wurde. Über seine Erfahrungen als Exilliterat während des algerischen Bürger krieges hat er u. a. in Essays und Interviews aus führlich berichtet. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145313 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145312 Title: Arabic in German secondary schools : curriculum development between linguistics, aesthetics, and education Authors: Konerding, Peter Abstract: The teaching of Arabic is a relatively recent phenomenon in German secondary schools and the language usually does not enjoy the status of a regular subject with fully trained teachers and official curricula. Most of the classes are conceived as heritage language courses outside school hours and on a voluntary basis. Only two of the sixteen German federal states have started to implement Arabic as a regular second language option, namely Hamburg and Hesse. For this purpose, official curricula are being designed which are based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (henceforth CEFR) and federal foreign language education standards. While research suggests that teaching Arabic in accordance with the CEFR and other national and international language education guidelines requires the integration of colloquial varieties, further consequences are rarely discussed. Yet, these are important: K-12 curricula conceptualise language and communication in a much broader way than linguistic and sociolinguistic studies of Arabic usually do, amongst others, by adding the L2 learner’s cultural and aesthetic experience and defining the educational value of the target language. By focussing on the curricular examples of Hamburg and Hesse, this article shows that educational debates about Arabic do not only draw from the linguistic and sociolinguistic knowledge about the nature of the language but equally have the potential to widen and enhance our understanding of it. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145312 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145311 Title: Arabisch als moderne Fremdsprache im Schulunterricht Authors: Behzadi, Lale; Konerding, Peter; Nerowski, Christian Abstract: Sowohl im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs als auch in der Schulpraxis fristet der Arabischunterricht als moderner Fremdsprachenunterricht ein Schattendasein. Mit dem vorliegenden Artikel wird er ins Licht gerückt: Nach der Darstellung der gesellschaftlichen Relevanz und des Bildungspotentials des Arabischunterrichts werden bezugnehmend auf ein Schulprojekt didaktische Überlegungen dargestellt sowie empirische Befunde zu Teilnahmemotiven bzw. - begründungen der Schülerinnen und Schüler berichtet. Es wird ein Ausblick auf die Integrierung der Arabischdidaktik in die Lehrerbildung gegeben.; Both in academic discourse and school practice, teaching Arabic as a modern foreign language does not gain much attention. This article, however, spotlights Arabic didactics. After a delineation of the social relevance and the educational potential of Arabic tuition, some didactic considerations are reported on the basis of a teaching project. Empirical findings on students’ motives and reasons for participation are outlined. The article gives an outlook on the involvement of Arabic didactics in teacher education. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145311 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145305 Title: International perspectives on the decorative arts : nineteenth-century Malta Authors: Sagona, Mark Abstract: Perspectives on the Decorative Arts in nineteenth-century Malta was the title of the first conference on the Decorative Arts with a focus on Malta which I had the honour and privilege to convene, together with my colleague and friend from the Universita’ degli Studi di Palermo, Dr Roberta Cruciata, for the Department of Art and Art History, Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta. The conference, which was held at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Valletta on the 2nd May 2019 – on the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) – was a very significant milestone for the Department’s growing interest in the artistically rich field of the Decorative Arts in the Maltese Islands. This academic initiative was also a watershed for the study of this little-studied subject, one of the fundamental pillars of art-making in Malta and Gozo. The peculiar politico-religious set up of the time permitted a distinct rapport with the larger international dimension of the Decorative Arts in the period. Hence the title of this publication. There is an international common denominator which runs throughout all contributions. [extract] Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145305 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z