Here are some links to websites with free information on Arabic, and also media sources with free content that can help you practice Arabic. Please feel free to email me with other useful links (as long as they are free and contain a decent amount of content, not just one page with a few words/phrases):

General
WordReference Arabic Resources page - includes many useful links
Free FSI courses
NMELRC Arabic Learner's Handbook - general information and tips on the learning process
Learning the Arabic script, from Stanford
V-Arabic - Virtual Arabic blog with digitized language realia resources for Arabic learners & teachers
ArabicPod
Al-Kitaab Podcasts
Arabic Free Downloads - PDF files with information on various aspects of the Arabic language
Arabic Corpus - a searchable Arabic corpus; great for seeing the contexts in which words are commonly used
Yamli - type and do searches in transliterated Arabic, and the site will "translate" back into Arabic script
MEMRI - the Middle East Media Research Institute; features translations of Arabic news articles. MEMRI TV - news video clips with English translations. The organization has an obvious agenda and selective focus, but as a large archive of Arabic video with translations, it can be useful. (MEMRI.org has translations of Arabic articles, but no links to the original articles, which makes it harder to use as an Arabic-learning tool.)

Standard Arabic
Babel
Madinah
Master Arabic
Arabic alphabet tutorial
#arabic
Arabic lessons
Basic vocabulary lists
Information on the Arabic alphabet and its variants used in different languages

Syrian Arabic
Syrian Arabic - free Syrian Arabic course (PDF download) with mp3s

Lebanese Arabic
An Introduction to Lebanese
ABC Lebanese Arabic

Jordanian Arabic
LangMedia: Arabic in Jordan

Moroccan Arabic
Speak Moroccan
Revised Peace Corps Moroccan Arabic book, available for download as a PDF file
Peace Corps Moroccan Arabic mp3 files
Moroccan Arabic Vocab - a word a day

Algerian Arabic
The Algerian Dardja Dictionary

Tunisian Arabic
Peace Corps Tunisian Arabic book, PDF file
Tunisian Arabic course, PDF file

Mauritanian Arabic
Mauritanian Arabic: Culture and Communication, PDF file
Mauritanian Arabic: Grammar, PDF file
Mauritanian Arabic: Literacy, PDF file
Peace Corps: Mauritanian Arabic course, mp3s and PDF lessons

Iraqi Arabic
Free FSI course - basics of Iraqi Arabic

Gulf Arabic
Gulf Arabic.com (free registration required)

Egyptian Arabic
Arabic language notes - 18 Egyptian Arabic grammar lessons from BYU. Very nice!
Egyptian Arabic Primer by W.A. Betts, available to browse or as a free PDF download from Google Books. Note that it was published in 1902, so some of the content (vocabulary like "wabuur/babuur" for train; "Hakiim" for doctor; "mara" for woman; and so on) is outdated, but overall it's a pretty nice resource, considering that it's available for free online!
An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt by Socrates Spiro, from Google Books. This book is old too (pub. 1895), but is nonetheless pretty decent for a free online resource.

Online dictionaries
Sakhr - Arabic-English, English-Arabic
Ectaco - English-Arabic

Arabic media online
Arabic Webcasts - the news in simplified Arabic, including accompanying exercises. Updated every two weeks.
Aswaat Arabiyya - software with various videos and activities
BBC Arabic - includes streaming video and radio news

Television news
- Al Jazeera (website | online stream)
- Al Arabiya (website | online stream)
- wwiTV

Newspapers
- Sahafa Online

EgyptLebanon
- Al Ahram- An Nahar
- Al Akhbar
- Al GomhuriaSyria
- Al Masry Al Youm                  - Tishreen
- Al Mesryoon
- Al WafdIraq
- Nahdet Misr- Al Sabah
 - Az Zaman
Jordan- Al Itijah Al Ahkar
- Al Rai
- Ad DustourSaudi Arabia
 - Al Watan
Israel
- AssennaraUnited Arab Emirates
- Kul al-Arab- Al Bayan
 - Al Ittihad
Palestine- Dar Al Khaleej
- Al Quds

Magazines
Egypt
- Akher Sa'a
- Rose al Youssef
- Akhbar El Nogoom (entertainment news)
- Sayidaty

Music
- Demna (free registration required)
- Mazikana
- Mosekar
- Dndnat
- Panet.co.il
- Farfesh
- Bokra
- Jooza
- Mazakony forum
- Eftekasat forum (free registration required)
- Tarab.com - streaming Arabic music (RealPlayer required)
- La7oon lyrics (registration required) - Arabic lyrics site
- Arabic Song Lyrics & Translation - translations and lyrics to more than 600 Arabic songs
- Arabic Lyrics Translation forum - features a large archive of song translations, and you can request (or post your own) translations of Arabic songs.
- Shira.net Song Translations - a bellydance website featuring lyrics in both transliterated and translated form.
- OrientalDancer.net Song Lyrics - more translated/transliterated lyrics from another bellydance site.
- Asra Bellydance song translations; Linda Grondahl's collecion of song translations

Movies
- Arab Friendz
- Foraten.net
- Sotwesoora.tv
- 3arabtv.com
- Arabic movies on Google Video (sometimes this site goes down, but the Google cache and videos themselves will still work)
- Al Mumiyaa' (The Mummy/The Night of Counting the Years) - a famous 1969 film with dialogue entirely in fuSHa. Subtitled version here).

Television & video
- Live Arabic TV.net - use the menu at the right to navigate and browse their selection of musalsalaat etc.
- FilFil.net
- Videos from Tash Ma Tash, Bab el Hara, and more
- Videos from Haqq Mashrou3 and more
- Ikbis (an Arabic version of YouTube)

Books
- Arabic e-books in PDF format (password for .rar files is tipsclub)
- Mofakren
- Adab (Arabic poetry)


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