All Strangers Are Kin Adventures In Arabic And The Arab World Zora Oneill by Zora O’neill 9780547853185, 9780547853192, 0547853181, 054785319X instant download after payment.

They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. O'Neill had put in her time. Steeped in grammar tomes & out-dated textbooks, she faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus, but couldn't shake her fascination with the language or the cultures it had opened up to her. So she decided to jump back in-this time with a new approach.

Join O'Neill for a grand tour through the Middle East. You will laugh with her in Egypt, delight in the stories she passes on from the United Arab Emirates, & find yourself transformed by her experiences in Lebanon & Morocco. She's packed her dictionaries, her unsinkable sense of humor, & her talent for making fast friends of strangers. From quiet, bougainvillea-lined streets to the lively buzz of crowded medinas, from families' homes to local hotspots, she brings a part of the world that is thousands of miles away right to your door.

A natural storyteller with an eye for the deeply absurd & the deeply human, Zora O'Neill explores the indelible links between culture & communication. A powerful testament to the dynamism of language, All Strangers Are Kin reminds us that learning another tongue leaves you rich with so much more than words.

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Zora O’Neill is a freelance travel & food writer. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, & Condé Nast Traveler, & she has written or contributed to more than a dozen titles for Rough Guides, Lonely Planet, & Moon. She lives in Queens, New York.