Title: Al Mawrid Arabic-English Dictionary, 2003

Author: Dr. Rohi Baalbaki

Binding: Hardcover 1255 pages

 Review:

The Mawrid Arabic-English is a good, complete dictionary, perhaps  the best published in the Middle East. It works in alphabetical order, which is good for the beginner as well as for the intermediate learner who's searched through a root-order dictionary without success for a word. The major flaw with this book is that it's aimed at Arab readers and as a result, simple grammatical information like broken plurals or masdars is not shown with the base noun or verb. Learners of Arabic will find the root-order Wehr more useful, but Wehr hasn't been updated in over 25 years while the Mawrid is frequently updated.

The Mawrid English-Arabic dictionary is perhaps the best available because, though the Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage is more useful to learners of Arabic for reasons of Arabic grammatical content, the Oxford is 40 years old and the language had expanded significantly.