If you’re looking for a good dictionary of modern standard Arabic-English, this is the standard that I would thoroughly recommend; it's a must-have for your bookshelf. It's the dictionary I bought when I first started learning Arabic and I used so much that it fell apart and I had to have it re-bound. Not sure whether that says more about my Arabic skills or the dictionary! Whatever the case this truly is an invaluable book to have when you're studying Arabic seriously...

This may seem a strange book for me to recommend as a standard, but it is an invaluable one for anyone who wants to get their writing published. Many international publishers require American style standards in their publications (even from UK writers!), and this is the book that many of them refer to. So it's a must-have reference book to be on the bookshelf...

This may seem too obvious to have as a standard on my bookshelf, but as a Brit I just had to include it! This is the version of the Oxford English Dictionary that I find most useful, as it includes the depth that I need for daily life and also when writing professionally. It not only gives the spellings, the pronunciation...