| Author | Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | American English |
| Discipline | Arabic |
| Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
| Media type | textbook |
| Website | http://press.georgetown.edu/al-kitaab/about-al-kitaab |
The Al-Kitaab series is a sequence of textbooks for the Arabic language published by Georgetown University Press with the full title Al-Kitaab fii Taʿallum al-ʿArabiyya (Arabic: الكِتاب في تَعَلًُم العَرَبِيّة, "The book of Arabic learning"). It is written by Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi and was first published in 1995; since that time, it has become the most popular Arabic textbook in the United States.[1][2]
Brustad and Al-Batal wrote the Al-Kitaab series while they were associate professors of Arabic at the University of Texas at Austin,[3] where they taught for years. They now live in Lebanon, Al-Batal's homeland, and work at the American University of Beirut. Al-Tonsi is a senior lecturer at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.[3]