Sunday, October 17, 2010

Jehan al-Sadat interview - Al-Jazeera

This long and detailed interview with Jehan al-Sadat, the widow of former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, is available as a video on the Al-Jazeera website or as an audio only podcast from Itunes.


The Al-Jazeera series is called Shahid 3ala al-3asr (شاهد على العصر) and the website offers the full transcripts of the interview and the introductory prologue in the first episode. Wonderful! The interviewer speaks clear fusha, and while she responds in Egyptian dialect, it is clear and not too fast, so if you have an idea of Egyptian pronunciation, it should be possible to follow for learners of Arabic who are more familiar with Modern Standard than with Egyptian.