The A in a Contest with the Z

Description : A teacher explains to his students the difference between the writing alphabet and the speaking alphabet in the Arabic language. He tells them a story about a competition between the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, who though himself to be the best, and the last letter who defended the equality of all letters. The ends with the last letter winning not only does it defend the equality of the letters, but it also had a feminine cause for being a feminine letter against an arrogant masculine one.

SGD : Goal 4: Quality Education Goal 5: Gender Equality

Keywords : Children literature, Our Beautiful Language, The letter Alef in Arabic, Hamza (Arabic Letter Designating the Glottal Stop, the equality between the letters, the system and the order of letters, feminism

Type : An educational story

Relations : It is one of eight stories in the collection Our Beautiful Language: The Laughing Letters

Coverage : A teacher tell his students the difference between the speaking and the writing Alphabet in the Arabic language

Language and Age : In Arabic for age 11-12

Publishing Rights : The writer and Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publisher and Place : Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publication Date : 2000

E-Format : 15 pages in Arabic