Media Persian

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AUTHOR APPROVED Front: Includes links to online audio files + online interactive audio-visual e-Flashcards Back: Essential Middle Eastern Vocabularies Series Editor: Elisabeth Kendall Essential Middle Eastern Vocabularies give you up-to-date expressions, jargon and new coinages to express modern concepts across broad areas of interest such as the media, the internet, law and business. Key Features * Terms grouped in thematic sections * Easy-to-learn lists to test translation * Links to online audio files to help you check your pronunciation * Online interactive audio-visual e-Flashcards * Index Media Persian Dominic Parviz Brookshaw 'Fills a noticeable gap both for students of Persian language and also for others interested in Persian and in getting first-hand information from the media of Iran and other Persian-speaking countries... a very useful and accessible guide to the current vocabulary found in contemporary Persian media culture'. M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin 'A useful introduction to the specialized Persian vocabulary of the modern media.' Professor W. M. Thackston, author of An Introduction to Persian What is the Persian term for 'climate change'? How would you say 'detention centre'? Could you recognise the phrase 'The World Cup'? Or 'information technology'? This short, accessible vocabulary gives you ready-made lists of key terms in media Persian for translating both from and into Persian. It is divided into 13 key areas: * General * Politics and Government * Elections * Conflict and Security * Law and Order * Human Rights * Economics * Trade and Industry * Science and Technology * Energy * Environment * Aid and Development * Culture and Sport. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Lecturer in Persian Studies and Iranian Literature at the University of Manchester. He is author of The Routledge Introductory Persian Course: Farsi Shirin Ast (with Pouneh Shabani Jad