Paired Videos and Transcripts from Al-Jazeera

Thanks to Rob at Arabic Media Shack, who mentioned this resource in a comment on this blog.

Apparently, Al-Jazeera publishes transcripts for all of their programming on their website. This is an awesome resource for Arabic students who are working on their listening skills. Until now, the only other resource I knew that provided transcripts with its videos was SCOLA.

My Arabic isn't strong enough yet to navigate well around Al-Jazeera's website, but Rob provided me some links to get started.

The show What's Behind the News offers 20-minute segments covering top news stories. This link appears to provide all the videos and their transcripts in one place. From this link, you can also access other programs.

Rob also said that popular Al-Jazeera shows are often put on YouTube. He writes, "For example, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi's show Al-Shariah and Al-haya usually has accompanying Youtube feed. See here for example."

Rob also recommends al-Itijah Al-Muakis, although he says the show is not as good as it used to be. This link also contains both videos and transcripts.